Minnesota Legislature
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
Minnesota Session Laws - 1997, Regular Session
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CHAPTER 207-S.F.No. 309
An act relating to state lands; authorizing the
conveyance of certain tax-forfeited land that borders
public water in Blue Earth, Cass, Crow Wing, Becker,
Aitkin, Mille Lacs, Cook, Carlton, and Washington
counties; authorizing the private sale of certain
state lands to wild rice lessees; authorizing the
private sale of surplus state land in Houston county.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1. [CONVEYANCE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND BORDERING ON
PUBLIC WATERS; BLUE EARTH COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, and
section 92.45, Blue Earth county may convey to the city of
Mankato for no consideration the tax-forfeited land bordering on
public waters that is described in paragraph (c).
(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general and provide that the land reverts to the state
if the city stops using the land for public purposes.
(c) The land that may be conveyed is located in Blue Earth
county and is described as:
That part of Government Lot 4 in Section 7, Township 108
North, Range 26 West, Blue Earth county, Minnesota, being
bounded by the following described lines:
On the North by the south line of a plat entitled Mankato
City and its westerly extension; on the South by the north
line of a plat entitled City of Mankato; on the East by the
westerly right-of-way line of the abandoned Union Pacific
Railroad Company; and on the West by the Minnesota River.
Containing 2.84 acres, more or less.
(d) The county has determined that it is in the public's
best interest to convey the parcel to the city of Mankato for
use in connection with the North Minnesota River Trail.
Sec. 2. [SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND BORDERING ON PUBLIC
WATER OR INCLUDING WETLANDS; CASS COUNTY.]
Subdivision 1. [SALE REQUIREMENTS.] (a) Notwithstanding
Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45, 103F.535, and 282.018,
subdivision 1, Cass county may sell the tax-forfeited lands
bordering public water or natural wetlands that are described in
subdivision 2, under the remaining provisions of Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 282.
(b) The conveyances must be in a form approved by the
attorney general.
Subd. 2. [DESCRIPTIONS.] The parcels of land that may be
conveyed are described in paragraphs (a) and (b).
(a) The lands described in clauses (1) and (2) must be sold
under the alternate sale provisions in Minnesota Statutes,
section 282.01, subdivision 7a, with a nonseverability clause in
the conveyance document:
(1) that part of Lot 13 Lying South of the North line of
139-26, Sabin's Northburn Acres, Crooked Lake Township (PIN
12-371-0130); and
(2) Government Lot 1, Section 7-137-29, Wilson Township
(PIN 50-007-2201).
(b) The lands described in clauses (1) to (4) must be sold
as provided in subdivision 1:
(1) Outlot C, First Addition to Village of East Gull Lake
Section 17-134-29 (PIN 87-369-0141);
(2) Lot 3 Wedgewoods, Section 13-141-28, Kego Township (PIN
19-379-0030);
(3) Lots 4 & 5, Block 12, Forbes Addition to Pine River,
Section 31-138-29 (PIN 94-349-1260); and
(4) Lot 6, Block 2, Riverside, Section 6-137-29, Wilson
Township (PIN 50-358-0230).
(c) The county has determined that the county's land
management interests would best be served if the lands were
returned to private ownership.
Sec. 3. [SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND; CROW WING COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and
282.018, subdivision 1, Crow Wing county may sell the
tax-forfeited land bordering public water that is described in
paragraph (c), under the remaining provisions of Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 282.
(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general.
(c) The land that may be conveyed is located in Crow Wing
county and is described as:
(1) Central Addition No. 2 to Crosby, Lot 1, Block 3;
(2) East 100 feet of West 1000 feet of Government Lot 4,
Section 6, Township 136 North, Range 26 West; and
(3) Seventeenth Addition to Breezy Point Estates to the
City of Breezy Point, Lot 98.
(d) The county has determined that the county's land
management interests would best be served if the lands were
returned to private ownership.
Sec. 4. [SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND; BECKER COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and
282.018, subdivision 1, Becker county may sell the tax-forfeited
land bordering public water that is described in paragraph (c),
under the remaining provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter
282.
(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general.
(c) The land to be conveyed is located in Becker county and
is described as:
(1) That part of Government Lot 5 of Section 14, Township
138 North, Range 43 West, described as follows:
Commencing at a cast iron monument which designates the
northwest corner of said Government Lot 5; thence South 04
degrees 17 minutes 38 seconds East 1786.20 feet on an assumed
bearing along the west line of said Section 14 to the point of
beginning; thence continuing South 04 degrees 17 minutes 38
seconds East 220.00 feet along the west line of said Section 14;
thence South 68 degrees 32 minutes 38 seconds East 100 feet,
more or less, to the water's edge of Big Cormorant Lake; thence
northerly along the water's edge of said Big Cormorant Lake to
the intersection with a line which bears South 68 degrees 32
minutes 38 seconds East from the point of beginning; thence
North 68 degrees 32 minutes 38 seconds West 25 feet, more or
less, to an iron monument; thence continuing North 68 degrees 32
minutes 38 seconds West 61.91 feet to an iron monument; thence
continuing North 68 degrees 32 minutes 38 seconds West 86.02
feet to an iron monument; thence continuing North 68 degrees 32
minutes 38 seconds West 8.78 feet to the point of beginning;
(2) A Twelve Hundredths (0.12) acre lakeshore tract of land
in Government Lot One of Section 34, Township 138 North, Range
43 West described as follows: Beginning at a point that bears
South 50 degrees 7 minutes West 536.5 feet and South 62 degrees
36 minutes West 102 feet from the Northeast corner (Meander
Corner #45) of the said Government Lot One; thence running South
62 degrees 36 minutes West 51.0 feet; thence North 37 degrees 58
minutes West 106.4 feet to an iron stake on the shore line of
Lake Ida; thence North 62 degrees 36 minutes East 50.0 feet
along the shore line of Lake Ida; thence South 38 degrees 30
minutes East 106.6 feet to the point of beginning and there
terminating;
(3) Government Lot 5, Section 34, Township 139 North, Range
43 West;
(4) Lot 16 and Lot 17, Block 4, Bijou Heights, Section 29
and 30, Township 139 North, Range 43 West;
(5) That part of Government Lot 6 of Section 6, Township
138 North, Range 42 West described as follows: Commencing at an
iron monument which designates the south quarter corner of said
Section 6; thence South 88 degrees 37 minutes 43 seconds West
237.00 feet on an assumed bearing along the south line of said
Section 6; thence North 01 degree 36 minutes 59 seconds West
145.37 feet parallel with the north-south quarter line of said
Section 6 to the northerly right of way line of County State Aid
Highway No. 6, said point is the point of beginning: thence
continuing North 01 degree 36 minutes 59 seconds West parallel
with said north-south quarter line to the intersection with the
southerly line of Outlot C or its easterly extension, said
Outlot C is a part of the plat of SUMMER ISLAND which is on file
and of record in the office of the Recorder of said county;
thence westerly 580 feet, more or less, along the easterly
extension of the southerly line and along the southerly line of
said Outlot C to the southwesterly corner of said Outlot C;
thence southerly along the easterly line of said Outlot C;
thence southerly along the easterly line of a Dedicated Public
Road according to said SUMMER ISLAND to the northerly right of
way line of said County State Aid Highway No. 6, thence easterly
580 feet more or less, along the northerly right of way line of
said County State Aid Highway No. 6 to the point of beginning;
(6) All of the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 lying
East of Creek, Section 26, Township 138 North, Range 42 West;
(7) Lot 11, Black Hawk Mountain Beach, Section 6, Township
138 North, Range 42 West;
(8) Lot 26, Block 1, Lakeland Estates, Section 4, Township
138 North, Range 42 West; and
(9) Lot 4 and 5, Palin Beach, Section 30, Township 138
North, Range 42 West.
(d) The county has determined that the county's land
management interests would best be served if the lands were
returned to private ownership.
Sec. 5. [SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND; AITKIN COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and
282.018, subdivision 1, Aitkin county may sell the tax-forfeited
land bordering public water that is described in paragraph (c),
under the remaining provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter
282.
(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general.
(c) The land to be conveyed is located in Aitkin county and
is described as:
(1) Lots 4 and 5, Block 1, Plat of Blackrock Woods, City of
Aitkin; and
(2) Undivided 1/35 interest in Lot 5, Plat of Bakke's
Woodland Beach, Township 44 North, Range 25 West, Section 29.
(d) The county has determined that the county's land
management interests would best be served if the lands were
returned to private ownership.
Sec. 6. [SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND; MILLE LACS COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and
282.018, subdivision 1, and the public sale provisions of
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, Mille Lacs county may sell the
tax-forfeited land bordering public water that is described in
paragraph (c) to adjacent land owners, under the alternate sale
provisions of Minnesota Statutes, section 282.01, subdivision 7a.
(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general, and sold only to an adjacent landowner. The
conveyance document must include a nonseverability clause.
(c) The land to be conveyed is located in Mille Lacs
county, consists of about .29 acres, and is described as:
Government Lot No. 2, Section 2, Township 42 North, Range
27 West.
(d) The county has determined that the county's land
management interests would best be served if the lands were
returned to private ownership.
Sec. 7. [PRIVATE SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND; CARLTON
COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and
282.018, subdivision 1, and the public sale provisions of
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, Carlton county may sell by
private sale the tax-forfeited land described in paragraph (d)
under the remaining provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter
282.
(b) The land described in paragraph (d) may be sold by
private sale. The consideration for the conveyance must include
the taxes due on the property and any penalties, interest, and
costs. If the lands are sold, the conveyance must reserve to
the state a conservation easement, in a form prescribed by the
commissioner of natural resources, for the land within 100 feet
of the ordinary high water level of Slaughterhouse creek for
public angler access and stream habitat protection and
enhancement.
(c) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general.
(d) The land to be conveyed is located in Carlton county
and is described as:
North 6.66 acres of the West Half of the Northeast Quarter
of the Southwest Quarter, subject to pipeline easement, Section
6, Township 48 North, Range 16 West, City of Carlton.
(e) Carlton county has determined that this sale best
serves the land management interests of Carlton county.
Sec. 8. [TRANSFER OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND BORDERING PUBLIC
WATER; WASHINGTON COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and
282.018, subdivision 1, Washington county shall transfer the
tax-forfeited land bordering public water that is described in
paragraph (c) to the city of Oakdale, under the remaining
provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282.
(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general and provide that the land reverts to the state
if the city of Oakdale stops using the land for a public purpose.
(c) The land to be conveyed is located in Washington county
and is described as follows: Outlot A, Oakpond Terrace,
Washington county, Minnesota.
(d) Washington county has determined that the land is
needed by the city of Oakdale for public purposes.
(e) Development of this parcel is limited to the north 230
feet of Outlot A.
Sec. 9. [CONVEYANCE OF TAX-FORFEITED LANDS; WASHINGTON
COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45;
103F.535; and 282.018, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), and the
public sale provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282,
Washington county may convey to the city of Hugo, without
consideration, the lands bordering public waters that are
described in paragraph (c) under the remaining provisions of
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282.
(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general and provide that the land reverts to the state
if the city of Hugo stops using the land for public purposes.
(c) The lands that may be conveyed are located in
Washington county, are designated by Washington county parcel
number 93030-2250, and are described as follows:
The West One-Half (W 1/2) of the Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4)
of Section 30, Township 31 North, Range 21 West, City of Hugo,
Washington County, Minnesota.
(d) The county has determined that the county's land
management interests would best be served if the lands described
in paragraph (c) were transferred to the city of Hugo to allow
improvements to Clearwater Creek, to make more effective use of
storage available on existing wetlands, to create several
regional ponding areas, to reserve areas for future recreational
uses including, but not limited to, nature parks and walking
trails, and to allow extension of various city streets.
Sec. 10. [PRIVATE SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND BORDERING ON
PUBLIC WATERS; COOK COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and
282.018, subdivision 1, and the public sale provisions of
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, Cook county may sell by private
sale the tax-forfeited lands bordering public waters that are
described in paragraph (c), under the remaining provisions of
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282.
(b) The conveyances must be in a form approved by the
attorney general.
(c) The parcels of land that may be conveyed are located in
Cook county and are described as:
(1) an undivided 1/3 interest in Government Lot 5, Section
28, Township 63 North, Range 1 East, containing approximately
14.08 acres; and
(2) an undivided 1/4 interest in the South one-half of the
SW 1/4, the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4, and Government Lot 4, Section
23, Township 63 North, Range 4 East.
(d) The county has determined that the county's land
management interests would best be served if the lands were
returned to private ownership.
Sec. 11. [PUBLIC SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND BORDERING ON
PUBLIC WATERS; COOK COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and
282.018, subdivision 1, Cook county may sell the tax-forfeited
lands bordering public waters that are described in paragraph
(c), under the remaining provisions of Minnesota Statutes,
chapter 282.
(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general.
(c) The parcel of land that may be conveyed is located in
Cook county and is described as:
Part of Lot 2 and part of the NE 1/4 of SE 1/4, Section 22,
Township 63 North, Range 3 East, containing approximately 65
acres.
(d) The county has determined that the county's land
management interests would best be served if the lands were
returned to private ownership.
Sec. 12. [SALE OF STATE LANDS TO WILD RICE LESSEES.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 84A.56,
89.021, 89.27, and 92.45, and the public sale provisions of
Minnesota Statutes, sections 94.10, 282.14, and 282.221, the
commissioner of natural resources may sell by private sale to
the wild rice lessees under leases authorized in Minnesota
Statutes, section 92.501, the acquired, consolidated
conservation and Volstead area lands described in paragraph (b)
under the remaining sale provisions in Minnesota Statutes,
sections 94.10 and 282.14 to 282.226. The affected counties
must approve the sales of the consolidated conservation and
Volstead area lands described in paragraph (b).
(b) The land that may be sold is described as:
(1) The Southeast Quarter of Section 10; that part of the
West Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section 11 lying westerly
of the west bank of the Tamarac River; the Southeast Quarter of
the Northwest Quarter and that part of the Northeast Quarter
lying westerly of the west bank of the Tamarac River of Section
15; the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter and the West
160 feet of the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of
Section 16, Township 154 North, Range 30 West, Beltrami county,
Minnesota;
(2) The Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, Section
11, Township 152 North, Range 32 West, Beltrami county,
Minnesota;
(3) The North Half of the Southwest Quarter, the North Half
of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, and the North
Half of the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of
Section 14, Township 152 North, Range 32 West; the Northeast
Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 19, Township 155
North, Range 31 West; and Government Lot 1, the East 330 feet of
Government Lot 2, and the North 330 feet of Government Lot 6,
Section 25, Township 155 North, Range 32 West, Beltrami county,
Minnesota;
(4) The South 330 feet of Government Lot 4 and the south
330 feet of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of
Section 18; Government Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, the East Half of the
Northwest Quarter, the East Half of the Southwest Quarter, the
Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, the West 200 feet of
the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter; and the West 900
feet of the South 700 feet of the Northwest Quarter of the
Southeast Quarter of Section 19; and the North Half of the
Northeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 154 North, Range 29
West, Koochiching county, Minnesota;
(5) The Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter and the
North 330 feet of the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter
of Section 22, Township 150 North, Range 39 West, Polk county,
Minnesota;
(6) The Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter; that
part of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter lying
east of County Road No. 24; that part of the Northwest Quarter
of the Northwest Quarter lying south of the south bank of State
Ditch No. 63 and east of County Road No. 24; and that part of
the North Half of the Northeast Quarter and the Northeast
Quarter of the Northwest Quarter lying south of the south bank
of State Ditch No. 63; all in Section 27, Township 48 North,
Range 27 West, Aitkin county, Minnesota;
(7) The Northeast Quarter of Section 35, Township 48 North,
Range 27 West, Aitkin county, Minnesota;
(8) The Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of
Section 8, Township 48 North, Range 26 West, Aitkin county,
Minnesota;
(9) The West Half of the Northeast Quarter, the Southeast
Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, and the South 660 feet of the
Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 10; and
the West 330 feet of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest
Quarter of Section 11; Township 154 North, Range 30 West,
Beltrami county, Minnesota;
(10) The South 660 feet of the Northwest Quarter of the
Northwest Quarter, the South 660 feet of the West 660 feet of
the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, the North 660
feet of the West 660 feet of the Southeast Quarter of the
Northwest Quarter, and the South Half of the Northeast Quarter
of the Southwest Quarter of Section 21, Township 154 North,
Range 30 West, Beltrami county, Minnesota; and
(11) The Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter,
Section 11, Township 153 North, Range 31 West, Beltrami county,
Minnesota.
(c) The conveyances shall be in a form approved by the
attorney general. In determining the value of the described
lands, no improvements paid for by the lessee shall be added to
the value of the land. The purchaser of the land described in
paragraph (b), clause (5), may not alter the existing
groundwater hydrology, and may alter the surface water hydrology
from the current operation only with the approval of the
commissioner.
Sec. 13. [PRIVATE SALE OF STATE LAND; HOUSTON COUNTY.]
(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 94.09 and
94.10, the commissioner of natural resources may convey by
private sale the surplus state land described in paragraph (c).
(b) The land described in paragraph (c) may be sold by
private sale. The conveyance must be in a form approved by the
attorney general.
(c) The land to be conveyed is located in Houston county,
consists of about .14 acre, and is described as:
All that part of the CMC Real Estate Corporation's (the
former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Company) real property in Government Lot 2, Section 25, Township
102 North, Range 4 West, Houston county, Minnesota, lying
northwesterly of a line parallel with and 50 feet
perpendicularly distant northwesterly of the center line of the
Soo Line Railroad Company's main track, and being a strip of
land 40 feet in width, lying northerly of, adjacent and
contiguous to the following described line:
Commencing at the southwest corner of said Government Lot 2
from which the northwest corner of said Government Lot 2 bears
North 01 degree 37 minutes 43 seconds East, bearing based on the
Houston County Coordinate System of 1983; thence North 14
degrees 32 minutes 00 seconds East 536.38 feet to the west line
of said CMC Real Estate Corporation's real property and the
point of beginning of the line to be described; thence South 66
degrees 33 minutes 17 seconds East 150.00 feet to a point on a
line parallel with and 50 feet perpendicularly distant
northwesterly of the center line of the said Soo Line Railroad
Company's main track and there terminating.
(d) The commissioner of natural resources has determined
that the land conveyance would have no impact on the adjacent
public access site and that the land would be put to better use
if returned to private use.
Sec. 14. [EFFECTIVE DATE.]
This act is effective the day following final enactment.
Presented to the governor May 20, 1997
Signed by the governor May 22, 1997, 12:08 p.m.
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