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RELEVANT LINKS: <br />The city may enter into an agreement with the county board and the county <br />attorney to provide prosecution services for any criminal offense. <br />All violations of a municipal ordinance, charter provision, rule, or <br />regulation must be prosecuted by the attorney for the city that promulgated <br />it, regardless of its population, or by the county attorney with whom the city <br />has contracted to prosecute these matters. <br />Minn. Stat. § 484.90, subd. <br />In all cases prosecuted in district court by an attorney for a city for <br />6. <br />violations of state statute, or of an ordinance, or charter provision, rule or <br />regulation of a city (except for cases prosecuted in Hennepin County and <br />Ramsey County), the court administrator pays fines and penalties to the <br />state treasury and it is generally distributed as follows: (1) 100 percent of <br />all fines or penalties for parking violations for which complaints and <br />warrants have not been issued to the treasurer of the city or town in which <br />the offense was committed; and (2) two-thirds of all other fines to the <br />treasurer of the city or town in which the offense was committed and one- <br />third credited to the state general fund. <br />There is an exception to this division of fines and penalties under the state <br />law relating to fines and forfeited bail money from state patrol traffic <br />arrests. In these cases, the division of fines is as follows: <br />Minn. Stat. § 299D.03, <br />subd. 5 (a). <br />• If the arrest occurs within a city and the city attorney prosecutes the <br />offense and the defendant pleads not guilty, one-third of the money <br />goes to the city, one-third to the state's general fund, and one-third is <br />distributed as designated by state law between the Minnesota grade <br />crossing safety account and the state trunk highway fund. <br />Minn. Stat. § 299D.03, <br />• In all other cases, three -eighths of the money goes to the state's general <br />subd. 5 (a). <br />fund, five -eighths is distributed as designated by state law between the <br />Minnesota grade crossing safety account and the state trunk highway <br />fund, and none to the city. <br />V. Local approval of special laws <br />Minn. Const. art. X11, § 2. <br />Under the Minnesota Constitution, any law that affects a single unit of local <br />Minn. Stat. § 645.021. <br />government or a group of such units must name the unit or units. Also, the <br />law generally does not take effect until a majority of the city council passes <br />a resolution approving it. Unless otherwise required by the special law, the <br />usual procedural requirements apply to resolutions. Publication is not <br />necessary. <br />Local approval is necessary except for the following cases: <br />League of Minnesota Cities Handbook for Minnesota Cities 8/30/2022 <br />Meetings, Motions, Resolutions, and Ordinances Chapter 7 1 Page 56 <br />