MN SF218

Commissioner of transportation must implement a moratorium until April 30, 2018, on enforcing permits for mowing or baling hay in trunk highway right-of-way under Minnesota Statutes sections 160.232 and 160.2715 and related provisions.

Moratorium applies regardless of permit issuance date, except for right-of-way where adjacent land is under state or political subdivision jurisdiction.

Commissioner must recommend to legislative committees with transportation, agriculture, and natural resources jurisdiction a permit or notification system for mowing and haying in trunk highway right-of-way by March 1, 2018, developed with input from agriculture and environmental groups.

Recommendation must address ease of permit application or notification, frequency of permits or notifications, priority for adjacent private landowners, authority determination for state or political subdivision adjacent land, and recognition of geographic differences in wildlife habitat abundance.