3E Relating to transportation

ARTICLE 1 - TRANSPORTATION POLICY

Classifying certain real property appraisal data; authorizing the commissioner of administration to approve the performance of mail related functions by outside agencies under the central mail handling unit under certain conditions; modifying certain appraisal and negotiation requirements for the acquisition of property for transportation purposes and regulating the use or consideration of appraisals in condemnation hearings; eliminating the requirement for food businesses to serve meals prepared on the premises to be eligible for a business panel on logo signs; requiring the commissioner of transportation to designate off peak hours for use of certain high occupancy vehicle lanes without a fee and requiring and providing for the commissioner to temporarily allow the use of HOV lanes on the trunk highway system by single occupant hybrid vehicles; eliminating the requirement for DOT agreements with Indian tribal authorities to provide maintenance, design and construction to highways on tribal lands to be cost sharing agreements; authorizing the reconveyance of real property to the former owner with the consent of the court; modifying certain county state aid highway and municipal state aid street provisions; reducing the time limit for written objections to requests for variances from rules and engineering standards; authorizing the construction of county state aid highway or city state aid street routes across other counties, cities or states upon commissioner determination of necessity and county or city approval; authorizing county use of the expedited process in the adoption of certain rules; removing the limit on advances to expedite the construction, improvement or maintenance of municipal state aid streets; defining or redefining certain terms for motor vehicle registration purposes; regulating the use and operation of motorized foot scooters and exempting the scooters and vehicles used to transport disabled persons for charitable or religious purposes from motor vehicle registration requirements; modifying and clarifying the registration exemption for persons engaged in active military service; clarifying a certain provision regulating issuance by the commissioner of public safety of temporary vehicle permits, waiving the permit fee for information electronically transmitted to the commissioner by dealers and motor vehicle registrars and modifying the permit posting requirement; modifying certain requirements relating to motor vehicle transfers of ownership and registration tax refunds; restricting motor vehicle registrar assignment of USDOT carrier numbers; requiring motor vehicle dealers offering for sale motor vehicles capable of operating on an E85 fuel to affix a temporary identification label on the vehicles; classifying personal motor vehicle registration or drivers license data, requiring consent for disclosure; authorizing an alternate mailing address for motor vehicle titles under certain conditions; providing for commissioner of public safety removal of certain old liens on passenger automobiles from department records; defining or redefining certain terms for traffic regulations and drivers license purposes; clarifying certain traffic control signal requirements, requiring yielding of the right-of-way to pedestrians, authorizing vehicles on metered ramps to proceed without stopping for a red signal under certain conditions and creating certain exceptions to the requirement for vehicular traffic facing a steady red arrow signal to stop; restricting the possession and use of traffic signal override devices; imposing a penalty on motor vehicle owners or lessees for certain hit and run offenses, exceptions; recodifying the provision designating the commissioner of public safety as the agent for service of process in the case of an absent resident or nonresident involved in an accident, use of a motor vehicle in the state to be considered an irrevocable appointment of the commissioner as agent and prescribing the service procedure, providing for continuance of court proceedings under certain conditions; requiring drivers license revocation for violating speed limits in excess of a certain number of miles per hour, establishing a school zone speed limit and modifying certain school zone speed limit regulations; imposing a surcharge on drivers violating residential roadway speed limits, providing for the establishment of speed limits on residential roadways; expanding the authority of the commissioner to designate exempt railroad crossings; providing for van only parking spaces for persons with disabilities, providing a grace period for violators; authorizing vehicles used to transport adults to and from day activity centers to be equipped with prewarning flashing amber signals and stop signal arms; prohibiting the use of mobile or wireless telephones while operating a bus; authorizing the use of certain slow moving vehicle signs visible at night; expanding certain child passenger restraint system and seat belt use requirements, excepting certain school or head start buses from the requirement, increasing the fine for seat belt requirement violations and making the violation a primary offense; authorizing electronic toll collection devices to hang between the driver and the windshield and exempting emergency vehicles from windshield or window obstruction prohibitions; modifying certain truck and trailer wheel flap requirements and certain highway length and weight restrictions and specifying certain peace officer training requirements; providing for the issuance of special permits for certain vehicles hauling paper products, requiring compliance with certain restrictions and imposing an annual fee; extending the exemption for vehicles transporting milk from seasonal highway weight restrictions; modifying certain uniform traffic ticket content requirements; modifying the period of drivers license revocation for commercial motor vehicle operators driving while impaired (DWI); modifying the validity of class D drivers licenses for the operation of farm trucks and for the towing of vehicles and authorizing peace officers to operate any vehicle or combination of vehicles while on duty; making certain technical and clarifying modifications; expanding the drivers license exemption for persons employed by the federal government to operate motor vehicles owned by or leased to the federal government and clarifying the exemption for military personnel; extending the period of validity for instruction permits and prohibiting the use of cellphones by permit or provisional drivers license holders while driving; requiring the commissioner of public safety to indicate on commercial drivers licenses restrictions on the operation of commercial motor vehicles equipped with air brakes for persons not successfully completing the air brake component of the skills test; extending certain drivers records retention requirements relating to violations of driver or vehicle out of service orders or to certain alcohol related offenses; authorizing an alternate mailing for drivers licenses and identification cards under certain conditions; modifying the requirement relating to the recording of certain speed limit violations; requiring applicant consent to release of certain personal information on driving records and regulating the retention of information obtained from scanning drivers licenses, permits or ID cards; specifying certain commissioner commercial drivers license records check requirements; requiring commercial motor vehicle operation disqualification under federal standards, expanding the exemptions to authorized emergency vehicle operators operating commercial motor vehicles and excluding certain violation convictions relating to the operation of vehicles other than commercial vehicles from disqualification period determination; requiring the department of public safety to participate fully in the commercial drivers license information system; clarifying the authority of the commissioner to deny limited drivers licenses; specifying certain state aviation planning requirements, requiring the commissioner of transportation to create an advisory council; making permanent the commuter rail corridor coordinating committee and expanding the membership of the committee to railroad union labor representation; providing for drivers license renewal and motor vehicle registration for persons in active military service; modifying certain requirements for the establishment of railroad quiet zones and for engineers driving locomotives to ring the bell or sound the whistle; prohibiting state patrol or law enforcement agency quotas for issuing traffic and vehicle inspection citations; declaring the operation and maintenance of airports as an essential public service; denying state airports fund assistance to local government units adopting comprehensive plans incompatible with the state aviation plan; requiring sellers of real property located in certain safety zones to disclose to buyers the existence of airport zoning regulations affecting the property;
imposing certain residency requirements on members of the metropolitan council and the metropolitan airports commission; authorizing the metropolitan council to enter into agreements with cities or towns to join the metropolitan transit taxing district, specifying certain agreement content requirements and certain property tax levy options; requiring unit owners associations under the common interest ownership act (CIC) to accept service of process on behalf of the unit owners upon the acquisition of common elements by eminent domain; authorizing the associations to grant transportation easements through, over or under common elements; requiring and providing for MAC to purchase certain property and to seek reimbursement from the federal aviation administration (FAA) for acquisition costs; requiring the commissioner of public safety to appoint an additional motor vehicle deputy registrar for Hennepin county and to appoint the Carver county auditor as a deputy motor vehicle registrar and drivers license agent in the city of Chanhassen; requiring the commissioner to conduct a child passenger restraint law awareness campaign; establishing a speed limit for trains operated within the city of Orr; requiring the DOT to erect and operate a changeable message sign on U.S. highway 2 on the approach to the Richard I. Bong bridge in the city of Duluth; requiring the commissioner of transportation to deactivate a certain number of meters on freeway access ramps in the metropolitan area; suspending the automobile insurance coverage verification sampling program, requiring reinstatement of suspended drivers licenses and refund of reinstatement fees, dismissal of charges, purging of violation notations on driving records and vacation of convictions, prohibiting insurers from increasing premiums based on violations under the program, requiring remediations and a commissioner of public safety to report to the legislature on the operation of the program, requiring the commissioner to use certain unspent funds for program suspension administration; exempting the highway safety rest area in the city of Floodwood from certain restrictions on food and beverage sales; requiring MAC to adopt the recommendation of the noise oversight committee providing for certain specified residential sound mitigation efforts within designated areas, requiring establishment of a schedule to ensure completion of the required insulation by a certain date; temporarily authorizing the transport of participants in the national veterans wheelchair games in Hennepin and Ramsey counties in transit vehicles in side facing positions; requiring the revisor of statutes to change a certain rule relating to objections to requests for variances from engineering standards and to make certain cross reference changes; repealing the definition of sworn statement and the requirement for notice to the motor vehicle registrar of engine or motor transfers, certain accident form use, commercial motor vehicle operation disqualification and motor vehicle business license requirements and a certain provision regulating gasoline sales below cost

ARTICLE 2 - TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS

Delaying the date for implementation of certain gasoline and special fuel tax increases and for the change in the percentages required to be deposited in the highway use tax distribution and transit funds; removing Chisago county from the metropolitan area sales tax increase for transit services
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