Minnesota Session Laws - 1987, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1987 

                        CHAPTER 226-H.F.No. 834 
           An act relating to natural resources; providing for 
          the deposit of receipts from private forest management 
          services into the forest management fund; 
          appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 1986, 
          sections 88.79, subdivision 2; and 89.04. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 88.79, 
subdivision 2, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2.  [CHARGE FOR SERVICE; RECEIPTS TO GENERAL FOREST 
MANAGEMENT FUND.] The commissioner of natural resources may 
charge the owner receiving such services such sums as the 
commissioner shall determine to be fair and reasonable.  The 
receipts from such services shall be deposited in credited to 
the general forest management fund.  
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 89.04, is amended 
to read:  
    89.04 [FOREST MANAGEMENT FUND.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [FUND ESTABLISHED; SOURCES.] The forest 
management fund is created as an account in the state treasury 
and may be spent only for the purposes provided in subdivision 
2.  The following revenue shall be deposited in the forest 
management fund:  
    (a) (1) money transferred from the state forest fund as 
provided in section 89.036;  
    (b) (2) money transferred from the state forest suspense 
account as provided in section 16A.125, subdivision 5, which may 
be appropriated to implement the state forest resource 
management policy and plan only on state forest trust fund lands 
as defined in section 16A.125, subdivision 5;  
    (c) (3) money from the sale of tree planting stock as 
provided in section 89.37, subdivision 4; and 
    (4) money from forest management services provided under 
section 88.79; and 
    (d) (5) interest accruing from investment of the fund.  
    Subd. 2.  [PURPOSES OF FUND.] Subject to appropriation by 
the legislature, money in the forest management fund may be 
spent by the department of natural resources in accordance with 
the forest resource management policy and plan for any of the 
following purposes:  
    (a) (1) reforestation consistent with the state 
reforestation policy and forest resource management plan;  
    (b) (2) forest road improvements consistent with the state 
forest road policy and forest resource management plan;  
    (c) (3) equipment and training needed for the prevention 
and suppression of forest fires;  
    (d) (4) forest pest prevention and treatment; and 
    (5) forest management services authorized by section 88.79. 
    Sec. 3.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
    $16,800 for fiscal year 1988 and $16,900 for fiscal year 
1989 is appropriated from money deposited in the forest 
management fund pursuant to section 89.04, subdivision 1, clause 
(4), to the commissioner of natural resources for private forest 
management services authorized under section 88.79.  The general 
fund appropriations to the commissioner of natural resources are 
reduced by these same amounts. 
    Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    This act is effective July 1, 1987. 
    Approved May 26, 1987