Subdivision 1. Up to $1,500. In addition to the amount authorized by section 375.16, each county board may annually appropriate from the county revenue fund not more than $1,500 as a contingent fund for use by the county board to pay for incidental costs and expenses incurred by them in expediting the business of the county.
Subd. 2. Special act. Nothing in subdivision 1 shall operate to lessen the amount of a contingent fund available to the county board or the chair of a county board under the authority of a special act for a single county enacted before August 1, 1973.
Subd. 3. Except Hennepin County. This section does not apply to Hennepin County.
History:1973 c 373 s 1; 1979 c 198 art 4 s 13; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1986 c 444