1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; requiring commissioner of transportation to consider 
1.3 	insurance standards in road construction; reclassifying certain trucks and vans 
1.4 	for vehicle registration purposes; prescribing method of registration of spotter 
1.5 	trucks; modifying provisions relating to registration of special mobile equipment; 
1.6 	requiring study of complete streets policy; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, 
1.7 	sections 162.02, by adding a subdivision; 168.011, subdivisions 7, 22; 168.012, 
1.8 	by adding a subdivision; 168.013, by adding a subdivision; 168.28; 168A.01, 
1.9 	subdivision 21; 168A.03, subdivision 1; 169.01, by adding a subdivision; 
1.10 	169.781, subdivisions 1, 2; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
1.11 	chapter 169.
1.12 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.13 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 162.02, is amended by adding a 
1.14 	subdivision to read:
1.15 		Subd. 3b.Insurance standards. When reviewing data and information for the 
1.16 	development of safety improvements for trunk highways and state-aid projects, the 
1.17 	commissioner of transportation shall consider, among other things, the Insurance Institute 
1.18 	for Highway Safety's findings in addition to standards contained in Department of 
1.19 	Transportation manuals, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation 
1.20 	Officials' manual on design of highways and streets, and other applicable federal 
1.21 	publications.

1.22 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 168.011, subdivision 7, is amended to read:
1.23 		Subd. 7.Passenger automobile. (a) "Passenger automobile" means any motor 
1.24 	vehicle designed and used for carrying not more than 15 individuals, including the driver.
1.25 	(b) "Passenger automobile" does not include motorcycles, motor scooters, buses,  
1.26 	school buses, or commuter vans as defined in section 168.126. A pickup truck or a van 
2.1 	with a gross vehicle weight rating of 9,000 pounds or more is not a passenger automobile, 
2.2 	except as provided in paragraph (c), clause (1).
2.3 	(c) "Passenger automobile" includes, but is not limited to:
2.4 	(1) pickup trucks and vans, including those vans designed to carry passengers, with 
2.5 	a manufacturer's nominal rated carrying capacity of one ton a pickup truck or a van with a 
2.6 	gross vehicle weight rating of 9,000 to 12,500 pounds, that is not used in furtherance of a 
2.7 	commercial enterprise and is not subject to state or federal regulation as a commercial 
2.8 	motor vehicle; and
2.9 	(2) neighborhood electric vehicles, as defined in section 169.01, subdivision 91.

2.10 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 168.011, subdivision 22, is amended to read:
2.11 		Subd. 22.Special mobile equipment. (a) "Special mobile equipment" means every 
2.12 	vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and 
2.13 	only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, includingexcept vehicles described 
2.14 	in paragraph (b). Special mobile equipment includes, but is not limited to: ditch-digging 
2.15 	apparatuses, moving dollies, pump hoists and other water well-drilling equipment 
2.16 	registered and licensed under chapter 103I, street-sweeping vehicles, and otherroad 
2.17 	construction or road maintenance machinery such as  asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, 
2.18 	bucket loaders, tractors other than truck-tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing 
2.19 	machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, truck-mounted log loaders, earth-moving 
2.20 	carryalls, scrapers, power shovels, draglines, self-propelled cranes, and earth-moving 
2.21 	equipment that are used exclusively for commercial logging and self-propelled cranes. 
2.22 	The term
2.23 	(b) "Special mobile equipment" does not include travel trailers,: (1) machinery that 
2.24 	has been temporarily or permanently mounted on a commercial motor vehicle chassis 
2.25 	that is used only to provide a service and is not able to haul goods for resale; or (2)
2.26 	dump trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, truck-mounted feed grinders, or other motor 
2.27 	vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has 
2.28 	been attached.

2.29 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 168.012, is amended by adding a subdivision 
2.30 	to read:
2.31 		Subd. 2c.Spotter trucks. Spotter trucks, as defined in section 169.01, subdivision 
2.32 	7a, shall not be taxed as motor vehicles using the public streets and highways, and shall be 
2.33 	exempt from the provisions of this chapter.

3.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
3.2 	and expires on June 30, 2013.

3.3 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 168.013, is amended by adding a subdivision 
3.4 	to read:
3.5 		Subd. 2l.Permanently or temporarily mounted mobile equipment. The tax on 
3.6 	mobile equipment that has been permanently or temporarily mounted to a commercial 
3.7 	motor vehicle chassis and that is used only to provide a service and is not able to haul 
3.8 	goods for resale is 15 percent of the Minnesota base rate schedule. The mounted apparatus 
3.9 	must perform an off-road or off-pavement function.

3.10 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 168.28, is amended to read:
3.11 	168.28 VEHICLES SUBJECT TO TAX; EXCEPTIONS.
3.12 	Every motor vehicle (except those exempted in section 168.012, and except those 
3.13 	which are being towed upon the streets and highways and which shall not be deemed to 
3.14 	be using the streets and highways within the meaning of this section) shall be deemed to 
3.15 	be one using the public streets and highways and hence as such subject to taxation under 
3.16 	this chapter if such motor vehicle has since April 23, 1921, used such public streets or 
3.17 	highways, or shall actually use them, or if it shall come into the possession of an owner 
3.18 	other than as a manufacturer, dealer, warehouse operator, mortgagee or pledgee. New and 
3.19 	unused motor vehicles in the possession of a dealer solely for the purpose of sale, and 
3.20 	used or secondhand motor vehicles which have not theretofore used the public streets or 
3.21 	highways of this state which are in the possession of a dealer solely for the purpose of sale 
3.22 	and which are duly listed as herein provided, shall not be deemed to be vehicles using the 
3.23 	public streets or highways. The driving or operating of a motor vehicle upon the public 
3.24 	streets or highways of this state by a motor vehicle dealer or any employee of such motor 
3.25 	vehicle dealer for demonstration purposes or for any purpose incident to the usual and 
3.26 	customary conduct and operation of the business in which licensed under section 168.27
3.27 	to engage, or solely for the purpose of moving it from points outside or within the state 
3.28 	to the place of business or storage of a licensed dealer within the state or solely for the 
3.29 	purpose of moving it from the place of business of a manufacturer, or licensed dealer 
3.30 	within the state to the place of business or residence of a purchaser outside the state, shall 
3.31 	not be deemed to be using the public streets or highways in the state within the meaning 
3.32 	of this chapter or of the Constitution of the state of Minnesota, article XIV, and shall not 
3.33 	be held to make the motor vehicle subject to taxation under this chapter as one using the 
3.34 	public streets or highways, if during such driving or moving the dealer's plates herein 
4.1 	provided for shall be duly displayed upon such vehicle. Any dealer or distributor may 
4.2 	register a motor vehicle prior to its assessment or taxation as personal property, and pay 
4.3 	the license fee and tax thereon for the full calendar year as one using the public streets and 
4.4 	highways, and thereafter such vehicle shall be deemed to be one using the public streets 
4.5 	and highways and shall not be subject to assessment or taxation as personal property 
4.6 	during the calendar year for which it is so registered, whether or not such vehicle shall 
4.7 	actually have used the streets or highways. Special mobile equipment is subject to a 
4.8 	penalty equal to the tax due under this chapter for the full registration year if it is used to 
4.9 	transport persons or property at any time using the public streets.

4.10 	Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 168A.01, subdivision 21, is amended to read:
4.11 		Subd. 21.Special mobile equipment. (a) "Special mobile equipment" means every 
4.12 	vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and 
4.13 	only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, includingexcept vehicles described 
4.14 	in paragraph (b). Special mobile equipment includes, but is not limited to: ditch-digging 
4.15 	apparatuses, well-boring apparatuses, moving dollies, sawing machines, corn shellers,
4.16 	and road construction and or road maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, 
4.17 	bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck-tractors, ditchers, leveling 
4.18 	graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls 
4.19 	and scrapers, power shovels and draglines, and self-propelled cranes and earth-moving 
4.20 	equipment. The term does not include travel trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted transit 
4.21 	mixers, truck-mounted feed grinders, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of 
4.22 	persons or property to which machinery has been attached.
4.23 	(b) "Special mobile equipment" does not include: (1) machinery that has been 
4.24 	temporarily or permanently mounted on a commercial motor vehicle chassis that is used 
4.25 	only to provide a service and is not able to haul goods for resale; or (2) dump trucks.

4.26 	Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 168A.03, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
4.27 		Subdivision 1.No certificate issued. The registrar shall not issue a certificate of 
4.28 	title for:
4.29 	(1) a vehicle owned by the United States;
4.30 	(2) a vehicle owned by a nonresident and not required by law to be registered in 
4.31 	this state;
4.32 	(3) a vehicle owned by a nonresident and regularly engaged in the interstate 
4.33 	transportation of persons or property for which a currently effective certificate of title 
4.34 	has been issued in another state;
5.1 	(4) a vehicle moved solely by animal power;
5.2 	(5) an implement of husbandry;
5.3 	(6) special mobile equipment;
5.4 	(7) a self-propelled wheelchair or invalid tricycle;
5.5 	(8) a trailer (i) having a gross weight of 4,000 pounds or less unless a secured party 
5.6 	holds an interest in the trailer or a certificate of title was previously issued by this state or 
5.7 	any other state or (ii) designed primarily for agricultural purposes except a recreational 
5.8 	vehicle or a manufactured home, both as defined in section 168.011, subdivisions 8 and 25; 
5.9 	(9) a snowmobile; and
5.10 	(10) a spotter truck, as defined in section 169.01, subdivision 7a.

5.11 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
5.12 	and expires on June 30, 2013.

5.13 	Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 169.01, is amended by adding a subdivision 
5.14 	to read:
5.15 		Subd. 7a.Spotter truck. "Spotter truck" means a truck-tractor with a manufacturer's 
5.16 	certification of origin "not for on-road use" specification, used exclusively for staging or 
5.17 	shuttling trailers in the course of a truck freight operation or freight shipping operation.

5.18 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
5.19 	and expires on June 30, 2013.

5.20 	Sec. 10. [169.228] SPOTTER TRUCKS.
5.21 	Notwithstanding any other law, a spotter truck may be operated on public streets 
5.22 	and highways if:
5.23 	(1) the operator has a valid class B, C, or A driver's license;
5.24 	(2) the vehicle complies with the size, weight, and load restrictions under this 
5.25 	chapter;
5.26 	(3) the vehicle meets all inspection requirements under section 169.781; and
5.27 	(4) the vehicle is operated within a zone of two air miles from the truck freight 
5.28 	operation or freight shipping operation where the vehicle is housed.

5.29 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
5.30 	and expires on June 30, 2013.

5.31 	Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 169.781, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
5.32 		Subdivision 1.Definitions. For purposes of sections 169.781 to 169.783: 
6.1 	(a) "Commercial motor vehicle" means:
6.2 	(1) a commercial motor vehicle as defined in section 169.01, subdivision 75, 
6.3 	paragraph (a); and
6.4 	(2) each vehicle in a combination of more than 26,000 pounds; and
6.5 	(3) a spotter truck.
6.6 	"Commercial motor vehicle" does not include (1) a school bus or Head Start bus 
6.7 	displaying a certificate under section 169.451, (2) a bus operated by the Metropolitan 
6.8 	Council or by a local transit commission created in chapter 458A, or (3) a motor vehicle  
6.9 	that is required to be placarded under Code of Federal Regulations, title 49, parts 100-185. 
6.10 	(b) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of public safety.
6.11 	(c) "Owner" means a person who owns, or has control, under a lease of more than 30 
6.12 	days' duration, of one or more commercial motor vehicles.
6.13 	(d) "Storage semitrailer" means a semitrailer that (1) is used exclusively to store 
6.14 	property at a location not on a street or highway, (2) does not contain any load when 
6.15 	moved on a street or highway, (3) is operated only during daylight hours, and (4) is marked 
6.16 	on each side of the semitrailer "storage only" in letters at least six inches high.
6.17 	(e) "Building mover vehicle" means a vehicle owned or leased by a building mover 
6.18 	as defined in section 221.81, subdivision 1, paragraph (a), and used exclusively for 
6.19 	moving buildings. 

6.20 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
6.21 	and expires on June 30, 2013.

6.22 	Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 169.781, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
6.23 		Subd. 2.Inspection required. It is unlawful for a person to operate or permit 
6.24 	the operation of:
6.25 	(1) a commercial motor vehicle registered in Minnesota or a spotter truck; or
6.26 	(2) special mobile equipment as defined in section 168.011, subdivision 22, and 
6.27 	which is self-propelled, if it is mounted on a commercial motor vehicle chassis, 
6.28 	unless the vehicle displays a valid safety inspection decal issued by an inspector certified 
6.29 	by the commissioner, or the vehicle carries (1) proof that the vehicle complies with 
6.30 	federal motor vehicle inspection requirements for vehicles in interstate commerce, and 
6.31 	(2) a certificate of compliance with federal requirements issued by the commissioner 
6.32 	under subdivision 9.

6.33 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
6.34 	and expires on June 30, 2013.

7.1 	Sec. 13. COMPLETE STREETS.
 7.2 	The commissioner of transportation, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Council 
7.3 	and representatives of counties, statutory and home rule charter cities, and towns, shall 
7.4 	study the benefits, feasibility, and cost of adopting a complete streets policy applicable to 
7.5 	plans to construct, reconstruct, and relocate streets and roads that includes the following 
7.6 	elements:
7.7 	(1) safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit 
7.8 	riders;
7.9 	(2) bicycle and pedestrian ways in urbanized areas except where bicyclists and 
7.10 	pedestrians are prohibited by law, where costs would be excessively disproportionate, and 
7.11 	where there is no need for bicycle and pedestrian ways;
7.12 	(3) paved shoulders on rural roads;
7.13 	(4) safe pedestrian travel, including for people with disabilities, on sidewalks and 
7.14 	street crossings;
7.15 	(5) utilization of the latest and best design standards; and
7.16 	(6) consistency of complete streets plan with community context.
7.17 	The commissioner shall report findings, conclusions, and recommendations to 
7.18 	the senate Transportation Budget and Policy Division and the house of representatives 
7.19 	Transportation Finance Division and Transportation and Transit Policy Subcommittee by 
7.20 	January 15, 2010.