1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to energy; regulating certain property rights related to wind energy; 
1.3 	eliminating certain duties of the Legislative Electric Energy Task Force;
1.4 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section 500.30, subdivision 2; 
1.5 	repealing Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section 216C.051, subdivision 
1.6 	8a.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section 500.30, subdivision 2, is 
1.9 	amended to read:
1.10 		Subd. 2.Like any conveyance. Any property owner may grant a solar or wind 
1.11 	easement in the same manner and with the same effect as a conveyance of an interest in 
1.12 	real property. The easements shall be created in writing and shall be filed, duly recorded, 
1.13 	and indexed in the office of the recorder of the county in which the easement is granted. 
1.14 	No duly recorded easement shall be unenforceable on account of lack of privity of estate 
1.15 	or privity of contract; such easements shall run with the land or lands benefited and 
1.16 	burdened and shall constitute a perpetual easement, except that an easement may terminate 
1.17 	upon the conditions stated therein or pursuant to the provisions of section 500.20. A wind 
1.18 	easement, easement to install wind turbines on real property, option, or lease of wind 
1.19 	rights shall also terminate after seven years from the date the easement is created or lease 
1.20 	is entered into, if a wind energy project on the property to which the easement or lease 
1.21 	applies does not begin commercial operation within the seven-year period.

1.22 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective June 1, 2009.

1.23 	Sec. 2.  REPEALER.
 1.24 	Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section 216C.051, subdivision 8a,  is repealed.

2.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.