2000 Minnesota Statutes

     282.011 Classification and sale. 

    Subdivision 1.    Classification, sale, procedures and 
 conditions.  Any lands which have become the absolute property 
 of the state through forfeiture for nonpayment of taxes and 
 which have been classified by the county board as conservation 
 lands under the provisions of section 282.01, or have been 
 classified as nonagricultural lands under the provisions of 
 section 282.14, or any such lands which shall hereafter be so 
 classified, may be designated by the county board of the county 
 in which such lands lie, by resolution duly adopted, as 
 appropriate and primarily suitable for either specific 
 conservation purposes or for auxiliary forest lands.  Any 
 resolution so adopted, together with a list of the lands 
 involved shall be forwarded to the commissioner of natural 
 resources who shall promptly approve or disapprove the whole or 
 any part thereof.  The commissioner shall thereupon make a 
 certificate showing the lands approved, transmit the same to the 
 county auditor who shall record the same.  Lands so designated 
 and so approved shall thereupon be appraised and the whole, or 
 any part thereof, may be offered for sale and sold in the same 
 manner as provided for the sale of lands classified as 
 nonconservation lands under section 282.01, or as agricultural 
 lands under section 282.14, as the case may be, according to the 
 status of such lands upon forfeiture.  The right to a deed of 
 conveyance to such property accorded the purchaser at any such 
 sale shall be conditioned upon the lands being placed in an 
 auxiliary forest or used for designated conservation purposes as 
 designated by the resolution of the county board.  

    Subd. 2.    Conditions, form of conveyance.  The 
 condition as to the placing of land into an auxiliary forest or 
 for use for designated conservation purposes shall be a 
 condition precedent.  Any deed of conveyance of lands so placed 
 shall be upon a form approved by the attorney general but such 
 conveyance shall not be a fee determinable nor contain any 
 conditions therein other than a reservation of the minerals and 
 mineral rights to the state for its own use, or in trust for the 
 appropriate taxing district as the case may be, according to the 
 status of the land upon forfeiture.  The land so placed, 
 however, shall be subject to the requirements for withdrawal of 
 lands from an auxiliary forest contained in section 88.49, 
 subdivision 9.  The procedure contained in that section shall 
 also be applicable, so far as possible, to lands designated for 
 conservation purposes other than an auxiliary forest.  

    Subd. 3.    Title examination.  The commissioner of 
 revenue shall, if requested by the purchaser or the county 
 attorney of the county where all or a portion of the land is 
 situated, deliver the deed to the county attorney for use under 
 section 88.48, subdivision 5, but such delivery shall not be 
 considered delivery to the purchaser.  The county attorney shall 
 be instructed when taking the transferral of the deed that said 
 deed shall not be delivered to the purchaser unless the land 
 involved is accepted as and placed into an auxiliary forest.  

    Subd. 4.    Replacing old deeds.  All deeds executed and 
 delivered by the state pursuant to this section before the 
 effective date of Laws 1955, chapter 389, containing conditions 
 subsequent or conveying determinable fees, shall at the request 
 of the purchaser, be returned to the commissioner who is 
 herewith empowered to issue a new deed pursuant to subdivision 2.

    HIST: 1947 c 496 s 1; 1955 c 389 s 1; 1969 c 1129 art 10 s 2; 
 1973 c 582 s 3; 1986 c 444