Bill Text: MN HF487 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Traffic safety camera use by local authorities authorized to regulate traffic at intersections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-11 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Transportation Policy [HF487 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF487-Introduced.html
1.2relating to public safety; traffic regulations; authorizing local authorities to
1.3regulate traffic at intersections using traffic safety cameras;amending Minnesota
1.4Statutes 2012, sections 169.011, by adding a subdivision; 169.04.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 169.011, is amended by adding a
1.7subdivision to read:
1.8 Subd. 85a. Traffic safety camera. "Traffic safety camera" means a remotely
1.9operated recording device capable of recording clear images of vehicle movement at
1.10an intersection.
1.11 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 169.04, is amended to read:
1.12169.04 LOCAL AUTHORITY.
1.13(a) The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to prevent local authorities,
1.14with respect to streets and highways under their jurisdiction, and with the consent of
1.15the commissioner, with respect to state trunk highways, within the corporate limits of a
1.16municipality, or within the limits of a town in a county in this state now having or which
1.17may hereafter have, a population of 500,000 or more, and a land area of not more than 600
1.18square miles, and within the reasonable exercise of the police power from:
1.19(1) regulating the standing or parking of vehicles;
1.20(2) regulating traffic by means of police officersor, traffic-control signals, or traffic
1.21safety cameras;
1.22(3) regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on the highways;
2.1(4) designating particular highways as one-way roadways and requiring that all
2.2vehicles, except emergency vehicles, when on an emergency run, thereon be moved in one
2.3specific direction;
2.4(5) designating any highway as a through highway and requiring that all vehicles stop
2.5before entering or crossing the same, or designating any intersection as a stop intersection,
2.6and requiring all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to such intersections;
2.7(6) restricting the use of highways as authorized in sections169.80 to
169.88 .
2.8(b) No ordinance or regulation enacted under paragraph (a), clause (4), (5), or (6),
2.9shall be effective until signs giving notice of such local traffic regulations are posted
2.10upon and kept posted upon or at the entrance to the highway or part thereof affected as
2.11may be most appropriate.
2.12(c) No ordinance or regulation enacted under paragraph (a), clause (3), or any other
2.13provision of law shall prohibit:
2.14(1) the use of motorcycles or vehicles utilizing flashing red lights for the purpose of
2.15escorting funeral processions, oversize buildings, heavy equipment, parades or similar
2.16processions or assemblages on the highways; or
2.17(2) the use of motorcycles or vehicles that are owned by the funeral home and that
2.18utilize flashing red lights for the purpose of escorting funeral processions.
1.3regulate traffic at intersections using traffic safety cameras;amending Minnesota
1.4Statutes 2012, sections 169.011, by adding a subdivision; 169.04.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 169.011, is amended by adding a
1.7subdivision to read:
1.8 Subd. 85a. Traffic safety camera. "Traffic safety camera" means a remotely
1.9operated recording device capable of recording clear images of vehicle movement at
1.10an intersection.
1.11 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 169.04, is amended to read:
1.12169.04 LOCAL AUTHORITY.
1.13(a) The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to prevent local authorities,
1.14with respect to streets and highways under their jurisdiction, and with the consent of
1.15the commissioner, with respect to state trunk highways, within the corporate limits of a
1.16municipality, or within the limits of a town in a county in this state now having or which
1.17may hereafter have, a population of 500,000 or more, and a land area of not more than 600
1.18square miles, and within the reasonable exercise of the police power from:
1.19(1) regulating the standing or parking of vehicles;
1.20(2) regulating traffic by means of police officers
1.21safety cameras;
1.22(3) regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on the highways;
2.1(4) designating particular highways as one-way roadways and requiring that all
2.2vehicles, except emergency vehicles, when on an emergency run, thereon be moved in one
2.3specific direction;
2.4(5) designating any highway as a through highway and requiring that all vehicles stop
2.5before entering or crossing the same, or designating any intersection as a stop intersection,
2.6and requiring all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to such intersections;
2.7(6) restricting the use of highways as authorized in sections
2.8(b) No ordinance or regulation enacted under paragraph (a), clause (4), (5), or (6),
2.9shall be effective until signs giving notice of such local traffic regulations are posted
2.10upon and kept posted upon or at the entrance to the highway or part thereof affected as
2.11may be most appropriate.
2.12(c) No ordinance or regulation enacted under paragraph (a), clause (3), or any other
2.13provision of law shall prohibit:
2.14(1) the use of motorcycles or vehicles utilizing flashing red lights for the purpose of
2.15escorting funeral processions, oversize buildings, heavy equipment, parades or similar
2.16processions or assemblages on the highways; or
2.17(2) the use of motorcycles or vehicles that are owned by the funeral home and that
2.18utilize flashing red lights for the purpose of escorting funeral processions.
