Minnesota Session Laws - 2000, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 339-H.F.No. 3134 
                  An act relating to natural resources; modifying 
                  authority of the metropolitan mosquito control 
                  commission to enter certain lands; amending Minnesota 
                  Statutes 1998, section 473.704, subdivision 17. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 473.704, 
        subdivision 17, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 17.  [ENTRY TO PROPERTY.] (a) Members of the 
        commission, its officers, and employees, while on the business 
        of the commission, may enter upon any property within or outside 
        the district at reasonable times to determine the need for 
        control programs.  They may take all necessary and proper steps 
        for the control programs on property within the district as the 
        director of the commission may designate.  Subject to the 
        paramount control of the county and state authorities, 
        commission members and officers and employees of the commission 
        may enter upon any property and clean up any stagnant pool of 
        water, the shores of lakes and streams, and other breeding 
        places for mosquitoes within the district.  The commissioner of 
        natural resources shall allow the commission to enter upon state 
        property for the purposes described in this subdivision.  The 
        commission may apply insecticides approved by the director to 
        any area within or outside the district that is found to be a 
        breeding place for mosquitoes.  The commission shall give 
        reasonable notification to the governing body of the local unit 
        of government prior to applying insecticides outside of the 
        district on land located within the jurisdiction of the local 
        unit of government.  The commission shall not enter upon private 
        property if the owner objects except for control of disease 
        bearing mosquito encephalitis outbreaks. 
           (b) The commissioner of natural resources must approve 
        mosquito control plans or make modifications as the commissioner 
        of natural resources deems necessary for the protection of 
        public water, wild animals, and natural resources before control 
        operations are started on state lands administered by the 
        commissioner of natural resources.  Until July 1, 2002, approval 
        may, if the commissioner of natural resources considers it 
        necessary, be denied, modified, or revoked by the commissioner 
        of natural resources at any time upon written notice to the 
        commission. 
           Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
           Presented to the governor April 3, 2000 
           Signed by the governor April 6, 2000, 3:54 p.m.