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Subdivision 1.Misdemeanor; exceptions.
(a) It is unlawful and punishable as hereinafter provided for any person to drive or for the owner to cause or knowingly permit to be driven on any highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person, or which does not contain those parts or is not at all times equipped with such lamps and other equipment in proper condition and adjustment as required in this chapter, or which is equipped in any manner in violation of this chapter, or for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required under this chapter.
(b) The provisions of this chapter with respect to equipment on vehicles do not apply to implements of husbandry, road machinery, or road rollers except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
(c) For purposes of this section, a specialized vehicle resembling a low-slung trailer having a short bed or platform shall be deemed to be an implement of husbandry when such vehicle is used exclusively to transport implements of husbandry, provided, however, that no such vehicle shall operate on the highway before sunrise or after sunset unless proper lighting is affixed to the implement being drawn.
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cases, 1959–2009 · leading case:
State v. Peterson, 463 N.W.2d 308 (Minn. Ct. App. 1990).
State v. Peterson, 463 N.W.2d 308 (Minn. Ct. App. 1990).
· cites it 20× “FACTS While having his demolition derby car towed to the county fair, Christopher Peterson was ticketed for driving an unsafe vehicle in violation of Minn.Stat. § 169.47. Because the car had been prepared for a demolition derby, it had no windshield, headlights, brake lights,…”
State v. Holland, 421 N.W.2d 382 (Minn. Ct. App. 1988).
· cites it 4× “24 (1986), and unsafe equipment, Minn.Stat. § 169.47 (1986), following a bifurcated jury trial, and from the dispositional departure sentence of one year and a day executed on the felony conviction and concurrent terms of 90 days for each of the misdemeanor convictions.”
State v. Beall, 771 N.W.2d 41 (Minn. Ct. App. 2009).
· cites it 2× “Minn.Stat. § 169.47, subd. 1 (2006), provides, in relevant part, that “[i]t is unlawful .”
Holm v. Comm'r of Pub. Saf., 416 N.W.2d 473 (Minn. Ct. App. 1987).
· cites it 2× “Minn. Stat. § 169.47 (1986). The officers were justified in stopping the vehicle for failure to dim its lights when oncoming traffic was approaching.”
State v. Beardemphl, 674 N.W.2d 430 (Minn. Ct. App. 2004).
· cites it 2× “” Minn.Stat. § 169.47, subd. 1(a) (2002). Violations of these statutes are petty misdemeanors (not technically “crimes,” but it is accepted that “reasonable and articulable suspicion” of traffic violations, whether petty misdemeanors or misdemeanors, can justify a stop).”
Knutson v. Nielsen, 99 N.W.2d 215 (Minn. 1959).
“55, a part of the Highway Traffic Regulation Act, provides: 1 “At the times when lighted lamps on vehicles are required, each vehicle including an animal-drawn vehicle and any vehicle specifically excepted in sections 169.47 to 169.79, with respect to equipment and not…”
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