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HF 413

as introduced - 89th Legislature (2015 - 2016) Posted on 02/09/2015 03:53pm

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.
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A bill for an act
relating to transportation; mass transit; prohibiting certain expenditures and
planning for streetcar lines; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes,
chapter 174.

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

Section 1.

[174.47] STREETCAR PROHIBITIONS.

Subdivision 1.

Metropolitan Council.

The Metropolitan Council must not take
any action or spend any money for study, planning, preliminary engineering, final design,
or construction for a streetcar line. The council must remove all references, other than
references for historical purposes, to any streetcar line from any future revisions to the
council's transportation development guide and the council's regional transit master plan.

Subd. 2.

Commissioner of transportation.

The commissioner of transportation
must not expend any money for study, planning, preliminary engineering, final design, or
construction for a streetcar line. The commissioner must remove all references, other than
references for historical purposes, to any streetcar line from any future revisions to the
state transportation plan and the commissioner's rail system planning.

Subd. 3.

Regional rail authorities.

No regional rail authority may expend any
money for study, planning, preliminary engineering, final design, or construction for a
streetcar line.

EFFECTIVE DATE.

This section is effective the day following final enactment.