2025 Session
Last amended: 2007 session
§ 103G.235 — Restrictions on Access to Wetlands
Plain-Language Summary
Landowners cannot restrict traditional access routes to public waters or wetlands.
103G.235 RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS TO WETLANDS.
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Subdivision 1.Wetlands adjacent to roads.
To protect the public health or safety, local units of government may by ordinance restrict public access to public waters wetlands from municipality, county, or township roads that abut public waters wetlands. §
Subd. 2.Privately restored or created wetlands.
When a landowner creates a new wetland or restores a formerly existing wetland on private land that is adjacent to public land or a public road right-of-way, there is no public access to the created or restored wetland if posted by the landowner.
History:
1990 c 391 art 7 s 20; 1991 c 354 art 6 s 14; 2007 c 57 art 1 s 134
History: History: 1990 c 391 art 7 s 20; 1991 c 354 art 6 s 14; 2007 c 57 art 1 s 134
Practical Notes
Does not create new access rights but protects historically used paths to reach public waters.