Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

84.95 REINVEST IN MINNESOTA RESOURCES FUND. § Subdivision 1.Program fund; establishment. A reinvest in Minnesota resources fund is created as a separate fund in the state treasury. The fund shall be managed to earn the highest interest compatible with prudent investment, preserva…

84.96 NATIVE PRAIRIE BANK. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. The commissioner shall establish a native prairie bank, determine where native prairie land is located in the state, and prescribe eligibility requirements for inclusion of land in the native prairie bank. § Subd. 2.Defini…

84.961 PRAIRIE LAND MANAGEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Native prairie values. The commissioner of natural resources must recognize the value of native prairie land by taking into consideration the wildlife, scientific, erosion control, educational, and recreational benefits of native pr…

84.963 PRAIRIE PLANT SEED PRODUCTION AREAS; PRAIRIE ESTABLISHMENT GUIDANCE. (a) The commissioner of natural resources shall study the feasibility of establishing private or public prairie plant seed production areas within prairie land locations. If prairie plant seed production …

84.97 CONTROLLED BURNING. § Subdivision 1.Program established. The commissioner may establish a controlled burning program on public and private land to propagate wildlife requiring new vegetative growth and brush habitats, to manage the prairie, and to reduce the wildfire hazard…

84.972 PRAIRIE AND GRASSLANDS PUBLIC GRAZING PROGRAM. The commissioner of natural resources shall establish a prairie and grasslands public grazing program. The commissioner shall enter into cooperative farming agreements or lease agreements with livestock owners to annually graz…

84.973 POLLINATOR HABITAT PROGRAM. (a) The commissioner shall develop best management practices and habitat restoration guidelines for pollinator habitat enhancement. Best management practices and guidelines developed under this section must be used for all habitat enhancement or…

84.9735 INSECTICIDES ON STATE LANDS. A person may not use a pesticide containing an insecticide in a wildlife management area, state park, state forest, aquatic management area, or scientific and natural area if the insecticide is from the neonicotinoid class of insecticides or c…

84.9736 STATE COOPERATIVE FARMING AGREEMENT AND AGRICULTURAL LEASE REQUIREMENTS; FOOD PLOTS. (a) The commissioner of natural resources must require state cooperative farming agreements and agricultural leases of lands administered by the commissioner located east of Interstate Hi…

84.974 MILKWEED. When feasible, the commissioner of natural resources is encouraged to plant milkweed. History: 1Sp2015 c 2 art 1 s 3

84.975 SHORELAND MANAGEMENT GRANTS. § Subdivision 1.Purposes. The commissioner of natural resources may make grants to local governments: (1) to administer, monitor, and enforce state approved shoreland management ordinances; (2) to adopt shoreland management ordinances consisten…

84.976 NO CHILD LEFT INSIDE; GRANT PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. The commissioner of natural resources must establish and administer a program to provide grants for outdoor environmental, ecological, and other natural-resource-based education and recreation programs ser…

84.9765 OUTDOOR ENGAGEMENT GRANT ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. The outdoor engagement grant account is established as an account in the natural resources fund. The purpose of the account is to provide funding from private sources to support the no child left inside gran…

84.991 CONSERVATION CORPS MINNESOTA. § Subdivision 1.Transfer. (a) The Minnesota Conservation Corps is moved to the Friends of the Minnesota Conservation Corps, an existing nonprofit corporation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, doing busin…

84.992 MINNESOTA NATURALIST CORPS. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. The Minnesota Naturalist Corps is established under the direct control and supervision of the commissioner of natural resources. § Subd. 2.Program. The commissioner of natural resources shall develop and implement …

84A.01 RED LAKE GAME PRESERVE. There is created a state wildlife preserve and hunting ground to be known as the Red Lake Game Preserve. It is created for the purpose of vesting and revesting the state with title to lands in the area that are suitable primarily for state use and d…

84A.02 DEPARTMENT TO MANAGE PRESERVE. (a) The Department of Natural Resources shall manage and control the Red Lake Game Preserve. The department may adopt and enforce rules for the care, preservation, protection, breeding, propagation, and disposition of all species of wildlife …

84A.03 RED LAKE GAME PRESERVE FUND. The Red Lake Game Preserve fund is created. The following funds must be paid into the state treasury and credited to the fund and are annually appropriated for the purposes of sections 84A.01 to 84A.101: (1) the proceeds of certificates of inde…

84A.07 PRESERVE LANDS TO BE HELD BY STATE. The title to parcels of land within the preserve, except lands within the boundaries of any incorporated city, that are acquired by the state under Laws 1927, chapter 119, as amended, is held by the state, free from the trust in favor of…

84A.09 GIFTS RECEIVED. The department may receive for the state and acknowledge any gifts, bequests, devises, or grants of land or interests in lands in the preserve, or of money or personal property of any kind, that it considers suitable for use in connection with the operation…

84A.10 EMINENT DOMAIN. The department has the power of eminent domain in chapter 117. The department may acquire, by eminent domain or by purchase, lands or interests in lands in the preserve that the department considers necessary for state ownership, use, or development for the…

84A.101 RULE VIOLATION; MISDEMEANOR. Any person who, within the limits of the preserve, willfully violates a rule of the department, is guilty of a misdemeanor. History: 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1

84A.20 COUNTY ACTION TO SET OFF AREAS. § Subdivision 1.Purposes. The powers in this section are granted for the purpose of: (1) vesting and revesting the state with title to lands suitable primarily for the development of forests and the prevention of forest fires, and for experi…

84A.21 DEPARTMENT TO MANAGE PROJECTS. (a) The department shall manage and control each project approved and accepted under section 84A.20. The department may adopt and enforce rules for the purposes in section 84A.20, subdivision 1, for the prevention of forest fires in the proje…

84A.22 DISPOSAL OF PROCEEDS. (a) The following funds must be paid to the state treasury, credited to the project to which they pertain and are annually appropriated to its purposes: (1) the proceeds of all certificates of indebtedness issued under sections 84A.20 to 84A.30; (2) m…

84A.23 COUNTY AUDITOR TO CERTIFY TAX-DELINQUENT LANDS. § Subdivision 1.First report. As soon as practicable after the approval and acceptance of a project, the auditor of each county where the project is situated shall certify to the commissioner of management and budget a list o…

84A.26 PROJECT LANDS TO BE HELD BY STATE. The title to parcels of land within a project, except lands within the boundaries of a city, that are acquired by the state under Laws 1927, chapter 119, as amended, must be held by the state free from the trust in favor of the taxing dis…

84A.27 PROJECT LANDS CLASSIFIED. On receiving the reports of the county auditor specified in section 84A.23, the commissioner of management and budget shall certify a copy of the report to the department. The department shall classify the lands as to their suitability for agricul…

84A.28 DEPARTMENT TO ACCEPT GIFTS. The department may receive for the state and acknowledge any gift, bequest, devise, or grant of land or interests in lands in a project, or of money or personal property of any kind, that it considers suitable for use in connection with the oper…

84A.29 EMINENT DOMAIN. The department has the power of eminent domain in chapter 117. The department may acquire by eminent domain or by purchase, lands or interests in lands in any project that the department considers necessary for state ownership, use, or development for the p…

84A.30 RULES VIOLATION A MISDEMEANOR. Within the limits of a project, a willful violation of a rule of the department adopted under sections 84A.20 to 84A.30 is a misdemeanor. History: (6452-12) 1931 c 407 s 12; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1

84A.31 STATE REFORESTATION PROJECTS. § Subdivision 1.Purposes. The powers in this section are granted for the purpose of: (1) vesting and revesting the state with title to lands suitable primarily for the development of forests and prevention of forest fires, and for experimentin…

84A.32 DEPARTMENT TO MANAGE PROJECTS. § Subdivision 1.Rules. (a) The department shall manage and control each project approved and accepted under section 84A.31. The department may adopt and enforce rules for the purposes in section 84A.31, subdivision 1, for the prevention of fo…

84A.33 COUNTY AUDITORS TO CERTIFY TAX-DELINQUENT LANDS. § Subdivision 1.First report. As soon as practicable after the approval and acceptance of a project, the auditor of each county where the project is situated shall certify to the commissioner of management and budget a list …

84A.36 LANDS TO BE HELD BY STATE. The title to parcels of land within a project, except lands within the boundaries of a city, that are acquired by the state under Laws 1927, chapter 119, as amended, must be held by the state free from any trust in favor of the taxing districts s…

84A.37 COMMISSIONER OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET TO CERTIFY LIST TO DEPARTMENT. On receiving the reports of the county auditor specified in section 84A.33, the commissioner of management and budget shall certify a copy of the report to the department. The department shall classify th…

84A.38 DEPARTMENT TO ACCEPT GIFTS. The department may receive for the state and acknowledge any gift, bequest, devise, or grant of land, or interests in lands, in a project, or of money or personal property of any kind, that it finds suitable for use in connection with the operat…

84A.39 EMINENT DOMAIN. The department has the power of eminent domain in chapter 117. The department may acquire by eminent domain or by purchase any privately owned lands or interests in lands within a project that it considers necessary for state ownership, use, or development …

84A.40 COUNTY MAY ASSUME BONDS. (a) Any county where a project or portion of it is located may voluntarily assume, in the manner specified in this section, the obligation to pay a portion of the principal and interest of the bonds issued before the approval and acceptance of the …

84A.41 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Taxes. "Taxes," as used in sections 84A.31 to 84A.42 includes taxes of every kind and special assessments of every kind. § Subd. 2.Bonds and bonded indebtedness. "Bonds" and "bonded indebtedness," as used in sections 84A.31 to 84A.42, include b…

84A.42 RULES VIOLATION; MISDEMEANOR. A person who within the limits of any project established in accordance with section 84A.31 willfully violates a rule of the Department of Natural Resources adopted under sections 84A.31 to 84A.42 is guilty of a misdemeanor. History: (4031-87)…

84A.50 CERTAIN CERTIFICATES ACCEPTED AND VALIDATED. Certificates relating to bonds issued to finance or refinance public drainage ditches, the principal and interest of the bonds, the amount of money collected from drainage assessments and credited to ditches, and the amount of t…

84A.51 CONSOLIDATED CONSERVATION AREAS ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Account created. There is created in the state treasury the consolidated conservation areas account, also called the consolidated account. § Subd. 2.Funds transferred; appropriated. Money in any fund established unde…

84A.52 ACCOUNTS; EXAMINATION, APPROPRIATION, PAYMENT. (a) As a part of the examination provided for by section 6.481, of the accounts of the several counties within a game preserve, area, or project established under section 84A.01, 84A.20, or 84A.31, the state auditor shall segr…

84A.53 RECEIPTS NOT CREDITED TO CONSOLIDATED ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Tax levies. Money collected from tax levies made before April 19, 1949, under this chapter, must be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general fund. Upon completion of the payment provided for…

84A.54 COLLECTIONS DEPOSITED IN CONSOLIDATED ACCOUNT. Except as provided in section 84A.53, money received after April 18, 1949, under this chapter must be deposited in the consolidated account. History: 1949 c 498 s 5; 1984 c 654 art 2 s 81; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 1989 c 335 art …