HF 2037

as introduced - 80th Legislature (1997 - 1998) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to traffic regulations; authorizing cities to 
  1.3             establish maximum speed limits below 30 miles per hour 
  1.4             on streets; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 
  1.5             169.04. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 169.04, is 
  1.8   amended to read: 
  1.9      169.04 [LOCAL AUTHORITIES.] 
  1.10     (a) The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to 
  1.11  prevent local authorities, with respect to streets and highways 
  1.12  under their jurisdiction, and with the consent of the 
  1.13  commissioner, with respect to state trunk highways, within the 
  1.14  corporate limits of a municipality, or within the limits of a 
  1.15  town in a county in this state now having or which may hereafter 
  1.16  have, a population of 500,000 or more, and a land area of not 
  1.17  more than 600 square miles, and within the reasonable exercise 
  1.18  of the police power from: 
  1.19     (1) regulating the standing or parking of vehicles; 
  1.20     (2) regulating traffic by means of police officers or 
  1.21  traffic-control signals; 
  1.22     (3) regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on 
  1.23  the highways; 
  1.24     (4) designating particular highways as one-way roadways and 
  1.25  requiring that all vehicles, except emergency vehicles, when on 
  2.1   an emergency run, thereon be moved in one specific direction; 
  2.2      (5) designating any highway as a through highway and 
  2.3   requiring that all vehicles stop before entering or crossing the 
  2.4   same, or designating any intersection as a stop intersection, 
  2.5   and requiring all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to 
  2.6   such intersections; 
  2.7      (6) restricting the use of highways as authorized in 
  2.8   sections 169.80 to 169.88; or 
  2.9      (7) in the case of a statutory or home rule charter city, 
  2.10  establishing, by resolution, a maximum speed limit of less than 
  2.11  30 miles per hour for any street under the city's jurisdiction.  
  2.12     (b) No ordinance or regulation enacted under paragraph (a), 
  2.13  clause (4), (5), or (6), or (7), shall be effective until signs 
  2.14  giving notice of such local traffic regulations are posted upon 
  2.15  and kept posted upon or at the entrance to the highway or part 
  2.16  thereof affected as may be most appropriate.  
  2.17     (c) No ordinance or regulation enacted under clause (3) or 
  2.18  any other provision of law shall prohibit the use of motorcycles 
  2.19  utilizing flashing red lights for the purpose of escorting 
  2.20  funeral processions, oversize buildings, heavy equipment, 
  2.21  parades or similar processions or assemblages on the highways. 
  2.22     (d) A speed limit enacted by a city under paragraph (a), 
  2.23  clause (7), and becoming effective pursuant to paragraph (b), 
  2.24  supersedes any provision of section 169.14 to the contrary.