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58 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2010 469.058 June 30 of each year. The auditor shall review the report and may accept it or, in the public interest, audit the books of the authority. History: 1987 c 291 s 57; 1989 c 335 art 4 s 87; 1996 c 452 s 35; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109 469.057 PORT CONTROL BY OTHERS; PETITION; INTERVENTION. Subdivision 1. Regulation. Unless otherwise provided by law, all laws now or hereafter vesting jurisdiction or control in the Department of Public Service or a successor agency of the state of Minnesota, in the Interstate Commerce Commission or a successor agency, if any, or Department of Defense of the United States, or in similar regulatory bodies shall apply to any transportation,terminal, or other facility owned, operated, leased, or controlled by the port authority with the same force and effect as if the transportation, terminal, or other facility were owned, operated, leased, or controlled by a private corporation. Subd. 2. Seaport control limited.Neither the Department of Public Service nor a successor agency, if any,has jurisdiction over a seaway port authority for the following matters to the extent they are connected with handling interstate commerce: (1) charges for stevedoring of vessels; (2) receiving and delivering cargo for vessels; (3) car and truck unloading and loading cargo for vessels; (4) watching cargo for vessels; (5) charges to vessels for use of facilities; • (6) charges against railroad,trucking companies or shippers for use of facilities; and (7) delivery and warehouse charges for cargo to and from and in warehouses on seaway port authority property. Subd. 3. Petitions,intervention.A port authority may petition a public body of any kind or level having jurisdiction of the matter, for any relief, rates, rule, or action that the port authority believes will improve the handling of commerce in and through the port or improve terminal and transportation facilities in the port. The port authority may join with another authority sharing its port in making the petition. A port authority also may intervene before any public body in a proceeding affecting the commerce of the port. In the proceeding, the port authority is one of the official representatives of the port district along with other interested persons. History: 1987 c 291 s 58; 2003 c 2 art 1 s 43; art 4 s 19 469.058 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS. Subdivision 1. Creation; notice; findings. A port authority may create and define the boundaries of industrial development districts in their port districts after holding a public hearing on the matter.At least ten days before the hearing,the authority shall publish notice of the hearing in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the port district. The development district may be created if the authority finds that a development district is proper and desirable to establish and develop a system of harbor and river improvements and industrial developments in its port district. In this section, "development" includes redevelopment, and "developing" includes redeveloping. • Subd. 2. Policy. It is state policy in the public interest to have a port authority exercise the power of eminent domain, and advance and spend public money for the purposes in sections 469.048 to 469.068, and to provide the means to develop marginal property according to the Copyright 0 2010 by the Office of the Revisor of Statutes,State of Minnesota.All Rights Reserved.