2006 Minnesota Statutes

242.37 CONSERVATION CAMPS.
(1) The commissioner of corrections may establish and operate conservation camps in
which persons committed to the commissioner of corrections may be placed. Such camps may be
established independently or in cooperation with any other public agency or any governmental
subdivision, subject to the approval of such agency or subdivision as to any camp or project to the
extent that its premises or operations are affected.
(2) Every able-bodied person committed as provided in clause (1) may be confined to a
conservation camp established pursuant to this section or to any other institution under the control
of the commissioner, subject to the limitations of section 242.19. Any person committed to a
conservation camp as herein provided may be required by order of the commissioner to labor
during the whole or some part of the time for which so committed and confined, but not more than
eight hours per day. The commissioner is authorized and empowered to determine the payment
of such compensation to persons so confined who perform labor as hereinabove provided. Any
money arising hereunder shall be and remain under control of the commissioner and shall be for
the sole benefit of the person performing the labor unless it shall be used for rendering assistance
to the laborer's family or dependents or in making restitution to persons determined by the
commissioner to be entitled thereto, in either event payments shall be made only in such amount,
at such time and to such persons as the commissioner may order in writing.
History: 1949 c 575 s 1; 1973 c 144 s 1; 1973 c 654 s 15; 1975 c 261 s 6; 1980 c 509
s 96; 1983 c 274 s 18; 1986 c 444