Minn. Stat. § 163.01
Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in section 160.02 shall have the same meanings.
Minnesota Statutes Chapter 163 — County Highways
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Minn. Stat. § 163.02
General Powers of County Board
Subdivision 1. Establishment and supervision. County highways shall be established, located, relocated, constructed, reconstructed, improved, maintained, revoked, or vacated by the several counties. The several county boards shall have general supervision over county highways, including those highways other than cartwa…
Minn. Stat. § 163.03
County Road and Bridge Fund
The county board shall provide and set apart a fund to be known as the county road and bridge fund. Any money remaining in the county-aid road fund of any county may be transferred by the county board to the county road and bridge fund. All warrants for the establishment, location, vacation, construction, reconstructio…
Minn. Stat. § 163.035
Bicycle Paths
The county board may in the interests of public safety expend road and bridge funds for the construction and maintenance of bicycle paths on road rights-of-way under county jurisdiction.
Minn. Stat. § 163.04
Expenditures
Subdivision 1. County highway or county state-aid highway. The county board may appropriate and expend sums of money from the county road and bridge fund as it deems necessary for establishing, locating, constructing, improving, and maintaining any county highway or county state-aid highway, including those within the…
Minn. Stat. § 163.05
Taxation
Subdivision 1. Levy. The county board at its July meeting may include in its annual tax levy an amount for the county road and bridge fund. Subd. 2. MS 1971 [Repealed, 1973 c 583 s 37] Subd. 3. MS 1971 [Repealed, 1973 c 583 s 37; 1973 c 588 s 1] Subd. 4. MS 1971 [Repealed, 1973 c 583 s 37] Subd. 5. MS 1971 [Repealed, 1…
Minn. Stat. § 163.051
County Wheelage Tax
Subdivision 1. Tax authorized. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (c), the board of commissioners of each county is authorized to levy by resolution a wheelage tax at the rate specified in paragraph (b), on each motor vehicle that is kept in such county when not in operation and that is subject to annual registration…
Minn. Stat. § 163.06
Taxation in Unorganized Townships
Subdivision 1. Levy. The county board of any county in which there are unorganized townships may levy a tax for road and bridge purposes upon all the real and personal property in such unorganized townships. Subd. 2. Tax is additional. The tax, if levied, is additional to the tax which the counties may levy for the cou…
Minn. Stat. § 163.07
County Highway Engineer
Subdivision 1. Appointment. The county board of each county shall appoint and employ, as hereinafter provided, a county highway engineer who may have charge of the highway work of the county and the forces employed thereon, and who shall make and prepare all surveys, estimates, plans, and specifications which are requi…
Minn. Stat. § 163.08
Consulting Engineer
Upon request of the county highway engineer the county board of any county is authorized to employ and engage the services of registered professional engineers to act as consultants in connection with, and to prepare plans and specifications themselves or by their organization and employees for the construction of road…
Minn. Stat. § 163.09
Payment for Labor and Equipment
Subdivision 1. Payroll system. The county board of any county may adopt a payroll system for the payment of claims for labor, whether skilled or unskilled, employed by the county in any capacity in connection with the construction or maintenance of highways within the county and for the payment of claims of persons who…
Minn. Stat. § 163.11
Powers Relating to Highways
Subdivision 1. Resolution. County highways may be established, altered, vacated, or revoked by resolution of the county board. Any public highway within the county, other than a trunk highway, municipal state-aid street, or county state-aid highway, may be taken over as a county highway by resolution of the county boar…
Minn. Stat. § 163.111
Drainage Facility, Vacation
On consideration of a petition for vacation of a county highway, the county board shall determine whether the lateral ditches of said highway are essential for surface drainage of adjacent lands, or for drainage of public highways, in the area. If the board finds that preservation of such drainage facilities is for the…
Minn. Stat. § 163.12
Alternative Procedure for Acquisition
Subdivision 1. County board may elect. If the county board so elects, it may adopt the procedure hereinafter set forth for the acquisition of lands or properties needed for the acquisition or alteration of a county highway and county state-aid highways. Subd. 1a. Petition, notice, and access to information. (a) Upon pa…
Minn. Stat. § 163.13
Petition for Highway or Portage
Subdivision 1. Contents of petition. Any person who owns real estate in a county may petition the county board to establish, alter, or vacate a county highway or portage. The petition shall set forth the beginning, course, and termination of the highway or portage with reasonable definiteness. It shall be filed with th…
Minn. Stat. § 163.14
Joint County Agreement on Costs of Shared Highway
Subdivision 1. Joint resolution. The county boards of two or more counties by joint resolution, may establish, alter, improve, or vacate a county highway running into or through such counties or running on or along the line between such counties. Subd. 2. Agreement for division of costs. Such county boards, in behalf o…
Minn. Stat. § 163.15
Bridge Across Diversion Channel
Whenever any county has been authorized by the commissioner of natural resources to divert the channel of a navigable stream for the purpose of improving a county road and the board of commissioners of such county has by resolution ordered diversion of the navigable stream across private property so that the stream and…
Minn. Stat. § 163.16
Impassable Road
Subdivision 1. Complaint. When a written complaint, signed by five or more landowners of any town is presented to the county board stating that a described town road in or on the line of the town has not been opened and constructed or is not properly maintained, and because of such neglect is not reasonably passable, t…
Minn. Stat. § 163.161
Impassable City Thoroughfare
When a written complaint signed by five or more landowners of a statutory city of not more than 5,000 population is presented to the county board stating that a city thoroughfare located outside an urban district as defined in section 169.011, subdivision 90, has not been properly maintained and because of the improper…
Minn. Stat. § 163.17
Drainage System Affecting Highway; Alteration
Upon the filing of a resolution by the county board of any county with the county auditor, in the case of a public ditch system lying wholly within a county, or with the court administrator of the district court having jurisdiction over said ditch in the case of a ditch system affecting two or more counties, therein se…