1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state lands; authorizing conveyance of certain tax-forfeited land that 
1.3 	borders public water or wetland.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. CONVEYANCE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND BORDERING PUBLIC 
1.6 	WATER OR WETLANDS; DAKOTA COUNTY.
 1.7 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45, 103F.535, and 282.018, 
1.8 	subdivision 1, and the public sale provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, Dakota 
1.9 	County may convey to Dakota County for no consideration the tax-forfeited land 
1.10 	bordering public water that is described in paragraph (c).
1.11 	(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the attorney general and provide 
1.12 	that the land reverts to the state if Dakota County stops using the land for the public 
1.13 	purpose described in paragraph (d). The conveyance is subject to restrictions imposed by 
1.14 	the commissioner of natural resources. The attorney general may make changes to the 
1.15 	land description to correct errors and ensure accuracy.
1.16 	(c) The land to be conveyed is located in Dakota County and is described as:
1.17 	That part of Government Lots 7 and 8, Section 26, Township 28, Range 22, lying 
1.18 	southeasterly of Lot 2, AUDITORS SUBDIVISION NO. 23, according to the recorded 
1.19 	plat thereof, and lying easterly of the railroad right-of-way and lying northwesterly of the 
1.20 	following described line:
1.21 	Commencing at the southwest corner of said Government Lot 7; thence North, 
1.22 	assumed bearing, along the west line of said Government Lot 7, a distance of 178.00 
1.23 	feet; thence northeasterly along a nontangential curve concave to the southeast a 
1.24 	distance of 290.00 feet, said curve having a radius of 764.50 feet, a central angle of 
2.1 	21 degrees 43 minutes 57 seconds, a chord of 288.24 feet and a chord bearing of 
2.2 	North 24 degrees 29 minutes 20 seconds East; thence continuing northeasterly along 
2.3 	a tangent curve concave to the southeast a distance of 350.00 feet, said curve having 
2.4 	a radius of 708.80 feet, a central angle of 28 degrees 17 minutes 32 seconds, a chord 
2.5 	of 346.46 feet and a chord bearing of North 49 degrees 30 minutes 04 seconds East; 
2.6 	thence North 63 degrees 38 minutes 50 seconds East tangent to the last described 
2.7 	curve a distance of 578.10 feet, to a point hereinafter referred to as Point B; thence 
2.8 	continuing North 63 degrees 38 minutes 50 seconds East a distance of 278.68 feet, 
2.9 	more or less, to the westerly right-of-way line of the Chicago, Rock Island and 
2.10 	Pacific Railroad, said point being the point of beginning of the line to be described; 
2.11 	thence North 63 degrees 38 minutes 50 seconds East a distance of 225.00 feet, more 
2.12 	or less, to the shoreline of the Mississippi River and there terminating. (Dakota 
2.13 	County tax identification number 36-02600-016-32).
2.14 	(d) The county has determined that the land is needed as a trail corridor for the 
2.15 	Mississippi River Regional Trail.