Minnesota · statute · Minn. Stat. ch. 414 · 24 active provisions
Subdivision 1. A duty of chief administrative law judge. The chief administrative law judge shall conduct proceedings, make determinations, and issue orders for the creation of a municipality, the combination of two or more governmental units, or the alteration of a municipal boundary. Subd. 1a. Legislative findings. T…
Subdivision 1. Application. For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. Subd. 2. Municipality. "Municipality" means any city, however organized. Subd. 3. Incorporated land. "Incorporated land" means land within a municipality; "unincorporated land" means land outsid…
Subdivision 1. Corporate boundary map. A municipality initiating any boundary adjustment authorized by this chapter shall file with the chief administrative law judge a corporate boundary map. Any proposed boundary adjustment shall be delineated on a copy of the corporate boundary map. Subd. 2. Plat maps. Any party ini…
Subdivision 1. Initiating the proceedings. This section provides the exclusive method of incorporating a municipality in Minnesota. Proceedings for incorporation of a municipality may be initiated by petition of 100 or more property owners or by resolution of the town board within an area which is not included within t…
Subdivision 1. Initiating the proceeding. (a) A proceeding for the annexation of unincorporated property abutting a municipality may be initiated by submitting to the chief administrative law judge and the affected township one of the following: (1) a resolution of the annexing municipality; (2) a resolution of the tow…
Subdivision 1. Initiating the proceeding. (a) One or more townships and one or more municipalities, by joint resolution, may designate an unincorporated area as in need of orderly annexation. One or more municipalities, by joint resolution with the county, may designate an unincorporated area in which there is no organ…
Subdivision 1. Unincorporated property. Unincorporated property abutting a municipality may be annexed to the municipality by ordinance as provided for in this section. Subd. 2. Conditions. A municipal council may by ordinance declare land annexed to the municipality and any such land is deemed to be urban or suburban…
There must be a joint informational meeting of the municipal council of the annexing municipality and the town board of supervisors of the township containing the land proposed to be annexed or included in annexation proceedings under section 414.031. For an annexation under section 414.031, the joint informational mee…
Subdivision 1. Annexation-by-ordinance alternative. If a determination or order by the Pollution Control Agency, under section 115.49 or other similar statute is made, that cooperation by contract is necessary and feasible between a municipality and an unincorporated area located outside the existing corporate limits o…
Whenever an order, under section 414.031, annexes part or all of a township to a municipality, the order may provide that the tax rate of the annexing municipality on the area annexed shall be increased in substantially equal proportions over not more than six years to equality with the tax rate on the property already…
Unless otherwise agreed to by the annexing municipality and the affected town, when an order or other approval under this chapter annexes part of a town to a municipality, the order or other approval must provide a reimbursement from the municipality to the town for all or part of the taxable property annexed as part o…
Whenever a municipality annexes property abutting one side of a township road, the segment of road abutting the annexed property must be treated as a line road and is subject to section 164.14. Whenever a municipality annexes the property on both sides of a township road, that portion of road abutting the annexed prope…
If a municipality annexes property in which the affected township holds any easement for the benefit of the public, the township's easement interest continues unless otherwise agreed to by the township.
Subdivision 1. Initiating the proceeding. (a) Two or more municipalities may be the subject of a single proceeding provided that each municipality abuts at least one of the included municipalities. (b) The proceeding shall be initiated in one of the following ways: (1) submitting to the chief administrative law judge a…
After each federal census the chief administrative law judge may determine the townships which have a population in excess of 2,000 exclusive of any municipality or part of a municipality within the township and make recommendations which the chief administrative law judge considers necessary and reasonable to the boar…
Subdivision 1. Initiating the proceeding. Property which is situated within a municipality and abutting the municipal boundary, rural in character and not developed for urban residential, commercial, or industrial purposes may be detached from the municipality according to the following procedure. The proceeding may be…
Subdivision 1. Initiating the proceeding. Property of one municipality which abuts another may be concurrently detached and annexed by the procedure set forth in this section. The proceeding shall be initiated by (1) submitting to the chief administrative law judge resolutions of both municipalities describing the land…
After notice and hearing as provided in section 414.09, the chief administrative law judge may include provisions of joint agreements between political subdivisions in the orders.
In any case in which the state is the fee owner of land partly or wholly within any area proposed to be part of a boundary adjustment, the executive council of the state of Minnesota may petition for, or consent to, any action proceeding under this chapter, if the council deems such action to be in the best interests o…
Subdivision 1. Township or municipality divided. Whenever the chief administrative law judge divides an existing governmental unit, the chief administrative law judge, or other qualified person designated by the chief administrative law judge with the concurrence of the parties, may apportion the property and obligatio…
Subdivision 1. Orders, time limit. All orders in proceedings under this chapter shall be issued within one year from the date of the day of the first hearing thereon provided that the time may be extended for a fixed additional period upon consent of all parties of record. Failure to so order shall be deemed to be an o…
An appeal may be taken under the Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure by the chief administrative law judge from a final order or judgment made or rendered by the district court when the chief administrative law judge determines that the final order or judgment adversely affects the public interest.
Subdivision 1. Hearings. (a) Proceedings initiated by the submission of an initiating document or by the chief administrative law judge shall come on for hearing within 30 to 60 days from receipt of the document by the chief administrative law judge or from the date of the chief administrative law judge's action and th…
Subdivision 1. Alternative dispute resolution. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sections 414.01 to 414.09, before assigning a matter to an administrative law judge for hearing, the chief administrative law judge, upon consultation with affected parties and considering the procedures and principles establ…