2005 Minnesota Statutes - 88.05 — Roadsides, clearing; firebreaks.

     88.05 Roadsides, clearing; firebreaks. 


    All highways, roads, and trails within wildfire areas are 
 declared to be established firebreaks and for that purpose the 
 state, through the Department of Natural Resources, is 
 authorized to clean up all dead and down timber, all underbrush, 
 rotting logs, stumps, and all other combustible refuse and 
 debris along each side of these highways, roads, and trails for 
 a distance of 200 feet on each side from the center thereof, all 
 of this material to be burned or disposed of under the 
 supervision of a forest officer in such manner as not to injure 
 the growing timber.  


    All dead and usable timber taken out of these roadsides 
 shall be piled for the immediate removal thereof by the owners 
 of the land from which the same was removed.  


    HIST: (4031-11 1/2) 1933 c 320 s 1; 1937 c 113 s 1; 1967 c 146 
 s 3; 1969 c 1129 art 10 s 2; 1993 c 328 s 13