Skip to main content Skip to office menu Skip to footer
Capital IconMinnesota Legislature

Office of the Revisor of Statutes

103F.441 EROSION CONTROL PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES.
    Subdivision 1. Sedimentation control plan. (a) A person engaged in a development activity
that will disturb over one acre of land must submit a sedimentation control plan and time schedule
that will prevent excessive soil loss to the local government having jurisdiction over the land
before the development activity is to begin.
(b) A sedimentation control plan and time schedule must specify how the movement of soil
and damage to other property during the construction will be minimized, including the use of
temporary seeding, fiber mats, plastic, straw, mulch, sediment control basins, and other measures
to prevent erosion and sediment damage. The time schedule must establish deadlines for the
implementation and completion of each phase or element of the sedimentation control plan.
    Subd. 2. Permit required. The local government may appoint the zoning and planning
director, building inspector, county engineer, or the soil and water conservation district to review
the plan and time schedule. If the sedimentation control plan and time schedule will prevent
excessive soil loss to the most practicable extent, the local government must issue a permit that
authorizes the development activity contingent upon the implementation and completion of the
sedimentation control plan.
    Subd. 3. Penalty. A person engaged in a development activity who does not obtain
a sedimentation control plan permit or does not commence or complete the plan or make
satisfactory progress to complete the plan is subject to a civil penalty. Soil conservation practices
made in good faith and substantial compliance are a defense.
    Subd. 4. Application. For counties, the provisions of this section apply only to county
jurisdiction over unincorporated areas.
History: 1990 c 391 art 6 s 65

Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes