2004 Minnesota Statutes

     84.03 Additional duties and powers.  

    So far as practicable the commissioner shall collect and 
 arrange statistics and other information in reference to the 
 lands and general and special resources of the state.  

    The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to take 
 such measures as the commissioner may deem advisable to 
 advertise, both within and without the state, sales of all state 
 lands, and to secure, compile, and issue such valuable 
 statistics of the resources of the state.  

    The commissioner may adopt and promulgate reasonable rules, 
 not inconsistent with law, governing the use and enjoyment of 
 state land reserved from sale, state parks, state water access 
 sites, state trails, state monuments, state scientific and 
 natural areas, state wilderness areas, and recreational areas 
 owned by other state, local and federal agencies and operated 
 under agreement by the Department of Natural Resources, which 
 shall have the force and effect of law.  A reasonable fee may be 
 fixed, charged, and collected by the commissioner for the 
 privilege of the use of any or all of the foregoing privileges 
 and facilities.  

    The commissioner, on or before November 15 of each even 
 numbered year, shall report to the legislature the 
 commissioner's acts and doings, with recommendation for the 
 improvement or conservation of state parks, state water access 
 sites, state trails, and state monuments, state scientific and 
 natural areas, state forests, state wildlife management areas, 
 public hunting grounds, public shooting grounds, food and cover 
 planting areas, wildlife lands, recreational or public hunting 
 areas, state wild and scenic rivers, state wilderness areas, and 
 all other recreational lands under the jurisdiction of the 
 Department of Natural Resources, and for desirable accessions 
 thereto, such report to include an inventory of the tracts and 
 parcels of land, and rights, interests, and easements therein, 
 held by the state or withdrawn from sale for any of these 
 purposes, with the value thereof, and a list of the name, 
 location, size, and description of each state trail, state 
 scientific and natural area, state wildlife management area, 
 state water access site, and state wild, scenic, or recreational 
 river designated by the commissioner, and each public hunting 
 grounds, public shooting grounds, food and cover planting area, 
 wildlife lands, and recreational or public hunting area acquired 
 by the commissioner since the last report.  The commissioner 
 shall maintain a long range plan governing the use of the public 
 domain under the commissioner's jurisdiction.  

    HIST: (77, 4342, 6460, 6466) 1905 c 201 s 1; 1907 c 267 s 5; 
 1923 c 430 s 8,14; 1941 c 222 s 1; 1967 c 905 s 4; 1969 c 470 s 
 2; 1969 c 1129 art 10 s 2; 1974 c 406 s 59; 1975 c 353 s 14; 
 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444