Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                         CHAPTER 92-S.F.No. 515 
           An act relating to natural resources; increasing the 
          number of permits that may be held by one purchaser of 
          timber on state lands; setting an interest rate for 
          certain extensions of the permits; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1990, section 90.121. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 90.121, is 
amended to read: 
    90.121 [INTERMEDIATE AUCTION SALES; MAXIMUM LOTS OF 
$7,000.] 
    The commissioner may sell the timber on any tract of state 
land in lots not exceeding $7,000 in appraised value, in the 
same manner as timber sold at public auction under section 
90.101, and related laws, subject to the following special 
exceptions and limitations:  
    (1) sales shall be at the forest office or other public 
facility most accessible to potential bidders or close to where 
the tract is located; 
    (2) the commissioner's list describing the tract, quantity 
of timber, and appraised price shall be compiled not less than 
30 days before the date of sale and a copy of the list posted 
not less than 30 days before the date of the sale; 
    (3) notice of the sale shall be published once, not less 
than one week before the date of the sale; 
    (4) no bidder may be awarded more than 25 percent of the 
total tracts offered at the first round of bidding unless fewer 
than four tracts are offered, in which case not more than one 
tract shall be awarded to one bidder.  Any tract not sold shall 
be available for a period of 90 days for purchase by persons 
eligible under this section at the appraised value; 
    (5) the bond or deposit required pursuant to section 90.161 
or 90.173 shall be given or deposited before any cutting begins 
or not later than nine months after the date of sale, whichever 
is earlier; 
    (6) in lieu of the placing of the marks M I N on cut 
products as prescribed under section 90.151, subdivision 2, all 
landings of cut products shall be legibly marked with the name 
of the permit holder and the assigned permit number; 
    (7) no person may hold more than four six permits issued 
under this section and no sale may be made to a person 
holding four six permits which are still in effect or to a 
person having more than 20 employees; 
    (8) the permit may not exceed one year in duration; 
    (9) if the purchaser for good and sufficient reason is 
unable to cut the timber within the one year permit period, the 
commissioner may grant one extension for a period of up to one 
year from the date of expiration of the original permit without 
interest, and one additional extension of one year with interest 
at the rate in effect under section 549.09 at the time the 
extension is granted; 
     (10) if all cut timber, equipment, and buildings, are not 
removed at the end of any 120-day extension period which the 
commissioner may grant for removal, the commissioner may grant a 
second period of time not to exceed 120 days for the removal of 
cut timber, equipment, and buildings upon receipt of a request 
by the permit holder for hardship reasons only.  
     The auction sale procedure set forth in this section 
constitutes an additional alternative timber sale procedure 
available to the commissioner and is not intended to replace 
other authority possessed by the commissioner to sell timber in 
lots of $7,000 or less. 
    Presented to the governor May 10, 1991 
    Signed by the governor May 14, 1991, 3:42 p.m.