SF 4051
Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)
Posted on 03/12/2026 09:34 a.m.
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A bill for an act
relating to transportation; requiring payment of certain local government utility
costs related to trunk highway construction out of the trunk highway fund; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 161.46, subdivision 2.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 161.46, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2.
Relocation of facilities; reimbursement.
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determines that the relocation of any utility facility is necessitated by the construction of a
project on the routes of federally aided trunk highways, including urban extensions thereof,
that are included within the National System of Interstate Highways, the owner or operator
of the utility facility must relocate the utility facility in accordance with the order of the
commissioner. Except as provided in section 161.45, subdivision 6, paragraph (d), or 7,
upon the completion of relocation of a utility facility, the cost of relocation must be
ascertained and paid out of the trunk highway fund by the commissioner, provided the
amount paid by the commissioner for reimbursement to a utility does not exceed the amount
on which the federal government bases its reimbursement for the interstate highway system.
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(b) When a local unit of government, as defined in section 18B.01, subdivision 14a, or
Minnesota Tribal government, as defined in section 10.65, subdivision 2, owns a utility
system for supplying light, water, sanitary sewer service, or storm sewer service and the
system is authorized by law to use a public highway for the location of the utility facility,
the remaining service life of the utility must be determined by the commissioner and must
be paid out of the trunk highway fund whenever the commissioner determines that a
relocation of the system is required by the construction of a project on the trunk highway
system.
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