2007 Minnesota Statutes

453.51 INTENT.
Sections 453.51 to 453.62 are intended to provide a means for those Minnesota cities
which now or hereafter own and operate a utility pursuant to law for the local distribution of
electric energy to secure, by individual or joint action among themselves or by contract with
other public or private entities within or outside the state, an adequate, economical, and reliable
supply of energy. It is also the purpose of sections 453.51 to 453.62 to provide a means for
Minnesota cities to construct and operate hydroelectric generating plants. To accomplish these
purposes it is necessary for such cities to have power, by agreement between or among two or
more of their number, to create a separate municipal corporation with the power and authority to
finance and acquire facilities for the generation or transmission of electric energy, or interests in
such facilities or rights to part of all of the capacity thereof. It is determined that an adequate,
economical, and reliable supply of electric energy is essential to the orderly growth and prosperity
of these communities, and a shortage of such energy is inimical to the safety, health, morale, and
welfare of residents of the state and to the sound growth and developments of its communities.
Such a shortage exists and is expected to continue or increase because of the difficulty, among
others, in the operation of municipal generating plants, of achieving economies of size, limiting
environmental impacts, and providing for peak loads. Accordingly it is determined that the
exercise of the powers granted herein will benefit the people of the state and serve a valid public
purpose in improving and otherwise promoting their health, welfare, and prosperity.
History: 1976 c 313 s 1; 1Sp1985 c 10 s 91