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Page 12 of 13 <br />property located within the district to provide fire protection <br />for it. The tax, with a certified copy of the resolution <br />establishing the district, shall be certified by the town board <br />to the county auditor who shall spread the tax against the <br />property located within the district. The tax shall be <br />collected as other taxes. <br />Subd . 7. Disbursement of funds. When the tax is <br />collected, it shall be paid to the town and disbursed upon the <br />order of the town board to provide fire protection in the <br />district. The town board may order the money, or part of it, to <br />be paid to a municipality or volunteer fire department which <br />agrees to furnish and has its fire department headquarters <br />located so as to be able to conveniently furnish fire protection <br />to the property within the district <br />subd. B. Plural districts. More than one special <br />fire protection district may be established in a town. <br />Districts shall be designated by consecutive numbers in the <br />order of their establishment. <br />Subd. 9. Dissolution. A special fire protection <br />district may be dissolved in the following manner. The town <br />board may submit the question of dissolution of a district at <br />any annual town meeting. It mast submit that question at the <br />next annual town meeting on the signed petition of electors <br />residing in the district equal in number to at least one -half of <br />the number of freeholders in the district according to the tax <br />record in the county auditor's office filed with the town clerk <br />not less than 45 days before the annual meeting. Notice that <br />the question will be submitted shall be posted by the town clerk <br />iIn three public places within the special district not less than <br />two weeks before the annual meeting at which it will be <br />submitted. only voters residing in the district shall vote on <br />the.question of dissolution. A separate ballot box shall be <br />provided for votes on the question. The town board shall <br />provide ballots for the question of dissolution which shall be <br />in the same form as provided in subdivision 4 except that the <br />question shall be "Shall Special Fire Protection District No. <br />• + • • • be dissolved?". If a majority vote of those voting on <br />the question vote in the affirmative, the district shall be <br />dissolved. In that event the results of the election shall be <br />certified by the chair of the town board to the county auditor. <br />There shall be no further special levy for fire protection in <br />the district, but dissolution shall not relieve the property in <br />the special district from any taxes levied under this section <br />before dissolution. <br />HIST: 1949 c 284 s 1 -9i 1965 c 18 s 1f 1971 c 271 s 2; 1973 c <br />773 s 1; 1985 c 381 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1989 <br />c 329 art 13 s 20; 1990 c 401 art 2 s 1 <br />== 368.86 <br />368.86 Repealed, 1984 c <br />582 s <br />48; 1984 c 593 s 46 <br />== 368.misc2002 Minn. <br />Stats. <br />4 <br />repealed, etc. secs in chap 368 <br />368.02 Repealed, <br />1984 <br />c <br />582 <br />s 48 <br />388.83 Repealed, <br />1984 <br />c <br />562 <br />s 48 <br />368.04 repealed, <br />1984 <br />c <br />562 <br />s 48 <br />3G8.05 Repealed, <br />1984 <br />c <br />562 <br />s 48 <br />4/10/2003 <br />