2005 Minnesota Statutes - 88.73 — Administration; delegated powers and duties.

     88.73 Administration; delegated powers and duties. 


    The director is hereby empowered and directed to administer 
 and enforce sections 88.03 to 88.22; and, to that end, may make 
 and enforce all necessary or convenient rules not inconsistent 
 with the provisions and purposes of these sections.  In every 
 case the powers delegated to, and the duties imposed upon, the 
 director, and other state or municipal representatives by 
 sections 88.03 to 88.22 shall be exercised and performed in good 
 faith, without undue oppression, and in a manner as reasonable 
 as the exigencies of the situation will permit. 


    Nothing in sections 88.03 to 88.22 shall be construed as 
 abrogating the laws specifically governing state parks or other 
 public parks, or state or municipal forests.  The provisions of 
 all such laws and of sections 88.03 to 88.22 shall be harmonized 
 and both given effect wherever possible. 


    Nothing in sections 88.03 to 88.22 shall be construed as 
 restricting the state, or any political subdivision thereof, in 
 the exercise of any power, right, or privilege which may be 
 conferred by separate enactment of the legislature under 
 authority of the so-called forest fire prevention amendment to 
 the state Constitution, approved by vote of the electors of this 
 state at the general election held in November, 1924. 


    HIST: (4031-32, 4031-33) 1925 c 407 s 32,33; 1978 c 735 s 6; 
 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444