7B, Lake Johanna Emergency Temporary "No Wake Zone" - Public Hearing

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(13) provide and finance a government service of the county or statutory or home rule city that is not provided throughout the county or, if the government service is provided, the service is at an increased level within the district; and (14) regulate water surface use as provided in sections 86B.205, 103G.605, and 103G.621. HIST.• 1990 c 391 art 2 s 40; 1996 c 385 art 2 s 7; 2000 c 396 s 3 PARK DISTRICT STATUTES 398.08 GENERAL POWERS. Park districts shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities of a municipal corporation at common law and they shall be subject to the duties of a municipal corporation at common law. Except as otherwise limited in this chapter tliey shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, may use a corporate seal, may acquire by lease, purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise such real and personal property as the purposes of the board may require and may hold, manage, control, sell, convey, lease or otherwise dispose of such property or its interests therein, The board shall have full authority to exercise all the powers of the district, to make all necessary or desirable contracts, to procure public liability and other insurance protection as may be necessary or desirable, to hire and employ help and assistance as its needs require, to exercise the power of eminent domain, to enact ordinances and to declare that the violation thereof shall be a penal offense and to prescribe the penalties, thereof, not to exceed a fine of $100, or imprisonment in a statutory city or county jail for a period of not more than 90 days, or both, and in either case the cost of prosecution may be added to the penalties imposed. The board shall have full power and authority to acquire and establish parks and to operate, maintain, protect, improve and preserve a park system and to conduct a recreational program in its parks. History: 1955 c 806 s 8; 1973 c 123 art S s 7 398.09 SPECIFIC POWERS (Subd. (a) nnly). Park district boards in addition to the foregoing general powers shall have these specifc powers: , (a) The power to regulate by ordinance the use of the waters of any lake lying wholly within a park established under this chapter and the use of any lake shore which is within a park established under this chapter and the waterfront immediately abutting such lake shore for not to exceed 300 feet therefrom, by all persons, including persons boating, swimming, fishing, skating or otherwise, in, upon or about said lake, lake shore and abutting waterfront, subject to regulation by the state of Minnesota. See MN Stats. for remainder of section History: 1955 c 806 s 9; 1957 c 160 s 1; 1973 c 123 art S s 7; 1984 c 654 art 2 s 127; 1986 c 444; 2001 c44s4 STATUTES REGARDING CITIES AND TOWNS 459.20 AUTHORITY OVER PUBLIC WATERS. The governing body of any home rule charter or statutory city or town in the state has, with respect to any body of water situated wholly within its boundaries, all the powers to improve and regulate the use of such body of water subject to section 86B.205, subdivision 6, as are conferred on county boards by sections 86B.205 and 103F.801, and to establish and administer lake improvement districts under sections 103B.501 to 103B.581. With respect to any body of water situated wholly within the contiguous