The commissioner of natural resources may grant permits and licenses or leases on and across lands owned by the state to any corporation or association engaged in or preparing to engage in the business of mining and beneficiating taconite as defined in section 298.001, subdivision 4, or semitaconite as defined in section 298.34, for the purpose of providing the corporation or association necessary easements, rights-of-way and surface rights over, through and across such lands for the erection and maintenance of pipe lines, pole lines, conduits, sluiceways, roads, railroads and tramways. The commissioner may grant permits and licenses or leases for flowage rights, rights to transport crude ore, concentrates or waste materials over such state-owned lands, and may lease state-owned lands for the depositing of stripping, lean ores, tailings, or waste products of such business. Such permits, licenses or leases, may also authorize the use of state-owned lands by such corporation or association for plants and other buildings necessary to the proper carrying on of such business and may grant water rights and other rights requisite to the construction of wharves, piers, breakwaters, or similar facilities necessary to the carrying on of such business or the shipment of the products thereof. The commissioner may also license the flooding of state lands in connection with any permit or authorization for the use of public waters issued by the legislature or issued by the commissioner pursuant to law. Such permits, licenses, and leases shall be upon such conditions and for such consideration and for such period of time as the commissioner may determine. The county auditor, with the approval of the county board, is authorized to grant permits, licenses and leases for all such purposes across tax-forfeited lands not held by the state free from any trust in favor of any and all taxing districts, upon such conditions and for such consideration and for such period of time as the county board may determine. Any proceeds from the granting of such permits, licenses or leases shall be apportioned and distributed as other proceeds from the sale or rental of tax-forfeited lands.
1945 c 275 s 2; 1955 c 619 s 1; 1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1; 1979 c 145 s 1; 1999 c 86 art 1 s 26
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 117 - 119 — Eminent Domain; Local Depositories And Investments
Section 117.012 — Preemption; Public Use Or Purpose.
Section 117.016 — Joint Acquisition Of Land.
Section 117.025 — Definitions.
Section 117.027 — Condemnation For Blight Mitigation And Contamination Remediation.
Section 117.031 — Attorney Fees.
Section 117.035 — Proceedings, By Whom Instituted.
Section 117.036 — Appraisal And Negotiation Requirements.
Section 117.041 — Entry For Survey Or Environmental Testing.
Section 117.0412 — Local Government Public Hearing Requirements.
Section 117.043 — Compelling Delivery Of Possession.
Section 117.045 — Compelling Acquisition In Certain Cases.
Section 117.054 — Copies Of Appraisal To Landowner.
Section 117.055 — Petition And Notice.
Section 117.065 — Notices Of Pendency And Abandonment; Required Recordings.
Section 117.075 — Hearing; Commissioners; Order For Taking.
Section 117.085 — Commissioners, Powers, Duties.
Section 117.086 — Noncontiguous Tracts, Treatment As Unit.
Section 117.087 — Prepayment Penalties; Damages.
Section 117.105 — Filing Of Report, Time, Failure To Report.
Section 117.115 — Report, Notice.
Section 117.125 — Deposit In Court.
Section 117.135 — Taxes And Assessments.
Section 117.145 — Appeal: Deadline, Notice, Service, Contents; By Other Parties.
Section 117.155 — Payments; Partial Payment Pending Appeal.
Section 117.165 — Jury Trials; Disclosure.
Section 117.175 — Trial, Burden Of Proof, Costs.
Section 117.184 — Compensation For Removal Of Legal Nonconforming Use.
Section 117.186 — Compensation For Loss Of Going Concern.
Section 117.187 — Minimum Compensation.
Section 117.188 — Limitations.
Section 117.189 — Public Service Corporation Exceptions.
Section 117.195 — Interest; Award, When Payable; Dismissal; Costs.
Section 117.205 — Final Certificate.
Section 117.21 — Easement May Include Snow Fences.
Section 117.215 — Estate Acquired.
Section 117.225 — Easement Discharge.
Section 117.226 — Right Of First Refusal.
Section 117.231 — Payment In Installments.
Section 117.232 — Direct Purchase.
Section 117.38 — Acquisition Of Land For Certain Purposes.
Section 117.39 — Proceedings Under Power Of Eminent Domain.
Section 117.40 — Municipality May Contest.
Section 117.41 — Conveyance, To Whom Made.
Section 117.47 — Permits; Licenses.
Section 117.471 — Easements Over Tax-forfeited Lands, Approval.
Section 117.48 — Crude Oil Pipeline Companies, Eminent Domain.
Section 117.51 — Cooperation With Federal Authorities; Reestablishment Costs Limit.
Section 117.52 — Uniform Relocation Assistance.
Section 117.521 — Waiver Of Relocation Benefits.
Section 117.53 — Authorization.
Section 117.54 — No Additional Damages Created.
Section 117.55 — Payments Not Considered For Public Assistance Purposes.
Section 117.56 — Inapplicability To Hazardous And Substandard Building Proceedings.