2005 Minnesota Statutes - 375.167 — Nonprofit legal assistance corporations.

     375.167 Nonprofit legal assistance corporations. 


    Subdivision 1.    Appropriations.  Notwithstanding any 
 contrary law, a county board may appropriate from the general 
 revenue fund to any nonprofit corporation a sum not to exceed 
 0.00604 percent of taxable market value to provide legal 
 assistance to persons who are unable to afford private legal 
 counsel.  


    Subd. 2.    Contiguous counties may combine 
 appropriations.  Any two or more contiguous counties may by 
 concurrent resolution of their county boards combine their 
 appropriations to a single nonprofit corporation to serve the 
 purpose of subdivision 1 in their counties.  


    HIST: 1974 c 321 s 1,2; 1Sp1981 c 1 art 5 s 10; 1982 c 489 s 
 1; 1984 c 593 s 39; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1987 c 384 art 2 s 1; 1988 c 
 719 art 5 s 84; 1989 c 277 art 4 s 32; 1994 c 505 art 2 s 4