Minnesota Session Laws - 1988, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1988 

                        CHAPTER 715-S.F.No. 2221 
           An act relating to motor vehicles; motorcycles; 
          increasing percentage of money appropriated from 
          motorcycle safety fund to commissioner of public 
          safety that may be spent for training and coordinating 
          activities of instructors and making reimbursements to 
          schools and others; increasing the fee for duplicate 
          driver's license obtained to add a two-wheeled vehicle 
          endorsement; increasing portion of two-wheeled 
          endorsement license fee that is dedicated to the 
          motorcycle safety fund; amending Minnesota Statutes 
          1986, sections 126.115, subdivision 3; and 171.06, 
          subdivision 2a. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 126.115, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  [APPROPRIATION.] All funds in the motorcycle 
safety fund created by section 171.06, subdivision 2a are hereby 
annually appropriated to the commissioner of public safety to 
carry out the purposes of subdivisions 1 and 2.  The 
commissioner of public safety may make grants from the fund to 
the commissioner of education at such times and in such amounts 
as the commissioner deems necessary to carry out the purposes of 
subdivisions 1 and 2.  Not more than five percent of the funds 
so appropriated shall be expended to defray the administrative 
costs of carrying out the purposes of subdivisions 1 and 2, and 
not more than 50 60 percent of the money so appropriated shall 
be expended for the combined purpose of training and 
coordinating the activities of motorcycle safety instructors and 
making reimbursements to schools and other approved 
organizations. 
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1986, section 171.06, 
subdivision 2a, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 2a.  [FEE INCREASED.] The fee for any duplicate 
drivers license which is obtained for the purpose of adding a 
two-wheeled vehicle endorsement is increased by $6 $7.50 for 
each first such duplicate license and $4 $6 for each renewal 
thereof. The additional fee shall be paid into the state 
treasury and credited to the motorcycle safety fund which is 
hereby created; provided that any fee receipts in excess 
of $300,000 $500,000 in a fiscal year shall be credited 90 
percent to the trunk highway fund and ten percent to the general 
fund, as provided in section 171.26.  
    All application forms prepared by the commissioner for 
two-wheeled vehicle endorsements shall clearly contain the 
information that of the total fee charged for the endorsement, 
$4 $6 is dedicated to the motorcycle safety fund. 
    Approved May 4, 1988