In addition to the amount authorized by section 375.16, each county board may annually appropriate from the county revenue fund not more than $1,500 as a contingent fund for use by the county board to pay for incidental costs and expenses incurred by them in expediting the business of the county.
Nothing in subdivision 1 shall operate to lessen the amount of a contingent fund available to the county board or the chair of a county board under the authority of a special act for a single county enacted before August 1, 1973.
This section does not apply to Hennepin County.
Minn. Stat. § 375.161
1973 c 373 s 1; 1979 c 198 art 4 s 13; 1984 c 629 s 2; 1986 c 444