1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to traffic regulations; providing eligibility
1.3 	criteria for business panels on logo sign panels;
1.4 	clarifying duty of driver when passing parked
1.5 	emergency vehicle; authorizing issuance of citation
1.6 	within four hours after violation; amending Minnesota
1.7 	Statutes 2004, sections 160.80, subdivision 1a;
1.8 	169.18, subdivision 11.
1.9 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.10 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 160.80,
1.11 	subdivision 1a, is amended to read:
1.12 		Subd. 1a.Eligibility criteria for business panels.  (a)
1.13 	To be eligible for a business panel on a logo sign panel, a
1.14 	business establishment must:
1.15 	(1) be open for business;
1.16 	(2) have a sign on site that both identifies the business
1.17 	and is visible to motorists;
1.18 	(3) be open to everyone, regardless of race, religion,
1.19 	color, age, sex, national origin, creed, marital status, sexual
1.20 	orientation, or disability;
1.21 	(4) not impose a cover charge or otherwise require
1.22 	customers to purchase additional products or services; and
1.23 	(5) meet the appropriate criteria in paragraphs (b) to (e).
1.24 	(b) Gas businesses must provide vehicle services including
1.25 	fuel and oil; restroom facilities and drinking water;
1.26 	continuous, staffed operation at least 12 hours a day, seven
1.27 	days a week; and public access to a telephone.
2.1 	(c) Food businesses must serve at least two meals a day
2.2 	during normal mealtimes of breakfast, lunch, and dinner; provide
2.3 	a continuous, staffed food service operation at least ten hours
2.4 	a day, seven days a week except holidays as defined in section
2.5 	645.44, subdivision 5, and except as provided for seasonal food
2.6 	service businesses; provide seating capacity for at least 20
2.7 	people; serve meals prepared on the premises;and possess any
2.8 	required state or local licensing or approval. Reheated,
2.9 	prepackaged, ready-to-eat food is not "food prepared on the
2.10 	premises." Seasonal food service businesses must provide a
2.11 	continuous, staffed food service operation at least ten hours a
2.12 	day, seven days a week, during their months of operation.
2.13 	(d) Lodging businesses must include sleeping
2.14 	accommodations, provide public access to a telephone, and
2.15 	possess any required state or local licensing or approval.
2.16 	(e) Camping businesses must include sites for camping,
2.17 	include parking accommodations for each campsite, provide
2.18 	sanitary facilities and drinking water, and possess any required
2.19 	state or local licensing or approval.
2.20 	(f) Businesses that do not meet the appropriate criteria in
2.21 	paragraphs (b) to (e) but that have a signed lease as of January
2.22 	1, 1998, may retain the business panel until December 31, 2005,
2.23 	or until they withdraw from the program, whichever occurs first,
2.24 	provided they continue to meet the criteria in effect in the
2.25 	department's contract with the logo sign vendor on August 1,
2.26 	1995.  After December 31, 2005, or after withdrawing from the
2.27 	program, a business must meet the appropriate criteria in
2.28 	paragraphs (a) to (e) to qualify for a business panel.
2.29 	(g) Seasonal businesses must indicate to motorists when
2.30 	they are open for business by either putting the full months of
2.31 	operation directly on the business panel or by having a "closed"
2.32 	plaque applied to the business panel when the business is closed
2.33 	for the season.
2.34 	(h) The maximum distance that an eligible business in
2.35 	Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, or Washington
2.36 	county can be located from the interchange is:  for gas
3.1 	businesses, one mile; for food businesses, two miles; for
3.2 	lodging businesses, three miles; and for camping businesses, ten
3.3 	miles.
3.4 	(i) The maximum distance that an eligible business in any
3.5 	other county can be located from the interchange shall not
3.6 	exceed 15 miles in either direction.
3.7 	(j) Logo sign panels must be erected so that motorists
3.8 	approaching an interchange view the panels in the following
3.9 	order:  camping, lodging, food, gas.
3.10 	(k) If there is insufficient space on a logo sign panel to
3.11 	display all eligible businesses for a specific type of service,
3.12 	the businesses closest to the interchange have priority over
3.13 	businesses farther away from the interchange.

3.14 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 169.18,
3.15 	subdivision 11, is amended to read:
3.16 		Subd. 11.Passing parked emergency vehicle; citation;
3.17 	probable cause. (a) When approaching and before passing an
3.18 	authorized emergency vehicle with its emergency lights activated 
3.19 	that is parked or otherwise stopped on or next to a street or
3.20 	highway having two or more lanes in the same direction, the
3.21 	driver of a vehicle shall safely move the vehicle to a the lane
3.22 	farthest away from the emergency vehicle, if it is possible to
3.23 	do so.
3.24 	(b) When approaching and before passing an authorized
3.25 	emergency vehicle with its emergency lights activated that is
3.26 	parked or otherwise stopped on or next to a street or highway
3.27 	having more than two lanes in the same direction, the driver of
3.28 	a vehicle shall safely move the vehicle so as to leave a full
3.29 	lane vacant between the driver and any lane in which the
3.30 	emergency vehicle is completely or partially parked or otherwise
3.31 	stopped, if it is possible to do so.
3.32 	(c) A peace officer may issue a citation to the driver of a
3.33 	motor vehicle if the peace officer has probable cause to believe
3.34 	that the driver has operated the vehicle in violation of this
3.35 	subdivision within the four-hour period following the
3.36 	termination of the incident or a receipt of a report under
4.1 	paragraph (d).  The citation may be issued even though the
4.2 	violation was not committed in the presence of the peace officer.
4.3 	(d) Although probable cause may be otherwise satisfied by
4.4 	other evidentiary elements or factors, probable cause is
4.5 	sufficient for purposes of this subdivision when the person
4.6 	cited is operating the vehicle described by a member of the crew
4.7 	of an authorized emergency vehicle responding to an incident in
4.8 	a timely report of the violation of this subdivision, which
4.9 	includes a description of the vehicle used to commit the offense
4.10 	and the vehicle's license plate number.  For the purposes of
4.11 	issuance of a citation under paragraph (c), "timely" means that
4.12 	the report must be made within a four-hour period following the
4.13 	termination of the incident.

4.14 	Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 4.15 	Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final
4.16 	enactment.