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HF 850

2nd Engrossment - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.

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Engrossments
Introduction Posted on 03/13/2003
1st Engrossment Posted on 04/07/2003
2nd Engrossment Posted on 04/25/2003

Current Version - 2nd Engrossment

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to natural resources; deleting from the 
  1.3             Minnesota Valley state recreation area; conveying land 
  1.4             in Sibley county to a local unit of government for the 
  1.5             use of the general public. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [DELETIONS FROM MINNESOTA VALLEY STATE 
  1.8   RECREATION AREA.] 
  1.9      [85.013] [Subd. 17a.] [MINNESOTA VALLEY STATE RECREATION 
  1.10  AREA; SIBLEY COUNTY.] The following areas are deleted from the 
  1.11  Minnesota Valley state recreation area, Sibley county: 
  1.12     (1) Tract 43 (Sibley County to the State of Minnesota; 160 
  1.13  acres, more or less)  Southeast Quarter (SE1/4) of Section 
  1.14  Fifteen (15), Township One Hundred Twelve (112) North, of Range 
  1.15  Twenty-Six (26) West; 
  1.16     (2) Tract 89 (Nagel to the State of Minnesota; 45.7 acres, 
  1.17  more or less)  The West One-half of the Northeast Quarter of the 
  1.18  Northwest Quarter (W1/2 NE1/4 NW1/4), Section Twenty-three (23), 
  1.19  Township One Hundred Twelve (112) North, Range Twenty-six (26) 
  1.20  West; 
  1.21     (3) The South One-half of the North One-half of the 
  1.22  Northeast Quarter (S1/2 N1/2 NE1/4), except the East 960 feet 
  1.23  thereof, Section Twenty-three (23), Township One Hundred Twelve 
  1.24  (112) North, Range Twenty-six (26) West; 
  1.25     (4) Tract 90 (Nagel to the State of Minnesota; 20 acres, 
  2.1   more or less)  The East One-half of the Northeast Quarter of the 
  2.2   Northwest Quarter (E1/2 NE1/4 NW1/4), Section Twenty-three (23), 
  2.3   Township One Hundred Twelve (112) North, Range Twenty-six (26) 
  2.4   West; and 
  2.5      (5) Tract 91 (Nagel to the State of Minnesota; 60 acres, 
  2.6   more or less)  Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW1/4 
  2.7   SW1/4), Section Fourteen (14), Township One Hundred Twelve (112) 
  2.8   North, Range Twenty-six (26) West, and the East One-half of the 
  2.9   Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (E1/2 NW1/4 NW1/4), 
  2.10  Section Twenty-three (23), Township One Hundred Twelve (112) 
  2.11  North, Range Twenty-six (26) West, containing 60 acres, more or 
  2.12  less. 
  2.13     Sec. 2.  [CONVEYANCE OF LAND; SIBLEY COUNTY.] 
  2.14     (a) The commissioner of natural resources shall convey to 
  2.15  Sibley county for no consideration the lands described in 
  2.16  section 1, upon receipt of a resolution requesting the 
  2.17  conveyance from Sibley county.  If Sibley county declines the 
  2.18  conveyance, the commissioner may convey the lands to the city of 
  2.19  Henderson, upon receipt of a resolution requesting the 
  2.20  conveyance. 
  2.21     (b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the 
  2.22  attorney general and provide that the land reverts to the state 
  2.23  if the owner does not keep it open to the general public, 
  2.24  provided that the owner may manage the land in the manner it 
  2.25  deems appropriate, including charging a fee for use of the land 
  2.26  or certain services, and contracting with a private nonprofit 
  2.27  organization for management of the park. 
  2.28     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.29     Section 1 is effective the day following receipt of a 
  2.30  resolution accepting the conveyance under section 2, paragraph 
  2.31  (a).  Section 2 is effective the day following final enactment.