Minnesota Session Laws - 1993, Regular Session

  
    Laws of Minnesota 1993 

                        CHAPTER 362-H.F.No. 795 
           An act relating to insurance; no-fault auto; excluding 
          certain vehicles from the right of indemnity granted 
          by the no-fault act; amending Minnesota Statutes 1992, 
          section 65B.53, subdivision 1. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 65B.53, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  A reparation obligor paying or obligated to 
pay basic or optional economic loss benefits is entitled to 
indemnity subject to the limits of the applicable residual 
liability coverage from a reparation obligor providing residual 
liability coverage on a commercial vehicle of more than 5,500 
pounds curb weight if negligence in the operation, maintenance 
or use of the commercial vehicle was the direct and proximate 
cause of the injury for which the basic economic loss benefits 
were paid or payable to the extent that the insured would have 
been liable for damages but for the deduction provisions of 
section 65B.51, subdivision 1. 
    For purposes of this subdivision, a "commercial vehicle of 
more than 5,500 pounds curb weight" does not include a vehicle 
listed in section 65B.47, subdivision 1a. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective August 1, 1993, and applies to all 
causes of action arising on or after that date. 
    Presented to the governor May 20, 1993 
    Signed by the governor May 24, 1993, 5:51 p.m.