1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to state lands; authorizing the commissioner 
  1.3             of natural resources to sell certain acquired state 
  1.4             lands located in Becker county. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [SALE OF ACQUIRED STATE LAND; BECKER COUNTY.] 
  1.7      (a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 92.45, and 
  1.8   the provisions of sections 94.09 and 94.10 relating to sale to 
  1.9   public bodies or sale at public sale, the commissioner of 
  1.10  natural resources may sell the land described in paragraph (c) 
  1.11  under the remaining provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter 94.
  1.12     (b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the 
  1.13  attorney general. 
  1.14     (c) The approximate description of the land that may be 
  1.15  sold is that part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast 
  1.16  Quarter of Section 20, Township 140 North, Range 36 West, Becker 
  1.17  County, which is more particularly described as follows:  
  1.18  Commencing at the southeast corner of said Section 20; thence 
  1.19  North 89 degrees 11 minutes 32 seconds West bearing assumed 
  1.20  along the south line of said Section 20, a distance of 759.00 
  1.21  feet; thence North 00 degrees 48 minutes 28 seconds East 350.54 
  1.22  feet to the point of beginning; thence continuing North 00 
  1.23  degrees 48 minutes 28 seconds East 355 feet; thence North 89 
  1.24  degrees 11 minutes 32 seconds West 120 feet; thence South 00 
  1.25  degrees 48 minutes 28 seconds West 145 feet; thence South 30 
  2.1   degrees East 245 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.  
  2.2   Containing approximately 0.7 acres. 
  2.3      (d) The commissioner intends to sell this land to the 
  2.4   previous owners, who occupied the land immediately before the 
  2.5   current occupants, in order to resolve an encroachment situation 
  2.6   of long-standing. 
  2.7      (e) The buyers must pay costs associated with the survey 
  2.8   and appraisal of the parcel described in paragraph (c).  The 
  2.9   buyer must have the boundary marked in a clear and permanent way.
  2.10     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.11     Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.