2000 Minnesota Statutes

     171.03 Persons exempt. 

    The following persons are exempt from license hereunder: 

    (1) a person in the employ or service of the United States 
 federal government while driving or operating a motor vehicle 
 owned by or leased to the United States federal government, 
 except that only a noncivilian operator of a commercial motor 
 vehicle owned or leased by the United States Department of 
 Defense or the Minnesota national guard is exempt from the 
 requirement to possess a valid commercial motor vehicle driver's 
 license; 

    (2) any person while driving or operating any farm tractor, 
 or implement of husbandry temporarily operated or moved on a 
 highway, and for purposes of this section an all-terrain 
 vehicle, as defined in section 84.92, subdivision 8, an 
 off-highway motorcycle, as defined in section 84.787, 
 subdivision 7, and an off-road vehicle, as defined in section 
 84.797, subdivision 7, are not implements of husbandry; 

    (3) a nonresident who is at least 15 years of age and who 
 has in immediate possession a valid driver's license issued to 
 the nonresident in the home state or country may operate a motor 
 vehicle in this state only as a driver; 

    (4) a nonresident who has in immediate possession a valid 
 commercial driver's license issued by a state in compliance with 
 the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986, United States 
 Code, title 49, sections 521, 2304, and 2701 to 2716, and who is 
 operating in Minnesota the class of commercial motor vehicle 
 authorized by the issuing state; 

    (5) any nonresident who is at least 18 years of age, whose 
 home state or country does not require the licensing of drivers 
 may operate a motor vehicle as a driver, only for a period of 
 not more than 90 days in any calendar year if the motor vehicle 
 so operated is duly registered for the current calendar year in 
 the home state or country of such nonresident; 

    (6) any person who becomes a resident of the state of 
 Minnesota and who has in possession a valid driver's license 
 issued to the person under and pursuant to the laws of some 
 other state or province or by military authorities of the United 
 States may operate a motor vehicle as a driver, only for a 
 period of not more than 60 days after becoming a resident of 
 this state without being required to have a Minnesota driver's 
 license as provided in this chapter; 

    (7) any person who becomes a resident of the state of 
 Minnesota and who has in possession a valid commercial driver's 
 license issued by another state in compliance with the 
 Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986, United States Code, 
 title 49, sections 521, 2304, and 2701 to 2716, for not more 
 than 30 days after becoming a resident of this state; and 

    (8) any person operating a snowmobile, as defined in 
 section 84.81.  

    HIST: (2720-144) 1939 c 401 s 3; 1943 c 331 s 2; 1955 c 496 s 
 1; 1969 c 695 s 13; 1971 c 644 s 5; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 307 s 18; 
 1989 c 331 s 23; 1991 c 333 s 27; 1993 c 311 art 1 s 14; art 2 s 
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