Minnesota Session Laws - 1984, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1984 

                        CHAPTER 492-H.F.No. 1633
           An act relating to metropolitan government; allowing 
          the mosquito control district to take certain actions; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 473.704, 
          subdivision 17. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 473.704, 
subdivision 17, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 17.  Members of the commission, its officers, and 
employees, while on the business of the commission, may enter 
upon any property within or outside the district at reasonable 
times to determine whether mosquito breeding exists and.  They 
may take all necessary and proper steps for the control of 
mosquitoes on the property within the district as the director 
of the commission may designate.  Subject to the paramount 
control of the county and state authorities, commission members 
and officers and employees of the commission may enter upon any 
property and clean up any stagnant pool of water, the shores of 
lakes and streams, and other breeding places for mosquitoes 
within the district.  The commissioner of natural resources 
shall allow the commission to enter upon state property for the 
purposes described in this subdivision.  The commission may 
spray with apply insecticides approved by the director any area 
within or outside the district that is found to be a breeding 
place for mosquitoes.  The commission shall give reasonable 
notification to the governing body of the local unit of 
government prior to applying insecticides outside of the 
district on land located within the jurisdiction of the local 
unit of government.  The commission shall not enter upon private 
property if the owner objects except for control of disease 
bearing mosquito encephalitis outbreaks. 
    Sec. 2.  [APPLICATION.] 
     This act applies to the metropolitan mosquito control 
district established to control mosquitoes in the counties of 
Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington. 
    Approved April 25, 1984