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169.832 Weight limitations on designated routes.

Subdivision 1. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 2. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 3. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 4. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 5. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 6. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 7. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 8. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 9. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 10. Repealed, 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 11. Designation of route. The commissioner may designate any street or highway route or segment of a route to carry the gross weights permitted under section 169.825. Any designation of a route pursuant to this subdivision, other than a trunk highway route, is subject to the approval of the local authority having jurisdiction over the route. A route may not be designated if the commissioner finds that designation

(a) creates an undue hazard to traffic safety; or

(b) is inconsistent with structural capacity of the route, including consideration of the volume of traffic expected to occur on the route after designation.

Notwithstanding any finding under clause (b), the commissioner shall designate any route which is needed to provide

(i) a connection between significant centers of population or commerce, or between other designated routes; or

(ii) access to a transportation terminal; or

(iii) temporary emergency service to a particular shipping or receiving point on the route.

The commissioner may undesignate any route when continued designation is inconsistent with the provisions of this subdivision, subject to the approval of any local authority having jurisdiction over the route.

Any route designation or undesignation shall be effective when adopted. The commissioner may designate or undesignate any route when requested by any local authority having jurisdiction over the route.

Subd. 12. Repealed, 1981 c 81 s 2; 1981 c 321 s 12

Subd. 13. Restrictions on trunk highway; rules. (a) For purposes of this section a "market artery" is a trunk highway or segment thereof that:

(i) connects significant centers of population or commerce;

(ii) connects highways described in clause (i);

(iii) provides access to a transportation terminal; or

(iv) provides temporary emergency service to a particular shipping or receiving point on a market artery.

(b) The commissioner may impose seasonal load restrictions under section 169.87 on a market artery only after giving 30 days' notice to the chairs of the transportation and appropriations committees of the house of representatives, and the chairs of the transportation and finance committees of the senate. The commissioner shall provide with each notice a plan to improve the market artery within the next three years so that seasonal load restrictions will not be necessary on it.

(c) The commissioner shall adopt rules under chapter 14 defining "significant centers of population and commerce" and "temporary emergency service" for purposes of this section. In drafting the rules, the commissioner shall consult with major highway users, representatives of manufacturing, retail trade and agriculture, local government and regional development commissions. The commissioner shall consider the importance of manufacturing, retailing, agriculture and natural resources in promulgating the rule, and shall hold at least four public meetings in various parts of the state prior to preparing the final draft of the rule. Between July 1, 1986, and the effective date of the rule, "significant centers of population and commerce" means all home rule charter or statutory cities that had total retail sales of at least $50,000,000 as reported in the 1982 census of retail trade of the United States Department of Commerce.

HIST: 1977 c 248 s 7; 1981 c 81 s 1; 1981 c 321 s 5; 1986 c 398 art 13 s 10

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