Bill Text: MN SF968 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Vehicles or motorcycles utilizing flashing red lights for escorting funeral processions local government authority modification
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-04 - Referred to Transportation and Public Safety [SF968 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-SF968-Introduced.html
1.2relating to public safety; traffic regulations; modifying local authority over
1.3vehicles utilizing flashing red lights;amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section
1.4169.04.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 169.04, is amended to read:
1.7169.04 LOCAL AUTHORITY.
1.8(a) The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to prevent local authorities,
1.9with respect to streets and highways under their jurisdiction, and with the consent of
1.10the commissioner, with respect to state trunk highways, within the corporate limits of a
1.11municipality, or within the limits of a town in a county in this state now having or which
1.12may hereafter have, a population of 500,000 or more, and a land area of not more than 600
1.13square miles, and within the reasonable exercise of the police power from:
1.14(1) regulating the standing or parking of vehicles;
1.15(2) regulating traffic by means of police officers or traffic-control signals;
1.16(3) regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on the highways;
1.17(4) designating particular highways as one-way roadways and requiring that all
1.18vehicles, except emergency vehicles, when on an emergency run, thereon be moved in one
1.19specific direction;
1.20(5) designating any highway as a through highway and requiring that all vehicles stop
1.21before entering or crossing the same, or designating any intersection as a stop intersection,
1.22and requiring all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to such intersections;
1.23(6) restricting the use of highways as authorized in sections169.80 to
169.88 .
2.1(b) No ordinance or regulation enacted under paragraph (a), clause (4), (5), or (6),
2.2shall be effective until signs giving notice of such local traffic regulations are posted
2.3upon and kept posted upon or at the entrance to the highway or part thereof affected as
2.4may be most appropriate.
2.5(c) No ordinance or regulation enacted under paragraph (a), clause (3), or any other
2.6provision of law shall prohibit:
2.7(1) the use of motorcycles or vehicles utilizing flashing red lights for the purpose of
2.8escorting funeral processions, oversize buildings, heavy equipment, parades or similar
2.9processions or assemblages on the highways; or
2.10(2) the use of motorcycles or vehicles that are owned by the funeral home and that
2.11utilize flashing red lights for the purpose of escorting funeral processions.
1.3vehicles utilizing flashing red lights;amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section
1.4169.04.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 169.04, is amended to read:
1.7169.04 LOCAL AUTHORITY.
1.8(a) The provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to prevent local authorities,
1.9with respect to streets and highways under their jurisdiction, and with the consent of
1.10the commissioner, with respect to state trunk highways, within the corporate limits of a
1.11municipality, or within the limits of a town in a county in this state now having or which
1.12may hereafter have, a population of 500,000 or more, and a land area of not more than 600
1.13square miles, and within the reasonable exercise of the police power from:
1.14(1) regulating the standing or parking of vehicles;
1.15(2) regulating traffic by means of police officers or traffic-control signals;
1.16(3) regulating or prohibiting processions or assemblages on the highways;
1.17(4) designating particular highways as one-way roadways and requiring that all
1.18vehicles, except emergency vehicles, when on an emergency run, thereon be moved in one
1.19specific direction;
1.20(5) designating any highway as a through highway and requiring that all vehicles stop
1.21before entering or crossing the same, or designating any intersection as a stop intersection,
1.22and requiring all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to such intersections;
1.23(6) restricting the use of highways as authorized in sections
2.1(b) No ordinance or regulation enacted under paragraph (a), clause (4), (5), or (6),
2.2shall be effective until signs giving notice of such local traffic regulations are posted
2.3upon and kept posted upon or at the entrance to the highway or part thereof affected as
2.4may be most appropriate.
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