2006 Minnesota Statutes

162.06 MS 1957 [Repealed, 1959 c 500 art 6 s 13]
162.06 ACCRUALS TO COUNTY STATE-AID HIGHWAY FUND; ACCOUNTS.
    Subdivision 1. Estimate. By December 15 of each year the commissioner shall estimate the
amount of money that will be available to the county state-aid highway fund during that fiscal
year. The amount available must be based on actual receipts from July 1 through November
30, the unallocated fund balance, and the projected receipts for the remainder of the fiscal
year. The total available, except for deductions as provided herein, shall be apportioned by the
commissioner to the counties as hereinafter provided.
    Subd. 2. Administrative costs of department. Two percent must be deducted from the total
amount available in the county state-aid highway fund, set aside in a separate account, and used
for administrative costs incurred by the state Transportation Department in carrying out the
provisions relating to the county state-aid highway system.
    Subd. 3. Disaster account. (a) After deducting administrative costs as provided in
subdivision 2, the commissioner shall set aside each year a sum of money equal to one percent
of the remaining money in the county state-aid highway fund to provide for a disaster account;
provided that the total amount of money in the disaster account must never exceed two percent of
the total sums to be apportioned to the counties. This sum must be used to provide aid to any
county encountering disasters or unforeseen events affecting its county state-aid highway system,
and resulting in an undue and burdensome financial hardship.
(b) Any county desiring aid by reason of disaster or unforeseen event shall request the aid
in the form required by the commissioner. Upon receipt of the request, the commissioner shall
appoint a board consisting of two representatives of the counties, who must be either a county
engineer or member of a county board, from counties other than the requesting county, and a
representative of the commissioner. The board shall investigate the matter and report its findings
and recommendations in writing to the commissioner.
(c) Final determination of the amount of aid, if any, to be paid to the county from the disaster
account must be made by the commissioner. Upon determining to aid a requesting county,
the commissioner shall certify to the commissioner of finance the amount of the aid, and the
commissioner of finance shall then issue a warrant in that amount payable to the county treasurer
of the county. Money so paid must be expended on the county state-aid highway system in
accordance with the rules of the commissioner.
    Subd. 4. Research account. (a) Each year the screening board, provided for in section
162.07, subdivision 5, may recommend to the commissioner a sum of money that the
commissioner shall set aside from the county state-aid highway fund and credit to a research
account. The amount so recommended and set aside shall not exceed one-half of one percent
of the preceding year's apportionment sum.
(b) Any money so set aside shall be used by the commissioner for the purpose of:
(1) conducting research for improving the design, construction, maintenance and
environmental compatibility of state-aid highways and appurtenances;
(2) constructing research elements and reconstructing or replacing research elements that
fail; and
(3) conducting programs for implementing and monitoring research results.
(c) Any balance remaining in the research account at the end of each year from the sum set
aside for the year immediately previous, shall be transferred to the county state-aid highway fund.
    Subd. 5. State park road account. After deducting for administrative costs and for the
disaster account and research account as heretofore provided from the remainder of the total
sum provided for in subdivision 1, there shall be deducted a sum equal to the three-quarters of
one percent of the remainder. The sum so deducted shall be set aside in a separate account and
shall be used for (1) the establishment, location, relocation, construction, reconstruction, and
improvement of those roads included in the county state-aid highway system under Minnesota
Statutes 1961, section 162.02, subdivision 6, which border and provide substantial access to an
outdoor recreation unit as defined in section 86A.04 or which provide access to the headquarters
of or the principal parking lot located within such a unit, and (2) the reconstruction, improvement,
repair, and maintenance of county roads, city streets, and town roads that provide access to public
lakes, rivers, state parks, and state campgrounds. Roads described in clause (2) are not required to
meet county state-aid highway standards. At the request of the commissioner of natural resources
the counties wherein such roads are located shall do such work as requested in the same manner
as on any county state-aid highway and shall be reimbursed for such construction, reconstruction,
or improvements from the amount set aside by this subdivision. Before requesting a county to do
work on a county state-aid highway as provided in this subdivision, the commissioner of natural
resources must obtain approval for the project from the County State-Aid Screening Board. The
screening board, before giving its approval, must obtain a written comment on the project from
the county engineer of the county requested to undertake the project. Before requesting a county
to do work on a county road, city street, or a town road that provides access to a public lake, a
river, a state park, or a state campground, the commissioner of natural resources shall obtain a
written comment on the project from the county engineer of the county requested to undertake the
project. Any sums paid to counties or cities in accordance with this subdivision shall reduce the
money needs of said counties or cities in the amounts necessary to equalize their status with those
counties or cities not receiving such payments. Any balance of the amount so set aside, at the end
of each year shall be transferred to the county state-aid highway fund.
    Subd. 6. County state-aid highway revolving loan account. A county state-aid highway
revolving loan account is created in the transportation revolving loan fund. The commissioner
may transfer to the account the amount allocated under section 162.065. Money in the account
may be used to make loans. Funds in the county state-aid highway revolving loan account may
be used only for aid in the construction, improvement, and maintenance of county state-aid
highways. Funds in the account may not be used for any toll facilities project or congestion-pricing
project. Repayments and interest from loans from the county state-aid highway revolving loan
account must be credited to that account. Money in the account is annually appropriated to the
commissioner and does not lapse. Interest earned from investment of money in this account must
be deposited in the county state-aid highway revolving loan account.
History: 1959 c 500 art 3 s 6; 1963 c 75 s 1; 1963 c 589 s 1; 1965 c 239 s 1; 1967 c 335 s 1;
1969 c 1129 art 3 s 1; 1973 c 492 s 14; 1974 c 172 s 1; 1976 c 166 s 7; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c
444; 1986 c 454 s 7; 1Sp1986 c 1 art 8 s 2; 1988 c 635 s 1; 1989 c 268 s 3; 1991 c 339 s 4; 1994 c
635 art 1 s 4,5; 1997 c 141 s 2; 1999 c 230 s 10-12; 1Sp2001 c 8 art 2 s 24; 1Sp2005 c 6 art 3 s 11

NOTE: Subdivision 6, as added by Laws 1997, chapter 141, section 2, is effective six
months after the effective date of an increase in the gasoline excise tax rate or vehicle registration
tax rates. Laws 1997, chapter 141, section 11.