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463.01 BUILDING LINES, EASEMENTS; EXISTING STRUCTURES.
The council of any city, including any city of this state operating under a home rule charter
adopted pursuant to the Constitution of the state of Minnesota, article 4, section 36, article XI,
section 4, or article XII, section 5, may establish along any street or highway within such city a
building line upon the land adjoining such street or highway, or any portion thereof, and distant
not more than 50 feet from the margin of such street or highway, and may, in behalf of the city,
acquire an easement in the land between such line and exterior street line, such that no buildings
or structures shall be erected or maintained upon this land. Such easement shall be known as a
building line easement. The governing body may, at the time they designate the easement to be
acquired and define the line by which it is bounded, provide in the resolution designating such
easement that buildings or structures or any portions of buildings or structures existing within the
boundaries of the easement at that time may remain thereon for stated periods of time or remain
thereon during the life of such buildings or structures or portions thereof, but no alteration of any
such buildings or structures or portions thereof upon such easement shall be permitted after the
designation of such easements, and when such buildings are removed no other buildings or
structures shall be erected thereon. Such permission to maintain existing structures upon such
easement shall be clearly defined as to time in such resolution and shall confer the right upon
the owner of such buildings or structures or portions thereof to maintain the same as defined in
such resolution.
History: (1321-1) 1903 c 194 s 1; 1923 c 193 s 1; 1997 c 7 art 4 s 5

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