1997 Minnesota Statutes

     299A.11 Vehicles transporting wheelchair users; 
  definitions. 

    The following terms have the definitions given them for the 
 purposes of sections 299A.11 to 299A.18: 

    (a) "Wheelchair securement device" or "securement device" 
 means an apparatus installed in a transit vehicle or other motor 
 vehicle for the purpose of securing an occupied wheelchair into 
 a location in the vehicle and preventing movement of that 
 wheelchair while the vehicle is in motion. 

    (b) "Operator" means any person, firm, partnership, 
 corporation, service club, public or private agency, city, town 
 or county.  Section 299A.15 does not apply to any school bus as 
 defined in section 169.01, subdivision 6. 

    (c) "Transportation service" means the transportation by 
 motor vehicle, other than a school bus manufactured before 
 January 1, 1988, of any sick, injured, invalid, incapacitated, 
 or handicapped individual while occupying a wheelchair, which 
 transportation is offered or provided by any operator to the 
 public or to its employees or in connection with any other 
 service offered by the operator including schooling or nursing 
 home, convalescent or child care services. 

    (d) "Transit vehicle" means a bus that is not a school bus 
 as defined in section 169.01, subdivision 6, with a gross 
 vehicle weight rating greater than 15,000 pounds.  

    HIST: 1978 c 752 s 1; 1987 c 383 s 16; 1991 c 163 s 1