2005 Minnesota Statutes

     473H.06 Notification. 

    Subdivision 1.    Application.  Upon receipt of an 
 application, the authority shall determine if all material 
 required in section 473H.05 has been submitted and, if so, shall 
 determine that the application is complete.  When used in this 
 chapter, the term "date of application" means the date the 
 application is determined complete by the authority.  Within 
 five days of the date of application, the authority shall 
 forward the completed and signed application to the county 
 recorder, and copies to the county auditor, the county assessor, 
 the Metropolitan Council, and the county soil and water 
 conservation district.  

    Subd. 2.    Recording; memorialization.  The county 
 recorder shall record the application containing the restrictive 
 covenant and return it to the applicant.  If the land is 
 registered, the registrar of titles shall memorialize the 
 application containing the restrictive covenant upon the 
 certificate of title.  The authority shall be notified by the 
 recorder or registrar of titles that the application has been 
 recorded or memorialized.  

    Subd. 3.    Taxes.  The county auditor, for taxes 
 payable in the following year and thereafter for the duration of 
 the preserve, shall determine local tax rates, assessments and 
 taxes involving the preserve according to the provisions of 
 section 473H.10.  

    Subd. 4.    Validation, assessment.  The county 
 assessor, for taxes payable in the following calendar year and 
 thereafter for the duration of the preserve, shall value and 
 assess the agricultural preserve according to section 473H.10.  

    Subd. 5.    Maps; reports.  The Metropolitan Council 
 shall maintain agricultural preserve maps, illustrating (a) 
 certified long term agricultural lands; and (b) lands covenanted 
 as agricultural preserves.  The council shall make yearly 
 reports to the Department of Agriculture and such other agencies 
 as the council deems appropriate.  

    Subd. 6.    Monitoring.  County auditors shall maintain 
 records of the taxes assessed and paid on agricultural preserves 
 in a manner prescribed by the commissioner of revenue for the 
 orderly monitoring of the program.  

    Subd. 7.    Conservation problem statements.  The county 
 soil and water conservation district may prepare an advisory 
 statement of existing and potential conservation problems for 
 the agricultural preserve land.  The statement shall be 
 forwarded to the owner of record and a copy of the statement 
 shall be forwarded to the authority.  

    HIST: 1980 c 566 s 6; 1981 c 356 s 242,248; 1982 c 523 art 32 
 s 7-9; 1983 c 289 s 115 subd 1; 1987 c 312 art 1 s 26 subd 2; 
 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1Sp1989 c 1 art 2 s 11; 1993 c 163 art 1 
 s 33; 1999 c 11 art 1 s 10,11