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MN Stat § 88.6435 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.6435 — Decorative Materials; Buyers.

88.6435 DECORATIVE MATERIALS; BUYERS. Subdivision 1.  MS 2018 [Repealed by amendment, 1Sp2019 c 4 art 3 s 38] Subd. 1a. License. (a) A person must have a buyer's license for decorative materials to: (1) buy more than 100 pounds of decorative boughs in any calendar year; (2) buy more than 50 spruce stems or branches greater than six inches in length in any calendar year; or (3) buy more than 50 birch stems or branches greater than one-inch large-end diameter in any calendar year. (b) The annual fee for a buyer's license for decorative materials for a resident or nonresident is $25. Subd. 2. Record requirements. (a) When buying or otherwise receiving decorative materials, a person licensed under this section must record: (1) the seller's name and address; (2) the form of written consent; and (3) the government permit number or legal description or property tax identification number of the land from which the decorative materials were obtained. (b) The information under paragraph (a) must be recorded on a form furnished or otherwise approved by the commissioner of natural resources and must be exhibited to an officer upon request. (c) A licensed buyer may not purchase decorative materials if the seller fails to exhibit the written consent required under section 88.642, subdivision 1. Decorative materials must conform to standards specified in the written consent. (d) Records must be maintained from July 1 until June 30 of the following calendar year and must be open to inspection to an officer during reasonable hours. (e) Customer name and address records created and maintained by licensees under this section are classified as private or nonpublic government data. Subd. 3. Penalties. (a) The commissioner may deny, modify, suspend, or revoke a license issued under this section for cause, including for falsifying records required under this section or for violating sections 88.641 to 88.648. (b) A person convicted of two or more violations of sections 88.641 to 88.648 within three years may not obtain a buyer's license for decorative materials for three years after the date of the last conviction. Subd. 4. Special forest products account; disposition of fees. (a) The special forest products account is established in the state treasury in the natural resources fund. (b) Fees for licenses issued under this section must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the special forest products account and, except for the electronic licensing system commission established by the commissioner under section 84.027, subdivision 15, are annually appropriated to the commissioner of natural resources for costs associated with special forest product information and education programs for harvesters and buyers. History:  1Sp2001 c 2 s 97; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 69; 2014 c 248 s 6; 1Sp2015 c 4 art 4 s 62; 1Sp2019 c 4 art 3 s 38
MN Stat § 88.645 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.645 — Enforcement.

88.645 ENFORCEMENT. Subdivision 1. Search warrants. A court having authority to issue warrants in criminal cases may issue a search warrant, in the manner provided by law for issuing search warrants for stolen property, to search for and seize decorative materials affected by or involved in an offense under sections 88.641 to 88.648. The warrant may be directed to and executed by any officer authorized to make arrests and seizures by sections 88.641 to 88.648. Subd. 2. Complaint. An officer having knowledge of an offense under sections 88.641 to 88.648 shall make a complaint against the offender before a court having jurisdiction of the offense and request the court to issue a warrant of arrest in the case. History:  1949 c 546 s 5; 1983 c 359 s 3; 1Sp2001 c 2 s 98
MN Stat § 88.647 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.647 — Relation To Existing Laws.

88.647 RELATION TO EXISTING LAWS. Sections 88.641 to 88.6435 do not supersede any existing provision of law relating to any matter within the scope thereof but shall be construed as supplementary thereto. History:  1949 c 546 s 7; 1Sp2001 c 2 s 99
MN Stat § 88.648 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.648 — Criminal Penalties; Misdemeanor.

88.648 CRIMINAL PENALTIES; MISDEMEANOR. (a) A person who makes a false statement in any application, form, or other statement as described in sections 88.641 to 88.6435 is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person who violates a provision of sections 88.641 to 88.6435 is guilty of a misdemeanor. History:  1949 c 546 s 8; 1983 c 133 s 4; 1Sp2001 c 2 s 100
MN Stat § 88.73 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.73 — Administration; Delegated Powers And Duties.

88.73 ADMINISTRATION; DELEGATED POWERS AND DUTIES. (a) The director is hereby empowered and directed to administer and enforce sections 88.03 to 88.22; and, to that end, may make and enforce all necessary or convenient rules not inconsistent with the provisions and purposes of these sections. In every case the powers delegated to, and the duties imposed upon, the director, and other state or municipal representatives by sections 88.03 to 88.22 shall be exercised and performed in good faith, without undue oppression, and in a manner as reasonable as the exigencies of the situation will permit. (b) Nothing in sections 88.03 to 88.22 shall be construed as abrogating the laws specifically governing state parks or other public parks, or state or municipal forests. The provisions of all such laws and of sections 88.03 to 88.22 shall be harmonized and both given effect wherever possible. (c) Nothing in sections 88.03 to 88.22 shall be construed as restricting the state, or any political subdivision thereof, in the exercise of any power, right, or privilege which may be conferred by separate enactment of the legislature under authority of the so-called forest fire prevention amendment to the state constitution, approved by vote of the electors of this state at the general election held in November 1924. History:  (4031-32, 4031-33) 1925 c 407 s 32,33; 1978 c 735 s 6; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 88.76 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.76 — Rewards.

88.76 REWARDS. Upon conviction of any person for violating any of the provisions of sections 88.03 to 88.22, the director may pay, from any money placed at the director's disposal under those sections, a reward of not more than $1,000 to the person or persons giving the information leading to such conviction. History:  (4031-31) 1925 c 407 s 31; 1978 c 735 s 8; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 271 s 3; 1993 c 328 s 31
MN Stat § 88.77 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.77 — Disposition Of Fines And Penalties.

88.77 DISPOSITION OF FINES AND PENALTIES. Except as otherwise expressly provided in sections 88.03 to 88.22, all money received as penalties for violations of the provisions of those sections, less the cost of collection, shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which the penalties for these violations were imposed; provided, that fines collected for violations of those sections, where prosecutions are instituted upon the complaint of town or city officers duly appointed by the director as fire wardens, shall be paid into the treasury of the town or city where the offense was committed. History:  (4031-29) 1913 c 159 s 7; 1925 c 407 s 29; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1978 c 735 s 9
MN Stat § 88.78 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.78 — Appeals.

88.78 APPEALS. (a) No appeal shall be allowed from a judgment in any prosecution under sections 88.03 to 88.22, unless the person appealing shall, within the time prescribed by law, enter into a recognizance, with sufficient sureties, or deposit cash bail in twice the amount of the fine and costs. (b) The judge may examine the proposed sureties under oath and shall make and keep a record of their answers in respect to the kinds and amount of their property not exempt from execution. The judge shall furnish a copy of the record to the director. (c) Upon an arrest being made for violation of any of the provisions of sections 88.03 to 88.22, or upon information of a violation being lodged, the county attorney of the county in which the offense was committed shall prosecute the accused. History:  (4031-30) 1913 c 159 s 6; 1925 c 407 s 30; 1978 c 735 s 10; 1983 c 247 s 40; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 88.79 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.79 — State Forest Service To Private Owners.

88.79 STATE FOREST SERVICE TO PRIVATE OWNERS. Subdivision 1. Employing competent foresters; service to private owners. The commissioner of natural resources may employ competent foresters to furnish owners of forest lands within the state of Minnesota who own not more than 1,000 acres of forest land, forest management services consisting of: (1) advice in management and protection of timber, including written stewardship and forest management plans; (2) selection and marking of timber to be cut; (3) measurement of products; (4) aid in marketing harvested products; (5) provision of tree-planting equipment; (6) advice in community forest management; and (7) such other services as the commissioner of natural resources deems necessary or advisable to promote maximum sustained yield of timber and other benefits upon such forest lands. Subd. 2. Charge for service; receipts to special revenue fund. Notwithstanding section 16A.1283, the commissioner of natural resources may, by written order published in the State Register, establish fees the commissioner determines to be fair and reasonable that are charged to owners receiving services under subdivision 1. The charges must account for differences in the value of timber and other benefits. The receipts from the services shall be credited to the special revenue fund and are annually appropriated to the commissioner for the purposes specified in subdivision 1. Subd. 3. Cost-sharing conservation practices. The commissioner of natural resources may provide cost-sharing of conservation practices to nonindustrial owners of less than 5,000 acres of private land within this state, provided that the landowners successfully complete conservation practices approved by the commissioner. The cost shared by the commissioner may not exceed 75 percent of the actual cost of the conservation practice. Subd. 4. Rulemaking exemption. The charge for forest management services and cost-sharing conservation practices under this section are not subject to the rulemaking provisions of chapter 14 and section 14.386 does not apply. History:  1947 c 580 s 1; 1969 c 399 s 1; 1969 c 1129 art 10 s 2; 1987 c 226 s 1; 1989 c 335 art 4 s 106; 1993 c 172 s 42; 1997 c 216 s 70; 2004 c 221 s 27; 2006 c 281 art 3 s 8; 2007 c 57 art 1 s 45,46; 2010 c 361 art 4 s 42
MN Stat § 88.80 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.80 — Aspen Recycling Program.

88.80 ASPEN RECYCLING PROGRAM. Subdivision 1. Establishment. The commissioner must establish and accelerate an aspen recycling program providing for the betterment of public lands owned by the state by clearing trees which because of age, disease, pests, or other cause are unmarketable or increase the hazard of forest fires or infestation, permitting the regeneration of stands of healthy aspen capable of economic management, harvesting, and marketing. The financing of this program is determined to be a necessary and proper public purpose for the issuance of state bonds under the provisions of article XI, section 5 of the constitution relating to the betterment of public land, the promotion of reforestation, and prevention and abatement of forest fires and the clearing and improving of wild lands. The program shall designate priority areas on state lands for aspen recycling. Subd. 2. Pilot project. The commissioner shall establish an aspen recycling program pilot project in the highest priority area on state lands in order to develop effective program procedures and practices. With respect to the pilot project, the commissioner may restrict bidding on contracts for the cutting, removal, and disposal of aspens, and for related activities, to loggers and others residing in the pilot project area designated under the program that are financially distressed. The commissioner may establish standards and procedures for awarding logging contracts relating to eligibility for employment for conservation work projects. Subd. 3. Report. The commissioner shall report to the legislature by January 1, 1987, the results of the pilot project and a plan to recycle the overmature aspen stands of the state. History:  1Sp1985 c 13 s 218; 1986 c 383 s 11; 1988 c 690 art 1 s 3; 1997 c 187 art 1 s 8
MN Stat § 88.81 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.81 — Forest Management Practices In Litigation.

88.81 FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN LITIGATION. The commissioner may not implement new or revised forest management practices as part of agreements relating to litigation until the commissioner has reported the forest management practices to the chairs of the environment and natural resources committees of the legislature at the next regular session of the legislature. History:   1990 c 594 art 1 s 48
MN Stat § 88.82 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 88 — Division Of Forestry|Section 88.82 — Minnesota Releaf Program.

88.82 MINNESOTA RELEAF PROGRAM. The Minnesota releaf program is established in the Department of Natural Resources to encourage, promote, and fund the inventory, planting, assessment, maintenance, improvement, protection, and restoration of trees and forest resources in this state to enhance community forest ecosystem health and sustainability as well as to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and promote energy conservation. History:  1991 c 254 art 2 s 20; 2007 c 57 art 1 s 47
MN Stat § 89.002 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 89 — State Forests; Tree Planting; Forest Roads|Section 89.002 — Policies.

89.002 POLICIES. Subdivision 1. Forest resource management policy. The commissioner shall manage the forest resources of state forest lands under the authority of the commissioner according to the principles of multiple use and sustained yield. The forest resource management policy shall not supersede any existing duty or authority of the commissioner in managing forest lands, but the duties and authorities, as far as practicable, shall be exercised consistently with this policy. The forest resource management policy is not intended to exclude extractive uses of forest lands under the authority of the commissioner pursuant to state law. Subd. 2. Reforestation policy. (a) The commissioner shall maintain all forest lands under authority of the commissioner in appropriate forest cover with species of trees, degree of stocking, rate of growth and stand conditions designed to secure optimum public benefits according to multiple use, sustained yield principles and consistent with applicable forest management plans. (b) Each year the commissioner shall strive to assure that (1) reforestation occurs annually on an acreage at least equal to the acreage harvested that year on all forest lands under the authority of the commissioner; (2) additional reforestation is accomplished on areas previously harvested but not adequately reforested so that the backlog of reforestation work can be eliminated; and (3) poorly stocked forest land, or forest land damaged by natural causes, shall be returned to a state of productivity. Subd. 3. Forest road policy. The commissioner shall provide a system of forest roads and trails which provides access to state forest land and other forest land under the commissioner's authority which is adequate to permit the commissioner to manage, protect, and develop those lands and their forest resources consistent with the forest resource management policy, and to meet demands for forest resources. History:  1982 c 511 s 3; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 89.011 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 89 — State Forests; Tree Planting; Forest Roads|Section 89.011 — Forest Planning Coordination.

89.011 FOREST PLANNING COORDINATION. Subdivision 1.  [Repealed, 2006 c 281 art 3 s 20] Subd. 2.  [Repealed, 2006 c 281 art 3 s 20] Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 2006 c 281 art 3 s 20] Subd. 4. Federal coordination. The Department of Natural Resources shall coordinate all forest resources planning efforts with the appropriate federal agencies in order to achieve optimum public benefit, to obtain federal assistance, to participate in the federal forestry planning process, and to enhance the productivity and multiple use management of forest resources. Subd. 5. Public and private coordination. The Department of Natural Resources shall coordinate all forest resources planning efforts with counties and other public agencies and private organizations engaged in forest resource management and research. Subd. 6.  [Repealed, 2006 c 281 art 3 s 20] History:   1982 c 511 s 5
MN Stat § 89.012 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 89 — State Forests; Tree Planting; Forest Roads|Section 89.012 — Unit Forest Resource Plans.

89.012 UNIT FOREST RESOURCE PLANS. Each geographic administrative unit of the Division of Forestry identified by the commissioner as an appropriate unit for forest resource planning shall have a unit forest resource plan which is consistent with the forest resource management policy and plan, including state reforestation and road policies. The scope and content of the plan shall be determined by the commissioner. The plan is not subject to the rulemaking provisions of chapter 14 and section 14.386 does not apply. A unit plan shall not be implemented until approved by the commissioner by written order that is published in the State Register. A unit plan shall set forth the specific goals and objectives for the management, protection, development, and production of forest resources in the administrative unit. A unit plan shall be integrated with other uses not managed under the multiple use, sustained yield principles policy when those uses have been authorized and approved according to law, including compliance with environmental review procedures. Unit plans shall be revised as necessary to remain consistent with the forest resource management plan. History:  1982 c 511 s 6; 2004 c 221 s 28
MN Stat § 89.015 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 89 — State Forests; Tree Planting; Forest Roads|Section 89.015 — Southern Minnesota Tree Species; Research.

89.015 SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TREE SPECIES; RESEARCH. Research shall be carried on by the University of Minnesota School of Forestry in cooperation with the Division of Lands and Forestry of the Department of Natural Resources, North Central Forest Experiment Station of the United States Forest Service, individual timber landowners and others directly concerned on such valuable southern Minnesota tree species as basswood, red elm, rock elm, red and white oak, black walnut, black cherry, butternut and green ash to develop means of increasing the contribution of the large acreage of farm woodlands to the agricultural economy. The research effort will be concentrated on such important problems as means of reproducing basswood, development of planting stock, selection of superior strains of these species, methods of field planting, management of existing stands, and methods of increasing the representation of these species in woodlands and forests in need of rehabilitation because of past damage from high-grading, burning, and grazing. History:  1957 c 765 s 1; 1961 c 223 s 3; 1967 c 905 s 9; 1969 c 1129 art 10 s 2; 1971 c 25 s 28
MN Stat § 89.016 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 89 — State Forests; Tree Planting; Forest Roads|Section 89.016 — Forest Campgrounds.

89.016 FOREST CAMPGROUNDS. The commissioner must hold a public meeting before closing a campground in a state forest for a camping season. The public meeting must be held near the state forest where the campground is to be closed. History:   1987 c 404 s 109
MN Stat § 89.0211 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 89 — State Forests; Tree Planting; Forest Roads|Section 89.0211 — Sale Of State Forest Lands Adjacent To Platted Areas.

89.0211 SALE OF STATE FOREST LANDS ADJACENT TO PLATTED AREAS. Notwithstanding section 89.021, the commissioner may sell state forest lands that are adjacent to areas platted under section 92.46 in accordance with the applicable procedures in chapter 92 or 94. History:   1995 c 108 s 1
MN Stat § 89.022 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 89 — State Forests; Tree Planting; Forest Roads|Section 89.022 — Disposal Of Tillable Land In Memorial Hardwood Forest.

89.022 DISPOSAL OF TILLABLE LAND IN MEMORIAL HARDWOOD FOREST. Subdivision 1. Exchange or sale required. If any parcel acquired for the Memorial Hardwood Forest after July 1, 1977 contains more than ten contiguous acres of tillable land adjacent to other tillable land or to a maintained public road or a farm homestead consisting of a residence and farm buildings abutting a maintained public road, the commissioner of natural resources shall either exchange the land for other land suitable for forest purposes or declare the land as surplus land. Tillable land is land classified as class 1, 2, or 3 as defined by the United States Natural Resources Conservation Service. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary neither the state nor any of its subdivisions shall be required to construct or maintain any street, highway or other road to provide access to any parcel of land sold or exchanged pursuant to this section. The commissioner of natural resources may retain easements over parcels sold or exchanged pursuant to this section as are required for purposes of providing access to public waters or forest lands or access to insure stream bank stabilization and protection. Subd. 2. Exemption. The commissioner of natural resources may apply to the county board for an exemption from the exchange or sale requirements of subdivision 1 in instances where it can be demonstrated that tillable land has been or will be acquired for natural resource and public access purposes. The county board may approve or disapprove the exemption. If the application for exemption is not decided by the county board within 90 days, the application shall be deemed to have been approved. Subd. 3. Disposition. Money collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the natural resources fund established under section 16A.531, subdivision 2. History:  1979 c 248 s 1,2; 1988 c 690 art 1 s 1; 1989 c 335 art 1 s 269; 2006 c 243 s 21; 2014 c 217 s 2; 2015 c 21 art 1 s 109
MN Stat § 89.025 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 88 - 91 — Forestry|Chapter 89 — State Forests; Tree Planting; Forest Roads|Section 89.025 — Dorer Memorial Hardwood Forest; Land Use Restricted.

89.025 DORER MEMORIAL HARDWOOD FOREST; LAND USE RESTRICTED. After June 1, 1993, the commissioner may not allow the use of additional state forest lands within the boundaries of the Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest for development or operation of a motor sports area for use by all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles, or four-wheel drive trucks without legislative approval. This restriction does not apply to recreational trails. History:   1993 c 203 s 2