2004 Minnesota Statutes

     90.121 Intermediate auction sales; maximum lots of 3,000 
  cords. 

    (a) The commissioner may sell the timber on any tract of 
 state land in lots not exceeding 3,000 cords in volume, in the 
 same manner as timber sold at public auction under section 
 90.101, and related laws, subject to the following special 
 exceptions and limitations:  

    (1) the commissioner shall offer all tracts authorized for 
 sale by this section separately from the sale of tracts of state 
 timber made pursuant to section 90.101; 

    (2) no bidder may be awarded more than 25 percent of the 
 total tracts offered at the first round of bidding unless fewer 
 than four tracts are offered, in which case not more than one 
 tract shall be awarded to one bidder.  Any tract not sold at 
 public auction may be offered for private sale as authorized by 
 section 90.101, subdivision 1, to persons eligible under this 
 section at the appraised value; and 

    (3) no sale may be made to a person having more than 20 
 employees.  

    (b) The auction sale procedure set forth in this section 
 constitutes an additional alternative timber sale procedure 
 available to the commissioner and is not intended to replace 
 other authority possessed by the commissioner to sell timber in 
 lots of 3,000 cords or less. 

    HIST: 1981 c 305 s 4; 1991 c 92 s 1; 1993 c 172 s 46; 1994 c 
 551 s 5; 1996 c 295 s 7; 2000 c 485 s 2; 2003 c 73 s 3