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Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

1,133 chapters · 28,363 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title Minnesota Statutes28,363 Ch 336, Chapter 336. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE642 Ch 524, Chapter 524. UNIFORM PROBATE CODE394 Ch 609, Chapter 609. CRIMINAL CODE377 Ch 144, Chapter 144. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH361 Ch 469, Chapter 469. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT257 Ch 473, Chapter 473. METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT247 Ch 148, Chapter 148. PUBLIC HEALTH OCCUPATIONS206 Ch 169, Chapter 169. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS200 Ch 256B, Chapter 256B. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR…196 Ch 60A, Chapter 60A. GENERAL INSURANCE POWERS195 Ch 13, Chapter 13. GOVERNMENT DATA PRACTICES177 Ch 115A, Chapter 115A. WASTE MANAGEMENT171 Ch 325F, Chapter 325F. CONSUMER PROTECTION; P…168 Ch 383B, Chapter 383B. HENNEPIN COUNTY168

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Minn. Stat. § 160.01 SCOPE OF CHAPTERS 160 TO 165.
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160.01 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.01 SCOPE OF CHAPTERS 160 TO 165. § Subdivision 1.Designation. For the purposes of chapters 160 to 165 the roads of this state shall be designated and referred to as trunk highways, county state-aid highways, municipal state-aid stree…
Minn. Stat. § 160.02 DEFINITIONS.
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160.02 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.02 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Purposes. For the purposes of this chapter the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them. § Subd. 1a.Bikeway. "Bikeway" has the meaning given in section 169.011, subdivision 9. § Subd.…
Minn. Stat. § 160.03 COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC PROPERTY.
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160.03 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.03 COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC PROPERTY. Whenever public property is taken, damaged, or destroyed for highway purposes, just compensation shall be paid therefor. History: 1959 c 500 art 1 s 3
Minn. Stat. § 160.04 WIDTH OF ROADS.
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160.04 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.04 WIDTH OF ROADS. Except as otherwise provided, all roads hereafter established, except cartways, shall be at least four rods wide. Additional right-of-way and easements, including easements needed for drainage, may be acquired by p…

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Minn. Stat. § 160.05 DEDICATION OF ROADS.

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160.05 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.05 DEDICATION OF ROADS. § Subdivision 1.Six years. (a) When any road or portion of a road has been used and kept in repair and worked for at least six years continuously as a public highway by a road authority, it shall be deemed ded…

Minn. Stat. § 160.06 TRAIL OR PORTAGE DEDICATION.

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160.06 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.06 TRAIL OR PORTAGE DEDICATION. Any trail or portage between public or navigable bodies of water or from public or navigable water to a public highway in this state that has been in continued and uninterrupted use by the general publ…

Minn. Stat. § 160.07 IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN OR WITHOUT BOUNDARIES.

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160.07 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.07 IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN OR WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. The road authority of any county, town or city may appropriate and expend such reasonable sums as it may deem proper to assist in the improvement and maintenance of roads, bridges, or fer…

Minn. Stat. § 160.08 CONTROLLED ACCESS.

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160.08 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.08 CONTROLLED ACCESS. § Subdivision 1.Plans. The road authorities of the state, counties or cities acting either alone, or in cooperation with each other, or with any federal agency, or with any other state or subdivision of another …

Minn. Stat. § 160.085 RECORDING PROPOSED ACQUISITION FOR ROAD.

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160.085 RECORDING PROPOSED ACQUISITION FOR ROAD. § Subdivision 1.Recording map or plat; certification. (a) In order to facilitate the acquisition of right-of-way required for highways, state and county road authorities may file for record in the office of the county recorder or r…

Minn. Stat. § 160.09 CHANGE OR VACATION OF LOCAL ROAD.

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160.09 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.09 CHANGE OR VACATION OF LOCAL ROAD. § Subdivision 1.Change in location. When the road authority of a county or town changes the location of a highway or road under its jurisdiction, the old road shall remain open until the new road …

Minn. Stat. § 160.095 DESIGNATION OF MINIMUM-MAINTENANCE ROADS.

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160.095 DESIGNATION OF MINIMUM-MAINTENANCE ROADS. § Subdivision 1.Resolution. A road authority, other than the commissioner, may by resolution designate a road under its jurisdiction as a minimum-maintenance road if it determines that the road or road segment is used only occasio…

Minn. Stat. § 160.10 ROADS ON MINERAL LANDS.

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160.10 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.10 ROADS ON MINERAL LANDS. § Subdivision 1.Change of location; standards for relocated road. When any road, including any street within a city crosses mineral land and the road interferes with mining operations on the land, the owner…

Minn. Stat. § 160.11 MATERIALS FOR BUILDING ROADS.

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160.11 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.11 MATERIALS FOR BUILDING ROADS. § Subdivision 1.Acquisition of lands. When the commissioner of transportation, any county board, town board, or governing body of any city, each hereinafter referred to as road authority, shall deem i…

Minn. Stat. § 160.12 TEMPORARY ROADS AROUND CONSTRUCTION.

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160.12 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.12 TEMPORARY ROADS AROUND CONSTRUCTION. When a road authority determines that construction or maintenance work on a public highway under its jurisdiction requires a temporary road around the portion of the highway under construction …

Minn. Stat. § 160.13 LIGHTING AND MARKING HIGHWAYS.

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160.13 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.13 LIGHTING AND MARKING HIGHWAYS. Road authorities may light or mark highways and appurtenances thereon and may install other safety devices as they deem necessary in the interests of safety and convenient public travel. History: 195…

Minn. Stat. § 160.14 MARKING BOUNDARIES OF HIGHWAYS.

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160.14 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.14 MARKING BOUNDARIES OF HIGHWAYS. § Subdivision 1.Placing marking devices. Road authorities may place and shall thereafter preserve and maintain suitable monuments or other marking devices in such manner as to clearly indicate the b…

Minn. Stat. § 160.15 PRESERVING SECTION OR QUARTER-SECTION CORNERS.

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160.15 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.15 PRESERVING SECTION OR QUARTER-SECTION CORNERS. § Subdivision 1.Perpetuation of corners. Whenever the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of a public street or highway causes the destruction or obliteration of a public lan…

Minn. Stat. § 160.16 WARNING SIGNS AND DETOUR SIGNS.

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160.16 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.16 WARNING SIGNS AND DETOUR SIGNS. § Subdivision 1.Contract to provide for warning signs. Whenever the road authorities enter into a contract for the construction or improvement of any road, culvert, or bridge thereon they shall, as …

Minn. Stat. § 160.165 MITIGATING TRANSPORTATION PROJECT IMPACTS ON BUSINESS.

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160.165 MITIGATING TRANSPORTATION PROJECT IMPACTS ON BUSINESS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given: (1) "project" means construction work to maintain, construct, reconstruct, or improve a street or highway or …

Minn. Stat. § 160.17 ROAD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS; COUNTIES AND TOWNS.

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160.17 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.17 ROAD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS; COUNTIES AND TOWNS. § Subdivision 1.Plans and specifications filed. No contract for the construction or improvement of any road by a county or town in which the contract price exceeds the amount for wh…

Minn. Stat. § 160.18 ACCESS TO ROADS; APPROACHES.

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160.18 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.18 ACCESS TO ROADS; APPROACHES. § Subdivision 1.Culvert on existing highway. Except when the easement of access has been acquired, a road authority, as to a highway already established and constructed may grant by permit a suitable a…

Minn. Stat. § 160.19 DRAINAGE DITCH CROSSING RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY.

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160.19 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.19 DRAINAGE DITCH CROSSING RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY. When a road authority constructs a drainage ditch to drain a highway over lands acquired for that purpose and the ditch crosses the right-of-way of any railroad, it shall be the duty …

Minn. Stat. § 160.20 DRAINAGE.

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160.20 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.20 DRAINAGE. § Subdivision 1.Connecting drains to highway drains. When the course of natural drainage of any land runs to a highway, the owner of the land shall have the right to enter upon the highway for the purpose of connecting a…

Minn. Stat. § 160.201 PUBLIC ROAD DITCHES.

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160.201 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 160.201 PUBLIC ROAD DITCHES. § Subdivision 1.Improving and draining. For the purpose of draining public roads and preventing accumulations of water in road ditches, the overflow of which may damage adjacent lands, the various auth…

Minn. Stat. § 160.21 SNOW REMOVAL.

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160.21 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.21 SNOW REMOVAL. § Subdivision 1.Agreements. Road authorities, including road authorities of cities, may contract with each other for the construction and maintenance of, or removal of snow from, any or all highways under their super…

Minn. Stat. § 160.215 SNOW REMOVAL; SALT AND CHEMICALS RESTRICTED.

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160.215 SNOW REMOVAL; SALT AND CHEMICALS RESTRICTED. In order to: (1) minimize the harmful or corrosive effects of salt or other chemicals upon vehicles, roadways, and vegetation; (2) reduce the pollution of waters; and (3) reduce the driving hazards resulting from chemicals on w…

Minn. Stat. § 160.22 TREES.

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160.22 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.22 TREES. § Subdivision 1.Planting trees. Road authorities may plant and tend trees and shrubs along highways in rural areas in a manner so as to protect the highways from drifting snow. In like manner, with the written consent of th…

Minn. Stat. § 160.23 DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS WEEDS.

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160.23 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.23 DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS WEEDS. Road authorities, including road authorities of cities shall cause all noxious weeds on their respective highways and streets to be cut down or otherwise destroyed or eradicated as often as may be nec…

Minn. Stat. § 160.232 MOWING DITCHES OUTSIDE CITIES.

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160.232 MOWING DITCHES OUTSIDE CITIES. (a) To provide enhanced roadside habitat for nesting birds and other small wildlife, road authorities may not mow or till the right-of-way of a highway located outside of a home rule charter or statutory city except as allowed in this sectio…

Minn. Stat. § 160.2325 HIGHWAYS FOR HABITAT PROGRAM.

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160.2325 HIGHWAYS FOR HABITAT PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Integrated roadside vegetation management" means an approach to right-of-way maintenance that combines a variety of techniques b…

Minn. Stat. § 160.235 TRAFFIC SIGNAL TIMING OPTIMIZATION.

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160.235 TRAFFIC SIGNAL TIMING OPTIMIZATION. (a) A road authority that has ownership of a traffic signal on a principal arterial roadway or roadway with an average daily traffic greater than 20,000 vehicles per day must complete an inventory of all traffic signals under its owners…

Minn. Stat. § 160.24 LOGGING RAILROADS ACROSS HIGHWAYS.

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160.24 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.24 LOGGING RAILROADS ACROSS HIGHWAYS. § Subdivision 1.Permission to locate. The road authorities may grant to the owner of any logging railroad permission to locate, construct, and maintain a logging railroad across any highway under…

Minn. Stat. § 160.25 TUNNELS UNDER HIGHWAYS.

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160.25 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.25 TUNNELS UNDER HIGHWAYS. § Subdivision 1.Permit to construct. The road authorities may permit any owner or lessee of land abutting both sides of a highway to tunnel under the highway for such purposes as the owner or lessee deems d…

Minn. Stat. § 160.26 MOVING BUILDINGS OVER HIGHWAYS.

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160.26 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.26 MOVING BUILDINGS OVER HIGHWAYS. § Subdivision 1.Moved without unnecessary interference. Buildings or structures moved or caused to be moved upon, across, or along any road or street, including city streets, shall be moved in such …

Minn. Stat. § 160.262 BIKEWAYS.

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160.262 BIKEWAYS. § Subdivision 1.Bikeways; powers and duties; design guidelines. (a) The legislature determines that it is in the interests of the public health, safety and welfare, to provide for the addition of bikeways to proposed and existing public highways. The commissione…

Minn. Stat. § 160.263 BICYCLE LANES, ROUTES, AND PATHS.

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160.263 BICYCLE LANES, ROUTES, AND PATHS. § Subdivision 1. MS 1986 [Repealed, 1987 c 255 s 15] § Subd. 2.Powers of political subdivisions. (a) The governing body of any political subdivision may by ordinance or resolution: (1) designate any roadway or shoulder or portion thereof …

Minn. Stat. § 160.264 REPLACING BIKEWAYS AND PEDESTRIAN WAYS.

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160.264 REPLACING BIKEWAYS AND PEDESTRIAN WAYS. Whenever an existing bikeway, pedestrian way, or roadway used by bicycles or pedestrians or the sole access to such is destroyed by any new, reconstructed, or relocated federal, state, or local highway, the road authority responsibl…

Minn. Stat. § 160.266 STATE BICYCLE ROUTES.

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160.266 STATE BICYCLE ROUTES. § Subdivision 1. MS 2016 [Repealed, 1Sp2017 c 3 art 3 s 144] § Subd. 1a.State bicycle route; definition. For the purposes of this section, "state bicycle route" means a linear series of one or more roads or bikeways that is designated for bicycle tra…

Minn. Stat. § 160.27 PARTICULAR USES OF RIGHT-OF-WAY; MISDEMEANORS.

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160.27 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.27 PARTICULAR USES OF RIGHT-OF-WAY; MISDEMEANORS. § Subdivision 1.Public notices. With the approval of the proper road authority, billboards for the use and purpose of displaying public notices only may be erected within the limits o…

Minn. Stat. § 160.2715 RIGHT-OF-WAY USE; MISDEMEANORS.

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160.2715 RIGHT-OF-WAY USE; MISDEMEANORS. (a) Except for the actions of the road authorities, their agents, employees, contractors, and utilities in carrying out their duties imposed by law or contract, and except as herein provided, it shall be unlawful to: (1) obstruct any highw…

Minn. Stat. § 160.272 SAFETY REST AREA AND TRAVEL INFORMATION CENTER LEASES.

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160.272 SAFETY REST AREA AND TRAVEL INFORMATION CENTER LEASES. § Subdivision 1.Lease agreements. (a) Except as provided in subdivision 3, and notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the commissioner may enter into lease agreements through negotiations with public or not-fo…

Minn. Stat. § 160.2721 COMMERCIAL VEHICLE DRIVERS AT REST AREAS.

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160.2721 COMMERCIAL VEHICLE DRIVERS AT REST AREAS. (a) The commissioner shall allow a commercial motor vehicle operator who is subject to hours of service regulations under Code of Federal Regulations, title 49, part 395, to stop and park continuously, for a period of up to ten h…

Minn. Stat. § 160.2725 SALES AT SAFETY REST AREAS.

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160.2725 SALES AT SAFETY REST AREAS. § Subdivision 1.Sales authorized. Notwithstanding section 160.08, the commissioner may sell travel and tourism-related publications and maps and travel and tourism-related merchandise and services. The commissioner may rent or sell items for t…

Minn. Stat. § 160.273 VENDING MACHINES.

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160.273 VENDING MACHINES. Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the commissioner may contract for or authorize the placement of vending machines dispensing food, nonalcoholic beverages, milk, or other items the commissioner deems appropriate and desirable in highway safe…

Minn. Stat. § 160.2735 SPONSORSHIP OF SAFETY REST AREAS.

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160.2735 SPONSORSHIP OF SAFETY REST AREAS. § Subdivision 1.Sponsorship program. The commissioner may enter into agreements for public or private sponsorship of highway safety rest areas by transportation and tourism-related entities. The commissioner may publicly acknowledge spon…

Minn. Stat. § 160.274 SALE OF SURPLUS REST AREA PROPERTY.

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160.274 SALE OF SURPLUS REST AREA PROPERTY. § Subdivision 1.Reconveyance of land. The commissioner may reconvey land no longer needed for safety rest area purposes, subject to section 161.44. § Subd. 2.Proceeds deposited; appropriation. Proceeds from the sale of real estate and b…

Minn. Stat. § 160.2745 SAFETY REST AREA ACCOUNT.

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160.2745 SAFETY REST AREA ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Account established. A safety rest area account is established in the trunk highway fund. Funds in the account are available until expended. § Subd. 2.Deposits. The commissioner shall deposit in the safety rest area account reven…

Minn. Stat. § 160.2755 PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AT REST AREAS.

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160.2755 PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AT REST AREAS. § Subdivision 1.Prohibited activities. It is unlawful at rest areas to: (1) dispose of travel-related trash and rubbish, except if depositing it in a designated receptacle; (2) dump household or commercial trash and rubbish into conta…

Minn. Stat. § 160.276 TRAVEL INFORMATION ADVERTISING PROGRAM.

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160.276 TRAVEL INFORMATION ADVERTISING PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Leasing advertising space. The commissioner of transportation may lease advertising space within travel information centers and safety rest areas for the purpose of providing information to travelers through travel-r…

Minn. Stat. § 160.28 PLANS FOR PUBLIC TRAVEL FACILITIES.

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160.28 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.28 PLANS FOR PUBLIC TRAVEL FACILITIES. § Subdivision 1.Safety rest areas; travel information centers; weigh stations. Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the commissioner of transportation may have plans, specifications, a…