Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                        CHAPTER 142-H.F.No. 1077 
           An act relating to state lands; authorizing conveyance 
          of state land to the city of St. Peter. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
     Section 1.  [CONVEYANCE OF LAND TO CITY OF ST. PETER.] 
    Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 94.09 to 
94.16, the governor upon the recommendation of the commissioner 
of administration shall offer to quitclaim and convey to the 
city of St. Peter the land described in this section. 
    Conveyance shall be made in a form approved by the attorney 
general, for a consideration of $718 per acre. 
    When the portion of the land to be used for public purposes 
has been designated by the city of St. Peter, the remaining land 
may be subdivided and sold.  From the proceeds of a sale of any 
portion of the property, the city of St. Peter shall deduct and 
retain a proportionate share of the purchase price and the costs 
associated with purchase, subdivision, and development including 
utilities, streets, storm sewers, site work, engineering, trail, 
and greenbelt corridor.  The balance remaining after deduction 
of these costs shall be remitted to the state treasurer and 
deposited in the state treasury and credited to the general fund.
    The land to be conveyed is located in Nicollet county in 
the city of St. Peter, consists of about 137 acres, and is 
described as: 
    All that part of the Southwest Quarter and that part of the 
Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 20, 
Township 110 North, Range 26 West, described as follows: 
    Beginning at the Southeast corner of the Southwest Quarter 
of Section 20, Township 110 North, Range 26 West; thence South 
89 degrees 54 minutes 24 seconds East (assumed bearing) along 
the South line of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter 
of said Section 20, a distance of 934.50 feet; thence North 00 
degrees 52 minutes 53 seconds East, a distance of 1315.78 feet 
to a point on the North line of said Southwest Quarter of the 
Southeast Quarter; thence North 89 degrees 56 minutes 38 seconds 
West, along the North line of said Southwest Quarter of the 
Southeast Quarter, a distance of 949.50 feet to the Northwest 
corner of said Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter; 
thence North 00 degrees 13 minutes 42 seconds East, along the 
East line of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 20, a 
distance of 1315.05 feet to the Northeast corner of said 
Southwest Quarter; thence South 89 degrees 59 minutes 12 seconds 
West on the North line of said Southwest Quarter a distance of 
1852.12 feet to a point 794.64 feet East of the West line of the 
Southwest Quarter of said Section 20; thence South 00 degrees 09 
minutes 39 seconds East and parallel to said West line a 
distance of 1107.00 feet; thence South 89 degrees 59 minutes 12 
seconds West, a distance of 2.64 feet to a point 792.00 feet 
East of the West line of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 
20; thence South 00 degrees 47 minutes 47 seconds West, a 
distance of 553.13 feet; thence South 00 degrees 09 minutes 39 
seconds East and parallel to the West line of the Southwest 
Quarter of said Section 20 a distance of 969.57 feet to a point 
on the South line of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 20; 
thence North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East on said South 
line 1846.14 feet to the point of beginning.  Excepting:  
right-of-way of state trunk highway marked No. 99 containing 4.7 
acres of land, more or less, and Oshawa Township Road 81 
right-of-way containing 1.4 acres of land, more or less. 
    Said tract is subject to any and all easements of record. 
    The city of St. Peter desires to acquire the parcel, which 
was declared surplus in 1980, to construct a new street that 
aligns with state trunk highway marked no. 333, a primary access 
to the state security hospital complex, to construct a water 
main that will connect with the state security hospital complex 
and provide municipal water to the St. Peter regional treatment 
center, to construct part of a bicycle and hiking trail system, 
and to construct a storm drainage system. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor May 15, 1989 
    Signed by the governor May 16, 1989, 4:25 p.m.