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458.25 BUILD AND OPERATE WHARVES AND DOCKS; USER FEES.
    Subdivision 1. Powers. A city of the first class may:
(1) establish, construct, maintain, and operate public landings, public wharves and docks, and
transfer railroad tracks, and loading, unloading, transfer and storage facilities, in or out of the city;
(2) acquire by condemnation or otherwise riparian or other lands and other rights and
easements needed for a purpose in clause (1) and construct, maintain, and operate the buildings
and warehouses needed for that purpose;
(3) lay and collect reasonable duties or wharfage fees on vessels coming to or using the
landings, wharves or docks;
(4) regulate the use of other wharves and docks in the city and the rates of wharfage to be
paid by vessels using them;
(5) dredge or deepen the harbor or river or a branch or portion of it;
(6) make and enforce reasonable rules for the protection and use of its properties in or out of
the city and impose and enforce adequate penalties for the violation of the rules.
    Subd. 2. Chapter 117 applies. Condemnation under this section must be done under
chapter 117.
History: (1504-1) 1921 c 363 s 1; 1976 c 44 s 62; 1985 c 265 art 8 s 1

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