2001 Minnesota Statutes

     13.72 Transportation department data. 

    Subdivision 1.    Estimates for construction projects.  
 An estimate of the cost of a construction project of the 
 Minnesota department of transportation prepared by department 
 employees is nonpublic data and is not available to the public 
 from the time of final design until the project is awarded.  

    Subd. 2. Repealed, 1999 c 227 s 23 

    Subd. 3. Repealed, 1988 c 544 s 27; 1988 c 670 s 14 

    Subd. 4.    Motor carrier accident data.  All data 
 submitted to the department of transportation in the form of 
 motor vehicle carrier accident reports, except the portions of 
 the report forms in which the carrier and the driver provide 
 their version of the accident, are classified as nonpublic data 
 with regard to data not on individuals, and private data with 
 regard to data on individuals. 

    Subd. 5.    Motor carrier accident version data.  Those 
 portions of the motor vehicle carrier accident report forms, 
 that motor vehicle carriers are required to submit to the 
 department of transportation, that contain the carrier's and 
 driver's version of the accident are classified as protected 
 nonpublic data with regard to data not on individuals, and 
 confidential data with regard to data on individuals.  

    Subd. 6.    Complaint data.  Names of complainants, 
 complaint letters, and other unsolicited data furnished to the 
 department of transportation by a person other than the data 
 subject or department employee, which provide information that a 
 person who is subject to chapter 221 or rules adopted under that 
 chapter may not be in compliance with those requirements, are 
 classified as confidential data or protected nonpublic data. 

    Subd. 7.    Public investigative data.  The following 
 data created, collected, or maintained about persons subject to 
 chapter 221 and rules adopted under that chapter are public:  
 data contained in inspection and compliance forms and data 
 contained in audit reports that are not prepared under contract 
 to the federal highway administration. 

    Subd. 8.    Motor carrier operating data.  The following 
 data submitted by Minnesota intrastate motor carriers to the 
 department of transportation are nonpublic data:  all payroll 
 reports including wages, hours or miles worked, hours earned, 
 employee benefit data, and terminal and route-specific operating 
 data including percentage of revenues paid to agent operated 
 terminals, line-haul load factors, pickup and delivery (PUD) 
 activity, and peddle driver activity. 

    Subd. 9.    Rideshare data.  The following data on 
 participants, collected by the Minnesota department of 
 transportation and the metropolitan council to administer 
 rideshare programs, are classified as private under section 
 13.02, subdivision 12:  residential address and telephone 
 number; beginning and ending work hours; current mode of 
 commuting to and from work; and type of rideshare service 
 information requested.  

    Subd. 10.    Transportation service data.  Personal, 
 medical, financial, familial, or locational information data 
 pertaining to applicants for or users of services providing 
 transportation for the disabled or elderly, with the exception 
 of the name of the applicant or user of the service, are private.

    HIST: 1981 c 209 s 1; 1981 c 311 s 39; 1982 c 545 s 20,24; 
 1985 c 298 s 22-24; 1989 c 318 s 1,2; 1990 c 573 s 9; 1991 c 339 
 s 2; 1993 c 351 s 14; 1999 c 227 s 8,22