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CHAPTER 466​ <br />TORT LIABILITY, POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS​ <br />DEFINITIONS.​466.01​ <br />TORT LIABILITY.​466.02​ <br />EXCEPTIONS.​466.03​ <br />MAXIMUM LIABILITY.​466.04​ <br />NOTICE OF CLAIM.​466.05​ <br />LIABILITY INSURANCE.​466.06​ <br />INDEMNIFICATION.​466.07​ <br />COMPROMISE OF CLAIMS.​466.08​ <br />PAYMENT OF JUDGMENTS.​466.09​ <br />LAW ENFORCEMENT COSTS.​466.101​ <br />RELATION TO CHARTERS AND SPECIAL LAWS.​466.11​ <br />INDEMNIFICATION BY STATE.​466.131​ <br />INDEMNIFICATION BY STATE.​466.132​ <br />CIVIL DAMAGES ACT, APPLICATION.​466.15​ <br />466.01 DEFINITIONS.​ <br />Subdivision 1. Municipality. For the purposes of sections 466.01 to 466.15, "municipality" means any​ <br />city, whether organized under home rule charter or otherwise, any county, town, public authority, public​ <br />corporation, nonprofit firefighting corporation that has associated with it a relief association as defined in​ <br />section 424A.001, subdivision 4, special district, school district, however organized, county agricultural​ <br />society organized pursuant to chapter 38, joint powers board or organization created under section 471.59​ <br />or other statute, public library, regional public library system, multicounty multitype library system, the​ <br />following local collaboratives whose plans have been approved by the Children's Cabinet: family services​ <br />collaboratives established under section 124D.23, children's mental health collaboratives established under​ <br />sections 245.491 to 245.495, or a collaborative established by the merger of a children's mental health​ <br />collaborative and a family services collaborative, other political subdivision, community action agency, or​ <br />a limited partnership in which a community action agency is the sole general partner.​ <br />Subd. 2. Governing body of a town, school district. For the purposes of sections 466.01 to 466.15,​ <br />the "governing body of a town" means the board of supervisors thereof; "school district" includes an​ <br />unorganized territory as defined in Minnesota Statutes 1961, section 120.02, subdivision 17.​ <br />Subd. 3. Release, hazardous substance. For the purposes of sections 466.01 to 466.15, "release" and​ <br />"hazardous substance" have the meanings given in section 115B.02.​ <br />Subd. 4. [Repealed, 1997 c 7 art 1 s 140]​ <br />Subd. 5. [Repealed, 1997 c 7 art 1 s 140]​ <br />Subd. 6. Employee, officer, or agent. For the purposes of sections 466.01 to 466.15, "employee,"​ <br />"officer," or "agent" means a present or former employee, officer, or agent of a municipality, or other person​ <br />acting on behalf of the municipality in an official capacity, temporarily or permanently, with or without​ <br />compensation, but does not include an independent contractor other than a nonprofit firefighting corporation​ <br />that has associated with it a relief association as defined in section 424A.001, subdivision 4. "Employee"​ <br />includes court administrators who are not under section 480.181, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), and their​ <br />staff under chapter 485, district administration staff in the Second and Fourth Judicial Districts, and other​ <br />employees within the court system whose salaries are paid by the county, other than employees who remain​ <br />on the county payroll under section 480.181, subdivision 2.​ <br />History: 1963 c 798 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1978 c 659 s 3; 1983 c 121 s 27; 1983 c 280 s 2; 1986​ <br />c 395 s 12,13; 1986 c 455 s 64; 1988 c 708 s 7; 1989 c 335 art 3 s 12; 1994 c 632 art 4 s 75; 1996 c 412​ <br />art 3 s 34; 1996 c 448 art 6 s 1,2; 1997 c 203 art 5 s 23; 1998 c 397 art 11 s 3; 1999 c 205 art 1 s 59; 1999​ <br />c 216 art 7 s 25; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 11 s 11; 2004 c 193 s 1​ <br />Copyright © 2016 by the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. All Rights Reserved.​ <br />466.01​MINNESOTA STATUTES 2016​1​