Subdivision 1. Generally. (a) All payments under sections 93.14 to 93.285 shall be made to the Department of Natural Resources and shall be credited according to this section.
(b) Twenty percent of all payments under sections 93.14 to 93.285 shall be credited to the minerals management account in the natural resources fund as costs for the administration and management of state mineral resources by the commissioner of natural resources.
(c) The remainder of the payments shall be credited as follows:
(1) if the lands or minerals and mineral rights covered by a lease are held by the state by virtue of an act of Congress, payments made under the lease shall be credited to the permanent fund of the class of land to which the leased premises belong;
(2) if a lease covers the bed of navigable waters, payments made under the lease shall be credited to the permanent school fund of the state;
(3) if the lands or minerals and mineral rights covered by a lease are held by the state in trust for the taxing districts, payments made under the lease shall be distributed annually on the first day of September to the respective counties in which the lands lie, to be apportioned among the taxing districts interested therein as follows: county, three-ninths; town or city, two-ninths; and school district, four-ninths;
(4) if the lands or mineral rights covered by a lease became the absolute property of the state under the provisions of chapter 84A, payments made under the lease shall be distributed as follows: county containing the land from which the income was derived, five-eighths; and general fund of the state, three-eighths; and
(5) except as provided under this section and except where the disposition of payments may be otherwise directed by law, payments made under a lease shall be paid into the general fund of the state.
Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1Sp2003 c 9 art 5 s 37]
(6411) 1921 c 412 s 9; 1925 c 395; 1927 c 389 s 1; 1973 c 492 s 14; 2000 c 495 s 18; 1Sp2001 c 6 art 1 s 1; 2007 c 57 art 1 s 78
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 92 - 94 — Lands And Minerals
Section 93.001 — Policy For Mineral Development.
Section 93.0015 — Mineral Coordinating Committee.
Section 93.003 — Iron Mining; Conditions.
Section 93.01 — Reservation Of Minerals And Water Powers.
Section 93.02 — Instruments Transferring Interest; Reservation.
Section 93.03 — Patent Under Land Grant To Railroad; Reservation.
Section 93.04 — Disposition Of Minerals Reserved.
Section 93.05 — Holder Of Lease.
Section 93.055 — Action To Quiet Title To Lands Covered By Mineral Lease.
Section 93.06 — Reservation Of Minerals Under Navigable Lakes.
Section 93.14 — Leases To Prospect For Ores.
Section 93.15 — Mining Units; Designation.
Section 93.16 — Leases; Sale And Notice.
Section 93.17 — Application For Leases; Bids; Awards.
Section 93.171 — Eligibility And Performance.
Section 93.1925 — Negotiated Leases.
Section 93.193 — Taconite Iron Ore Mining Lease; Extension.
Section 93.20 — Form Of Lease; Required Content; Modification.
Section 93.201 — Royalties For Taconite Concentrates.
Section 93.21 — Execution Of Lease.
Section 93.22 — Disposition Of Payments.
Section 93.222 — Taconite Iron Ore Special Advance Royalty Account.
Section 93.2235 — Taconite Mining Grants; Appropriations.
Section 93.2236 — Minerals Management Account.
Section 93.245 — Mining Minerals Other Than Iron Ore.
Section 93.25 — Ores Other Than Iron; Leases.
Section 93.26 — Leases To Be Filed.
Section 93.27 — Assignments, Agreements, Or Contracts Affecting Leases; Filing.
Section 93.28 — Approval Of Instruments.
Section 93.285 — Stockpiled Iron Ore.
Section 93.33 — Leasing Surface Of Land.
Section 93.335 — Lands Held In Trust; Mineral Rights Only; Mineral Rights Acquired Under Tax Laws.
Section 93.34 — Draining Public Waters.
Section 93.41 — State-owned Iron-bearing Materials.
Section 93.43 — Leases To Nonferrous Metallic Minerals Producers.
Section 93.44 — Declaration Of Policy.
Section 93.45 — Iron Range Trail.
Section 93.461 — Peat Included In Mine Land Reclamation.
Section 93.47 — Duties And Authority Of Commissioner.
Section 93.481 — Permit To Mine.
Section 93.482 — Reclamation Fees.
Section 93.483 — Contested Case.
Section 93.49 — Financial Assurance Of Operator.
Section 93.51 — Penalties For Violation.
Section 93.515 — Oil And Gas Wells; Rules Relating To Spacing, Pooling, And Unitization.
Section 93.52 — Ownership Of Severed Mineral Interests.
Section 93.55 — Forfeiture Of Severed Mineral Interest.
Section 93.551 — Validation Of Certain Statements; Correction Of Certain Errors.