Minnesota Session Laws - 1985, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1985 

                        CHAPTER 171-H.F.No. 1235 
           An act relating to state lands; authorizing conveyance 
          of certain state trail lands no longer needed for 
          trails; repealing a prior land conveyance; amending 
          Laws 1981, chapter 190, section 3; repealing Laws 
          1984, chapter 502, article 13, section 15. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Laws 1981, chapter 190, section 3, is amended 
to read: 
    Sec. 3.  [CONVEYANCE OF RIGHT-OF-WAY.] 
    The commissioner of natural resources, in the name of the 
state, may convey to adjoining property owners by quitclaim 
deed, at not less than the appraised value, the following 
described real property, which is part of the Heartland Trail 
identified in Minnesota Statutes, section 85.015, subdivision 
12, when the state's title has been clarified either through 
litigation or land exchange: 
    A strip of land 100 feet in width extending over and across 
Government Lots Four (4) and Five (5), the Northeast Quarter of 
the Southwest Quarter (NE 1/4 SW 1/4) and the Southeast Quarter 
of the Northwest Quarter (SE 1/4 NW 1/4) of Section Nine (9); 
Government Lots One (1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4) and Five 
(5) and the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4 
SW 1/4) of Section Sixteen (16); Government Lots One (1) and Two 
(2) and the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW 1/4 
NE 1/4) of Section Twenty (20); Government Lot One (1), of 
Section Twenty-one (21); said strip of land being 50 feet in 
width on each side of the center line of the main track, now 
removed, of the former Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba 
Railway Company, now Burlington Northern Incorporated, as 
originally located and established over and across said Sections 
Nine (9), Sixteen (16), Twenty (20) and Twenty-one (21), 
Township One Hundred Forty-three (143) North, Range Thirty-one 
(31) West, and any other lands which are not needed for trail 
purposes. 
    The deed conveyances shall be in a form approved by the 
attorney general. 
    Sec. 2.  [REPEALER.] 
    Laws 1984, chapter 502, article 13, section 15, is 
repealed, and notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 
645.35, is void from the time of its enactment. 
    Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    This act is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Approved May 21, 1985