Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
Laws of Minnesota 1983 CHAPTER 53--S.F.No. 356 An act relating to driver's licenses; requiring examination of applicants' knowledge of the effects of alcohol and drugs on drivers; amending Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 171.13, subdivision 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 171.13, subdivision 1, is amended to read: Subdivision 1. [APPLICANTS.] Except as otherwise provided in this section, the commissioner shall examine each applicant for a driver's license by such agency as he directs. This examinationshallmust include a test of applicant's eyesight;hisability to read and understand highway signs regulating, warning, and directing traffic;hisknowledge of traffic laws; knowledge of the effects of alcohol and drugs on a driver's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely and legally; an actual demonstration of ability to exercise ordinary and reasonable control in the operation of a motor vehicle; andanyother physical and mental examinations as the commissioner finds necessary to determine the applicant's fitness to operate a motor vehicle safely upon the highways, provided, further however, no driver's license shall be denied an applicant on the exclusive grounds that the applicant's eyesight is deficient in color perception. Provided, however, that war veterans operating motor vehicles especially equipped for handicapped persons, shall, if otherwise entitled to a license, be granted such license. The commissioner shall make provision for giving these examinations either in the county where the applicant resides or at a place adjacent thereto reasonably convenient to the applicant. Approved April 22, 1983
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes