The county board may appoint a land commissioner and necessary assistants, such land commissioner to perform any or all of the following duties as directed by the county board: to gather data and information on tax-forfeited lands; make land classifications and appraisals of land, timber and other products and uses; enforce trespass laws and regulations; seize and appraise timber and other products and property cut and removed illegally from tax-forfeited lands; assist the county auditor in the sale and rental of forfeited lands and the products thereon; and such other duties concerning tax-forfeited lands as the county board may direct. Such appointment shall be for such time as the county board may determine. The compensation of said land commissioner and assistants shall be fixed by the county board and their salaries and expenses shall be paid from the forfeited tax sale fund, except that in counties having more than 300,000 and less than 450,000 inhabitants an officer or employee of a city of the first class situated therein who is appointed shall receive no additional compensation therefor. Any funds required by the commissioner of revenue for the purpose of cancellation of contracts, as provided in section 282.01, shall be paid by the county auditor upon the written order of the commissioner of revenue from moneys then available in the fund.
When tax-forfeited lands have been acquired by a city of the first class for municipal purposes, and a privately owned lot lies between such tax-forfeited land, and it is in the interest of the municipality that such privately owned lot be acquired for the same municipal use to which the tax-forfeited lands have been devoted, such city of the first class may exchange on such basis as may be approved by the governing body thereof, a portion of the tax-forfeited lands acquired by the municipality for the privately owned lot, and the officers of such municipality are hereby authorized to execute deeds to carry out such purpose.
(2139-25) 1935 c 386 s 11; 1943 c 627 s 5; 1951 c 562 s 1; 1953 c 340 s 1; 1973 c 582 s 3; 1986 c 444
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 272 - 289 — Property Taxes
Chapter 282 — Tax-forfeited Land Sales
Section 282.01 — Tax-forfeited Lands; Classification, Sale.
Section 282.011 — Classification And Sale.
Section 282.012 — Prior Owner May Purchase; Conditions.
Section 282.014 — Completion Of Sale, Fee, Conveyance Recorded.
Section 282.015 — Proceeds Of Sale.
Section 282.016 — Prohibited Purchasers.
Section 282.017 — Conveyance Of Interests To Governments.
Section 282.018 — Land By Public Waters, Nonforested Marginal Land, Wetlands.
Section 282.019 — Land Subject To Hazardous Substance Or Petroleum Release.
Section 282.0195 — Superfund And Storage Tank Sites; Affidavit, Notice.
Section 282.02 — List Of Lands For Sale; Notice; Online Auctions Permitted.
Section 282.03 — Limitations In Use Of Lands.
Section 282.038 — Veteran's Credit For Agricultural Land.
Section 282.04 — Timber Sales; Land Use, Lease, Partition, Easement.
Section 282.041 — Alternative Recording For County Forest Road.
Section 282.05 — Proceeds Apportioned.
Section 282.06 — Exemption Of Certain Lands.
Section 282.07 — Auditor To Cancel Taxes.
Section 282.08 — Apportionment Of Proceeds To Taxing Districts.
Section 282.09 — Forfeited Tax Sale Fund.
Section 282.12 — All Minerals Reserved.
Section 282.13 — County Land Commissioners; City Land Exchanges.
Section 282.131 — Certain Powers And Duties Delegated.
Section 282.132 — Timber Defined.
Section 282.135 — Delegation By County Board.
Section 282.14 — Classification As Agricultural; Sale Conditions, Generally.
Section 282.15 — Sales Of Forfeited Agricultural Lands.
Section 282.151 — Sale Of Certain Nonconservation Lands.
Section 282.16 — Public Sale As Agricultural Lands; Notice.
Section 282.17 — Cancellation Of Contracts On Default.
Section 282.171 — Contracts, Members Of Armed Forces, Cancellation.
Section 282.18 — County Auditor To Lease Lands.
Section 282.19 — County Collects Payments; Reports; Expenses.
Section 282.20 — Mineral Rights Reserved.
Section 282.21 — Form Of Conveyance.
Section 282.22 — Nonagricultural Lands Reserved For Conservation.
Section 282.221 — Forfeited Agricultural Lands.
Section 282.223 — Taxes Canceled.
Section 282.224 — Form Of Conveyance.
Section 282.225 — Mineral Rights Reserved.
Section 282.226 — County Collects Payments; Reports; Expenses.
Section 282.241 — Repurchase After Forfeiture.
Section 282.251 — Taxes And Assessments Reinstated Upon Repurchase.
Section 282.261 — Terms Of Repurchase.
Section 282.271 — Notice Of Payments Due.
Section 282.281 — Repurchase Subject To Existing Leases.
Section 282.291 — Payments, Where Made.
Section 282.301 — Receipts For Payments; Certification By County Auditor.
Section 282.302 — Conveyance Of Deed Upon Certification.
Section 282.303 — Assignment Of Installment Contract.
Section 282.304 — Recordation Of Deed; Default.
Section 282.321 — Limitations On Land Use.
Section 282.322 — Forfeited Lands List.
Section 282.323 — Capitol Areas.
Section 282.324 — When Right Of Repurchase Vests.
Section 282.33 — Lost Or Destroyed Deeds.
Section 282.341 — Reinstatement Of Tax-forfeited Certificate.
Section 282.36 — Fees Payable By Repurchaser.
Section 282.37 — Lands Bordering Lakes And Streams, Easement To State.
Section 282.38 — Forest Development Funds.
Section 282.40 — Cancellation Of Installment Sale Contracts By State.