Wherever any lands belonging to the state or under the supervision of the commissioner are situate within five miles of any municipality and the municipality may have use for the state lands for airports, parks, swimming pools, fairgrounds, playgrounds, economic development or other municipal purposes, the municipality is authorized and empowered to lease the lands or so much thereof as may be reasonably necessary for such purpose from the commissioner, and upon receipt of a request for such a lease, the commissioner is authorized and empowered to enter into such a lease for a term not exceeding forty years upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the commissioner.History: Laws 1929, ch. 53, § 1; C.S. 1929, § 132-601; 1941 Comp., § 8-853; 1953 Comp., § 7-8-58; 2020, ch. 21, § 1. ANNOTATIONSThe 2020 amendment, effective July 1, 2020, provided that a municipality may lease certain state lands for purposes of economic development, and increased the term for certain leases of state land entered into between a municipality and the state; and added the new section heading, after 'playgrounds', added 'economic development', and after 'not exceeding', deleted ertain leases of state land entered into between a municipality and the state; and added the new section heading, after 'playgrounds', added 'economic development', and after 'not exceeding', deleted 'twenty-five' and added 'forty'.
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