2001 Minnesota Statutes

     168C.04 Registration requirements, fee, account, 
  appropriation. 

    Subdivision 1.    Three-year registration fee; procedures. 
  The registration fee for bicycles shall be $9 after July 1, 
 1991.  These fees shall be paid at the time of registration.  
 The fees, and any donations in excess of the fees must be 
 deposited in a bicycle transportation account in the special 
 revenue fund.  Proof of purchase is required for registration.  
 Bicycles lacking proof of purchase may be registered if there is 
 no evidence that the bicycle is stolen.  However, the 
 registration record must be marked to indicate that no proof of 
 purchase was provided.  The registration is valid for three 
 calendar years.  A person registering a bicycle may add an 
 additional amount to the registration fee, and all amounts so 
 added must be deposited in the same manner as registration 
 fees.  A person registering a bicycle must at the time of 
 registration be informed that a registrant may add an additional 
 amount to the fee and that all such additional amounts will be 
 used for the purposes specified in subdivision 2. 

    Subd. 2.    Bicycle transportation account; money 
 allocated.  A bicycle transportation account is created in the 
 special revenue fund.  All funds in the account, up to a maximum 
 of $160,000 in a fiscal year, are annually appropriated as 
 follows: 

    (1) one-half to the commissioner of transportation for the 
 development of bicycle transportation and recreational 
 facilities on public highways, including but not limited to 
 bicycle lanes and ways on highways, off-road bicycle trails, and 
 bicycle mapping; and 

    (2) one-half to the commissioner of public safety for 
 bicycle safety programs, administration of the bicycle 
 registration program, and public information and education 
 designed to encourage participation in the program. 

    Subd. 3.    Considerations before money distributed.  An 
 agency of the state expending funds from the bicycle 
 transportation account must, in making expenditures for the 
 purposes of subdivision 2, paragraph (c), give consideration to 
 participation or nonparticipation by a political subdivision in 
 the bicycle registration program as provided in section 168C.13 
 and the extent of local public participation in the program 
 before approving a project or expenditure in that political 
 subdivision.  

    Subd. 4.  Repealed by amendment, 1991 c 233 s 59 

    HIST: 1976 c 199 s 4; 1984 c 572 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 233 s 
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