Minnesota Statutes Legislature (Ch. 3-3E) § 3.754. Budget requests; property improvement claims

All state departments and agencies including the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities shall include in their budget requests the amounts necessary to reimburse counties and municipalities for claims involving assessments for improvements benefiting state-owned property in their communities. Each department and agency shall pay the assessments when due or, if a department or agency feels that it was not fairly assessed, notify the chairs of the Committee on Finance of the senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the house of representatives for a review of the assessment. Assessments on state-owned property under the control of the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities are governed bysection 135A.131. All agencies and departments should negotiate assessment costs with counties and municipalities prior to commencement of improvements benefiting state-owned property.