2007 Minnesota Statutes

641.262 ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL JAILS BY CONTIGUOUS COUNTIES.
    Subdivision 1. Action by county board. Two or more counties, each contiguous at one or
more points with one or more of the other counties, may cooperate to establish, operate, and
maintain a regional jail in the manner provided in sections 641.261 to 641.266. A county may
join with other counties in the establishment, operation, and maintenance of a regional jail by
majority vote of its county board. A county board so voting shall also appropriate its approximate
proportionate share of the initial expenses of the proposed county regional jail, which proportion
is estimated in the manner provided in section 641.264, subdivision 2, and which is paid over
upon receiving notice from the regional jail board as provided in section 641.263, subdivision 1.
    Subd. 2. Regional jail board; membership, term, compensation. The county board of
each cooperating county shall appoint two members to a board to be known as the regional jail
board. Members appointed to the board shall be county commissioners. One of the members
first appointed to the regional jail board shall be appointed for a term expiring on June 30 next
following appointment, the other for a term expiring one year later. After the appointment of
the first members, one succeeding member shall be appointed each year for a two year period
beginning on July 1. Each appointee shall hold office until a successor is appointed and has
qualified. Vacancies are filled by the appointing power. The members of the regional jail board
serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for all necessary expenses incurred by them
in performance of their official duties. This reimbursement is payable by the county from which
the member is appointed, until the regional jail fund is established. When the regional jail fund
is established, reimbursement shall be made from that fund. Reimbursement authorized by this
subdivision is in addition to any reimbursement received by a regional jail board member who is
also a member of a county board.
    Subd. 3. Board meetings. As soon as possible after the appointment of the members of
the regional jail board by the cooperating counties, the regional jail board shall hold a joint
meeting and shall elect a chair, vice-chair, and secretary. The county board of the county first
appointing members to the regional jail board shall call the first meeting of the board and shall
designate the place of meeting. The regional jail board shall meet at least annually thereafter at
a place designated by the regional jail board and may meet at such other times and places as it
considers necessary.
History: 1963 c 452 s 2; 1980 c 597 s 8; 1986 c 444