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Chapter 282
Section 282.13
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282.13 COUNTY LAND COMMISSIONERS; CITY LAND EXCHANGES.
The county board may appoint a land commissioner and necessary assistants, such land
commissioner to perform any or all of the following duties as directed by the county board: to
gather data and information on tax-forfeited lands; make land classifications and appraisals of
land, timber and other products and uses; enforce trespass laws and regulations; seize and appraise
timber and other products and property cut and removed illegally from tax-forfeited lands; assist
the county auditor in the sale and rental of forfeited lands and the products thereon; and such other
duties concerning tax-forfeited lands as the county board may direct. Such appointment shall be
for such time as the county board may determine. The compensation of said land commissioner
and assistants shall be fixed by the county board and their salaries and expenses shall be paid from
the forfeited tax sale fund, except that in counties having more than 300,000 and less than 450,000
inhabitants an officer or employee of a city of the first class situated therein who is appointed
shall receive no additional compensation therefor. Any funds required by the commissioner of
revenue for the purpose of cancellation of contracts, as provided in section 282.01, shall be
paid by the county auditor upon the written order of the commissioner of revenue from moneys
then available in the fund.
When tax-forfeited lands have been acquired by a city of the first class for municipal
purposes, and a privately owned lot lies between such tax-forfeited land, and it is in the interest of
the municipality that such privately owned lot be acquired for the same municipal use to which
the tax-forfeited lands have been devoted, such city of the first class may exchange on such basis
as may be approved by the governing body thereof, a portion of the tax-forfeited lands acquired
by the municipality for the privately owned lot, and the officers of such municipality are hereby
authorized to execute deeds to carry out such purpose.
History: (2139-25) 1935 c 386 s 11; 1943 c 627 s 5; 1951 c 562 s 1; 1953 c 340 s 1; 1973 c
582 s 3; 1986 c 444
The county board may appoint a land commissioner and necessary assistants, such land
commissioner to perform any or all of the following duties as directed by the county board: to
gather data and information on tax-forfeited lands; make land classifications and appraisals of
land, timber and other products and uses; enforce trespass laws and regulations; seize and appraise
timber and other products and property cut and removed illegally from tax-forfeited lands; assist
the county auditor in the sale and rental of forfeited lands and the products thereon; and such other
duties concerning tax-forfeited lands as the county board may direct. Such appointment shall be
for such time as the county board may determine. The compensation of said land commissioner
and assistants shall be fixed by the county board and their salaries and expenses shall be paid from
the forfeited tax sale fund, except that in counties having more than 300,000 and less than 450,000
inhabitants an officer or employee of a city of the first class situated therein who is appointed
shall receive no additional compensation therefor. Any funds required by the commissioner of
revenue for the purpose of cancellation of contracts, as provided in section 282.01, shall be
paid by the county auditor upon the written order of the commissioner of revenue from moneys
then available in the fund.
When tax-forfeited lands have been acquired by a city of the first class for municipal
purposes, and a privately owned lot lies between such tax-forfeited land, and it is in the interest of
the municipality that such privately owned lot be acquired for the same municipal use to which
the tax-forfeited lands have been devoted, such city of the first class may exchange on such basis
as may be approved by the governing body thereof, a portion of the tax-forfeited lands acquired
by the municipality for the privately owned lot, and the officers of such municipality are hereby
authorized to execute deeds to carry out such purpose.
History: (2139-25) 1935 c 386 s 11; 1943 c 627 s 5; 1951 c 562 s 1; 1953 c 340 s 1; 1973 c
582 s 3; 1986 c 444
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