Section 1 creates an advisory committee to make and promulgate rules that govern the establishment, location, construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of county state-aid highways and municipal state-aid streets.
This committee will replace the two separate advisory committees for counties and municipalities that are repealed in Section 2. All requirements of this advisory committee, as described below, are identical to those for the separate county state-aid and municipal state-aid advisory committees that this committee shall replace, except that this committee does not contain the requirement that the rules must be printed and forwarded to the county engineers and to the clerks and engineers of the cities.
Subdivision 1 describes committee membership as follows:
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Nine members shall be selected by the county boards, so that each member is from a different state highway construction district, no more than five members shall be county commissioners, and the remaining shall be county engineers; and
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12 members shall be selected by governing bodies of cities, so that there is one member from each state highway construction district and one member from each city of the first class, and no more than six members shall be city elected officials, and the remaining shall be city engineers.
Subdivision 2 states that if an agreement cannot be reached on a rule, the determination of the Commissioner of Transportation shall be final.
Subdivision 3 states that all rules made by the committee have the force and effect of law as provided in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 14, which deals with rulemaking.
Subdivision 4 states that this advisory committee does not expire.
Section 2 repeals:
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Section 162.02, subdivisions 2 and 3, which establish and describe requirements for the advisory committee on rulemaking for the county state-aid system;
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Section 162.09, subdivisions 2 and 3, which establish and describe requirements for the advisory committee on rulemaking for the municipal state-aid system; and
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Section 174.86, subdivision 5, which establishes and describes requirements for the Commuter Rail Corridor Coordinating Committee.
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