Minnesota Session Laws - 1994, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 439-H.F.No. 2936 
                  An act relating to Ramsey county; providing for 
                  funding the maintenance of turnback roads in Ramsey 
                  county; amending Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 
                  383A.16, subdivision 2, and by adding subdivisions; 
                  repealing Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 383A.16, 
                  subdivision 1. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 383A.16, 
        subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 2.  [DUTY TO APPROPRIATE FOR MUNICIPAL STREETS; 
        FORMULA FOR APPROPRIATION.] (a) Ramsey county shall appropriate 
        $100,000 annually and pay it to the municipalities in the county 
        who do not receive municipal state-aid street funds, outside the 
        city of Saint Paul, to aid the these municipalities in 
        the construction and maintenance of municipal roads, streets or 
        bridges, appropriate traffic control devices and lighting, 
        and former county roads and county state-aid highways that have 
        been transferred to municipal jurisdiction or town roads as a 
        result of implementation of the recommendation for functional 
        consolidation by the Ramsey county local government services 
        study commission in its March 1992 report of the Ramsey county 
        local government services study commission. 
           (b) This appropriation shall be apportioned in the 
        following manner: 
           (a) 70 percent to be prorated to the municipalities in 
        proportion as the number of miles of roads inside, and 
        maintained exclusively by each municipality bears to the total 
        number of miles of roads inside the county and maintained 
        exclusively by all the municipalities; and 
           (b) 30 percent thereof to the municipalities, 
        proportionately, according to the net tax capacity of all 
        property for taxation in the municipalities, and shall be spent 
        on municipal roads, streets, or bridges by the governing body of 
        each municipality by allocating $8,000 per mile for each mile of 
        former county roads and county state-aid highways received by 
        each municipality.  These funds shall be spent on municipal 
        roads, streets, or bridges by the governing body of each 
        municipality.  
           (c) The $8,000 appropriation shall increase or decrease 
        each year by an amount equal to the overall increase or decrease 
        reflected in the Engineering News Record Index.  
           (d) Failure to provide the appropriation will result in the 
        cities returning the "turnback roads" to Ramsey county, if the 
        city so chooses. 
           Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 383A.16, is 
        amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
           Subd. 6.  [CONDITION OF HIGHWAYS TRANSFERRED.] Ramsey 
        county shall, before transferring any highway jurisdiction under 
        subdivision 2, improve each highway to be transferred to a 
        condition consistent with a Ramsey county pavement management 
        system score of 90. 
           Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 383A.16, is 
        amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
           Subd. 7.  [DEFINITION.] For purposes of this section 
        "municipality" means a home rule or statutory city and the town 
        of White Bear. 
           Sec. 4.  [REPEALER.] 
           Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 383A.16, subdivision 1, is 
        repealed. 
           Presented to the governor April 12, 1994 
           Signed by the governor April 15, 1994, 1:27 p.m.