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56 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2010 469.055
<br /> I/ out its duties and responsibilities. The facilities and the property must be needed or convenient for
<br /> storing,handling, or transporting freight,passenger traffic, and establishing rail and water transfer
<br /> in the port district. The authority may make rules and fix fees for the use of the facilities and for
<br /> the services it renders. The authority may borrow money and secure the loans by mortgages on
<br /> property held or to be held by it or by bonds.
<br /> Subd. 7. Sale of realty. The authority may sell, convey, and exchange any real or personal
<br /> property owned or held by it in any manner and on any terms it wishes. Real property owned
<br /> by the authority must not be sold, be exchanged, or have its title transferred without approval
<br /> of two-thirds of the commissioners. All commissioners must have ten days'written notice of a
<br /> regular or special meeting at which a sale, conveyance, exchange, or transfer of property is to
<br /> be voted on. The notice must contain a complete description of the affected real estate. The
<br /> resolution authorizing the real estate transaction is not effective unless a quorum is present.
<br /> Subd. 8. Condemnation.A port authority may acquire under eminent domain property of
<br /> any kind within the port district needed by it for public use even if the property was acquired by its
<br /> owner under eminent domain or even if the property is already devoted to a public use. Property
<br /> vested in or held by the state or by a city, county, school district,town, or other municipality must
<br /> not be taken without the holder's consent. The port authority shall adopt a resolution describing
<br /> the property and stating its intended use and the necessity of the taking.
<br /> Subd. 9. Tunnels and bridges. A port authority may acquire, operate, and maintain an
<br /> existing toll bridge for vehicles across boundary water between a city of the first class in the state
<br /> and another city either in or out of state. The authority may also construct,maintain, and operate
<br /> another vehicular toll bridge with its approaches across the water at a point suitable to navigation,
<br /> and may reconstruct, repair, and improve both bridges. The authority may construct, maintain,
<br /> and operate a tunnel under the water and reconstruct, repair, and improve it.
<br /> A port authority may enter upon lands and acquire, condemn, occupy,possess, and use
<br /> real estate and other property needed to locate, construct, operate, and maintain the bridge or
<br /> tunnel and approaches to it. In doing so, the authority shall act in the same manner as a railroad
<br /> corporation may for railroad purposes, or a bridge corporation may for bridge purposes in the
<br /> state where the property is after making just compensation for the property as decided and paid
<br /> under the laws of that state. The proceedings must be the same as for condemnation in that state.
<br /> Subd. 10. Surveys; plans. A port authority may survey or investigate the proper uses,
<br /> operations, improvement, and development of the port district, the resulting stimulation of
<br /> employment, and the benefit to the port district's city, county, and state. The port authority may
<br /> also prepare a plan to construct, develop, and improve the port in the future. The plan may be
<br /> merged with existing or future plans of any city in the port district. After public hearing,the port
<br /> authority may adopt a plan as its official plan for the port district. Then the plan may be extended,
<br /> modified, or amended only after a hearing. When the plan is adopted, all improvements made by
<br /> the port authority must be consistent with it.
<br /> Subd. 11. Terminal operators for seaway port.A seaway port authority may operate its
<br /> port terminal facilities on its premises as terminal operators. If it does so,the authority may
<br /> contract with a warehouse operator performing other terminal services to act as its agent. The
<br /> contract may provide: (1)that the agent will be paid on a monthly basis to operate the facilities;
<br /> (2)that the agent may hire the necessary personnel to carry out the functions undertaken by the
<br /> contract; (3)that employees engaged by the agent are employees of the agent and not of the port
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