Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

169.202 BLIND PERSON CARRYING WHITE CANE. § Subdivision 1.Limitation on carrying. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry a white painted cane unless said person is a blind person. § Subd. 2.Blind pedestrian has right-of-way. Any person operating a motor vehicle in this stat…

169.21 PEDESTRIAN. § Subdivision 1.Obey traffic-control signals. Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic-control signals at intersections as heretofore declared in this chapter, but at all other places pedestrians shall be accorded the privileges and shall be subject to the restr…

169.212 OPERATION OF ELECTRIC PERSONAL ASSISTIVE MOBILITY DEVICES. § Subdivision 1.Rights and responsibilities of pedestrians. Except as otherwise provided by law, a person operating an electric personal assistive mobility device has the rights and responsibilities of a pedestria…

169.215 CROSSING FOR SENIORS OR DISABLED PERSONS. § Subdivision 1.Designation of crossings. Local authorities may designate a crossing for senior citizens or disabled persons on any street or highway in the vicinity of a senior citizen housing project, senior citizen nursing home…

169.2151 PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CROSSINGS. A local road authority may provide by ordinance for the designation of pedestrian safety crossings on highways under the road authority's jurisdiction where pedestrian safety considerations require extra time for pedestrian crossing in additi…

169.219 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS. The commissioner of public safety shall include in the department's series of public service announcements information that educates the public about traffic regulations that are frequently violated, including the requirement for a vehicle dr…

169.22 HITCHHIKING; SOLICITATION OF BUSINESS. § Subdivision 1.Soliciting ride. No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the driver of any private vehicle. § Subd. 2.Soliciting employment, business, or contributions. No person shall stand on a r…

169.222 OPERATION OF BICYCLE. § Subdivision 1.Traffic laws apply. (a) Every person operating a bicycle has all of the rights and duties applicable to the driver of any other vehicle by this chapter, except in respect to those provisions in this chapter relating expressly to bicyc…

169.223 MOTORIZED BICYCLE. § Subdivision 1.Safety equipment; parking. Section 169.974 relating to motorcycles is applicable to motorized bicycles, except as otherwise provided in this section and except that: (1) protective headgear includes headgear that meets the standards unde…

169.224 NEIGHBORHOOD AND MEDIUM-SPEED ELECTRIC VEHICLES. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "road authority" means the commissioner, as to trunk highways; the county board, as to county state-aid highways and county highways; the town board, as to town road…

169.225 MOTORIZED FOOT SCOOTER. § Subdivision 1.Application of traffic laws. Every person operating a motorized foot scooter shall have all rights and duties applicable to the operator of a bicycle, except in respect to those provisions relating expressly to motorized foot scoote…

169.26 SPECIAL STOPS AT RAILROAD CROSSING. § Subdivision 1.Requirements. (a) Except as provided in section 169.28, subdivision 1, when any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated in this paragraph, the driver shall stop …

169.28 CERTAIN VEHICLES TO STOP AT RAILROAD CROSSING. § Subdivision 1.Requirements. (a) The driver of any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire, or of any school bus whether carrying passengers or not, or of any Head Start bus whether carrying passengers or not, or of any ve…

169.29 CROSSING RAILROAD TRACKS WITH CERTAIN EQUIPMENT. (a) No person shall operate or move any caterpillar tractor, steam shovel, derrick, roller, or any equipment or structure having a normal operating speed of six or less miles per hour or a vertical body or load clearance of …

169.30 DESIGNATION OF THROUGH HIGHWAYS. (a) The commissioner, with reference to state trunk highways, and local authorities, with reference to other highways under their jurisdiction, may designate through highways by erecting stop signs or yield signs at entrances thereto or may…

169.305 CONTROLLED-ACCESS RULES AND PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.Entrance and exit; crossover; use regulations; signs; rules. (a) No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled-access highway except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority. (b…

169.306 USE OF SHOULDERS BY BUSES. (a) A road authority, as defined in section 160.02, subdivision 25, is authorized to permit transit buses and Metro Mobility buses use of a shoulder, as designated by the road authority, of a freeway or expressway, as defined in section 160.02, …

169.31 STOP AT SIDEWALK. The driver of a vehicle within a business or residence district emerging from an alley, driveway, or building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area and shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian…

169.315 OPENING AND CLOSING VEHICLE DOOR. No person shall open any door on a motor vehicle unless and until it is reasonably safe to do so and can be done without interfering with the movement of other traffic. No person shall allow any door on the side of a vehicle adjacent to m…

169.32 STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING. (a) Upon any highway outside of a business or residence district no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved or improved or main-traveled part of the highway when it is practical…

169.33 POLICE MAY MOVE VEHICLE. (a) When any police officer finds a vehicle standing upon a highway in violation of any of the provisions of section 169.32, such officer is hereby authorized to move such vehicle, or require the driver or other person in charge of the vehicle to m…

169.34 PROHIBITIONS; STOPPING, PARKING. § Subdivision 1.Prohibitions. (a) A person must not stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device, in any of the…

169.342 GOOD SAMARITAN; EXCEPTION TO STOPPING AND PARKING. (a) A person who stops or parks that person's motor vehicle on any highway or street for the sole purpose of aiding another motorist who signals for assistance by raising the hood of the vehicle or displaying a flag, flar…

169.345 PARKING PRIVILEGE FOR PHYSICALLY DISABLED. § Subdivision 1.Scope of privilege. (a) A vehicle described in section 168.021, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), that prominently displays the certificate authorized by this section or that bears the disability plate or plates issue…

169.346 DISABILITY PARKING AREAS; CRITERIA, ENFORCEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Disability parking space prohibitions. A person shall not: (1) park a motor vehicle in or obstruct access to a parking space or associated access aisle designated and reserved for the physically disabled, on…

169.35 PARKING. § Subdivision 1.Parallel to curb. Except where angle parking is permitted by local ordinance, each vehicle stopped or parked upon a two-way roadway where there is an adjacent curb shall be so stopped or parked with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle parallel wit…

169.37 OBSTRUCTING VIEW OF DRIVER. No person shall drive a vehicle when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front seat such number of persons, exceeding three, as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle or as to interfere with the driver's co…

169.40 FIRE TRUCK; FIRE STATION. § Subdivision 1.Following fire truck; parking at fire scene. The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than 500 feet, or drive into or park such v…

169.41 CROSSING FIRE HOSE. No streetcar or vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any street, private driveway, or streetcar track, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the fire department official in co…

169.42 LITTERING; DROPPING OBJECT ON VEHICLE; MISDEMEANOR. § Subdivision 1.Objects on highway. No person shall throw, deposit, place, or dump, or cause to be thrown, deposited, placed, or dumped upon any street or highway or upon any public or privately owned land adjacent theret…

169.421 CIVIL LIABILITY FOR LITTERING. § Subdivision 1.Finding. The legislature finds that the cost of removal and disposal of solid waste, including litter, from vehicles is an onerous burden upon the public, and that the criminal law is not always adequate in dealing with the p…

169.43 SWINGING GATE ON TRUCK. (a) No truck shall be operated on any highway with gate, loading rack, or partition carried in any manner on any part of the exterior of the truck, unless the top and bottom of such gate, loading rack or partition is securely attached to the truck, …

169.435 OFFICE OF PUPIL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY. § Subdivision 1.Responsibility; Department of Public Safety. The Department of Public Safety has the primary responsibility for school transportation safety. The Office of Pupil Transportation Safety is created as a section under the…

169.441 SCHOOL BUS IDENTIFICATION. § Subdivision 1.Identification and signal requirements, generally. For purposes of sections 169.441 to 169.448, school bus means a motor vehicle that is outwardly equipped and identified as a school bus. A motor vehicle that satisfies the identi…

169.442 SCHOOL BUS SIGNALS. § Subdivision 1.Signals required. A type A, B, C, or D school bus must be equipped with at least one stop-signal arm, prewarning flashing amber signals, and flashing red signals. § Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1994 c 647 art 12 s 43] § Subd. 3. [Repealed, 1994 …

169.443 SAFETY OF SCHOOL CHILDREN; BUS DRIVER'S DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.Using bus signals. A driver of a school bus shall activate the prewarning flashing amber signals of the bus before stopping to load or unload school children. The driver shall activate and continuously operat…

169.444 SAFETY OF SCHOOL CHILDREN; DUTIES OF OTHER DRIVERS. § Subdivision 1.Children getting on or off school bus. When a school bus is stopped on a street or highway, or other location where signs have been erected under section 169.443, subdivision 2, paragraph (b), and is disp…

169.445 COOPERATION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Cooperation of school authorities. The commissioner of public safety shall ensure that local authorities having jurisdiction over school buses shall cooperate with law enforcement and judicial authorities in reporting and …

169.446 SAFETY OF SCHOOL CHILDREN; TRAINING AND EDUCATION RULES. § Subdivision 1.Peace officer training. The Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training shall include sections 169.441 to 169.448 and the enforcement of sections 169.443, 169.444, 169.447, and 169.448 in the instr…

169.447 SCHOOL BUS AND HEAD START BUS SAFETY. § Subdivision 1.Passenger seating. (a) The number of pupils or other authorized passengers transported in a school bus or Head Start bus must not be more than the number of pupils or passengers that can be fully seated. Seating capaci…

169.4475 SPECIAL EVENT SCHOOL BUS USE. § Subdivision 1.Temporary use authority. A pupil transport entity that meets the requirements of this section may operate a school bus for which the entity has paid registration tax under section 168.013, subdivision 18, to provide transport…

169.448 OTHER BUSES. § Subdivision 1.Restrictions on appearance; misdemeanor. (a) A bus that is not used as a school bus must not be operated on a street or highway unless it is painted a color significantly different than national school bus glossy yellow. (b) A bus that is not …

169.449 SCHOOL BUS OPERATION. § Subdivision 1.Rules. The commissioner of public safety shall adopt rules governing the operation of school buses used for transportation of school children, when owned or operated by a school or privately owned and operated under a contract with a …

169.4501 SCHOOL BUS EQUIPMENT STANDARDS. § Subdivision 1.National standards adopted. Except as provided in sections 169.4502 and 169.4503, the construction, design, equipment, and color of types A, B, C, D school buses and multifunction school activity buses used for the transpor…

169.4502 ADDITIONAL MINNESOTA SCHOOL BUS CHASSIS STANDARDS. § Subdivision 1.Relation to national standards. The bus chassis standards contained in this section are required in addition to those required by section 169.4501. When a Minnesota standard contained in this section conf…

169.4503 ADDITIONAL MINNESOTA SCHOOL BUS BODY STANDARDS. § Subdivision 1.Relation to national standards. The bus body standards contained in this section are required in addition to those required by sections 169.4501 and 169.4502. When a Minnesota standard contained in this sect…