4E Relating to transportation; classifying certain department of transportation (DOT) data relating to market research, overhead rates and bid escrow; authorizing a state agency or a political subdivision to enter property for purposes of investigation, monitoring, testing, surveying or boring to perform geotechnical investigations before eminent domain proceedings, requiring notification, prohibiting unnecessary property damage; providing a limit on business reestablishment costs; defining expressway; modifying the definition of freeway; requiring the commissioner allow commercial motor vehicle operators subject to hours of service regulations under certain federal regulations to stop and park continuously for up to a certain period of time as necessary at safety rest areas and travel information centers; modifying voyageur highway description; designating I-94 as the Purple Heart trail; designating a certain portion of trunk highway #210 from the city of Motley to the city of Staples as Dallas Sams memorial highway; designating a certain portion of trunk highway #53 in the city of Duluth as the Walter F. Mondale drive; designating the causeway over Pokegama Lake on trunk highway #169 as the Jim Oberstar causeway; eliminating the requirement for highway contracts bid advertisements to be published in newspapers, requiring bids to be submitted electronically and eliminating the requirement for bids to be opened and read in public under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner prior to entering into privatization contracts to compare the cost of state employee performance with the cost of privatization, specifying certain applicability provisions, contract review and legislature reporting requirements, "Taxpayers Transportation Accountability Act"; changing current funding of the university of Minnesota center for transportation studies; defining AASHTO manual for bridge and culverts inspection purposes; requiring annual bridge inspections; defining vehicle mounted concrete pumps as special mobile equipment for motor vehicle registration purposes; requiring money remaining in the world war II memorial donation account after the state share of the construction costs of the memorial have been paid in full is appropriated to the commissioner of veterans affairs for services and programs for veteran and their families; modifying certain content and form requirements for motor vehicle certificates of title; modifying provisions relating to application for salvage certificate of title; requiring dealers purchasing titled motor vehicles for the purpose of dismantling or destroying to notify the registrar, providing for a transaction fee; expanding the authority of units of government and peace officers to take into custody and impound unauthorized vehicles located so as to constitute an accident or traffic hazard; modifying the definitions of motorized foot scooter, explosives, flammable liquid and recreational vehicle combination for traffic regulation purposes; defining valid license and valid drivers license; expanding the authority to tow vehicles for a local government entity to authorized employees of the department of transportation and private towing companies; modifying provisions relating to yellow arrow signals; providing for owner or lessee of a vehicle stopped, standing or parked in violation to be guilty of a petty misdemeanor, providing for exceptions under certain conditions; authorizing the use of communication headsets by emergency medical services personnel operating emergency vehicles; increasing the age requirement for motor vehicle operators to restrain child passengers with an appropriate child restraint system, requiring the fine to be waived under certain conditions, removing the exemption for a taxi, limousine and bus for hire; making seat belt use violations a primary offense by authorizing peace officers to issue citations without observing a moving violation, expanding the seat belt use requirement to all passengers in a motor vehicle, making certain technical changes; modifying the definition of commercial vehicle; clarifying inspection requirements; permitting a person employed by a government agency owning commercial vehicles to inspect commercial vehicles; eliminating certain separate categories of inspector certificates; clarifying the issuance of inspection decals; clarifying proof of federal inspection application; requiring the submission of written daily inspection reports by commercial motor vehicle operators; modifying criteria for peace officers notification of the state patrol for accidents involving a commercial motor vehicle; increasing the allowable length limit for single vehicles; modifying allowable vehicle weights on paved nine ton roads for motor vehicles; modifying tow trucks or towing vehicles provisions and requiring a permit to tow oversized and overweight vehicles under certain conditions; extending the permissible route for three unit paper products vehicles and authorizing certain trucks to qualify for special paper products vehicle permits; removing the sunset date for weight exemptions for certain milk trucks; limiting the authority of cities and counties to impose administrative penalties on certain speed limit law violators; clarifying the requirement for persons to operate a motor vehicle with a valid license, defining valid license and valid drivers license; modifying restrictions on the operation of motor vehicles by holders of provisional drivers licenses; authorizing the use of an address designated by the secretary of state for data protection purposes for victims of violence to be used for drivers license applications and identification (ID) cards purposes; requiring the commissioner use the maximum feasible amount of available federal funding to develop, conduct and administer highway construction training; requiring inclusion of a contractor sanction for contracts with federal funding not meeting project disadvantaged business enterprise goals or a good faith effort; requiring the commissioner to perform life cycle cost analysis for paving materials on projects exceeding a certain amount; modifying eligible activities of the public transit participation program; requiring commissioner of transportation to work with providers to provide supplementary paratransit services; requiring commissioner to require certain providers to enter into intercounty service agreements; requiring commissioner to support one stop regional call centers for assisting customers with rides; requiring special transportation service providers to display contact information in each vehicle for people filing complaints, requiring the commissioner to investigate and resolve any complaints regarding special transportation services, requiring report to the legislature; requiring the commissioner to submit annual reports on the status of major highway projects under construction; creating the position of state rail safety inspector, requiring railroad companies to provide walkways alongside tracks with regular surfaces, compliance not a defense in a civil action, allowing commissioner determination of need for reasonable walkway safety standard implementation for railroad employee safety, providing walkway exemptions for certain small businesses; requiring persons providing small vehicle passenger service to comply with certain rules; modifying vehicle identification rules for certain motor carriers; requiring safety permits for certain carriers transporting hazardous materials; clarifying age requirement for operating a self propelled or towed vehicle engaged in intrastate transportation; granting transportation representatives access to certain safety permits relating to hazardous material; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to enter into the unified carrier registration agreement; modifying expenditures under the rail service improvement program and regulating state rail bank property use; specifying certain title branding requirements for lemon law vehicles by the registrar of motor vehicles; imposing a court fee surcharge for seat belt violations; limiting the authority of cities and counties to impose administrative penalties on certain speed limit law violators, on persons failing to obey traffic control devices and on persons failing to have operable lights; modifying certain metropolitan council periodic evaluation requirements of the metropolitan area transportation system performance prior to revision of the transportation policy plan; modifying metropolitan area light rail transit (LRT) planning, designing and construction; requiring the metropolitan council to identify in the transportation policy plan heavily traveled corridors to be benefited by transitways; requiring the council to designate locally preferred alternative transit modes after locally directed studies; requiring the governor to designate the metropolitan council or the state acting through the department of transportation (DOT) as the responsible authority for each metropolitan area proposed light rail transit facility; requiring the DOT to transfer all constructed facilities, equipment and property to the metropolitan council upon LRT facility completion; authorizing the metropolitan council to plan, design, acquire, construct and equip LRT facilities in the metropolitan area; requiring all proposed metropolitan council procurement over a certain amount to be reviewed by the legislative advisory commission (LAC); including the transit police in the distribution of forfeited items; delaying the effective date authorizing a permit for a special paper products vehicle; creating a congestion reduction task force to advise and consult with the commissioner concerning participation by the state in the federal urban partnership program; creating an airport funding advisory task force to study and make recommendations regarding best methods for funding airports in the state and the state airports fund; requiring the commissioner to reopen the Culkin highway safety rest area on I-35; requiring the commissioner of public safety to propose a system to the legislature by a certain date to allow credit and debit card payments of motor vehicle registration taxes, certificate of title transactions, and drivers license and ID card fees; requiring the commissioner of transportation to study current and long range needs of the state transportation system and report to the legislature; requiring the commissioner to report to the legislature by a certain date on speed limits on local roads; requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to incorporate a Fridley station on the northstar commuter rail line; requiring the commissioner to issue necessary permits to the city of Rochester to complete construction of a new folded diamond interchange in the northeast and northwest quadrants at trunk highway 52 and a local city street; requiring the commissioner of transportation and the metropolitan council to report on transportation services for persons with disabilities; repealing certain provisions relating to registration of interstate carriers, certificate of title pollution control equipment disclosure and motor vehicle air pollution control systems disclosure requirements, the program requiring motor vehicle owners to provide verification of auto insurance by mail to the commissioner of public safety and the requirement prohibiting the seeking of financial assistance for construction of LRT facilities until construction has begun on the central corridor or Riverview corridors
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