231 (Minn.2010) (“If a statute’s words are clear and unambiguous as applied to an existing situation, we construe the words according to their common and approved usage.”). “Exigent circumstances” is defined as “[a] situation that demands unusual or immediate action and that may allow people to circumvent usual procedures.” Black’s Law Dictionary 227 (9th ed.2009). Similarly, dictionary definitions of exigent include “[requiring immediate action” and “[r]equiring immediate aid or action.” The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 622 (5th ed.2011); Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 406 (10th ed.2001). Our case law is consistent with these definitions. We have said that the term “ ‘exigent’ bespeaks urgency or emergency.” Peoples Natural Gas Co., 389 N.W.2d at 907 (<HOLDING>). As these definitions indicate, the question
holding that with respect to the eaja the local or national market rate for legal services cannot be a special factor used to increase the rate beyond the statutory rate holding that section 406b only governs a defendant service provider who was receiving agreedupon rates directly from a plan if that defendant had discretionary authority or control with respect to the rates agreed to by the plan sponsor holding that the commission is required by our constitution to ascertain the value of a utilitys property within the state in setting just and reasonable rates holding that the utilitys proposed rate increase to only one service class hardly suggests a pressing need of the type which would justify abandoning the statutory plan for interim rates and taking extraordinary action holding that an arbitration decision that invalidated a rate increase but declined to set a new rate was final when the arbitration panels authority did not extend to setting new rates