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1 <br />MINNESOTA STATUTES 2019 12.29 <br />12.29 DECLARATION OF LOCAL EMERGENCY. <br />Subdivision 1. Authority to declare emergency. A local emergency may be declared only by the mayor <br />of a municipality or the chair of a county board of commissioners or their legal successors. It may not be <br />continued for a period in excess of three days except by or with the consent of the governing body of the <br />political subdivision. Any order or proclamation declaring, continuing, or terminating a local emergency <br />must be given prompt and general publicity and filed promptly by the chief of the local record -keeping <br />agency of the political subdivision. <br />Subd. 2. Effect of declaration of emergency. A declaration of a local emergency invokes necessary <br />portions of the response and recovery aspects of applicable local or interjurisdictional disaster plans, and <br />may authorize aid and assistance under those plans. <br />Subd. 3. Interjurisdictional agencies. No interjurisdictional agency or official may declare a local <br />emergency unless expressly authorized by the agreement under which the agency functions. However, an <br />interjurisdictional disaster agency shall provide aid and services in accordance with the agreement under <br />which it functions. <br />History: 1976 c 266 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1996 c 344 s 18 <br />Copyright CO 2019 by the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. All Rights Reserved. <br />