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Page 3 of6 limited to the lowest contract rates available that include wage levels which meet Minnesota mdnimum wage standards, to the property and the expense becomes a lien on the property. A municipality may assess not more than 50 percent of the expense of treating with an approved method or removing diseased shade trees located on street terraces or boulevards to the abutting properties and the assessment becomes a lien on the property. Subd. 7. Rules; applicability to municipalities. The rules of the commissioner apply in a municipality unless the municipality adopts an ordinance determined by the commissioner to be more stringent than the rules of the commissioner. The rules of the commissioner or the municipality apply to all state agencies, special purpose districts, and metropolitan commissions as defined in section 473.121, subdivision Sa, that own or control land adjacent to or within a shade tree disease control area. Subd. 8. Grants to municipalities. (a) The commissioner may, in the name of the state and within the limit of appropriations provided, make a grant to a municipality with an approved disease control program for the partial funding of municipal sanitation and reforestation programs to replace trees lost to disease or natural disaster. The commissioner may make a grant to a home rule charter or statutory city, a special purpose park and recreation board organized under a charter of a city of the first class, a nonprofit corporation serving a city of the first class, or a county having an approved disease control program for the acquisition or implementation of a wood use or disposal system. (bJ The commissioner shall adopt rules for the administration of grants under this subdivision. The rules must contain: (1) procedures for grant applications; (2) conditions and procedures for the administration of grants; (3) criteria of eligibility for grants including, but not limited to, those specified in this subdivision; and (4) other matters the commissioner may find necessary to the proper administration of the grant program. (c) Grants for wood utilization and disposal systems made by the commissioner under this subdivision must not exceed 50 percent of the total cost of the system. Grants for sanitation and reforestation must be combined into one grant program. Grants to a municipality for sanitation must not exceed 50 percent of sanitation costs approved by the commissioner including any amount of sanitation costs paid by special assessments, ad valorem taxes, federal grants, or other funds. A municipality must not specially assess a property owner an amount greater than the amount of the tree's sanitation cost minus the amount of the tree's sanitation cost reimbursed by the commdssioner. Grants to municipalities for reforestation must not exceed 50 percent of the wholesale cost of the trees planted under the reforestation program; provided that a reforestation http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us:8181/SEARCH/BASIS/mnstat/publicJwww/DDD/18G.... 8/25/2004