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Minnesota Session Laws 2009, Regular Session
<br />Key: (1) .guaae t) 1.3e deleted (2) new language is underlined
<br />CHAPTER 158--S.F.No. 492
<br />An act authorizing administrative traffic citations
<br />BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
<br />Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 6.74, is amended to read:
<br />6.74 INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.
<br />The state auditor, or a designated agent, shall collect annually from all city, county,
<br />and other local units of government, information as to the assessment of property,
<br />collection of taxes, receipts from licenses and other sources including administrative fines
<br />assessed and collected pursuant to section 169.999, the expenditure of public funds for
<br />all purposes, borrowing, debts, principal and interest payments on debts, and such other
<br />information as may be needful. The data shall be supplied upon forms prescribed by
<br />the state auditor, and all public officials so called upon shall fill out properly and return
<br />promptly all forms so transmitted. The state auditor or assistants, may examine local
<br />records in order to complete or verify the information.
<br />[irrelevant sections omitted]
<br />Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 20081, section 169.985, is amended to read:
<br />169.985 TRAFFIC CITATION QUOTA PROHIBITED.
<br />A law enforcement agency may not order, mandate, require, or suggest to a peace
<br />officer a quota for the issuance of traffic citations including administrative citations
<br />authorized under section 169.999, on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis.
<br />Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 169.99, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
<br />Subdivision 1. Form. (a) Except as provided in subdivision 3, and section 169.9991
<br />subdivision 3, there shall be a uniform ticket issued throughout the state by the police and
<br />peace officers or by any other person for violations of this chapter and ordinances in
<br />conformity thereto. Such uniform traffic ticket shall be in the form and have the effect of a
<br />summons and complaint. Except as provided in paragraph (b), the uniform ticket shall
<br />state that if the defendant fails to appear in court in response to the ticket, an arrest warrant
<br />may be issued. The uniform traffic ticket shall consist of four parts, on paper sensitized so
<br />that copies may be made without the use of carbon paper, as follows:
<br />(1) the complaint, with reverse side for officer's notes for testifying in court, driver's
<br />past record, and courVs action, printed on white paper;
<br />(2) the abstract of court record for the Department of Public Safety, which shall be a
<br />copy of the complaint with the certificate of conviction on the reverse side, printed on
<br />yellow paper;
<br />(3) the police record, which shall be a copy of the complaint and of the reverse
<br />side of copy (1), printed on pink paper; and
<br />(4) the summons, with, on the reverse side, such information as the court may wish
<br />to give concerning the Traffic Violations Bureau, and a plea of guilty and waiver, printed
<br />on off-white tag stock.
<br />(b) If the offense is a petty misdemeanor, the uniform ticket must state that a failure
<br />to appear will be considered a plea of guilty and waiver of the right to trial, unless the
<br />failure to appear is due to circumstances beyond the person's control.
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