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HF 887

1st Engrossment - 89th Legislature (2015 - 2016) Posted on 03/22/2016 09:39am

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.
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A bill for an act
relating to natural resources; dedicating unclaimed lottery prize money for
acquisition of certain school trust lands; appropriating money; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2014, sections 94.165, subdivision 2; 349A.08, subdivision 5.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 94.165, subdivision 2, is amended to read:


Subd. 2.

Appropriation.

new text begin (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), new text end money in the
account is appropriated to the commissioner of natural resources for:

(1) the acquisition of natural resource lands or interests in lands within the outdoor
recreation system established in chapter 86A;

(2) payment of expenses incurred by the commissioner in rendering saleable any
state-owned property administered by the commissioner; and

(3) payment of expenses incurred by the commissioner in exchanging any
state-owned property administered by the commissioner.

new text begin (b) Money deposited in the account from the lottery cash flow account under section
349A.08, subdivision 5, is appropriated to the commissioner of natural resources to
extinguish the school trust interest in school trust lands identified under section 84.027,
subdivision 18, paragraph (c).
new text end

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 349A.08, subdivision 5, is amended to read:


Subd. 5.

Payment; unclaimed prizes.

A prize in the state lottery must be claimed
by the winner within one year of the date of the drawing at which the prize was awarded
or the last day sales were authorized for a game where a prize was determined in a manner
other than by means of a drawing. If a valid claim is not made for a prize payable directly
by the lottery by the end of this period, the prize money is considered unclaimed and the
winner of the prize shall have no further claim to the prize. A prize won by a person
who purchased the winning ticket in violation of section 349A.12, subdivision 1, or won
by a person ineligible to be awarded a prize under subdivision 7 must be treated as an
unclaimed prize under this section. The director must transfer all unclaimed prize money
at the end of each fiscal year from the lottery cash flow account to the deleted text begin general funddeleted text end new text begin land
acquisition account in the natural resources fund to extinguish the school trust interest in
school trust lands, under section 94.165, subdivision 2, paragraph (b)
new text end .