Minnesota Statutes

Minn. Stat. § 412.211 (2026)

General Statutory City Powers

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Every city shall be a municipal corporation having the powers and rights and being subject to the duties of municipal corporations at common law. Each shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, may use a corporate seal, may acquire, either within or without its corporate limits, such real and personal property as the purposes of the city may require, by purchase, gift, devise, condemnation, lease or otherwise, and may hold, manage, control, sell, convey, lease, or otherwise dispose of such property as its interests require. The powers listed in chapter 412 are not exclusive and other provisions of law granting additional powers to cities or to classes of cities shall apply except where inconsistent with this chapter.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 10 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1958–2021 · leading case: City of Cohasset v. Minnesota Power, 776 N.W.2d 776 (Minn. Ct. App. 2010).

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City of Cohasset v. Minnesota Power, 776 N.W.2d 776 (Minn. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 8× “To support its claim, the city cites Minn.Stat. § 412.211 (2008), which states in relevant part that "[e]very city shall be a municipal corporation having the powers and rights and being subject to the duties of municipal corporations at common law.”

Matter of City of Shakopee, 295 N.W.2d 495 (Minn. 1980). · cites it 3× “§ 412.211 (1978), which authorizes such a city to “acquire, either within or without its corporate limits, such real and personal property as the purposes of the city may require, by purchase, gift, devise, condemnation, lease, or otherwise * * In addition, Minn.”

City of Shakopee v. Minnesota Valley Elec. Coop., 303 N.W.2d 58 (Minn. 1981). · cites it 2× “The cooperative goes on to analyze Minn.Stat. §§ 412.211, 412.321 and 216B.47 (1980) to demonstrate the lack of any such specific authorization.”

In Re the Denial of Eller Media Co.'s Applications for Outdoor Advert. Device Permits, 642 N.W.2d 492 (Minn. Ct. App. 2002). · cites it 2× “032 (2000) (airports); Minn.Stat. § 412.211, subd. 22 (2000) (sewage and garbage disposal); Minn.”

Vill. of Kennedy v. Sorenson, 88 N.W.2d 89 (Minn. 1958). · cites it 3× “It is to be noted that the pertinent part of § 412.211 is that “Every village * * * may acquire * * * real * * * property as the purposes of the village may require, by * * * condemnation * * *.”

City of Willmar v. Kvam, 769 N.W.2d 775 (Minn. Ct. App. 2009). · cites it 4× “See Minn.Stat. § 412.211 (2006) (providing that a city may acquire real property “as the purposes of the city may require, by purchase .”

Turner v. Eagan Police Dep't (D. Minnesota 2021). · cites it 2× “The Eagan Police Department correctly observes that, although municipalities may sue and be sued under Minn. Stat. § 412.211 , a municipality’s “departments have not been given that specific authority.”

Smith v. City of Moorhead (D. Minnesota 2021). “§ 412.211; see also Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(b)(3).”

Op. Atty. Gen. 624a-3 (Minn. Att'y Gen. 1999). · cites it 2× “Statutory cities now derive similar authority from Minn. Stat. § 412.211 (1998) (general powers of statutory cities include powers, rights and duties of municipal corporations at common law); Minn.”

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