Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                        CHAPTER 118-H.F.No. 627 
           An act relating to motor carriers; exempting rear-end 
          dump trucks operated by private agricultural carriers 
          between point of production and point of processing 
          from requirements for rear-end protection; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 221.031, subdivision 
          2a. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 221.031, 
subdivision 2a, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 2a.  [PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL CARRIERS.] (a) 
Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision 2, private 
carriers engaged in intrastate commerce and operating vehicles 
transporting agricultural and other farm products within an area 
having a 50-mile radius from the business location of the 
private carrier must comply only with the commissioner's rules 
for safety of operations and equipment, except as provided in 
paragraph (b). 
    (b) A rear-end dump truck or other rear-unloading truck, 
operated by a private agricultural carrier, while being used for 
hauling agricultural and other farm products from a place of 
production or on-farm storage site to a place of processing or 
storage, is not subject to any rule of the commissioner, 
including a federal regulation adopted by reference, requiring 
rear-end protection. 
    Presented to the governor May 11, 1989 
    Signed by the governor May 15, 1989, 9:53 a.m.