Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

160.82 PARK ROADS. § Subdivision 1.Definition. "Park road" means that portion of a street or highway located entirely within the park boundaries of a city, county, regional, or state park. § Subd. 2.Restrictions. A road authority may not make a change in the width, grade, or alig…

160.83 RUSTIC ROADS PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Definition. A "rustic road" is a road that is not on the state-aid system that has the following characteristics: outstanding natural features or scenic beauty; an average daily traffic volume of less than 150 vehicles per day; year-ro…

160.84 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Scope. The terms used in sections 160.84 to 160.98 have the meanings given them in this section and section 160.02. § Subd. 2.BOT facility. "BOT facility" means a build-operate-transfer toll facility developed, financed, designed, constructed, …

160.845 RESTRICTIONS ON TOLL FACILITY. (a) A road authority, including the governing body of a city, or a private operator may not convert, transfer, or utilize any portion of a highway to impose tolls or for use as a toll facility. A road authority, including the governing body …

160.85 AUTHORITY FOR TOLL FACILITY. § Subdivision 1.Road authority. A road authority may solicit or accept proposals from and enter into development agreements with private operators for developing, financing, designing, constructing, improving, rehabilitating, owning, and operat…

160.86 TOLL FACILITY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT; REQUIREMENTS. A development agreement must include the following provisions: (a) The toll facility must meet the road authority's standards of design and construction for roads and bridges of the same functional classification. (b) The …

160.87 TOLL FACILITY COST RECOVERY. § Subdivision 1.Use of toll revenues. Toll revenues must be applied to repayment of indebtedness incurred for the toll facility; payments to a road authority under the development agreement or a related lease, management, or toll concession agr…

160.88 PUBLIC TOLL FACILITIES. A road authority may develop, finance, design, construct, improve, rehabilitate, own, and operate a toll facility. History: 1993 c 211 s 5

160.89 TOLL FACILITY REVENUE BONDS. To provide money to acquire, develop, finance, design, construct, improve, rehabilitate, and operate a toll facility and to establish a reserve for bonds issued under this section, the commissioner of management and budget, or a road authority …

160.90 LAW ENFORCEMENT ON TOLL FACILITIES. State and local law enforcement authorities have the same powers and authority on a toll facility within their respective jurisdictions as they have on any other highway, road, or street within their jurisdiction. Law enforcement officer…

160.91 JOINT AUTHORITY OVER TOLL FACILITY. Two or more road authorities with jurisdiction over a toll facility may enter into a joint powers agreement under section 471.59, to exercise the powers, duties, and functions of the road authorities related to the toll facility, includi…

160.92 TOLL FACILITY REPLACEMENT PROJECTS. When a highway project in the metropolitan area has been scheduled in the department's six-year work program but is designated as a toll facility, the commissioner shall substitute in the work program a similar highway project in the met…

160.93 USER FEES; HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE AND DYNAMIC SHOULDER LANES. § Subdivision 1.Fees authorized. To improve efficiency and provide more options to individuals traveling in a trunk highway corridor, the commissioner of transportation may charge user fees to owners or operator…

160.98 PROHIBITION ON ROAD AND BRIDGE PRIVATIZATION. A road authority may not sell, lease, execute a development agreement for a BOT facility or BTO facility that transfers an existing highway lane, or otherwise relinquish management of a highway, if the highway is retained or ut…

161.01 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 161.01 DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in section 160.02 shall have the same meanings. History: 1959 c 500 art 2 s 1

161.04 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 161.04 TRUNK HIGHWAY FUND. § Subdivision 1.Composition. The trunk highway fund shall consist of 62 percent of the net highway user tax distribution fund as provided in article 14 of the constitution; the proceeds of the sale of any…

161.045 HIGHWAY USER TAX DISTRIBUTION FUND APPROPRIATIONS; TRUNK HIGHWAY FUND APPROPRIATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "commissioner" means any commissioner of a state agency that either proposes to spend or spends funds out of the highway user ta…

161.081 HIGHWAY USER TAX, DISTRIBUTION, INVESTMENT. § Subdivision 1.Distribution of five percent. (a) Pursuant to article 14, section 5, of the constitution, five percent of the net highway user tax distribution fund is set aside, and apportioned to the county state-aid highway f…

161.082 COUNTY TURNBACK ACCOUNT, EXPENDITURES. § Subdivision 1.Rules. Except as provided in this section and in section 161.081, all money accruing to the county turnback account shall be expended in accordance with rules of the commissioner of transportation in paying a county f…

161.083 MUNICIPAL TURNBACK ACCOUNT, EXPENDITURE. Except as hereinafter provided, all money accruing to the municipal turnback account shall be expended in accordance with rules of the commissioner of transportation in paying a municipality having a population of 5,000 or more for…

161.084 SURPLUS FUNDS IN TURNBACK ACCOUNTS. On determining at any time that there are surplus funds in either the county or municipal turnback account that are not needed for the purposes specified herein, the commissioner shall notify the commissioner of management and budget in…

161.085 APPROPRIATION FROM TURNBACK ACCOUNTS. Moneys in the county turnback account and the municipal turnback account are hereby appropriated annually to the commissioner of transportation for the purposes of carrying out the terms of sections 161.081 to 161.084. History: 1965 c…

161.088 CORRIDORS OF COMMERCE PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Beyond the project limits" means any point that is located: (1) outside of the project limits; (2) along the same trunk highway;…

161.089 REPORT ON DEDICATED FUND EXPENDITURES. By January 15 of each odd-numbered year, the commissioners of transportation and public safety, in consultation with the commissioner of management and budget, must jointly submit a report to the chairs and ranking minority members o…

161.09 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 161.09 DEPARTMENT ORDERS, FILES, AND RECORDS. § Subdivision 1.Custodian. The official acts and determinations of the commissioner shall be denominated orders. The commissioner shall be the custodian of and shall preserve such order…

161.095 TRAVEL EXPENSE FOR JOB APPLICANTS. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the state of Minnesota, Department of Transportation, may pay the necessary moving and travel expenses including the necessary travel expenses to and from interviews arranged by the Department of …

161.10 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 161.10 INVESTIGATIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS, REPORTS. When practicable the commissioner shall investigate and determine the location of road material in the state, ascertain the most approved methods of construction and improvement of r…

161.11 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 161.11 COMPENSATION INSURANCE. § Subdivision 1.Commissioner may purchase. The commissioner may procure on the open market a policy of insurance covering the payment of benefits accruing under the Workers' Compensation Act to employ…

161.114 CONSTITUTIONAL TRUNK HIGHWAYS. § Subdivision 1.Designation. The trunk highway routes, numbered 1 through 70, as described in the constitutional amendment adopted November 2, 1920, are designated as the constitutional routes of the trunk highway system. § Subd. 2.Descripti…

161.115 ADDITIONAL TRUNK HIGHWAYS. § Subdivision 1.Legislative routes confirmed. The following routes hereby and heretofore added to the trunk highway system by the legislature under the provisions of article 14, of the constitution adopted November 2, 1920, and as the same are h…

161.117 TRUNK HIGHWAYS; ADDITIONAL ROUTES. § Subdivision 1.New routes added. There may be added by order of the commissioner of transportation to the trunk highway system new routes described as follows: § Subd. 2.Route No. 380. Beginning at a point on Route No. 390 at its inters…

161.12 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 161.12 ADDITIONAL ROUTES ADDED; FEDERAL AID. § Subdivision 1.Interstate system. To take advantage of federal aid made available by the United States to the state of Minnesota for highway purposes, the following trunk highway routes…

161.122 RESTRICTIONS ON MARKED TRUNK HIGHWAY 51. The location, designation, marking and numbering of Legislative Route No. 125, marked Trunk Highway 51, as that route is established, located, designated, marked, and traveled southerly of University Avenue within the city of St. P…

161.1231 PARKING FACILITIES FOR I-394. § Subdivision 1.Authority to construct. Notwithstanding any other law, the commissioner may acquire land by purchase, gift, or eminent domain for parking facilities described in this section and may construct, operate, repair, and maintain p…

161.1245 HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION; AUTHORIZATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Routes No. 382 and No. 392. The commissioner of transportation is authorized to construct a four-lane parkway with limited access along the right-of-way of Route No. 382 in the city of St. Paul. The c…

161.125 SOUND ABATEMENT ALONG HIGHWAYS. § Subdivision 1.Implementation. The commissioner of transportation shall implement noise abatement measures within or along the perimeter of freeways and expressways contingent on the availability of funding, in accordance with section 116.…

161.1258 RUMBLE STRIPS. (a) The commissioner must maintain transverse rumble strips in association with each stop sign that is located (1) on a trunk highway segment with a speed limit of at least 55 miles per hour, and (2) outside the limits of a statutory or home rule charter c…

161.139 HIGHWAY DESIGNATION COSTS. The commissioner shall not adopt a design or erect a sign to mark or memorialize a highway or bridge, pursuant to designation by the legislature, unless the commissioner is assured of the availability of funds from nonstate sources sufficient to…

161.14 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 161.14 NAMES AND DESIGNATIONS OF CERTAIN HIGHWAYS. § Subdivision 1.Capitol Highway. The following route between the city of St. Paul and the south boundary of the state of Minnesota is hereby named and designated "The Capitol Highw…

161.141 NORTHWEST ANGLE, CONNECTING HIGHWAY; FEDERAL APPROVAL. § Subdivision 1.Agreement. The commissioner of transportation may enter into an agreement with the authorized authorities of the province of Manitoba, Canada providing for an equitable division of costs and responsibi…

161.1419 MISSISSIPPI RIVER PARKWAY COMMISSION. § Subdivision 1.Policy. It is declared to be the policy of the state and to be in the best public interest for the promotion of public safety, recreation, travel, trade, and the general welfare of the people to cooperate with the fed…

161.142 GREAT RIVER ROAD. § Subdivision 1. MS 1961 [Repealed, 1963 c 875 s 3] § Subd. 2.Location; construction; improvement; maintenance; acquisition of land. The commissioner of transportation shall establish and locate the route or routes of the Great River Road and shall there…

161.148 GREAT RIVER ROAD, LOCATION OF ROUTE. § Subdivision 1.Commissioner's responsibility. The commissioner of transportation shall designate, establish and locate the Great River Road described in and authorized by section 161.142, with the approval of the Mississippi River Par…

161.15 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 161.15 SPECIFIC LOCATION; LIMITATION ON DEVIATIONS. The commissioner may specifically and definitely locate all of the routes of the trunk highway system, but in so locating same, the commissioner shall not deviate from the startin…

161.16 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 161.16 HIGHWAY DESIGNATION, VACATION, REVERSION, SURVEY. § Subdivision 1.Temporary trunk highways; reversion. Until such time as the commissioner definitely locates and constructs the several routes of the trunk highway system, the…

161.162 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. The terms in sections 161.162 to 161.167 have the meanings given them in this section and section 160.02. § Subd. 2.Final layout. (a) "Final layout" means geometric layouts and supplemental drawings that show the location, chara…