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1201 EXCERPT FROM STATE STATUTES L RIGHTS,POWERS,DUTIES 471.705 • ? it—time personnel to the city or to contract with private persons,firms,or corporations pur_ su. to section 6.58,in order to complete and file the financial statement or report.Th- penses -lated to the completion and filing of the financial statement or report •.11 be charged to a e city.Upon failure by the city to pay the charge within 30 days of • ling,the state auditor s .11 so certify to the commissioner of finance who shall forty. a the amount certified to the ge - al fund and deduct the amount from any state funds d - to the city under any shared taxes or at• The state auditor's annual report on cities shal ' dude a listing of all cities failing to file a sta = ent or report. History: 1978 c 787 s , 989 c 335 an 4 s 89 471.70 REPORTING OF OBLI TIONS BY IES, TOWNS, SCHOOL DIS- TRICTS,AND BODIES CORPORA AND ' LITIC. For the purposes of this section "mu =• ality" means a city, however organized;a school district,however organized;a tow • .r . other body corporate and politic created under Minnesota law. An"obligation"as used in thi ection means an o. •.ation as defined in chapter 475. On or before February fir each year,it shall be the •• of the principal accounting officer of each municipalit .report to the auditor of each coun •n which such municipali- ty is situate,the total am.•nt of outstanding obligations,and the pu ..se for which issued as of December 31 of : •receding year.Such report shall be kept by the a *tor of each county in a suitable reco On March first each year,it shall be the duty of the audit. of each county to make repo o the state auditor of such obligations as reported to the county•.•itor by the principal . counting officer of the municipality,together with the amount and ch.. .cter of all ou ding obligations issued by the county. History: (1938-14, 1938-15) 1927 c 163 s 1,2; 1945 c 187 s 1; 1967 c 48 s 1; 973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1973 c 492 s 7; 1986 c 444 • 71.705 MEETINGS OF GOVERNING BODIES; OPEN TO PUBLIC; EXCEP- IONS. Subdivision 1.Presumption of openness.(a)Except as otherwise expressly provided by statute,all meetings,including executive sessions,of a state agency,board,commission, or department,when required or permitted by law to transact public business in a meeting, and the governing body of a school district however organized, unorganized territory, county,statutory or home rule city,town,or other public body,and of any committee,sub- committee,board,department,or commission of a public body must be open to the public, except meetings of the commissioner of corrections.The votes of the members of the state agency,board,commission,or department or of the governing body,committee,subcommit- tee,board,department,or commission on an action taken in a meeting required by this subdi- vision to be open to the public must be recorded in a journal kept for that purpose,and the journal must be open to the public during all normal business hours where records of the pub- lic body are kept. The vote of each member must be recorded on each appropriation of money,except for payments of judgments,claims,and amounts fixed by statute.This section does not apply to a state agency,board,or commission when it is exercising quasi—judicial functions involving disciplinary proceedings. (b)A meeting governed by this subdivision may be conducted by interactive television so long as: (1)all members of the body participating in the meeting,wherever their physical loca- tion,can hear and see one another and can hear and see all discussion and testimony pres- ented at any location at which at least one member is present; (2)members of the public present at the regular meeting location of the body can hear and see all discussion and testimony and all votes of members of the body; (3)at least one member of the body is physically present at the regular meeting location; and (4)each location at which a member of the body is present is open and accessible to the public.