Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0802

1E Modifying certain provisions governing state timber lands; making mandatory
the option of the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to designate forest
roads by written order published in the state register; exempting forest
improvement contracts from certain state procurement competitive bidding and
approval requirements; recodifying and clarifying certain provisions requiring
the commissioner to annually hold public meetings in the forested area of the
state to inform the public on the allocation of harvest plans between informal,
intermediate and regular auction sales and to annually report to the state
executive council on the status of state timber sales and the timber management
program; eliminating the option of the commissioner to list the estimated
quantity of timber of doubtful market value in the auction sale list and notice;
defining employee for certain sale restriction purposes; modifying certain
requirements for purchaser or assignee cash deposits in lieu of bond and for
commissioner offering of rewards for information leading to the apprehension of
trespassers; increasing the fee for special permits to salvage or cut fuelwood;
modifying the standard measurements for wood and a certain provision regulating
the use of bank letters of credit in lieu of payment or deposit for
tax-forfeited land timber sales; repealing the definition of person
(ra, ja)