1999 Minnesota Statutes

     93.30 Payment of lease money by coowner in case of 
  default.  

    Upon the failure of any one of several coowners of any 
 lease of mineral land from the state of Minnesota which it may 
 heretofore have made or may hereafter make to pay the 
 appropriate share representing the proportionate interest in the 
 lease, of any annual payment or royalty payment of taxes 
 assessed against the land covered by the lease or the 
 improvements thereon or the iron ore products thereof or any 
 personal property at any mine on the land, according to, as 
 required by, and when due under the terms of the lease or the 
 laws of this state, any coowner of the lease who may have 
 heretofore paid or who may hereafter pay the same or any part 
 thereof, who was not under contract obligation, at the time of 
 making the payment, to make it, may after the expiration of the 
 time fixed by the lease or the law for making the payment, give 
 the delinquent coowner and the other coowners, if any, personal 
 notice in writing or by publication for at least six successive 
 weeks once a week in the newspaper published nearest the land 
 entitled under the laws of this state to publish legal notices 
 that the payment has been made, describing the lease and the 
 land covered thereby on account of which it was made, the amount 
 due, when due, and for what due, on account of which the payment 
 was made, and the date of making the same, and demand that the 
 delinquent coowner contribute the proportionate share of the 
 payment due from that coowner by paying the same, together with 
 six percent interest thereon from the time of the payment until 
 the time of repayment, together with the cost of the 
 publication, to the coowner or coowners making payment within 90 
 days after the personal service of the notice or within 90 days 
 after the completion of the publication, and that in the event 
 of failure so to do the delinquent coowner's interest in the 
 lease will become the property of and be forfeited to the 
 coowner or coowners paying the same.  

    HIST: (6420) 1915 c 303 s 1; 1986 c 444