1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to aggregate material; providing for a 
  1.3             municipal aggregate material removal fee in the 
  1.4             metropolitan area; proposing coding for new law in 
  1.5             Minnesota Statutes, chapter 298. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [298.77] [AGGREGATE MATERIAL REMOVAL FEE.] 
  1.8      Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITIONS.] The following definitions 
  1.9   apply to this section. 
  1.10     (1) "Aggregate material" means nonmetallic natural mineral 
  1.11  aggregate including, without limitation, sand, silica sand, 
  1.12  gravel, crushed rock, limestone, granite, and borrow, but only 
  1.13  if the borrow is transported on a public road, street, or 
  1.14  highway.  Aggregate material does not include dimension stone 
  1.15  and dimension granite. 
  1.16     (2) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, 
  1.17  corporation, organization, trustee, association, or other entity.
  1.18     (3) "Operator" means any person engaged in the business of 
  1.19  removing aggregate material from the surface or subsurface of 
  1.20  the soil, for the purpose of sale, either directly or 
  1.21  indirectly, through the use of the aggregate material in a 
  1.22  marketable product or service. 
  1.23     (4) "Extraction site" means a pit, quarry, or deposit 
  1.24  containing aggregate material and any contiguous property to the 
  1.25  pit, quarry, or deposit which is used by the operator for 
  2.1   stockpiling the aggregate material. 
  2.2      (5) "Municipality" means a statutory or home rule charter 
  2.3   city, or a town, located within the metropolitan area as defined 
  2.4   in section 473.121, subdivision 2. 
  2.5      Subd. 2.  [REMOVAL FEE.] A municipality may impose a fee, 
  2.6   not to exceed 30 cents per ton of aggregate material removed, on 
  2.7   operators.  The fee must be imposed on aggregate material 
  2.8   produced in the municipality when the aggregate material is 
  2.9   transported from the extraction site or sold.  When aggregate 
  2.10  material is stored in a stockpile within the municipality and a 
  2.11  public highway, road, or street is not used for transporting the 
  2.12  aggregate material, the fee must be imposed either when the 
  2.13  aggregate material is sold, or when it is transported from the 
  2.14  stockpile site, or when it is used from the stockpile, whichever 
  2.15  occurs first. 
  2.16     Subd. 3.  [REPORT AND REMITTANCE OF FEE.] Aggregate 
  2.17  material must be weighed by the operator after it has been 
  2.18  extracted from the pit, quarry, or deposit.  By the 14th day 
  2.19  following the last day of each calendar quarter, every operator 
  2.20  must make and file with the municipality in which the aggregate 
  2.21  material is removed, a correct report under oath, in such form 
  2.22  and containing such information as the municipality may require 
  2.23  relative to the quantity of aggregate material removed during 
  2.24  the preceding calendar quarter.  The report must be accompanied 
  2.25  by a remittance of the amount of fee due. 
  2.26     Subd. 4.  [USE OF FEE REVENUE.] The revenue from aggregate 
  2.27  material removal fees must be credited to the general fund of 
  2.28  the municipality.  Twenty-five percent of the fee revenue must 
  2.29  be used for mitigating the adverse effects from operation of, 
  2.30  and restoration activities at, extraction sites located within 
  2.31  the municipality.  Revenue produced by the balance of the fee 
  2.32  may be used by the municipality for any general fund purpose. 
  2.33     Subd. 5.  [ACCESS TO RECORDS.] The municipality or its duly 
  2.34  authorized agent may examine records, including computer 
  2.35  records, maintained by an operator.  The term "records" 
  2.36  includes, without limitation, all accounts of an operator.  The 
  3.1   municipality must have access at all reasonable times to inspect 
  3.2   and copy all business records related to an operator's 
  3.3   collection, transportation, and disposal of aggregate to the 
  3.4   extent necessary to ensure that all aggregate material 
  3.5   production fees required to be paid have been remitted to the 
  3.6   municipality.  The records must be maintained by the operator 
  3.7   for not less than six years after removal of the aggregate 
  3.8   material which is the subject of the records. 
  3.9      Sec. 2.  [APPLICATION.] 
  3.10     Section 1 applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, 
  3.11  Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington.