Minnesota Legislature
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
Minnesota Session Laws - 1997, Regular Session
Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
CHAPTER 24-H.F.No. 453
An act relating to the military; changing certain
military requirements, procedures, and duties;
clarifying certain language; changing armory
provisions; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections
190.02; 190.05, by adding subdivisions; 190.07;
190.16, subdivision 2; 190.25, subdivision 1; 192.19;
192.20; 192.23; 192.37; 192.38, subdivision 1; 192.40;
192.49, subdivisions 1 and 2; 193.142, subdivisions 1,
2, and 3; 193.143; 193.144, subdivisions 1, 2, and 6;
193.145, subdivisions 2, 4, and 5; 193.148; and
193.29, subdivision 4; repealing Minnesota Statutes
1996, sections 190.13; 190.29; 192.36; 192.435;
192.44; 192.45; 192.46; 192.47; and 192.51,
subdivision 2.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 190.02, is
amended to read:
190.02 [GOVERNOR TO BE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF; RULES; STAFF.]
The governor shall be the commander-in-chief of the
military forces, except so much thereof as may be in the actual
service of the United States, and may employ the same for the
defense or relief of the state or any other state, the
enforcement of law, and the protection of persons and property
therein.
The governor shall make and publish rules, not inconsistent
with law, and enforce all the provisions of the military code.
The governor may appoint a staff, consisting of an adjutant
general and six aides-de-camp of field grade who shall be
detailed from the national guard.
Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 190.05, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 3a. [MILITARY RESERVATIONS.] "Military reservations,"
without limitation, includes military installations, armories,
air bases, and facilities owned or controlled by the state for
military purposes.
Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 190.05, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 6a. [OFFICER.] "Officer" includes commissioned
officers and commissioned warrant officers in the army national
guard and the air national guard.
Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 190.07, is
amended to read:
190.07 [APPOINTMENT; QUALIFICATIONS; RANK.]
There shall be an adjutant general of the state who shall
be appointed by the governor. The adjutant general shall be a
staff officer, who at the time of appointment shall be a
commissioned officer of the national guard of this state, with
not less than ten years military service in the armed forces of
this state or of the United States, at least three of which
shall have been commissioned and who shall have reached the
grade of a field officer.
The adjutant general shall hold the rank equal to that of
the highest rank authorized for the army and air national guard
in the table of organization for units allotted to the state by
the department of the army, or the department of the air force,
or by both such departments, through the national guard
bureau of major general. However, the adjutant general shall
not be appointed to the rank of major general without having 20
years service in the national guard, of which one year has been
in the rank of brigadier general.
The term of the adjutant general is seven years from the
date of appointment. Section 15.06, subdivisions 3, 4, and 5,
governs filling of vacancies in the office of adjutant general.
The adjutant general shall not be removed from office during a
term except upon withdrawal of federal recognition or as
otherwise provided by the military laws of this state.
Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 190.16,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [ACCEPTANCE OF MONEY.] The adjutant general may
accept federal moneys and other moneys money, either public or
private, for and in behalf of the state of Minnesota, for the
support of the state's military forces, and for the
construction, improvement, or maintenance of buildings, air
bases, roads, utilities and any or all other structures or
facilities required in the training, housing, and maintenance of
the military forces of the state upon such terms and conditions
as are or may be prescribed by the laws of the United States and
any rules or regulations made thereunder.
Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 190.25,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. The adjutant general is hereby authorized
to acquire in the name of the state by purchase, lease, gift, or
condemnation, and is authorized to lease all lands which the
adjutant general may deem necessary, including lands already
devoted to a public use, for military training purposes,
adjacent to or in the vicinity of the military field training
center at Camp Ripley, or at any other suitable place in this
state, subject to the limitations of funds appropriated and
available.
Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 192.19, is
amended to read:
192.19 [RETIRED OFFICERS MAY BE ORDERED TO ACTIVE DUTY.]
The commander-in-chief or the adjutant general may assign
officers on the retired list, with their consent, to temporary
active duty service in recruiting, upon courts-martial, courts
of inquiry and boards, to staff duty not involving service with
troops, or in charge of a military reservation left temporarily
without officers. Such officers while so assigned shall receive
the full pay and allowances of their grades at time of
retirement.
Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 192.20, is
amended to read:
192.20 [BREVET RANK.]
General and field Officers, warrant officers, and enlisted
persons of the national guard who have, after ten years active
service, resigned or retired for physical disability or
otherwise, may in the discretion of the commander-in-chief, on
the recommendation of the adjutant general, be commissioned by
brevet, in the next higher grade than that held by them at the
time of their resignation or retirement. Brevet rank shall be
considered strictly honorary and shall confer no privilege of
precedence or command, nor pay any emoluments. Brevet officers,
warrant officers, and enlisted persons may wear the uniform of
their brevet grade on occasions of ceremony.
Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 192.23, is
amended to read:
192.23 [SERVICE MEDALS.]
The commander-in-chief may, by general order, provide a
suitable mark of distinction for all officers and enlisted
members who have served in the military forces of the state for
an aggregate period of three, five, ten, 15, and 20 years,
respectively, and for like service thereafter; and medals to be
awarded for valor, for distinguished service, and for good
conduct. The commander-in-chief may authorize and prescribe
regulations for the issuance of suitable marks of distinction to
be awarded to officers and enlisted members who have served in
the military forces of the state during periods of war or other
declared emergencies, provided that these shall not be awarded
for service for which service medals or bars are authorized by
federal authority.
Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 192.37, is
amended to read:
192.37 [DISPOSING WRONGFUL DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY.]
Every person, whether a member of the military forces or
not, who shall willfully sell or dispose of or buy or receive
any arms, equipment or accoutrements issued by sells, buys,
damages, destroys, disposes of, or retains any military property
of the United States or of the state for the use of the military
forces, or refuses to deliver or pay for the same upon lawful
demand, without proper authority shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 192.38,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [TEMPORARY EMERGENCY RELIEF.] If any
officer or enlisted member of the military forces is wounded or
otherwise disabled, dies from disease contracted or injuries
received, or is killed while in state active service as defined
in section 190.05, subdivision 5a, the officer or member, or in
the case of death the officer's or member's dependent spouse,
child, or parent, may be provided with immediate temporary
relief as necessary in cases of severe hardship, in an amount to
be determined by the adjutant general and approved by the
governor. All payments under this subdivision shall be made
from appropriations for the maintenance of the state military
forces. The adjutant general shall notify the workers'
compensation commission department of employee relations of any
payments made pursuant to this subdivision and the amount of it
shall be subtracted from any award made by the commission
department of employee relations.
Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 192.40, is
amended to read:
192.40 [GOVERNOR TO APPOINT UNITED STATES PROPERTY AND
DISBURSING FISCAL OFFICER.]
The governor, upon the recommendation of the adjutant
general and pursuant to federal authority, shall appoint,
designate, or detail subject to the approval of the secretary of
defense, the adjutant general, or an officer of the national
guard who shall be regarded as property and disbursing officer
for the United States the army and secretary of the air force, a
qualified commissioned officer of the Minnesota national guard
to be the United States property and fiscal officer for
Minnesota. The officer appointed shall receipt and account for
all funds and property belonging to the United States in
possession of the national guard of this state and shall make
such returns and reports concerning the same as may be required
by the secretary of defense. The officer appointed shall
render, through the defense department, such accounts of federal
funds entrusted to that officer for disbursement as may be
required by the treasury department.
The property and disbursing officer shall, before entering
upon the performance of duties, be required to give good and
sufficient bond to the United States, the amount thereof to be
determined by the secretary of defense, for the faithful
performance of assigned duties and for the safekeeping and
proper disposition of the federal property and funds entrusted
to the care of that officer.
This property and disbursing officer may also be the
quartermaster of the state chief, national guard bureau, and the
appropriate service secretary.
Sec. 13. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 192.49,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [OFFICERS.] Every commissioned officer of
the military forces shall receive from the state, while engaged
in any service ordered by the governor, pay and allowances at
the rate now or hereafter paid or allowed by law to officers
of similar rank the same grade and length of service in the
armed forces of the United States, but not less than $130 a day.
Sec. 14. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 192.49,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [UNIFORMS TO BE SUPPLIED ENLISTED PERSONS.]
When expedient, the adjutant general may issue to commissioned
officers from time to time any available articles of uniform and
equipment suitable for field work. Articles so issued shall be
charged to the officer and that officer shall account for them
as provided in rules called into active service by the governor,
other than for encampment or maneuvers, including the time
necessarily consumed in travel, each enlisted person of the
military forces shall be paid by the state the pay and the
allowances, when not furnished in kind, provided by law for
enlisted persons of similar grade, rating, and length of service
in the armed forces of the United States, or $130 a day,
whichever is more.
Sec. 15. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.142,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [CORPORATION CREATED; OFFICERS.] For the
purpose of constructing armories as provided by section 193.141,
there shall be created a corporation to be known as the
"Minnesota state armory building commission." The members and
governing body of such corporation shall be the adjutant general
and not less than two officers of the line of the national guard
of the state above the grade of lieutenant colonel major, to be
selected and appointed by the adjutant general. The adjutant
general shall be chair of such commission. Such commission
shall elect a secretary and a treasurer from the members thereof
other than the adjutant general. The treasurer of the
corporation shall give a security bond to the corporation in
such sum as the corporation may determine, conditioned in like
manner to the bonds of treasurers of public bodies, to be
approved and filed as the corporation may determine.
Sec. 16. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.142,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [FILING; OFFICERS; MEMBERS; VACANCY.] Upon the
filing with the secretary of state of a certificate by the
adjutant general naming the persons authorized to compose such
commission and corporation, and declaring them to be constituted
a commission and corporation hereunder, such persons shall
forthwith become and be such commission and corporation without
further proceeding. In case of a vacancy in the membership of
such commission and corporation, the remaining members, provided
there are not less than two, shall have power to act and to
elect such temporary officers of the commission as may be
necessary during the existence of the vacancy. In case at any
time there shall not be at least two qualified officers of the
national guard in addition to the adjutant general eligible to
serve as members of such commission, the adjutant general may
appoint a member or members of such commission from the
lieutenant colonels of the line of the national guard of the
state, so as to provide not more than two members of such
commission in addition to the adjutant general. The membership
of the members last so appointed shall automatically terminate
upon the appointment and qualification of an officer of the
national guard eligible under subdivision 1, to serve as a
member of such commission, provided the total membership be not
thereby reduced to less than three including the adjutant
general. In case of a vacancy in the office of the adjutant
general, or in case of the incapacity of the adjutant general to
act as a member and chair of such commission, the officer who is
appointed or authorized according to law to exercise the powers
of the adjutant general for the time being, shall during the
existence of such vacancy or incapacity act as a member and
chair of such commission and have all the powers and duties
herein vested in or imposed upon the adjutant general as a
member and chair of such commission. The adjutant general shall
certify to the secretary of state all changes in the membership
of the commission, but failure to do so shall not affect the
authority of any new member of the commission or the validity of
any act of the commission after the accession of a new member.
Sec. 17. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.142,
subdivision 3, is amended to read:
Subd. 3. [TRUSTEE IN CERTAIN CASES.] In case at any time
all or all but one of the line officers of the national guard
who are members of the commission or who are eligible to serve
as such are in active service outside the state, or where for
any other reason there are not at least two qualified line
officers of the national guard available within the state to
serve as members of the commission, the adjutant general, or in
case of incapacity or of a vacancy in that office, the officer
who is appointed or authorized according to law to exercise the
powers of the adjutant general for the time being, shall become
trustee of the commission and shall have all the powers and
perform all the duties of the commission and its officers so
long as such conditions exist. Upon the occurrence of such
conditions the officer becoming trustee shall file with the
Secretary of State a certificate reciting the circumstances and
declaring that that officer assumes office as such trustee, and
thereupon shall be deemed to have qualified as such, with all
the authority hereby conferred. Any change in such office shall
be likewise certified by the officers succeeding as trustee.
Upon the termination of such conditions, the adjutant general or
an authorized substitute shall certify the circumstances in like
manner, with the names of the officers then authorized by law to
compose the commission, and thereupon such officers shall
constitute the commission, and the authority of the trustee
shall terminate.
Sec. 18. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.143, is
amended to read:
193.143 [STATE ARMORY BUILDING COMMISSION, POWERS.]
Such corporation, subject to the conditions and limitations
prescribed in sections 193.141 to 193.149, shall possess all the
powers of a body corporate necessary and convenient to
accomplish the objectives and perform the duties prescribed by
sections 193.141 to 193.149, including the following, which
shall not be construed as a limitation upon the general powers
hereby conferred:
(1) To acquire by lease, purchase, gift, or condemnation
proceedings all necessary right, title, and interest in and to
the lands required for a site for a new armory and all other
real or personal property required for the purposes contemplated
by the military code and to hold and dispose of the same,
subject to the conditions and limitations herein prescribed;
provided that any such real or personal property or interest
therein may be so acquired or accepted subject to any condition
which may be imposed thereon by the grantor or donor and agreed
to by such corporation not inconsistent with the proper use of
such property by the state for armory or military purposes as
herein provided.
(2) To exercise the right of eminent domain in the manner
provided by chapter 117, for the purpose of acquiring any
property which such corporation is herein authorized to acquire
by condemnation; provided, that the corporation may take
possession of any such property so to be acquired at any time
after the filing of the petition describing the same in
condemnation proceedings; provided further, that this shall not
preclude the corporation from abandoning the condemnation of any
such property in any case where possession thereof has not been
taken.
(3) To construct and equip new armories as authorized
herein; to pay therefor out of the funds obtained as hereinafter
provided and to hold, manage, and dispose of such armory,
equipment, and site as hereinafter provided. The total amount
of bonds issued on account of such armories shall not exceed the
amount of the cost thereof; provided also, that the total bonded
indebtedness of the commission shall not at any time exceed the
aggregate sum of $7,000,000.
(4) To sue and be sued.
(5) To contract and be contracted with in any matter
connected with any purpose or activity within the powers of such
corporations as herein specified; provided, that no officer or
member of such corporation shall be personally interested,
directly or indirectly, in any contract in which such
corporation is interested.
(6) To employ any and all professional and nonprofessional
services and all agents, employees, workers, and servants
necessary and proper for the purposes and activities of such
corporation as authorized or contemplated herein and to pay for
the same out of any portion of the income of the corporation
available for such purposes or activities. The officers and
members of such corporation shall not receive any compensation
therefrom, but may receive their reasonable and necessary
expenses incurred in connection with the performance of their
duties; provided however, that whenever the duties of any member
of the commission require full time and attention the commission
may compensate the member therefor at such rates as it may
determine.
(7) To borrow money and issue bonds for the purposes and in
the manner and within the limitations herein specified, and to
pledge any and all property and income of such corporation
acquired or received as herein provided to secure the payment of
such bonds, subject to the provisions and limitations herein
prescribed, and to redeem any such bonds if so provided therein
or in the mortgage or trust deed accompanying the same.
(8) To use for the following purposes any available money
received by such corporation from any source as herein provided
in excess of those required for the payment of the cost of such
armory and for the payment of any bonds issued by the
corporation and interest thereon according to the terms of such
bonds or of any mortgage or trust deed accompanying the same:
(a) To pay the necessary incidental expenses of carrying on
the business and activities of the corporation as herein
authorized;
(b) To pay the cost of operating, maintaining, repairing,
and improving such new armories;
(c) If any further excess moneys remain, to purchase upon
the open market at or above or below the face or par value
thereof any bonds issued by the corporation as herein
authorized; provided, that any bonds so purchased shall
thereupon be canceled.
(9) To adopt and use a corporate seal.
(10) To adopt all needful bylaws and rules for the conduct
of business and affairs of such corporation and for the
management and use of all armories while under the ownership and
control of such corporation as herein provided, not inconsistent
with the use of such armory for armory or military purposes.
(11) Such corporation shall issue no stock.
(12) No officer or member of such corporation shall have
any personal share or interest in any funds or property of the
corporation or be subject to any personal liability by reason of
any liability of the corporation.
(13) The Minnesota state armory building commission created
under section 193.142 shall keep all money and credits received
by it as a single fund, to be designated as the "Minnesota state
armory building commission fund," with separate accounts for
each armory; and the commission may make transfers of money from
funds appertaining to any armory under its control for use for
any other such armory; provided such transfers shall be made
only from money on hand, from time to time, in excess of the
amounts required to meet payments of interest or principal on
bonds or other obligations appertaining to the armory to which
such funds pertain and only when necessary to pay expenses of
construction, operation, maintenance, and debt service of such
other armory; provided further, no such transfer of any money
paid for the support of any armory by the municipality in which
such armory is situated shall be made by the commission.
(14) The corporation created under section 193.142 may
designate one or more state or national banks as depositories of
its funds, and may provide, upon such conditions as the
corporation may determine, that the treasurer of the corporation
shall be exempt from personal liability for loss of funds
deposited in any such depository due to the insolvency or other
acts or omissions of such depository.
(15) The governor is empowered to apply for grants of
money, equipment, and materials which may be made available to
the states by the federal government for leasing, building, and
equipping armories for the use of the military forces of the
state which are reserve components of the armed forces of the
United States, whenever the governor is satisfied that the
conditions under which such grants are offered by the federal
government, are for the best interests of the state and are not
inconsistent with the laws of the state relating to armories,
and to accept such grants in the name of the state. The
Minnesota state armory building commission is designated as the
agency of the state to receive such grants and to use them for
armory purposes as prescribed in this chapter, and by federal
laws, and regulations not inconsistent therewith.
Sec. 19. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.144,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE SITE.] Any county or
municipality as defined in section 471.345, subdivision 1,
desiring to construct a new armory may provide a site therefor
as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 20. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.144,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [ACQUISITION OF SITE; CONVEYANCE TO CORPORATION.]
If such county or municipality as defined in section 471.345,
subdivision 1, shall desire to have a new armory constructed,
such county or municipality may secure by purchase, gift, or
condemnation, and may convey to such corporation, a site for
such new armory approved as suitable therefor by the adjutant
general. In case such site or any part thereof or interest
therein is owned or controlled by the board of park
commissioners of such county or municipality or by any other
governmental agency therein except the state or county or
municipality, such board or other agency may convey the same by
way of gift or sale to such corporation without charge.
Sec. 21. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.144,
subdivision 6, is amended to read:
Subd. 6. [DISPOSAL OF UNUSED SITE.] In case any land
acquired for armory site purposes hereunder has been donated to
such corporation by such county or municipality or by other
governmental agency except the state, and in case such land or
any part thereof shall thereafter not be used for armory
purposes for a continuous period of more than ten years, not
including the period of any war or other emergency in which the
armed forces of the state may be engaged, the title to such
unused land or part thereof shall thereupon pass, revert and be
vested in such county, municipality or other governmental agency
which donated the same, subject to any encumbrances that may
have been lawfully placed thereon by such corporation or
otherwise the county or municipality may provide written notice
to the adjutant general and, if the property is not used for
armory purposes within one year from the notice, the adjutant
general shall reconvey the property to the donor county or
municipality.
Sec. 22. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.145,
subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2. [TAX LEVY.] A county or municipality, as defined
in section 471.345, subdivision 1, in which an armory has been
constructed or is to be constructed hereunder may by resolution
of its governing body irrevocably provide for levying and
collecting annually for a specified period, not exceeding 40
years, a tax on the taxable property in the county or
municipality.
The proceeds of the levy shall be paid to the corporation
for the purposes herein prescribed. The county or municipality
may make the levies and payments and bind itself thereto by
resolution of its governing body. The provisions of the
resolution may be made conditional upon the giving of an
agreement by the adjutant general as authorized in subdivision
4. The obligations of the county or municipality to levy,
collect, and pay over the taxes shall not be deemed to
constitute an indebtedness of the county or municipality within
the meaning of any provision of law or of its charter limiting
its total or net indebtedness, and such taxes may be levied and
collected without regard to any charter provision limiting the
amount or rate of taxes which such county or municipality is
otherwise authorized to levy.
Sec. 23. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.145,
subdivision 4, is amended to read:
Subd. 4. [PAYMENTS BY ADJUTANT GENERAL.] In addition to
the payments by the state under subdivision 3, The adjutant
general is hereby authorized to pay to such corporation, out of
any moneys which may from time to time be appropriated to and
for the military department and not appropriated or set apart
for any other specific purpose, the sum of not less than $3,000
per year for each unit of the national guard quartered in such
armory when only one such unit is so quartered, and the sum of
not less than $2,000 per year for each additional unit when more
than one such unit is so quartered, and may bind the office of
the adjutant general, both currently and in the future, by
agreement to such corporation to make such payments in a
specific amount or amounts out of such appropriations for a
period of not more than 40 years.
Sec. 24. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.145,
subdivision 5, is amended to read:
Subd. 5. [LEASE TO STATE.] Upon completion of each new
armory such corporation shall lease the same to the state
through the adjutant general, until such armory and site shall
be conveyed to the state as hereinafter provided. Such lease
shall be made upon such terms and conditions as shall secure to
the state the full and complete use of such armory, for armory
and military purposes so far as may be required for the
headquarters, organizations, and units of the national guard
stationed in such municipality, and upon such other terms and
conditions not inconsistent therewith as may be agreed upon;
provided, that, except for such use of such property for armory
and military purposes which will be secured to the state as
aforesaid, such lease shall be subject to any encumbrance placed
upon the property to secure the payment of any bonds issued as
herein provided. No further consideration for such lease shall
be required than the payments to be made by the state as
provided by subdivisions 3 and subdivision 4. Otherwise, and so
far as it is not inconsistent with the terms and conditions of
such lease to the state and so far as will not interfere with
the use by the state of such property for armory or military
purposes, such corporation may lease, rent, or otherwise make
use of such new armory building or any part thereof for such
purposes and upon such terms as such corporation may deem
proper, and may use the rents and profits therefrom for the
purposes herein provided.
Sec. 25. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.148, is
amended to read:
193.148 [CONVEYANCE TO STATE.]
When payment has been made of all indebtedness incurred by
such corporation incident to the procurement, erection,
equipment, and operation of any armory built under the
provisions of sections 193.141 to 193.149, including the payment
in full of the principal and interest of all bonds issued by
such corporation to cover the cost of such armory or the full
repayment of any commission funds expended for the construction
of such armory, such corporation shall transfer and convey such
armory building and the site thereof to the state of Minnesota,
for military purposes, to be administered as are other
state-owned armories.
Any unencumbered balance then held by the commission
accruing to such armory shall be paid over to the adjutant
general retained to be applied to the future maintenance,
repair, and equipment of such armory, as provided for in section
193.29 armories.
Sec. 26. Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 193.29,
subdivision 4, is amended to read:
Subd. 4. [RENTALS; PROCEEDS.] The Armory Board may rent an
armory to entities or individuals under terms and conditions the
board determines, but rentals may not conflict with the use of
the armory for military purposes. The proceeds of rentals and
all other income accruing to each armory constitutes the Armory
Fund and shall must be applied by the Armory Board of each
armory, as the adjutant general shall direct, for the its
maintenance, extension, improvement, and equipment thereof;, but
all armory funds and all allowances from the state accruing to
commission-owned armories shall must be paid to the commission.
Sec. 27. [REPEALER.]
Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections 190.13; 190.29; 192.36;
192.435; 192.44; 192.45; 192.46; 192.47; and 192.51, subdivision
2, are repealed.
Presented to the governor April 7, 1997
Signed by the governor April 8, 1997, 10:27 a.m.
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