Minnesota Statutes Transportation (Ch. 160-174A) § 174.22. Definitions

Subdivision 1. Scope. For the purposes ofsections 174.21to174.27the following terms have the meanings given them.

Subd. 1a. Commuter van. “Commuter van” means a motor vehicle used in a ride-sharing arrangement and used principally to provide prearranged transportation of persons for a fee to or from their place of employment or to or from a transit stop authorized by a local transit authority:

Subd. 1b. Complementary paratransit service (ADA). “Complementary paratransit service (ADA)” means public transportation service provided on a regular basis where fixed route public transit service exists and is designed exclusively or primarily to serve individuals who are elderly or disabled and unable to use regular means of public transportation.

Subd. 2. Renumbered.

Subd. 2a. Renumbered subd. 2c in St.2002.

Subd. 2b. Elderly and disabled service. “Elderly and disabled service” means transportation service provided on a regular basis in small urbanized or large urbanized areas and designed exclusively or primarily to serve individuals who are elderly or disabled and unable to use regular means of public transportation.

Subd. 2c. Renumbered.

Subd. 2d. Large urbanized area service. “Large urbanized area service” means a public transportation service operated in areas located outside the metropolitan area with a population greater than 200,000 that is designated by the United States Census Bureau. Large urbanized area service does not include complementary paratransit service (ADA), as defined in subdivision 1a.

Subd. 2e. Metropolitan area. “Metropolitan area” has the meaning given it insection 473.121.

Subd. 3. Metropolitan Council. “Metropolitan Council” means the council established bysection 473.123.

Subd. 4. Repealed byLaws 1994, c. 628, art. 3, § 209(a).

Subd. 5. Repealed byLaws 2024, c. 104, art. 2, § 16, eff. Aug. 1, 2024.

Subd. 6. Paratransit. “Paratransit” means the transportation of passengers by motor vehicle or other means of conveyance by persons operating on a regular and continuing basis and the transportation or delivery of packages in conjunction with an operation having the transportation of passengers as its primary and predominant purpose and activity, but excluding regular route transit. “Paratransit” includes transportation by car pool and commuter van, point deviation and route deviation services, shared-ride taxi service, dial-a-ride service, and other similar services.

Subd. 7. Public transportation. “Public transportation” means regular, continuing shared-ride surface transportation services that are open to the general public or open to a segment of the general public defined by age, disability, or low income. Public transportation does not include:

Subd. 8. Regular route transit. “Regular route transit” means transportation of passengers for hire by a motor vehicle or other means of conveyance by any person operating on a regular and continuing basis as a common carrier on fixed routes and schedules. “Regular route transit” does not include transportation of children to or from school or of passengers between a common carrier terminal station and a hotel or motel, transportation by common carrier railroad or common carrier railroads or by taxi, transportation furnished by a person solely for that person's employees or customers, or paratransit.

Subd. 9. Repealed byLaws 2001, 1st Sp., c. 8, art. 2, § 76, eff. July 1, 2001.

Subd. 10. Renumbered subd. 15 in St.2002.

Subd. 11. Renumbered subd. 14 in St.2002.

Subd. 12. Rural area service. “Rural area service” means a public transportation service operated in rural areas that have not been designated in the most recent decennial census as an urbanized area by the United States Census Bureau.

Subd. 13. Renumbered subd. 2b in St.2002.

Subd. 14. Small urbanized area service. “Small urbanized area service” means a public transportation service operated in areas located outside the metropolitan area with a population of at least 50,000 but less than 200,000 that is designated by the United States Census Bureau. Small urbanized area service does not include complementary paratransit service (ADA), as defined in subdivision 1a.

Subd. 14a.State sources of funds. “State sources of funds” means funding for the public transportation participation program appropriated from (1) the general fund, and (2) the greater Minnesota transit account.

Subd. 15. Repealed byLaws 2024, c. 104, art. 2, § 16, eff. Aug. 1, 2024.