1999 Minnesota Statutes

     221.54 Transportation by pipeline.  

    The provisions of this section and section 221.55 shall 
 apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in 
 transportation for hire within this state of any commodity, 
 except water, electricity, petroleum products, waste material, 
 logs, timbers and natural or artificial gas, by means of 
 pipelines, sluiceways, conveyor belts or similar types of 
 mechanical conveyors, or partly by one or more of such means, 
 who are hereby declared to be common carriers within the meaning 
 and purpose of this section and section 221.55; provided, 
 however, that this section and section 221.55 shall not apply to 
 transportation which takes place wholly within a single city or 
 wholly within a single group of contiguous cities or for 
 distances of less than five miles, or to public or private sewer 
 or water systems.  

    HIST: 1949 c 737 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7