Minnesota · statute · Minn. Stat. ch. 447 · 30 active provisions
The council of a statutory city with a population over 8,000 may establish and maintain a public charity bureau to give public charitable relief to the city's poor, to help ex-service persons get hospitalization, sick relief, federal aid or benefits, and to pay for the relief.
Subdivision 1. Home rule charter city, fourth class. If a home rule charter city of the fourth class operates an off-sale municipal liquor dispensary, its council may appropriate not more than $125,000 from the liquor dispensary fund to an incorporated nonprofit hospital association to build a community hospital in the…
A home rule charter city of the third or fourth class may acquire, establish, and operate hospitals. The city may take those actions by resolution or ordinance approved by two-thirds of the city council.
A city mentioned in section 447.05 may acquire property by gift, purchase, or condemnation, to establish, maintain, equip, improve, own, and operate a hospital, hospital site, or hospital grounds within the city limits. The city may hold, own, and operate a hospital, hospital grounds and sites, and other real and perso…
The city council may adopt rules for the operation of the hospitals and appoint a board to manage its hospital affairs and property, as it finds necessary.
The governing body of a city of the first class owning a hospital may annually levy a tax to operate and maintain the hospital. The tax must not exceed 0.00806 percent of estimated market value.
The proceeds of the tax under section 447.10 must be placed in a separate fund in the city treasury used only to operate and maintain the hospital.
Sections 447.10 to 447.13 apply only to cities of the first class that are governed by a charter adopted under the Minnesota Constitution.
The power to levy the tax in sections 447.10 to 447.13 is in addition to all existing powers and taxes that the cities may now levy.
A city of the first class may accept, in trust, gifts, devises, and bequests of money or property to set up and run free medical dispensaries for the poor of the city or the county in which the city is situated, and free public libraries for city or county residents.
A city of the first class may administer a gift, devise, or bequest to it in trust for the purposes in sections 447.14 to 447.16, as the donor or testator may designate in the will or trust instrument and in accordance with the terms of the will or instrument. Officers of the city or the county where the city is situat…
Sections 447.14 to 447.16 apply to cities of the first class operating under a home rule charter adopted under the Minnesota Constitution.
Subdivision 1. Resolutions. Any two or more cities and towns, however organized, except cities of the first class, may create a hospital district. They must do so by resolutions adopted by their respective governing bodies or electors. A hospital district may be reorganized according to sections 447.31 to 447.37. Reorg…
Subdivision 1. Terms of office. Each hospital district shall be governed by a hospital board composed of one member elected from each city and town in the district and one member elected at large. A member's term of office is four years commencing on the first Monday in January and until a successor qualifies. At the f…
Subdivision 1. Broad powers of district. Each hospital district created or reorganized under sections 447.31 to 447.37 has the powers necessary and convenient to acquire, improve, and run the hospital, nursing home facilities, and facilities described in section 447.45, subdivision 2, paragraph (b), as the hospital boa…
Subdivision 1. Eligibility; loan amounts. A hospital district may provide loans for the cost of education and living expenses to students who: (1) meet eligibility criteria established by resolution of the hospital board; (2) are enrolled in an accredited medical school or health-related educational program; and (3) ag…
Subdivision 1. Expenses paid from revenue, taxes, and appropriations; tax limits. Expenses of acquiring, improving, and running the hospital, nursing home facilities, and facilities described in section 447.45, subdivision 2, paragraph (b), operated by a hospital district, amounts payable with respect to facilities of…
Subdivision 1. Certificates of indebtedness. A hospital district located wholly outside the seven-county metropolitan area and created or reorganized under sections 447.31 to 447.37 may borrow money by issuing certificates of indebtedness in anticipation of taxes previously levied, revenues, and federal aids. Total ind…
A hospital district may borrow money by the issuance of its general obligation bonds: (1) to acquire and better hospital and nursing home facilities including the provision of an adequate working capital for a new hospital or nursing home; (2) for ambulances and related equipment; (3) for refunding its outstanding bond…
After the creation or reorganization of a hospital district, a city or town whose territory is contiguous to the district or contiguous to a city or town that is contiguous to the district at any point may ask to be annexed to the district. The resolution is subject to referendum according to section 447.31, subdivisio…
The powers granted here are supplementary to and not in substitution for other powers of counties, cities, and towns in connection with the acquisition, betterment, administration, operation, and maintenance of hospitals and nursing homes and the creation of hospital districts.
Subdivision 1. Dissolution; petition to board; board's order. A hospital district created or reorganized pursuant to sections 447.31 to 447.37 may be dissolved upon a petition to the hospital district board. The petition must state the grounds for dissolution, be signed by an authorized officer or officers of the gover…
Except cities of the first class, a city or town or any combination of them acting jointly may, by resolution or ordinance, establish and operate a nursing home or home for the aged, and may acquire by lease not to exceed 15 years, gift, devise, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise any property necessary or desirable a…
Subdivision 1. Establishment. Notwithstanding any provision of Minnesota Statutes to the contrary, any city, county, town, or nonprofit corporation approved by the commissioner of human services, or any combination of them may establish and operate a community residential facility for persons with developmental disabil…
Subdivision 1. May include construction debt of acquired facility. A county, city, or hospital district may issue revenue bonds by resolution of its governing body to finance the acquisition and betterment of hospital, nursing home, and related medical facilities. This power is in addition to other powers granted by la…