Minnesota Administrative Rules

7819.3100 RELOCATION OF EXISTING FACILITIES.

Subpart 1.

Requirement.

A right-of-way user shall promptly and at its own expense, with due regard for seasonal working conditions, permanently remove and relocate its facilities in the right-of-way when it is necessary to prevent interference, and not merely for convenience of the local government unit, in connection with: (1) a present or future local government use of the right-of-way for a public project; (2) the public health or safety; or (3) the safety and convenience of travel over the right-of-way.

Subp. 2.

Exception.

Notwithstanding subpart 1, a right-of-way user is not required to remove or relocate its facilities from a right-of-way that has been vacated in favor of a nongovernmental entity unless and until the reasonable costs to do so are first paid to the right-of-way user.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 237.163

History:

23 SR 2004

Published Electronically:

November 14, 2003