2004 Minnesota Statutes

  163.15 Bridge across diversion channel.  

    Whenever any county has been authorized by the commissioner 
 of natural resources to divert the channel of a navigable stream 
 for the purpose of improving a county road and the board of 
 commissioners of such county has by resolution ordered diversion 
 of the navigable stream across private property so that the 
 stream and the channel thereof when so diverted deprives the 
 owner of the private property of access to the county road, the 
 owner of the private property may grant to the county a 
 perpetual easement for road purposes across that private 
 property commencing at a point 50 feet distant from the 
 relocated or diversion channel, thence crossing the relocated or 
 diversion channel and intersecting the county road so to be 
 improved; and the road easement shall extend for a distance of 
 two rods on each side of the centerline thereof and be and 
 remain a public road.  The county shall forthwith establish and 
 construct a highway upon the strip of land pursuant to law, 
 build a suitable bridge, including approaches thereto, across 
 the channel, and at public expense thenceforth maintain the road 
 and bridge so established in a safe condition so as to afford 
 the owner of the private property access to the improved county 
 road.  

    HIST: 1959 c 500 art 4 s 15; 1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1; 1986 c 444