2007 Minnesota Statutes

171.31 INFORMATION ON PERSON RECEIVING BLINDNESS BENEFITS.
The commissioner of public safety, in order to promote highway safety by restricting driving
privileges to those persons meeting accepted visual acuity standards, may request and shall
receive information concerning the identity and whereabouts of any person who has applied for or
received any type of welfare, licensing, or other benefits for the blind or nearly blind, from the
records of all departments, boards, bureaus, or other agencies of this state except the Department
of Revenue, and they shall provide such information notwithstanding the provisions of section
268.19 or any other existing law or rule to the contrary, except that section 270B.02, subdivision
1 , prohibits disclosure of information by the commissioner of revenue.
History: 1967 c 524 s 1; 1969 c 1129 art 1 s 18; 1984 c 514 art 3 s 1; 1985 c 248 s 70;
1989 c 184 art 2 s 7; 1997 c 66 s 79