Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

171.177 REVOCATION; PURSUANT TO SEARCH WARRANT. § Subdivision 1.Search warrant-required testing advisory. At the time a blood or urine test is directed pursuant to a search warrant, the person must be informed that refusal to submit to a blood or urine test is a crime. § Subd. 2.…

171.178 REVOCATION, DENIAL, AND REINSTATEMENT; DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED; CRIMINAL VEHICULAR HOMICIDE AND OPERATION. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Ignition interlock device" has the meaning given in s…

171.18 SUSPENSION. § Subdivision 1.Offenses. (a) Subject to section 171.16, the commissioner may suspend the license of a driver without preliminary hearing upon a showing by department records or other sufficient evidence that the licensee: (1) has committed an offense for which…

171.181 RESIDENT DRIVING PRIVILEGE. § Subdivision 1.Foreign state conviction. (a) On revoking or suspending the driver's license of a Minnesota resident as a result of a foreign state conviction, the commissioner shall notify that foreign state when the driver's license is reinst…

171.182 SUSPENSION; UNINSURED VEHICLE. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For the purposes of sections 171.182 to 171.184, the term "judgment" means a judgment which has become final by expiration without appeal within the time which an appeal might have been perfected, or by final affi…

171.183 SATISFACTION OF JUDGMENT. § Subdivision 1.Requirements. For the purposes of sections 171.182 to 171.184, a judgment is satisfied if: (1) $30,000 has been credited upon any judgment or judgments rendered in excess of that amount because of bodily injury to or death of one …

171.184 INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Authorization. A judgment debtor upon due notice to the judgment creditor may apply to the court in which the judgment was rendered for the privilege of paying the judgment in installments. The court, in its discretion and without pre…

171.186 SUSPENSION FOR NONPAYMENT OF SUPPORT; LIMITED LICENSE. § Subdivision 1.Suspension. The commissioner shall suspend a person's driver's license or operating privileges without a hearing upon receipt of a court order or notice from a public authority responsible for child su…

171.187 SUSPENSION; CRIMINAL VEHICULAR OPERATION AND MANSLAUGHTER. § Subdivision 1.Suspension required. The commissioner shall suspend the driver's license of a person: (1) for whom a peace officer has made the certification described in section 629.344 that probable cause exists…

171.188 DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED REVOCATION AND PROHIBITION; OFF-ROAD RECREATIONAL VEHICLES AND MOTORBOATS. (a) The provisions of this chapter for revoking or canceling a driver's license or nonresident driving privilege for alcohol, controlled substance, or intoxicating substance …

171.19 PETITION FOR COURT HEARING ON LICENSE REINSTATEMENT. Any person whose driver's license has been refused, revoked, suspended, canceled, or disqualified by the commissioner, except where the license is revoked or disqualified under section 169A.52, 171.177, or 171.186, or wh…

171.20 MINNESOTA LICENSE REQUIRED; CONDITIONS, FEES. § Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 1993 c 266 s 34] § Subd. 2.Operation after revocation, suspension, cancellation, or disqualification. (a) A resident or nonresident whose driver's license or right or privilege to operate a motor veh…

171.21 COPY OF RECORD AS EVIDENCE. Copies of any of the files or records of the department certified by the commissioner as being true copies shall be received in evidence in any court in this state with the same force and effect as the originals. History: (2720-145f) 1939 c 401 …

171.22 UNLAWFUL ACTS RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSE. § Subdivision 1.Violations. With regard to any driver's license, including a commercial driver's license, it shall be unlawful for any person: (1) to display, cause or permit to be displayed, or have in possession, any fictitious…

171.23 RENTING VEHICLE TO UNLICENSED DRIVER. No person shall rent or lease a motor vehicle to any other person unless the latter person is then duly licensed hereunder, or, in the case of a nonresident, then duly licensed under the law of the state or country of residence, except…

171.24 VIOLATIONS; DRIVING WITHOUT VALID LICENSE. § Subdivision 1.Driving after suspension; misdemeanor. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision 5, a person is guilty of a misdemeanor if: (1) the person's driver's license or driving privilege has been suspended; (2) the perso…

171.2405 LICENSE REINSTATEMENT DIVERSION PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. (a) A city or county may establish a license reinstatement diversion program for holders of class D drivers' licenses who have been charged with violating section 171.24, subdivision 1 or 2. An indiv…

171.241 CHAPTER VIOLATIONS; MISDEMEANORS. It is a misdemeanor for any person to willfully violate any of the provisions of this chapter unless the violation is declared by any law to be a felony or gross misdemeanor, or the violation is declared by a section of this chapter to be…

171.25 ENFORCEMENT; DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY. The commissioner shall be charged with the responsibility for the administration and execution of this chapter. Any duties required of or powers conferred on the commissioner under the provisions of this chapter may be done and perform…

171.26 MONEY CREDITED TO FUNDS. § Subdivision 1.Driver and vehicle services operating account. Unless otherwise specified, all money received under this chapter must be deposited in the driver and vehicle services operating account under section 299A.705. § Subd. 2. MS 2008 [Expi…

171.27 LICENSE EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL; EXCEPTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Expiration. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the expiration date for each driver's license is the birthday of the driver in the fourth year following the date of issuance of the license. The birth…

171.29 REVOKED LICENSE; CONDITIONS FOR REINSTATEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Examination required. (a) No person whose driver's license has been revoked by reason of conviction, plea of guilty, or forfeiture of bail not vacated, under section 169.791, 169.797, 171.17, or 171.172, or rev…

171.30 LIMITED LICENSE. § Subdivision 1.Conditions of issuance. (a) The commissioner may issue a limited license to the driver under the conditions in paragraph (b) in any case where a person's license has been: (1) suspended under section 171.18, 171.173, 171.186, or 171.187; (2…

171.301 REINTEGRATION LICENSE. § Subdivision 1.Conditions of issuance. (a) The commissioner may issue a reintegration driver's license to any person: (1) who is 18 years of age or older; (2) who has been released from a period of at least 180 consecutive days of confinement or in…

171.302 LICENSE VIOLATIONS; CONSECUTIVE SENTENCING. When sentencing an offender for violating section 171.20, subdivision 2; 171.24; or 171.30, the court may impose consecutive sentences for offenses arising out of a single course of conduct as permitted in section 609.035, subdi…

171.306 IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the terms in this subdivision have the meanings given. (b) "Ignition interlock device" or "device" means equipment that is designed to measure breath alcohol concentration an…

171.31 INFORMATION ON PERSON RECEIVING BLINDNESS BENEFITS. The commissioner of public safety, in order to promote highway safety by restricting driving privileges to those persons meeting accepted visual acuity standards, may request and shall receive information concerning the i…

171.32 ACTION UPON INFORMATION RELATING TO BLINDNESS. § Subdivision 1.Actions by commissioner. The commissioner upon receipt of any such information shall take such action as the commissioner deems necessary to insure that each such person meets the accepted visual acuity standar…

171.321 QUALIFICATIONS OF SCHOOL BUS AND TYPE III VEHICLE DRIVERS. § Subdivision 1.Endorsement. No person shall drive a school bus when transporting school children to or from school or upon a school-related trip or activity without having a valid class A, class B, or class C dri…

171.3213 THIRD-PARTY TESTING OF SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS. A school district that is a third-party testing program and owns or operates school buses may enter into an agreement with other school districts to test the other districts' school bus driver employees. A school bus company tha…

171.3215 CANCELING BUS ENDORSEMENT FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the meanings given them. (b) "School bus driver" means a person possessing a school bus driver's endorsement on a valid Minnesota driver's l…

171.3216 ACTIONS ON SCHOOL BUS ENDORSEMENT. In addition to any authority granted under section 171.3215, the commissioner may cancel a school bus driver's endorsement on a driver's license of any person if the commissioner determines that the person has (1) been convicted of a gr…

171.322 AGE LIMIT FOR OPERATOR OF VEHICLE FOR HIRE. No person under 18 years of age shall operate a motor vehicle while it is in use as a carrier of persons for hire, nor shall any person under 18 years of age drive a passenger carrying vehicle as a hired driver. History: 1971 c …

171.324 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ENDORSEMENT BACKGROUND CHECKS. § Subdivision 1.Endorsement; fee; account; appropriation. (a) Before being issued or renewing a class C, class B, or class A driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement, an applicant must comply with the feder…

171.325 DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSIONS AND REVOCATIONS; REPORTS. § Subdivision 1.Issuance, suspensions, and revocations. (a) Annually by February 15, the commissioner of public safety must report to the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdic…

171.33 DRIVER TRAINING SCHOOL; DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Commercial driver training school or school. "Commercial driver training school" or "school" means a business enterprise conducted by an individual, association, partnership, or corporation, which charges a fee, for the …

171.335 MOTORCYCLE SAFETY EDUCATION PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Established; administration; rules. A motorcycle safety education program is established. The program shall be administered by the commissioner of public safety. The program shall include but is not limited to training …

171.34 LICENSE FOR SCHOOL REQUIRED. No commercial driver training school shall be established or operated after January 1, 1968, unless such school has applied for and obtained a license from the commissioner. The commissioner shall issue or adopt rules governing the requirements…

171.35 LICENSE FOR INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED. § Subdivision 1.Licensure required. No person shall act as an instructor after January 1, 1968, unless such person has applied for and obtained a license from the commissioner. The commissioner shall issue or adopt rules governing the requi…

171.36 LICENSE FEES; RENEWAL. All licenses expire one year from the date of issuance and may be renewed upon application to the commissioner. Each application for an original or renewal school license must be accompanied by a fee of $150 and each application for an original or re…

171.37 INSPECTION AND EXAMINATION. The commissioner or an authorized representative shall inspect the school facilities and equipment of applicants and licensees and shall examine applicants for instructor's licenses. The commissioner shall issue or adopt such rules and do all th…

171.38 SCHOOL OR INSTRUCTOR LICENSE DENIAL OR REVOCATION. The commissioner may revoke or refuse to issue or renew a school or instructor's license in any case on finding that the applicant or licensee has not complied with, or has violated any of the provisions of sections 171.33…

171.39 EXEMPTIONS. (a) The provisions of sections 171.33 to 171.41 do not apply to any person giving driver training lessons without charge; to employers maintaining driver training schools without charge for their employees only; to a home school within the meaning of sections 1…

171.395 TELECONFERENCE DRIVER EDUCATION PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Authorization. A licensed or approved driver education program that provides both classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction may offer teleconference driver education as provided in this section. For purposes of thi…

171.396 ONLINE DRIVER EDUCATION PROGRAM. (a) A licensed or approved driver education program may offer online driver education as provided in this section. The online driver education program must satisfy the requirements for classroom driver education as provided in section 171.…

171.397 FLEXIBLE INSTRUCTION PERMITTED. A student may receive a combination of online driver's education instruction under section 171.396, teleconference driver's education instruction under section 171.395, and classroom instruction if: (1) the instruction is from a single lice…