Bill Text: MN HF2390 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: State park and recreation area acquisition funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-20 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance [HF2390 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-HF2390-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to capital investment; appropriating money for state park and recreation
1.3area acquisition; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5    Section 1. STATE PARK AND RECREATION AREA ACQUISITION.
1.6    Subdivision 1. Appropriation. (a) $5,000,000 is appropriated from the bond
1.7proceeds fund to the commissioner of natural resources for acquisition of land under
1.8Minnesota Statutes, section 86A.05, subdivisions 2 and 3, from willing sellers of private
1.9lands within state park and recreation area boundaries established by law.
1.10(b) This appropriation includes money for acquisitions in the following state park
1.11and recreation areas: Crow Wing State Park; Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area;
1.12Frontenac State Park; Lake Bronson State Park; Maplewood State Park; Mille Lacs Kathio
1.13State Park; Nerstrand Big Woods State Park; Sibley State Park; and Tettegouche State Park.
1.14    Subd. 2. Bond sale. To provide the money appropriated in this section from the
1.15bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue
1.16bonds of the state in an amount up to $5,000,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with
1.17the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the
1.18Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
1.19EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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