HF 2536

as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to drivers' licenses; including a school that
charges a fee for driver training within definition of
commercial driving school; prohibiting certificated
high school driver training instructor from
instructing nonstudents; amending Minnesota Statutes
2004, sections 171.33, subdivision 1; 171.39.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 171.33,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Commercial driver training school or
school.

"Commercial driver training school" or "school" means a
business enterprise conducted by an individual, association,
partnership, deleted text begin or deleted text end corporation, new text begin or school district, new text end which charges a
fee, for the education and training of persons to drive motor
vehicles or for the preparation of an applicant for a driver's
license examination given by the state.

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 171.39, is
amended to read:

171.39 EXEMPTIONS.

(a) The provisions of sections 171.33 to 171.41 do not
apply to any person giving driver training lessons without
charge; to employers maintaining driver training schools without
charge for their employees only; to a home-school within the
meaning of sections 120A.22 and 120A.24; or to schools or
classes new text begin offered without charge and new text end conducted by colleges,
universities, and high schools as a part of the normal program
for those institutions.

(b) Any person who is a certificated driver training
instructor in a high school driver training program may new text begin not new text end give
driver training instruction to persons deleted text begin over the age of 18 deleted text end new text begin who
are not enrolled as students in the high school, new text end without
acquiring a driver training school license deleted text begin or instructor's
license, and those instructors may make a charge for that
instruction, if there is no private commercial driver training
school licensed under sections 171.33 to 171.41 within ten miles
of the municipality where driver training instruction is given
and there is no adult drivers training program in effect in the
schools of the school district in which the trainee resides deleted text end .