Bill Text: MN HF814 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Itasca County; sale of tax-forfeited land bordering public waters authorized.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-03 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance [HF814 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-HF814-Introduced.html

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to state lands; authorizing sale of certain tax-forfeited land bordering
1.3public waters in Itasca County.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5    Section 1. SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND BORDERING PUBLIC
1.6WATERS; ITASCA COUNTY.
1.7(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and 282.018, subdivision
1.81, and the public sale provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, Itasca County may
1.9sell by private sale to the adjoining landowner the tax-forfeited lands bordering public
1.10waters that are described in paragraph (c), under the remaining provisions of Minnesota
1.11Statutes, chapter 282.
1.12(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the attorney general. The
1.13attorney general may make necessary changes to the legal description to correct errors
1.14and ensure accuracy.
1.15(c) The land to be sold is in Itasca County and is described as:
1.16(1) that part of the North Half of the South Half of Lot 2, lying east of County
1.17State-Aid Highway 39, Section 27, Township 145, Range 26; and
1.18(2) that part of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter lying east of Trunk
1.19Highway 6, Section 35, Township 146, Range 25.
1.20(d) The county has determined that the county's land management interests would be
1.21best served if the lands are returned to private ownership.
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