2007 Minnesota Statutes

450.23 GIFTS OR DEVISES; ACCEPTANCE.
The board of park commissioners or other governing body having control of parks, parkways
and playgrounds, of any city of the first class is authorized to receive and accept, in the name
of the city, any gift or devise of land or buildings to be used for a public park, welfare or
recreational center, museum, gallery, or school of arts or crafts, or for the construction, equipment,
improvement, maintenance, or use thereof or for any one or more of such purposes, with the right
reserved by the donor or devisor to the free and exclusive occupancy, management, control, and
use of the building by any incorporated society of this state organized for the general purposes
of fostering and promoting educational, welfare, recreational, artistic, and scientific interests, or
some one or more of them, and not for any purpose of pecuniary gain or profit to any of its
members, and upon such other conditions, but subject to such regulations and restrictions, as shall
be approved by the board of park commissioners or other governing body having control of
parks, parkways and playgrounds.
The board or other governing body may likewise accept gifts and bequests of money and
other personal property to be used for any of these purposes.
History: (1592-1) 1911 c 95 s 1; 1949 c 246 s 1