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MN Stat § 161.21 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.21 — Studies.

161.21 STUDIES. Subdivision 1. Location and design of highways. The commissioner may make or cause to be made such studies and investigations as the commissioner deems necessary for the purpose of determining the most advantageous location and design of trunk highways from the standpoint of both present and future traffic needs, and in making such determinations the commissioner may take into consideration the probable future development of both urban and rural areas and the effect of such development on future traffic needs as indicated by such studies and investigations and the location and design with respect to bikeway establishment. Subd. 2. Cooperation with other governmental units. Such studies and investigations may also be carried out by the commissioner in cooperation with any governmental authority or agency of this state or of any other state, the federal government or any of its agency, including the National Academy of Sciences, whenever federal law or federal rules and regulations require such studies in order for Minnesota to receive federal aid. History:  1959 c 500 art 2 s 21; 1963 c 115 s 1; 1973 c 620 s 3; 1986 c 444; 1Sp2017 c 3 art 3 s 25
MN Stat § 161.231 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.231 — Appropriation; Proceeds From State Property.

161.231 APPROPRIATION; PROCEEDS FROM STATE PROPERTY. There is appropriated annually from the fund or account in the state treasury to which the money from the sale, lease, conveyance, or disposal of state property is credited a sufficient amount of money to carry out the state's obligations under the provisions of sections 15.16, 117.135, 117.226, 161.16, 161.202, 161.23, subdivision 3, 161.24, 161.241, 161.43, 161.433, 161.44, 161.442, and 272.68, subdivision 3, including the inventorying, marketing, and property management activities required to sell, lease, rent, permit, convey, or otherwise dispose of the land or the interest in the land. At the discretion of the commissioner of transportation, money in the account at the end of each biennium may cancel to the trunk highway fund. History:  Ex1971 c 3 s 75; 2015 c 75 art 2 s 8
MN Stat § 161.241 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.241 — Relocation Of Railroad Tracks, Acquisition Of Land.

161.241 RELOCATION OF RAILROAD TRACKS, ACQUISITION OF LAND. Subdivision 1. Acquisition. Whenever the construction, reconstruction, or improvement of a trunk highway will require the acquisition by the state of lands or interests in lands owned by a railroad company, and will require the railroad company to relocate its tracks in order to provide right-of-way for the trunk highway, the commissioner of transportation may either reimburse the railroad company for replacement lands including all reasonable costs directly related to acquiring the replacement lands, necessary for relocation of its tracks or may acquire, by purchase, gift, or eminent domain proceedings, the lands or interests in lands necessary for the relocation of such tracks. Such acquisition is deemed to be for a trunk highway purpose. The commissioner and the railroad company shall mutually agree whether the replacement lands will be provided by the commissioner or acquired by the railroad company. Subd. 2. Agreement. The lands to be acquired from the railroad company, and the lands necessary for the relocation of the railroad tracks to be acquired by the state, shall be described in a voluntary agreement between the railroad company and the commissioner. Such agreement shall set forth the consideration to be paid for the lands involved. The consideration may be an even exchange of land if the market value is equal, or there may be money payment or services to be rendered by one party or the other to the agreement in addition to the exchange of land, depending on the relative market values of the lands involved. Any money paid to the state shall be credited to the trunk highway fund. Subd. 3. Form of conveyance. The commissioner shall convey to the railroad company, by quitclaim deed, lands or interests in lands acquired by the state pursuant to the provisions of subdivisions 1 to 3. Subd. 4. Highway lands no longer needed. The commissioner shall convey to a railroad company, by quitclaim deed, lands owned by the state in fee for trunk highway purposes, but no longer needed for such purposes, when the lands are needed by a railroad company for the relocation of its tracks which is required by the construction, reconstruction, or improvement of a trunk highway. The consideration must be set forth in a voluntary agreement between the railroad company and the commissioner of transportation and must be as provided in subdivision 2. Subd. 5.  [Repealed, 1976 c 163 s 63] History:  1963 c 704 s 1-3; 1976 c 166 s 7; 1983 c 143 s 3,4; 2003 c 102 s 1
MN Stat § 161.25 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.25 — Temporary Trunk Highway Detour; Haul Road.

161.25 TEMPORARY TRUNK HIGHWAY DETOUR; HAUL ROAD. If, for the purpose of constructing or maintaining any trunk highway, the use of any public street or highway is necessary for a detour or haul road, the commissioner may designate any such street or highway as a temporary trunk highway detour or as a temporary trunk highway haul road, and shall thereafter maintain the same as a temporary trunk highway until the commissioner revokes the designation. Prior to revoking the designation the commissioner shall restore such streets or highways to as good condition as they were prior to the designation of same as temporary trunk highways. Upon revoking the designation, the street or highway shall revert to the subdivision charged with the care thereof at the time it was taken over as a temporary trunk highway. History:  1959 c 500 art 2 s 25; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 635 art 2 s 3
MN Stat § 161.26 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.26 — Highway Maintained Across Portion Of Adjoining State.

161.26 HIGHWAY MAINTAINED ACROSS PORTION OF ADJOINING STATE. When a state trunk highway route is so located that in order to properly connect the designated objectives it is advisable to construct and maintain the highway across a portion of an adjoining state, the commissioner is authorized to expend trunk highway funds therefor in the same manner as other expenditures for trunk highway purposes are made. No such highway or portion thereof shall be established or constructed in any adjoining state until the adjoining state shall first pass legislation consenting thereto and granting the commissioner necessary jurisdiction over the portion of the highway located in the adjoining state. History:   1959 c 500 art 2 s 26
MN Stat § 161.261 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.261 — Connector Segments With Other States.

161.261 CONNECTOR SEGMENTS WITH OTHER STATES. Subdivision 1. Agreement to improve segment in other state. When the beginning or terminal of a trunk highway is the state boundary, and the commissioner of transportation and the authorities of the adjoining state deem it desirable during the construction or improvement of such trunk highway to construct or improve a connector highway in the adjoining state thereby connecting or improving the connection of such trunk highway with the highway system of the adjoining state, the commissioner may enter into agreements with the authorities of such adjoining state providing for such connecting highway to be constructed or improved under and as part of the trunk highway construction contract. Such connector highway shall connect with the trunk highway at the state boundary. The entire cost of constructing or improving the connector highway, including engineering costs and expenses, planning and designing expenses, and any other expenses attributable to such connector highway, shall be paid by the adjoining state, and the manner and time of such payment shall be specified in the agreement. Subd. 2. Agreement to improve segment in Minnesota. The commissioner, in the interest of construction economy, may enter into agreements with the authorities of an adjoining state providing that the adjoining state construct or improve a segment of a Minnesota trunk highway route in conjunction with a construction project of the adjoining state so as to connect or improve the connection of the Minnesota trunk highway route with the highway system of such adjoining state at their common boundary. The cost of construction or improvement of such segment, including costs of planning and design and equitable engineering costs and expenses attributable to such segment, shall be paid from the trunk highway fund. Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1976 c 163 s 63] History:  1963 c 460 s 1-3; 1976 c 166 s 7; 2014 c 243 s 1,2
MN Stat § 161.27 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.27 — Trunk Highways Across Bodies Of Water.

161.27 TRUNK HIGHWAYS ACROSS BODIES OF WATER. Subdivision 1. Permit. The commissioner may establish, construct, and maintain trunk highways into, through, or across any lake and may alter and change the channel of any stream when necessary or expedient in the construction or maintenance of any trunk highway; provided that no such trunk highway improvement affecting public waters shall be made until a permit therefor is issued by the commissioner of natural resources as provided by law. Subd. 2. Acquisition of lands. For the purposes set forth in subdivision 1 the commissioner may acquire lands and properties or any interest therein by purchase, gift, or condemnation. History:  1959 c 500 art 2 s 27; 1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1
MN Stat § 161.28 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.28 — Altering Public Drainage Ditch By Trunk Highway.

161.28 ALTERING PUBLIC DRAINAGE DITCH BY TRUNK HIGHWAY. Subdivision 1. Petition. Upon the filing of a petition by the commissioner with the appropriate county auditor setting forth that it would be advantageous or desirable in the construction or maintenance of a trunk highway to make a minor alteration or change in a public drainage system directly affecting a trunk highway and that the alteration or change will not affect the functioning or efficiency of the public drainage system, the auditor shall fix a time and place for hearing and give notice of the hearing by publication, as defined in section 103E.325. Upon the filing of the petition, the commissioner shall also file a plan showing in detail the alteration or change petitioned for. If upon the hearing it appears to the county board or joint county ditch authority that the alteration or change in the public drainage system will not affect or impair the efficiency of the drainage system, the board or authority shall make its order allowing the commissioner to make the alteration or change petitioned for. Upon the making of the order by the county board or the joint county ditch authority, the commissioner may proceed at the sole cost and expense of the state to make the alterations or changes as may be in the order allowed, damages, if any, for any additional lands necessary for the change or alteration being first duly paid or secured. Upon completion of the alteration or change, the commissioner shall file with the appropriate auditor a map drawn to scale showing the change or alteration made and shall also file a profile of all lines of the alteration or change in the ditch showing graphically the elevation of the ground and gradient, whether open or tiled, the size of tile, and the bottom width and side slope of open ditch sections, and such other information as may appear necessary for understanding. Upon the completion of the alteration or change herein provided for, the ditch shall thereafter include such alteration or change as a part of it with the same force and effect as though it had been originally so constructed and established. Subd. 2. Recovery of damages. Within six years after completion of any alteration or change as provided in this section, any owner or owners of lands in the drainage system claiming damages by reason of the alteration or change may bring an action in the district court of the county in which the lands are located to compel the commissioner to pay damages, if any, caused by the alteration or change. History:  1959 c 500 art 2 s 28; 1983 c 143 s 5; 1985 c 172 s 125; 1990 c 391 art 8 s 30
MN Stat § 161.29 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.29 — Acquiring Toll Bridge For Trunk Highway System.

161.29 ACQUIRING TOLL BRIDGE FOR TRUNK HIGHWAY SYSTEM. On determining that it is in the best interests of the public and necessary in the location, construction, improvement, or maintenance of any trunk highway, the commissioner may designate by order as a part of the trunk highway system any toll bridge situated wholly within the state, and may acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation, as provided by law, the necessary rights or easement in, to, or over any such toll bridge as will enable the public to use the bridge for highway traffic free of toll. History:  1959 c 500 art 2 s 29; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 161.30 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.30 — Marking Design.

161.30 MARKING DESIGN. Subdivision 1. Commissioner to adopt. The commissioner shall adopt a suitable marking design with which the commissioner shall mark or blaze the trunk highway routes, and as the definite final location of each route is opened to traffic the markings shall be changed to such location. Subd. 2. Avoiding duplicate numbering of routes; map. In order to coordinate the markings of the various existing routes, together with the new routes which have been or may be added, and in order to avoid duplication in numbers used on interstate routes, the commissioner may revise and consolidate the marking and numbering of the routes within the system from time to time. Upon revising the marking or numbering the commissioner shall prepare a map showing the existing routes and identifying numbers and the routes and identifying numbers or design of the revised system. This map shall be authenticated by a certificate of the commissioner certifying the same as being the map showing the revised markings under the provisions of this section. This map and certificate shall be filed in the office of the commissioner and thereafter shall govern the identification of the several routes or portions thereof in the trunk highway system and all proceedings, records, and accounts thereafter shall be governed accordingly. Proceedings pending and under way at the time such map is filed shall cite both the old and the new identifications. History:  1959 c 500 art 2 s 30; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 161.31 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.31 — Maps And Pamphlets.

161.31 MAPS AND PAMPHLETS. Subdivision 1. Maps. The commissioner shall periodically publish a map showing the location and status of improvements of the trunk highway system. Trunk highway maps may contain advertising as a means of offsetting the costs of preparing and distributing the maps. All advertising revenues received by the commissioner under this subdivision shall be deposited in the trunk highway fund. Subd. 2.  [Repealed, 2014 c 227 art 1 s 23] History:  1959 c 500 art 2 s 31; 1975 c 126 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 3 s 56; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 161.3206 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.3206 — Best-value Contracting Authority.

161.3206 BEST-VALUE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY. Notwithstanding sections 16C.25, 161.32, 161.321, or any other law to the contrary, the commissioner may solicit and award all contracts, other than design-build contracts governed by section 161.3412, for a project on the basis of a best-value selection process as defined in section 16C.28, subdivision 1b. Section 16C.08 does not apply to this section. History:  2007 c 148 art 3 s 17; 2014 c 196 art 3 s 2
MN Stat § 161.3208 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.3208 — Construction Manager/general Contractor; Authority.

161.3208 CONSTRUCTION MANAGER/GENERAL CONTRACTOR; AUTHORITY. Subdivision 1. Selection authority; limitation. Notwithstanding sections 16C.25, 161.32, and 161.321, or any other law to the contrary, the commissioner may select a construction manager/general contractor as provided in section 161.3209, and award a construction manager/general contractor contract. The number of awarded contracts shall not exceed three in any calendar year. Subd. 2. Determination. Final determination to use a construction manager/general contractor contracting procedure may be made only by the commissioner. Subd. 3. Cancellation. The solicitation of construction manager/general contractor requests for qualifications or proposals does not obligate the commissioner to enter into a construction manager/general contractor contract. The commissioner may accept or reject any or all responses received as a result of the request. The solicitation of proposals may be canceled at any time at the commissioner's sole discretion if cancellation is considered to be in the state's best interest. If the commissioner rejects all responses or cancels the solicitation for proposals, the commissioner may resolicit a request for proposals using the same or different requirements. Subd. 4. Reporting. The commissioner shall notify the chairs and ranking minority members of the senate and house of representatives committees with jurisdiction over transportation policy and transportation finance each time the commissioner decides to use the construction manager/general contractor method of procurement and explain why that method was chosen. History: 2012 c 287 art 3 s 3; 1Sp2021 c 5 art 4 s 22,121 NOTE: This section, as added by Laws 2012, chapter 287, article 3, section 3, expires one year following the acceptance of 20 construction manager/general contractor contracts. Laws 2012, chapter 287, article 3, section 3, the effective date, as amended by Laws 2021, First Special Session chapter 5, article 4, section 121.
MN Stat § 161.3212 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.3212 — Working Capital Fund.

161.3212 WORKING CAPITAL FUND. The commissioner, to the extent allowed by other law or contract, may grant available money that has been appropriated for socially or economically disadvantaged business programs to a guaranty fund administered by a nonprofit organization that makes or guarantees working capital loans to small business concerns owned and operated by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. "Small business concern" and "socially and economically disadvantaged individual" have the meanings given them in Code of Federal Regulations, title 49, section 26.5. The purpose of loans made or guaranteed by the organization must be to provide short-term working capital to enable eligible businesses to be awarded contracts for goods and services or for construction-related services from government agencies. Money contributed from a constitutionally or statutorily dedicated fund must be used only for purposes consistent with the purposes of the dedicated fund. History:  1989 c 320 s 1; 2012 c 287 art 3 s 5
MN Stat § 161.322 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.322 — Payment Of Interest To Contractors.

161.322 PAYMENT OF INTEREST TO CONTRACTORS. When any contract for the construction, improvement, or repair of any trunk highway has been entered into by the commissioner of transportation of the state of Minnesota, and the work provided for in the contract has been in all things completed to the satisfaction of the commissioner or the commissioner's agent except for the release of sureties, in accordance with the contract, by the person with whom the commissioner has contracted, herein termed the contractor, unless final estimate for the work is made within 90 days after the contractor has so completed the work, the contractor shall be entitled to receive interest at the rate equal to the Monthly Index of Long Term United States Bond Yields for the month prior to the month in which this obligation is incurred from the date of the expiration of that 90-day period upon all amounts finally determined to be due the contractor which were not paid prior to the expiration of that period, to be paid in the same manner as, and at the time of, the final payment under the contract. The 90-day requirement, and the interest provisions provided for herein, shall not apply if delay is caused by the contractor; nor shall the 90-day requirement apply to contracts over two million dollars if the contract provides specifically for a different period of time in which to make such final estimate. History:  1963 c 515 s 1; 1976 c 166 s 7; 1980 c 464 s 5; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 161.33 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 161 — Trunk Highways|Section 161.33 — Employee Interest In Contract, Unlawful.

161.33 EMPLOYEE INTEREST IN CONTRACT, UNLAWFUL. It shall be unlawful for any member or employee of the Department of Transportation to be directly or indirectly interested in any contract for the construction or improvement of any public road or bridge, or in any contract for the repair, purchase or sale of any road machinery, equipment, materials, or supplies to be used thereon. Any person violating any of the foregoing provisions shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. History:  1959 c 500 art 2 s 33; 1976 c 166 s 7