Minnesota Session Laws - 1985, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1985 

                         CHAPTER 96-S.F.No. 994 
           An act relating to education; authorizing the transfer 
          of certain state land unneeded for community college 
          purposes to certain cities to be used for student 
          housing; authorizing the sale of certain community 
          college land in Worthington; appropriating money; 
          proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
          chapter 136. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [136.651] [SURPLUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE LAND.] 
    At the request of the state board for community colleges, 
the commissioner of administration shall transfer and convey, or 
lease for a term of years, state land under the control of but 
no longer needed by a community college to the city where the 
community college is located.  The land must be used by the city 
for student housing.  The conveyance must be made for no 
monetary consideration, and by quitclaim deed in a form approved 
by the attorney general.  The deed must provide that the land 
reverts to the state if it is no longer used for student housing 
unless the owner of improvements on the land agrees before the 
reversion to pay the state the value of the unimproved land.  
For purposes of determining the value, the commissioner shall 
designate two or more of the regularly appointed and qualified 
state appraisers to determine the value of the land. 
    Sec. 2.  [WORTHINGTON.] 
    Notwithstanding section 1 and Minnesota Statutes, section 
94.16, at the request of the state board for community colleges, 
the commissioner of administration shall offer for sale and sell 
land in the city of Worthington no longer needed for community 
college purposes.  The proceeds from the sale are appropriated 
to the state board for community colleges.  This section applies 
only to the sale of two parcels of land, under the control of 
the state board for community colleges, legally described as 
follows:  
    (a) Parcel number one:  A tract of land in the Southwest 
Quarter (SW 1/4) of Section Twenty-two (22), Township One 
Hundred Two (102), Range Forty (40), bounded by the following 
described lines.  
    Beginning at a point on the north line of said SW 1/4, a 
distance of 205.00 feet north 89 degrees 35 minutes west of the 
Northeast corner of said SW 1/4; thence north 89 degrees 35 
minutes west, along the north line of said SW 1/4, a distance of 
150.00 feet; thence south parallel with the east line of said SW 
1/4 to the northerly right-of-way line of Betty Avenue; thence 
northeasterly along said right-of-way line to its intersection 
with the Thompson Avenue west right-of-way line; thence 
northerly along the westerly right-of-way line of Thompson 
Avenue to the point of beginning; except that portion of the 
above described tract within a 396 foot radius of the television 
tower located on the Worthington Community College site; and 
    (b) Parcel number two:  Lots 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, Block 
3, College View Heights Addition, City of Worthington; and Lots 
16, 17, 18, 19 and the Easterly One-Half (E 1/2) of Lot 20, 
Block 2, Lake Shore Parker Subdivision Part of Government Lots 3 
and 4, Section 22, Township 102, Range 40, City of Worthington. 
    Approved May 9, 1985