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169.72.1

Statute ID: 14272

Statute Function ID: 30978

Traffic Regulation - Vehicle rubber, metal and studded tires

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Statute Number:

169.72.1

Enactment Date:

May 10, 2012

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 2012

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Traffic Regulation - Vehicle rubber, metal and studded tires

Statute ID:

14272

Created:

Jul 26, 2012 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jul 26, 2012 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Updated

Legal Analyst Comment:

Amended 2012 c287 art3 sec34

Summary Text:

Traffic Regulation - Vehicle rubber, metal and studded tires

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/169/72.html

Legislative Session:

2012 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jul 26, 2012

(a) Every solid rubber tire on a vehicle must have rubber on its entire traction surface at least one inch thick above the edge of the flange of the entire periphery.
(b) No person shall operate or move on any highway any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer, having any metal tire in contact with the roadway, except in case of emergency.
(c) Except as provided in this section, no tire on a vehicle moved on a highway shall have on its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat, or spike or any other protuberances of any material other than rubber which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire. It shall be permissible to use any of the following on highways: implements of husbandry with tires having protuberances which will not injure the highway, and tire chains of reasonable proportions upon any vehicle when required for safety because of snow, ice, or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle to skid.
(d) It s permissible to use any of the following on highways:
(1) implements of husbandry with tires having protuberances which will not injure the highway;
(2) tire chains of reasonable proportions upon any vehicle when required for safety because of snow, ice, or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle to skid; and
(3) tires on a bicycle as provided in section 169.222, subdivision 6.
(e) The commissioner and local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may, 
in their discretion, issue special permits authorizing the operation upon a highway of 
traction engines or tractors having movable tracks with transverse corrugations upon the 
periphery of such movable tracks or farm tractors or other farm machinery, the operation 
of which upon a highway would otherwise be prohibited under this chapter.