Minnesota Session Laws - 1990, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1990 

                        CHAPTER 385-S.F.No. 2039 
           An act relating to motor vehicles; exempting certain 
          water well drilling equipment and vehicles from 
          registration and taxation requirements; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 168.012, subdivision 
          5; Minnesota Statutes 1989 Supplement, section 
          168.011, subdivision 22. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1989 Supplement, section 
168.011, subdivision 22, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 22.  [SPECIAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT.] "Special mobile 
equipment" means every vehicle not designed or used primarily 
for the transportation of persons or property and only 
incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including but not 
limited to:  ditch digging apparatus, moving dollies, pump 
hoists and other water well drilling equipment registered under 
chapter 103I, and other machinery such as asphalt spreaders, 
bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than 
truck-tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, 
motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth moving carryalls, 
scrapers, power shovels, drag lines, self-propelled cranes, and 
earth moving equipment.  The term does not include travel 
trailers, dump trucks, truck mounted transit mixers, truck 
mounted feed grinders, or other motor vehicles designed for the 
transportation of persons or property to which machinery has 
been attached. 
     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 168.012, 
subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 5.  Motor vehicles, which are used only for the 
purpose of carrying sawing machines,; well drilling machines, 
pump hoists, and other equipment registered under chapter 103I; 
barn sprayers or corn shellers permanently attached to them, 
shall not be subject to the registration tax as herein provided, 
but shall be listed for taxation as personal property as 
provided by law. 
     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
     Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor March 30, 1990 
    Signed by the governor April 3, 1990, 8:36 p.m.