Minnesota Statutes 10.43 – Telephone Use; Approval
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(a) Each representative, senator, constitutional officer, judge, and head of a state department or agency shall sign the person‘s monthly long-distance telephone bills paid by the state as evidence of the person’s approval of each bill. This signature requirement does not apply to a month in which the person’s long-distance phone bill paid by the state is less than $5.
Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 10.43
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and "year" is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
- Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
- state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
(b) Even if the monthly long-distance phone bill paid by the state for a person subject to this section is less than $5, the person is responsible for paying that portion of the bill that does not relate to state business. As provided in section 10.46, long-distance telephone bills paid by the state are public data, regardless of the amount of the bills.