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169.80.1

Statute ID: 16459

Statute Function ID: 34699

Traffic Regulation - Size, Weight, and Load Restrictions - Limitations and Penalty

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Statute Number:

169.80.1

Enactment Date:

May 30, 2017

Effective Date:

May 31, 2017

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Traffic Regulation - Size, Weight, and Load Restrictions - Limitations and Penalty

Statute ID:

16459

Created:

Jun 5, 2017 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jun 5, 2017 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

2017 SS1 Art 3 s 66; Effective day after enactment; change is textual change to paragraph (e)

Summary Text:

Traffic Regulation - Size, Weight, and Load Restrictions - Limitations and Penalty

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/169/80.html

Legislative Session:

2017 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jun 5, 2017

(a) It is a misdemeanor for a person to drive or move, or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved, on a highway a vehicle or vehicles of a size or weight exceeding the limitations stated in sections 169.80 to 169.88, or otherwise in violation of sections 169.80 to 169.88, other than section 169.81, subdivision 5a, and the maximum size and weight of vehicles as prescribed in sections 169.80 to 169.88 shall be lawful throughout this state, and local authorities shall have no power or authority to alter these limitations except as express authority may be granted in sections 169.80 to 169.88.

(b) When all the axles of a vehicle or combination of vehicles are weighed separately the sum of the weights of the axles so weighed shall be evidence of the total gross weight of the vehicle or combination of vehicles so weighed.

(c) When each of the axles of any group that contains two or more consecutive axles of a vehicle or combination of vehicles have been weighed separately the sum of the weights of the axles so weighed shall be evidence of the total gross weight on the group of axles so weighed.

(d) When, in any group of three or more consecutive axles of a vehicle or combination of vehicles any axles have been weighed separately and two or more axles consecutive to each other in the group have been weighed together, the sum of the weights of the axles weighed separately and the axles weighed together shall be evidence of the total gross weight of the group of axles so weighed.

(e) The provisions of sections 169.80 to 169.88 governing size, weight, and load do not apply to a vehicle operated under the terms of a special permit issued as provided by law.