2025 Session Last amended: 1996 session

§ 103D.730 — Stormwater Facilities

Plain-Language Summary

Any watershed district can build, buy, or maintain stormwater collection systems including mains, holding ponds, and related facilities. The district can acquire the needed land through purchase, gift, lease, or condemnation.

103D.730 STORMWATER FACILITIES.

(a) Any watershed district may build, construct, reconstruct, repair, enlarge, improve, or in any other manner obtain stormwater systems, including mains, holding areas and ponds, and other appurtenances and related facilities for the collection and disposal of stormwater, maintain and operate the facilities, and acquire by gift, purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise any and all land and easements required for that purpose.

(b) The authority granted is in addition to all other powers with reference to the facilities otherwise granted by the laws of this state or by this chapter.

History:

1996 c 471 art 8 s 2

History: History:

  1996 c 471 art 8 s 2

Practical Notes

This gives watershed districts broad authority over stormwater infrastructure. The power to condemn (take) land for stormwater facilities means districts can proceed even without voluntary sales. This authority is in addition to other powers the district has under the Watershed Law.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes