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MN Stat § 160.298 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.298 — Highway Sign Program; Billing, Account, Appropriation.

160.298 HIGHWAY SIGN PROGRAM; BILLING, ACCOUNT, APPROPRIATION. The commissioner of transportation may bill highway operations units of the department and local road authorities for the costs of a centrally managed highway sign program. These costs may include equipment acquisition and rental, labor, materials, and other costs as determined by the commissioner. Receipts must be credited to a special account, which is established in the trunk highway fund, and are appropriated to the commissioner to pay the costs for which the billings are made. Amounts credited to the account are exempt from statewide and agency indirect costs payments. History:   1Sp2005 c 6 art 3 s 3
MN Stat § 160.801 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.801 — Highway Sponsorship Program.

160.801 HIGHWAY SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM. Subdivision 1. Sponsorship program. (a) The commissioner is authorized to establish a program designed to encourage businesses, civic groups, or individuals to voluntarily assist with the improvement and maintenance of real property comprising the trunk highway system, including bicycle and pedestrian trails, roadside monuments, and historic sites. (b) All support provided by volunteers or vendors must be carried out in a manner consistent with construction and maintenance plans approved by the commissioner after consultation with the volunteers. (c) The commissioner may provide assistance to (1) enhance volunteer safety, and (2) facilitate the implementation and administration of the sponsorship program. Subd. 2. Agreements. The commissioner may enter into volunteer agreements with businesses, civic groups, or individuals to support, maintain, and make improvements to real property included in the trunk highway system. Agreements under this section are not subject to section 161.32. Subd. 3. Support activities. (a) The volunteer support activities include but are not limited to: (1) work to create, protect, and enhance pollinator habitat along highway rights-of-way; (2) work to pick up litter along roadsides; (3) work to install enhancements, including landscaping materials, on trunk highway property; (4) financial support provided to the department for specific roadside improvements; (5) financial support consisting of the sponsor hiring a professional landscape contractor to install vegetation, maintain landscape plantings, or pick up litter, or for other similar activities along a selected area of highway right-of-way; or (6) installation of features that enhance the aesthetics of trunk highway property or the amenities available to highway users. (b) All volunteer support activities must have prior commissioner approval. Subd. 4. Acknowledgment of sponsors. The commissioner may erect signs to publicly recognize and express appreciation to businesses, civic groups, and individuals that provide volunteer funding or services under the sponsorship program. Subd. 5. Highway sponsorship program account; appropriation. Funds received under this section must be deposited in the highway sponsorship program account, which is created in the special revenue fund. The account consists of funds as provided by law, and any other money donated, allotted, transferred, or otherwise provided to the account. Funds in the account are annually appropriated to the commissioner for the purpose specified in the volunteer agreement. Subd. 6. Prohibition. The commissioner must not take action under this section that would result in the loss of federal highway funds or require payment of highway funds to the federal government. History:   1Sp2017 c 3 art 3 s 17
MN Stat § 160.81 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.81 — Highways In Scenic Areas.

160.81 HIGHWAYS IN SCENIC AREAS. Subdivision 1. Joint standards. The commissioner of transportation, in consultation with the commissioner of natural resources, shall establish standards for trunk highway segments located in areas of unusual scenic interest. The standards shall: (1) establish and ensure that the safety of the traveling public is maintained or enhanced; (2) define "areas of unusual scenic interest," which must include major recreational areas, historic areas, and major publicly and privately owned tourist attractions; (3) prescribe standards for right-of-way, shoulders, and parking areas for trunk highway segments in such areas; and (4) prescribe standards for scenic overlooks, parking piers and other parking areas, tourist information facilities, public water access points and other facilities intended to expand the recreational use of trunk highway segments in such areas. Subd. 2. Plan. The commissioner of transportation, in consultation with the commissioner of natural resources, shall prepare a plan for the recreational uses of trunk highway right-of-way and adjacent public land in areas of unusual scenic interest. The plan must ensure that the safety of the traveling public is maintained or enhanced. The plan must provide for the enhancement of such recreational uses by the construction of new recreational facilities or the improvement or rehabilitation of existing recreational facilities, as enumerated in subdivision 1, clause (4). The plan must provide for joint development of these facilities by the Departments of Transportation and Natural Resources, where feasible, and must contain provisions permitting local units of government and regional development commissions to participate in the planning and development of recreational facilities. Subd. 3. Recreational facilities. The commissioner of transportation may, in areas of unusual scenic interest: (1) construct, improve, and maintain recreational facilities, including parking areas, scenic overlooks, and tourist information facilities, on trunk highway right-of-way and adjacent areas; and (2) construct, improve, and maintain access ramps and turnoffs to connect trunk highways with recreational land owned by the Department of Natural Resources. Subd. 4.  [Repealed, 1987 c 321 s 8] History:  1986 c 454 s 4; 1987 c 321 s 1; 1994 c 635 art 1 s 2; 2005 c 120 s 1; 2005 c 135 s 1
MN Stat § 160.82 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.82 — Park Roads.

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 alignment of a park road that would affect the wildlife habitat or aesthetic characteristics of the park road or its adjacent vegetation or terrain, unless: (1) the change is required to permit the safe travel of vehicles at the speed lawfully designated for the park road, in which case the change must be made; or (2) if the road is a county state-aid highway or municipal state-aid street, the change is required by the minimum state-aid standard applicable to the road. Subd. 3. Liability. (a) A road authority and its officers and employees, are exempt from liability for any tort claim for injury to persons or property arising from travel on a park road and related to the design of the park road, if: (1) the design is adopted to conform to subdivision 2; (2) the design is not grossly negligent; and (3) if the park road is a county state-aid highway or municipal state-aid street, the design complies with the minimum state-aid standard applicable to the road. (b) This subdivision does not preclude an action for damages arising from negligence in the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of a park road. History:  1991 c 298 art 4 s 2; 1994 c 635 art 1 s 3
MN Stat § 160.83 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.83 — Rustic Roads Program.

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-round use as a local access road; and maximum allowable speed of 45 miles per hour. Subd. 2. Local authority. A road authority other than the commissioner may, by resolution, designate a road or highway under its jurisdiction a rustic road and the road authority may designate the type and character of vehicles that may be operated on the rustic road; designate the road or a portion of the road as a pedestrian way or bicycle way, or both; and establish priority of right-of-way, paint lines, and construct dividers to physically separate vehicular, bicycle, or pedestrian traffic. Subd. 3. Joint designation. Two or more road authorities may jointly designate a rustic road along a common boundary or into or through their jurisdictions. The road authorities may enter into agreements to divide the costs and responsibility for maintaining the rustic road. Subd. 4. Costs. A rustic road must be maintained by the road authority having jurisdiction over the road and is not eligible for state-aid funding. State money must not be spent to construct, reconstruct, maintain, or improve a rustic road. Subd. 5. Liability. (a) A rustic road may be maintained at a level less than the minimum standards required for state-aid highways, roads, and streets, but must be maintained at the level required to serve anticipated traffic volumes. Where a road has been designated by resolution as a rustic road and speed limits have been posted under subdivision 1, the road authority with jurisdiction over the road, and its officers and employees, are exempt from liability for any tort claim for injury to person or property arising from travel on the rustic road related to its maintenance, design, or condition if: (1) the maintenance, design, or condition is consistent with the anticipated use as described in subdivision 2; and (2) the maintenance, design, or condition is not grossly negligent. (b) Nothing in this subdivision exempts a road authority from its duty to maintain bridges under chapter 165 or other applicable law. History:  1991 c 298 art 4 s 3; 1996 c 455 art 3 s 2
MN Stat § 160.84 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.84 — Definitions.

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, improved, rehabilitated, and operated by a private operator who holds title to the facility subject to a development agreement providing that title will be transferred to the road authority on expiration of an agreed term. Subd. 3. BTO facility. "BTO facility" means a build-transfer-operate toll facility developed, financed, designed, constructed, improved, or rehabilitated by a private operator who: (1) transfers any interest it may have in the toll facility to the road authority before operation begins; and (2) operates the toll facility for an agreed term under a lease, management, or toll concession agreement. Subd. 4. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Subd. 5. Development agreement. "Development agreement" means a written agreement between a road authority and a private operator that provides for the development, financing, design, construction, improvement, rehabilitation, ownership, and operation of a toll facility. Subd. 6. Metropolitan area. "Metropolitan area" has the meaning given it in section 473.121, subdivision 2. Subd. 7. Private operator. "Private operator" means an individual, corporation, partnership, cooperative or unincorporated association, joint venture, or consortium that develops, finances, designs, constructs, improves, rehabilitates, owns, or operates a toll facility subject to sections 160.84 to 160.92. Subd. 8. Road authority. "Road authority" has the meaning given it in section 160.02, subdivision 25, and also refers to a joint powers authority formed under section 160.91. Subd. 9. Toll facility. "Toll facility" means a bridge, causeway, or tunnel, and its approaches; a road, street, or highway; an appurtenant building, structure, or other improvement; land lying within applicable rights-of-way; and other appurtenant rights or hereditaments that together comprise a project for which a road authority or private operator is authorized to develop, finance, design, operate, and impose tolls under sections 160.84 to 160.92. History:  1993 c 211 s 1; 2008 c 152 art 6 s 1
MN Stat § 160.845 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.845 — Restrictions On Toll Facility.

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 of a city, or a private operator may not limit operation of a commercial motor vehicle, as defined in section 169.011, subdivision 16, to a toll facility or otherwise require that a commercial motor vehicle use the tolled portion of a highway. (b) This section does not apply to (1) any toll facility or high-occupancy vehicle lane constructed, converted, or established before September 1, 2007, (2) any additional lane, including a priced dynamic shoulder lane, high-occupancy vehicle lane, or high-occupancy toll lane, added to a highway after September 1, 2007, and (3) any other general purpose lane that adds capacity. History:   2008 c 152 art 6 s 2
MN Stat § 160.86 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.86 — Toll Facility Development Agreement; Requirements.

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 commissioner must review and approve the location and design of a bridge over navigable waters as if the bridge were constructed by a road authority. This requirement does not diminish the private operator's responsibility for bridge safety. (c) The private operator shall manage and operate the toll facility in cooperation with the road authority and subject to the development agreement. (d) The toll facility is subject to regular inspections by the road authority and the commissioner. (e) The agreement must provide the terms and conditions of maintenance, snow removal, and police services to the toll facility. The road authority must provide the services. The services must meet at least the road authority's standards for facilities of the same functional classification. (f) The agreement must establish a reasonable rate of return on investment and capital during the term of the agreement. History:   1993 c 211 s 3
MN Stat § 160.87 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.87 — Toll Facility Cost Recovery.

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 agreement; costs of operation necessary to meet applicable standards of the road authority; and reasonable reserves for future capital outlays. The enumeration of uses in this subdivision does not state priorities for the use of these revenues. Subd. 2. Residual toll revenues. Residual toll revenues after the payments specified in subdivision 1 are made belong to the private operator. Subd. 3. Continuation of tolls. After expiration of a lease for a BTO facility, or after title has reverted for a BOT facility, the road authority may continue to charge tolls for the facility. History:   1993 c 211 s 4
MN Stat § 160.88 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.88 — Public Toll Facilities.

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
MN Stat § 160.90 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.90 — Law Enforcement On Toll Facilities.

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 officers have free access to the toll facility at any time to exercise those powers. State and local traffic and motor vehicle laws apply to persons driving or occupying motor vehicles on the toll facility. History:   1993 c 211 s 7
MN Stat § 160.91 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.91 — Joint Authority Over Toll Facility.

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, including negotiation and administration of the development agreement and related lease, management, and toll concession agreements. If all road authorities with jurisdiction over a toll facility concur, title to or authority over the facility may be tendered to the commissioner who may accept the title or authority pursuant to the development agreement and this section. History:   1993 c 211 s 8
MN Stat § 160.92 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.92 — Toll Facility Replacement Projects.

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 metropolitan area. History:   1993 c 211 s 9
MN Stat § 160.98 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.98 — Prohibition On Road And Bridge Privatization.

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 utilized by the buyer, lessor, or operator for highway purposes. Nothing in this section prevents sale, reconveyance, or easements under section 160.274, 161.23, 161.41, 161.411, 161.431, 161.44, 161.442, or any other similar provision. History:   2008 c 152 art 6 s 3
MN Stat § 161.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.01 — Definitions.

 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
MN Stat § 161.045 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.045 — Highway User Tax Distribution Fund Appropriations; Trunk Highway Fund Appropriations.

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 tax distribution fund or the trunk highway fund. Subd. 2. General expenditure requirements. A commissioner may expend highway user tax distribution funds only for highway purposes and may expend trunk highway funds only for trunk highway purposes. Subd. 3. Limitations on spending. (a) A commissioner must not pay for any of the following with funds from the highway user tax distribution fund or the trunk highway fund: (1) Bureau of Criminal Apprehension laboratory; (2) Explore Minnesota Tourism kiosks; (3) Minnesota Safety Council; (4) driver education programs; (5) Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board; (6) Mississippi River Parkway Commission; (7) payments to the Department of Information Technology Services in excess of actual costs incurred for trunk highway purposes; (8) personnel costs incurred on behalf of the governor's office; (9) the Office of Aeronautics within the Department of Transportation; (10) the Office of Transit and Active Transportation within the Department of Transportation; (11) the Office of Passenger Rail; (12) purchase and maintenance of soft body armor under section 299A.38; (13) tourist information centers; (14) parades, events, or sponsorships of events; (15) rent and utility expenses for the department's central office building; (16) the installation, construction, expansion, or maintenance of public electric vehicle infrastructure; (17) the statewide notification center for excavation services pursuant to chapter 216D; and (18) manufacturing license plates. (b) The prohibition in paragraph (a) includes all expenses for the named entity or program, including but not limited to payroll, purchased services, supplies, repairs, and equipment. This prohibition on spending applies to any successor entities or programs that are substantially similar to the entity or program named in this subdivision. History: 2021 c 31 art 2 s 16; 1Sp2021 c 5 art 4 s 11 NOTE: This section, as added by Laws 2021, First Special Session chapter 5, article 4, section 11, is effective July 1, 2025. Laws 2021, First Special Session chapter 5, article 4, section 11, the effective date.
MN Stat § 161.083 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.083 — Municipal Turnback Account, Expenditure.

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 the reconstruction and improvement of former trunk highways, or portions thereof, that have reverted to such municipality in accordance with law, and have become a part of the municipal state-aid street system. History:  1965 c 672 s 3; 1967 c 187 s 2; 1976 c 166 s 7; 1985 c 248 s 70
MN Stat § 161.084 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.084 — Surplus Funds In Turnback Accounts.

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 writing of such determination, and such surplus funds, in the amount specified by the commissioner, shall be transferred to the county state-aid highway fund, or the municipal state-aid street fund, as the case may be, and apportioned as provided by law. History:  1965 c 672 s 4; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1986 c 444; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109