Section 161.06 Contingent Fund - Minnesota Statutes

161.06 MS 1945 [Repealed, 1947 c 391 s 4]

161.06 CONTINGENT FUND.

Subdivision 1.Amount.

The commissioner of management and budget is authorized and directed to make available to the Department of Transportation out of money in the state treasury appropriated for trunk highway purposes the sum of $5,000, or such lesser amount as the commissioner may request, to be used by said department as a contingent fund, subject to such rules for its use as may be prescribed by the commissioner of administration.

Subd. 2.Use.

The commissioner may use the money in the contingent fund for trunk highway purposes in facilitating and expediting the business of the Department of Transportation, particularly in the handling of garnishments, emergency labor payrolls, expense accounts of employees and in departmental litigation, and all acts of the commissioner heretofore performed in the use of the fund are in all things recognized and confirmed.

History:

1959 c 500 art 2 s 6; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1976 c 166 s 7; 1985 c 248 s 70; 2003 c 112 art 2 s 50; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109