Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                        CHAPTER 73-H.F.No. 1172 
           An act relating to state lands; authorizing private 
          sale of certain tax-forfeited land in Carlton county. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND; CARLTON COUNTY.] 
    Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 282.018, and 
the public sale, appraisal, and consideration requirements of 
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, Carlton county shall sell and 
convey certain tax-forfeited land, located in Carlton county and 
described in this section, to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Maki, Kettle 
River, Minnesota. 
    The land described in this section must be sold by private 
sale for a consideration of $410, payment of the state deed tax, 
and payment of actual costs imposed by law or rule to convey 
real property, in a form approved by the attorney general. 
    The land to be sold is located in Carlton county and 
described as the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of 
Section 31, Township 47 North, Range 20 West. 
    Mr. and Mrs. Maki entered into an agreement to buy the 
property in 1945.  They failed to complete the transaction by 
payment of the balance due of $410.  They have been farming the 
property since 1946 and when they recently tried to have a will 
drafted, discovered that they did not have title to the property.
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor May 5, 1989 
    Signed by the governor May 8, 1989, 2:26 p.m.