(a) Except for the actions of the road authorities, their agents, employees, contractors, and utilities in carrying out their duties imposed by law or contract, and except as herein provided, it shall be unlawful to:
(1) obstruct any highway or deposit snow or ice thereon;
(2) plow or perform any other detrimental operation within the road right-of-way except in the preparation of the land for planting permanent vegetative cover or as authorized under section 160.232;
(3) erect a fence on the right-of-way of a trunk highway, county state-aid highway, county highway, or town road, except to erect a lane fence to the ends of a livestock pass;
(4) erect or reconstruct driveway headwalls in or on the right-of-way of a highway or road, except as may be allowed by permit from the road authority imposing reasonable regulations as are necessary to prevent interference with the construction, maintenance, and safe use of the highway or road and its appurtenances;
(5) dig any holes in any highway, except to locate markers placed to identify sectional corner positions and private boundary corners;
(6) remove any earth, gravel, or rock from any highway;
(7) obstruct any ditch draining any highway or drain any noisome materials into any ditch;
(8) place or maintain any building or structure within the limits of any highway;
(9) place or maintain any advertisement within the limits of any highway, except as provided in section 160.27, subdivision 7;
(10) paint, print, place, or affix any advertisement or any object within the limits of any highway, except as provided in section 160.27, subdivision 7;
(11) deface, mar, damage, or tamper with any structure, work, material, equipment, tools, signs, markers, signals, paving, guardrails, drains, or any other highway appurtenance on or along any highway;
(12) remove, injure, displace, or destroy right-of-way markers, or reference or witness monuments, or markers placed to preserve section or quarter-section corners;
(13) improperly place or fail to place warning signs and detour signs as provided by law;
(14) drive over, through, or around any barricade, fence, or obstruction erected for the purpose of preventing traffic from passing over a portion of a highway closed to public travel or to remove, deface, or damage any such barricade, fence, or obstruction.
(b) Any violation of this section is a misdemeanor.
1959 c 500 art 1 s 27; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1980 c 435 s 1; 1980 c 533 s 2; 1986 c 398 art 27 s 2; 1986 c 435 s 1; 1989 c 179 s 2; 1995 c 23 s 1; 1998 c 283 s 1; 2004 c 295 art 2 s 15
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 160 - 174A — Transportation
Chapter 160 — Roads, General Provisions
Section 160.01 — Scope Of Chapters 160 To 165.
Section 160.03 — Compensation For Public Property.
Section 160.04 — Width Of Roads.
Section 160.05 — Dedication Of Roads.
Section 160.06 — Trail Or Portage Dedication.
Section 160.07 — Improvements Within Or Without Boundaries.
Section 160.08 — Controlled Access.
Section 160.085 — Recording Proposed Acquisition For Road.
Section 160.09 — Change Or Vacation Of Local Road.
Section 160.095 — Designation Of Minimum-maintenance Roads.
Section 160.10 — Roads On Mineral Lands.
Section 160.11 — Materials For Building Roads.
Section 160.12 — Temporary Roads Around Construction.
Section 160.13 — Lighting And Marking Highways.
Section 160.14 — Marking Boundaries Of Highways.
Section 160.15 — Preserving Section Or Quarter-section Corners.
Section 160.16 — Warning Signs And Detour Signs.
Section 160.165 — Mitigating Transportation Project Impacts On Business.
Section 160.17 — Road Construction Contracts; Counties And Towns.
Section 160.18 — Access To Roads; Approaches.
Section 160.19 — Drainage Ditch Crossing Railroad Right-of-way.
Section 160.201 — Public Road Ditches.
Section 160.21 — Snow Removal.
Section 160.215 — Snow Removal; Salt And Chemicals Restricted.
Section 160.23 — Destruction Of Noxious Weeds.
Section 160.232 — Mowing Ditches Outside Cities.
Section 160.235 — Traffic Signal Timing Optimization.
Section 160.24 — Logging Railroads Across Highways.
Section 160.25 — Tunnels Under Highways.
Section 160.26 — Moving Buildings Over Highways.
Section 160.263 — Bicycle Lanes, Routes, And Paths.
Section 160.264 — Replacing Bikeways And Pedestrian Ways.
Section 160.266 — State Bicycle Routes.
Section 160.27 — Particular Uses Of Right-of-way; Misdemeanors.
Section 160.2715 — Right-of-way Use; Misdemeanors.
Section 160.272 — Safety Rest Area And Travel Information Center Leases.
Section 160.2721 — Commercial Vehicle Drivers At Rest Areas.
Section 160.2725 — Sales At Safety Rest Areas.
Section 160.273 — Vending Machines.
Section 160.2735 — Sponsorship Of Safety Rest Areas.
Section 160.274 — Sale Of Surplus Rest Area Property.
Section 160.2745 — Safety Rest Area Account.
Section 160.2755 — Prohibited Activities At Rest Areas.
Section 160.276 — Travel Information Advertising Program.
Section 160.28 — Plans For Public Travel Facilities.
Section 160.281 — Tourist Information Center In South Dakota.
Section 160.282 — Public Travel Facilities.
Section 160.283 — Resort Information Signs; Purpose.
Section 160.284 — Resort Signs; Design And Manufacture.
Section 160.285 — Resort Signs; County Participation.
Section 160.29 — Vacation Of Public Ways By Municipality.
Section 160.292 — Information Signs For Specific Services; Definitions.
Section 160.293 — Specific Service Signs; Intended Use.
Section 160.294 — Specific Service Sign Details.
Section 160.295 — Criteria For Specific Service Signs.
Section 160.296 — Specific Service Signs; Administration; Rules.
Section 160.297 — Other Sign Laws.
Section 160.298 — Highway Sign Program; Billing, Account, Appropriation.
Section 160.80 — Sign Franchise Program.
Section 160.801 — Highway Sponsorship Program.
Section 160.81 — Highways In Scenic Areas.
Section 160.83 — Rustic Roads Program.
Section 160.845 — Restrictions On Toll Facility.
Section 160.85 — Authority For Toll Facility.
Section 160.86 — Toll Facility Development Agreement; Requirements.
Section 160.87 — Toll Facility Cost Recovery.
Section 160.88 — Public Toll Facilities.
Section 160.89 — Toll Facility Revenue Bonds.
Section 160.90 — Law Enforcement On Toll Facilities.
Section 160.91 — Joint Authority Over Toll Facility.
Section 160.92 — Toll Facility Replacement Projects.
Section 160.93 — User Fees; High-occupancy Vehicle And Dynamic Shoulder Lanes.
Section 160.98 — Prohibition On Road And Bridge Privatization.