Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

161.38 SPECIAL AGREEMENTS FOR HIGHWAYS IN MUNICIPALITIES. § Subdivision 1.Highway width or capacity. Road authorities, including the road authorities of any city may enter into an agreement with the commissioner for the construction of a roadway or structure of greater width or c…

161.39 AID TO OTHER ROAD AUTHORITIES AND STATE DEPARTMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Assistance allowed. Upon the request of another road authority, any road authority including the commissioner and the road authority of any city, township, or county may provide technical and engineering …

161.391 PAVEMENT STRIPING. The commissioner of transportation may bill highway maintenance operating units of the department and local road authorities for the costs of a centrally managed, pavement marking program. These costs may include equipment acquisition and rental, labor,…

161.40 JOINT FACILITIES WITH DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. The commissioner may enter into agreements with the state Division of Emergency Management to build, operate and maintain joint facilities in cases where the Division of Emergency Management contributes its proportion…

161.41 SURPLUS PROPERTY NOT NEEDED FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES. § Subdivision 1.Commissioner may declare surplus. The commissioner is authorized to declare as surplus any property acquired by the state for highway purposes, excluding land, which the commissioner determines to be no long…

161.411 SALE OF SURPLUS EARTH MATERIAL. Whenever the plans for the construction of a trunk highway indicate that there will be a surplus of earth materials from the roadway excavation of such trunk highway, and a political subdivision or public agency of the state indicates that …

161.42 LEASING OR SALE OF SOUNDING AND TESTING EQUIPMENT. The commissioner may sell or lease to other road authorities sounding and testing equipment made by the Transportation Department. Such equipment shall be sold for not less than the cost to the department. All money receiv…

161.43 RELINQUISHMENT OF HIGHWAY EASEMENT. The commissioner of transportation may relinquish and quitclaim to the fee owner an easement or portion of an easement owned but no longer needed by the Transportation Department for trunk highway purposes, upon payment to the Transporta…

161.431 LEASING OF HIGHWAY EASEMENT. The commissioner may lease to the fee owner for a fair rental rate and upon terms and conditions that the commissioner deems proper, an easement in real estate acquired for trunk highway purposes and not then needed for trunk highway purposes.…

161.433 USE OF HIGHWAY AIRSPACE AND SUBSURFACE. § Subdivision 1.Lease or permit, conditions and restrictions. The commissioner of transportation may lease or otherwise permit the use of the airspace above and subsurface area below the surface of the right-of-way of any trunk high…

161.434 INTERSTATE AND TRUNK HIGHWAY RIGHTS-OF-WAY; LIMITED USE. The commissioner may also make such arrangements and agreements as the commissioner deems necessary in the public interest for the limited use of land owned as interstate or trunk highway right-of-way, which use sha…

161.44 RELINQUISHMENT OF LAND NO LONGER NEEDED. § Subdivision 1.Conveyance. The commissioner may convey and quitclaim any lands, including any improvements thereon, owned in fee by the state for trunk highway purposes but no longer needed therefor. Notwithstanding any provisions …

161.441 LAND ACQUISITION AGREEMENT WITH OTHERS. § Subdivision 1.Authority. Whenever the commissioner of transportation has knowledge that lands are being acquired, or are about to be acquired, by a political subdivision of the state, another state agency, or other governmental au…

161.442 RECONVEYANCE TO FORMER OWNER. Notwithstanding sections 161.23, 161.41, 161.411, 161.43, 161.44, or any other statute, the commissioner of transportation, with the consent of the owner, may transfer, sell, or convey real property including fixtures, and interests in real p…

161.45 UTILITY ON HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY; RELOCATION. § Subdivision 1.Rules. (a) Electric transmission, telephone, or telegraph lines; pole lines; community antenna television lines; railways; ditches; sewers; water, heat, or gas mains; gas and other pipelines; flumes; or other str…

161.46 REIMBURSEMENT OF UTILITY. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given. (b) "Utility" means all publicly, privately, and cooperatively owned systems for supplying power, light, gas, telegraph, telephone, wat…

161.462 FIBER COLLABORATION DATABASE. § Subdivision 1.Purpose. The purpose of the fiber collaboration database is to provide broadband providers with advance notice of upcoming Department of Transportation construction projects so that they may notify the department of their inte…

161.465 REIMBURSEMENT FOR FIRE SERVICES. (a) Ordinary expenses incurred by a municipal or volunteer fire department in extinguishing a grass fire within the right-of-way of a trunk highway must be reimbursed upon certification to the commissioner of transportation from the trunk …

161.475 SNOW AND ICE CONTROL MATERIALS. § Subdivision 1.Use of agriculture-based deicing solution. The commissioner of transportation shall use a deicing solution derived from agricultural products for snow and ice control on trunk highways to the extent that the commissioner det…

161.53 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES. (a) The commissioner may set aside in each fiscal year up to two percent of the total amount of all funds appropriated to the commissioner other than county state-aid and municipal state-aid highway funds for transportation research including public an…

162.01 § Subdivision 1. MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] § Subd. 2. MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] § Subd. 3. MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] § Subd. 4. MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] § Subd. 5. MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] § …

162.02 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 162.02 COUNTY STATE-AID HIGHWAY SYSTEM. § Subdivision 1.Creation. There is created a county state-aid highway system which must be established, located, constructed, reconstructed, improved, and maintained as public highways by the…

162.021 NATURAL PRESERVATION ROUTES. § Subdivision 1.Establishment; rules. (a) The commissioner shall establish a natural preservation routes category within the county state-aid highway system. (b) Natural preservation routes include those routes that possess particular scenic, …

162.03 MS 1945 [Local, Ramsey County] 162.03 ESTABLISHMENT ALONG COMMON BOUNDARY LINES. The county boards of two or more counties may with the consent of the commissioner establish and locate a county state-aid highway along or near the common boundary line of the counties. The c…

162.031 CONSTRUCTION ACROSS ANOTHER COUNTY OR STATE. When a county state-aid highway route is so located that in order to achieve the designated objectives the commissioner determines that it is necessary to construct the highway across a portion of another county or state, the c…

162.04 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 162.04 LIMITATION ON PAYMENT OF CONTRACT PRICE. Whenever the construction or improvement of any county state-aid highway is to be done by contract, and the construction or improvement is not financed in whole or in part by federal …

162.05 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 162.05 PAYMENT INTO COUNTY STATE-AID HIGHWAY FUND. In addition to the 29 percent of the net highway user tax distribution fund there shall be paid into the county state-aid highway fund all money accruing from the income derived fr…

162.06 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 162.06 ACCRUALS TO COUNTY STATE-AID HIGHWAY FUND; ACCOUNTS. § Subdivision 1.Estimate. (a) By December 15 of each year the commissioner shall estimate the amount of money that will be available to the county state-aid highway fund d…

162.07 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 162.07 APPORTIONMENT OF MONEY TO COUNTIES. § Subdivision 1. [Renumbered subd 1b] § Subd. 1a.Apportionment sum and excess sum. (a) For purposes of this subdivision, "distribution amount" means the amount identified in section 162.06…

162.08 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 162.08 ALLOCATION OF APPORTIONMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Allocation for cities having less than 5,000 population. Upon determining the sum of money to be apportioned to each county as hereinbefore provided, the commissioner shall alloc…

162.081 TOWN ROAD ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Account created. A town road account is created in the county state-aid highway fund. § Subd. 2.Formula for distribution to counties. Funds in the town road account must be apportioned to each county so that each county receives the perc…

162.09 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 162.09 MUNICIPAL STATE-AID STREET SYSTEM. § Subdivision 1.Creation; mileage limitation; rules. (a) There is created a municipal state-aid street system within statutory and home rule charter cities having a population of 5,000 or m…

162.091 CONSTRUCTION ACROSS ANOTHER MUNICIPALITY OR STATE. When a municipal state-aid street route is so located that in order to achieve the designated objectives the commissioner determines that it is necessary to construct the street across a portion of another municipality or…

162.10 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 584 s 1] 162.10 LIMITATION ON PAYMENT OF CONTRACT PRICE. Whenever the construction or improvement of any municipal state-aid street is to be done by contract, and the construction or improvement is not financed in whole or in part by federal aid h…

162.11 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 162.11 PERCENTAGE PAID TO MUNICIPAL STATE-AID STREET FUND. Nine percent of the net highway user tax distribution fund shall be paid into the municipal state-aid street fund. History: 1959 c 500 art 3 s 11

162.12 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 162.12 ACCRUALS TO MUNICIPAL STATE-AID STREET FUND; ACCOUNTS. § Subdivision 1.Estimate of accruals. By December 15 of each year the commissioner shall estimate the amount of money that will be available to the municipal state-aid s…

162.13 MS 1949 [Repealed, 1951 c 192 s 1] 162.13 FORMULA FOR APPORTIONMENT TO CITIES. § Subdivision 1.Factors in formula. After deducting for administrative costs and for the disaster fund and research account as heretofore provided, the remainder of the total sum provided for in…

162.14 MS 1949 [Repealed, 1951 c 192 s 1] 162.14 APPORTIONMENT TO CITIES. § Subdivision 1.Statement of apportionment to each city. Upon determining the amount of money to be apportioned to each of the cities having a population of 5,000 or more, the commissioner shall forthwith s…

162.145 SMALL CITIES ASSISTANCE. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given them. (b) "Eligible city" means a statutory or home rule charter city that does not receive municipal state aid under sections 162.09 to 162…

162.146 LARGER CITIES ASSISTANCE ACCOUNT. § Subdivision 1.Larger cities assistance account; appropriation. (a) A larger cities assistance account is created in the special revenue fund. The account consists of funds under section 174.49, subdivision 3, and as provided by law and …

162.15 MS 1949 [Repealed, 1951 c 192 s 1] 162.15 ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS. The necessary personal expenses of the members of any boards appointed by the commissioner shall be considered administrative costs of the Department of Transportation, and reimbursement of the expenses shall …

162.152 RULES; ADVISORY COMMITTEE. § Subdivision 1.Advisory committee membership. The rules referenced in sections 162.02, subdivision 1, and 162.09, subdivision 1, shall be made and promulgated by the commissioner acting with the advice of a committee selected as follows: (1) ni…

162.155 RULEMAKING. (a) The commissioner shall adopt rules setting forth the criteria to be considered by the commissioner in evaluating requests for variances under sections 162.02, subdivision 3a and 162.09, subdivision 3a. The rules must include, but are not limited to, econom…

162.16 MS 1949 [Repealed, 1951 c 192 s 1] 162.16 INVESTMENT OF MONEY IN STATE-AID FUNDS. Upon the request of the commissioner, money in the county state-aid highway fund and money in the municipal state-aid street fund shall be invested by the State Board of Investment in those s…

162.17 MS 1949 [Repealed, 1951 c 192 s 1] 162.17 AGREEMENTS BETWEEN COUNTY AND CITY. § Subdivision 1.Agreements with city having population of 5,000 or more. The governing body of any city having a population of 5,000 or more may enter into cooperative agreements with the county …

162.175 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ROAD FUNDING GAP ASSISTANCE. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. For purposes of this section, "eligible recipient" or "recipient" means a political subdivision that: (1) has a directly elected governing board; (2) maintains sole jurisdiction over a roadway syst…