Minnesota Session Laws - 2001, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 169-H.F.No. 634 
                  An act relating to claims against the state; providing 
                  for payment of various claims; granting authority to 
                  Murray county; designating a lake as a wildlife 
                  management lake; appropriating money. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  [ATTORNEY GENERAL.] 
           $11,929.01 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
        attorney general for payment to Eveleth Hospital Corporation, 
        Eveleth, Minnesota, in full and final payment of its claim 
        against the state for expenses related to legal advice given by 
        the attorney general's office.  This appropriation is available 
        until June 30, 2002.  
           Sec. 2.  [DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.] 
           Subdivision 1.  [COMMUNITY SERVICE AND SENTENCING TO 
        SERVICE WORK.] The amounts in this subdivision are appropriated 
        from the general fund to the commissioner of corrections for 
        payment under Minnesota Statutes, section 3.739, to service 
        providers as indicated in full and final payment of claims 
        against the state for medical services provided to individuals 
        who were injured while performing community service or 
        sentencing to service work for correctional purposes.  These 
        appropriations are available until June 30, 2002. 
           (a) For claims under $500 each and other claims already 
        paid by the department, $5,885.39. 
           (b) For medical services provided to Carlos Block, who was 
        injured while performing sentencing to service work in Hennepin 
        county, $760.85. 
           (c) For medical services provided to Timothy Burke, who was 
        injured while performing sentencing to service work in McLeod 
        county, $576.17. 
           (d) For medical services provided to Roger Pearson, who was 
        injured while performing sentencing to service work in 
        Washington county, $565.92, including reimbursement of $71.68 to 
        Mr. Pearson for bills he has already paid. 
           (e) For medical services provided to Phillip Piper, who was 
        injured while performing sentencing to service work in Goodhue 
        county, $1,044.36. 
           (f) For medical services provided to James Wagner, who was 
        injured while performing sentencing to service work in Todd 
        county, $1,585.85. 
           Subd. 2.  [INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNITY WORK CREW PROGRAM.] 
        $2,049.86 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
        commissioner of corrections for payment for medical services 
        provided to Michael Murphy, who was injured while participating 
        in the institutional community work crew program.  This 
        appropriation is available until June 30, 2002.  
           Sec. 3.  [DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.] 
           $7,600 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
        commissioner of human services for payment under Minnesota 
        Statutes, section 3.738, as full and final payment of a claim 
        against the state by Kelly James Maurer, who suffered permanent 
        injuries to his left hand while an inmate at the St. Peter 
        Regional Treatment Center.  This appropriation is available 
        until June 30, 2002. 
           Sec. 4.  [DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.] 
           The amounts in this section are appropriated from the 
        general fund to the commissioner of natural resources for 
        payment to the persons named in this section in full and final 
        payment of claims against the state for the reasons given.  
        These appropriations are available until June 30, 2002. 
           (a) Charles G. Born of Janesville, Minnesota, to pay for 
        crop losses caused by the elevated level of Willis Lake .... 
        $9,423.25. 
           (b) Rex Campbell of Gray Eagle, Minnesota, to pay for 
        income lost because of enforcement of invalid rules .... $20,000.
           (c) Leonard Korbel of New Prague, Minnesota, to pay for the 
        reduced value of property subject to an unrecorded easement .... 
        $28,300. 
           (d) St. Croix Valley Heritage Coalition, Inc., to reimburse 
        that organization for costs it incurred as part of a project 
        entered into in partnership with the department of natural 
        resources which was abandoned because of unique concerns raised 
        by the federal government and Wisconsin officials .... $75,000. 
           (e) Waseca county, to pay for road damage caused by the 
        elevated level of Willis Lake .... $2,745.25. 
           Sec. 5.  [PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION.] 
           $69,637.02 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
        Public Employees Retirement Association, for the benefit of 
        Deborah Montgomery of St. Paul, Minnesota, in full and final 
        payment of her claim against the state for inadvertent 
        diminution of her pension benefits while she was serving as 
        assistant commissioner of public safety.  This appropriation is 
        available until June 30, 2002.  
           Sec. 6.  [DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE.] 
           $13,098.84 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
        commissioner of revenue for payment to GOCO Salons, Inc. of 
        Minnetonka, Minnesota, in full and final payment of its claim 
        against the state for a sales and use tax overpayment.  This 
        appropriation is available until June 30, 2002. 
           Sec. 7.  [DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.] 
           $439.52 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
        commissioner of transportation for payment to Joann Danelski of 
        Superior, Wisconsin, in full and final payment of her claim 
        against the state for damage to her car caused by unique 
        circumstances related to actions of an unknown driver who 
        knocked severely deteriorated curbing into the roadway of a 
        highway entrance ramp in Duluth, Minnesota.  This appropriation 
        is available until June 30, 2002. 
           Sec. 8.  [MURRAY COUNTY.] 
           Murray county may reimburse Howard Van Roekel of Chandler, 
        Minnesota, for property taxes mistakenly overpaid from 1985 
        through 1995 because of failure to grant homestead 
        classification to all of Mr. Van Roekel's property.  
           Sec. 9.  [WILLIS LAKE.] 
           Willis Lake in Waseca county is hereby designated as a 
        wildlife management lake to be managed by the department of 
        natural resources under Minnesota Statutes, section 97A.101, 
        pursuant to the lake management plan prepared by the division of 
        wildlife on April 16, 2001, and pursuant to an agreement with 
        the department of natural resources in resolution of the Charles 
        Born and Waseca county claims in section 4. 
           Presented to the governor May 21, 2001 
           Signed by the governor May 24, 2001, 1:58 p.m.