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MN Stat § 84.992 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 83A - 84 — Natural Resources|Chapter 84 — Department Of Natural Resources|Section 84.992 — Minnesota Naturalist Corps.

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 a program for the Minnesota Naturalist Corps that supports state parks in providing interpretation of the natural and cultural features of state parks in order to enhance visitors' awareness, understanding, and appreciation of those features and encourages the wise and sustainable use of the environment. Subd. 3. Training and mentoring. The commissioner must develop and implement a training program that adequately prepares Minnesota Naturalist Corps members for the tasks assigned. Each corps member is assigned an interpretive naturalist as a mentor. Subd. 4. Uniform pin. Uniforms worn by members of the Minnesota Naturalist Corps must have a pin that includes the name of the Minnesota Naturalist Corps and information that the program is funded by the clean water, land, and legacy amendment to the Minnesota Constitution adopted by the voters in November 2008. Subd. 5. Eligibility. A person is eligible to enroll in the Minnesota Naturalist Corps if the person: (1) is a permanent resident of the state; (2) is a participant in an approved college internship program in a field related to natural resources, cultural history, interpretation, or conservation; and (3) has completed at least one year of postsecondary education. Subd. 6. Corps member status. Minnesota Naturalist Corps members are not eligible for unemployment benefits and are not eligible for other benefits except workers' compensation. The corps members are not employees of the state within the meaning of section 43A.02, subdivision 21. Subd. 7. Employee displacement. The commissioner must certify that the assignment of Minnesota Naturalist Corps members will not result in the displacement of currently employed workers or workers on seasonal layoff or layoff from a substantially equivalent position, including partial displacement such as reduction in hours of nonovertime work, wages, or other employment benefits. The department may not terminate, lay off, reduce the seasonal hours of, or reduce the working hours of any employee for the purpose of using a corps member with available funds. History:  2009 c 172 art 3 s 8; 2017 c 93 art 2 s 17-20
MN Stat § 84A.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.01 — Red Lake Game Preserve.

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 development for the purpose of preserving, protecting, propagating, and breeding wildlife of all suitable kinds, including all species of game and fish and fur-bearing animals and birds of rare and useful species, and for the development of forests and prevention of forest fires, and the preservation and development of rare and distinctive plant species native in the area. It includes all lands and waters in Lake of the Woods County lying south of Rainy River, and south of Lake of the Woods, and all full and fractional townships in Beltrami County lying north of the north line of Township 151, excluding the lands and waters within Red Lake Indian Reservation. It also includes the part of Koochiching County lying west and northwesterly of the following line: Beginning at a point where the range line between Ranges 26 and 27 west of the fifth principal meridian intersects the southerly bank of Rainy River; thence south on this range line to the point formed by the intersection of this range line with the easterly boundary line of the original Red Lake Indian Reservation; thence southwesterly along the easterly boundary line of the original Red Lake Indian Reservation to a point formed by the intersection of the boundary line with the range line between Ranges 29 and 30 west of the fifth principal meridian. History:  (5620-1) 1929 c 258 s 1; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 84A.02 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.02 — Department To Manage Preserve.

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 in the preserve. The department may adopt and enforce rules for the regulation, issuance, sale, and revocation of special licenses or special permits for hunting, fishing, camping, and other uses of this area, consistent with sections 84A.01 to 84A.101. The department may by rule set the terms, conditions, and charges for these licenses and permits. (b) The rules may specify and control the terms under which wildlife may be taken, captured, or killed in the preserve, and under which fur-bearing animals, or animals and fish otherwise having commercial value, may be taken, captured, trapped, killed, sold, and removed from it. These rules may also provide for (1) the afforestation and reforestation of state lands in the preserve, (2) the sale of merchantable timber from these lands when, in the opinion of the department, it can be sold and removed without damage or injury to the further use and development of the land for wildlife and game in the preserve, and (3) the purposes for which the preserve is established by sections 84A.01 to 84A.101. (c) The department may provide for the policing of the preserve as necessary for its proper development and use for the purposes specified. The commissioner of natural resources may employ and designate individuals according to section 84.0835 to enforce laws governing the use of the preserve. (d) The department shall also adopt and enforce rules concerning the burning of grass, timber slashings, and other flammable matter, and the clearing, development, and use of lands in the preserve as necessary to prevent forest fires and grass fires that would injure the use and development of this area for wildlife preservation and propagation and to protect its forest and wooded areas. (e) Lands within the preserve are subject to the rules, whether owned by the state or privately, consistent with the rights of the private owners and with applicable state law. The rules may establish areas and zones within the preserve where hunting, fishing, trapping, or camping is prohibited or specially regulated, to protect and propagate particular wildlife in the preserve. (f) Rules adopted under sections 84A.01 to 84A.101 must be posted on the boundaries of the preserve. History:  (5620-2) 1929 c 258 s 2; 1961 c 560 s 9; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 386 art 4 s 16; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 1991 c 259 s 8; 2003 c 128 art 1 s 36; 2004 c 260 s 4; 2014 c 290 s 69
MN Stat § 84A.03 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.03 — Red Lake Game Preserve Fund.

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 indebtedness issued under sections 84A.01 to 84A.101; (2) money received from redemption, as provided in those sections; (3) money received as gifts to the state for the care, preservation, improvement, and maintenance of the preserve; (4) income from the operation, development, management, and use of the preserve, including fees for licenses and permits; (5) income from the sale of birds, animals, fish, and plants from the preserve, and from the sale of lands and timber owned by the state within the area, other than university, school, and swamp lands, state forest lands set apart under the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, section 11, and state lands acquired under the system of rural credit; and (6) state money transferred to the preserve under state law. History:  (5620-3) 1929 c 258 s 3; 1965 c 51 s 10; 1976 c 2 s 172; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 2014 c 290 s 69
MN Stat § 84A.07 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.07 — Preserve Lands To Be Held By State.

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 the taxing districts specified in that chapter. Title must be held and used, or disposed of, in accordance with sections 84A.01 to 84A.101. History:  (5620-7) 1929 c 258 s 7; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1976 c 2 s 45; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 2014 c 290 s 69
MN Stat § 84A.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.09 — Gifts Received.

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, control, development, or use of the preserve. History:  (5620-9) 1929 c 258 s 9; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 84A.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.10 — Eminent Domain.

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 purposes of sections 84A.01 to 84A.101. History:  (5620-10) 1929 c 258 s 10; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 2006 c 214 s 20; 2014 c 290 s 10
MN Stat § 84A.101 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.101 — Rule Violation; Misdemeanor.

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
MN Stat § 84A.20 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.20 — County Action To Set Off Areas.

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 experimenting in and practically advancing afforestation and reforestation; (2) impounding, controlling, and regulating the waters of meandered lakes and the flow of natural streams in the state; or (3) other state purposes. Subd. 2. County proposal to state. (a) The board of county commissioners of any county may by resolution propose to the state that one or more areas in the county be taken over by the state for afforestation, reforestation, flood control projects, or other state purposes. The projects are to be managed, controlled, and used for the purposes in subdivision 1 on lands to be acquired by the state within the projects, as set forth in sections 84A.20 to 84A.30. The county board may propose this if the county contains lands suitable for the purposes in subdivision 1. (b) The area taken over must include lands that have been assessed for all or part of the cost of the establishment and construction of public drainage ditches under state law, and on which the assessments or installments are delinquent. A certified copy of the county board's resolution must be filed with the department and considered and acted upon by the department. If approved by the department, it must then be submitted to, considered, and acted upon by the executive council. If approved by the Executive Council, the proposition must be formally accepted by the governor. Acceptance must be communicated in writing to and filed with the county auditor. Subd. 3. Definitions. State lands that have been sold as provided by law and for which certificates of sale have been issued are taxable lands within the meaning of this section. If the taxes against the lands or the interest of the purchaser in them are delinquent, they are delinquent within the meaning of subdivision 2 until the title of the certificate holder has been terminated by the commissioner in accordance with section 92.16. History:  (6452-1) 1931 c 407 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 2014 c 308 art 9 s 9
MN Stat § 84A.21 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.21 — Department To Manage Projects.

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 projects, and for the sale of merchantable timber from lands so acquired by the state when, in the opinion of the department, the timber may be sold and removed without damage to the project. (b) These rules may relate to the care, preservation, protection, breeding, propagation, and disposition of any species of wildlife in the project and the regulation, issuance, sale, and revocation of special licenses or special permits for hunting, fishing, camping, and other uses of the areas consistent with applicable state law. (c) The department may provide for the policing of each project as needed for the proper development, use, and protection of the project and its purposes. The commissioner of natural resources may employ and designate individuals according to section 84.0835 to enforce laws governing the use of the projects. (d) Lands within a project are subject to these rules, whether owned by the state or privately, consistent with the rights of the private owners or with applicable state law. The rules must be published once in one qualified newspaper in each county affected and take effect after publication. They must also be posted on the boundaries of each project affected. History:  (6452-2) 1931 c 407 s 2; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 2003 c 128 art 1 s 37; 2004 c 260 s 5
MN Stat § 84A.22 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.22 — Disposal Of Proceeds.

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) money received from redemption, as provided in sections 84A.22 to 84A.30; (3) money received as gifts to the state for the purposes of any project; (4) income from the operation, development, management, and use of these projects, including fees from licenses and permits; (5) income received from the sale of all birds, animals, fish, and plants from the projects and from the sale of lands and timber owned by the state within the area, other than university, school, and swamp lands, state forest lands set apart under the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, section 11, and state lands acquired under the system of rural credit; and (6) state money transferred to the project under state law. (b) Under sections 84A.20 to 84A.30, the aggregate of all certificates of indebtedness issued must not exceed $2,250,000. History:  (6452-3) 1931 c 407 s 3; 1937 c 312 s 1; 1965 c 51 s 11; 1976 c 2 s 172; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 84A.26 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.26 — Project Lands To Be Held By State.

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 districts specified in that chapter. Title must be held and used or disposed of in accordance with sections 84A.20 to 84A.30. History:  (6452-7) 1931 c 407 s 7; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1976 c 2 s 46; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 84A.27 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.27 — Project Lands Classified.

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 agriculture or for afforestation, reforestation, or for the purpose of impounding, controlling, and regulating the waters of meandered lakes and the flow of natural streams, or for other state purposes. After the state acquires title to the lands as provided in sections 84A.20 to 84A.30, they may be reclassified. Lands that become the absolute property of the state under sections 84A.20 to 84A.30 and have been classified as suitable for agriculture, and timber from any lands so acquired, may be sold by the state. History:  (6452-8) 1931 c 407 s 8; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
MN Stat § 84A.28 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.28 — Department To Accept Gifts.

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 operation, control, development, or use of projects. History:  (6452-9) 1931 c 407 s 9; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1
MN Stat § 84A.29 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.29 — Eminent Domain.

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 purposes of sections 84A.20 to 84A.30. No money shall be used to acquire land or interest in it until the department and the commissioner of management and budget determine that the money will not be required to meet the requisitions of the counties authorized under section 84A.23 or to pay certificates of indebtedness and their interest provided for in section 84A.23. History:  (6452-10) 1931 c 407 s 10; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 2006 c 214 s 20; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109
MN Stat § 84A.30 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.30 — Rules Violation A Misdemeanor.

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
MN Stat § 84A.31 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.31 — State Reforestation Projects.

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 experimenting in and practically advancing afforestation and reforestation; (2) impounding, controlling, and regulating the water of meandered lakes and the flow of natural streams of the state; (3) creating and establishing wild game and fishing reserves; or (4) any other public state purpose. Subd. 2. County proposal to state. The board of county commissioners of any county may by resolution propose that the state take over part of the tax-delinquent lands in the county if the county contains land suitable for the purposes in subdivision 1. Subd. 3. Form. Specifically, the board may propose that any "area in the county consisting of one or more townships, or part of any township, containing such lands be taken over by the state for afforestation, reforestation, flood control projects, wild game and fishing reserves, or other public state purpose, to be managed, controlled, and used for the development of forests and prevention of forest fires, and for the purpose of experimenting in and practically advancing afforestation, reforestation, or for the purpose of impounding, controlling, and regulating the waters of meandered lakes and the flow of natural streams, or for the purpose of creating and establishing wild game and fishing reserves, or for either or any such purposes," or for any other public state purpose, on lands to be acquired by the state within such projects, as set forth in this section. Each area must include lands assessed for all or part of the cost of the establishment, construction, or repair of public drainage ditches under state law, and on which the assessments or installments on them are delinquent. Subd. 4. Action on resolutions. A copy of the resolutions must be filed with the department and considered and acted upon by the department. If approved by the department, it must then be submitted to, considered, and acted upon by the Executive Council. If approved by the Executive Council, the proposition must be formally accepted by the governor. Acceptance must be communicated in writing to and filed with the auditor of the county. Subd. 5. Definitions. State school, swamp, indemnity, and institutional lands that are sold as provided by law and for which certificates of sale have been issued at the time of the passage of the resolution by the county board, and lands owned by the conservator of rural credit are taxable lands within the meaning of this section. If the taxes or ditch lien installments on the lands or the interest of the purchaser in them are delinquent, they are lands on which the taxes are delinquent within the meaning of subdivision 2. History:  (4031-75) 1933 c 402 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1; 2014 c 308 art 9 s 10
MN Stat § 84A.36 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 84A - 84D — Conservation|Chapter 84A — Lands Dedicated For Conservation|Section 84A.36 — Lands To Be Held By State.

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 specified in that chapter. Title must be held and used or disposed of in accordance with state law. History:  (4031-82) 1933 c 402 s 8; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1976 c 2 s 47; 1987 c 229 art 1 s 1