Engineering process | Preliminary Design | Cooperative Construction Agreements
Cooperative Construction Agreements legal authority
- Limitations on MnDOT’s ability to expend trunk highway funds for cooperative construction projects: Constitution of the State of Minnesota, Article XIV, sections 2 and 6 and Minnesota Statutes, section 161.20.
- Constitution of the State of Minnesota, Article XIV, section 2: “… a trunk highway system which shall be constructed, improved and maintained as public highways of the state”
- Constitution of the State of Minnesota, Article XIV, section 6: “… a trunk highway fund which shall be used solely for the purposes specified in section 2 of this article.”
- Minnesota Rules, parts 8810.3100 through 8810.3600 “Utilities and Equipment”
- Minnesota Rules, part 8820 “Local State-Aid Route Standards, Financing”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.20 “General Powers of the Commissioner”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.20, subdivision 2 “Property acquisition; agreements and contracts”
- Minnesota Statutes 161.20, subdivision 3 “Trunk highway fund appropriations”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.21 “Location and Design of Highways; Cooperation with other Governmental Units”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.24 “Changes Required by Construction of Trunk Highway”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.25 “Temporary Trunk Highway Detour; Haul Road”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.38, subdivision 1 “Highway width or capacity”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.38, subdivision 3 “Frontage road”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.38, subdivision 5 “Definition of municipalities”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.38 “Special Agreements for Highways in Municipalities”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.39 “Aid to Other Road Authorities and State Departments”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.45 “Utility on Highway Right-of-Way; Relocation”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 161.46 “Reimbursement of Utility”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 162 “State Aid Road System”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 169.04 “Local Authority”
- Minnesota Statutes, section 169.35 “Parking”