Subject to the provisions of section 244.19 and rules of the supreme court, a court may establish a probate division, a family court division, juvenile division, and a civil and criminal division which shall include a conciliation court, and may establish within the civil and criminal division a traffic and ordinance violations bureau.
The court may establish, consistent with rule 23 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure, misdemeanor violations bureaus at the places it determines.
Minn. Stat. § 484.86
2006 c 260 art 5 s 33