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MN Stat § 163.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 163 — County Highways|Section 163.15 — Bridge Across Diversion Channel.

 163.15 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 163.15 BRIDGE ACROSS DIVERSION CHANNEL. Whenever any county has been authorized by the commissioner of natural resources to divert the channel of a navigable stream for the purpose of improving a county road and the board of commissioners of such county has by resolution ordered diversion of the navigable stream across private property so that the stream and the channel thereof when so diverted deprives the owner of the private property of access to the county road, the owner of the private property may grant to the county a perpetual easement for road purposes across that private property commencing at a point 50 feet distant from the relocated or diversion channel, thence crossing the relocated or diversion channel and intersecting the county road so to be improved; and the road easement shall extend for a distance of two rods on each side of the centerline thereof and be and remain a public road. The county shall forthwith establish and construct a highway upon the strip of land pursuant to law, build a suitable bridge, including approaches thereto, across the channel, and at public expense thenceforth maintain the road and bridge so established in a safe condition so as to afford the owner of the private property access to the improved county road. History:  1959 c 500 art 4 s 15; 1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 163.161 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 163 — County Highways|Section 163.161 — Impassable City Thoroughfare.

163.161 IMPASSABLE CITY THOROUGHFARE. When a written complaint signed by five or more landowners of a statutory city of not more than 5,000 population is presented to the county board stating that a city thoroughfare located outside an urban area as defined in section 169.011, subdivision 90, has not been properly maintained and because of the improper maintenance is not reasonably passable, the county board shall consider and act upon the complaint in the same manner provided for a complaint under section 163.16. History:  1986 c 454 s 9; 2004 c 228 art 2 s 4
MN Stat § 163.17 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 163 — County Highways|Section 163.17 — Drainage System Affecting Highway; Alteration.

 163.17 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 163.17 DRAINAGE SYSTEM AFFECTING HIGHWAY; ALTERATION. Upon the filing of a resolution by the county board of any county with the county auditor, in the case of a public ditch system lying wholly within a county, or with the court administrator of the district court having jurisdiction over said ditch in the case of a ditch system affecting two or more counties, therein setting forth that it would be advantageous or desirable in the construction or maintenance of a highway under the jurisdiction of the county to make a minor alteration or change in a public ditch system directly affecting the highway, and that the alteration or change will not affect the functioning or efficiency of the ditch system, it shall be the duty of the auditor, or the clerk with the approval of the judge, to fix a time and place for hearing thereon and to give notice of hearing by publication as defined by section 103E.005, subdivision 24. Upon the filing of the resolution, the board shall also cause to be filed a plan showing in detail the alteration or change therein described. If upon the hearing it shall appear to the county board or district court that the alteration or change in the public ditch system will not affect or impair the efficiency of the ditch system, the board or court shall make its order authorizing the county to cause the alteration or change to be made. Upon the making of the order by the county board or the court, the county board may proceed at the sole cost and expense of the county to make the alterations or changes as may be in the order allowed; damages, if any, occasioned thereby being first duly paid or secured by the county. Upon completion of the alteration or change, the county board shall cause to be filed with the auditor or court administrator a map and profile drawn to scale showing thereon the change or alteration made. If the map and profile be filed with the court administrator, duplicates thereof shall also be filed with the auditor of each county affected. Upon the completion of the alteration or change herein provided for, the ditch shall thereafter include the alteration or change as part thereof with the same force and effect as though it had been originally so constructed and established. History:  1959 c 500 art 4 s 17; 1985 c 172 s 126; 1Sp1986 c 3 art 1 s 82; 1990 c 391 art 8 s 31
MN Stat § 164.01 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.01 — Definitions.

 164.01 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.01 DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in section 160.02 shall have the same meanings. History:   1959 c 500 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 164.02 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.02 — Town Roads.

 164.02 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.02 TOWN ROADS. Subdivision 1. Establishment and supervision. Town roads shall be established, located, relocated, constructed, reconstructed, improved and maintained, or vacated by the several towns. The town boards shall have supervision over town roads, and they may employ such persons as they deem necessary to carry out their duties. They may appropriate and expend such sums of money from their respective town road and bridge funds as they deem necessary for the establishment, location, relocation, construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance, or vacation of such roads. Subject to sections 88.16, 88.17, and 88.22, maintenance may include town ordinances to regulate the burning of vegetation on town road rights-of-way. The ordinance shall set forth limits and conditions on burning to minimize the danger of fire escaping. A town adopting an ordinance pursuant to this section shall submit a copy of the ordinance to the Department of Natural Resources. Subd. 2. Acquisition. They may acquire by purchase, gift, or eminent domain proceedings, as provided by law, all necessary right-of-way for such roads, purchase all necessary road material, purchase or rent machinery, tools, and supplies needed therefor, and may construct buildings, or rent or acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation grounds and buildings necessary for the storing and housing of the material, machinery, tools, and supplies. History:  1959 c 500 art 5 s 2; 1974 c 161 s 9; 1989 c 180 s 1
MN Stat § 164.03 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.03 — Expenditures For Roads.

 164.03 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 300 s 1] 164.03 EXPENDITURES FOR ROADS. Subdivision 1. Aid for county highway or county state-aid highway. When authorized by a vote of the electors at any annual meeting or at any special meeting called for that purpose, the town board of any town may appropriate money from the town road and bridge fund to aid in the construction, improvement, or maintenance of any county highway or county state-aid highway located within the town. Subd. 2. Appropriation to county for use on town roads. When authorized by the electors, and with the consent of the county board, the town board may appropriate money to the county from the town road and bridge fund for the construction, improvement, and maintenance of town roads designated by the town board. Subd. 3. Specific uses of money appropriated. Any money so appropriated shall be paid into the county road and bridge fund and shall be used only for the purposes designated by the town board at the time it made such appropriation. Subd. 4. Report. The town board shall render to the annual town meeting a written report containing: (1) the amount of road taxes levied and the amount collected during the preceding year and all money paid into the road and bridge fund from all other sources; (2) a statement of the improvements needed on roads, cartways, and bridges for the ensuing year, with an estimate of their probable expense; (3) a statement of all expenses and damages occasioned by establishing, altering, or vacating roads and of all sums expended for machinery, implements, tools, stone, gravel, and other material during the year, with an estimate of the amount required for ensuing year; and (4) a statement of the improvements made on roads, cartways, and bridges during the preceding year, with a statement of expenditures therefor. History:  1959 c 500 art 5 s 3; 1993 c 25 s 1
MN Stat § 164.04 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.04 — Taxation For Roads.

 164.04 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.04 TAXATION FOR ROADS. Subdivision 1. Road taxes; payment. All real and personal property in each town liable to taxation shall be taxed for road purposes, and all road taxes hereafter levied shall be paid in cash. Subd. 2. Fixed at annual town meeting. The electors of each town shall have power at their annual town meeting to determine the amount of money which shall be raised by taxation for road and bridge purposes. The tax so voted shall be extended, collected, and payment thereof enforced in the same manner and at the same time as is provided by law for the extension, collection, and enforcement of other town taxes. Subd. 3. Emergency. In case of emergency after the town meeting, but not later than October 1 in the same year, the town board may levy a tax on the property in the town for road and bridge purposes, in addition to any tax voted at the annual town meeting for road and bridge purposes. Any tax so levied shall be certified to the county auditor for extension and collection. The town board may thereafter pledge the credit of the town by issuing town orders, not exceeding the amount of the additional tax so levied for road and bridge purposes, in payment for the emergency work done or material used on the roads within the town. History:  1959 c 500 art 5 s 4; 1973 c 773 s 1; 1975 c 268 s 1; 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1989 c 277 art 4 s 15; 1994 c 505 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 164.06 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.06 — Powers Regarding Town Roads.

 164.06 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.06 POWERS REGARDING TOWN ROADS. Subdivision 1. Authorization. A town board, when authorized by a vote of the electors at the annual meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, may establish, alter, or vacate a town road, including those dedicated to the public by plat, in accordance with section 164.07, subdivisions 2 to 12, and may acquire the right-of-way as may be necessary for the road by gift, purchase or as provided in section 164.07. Subd. 2. Extinguishing interest in abandoned road. (a) After providing notice as required in paragraph (c), the town board may by resolution disclaim and extinguish a town interest in a town road without action under subdivision 1 if: (1) the extinguishment is found by the town board to be in the public interest; (2) the interest is not a fee interest; (3) the interest was established more than 25 years earlier; (4) the interest is not recorded or filed with the county recorder; (5) no road improvement has been constructed on a right-of-way affected by the interest within the last 25 years; and (6) no road maintenance on a right-of-way affected by the interest has occurred within the last 25 years. (b) The resolution shall be filed with the county auditor and recorded with the county recorder. (c) Not less than 30 days before the first meeting at which a resolution to disclaim and extinguish a town interest in a town road under this subdivision is discussed, the town board shall provide notice of the meeting by certified mail to each property owner abutting the road to be extinguished. A notice must also be posted as provided under section 366.01, subdivision 8. History:  1959 c 500 art 5 s 6; 1984 c 562 s 8; 1985 c 169 s 5; 1Sp1985 c 16 art 2 s 10; 1992 c 578 s 1; 1993 c 117 s 2; 1995 c 25 s 1; 2005 c 4 s 30; 2008 c 287 art 1 s 18
MN Stat § 164.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.09 — Joint Cartways.

 164.09 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.09 JOINT CARTWAYS. Subdivision 1. Joint resolution. The town boards of adjoining towns by joint resolution may establish a cartway commencing in one such town and terminating in another such town when the cartway will provide access to a tract or tracts of land of not less than five acres which have no access to a public road except over the lands of others. Subd. 2. Agreements. The town boards, in behalf of their respective towns, may enter into agreements with each other providing for the equitable division of the costs and responsibilities to be borne by each for the right-of-way, construction, and maintenance of the cartway. The agreement may also provide for the letting of a joint construction contract covering all or part of the work to be performed on the cartway. Subd. 3. Procedure. After entering into the agreement the town boards shall proceed in accordance with the agreement to construct and maintain the joint cartway. History:   1959 c 500 art 5 s 9
MN Stat § 164.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.10 — Expenditures On Cartway.

 164.10 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.10 EXPENDITURES ON CARTWAY. Any town board may expend town road and bridge funds upon a legally established cartway the same as on town roads if, in the judgment of the board the public interests require it; provided, that where any town board has refused to allocate funds for the upkeep of a cartway, then, upon the petition of ten taxpayers of the town, the town board shall present for the approval of the voters, after due notice, at the annual town meeting the petition for allocation of funds, and at the town meeting the electors of the town shall allow or reject the petition. If the majority of those voting approve the petition for allocation of funds, the town board shall expend road and bridge funds on the cartway. History:   1959 c 500 art 5 s 10
MN Stat § 164.11 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.11 — Land Dedicated As Road Or Street.

 164.11 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.11 LAND DEDICATED AS ROAD OR STREET. Land dedicated to public use as a street, road, or cartway, if not less than 30 feet in width, shall be deemed a legal cartway. History:  1959 c 500 art 5 s 11; 1984 c 562 s 9
MN Stat § 164.13 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.13 — Expenses Of Certain Town Line Roads.

 164.13 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.13 EXPENSES OF CERTAIN TOWN LINE ROADS. Subdivision 1. Bridges. In all cases where a road other than a county road, a county state-aid highway or trunk highway is on the line between two towns, whether the towns are in the same county or not, it shall be the duty of the towns to bear jointly and in equal shares the expense of constructing and maintaining any bridge on the road as made necessary by the construction of a drainage ditch or by reason of the changing, widening or alteration of any drainage ditch, or by reason of the altering or changing of any watercourse. Subd. 2. Ditches. In any proceeding for the establishment and construction of any drainage ditch or the changing, widening or alteration of any such ditch, or the altering of any watercourse, as specified in this section, each of the towns charged by the provisions of this section with the obligation of constructing and maintaining any bridge because of any such improvements, shall be awarded and paid one-half of the total damages awarded for the construction of the bridge by reason of the obligation to construct and maintain the bridge. History:   1959 c 500 art 5 s 13
MN Stat § 164.14 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.14 — Road On Line Between Town And City.

 164.14 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.14 ROAD ON LINE BETWEEN TOWN AND CITY. Subdivision 1. Proposal to establish. When a town and an adjoining city propose to establish, alter, or vacate a road on or along the line between the town and the adjoining city, they may proceed as hereinafter provided. Subd. 2. Agreement. The town board and the governing body of the adjoining city may enter into agreements providing for the equitable division of the costs and responsibilities to be borne by each for the establishment, alteration, or vacation of the road. If the agreement provides for the establishment or alteration of such a road, the agreement may also provide for the letting of a joint construction contract covering all or part of the work to be performed on the road. The agreement may also provide for a division of the costs of subsequent improvement and maintenance of the road. Subd. 3. Joint resolution. After entering into the agreement the town board and the governing body of the city, by joint resolution shall establish, alter, or vacate the road in accordance with the agreement. The town board shall proceed in the manner and subject to the same review as provided in section 164.06 or section 164.07, and the city shall proceed in the manner provided by law for the establishment, alteration, or vacation, as the case may be, of city streets. Subd. 4. Inequitable agreement. If an agreement for the division, as provided in subdivision 2, has proved to be inequitable, either the town board or the governing body of the city may petition the county board, or where the road is on a county line, the county boards of the counties concerned, to resolve the matter, and the county board or boards shall determine the proper division of responsibility. Where deemed necessary, the services of the county engineer may be used. History:  1959 c 500 art 5 s 14; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1984 c 562 s 10
MN Stat § 164.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.15 — Dedication Of Land For Road Or Cartway.

 164.15 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 164.15 DEDICATION OF LAND FOR ROAD OR CARTWAY. Subdivision 1. Application. One or more owners may dedicate land for a road or cartway by making application therefor in writing to the town board, describing the land, the purpose of its dedication, and filing the application with the clerk. The clerk shall present the same to the town board which, within ten days after the filing, may pass a resolution declaring the land described to be a public road or cartway. When so declared the land shall be deemed duly dedicated for the purpose expressed in the application and no damages shall be assessed or allowed therefor. Subd. 2. Bridge over lake. Any person owning land to exceed 40 acres constituting part of an island within any meandered lake may at personal expense erect a bridge across such portion of the lake as may separate the person's land from the nearest town road on shore, provided the structure shall not interfere with the use of that part of the lake for the passage of such watercraft as would otherwise pass that point. Before proceeding with the construction of the bridge, proper plans and specifications therefor shall be prepared and submitted to and approved by the town board of the town in which the bridge is to be constructed. If public waters are involved, the plans shall first be approved by the commissioner of natural resources. Upon the completion of the bridge in accordance with the plans and specifications, the town board shall approve the same and endorse its approval upon the plans and specifications therefor; and thereupon the same shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the town in which the bridge is located and the bridge shall thereupon become a part of the town road and open to the use of the public as such. History:  1959 c 500 art 5 s 15; 1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 164.151 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.151 — Recreational Vehicle Lanes.

164.151 RECREATIONAL VEHICLE LANES. In addition to any other authority granted by law, any town board may establish recreational vehicle lanes on the outer rods of town roads which are deemed dedicated to a width of four rods pursuant to section 160.05, subdivision 1. History:   1973 c 620 s 6
MN Stat § 164.152 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.152 — Barricaded Road; Liability.

164.152 BARRICADED ROAD; LIABILITY. When a town board, by resolution, closes and barricades a road under its jurisdiction to motor vehicle use, for seasonal recreation use or other purposes, the town board and its officers and employees are exempt from liability for any claim for injury to person or property arising from any use, whether recreational or otherwise, of the barricaded road. History:   1985 c 307 s 18
MN Stat § 164.155 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.155 — Restoration Of Certain Town Road.

164.155 RESTORATION OF CERTAIN TOWN ROAD. Subdivision 1. Liability of political subdivision. Any political subdivision transporting or causing to be transported any sand, gravel or other road-building materials over a town road shall restore that road or reimburse the town for restoration of that road to as good condition as it was prior to that transportation. Subd. 2. Contract by political subdivision. Whenever a political subdivision and a private contractor enter a contract that contemplates the transporting of road-building materials by that contractor or a subcontractor over a town road, the political subdivision shall require, as a term of that contract, that the contractor assume the liability of the political subdivision under subdivision 1. History:   1978 c 474 s 1
MN Stat § 164.36 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 164 — Town Roads|Section 164.36 — Town Authority Over Recorded Road.

164.36 TOWN AUTHORITY OVER RECORDED ROAD. The town board has authority within the 66-foot right-of-way to: (1) maintain or reconstruct a recorded road used for vehicular travel; (2) dispose of snow; (3) plant trees and shrubs that it considers appropriate; (4) remove trees and other woody vegetation as provided in section 160.22; (5) allow the placement of highway directional and informational signs as provided in section 169.06, subdivision 3; (6) allow the placement of electrical and telephone poles, pipelines, and electrical, telephone, or television cables, and to require prior notice of the proposed placement and restoration of the right-of-way to its condition immediately prior to the placement; (7) control weeds and regulate the cutting or complete removal of nonwoody vegetation; and (8) regulate erosion, drainage, public nuisances, and matters of public interest. History:  1987 c 219 s 2; 1991 c 99 s 1