1999 Minnesota Statutes

     84.83 Disposition of receipts; dedicated account. 

    Subdivision 1.    Creation.  There is created in the 
 state treasury an account known as the snowmobile trails and 
 enforcement account in the natural resources fund.  

    Subd. 2.    Money deposited in the account.  Fees from 
 the registration of snowmobiles and the unrefunded gasoline tax 
 attributable to snowmobile use pursuant to section 296A.18, as 
 well as the net proceeds from the sale of snowmobiles forfeited 
 pursuant to section 169.1217, shall be deposited in the state 
 treasury and credited to the snowmobile trails and enforcement 
 account.  

    Subd. 3.    Purposes for the account.  The money 
 deposited in the account and interest earned on that money may 
 be expended only as appropriated by law for the following 
 purposes:  

    (1) for a grant-in-aid program to counties and 
 municipalities for construction and maintenance of snowmobile 
 trails, including maintenance of trails on lands and waters of 
 Voyageurs National Park; 

    (2) for acquisition, development, and maintenance of state 
 recreational snowmobile trails; 

    (3) for snowmobile safety programs; and 

    (4) for the administration and enforcement of sections 
 84.81 to 84.90.  

    Subd. 4.    Provisions applicable to funding recipients. 
  (a) Recipients of Minnesota trail assistance program funds 
 must be afforded the same protection and be held to the same 
 standard of liability as a political subdivision under chapter 
 466 for activities associated with the administration, design, 
 construction, maintenance, and grooming of snowmobile trails.  

    (b) Recipients of Minnesota trail assistance program funds 
 who maintain ice trails on waters of Voyageurs National Park are 
 expressly immune from liability under section 466.03, 
 subdivision 6e. 

    Subd. 5.    Fines and forfeited bail.  The disposition 
 of fines and forfeited bail collected from prosecutions of 
 violations of sections 84.81 to 84.91, and violations of section 
 169.121 that involve off-road recreational vehicles, as defined 
 in section 169.01, subdivision 86, are governed by section 
 97A.065. 

    HIST: 1967 c 876 s 5; 1969 c 399 s 1; 1969 c 695 s 5; 1982 c 
 580 s 3; 1987 c 404 s 97; 1989 c 335 art 4 s 17; 1992 c 573 s 1; 
 1995 c 230 s 1,2; 1Sp1997 c 2 s 1,67; 1998 c 299 s 30; 1999 c 
 231 s 88,89