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Subd. 6. Public access restrictions. The county board must allow the same types and sizes of watercraft and horsepower of motors to access and enter the lake or water body as are generally allowed to be operated on the lake or water body. Special use exceptions that are not dependent on Lakeshore or property ownership may be granted by permit. Subd. 7. County acquisition of public access. A county board may acquire by pur- chase, gift. or devise land for public access to a lake or stream and may improve the land as a park or playground if the land is less than ten acres and is contiguous to the meander line of a navigable lake or stream wholly or partly within the county and not entirely within the corporate limits of a city. Subd. 8. Advisory assistance. The county board may invite any municipal council or town board or the soil and water conservation district board of supervisors or water- shed district board of managers to designate a representative to advise and consult with the county board on water use regulation and improvement. Subd. 9. Watercraft use rules for local waters. (a) On request of a county, city, or town, the commissioner may, after determining it to be in the public interest, establish rules relating to the use of watercraft on waters of this state that border upon or are within, in whole or in part, the territorial boundaries of the governmental unit. (b) The rules shall be established in the manner provided by sections 14.02 to 14.62, but may not be submitted to the attorney general nor filed with the secretary of state until first approved by resolutions of the county boards of a majority of the coun- ties affected by the proposed rules. (c) The rules may restrict: (1) the type and size of watercraft and size of motor that may use the waters affected by the rule; (2) the areas of water that may be used by watercraft; (3) the speed of watercraft; (4) the times permitted for use of watercraft; or (5) the minimum distance between watercraft. (d) When establishing rules, the commissioner shall consider the physical charac- teristics of the waters affected, their historical uses, shoreland uses and classification, and other features unique to the waters affected by the rules. (e) The commissioner shall inform the users of the waters of the rules affecting them at least two weeks before the effective date of the rules by distributing copies of the rules and by posting of the public accesses of the waters. The failure of the commis- sioner to comply with this paragraph does not affect the validity of the rules or a convic- tion for violation of the rules. (f) The cost of publishing rules and of marking and posting waters under this sub- division shall be paid by the counties affected by the rules, as apportioned by the com- missioner. (g) Regulations or ordinances relating to the use of waters of this state enacted by a local governmental unit before January 1, 1972, shall continue in effect until repealed by the local governmental unit or superseded by a rule of the commissioner adopted under this subdivision. History: 1990 c 391 an 9 s 10 1 Page 46