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should amend the statute to expand the <br />employees covered by the statute. <br />Response: The legislature should expand <br />Minn. Stat. § 609.2231, subd. 6, to include <br />code enforcement officials. The term code <br />enforcement official should be defined <br />broadly to include public employees and <br />contractors whose jobs require them to <br />enforce all administrative codes, rules, <br />ordinances, and state laws. <br />SD-30. Restrictions on Possession of <br />Firearms <br />Issue: The Minnesota Citizens Personal <br />Protection Act, also known as "conceal -and - <br />carry," prohibits guns on most school <br />properties but forbids other local units of <br />government from prohibiting loaded <br />firearms on their properties. The <br />inconsistencies in the law's treatment of <br />different kinds of properties have caused <br />confusion about how the law applies to <br />multi -use facilities, such as municipal ice <br />arenas used for school -sponsored programs. <br />Further, the law gives private property <br />owners the right to prohibit guns in their <br />establishments, but prohibits landowners <br />from restricting firearm possession by <br />tenants and their guests without <br />distinguishing between residential and <br />commercial properties. This creates <br />confusion for shopping malls and other retail <br />properties with large common areas that are <br />not occupied by the tenants but which the <br />tenants and their customers must cross to <br />access the tenant's space. <br />Finally, the Citizens Personal Protection Act <br />does not explicitly state the type of firearm a <br />permit holder may carry, and this has led to <br />ambiguity regarding whether the law is <br />limited to the right to carry a pistol -length <br />firearm in public or if it allows for any <br />firearm, including a military -style assault <br />rifle. <br />Response: The League of Minnesota <br />Cities requests an amendment to the <br />Citizens Personal Protection Act that <br />would allow cities to prohibit firearms in <br />city -owned buildings, facilities, and parks. <br />The League supports clarifying the Act to <br />state that a permit holder, under the <br />terms of a permit, is allowed to carry a <br />pistol -length firearm, but not a <br />semiautomatic military -style assault <br />weapon. The League is not seeking a <br />repeal of the Citizens Personal Protection <br />Act, nor authority to prohibit legal <br />weapons in parking lots or on city streets <br />and sidewalks. The League also supports <br />efforts by commercial property owners to <br />clarify that the prohibition on restricting <br />possession by tenants and their guests <br />applies only to residential rental property. <br />SD-31. Public Safety <br />Communications <br />Issue: The state role in financing public <br />safety communications has important cost <br />implications for cities. The state needs to <br />accept financial responsibility for use by <br />cities of the state public safety radio <br />communications backbone. Cities have <br />struggled to pay high expenses to participate <br />in the 800 MHz statewide public safety <br />system. <br />In previous state budgets, the Legislature <br />turned to revenue sources upon which cities <br />depend to cover costs to purchase and <br />operate new communications technology <br />and hardware for computer -aided dispatch, <br />911 public safety answering points (PSAPs), <br />and interoperable radio communications <br />equipment and subsystems in order to <br />finance the build -out of the state backbone <br />for the new system. As a result, fees were <br />directed to fund revenue bond debt service <br />League of Minnesota Cities <br />2018 City Policies Page 20 <br />