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MN Stat § 160.165 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.165 — Mitigating Transportation Project Impacts On Business.

160.165 MITIGATING TRANSPORTATION PROJECT IMPACTS ON BUSINESS. Subdivision 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given: (1) "project" means construction work to maintain, construct, reconstruct, or improve a street or highway or for a rail transit project; (2) "substantial business impacts" means impairment of road access, parking, or visibility for one or more business establishments as a result of a project, for a minimum period of one month; and (3) "transportation 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 roads; statutory or home rule charter cities, as to city streets; the Metropolitan Council, for rail transit projects located entirely within the metropolitan area as defined in section 473.121, subdivision 2; and the commissioner, for all other rail transit projects. Subd. 2. Business liaison. (a) Before beginning construction work on a project, a transportation authority shall identify whether the project is anticipated to include substantial business impacts. For such projects, the transportation authority shall designate an individual to serve as business liaison between the transportation authority and affected businesses. (b) The business liaison shall consult with affected businesses before and during construction to investigate means of mitigating project impacts to businesses. The mitigation considered must include signage. The business liaison shall provide information to the identified businesses before and during construction, concerning project duration and timetables, lane and road closures, detours, access impacts, customer parking impacts, visibility, noise, dust, vibration, and public participation opportunities. Subd. 3. Exception. This section does not apply to construction work in connection with the Central Corridor light rail transit line that will connect downtown Minneapolis and downtown St. Paul. History:  2009 c 36 art 3 s 2; 2010 c 351 s 2
MN Stat § 160.17 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.17 — Road Construction Contracts; Counties And Towns.

 160.17 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.17 ROAD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS; COUNTIES AND TOWNS. Subdivision 1. Plans and specifications filed. No contract for the construction or improvement of any road by a county or town in which the contract price exceeds the amount for which sealed bids are required as provided in section 471.345 shall be let unless the plans and specifications for the construction or improvement of the county or county state-aid highway are on file in the office of the county auditor and a true copy of them available for reference in the office of the county highway engineer, and the plans and specifications for the construction or improvement of the town road are on file with the town clerk. Subd. 2. Advertisement for bids. No county or town road contract for construction or improvement exceeding the amount for which sealed bids are required as provided in section 471.345 shall be let without first advertising for bids in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county where the construction or improvement is proposed to be done. The advertisement shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in the case of a county contract and two successive weeks in the case of a town contract, the last publication to be made at least ten days before the time fixed for receiving bids and letting the contract. It shall specify, generally, the work to be done, the place where the plans and specifications are on file, and the time and place of receiving bids and awarding the contract. Subd. 2a. Best-value alternative. As an alternative to the procurement method referenced in subdivision 2, counties or towns may issue a request for proposal and award the contract to the vendor or contractor offering the best value as described in section 16C.28, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (2), and paragraph (c). Subd. 3. Final payment. A county or town board shall not make final payment on any road construction or improvement contract, the amount for which sealed bids are required under section 471.345, until the engineer or person in charge of the work has certified to the county board or the town board, as the case may be, that the work has been done and performed according to contract and the certificate has been filed in the office of the county auditor or town clerk. Subd. 4.  [Repealed, 2004 c 209 s 2] History:  1959 c 500 art 1 s 17; 1969 c 613 s 1,2; 1984 c 562 s 6,7; 1985 c 169 s 1; 1987 c 227 s 1; 2004 c 209 s 1; 2007 c 148 art 3 s 14
MN Stat § 160.19 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.19 — Drainage Ditch Crossing Railroad Right-of-way.

 160.19 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.19 DRAINAGE DITCH CROSSING RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY. When a road authority constructs a drainage ditch to drain a highway over lands acquired for that purpose and the ditch crosses the right-of-way of any railroad, it shall be the duty of the railroad company upon demand of the road authority to forthwith carry the ditch under and across its right-of-way. The cost of carrying the ditch under or across the railroad shall be divided proportionately between the road authority and the railroad company on the basis of benefits accruing to each. Nothing in this section shall apply to or affect a county ditch, judicial ditch, or public drainage system. History:  1959 c 500 art 1 s 19; 1961 c 87 s 1
MN Stat § 160.201 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.201 — Public Road Ditches.

 160.201 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13] 160.201 PUBLIC ROAD DITCHES. Subdivision 1. Improving and draining. For the purpose of draining public roads and preventing accumulations of water in road ditches, the overflow of which may damage adjacent lands, the various authorities having supervision over public roads, in addition to all other powers granted to said authorities, are authorized and empowered to expend moneys from funds available therefor in repairing, cleaning out, deepening, widening and improving public road ditches within the jurisdiction and supervision of such authorities. The necessity for such work shall be determined by the authorities which now have the supervision of said public roads; provided, that before said work may be done said road supervising authority shall determine that said road ditch as so improved will be provided with an adequate outlet. Subd. 2. Rental of ditch machinery by county to municipality. The county board of any county now or hereafter owning machinery or equipment used in the construction and maintenance of ditches may lease such machinery and its incidental appliances to municipalities within such county upon such rate of rental and upon such terms and conditions as the county board may prescribe. History:  1945 c 36
MN Stat § 160.215 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.215 — Snow Removal; Salt And Chemicals Restricted.

160.215 SNOW REMOVAL; SALT AND CHEMICALS RESTRICTED. In order to: (1) minimize the harmful or corrosive effects of salt or other chemicals upon vehicles, roadways, and vegetation; (2) reduce the pollution of waters; and (3) reduce the driving hazards resulting from chemicals on windshields; road authorities, including road authorities of cities, responsible for the maintenance of highways or streets during periods when snow and ice are prevalent, shall utilize such salt or other chemicals only at such places as upon hills, at intersections, or upon high-speed or arterial roadways where vehicle traction is particularly critical, and only if, in the opinion of the road authorities, removal of snow and ice or reduction of hazardous conditions by blading, plowing, sanding, including chemicals needed for free flow of sand, or natural elements cannot be accomplished within a reasonable time. History:  1971 c 622 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
MN Stat § 160.23 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.23 — Destruction Of Noxious Weeds.

 160.23 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.23 DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS WEEDS. Road authorities, including road authorities of cities shall cause all noxious weeds on their respective highways and streets to be cut down or otherwise destroyed or eradicated as often as may be necessary to prevent the ripening or scattering of seed and other propagating parts of such weeds. History:  1959 c 500 art 1 s 23; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7
MN Stat § 160.232 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.232 — Mowing Ditches Outside Cities.

160.232 MOWING DITCHES OUTSIDE CITIES. (a) To provide enhanced roadside habitat for nesting birds and other small wildlife, road authorities may not mow or till the right-of-way of a highway located outside of a home rule charter or statutory city except as allowed in this section and section 160.23. (b) On any highway, the first eight feet away from the road surface, or shoulder if one exists, may be mowed at any time. (c) An entire right-of-way may be mowed after July 31. From August 31 to the following July 31, the entire right-of-way may only be mowed if necessary for safety reasons, but may not be mowed to a height of less than 12 inches. (d) A right-of-way may be mowed as necessary to maintain sight distance for safety and may be mowed at other times under rules of the commissioner, or by ordinance of a local road authority not conflicting with the rules of the commissioner. (e) A right-of-way may be mowed, burned, or tilled to prepare the right-of-way for the establishment of permanent vegetative cover or for prairie vegetation management. (f) When feasible, road authorities are encouraged to utilize low maintenance, native vegetation that reduces the need to mow, provides wildlife habitat, and maintains public safety. (g) The commissioner of natural resources shall cooperate with the commissioner of transportation to provide enhanced roadside habitat for nesting birds and other small wildlife. History:  1985 c 127 s 2; 1986 c 398 art 27 s 1; 1989 c 179 s 1; 1Sp2005 c 1 art 2 s 137
MN Stat § 160.235 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.235 — Traffic Signal Timing Optimization.

160.235 TRAFFIC SIGNAL TIMING OPTIMIZATION. (a) A road authority that has ownership of a traffic signal on a principal arterial roadway or roadway with an average daily traffic greater than 20,000 vehicles per day must complete an inventory of all traffic signals under its ownership and submit it to the Department of Transportation district engineer. The inventory must include age of all signals, control equipment, communications, detection type, timing plans in operation, and date of last timing optimization. (b) Based on the information from the inventory, a road authority subject to paragraph (a) must develop and implement a traffic signal system optimization plan, which must include re-evaluation of traffic signal timing at least once every five years. Each road authority with a traffic signal optimization plan must annually certify compliance with its plan and submit the certification as part of its annual maintenance expenditure report. (c) Upon request of a local road authority, the commissioner shall provide reasonable technical assistance to meet the requirements under this section. History:   2015 c 75 art 2 s 6
MN Stat § 160.24 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.24 — Logging Railroads Across Highways.

 160.24 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.24 LOGGING RAILROADS ACROSS HIGHWAYS. Subdivision 1. Permission to locate. The road authorities may grant to the owner of any logging railroad permission to locate, construct, and maintain a logging railroad across any highway under their jurisdiction. Subd. 2. Contents of permit. The permit shall specify the place at which such railroad shall cross the highway, the time during which it may be maintained thereon, which shall in no case exceed five years, the manner of its construction and maintenance, and the measures that shall be taken for the protection of the highways and of the public using the highways. Subd. 3. Control by road authority. The construction and maintenance of the railroad crossing shall be under the supervision and control of the road authority granting the permit. Subd. 4. Removal from highway. The person to whom the permit is granted shall, at the expiration of the time therein limited or at such earlier time as the crossing is no longer necessary, remove the railroad therefrom and restore the highway to such condition as the authority granting the permit shall require. Subd. 5.  [Repealed, 1991 c 326 s 27] History:   1959 c 500 art 1 s 24
MN Stat § 160.25 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.25 — Tunnels Under Highways.

 160.25 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.25 TUNNELS UNDER HIGHWAYS. Subdivision 1. Permit to construct. The road authorities may permit any owner or lessee of land abutting both sides of a highway to tunnel under the highway for such purposes as the owner or lessee deems desirable in utilizing the lands. The tunnel and appurtenances thereto shall be constructed and maintained so as not to endanger or unduly inconvenience the public in the use of the highway and, except as hereinafter provided, shall be constructed by and at the expense of the owner or lessee. Subd. 2. Contents of permit. The permit shall specify the location, size, kind, design, manner of construction of the tunnel, and such safeguards for the traveling public that the road authority deems necessary. All tunnels, bridges, and appurtenances thereto shall be constructed in accordance with the permit. Subd. 3. Tunnel maintained by road authority. Any tunnel constructed as provided in this section under any highway shall be maintained by the road authority having jurisdiction over the highway. A town board may charge the costs of maintenance of the tunnel to the users if the users and the town board agree on the amount to be charged. Subd. 4. Agreements for construction and maintenance. When any road authority determines that the construction of such tunnel is necessary for the safety and convenience of public travel, it may construct and maintain the tunnel, or it may enter into agreements with the abutting landowners for the equitable division of the costs of the construction. History:  1959 c 500 art 1 s 25; 1985 c 169 s 2; 1Sp1985 c 16 art 2 s 9; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 160.26 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.26 — Moving Buildings Over Highways.

 160.26 MS 1953 [Repealed, 1957 c 943 s 72] 160.26 MOVING BUILDINGS OVER HIGHWAYS. Subdivision 1. Moved without unnecessary interference. Buildings or structures moved or caused to be moved upon, across, or along any road or street, including city streets, shall be moved in such manner as not to unnecessarily interfere with, damage, or destroy any bridges, trees, hedges, fences, telephone or electric power poles, wires, cables, or any appurtenance upon the road or street. Subd. 2. Permit requirement, authority. (a) Buildings or structures together with the vehicle or vehicles moving same of a size or weight exceeding the maximums specified in chapter 169 and acts amendatory thereto shall not be moved or caused to be moved upon, across, or along any road or street without first obtaining a written permit from the road authority including road authorities of cities having supervision over such road or street. The county board as to highways under its jurisdiction may authorize the county engineer to issue the permits. (b) When a permit is granted by the commissioner for the moving of buildings or structures exclusively on trunk highways no other permit shall be required from any political subdivision of the state for the moving of such buildings or structures on such trunk highways. When a permit is granted by the county board or county engineer for the moving of buildings or structures exclusively on highways under the jurisdiction of the county board no other permit shall be required from any political subdivision for moving such buildings or structures on such county highways. Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1983 c 293 s 115] Subd. 4. Cost of removing fences, poles. No person, firm, or corporation shall be required to displace or temporarily remove the fences, poles, wires, cables, or other appurtenances of that person, firm, or corporation to permit the moving of any building or structure upon, along, or across the road or street, nor shall guard rails and appurtenances placed upon the road or street be displaced or moved for like reason until the reasonable cost of the displacement, removal, and replacement shall have been paid or tendered. Subd. 5. Not to apply to road-building or maintenance equipment. The provisions of this section shall not apply to road-building or maintenance equipment while operating on a road or street under construction or maintenance. History:  1959 c 500 art 1 s 26; 1961 c 748 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 160.264 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.264 — Replacing Bikeways And Pedestrian Ways.

160.264 REPLACING BIKEWAYS AND PEDESTRIAN WAYS. Whenever an existing bikeway, pedestrian way, or roadway used by bicycles or pedestrians or the sole access to such is destroyed by any new, reconstructed, or relocated federal, state, or local highway, the road authority responsible shall replace the destroyed facility or access with a comparable facility or access. Replacement is not required where it would be contrary to public safety or when sparsity of population, other available ways or other factors indicate an absence of need for such facility or access. History:  1976 c 199 s 16; 1987 c 255 s 5
MN Stat § 160.2715 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.2715 — Right-of-way Use; Misdemeanors.

160.2715 RIGHT-OF-WAY USE; MISDEMEANORS. (a) Except for the actions of the road authorities, their agents, employees, contractors, and utilities in carrying out their duties imposed by law or contract, and except as herein provided, it shall be unlawful to: (1) obstruct any highway or deposit snow or ice thereon; (2) plow or perform any other detrimental operation within the road right-of-way except in the preparation of the land for planting permanent vegetative cover or as authorized under section 160.232; (3) erect a fence on the right-of-way of a trunk highway, county state-aid highway, county highway, or town road, except to erect a lane fence to the ends of a livestock pass; (4) erect or reconstruct driveway headwalls in or on the right-of-way of a highway or road, except as may be allowed by permit from the road authority imposing reasonable regulations as are necessary to prevent interference with the construction, maintenance, and safe use of the highway or road and its appurtenances; (5) dig any holes in any highway, except to locate markers placed to identify sectional corner positions and private boundary corners; (6) remove any earth, gravel, or rock from any highway; (7) obstruct any ditch draining any highway or drain any noisome materials into any ditch; (8) place or maintain any building or structure within the limits of any highway; (9) place or maintain any advertisement within the limits of any highway, except as provided in section 160.27, subdivision 7; (10) paint, print, place, or affix any advertisement or any object within the limits of any highway, except as provided in section 160.27, subdivision 7; (11) deface, mar, damage, or tamper with any structure, work, material, equipment, tools, signs, markers, signals, paving, guardrails, drains, or any other highway appurtenance on or along any highway; (12) remove, injure, displace, or destroy right-of-way markers, or reference or witness monuments, or markers placed to preserve section or quarter-section corners; (13) improperly place or fail to place warning signs and detour signs as provided by law; (14) drive over, through, or around any barricade, fence, or obstruction erected for the purpose of preventing traffic from passing over a portion of a highway closed to public travel or to remove, deface, or damage any such barricade, fence, or obstruction. (b) Any violation of this section is a misdemeanor. History:  1959 c 500 art 1 s 27; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1980 c 435 s 1; 1980 c 533 s 2; 1986 c 398 art 27 s 2; 1986 c 435 s 1; 1989 c 179 s 2; 1995 c 23 s 1; 1998 c 283 s 1; 2004 c 295 art 2 s 15
MN Stat § 160.272 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation|Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions|Section 160.272 — Safety Rest Area And Travel Information Center Leases.

160.272 SAFETY REST AREA AND TRAVEL INFORMATION CENTER LEASES. Subdivision 1. Lease agreements. (a) Except as provided in subdivision 3, and notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the commissioner may enter into lease agreements through negotiations with public or not-for-profit entities or through best value, as defined in section 16C.02, subdivision 4, with private entities relating to the use of safety rest areas and travel information centers. For purposes of this section, "private entity" means a chamber of commerce, a tourist and visitors bureau, or other organization that exists to promote tourism and economic development. (b) A lease under this subdivision may: (1) with the approval of the commissioner of administration, prescribe a lease term length of up to 20 years, with options for renewal; (2) allow the lessee to operate a safety rest area facility in whole or in part; (3) allow the lessee to offer for sale products or services under section 160.2725; and (4) allow the lessee to add leasehold improvements to the site after approval by the commissioner. (c) A lease agreement for a safety rest area is subject to section 160.273 regarding vending at safety rest areas. (d) A lease agreement must include terms that promote and encourage the employment of needy elderly persons according to section 160.282. (e) The commissioner may publicly acknowledge the lessee and may erect signs adjacent to the main travel lanes of a highway acknowledging the lessee. Acknowledgment on the main line may consist of placement of up to one sign for each direction of traffic served. The placement of signs shall only be allowed (1) as approved through the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices process for experimentation, (2) in accordance with federal standards and policies, and (3) so that no sign exceeds 100 square feet. No more than three acknowledgment signs or displays may be placed at any one rest area, in addition to the main-line signs. Subd. 2. Revenues deposited. The commissioner shall deposit revenues from leases authorized under this section into the safety rest area account established in section 160.2745. Subd. 3. Application to other law. Nothing in this section affects existing contracts under section 248.07 or their renewal. History:  2004 c 295 art 2 s 2,15