1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to local government; increasing a tax levy 
  1.3             for a certain hospital district involving certain 
  1.4             entities in St. Louis and Koochiching counties; 
  1.5             amending Laws 1988, chapter 645, section 3. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Laws 1988, chapter 645, section 3, is amended 
  1.8   to read: 
  1.9      Sec. 3.  [TAX; PAYMENT OF EXPENSES.] 
  1.10     (a) The tax levied by the hospital district under Minnesota 
  1.11  Statutes, section 447.34, must not be levied at a rate that 
  1.12  exceeds ~~2 mills~~ .0063 percent of taxable market value.  ~~The~~ 
  1.13  ~~proceeds~~ 
  1.14     (b) .0048 percent of taxable market value of ~~that~~ tax in 
  1.15  paragraph (a) may be used only for acquisition, betterment, and 
  1.16  maintenance of the district's hospital and nursing home 
  1.17  facilities and equipment, and not for administrative or salary 
  1.18  expenses.  
  1.19     (c) .0015 percent of taxable market value of the tax in 
  1.20  paragraph (a) may be used solely for the purpose of capital 
  1.21  expenditures as it relates to ambulance acquisitions for the 
  1.22  Cook ambulance service and the Orr ambulance service and not for 
  1.23  administrative or salary expenses.  
  1.24     The part of the levy referred to in paragraph (c) must be 
  1.25  administered by the Cook Hospital and passed on directly to the 
  2.1   Cook area ambulance service board and the city of Orr to be held 
  2.2   in trust until funding for a new ambulance is needed by either 
  2.3   the Cook ambulance service or the Orr ambulance service. 
  2.4      Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.5      The .0015 percent of taxable market value levy described in 
  2.6   section 1, paragraph (c), is effective for the cities of Cook 
  2.7   and Orr and the counties of St. Louis and Koochiching for 
  2.8   affected parts of those counties on January 1, 2000, to be 
  2.9   requested in the year 2000, with the first payment to be 
  2.10  received in 2001.