as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am
1.1 A bill for an act 1.2 relating to capital improvements; authorizing spending 1.3 to better public land and other public improvements of 1.4 a capital nature; authorizing issuance of state bonds; 1.5 appropriating money for landscaping and historic 1.6 lighting and railing in the gateway/trunk highway No. 1.7 5 entrance area in the city of St. Paul. 1.8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 1.9 Section 1. [APPROPRIATION.] 1.10 $1,000,000 is appropriated from the bond proceeds fund to 1.11 the commissioner of trade and economic development for a grant 1.12 to the city of St. Paul for native landscaping along trunk 1.13 highway No. 5 from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International 1.14 Airport to the Fort Snelling tunnel, historic lighting and 1.15 railing on both the trunk highway No. 5 bridge over the 1.16 Mississippi river and the West Seventh Street bridge over I-35E, 1.17 and historic lighting and improved landscaping on West Seventh 1.18 Street from the Mississippi river to I-35E. 1.19 Sec. 2. [BOND SALE.] 1.20 To provide the money appropriated in section 1 from the 1.21 bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of finance shall sell and 1.22 issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $1,000,000, in the 1.23 manner, on the terms, and with the effect prescribed by 1.24 Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the 1.25 Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7. 1.26 Sec. 3. [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 2.1 Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 2.2 enactment.