2007 Minnesota Statutes

473H.06 NOTIFICATION.
    Subdivision 1. Application. Upon receipt of an application, the authority shall determine
if all material required in section 473H.05 has been submitted and, if so, shall determine that
the application is complete. When used in this chapter, the term "date of application" means
the date the application is determined complete by the authority. Within five days of the date
of application, the authority shall forward the completed and signed application to the county
recorder, and copies to the county auditor, the county assessor, the Metropolitan Council, and the
county soil and water conservation district.
    Subd. 2. Recording; memorialization. The county recorder shall record the application
containing the restrictive covenant and return it to the applicant. If the land is registered, the
registrar of titles shall memorialize the application containing the restrictive covenant upon the
certificate of title. The authority shall be notified by the recorder or registrar of titles that the
application has been recorded or memorialized.
    Subd. 3. Taxes. The county auditor, for taxes payable in the following year and thereafter
for the duration of the preserve, shall determine local tax rates, assessments and taxes involving
the preserve according to the provisions of section 473H.10.
    Subd. 4. Validation, assessment. The county assessor, for taxes payable in the following
calendar year and thereafter for the duration of the preserve, shall value and assess the agricultural
preserve according to section 473H.10.
    Subd. 5. Maps; reports. The Metropolitan Council shall maintain agricultural preserve
maps, illustrating (a) certified long term agricultural lands; and (b) lands covenanted as
agricultural preserves. The council shall make yearly reports to the Department of Agriculture and
such other agencies as the council deems appropriate.
    Subd. 6. Monitoring. County auditors shall maintain records of the taxes assessed and
paid on agricultural preserves in a manner prescribed by the commissioner of revenue for the
orderly monitoring of the program.
    Subd. 7. Conservation problem statements. The county soil and water conservation district
may prepare an advisory statement of existing and potential conservation problems for the
agricultural preserve land. The statement shall be forwarded to the owner of record and a copy of
the statement shall be forwarded to the authority.
History: 1980 c 566 s 6; 1981 c 356 s 242,248; 1982 c 523 art 32 s 7-9; 1983 c 289 s 115
subd 1; 1987 c 312 art 1 s 26 subd 2; 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1Sp1989 c 1 art 2 s 11; 1993 c 163
art 1 s 33; 1999 c 11 art 1 s 10,11