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160.93 MINNESOTA STATUTES 2015 2 Copyright © 2015 by the Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. All Rights Reserved. and (ii) 75 percent to the Metropolitan Council for improvement of bus transit services within the corridor including transit capital expenses. Subd. 3. Rules exemption. With respect to this section, the commissioner is exempt from statutory rulemaking requirements, including section 14.386, and from sections 160.84 to 160.92 and 161.162 to 161.167. Subd. 4. Prohibition. No person may operate a single-occupant vehicle in a designated high-occupancy vehicle lane or dynamic shoulder lane except in compliance with the requirements of the commissioner. A person who violates this subdivision is guilty of a petty misdemeanor and is subject to sections 169.89, subdivisions 1, 2, and 4, and 169.891 and any other provision of chapter 169 applicable to the commission of a petty misdemeanor traffic offense. Subd. 5. Dynamic shoulder lanes. (a) The commissioner may designate dynamic shoulder lanes on freeways. The commissioner may operate dynamic shoulder lanes as priced lanes, general purpose lanes, high-occupancy vehicle lanes, or as shoulders as defined in section 169.011, subdivision 74. The com- missioner may prescribe the conditions under which the lanes may be used. (b) The commissioner may not operate a dynamic shoulder lane on marked Trunk Highway 35W from its intersection with marked Trunk Highway 94 to its intersection with marked Trunk Highway 62 as a general purpose lane. A dynamic shoulder lane along this portion of marked Trunk Highway 35W may only be used by: (1) a vehicle with more than one occupant; (2) a single-occupant vehicle if the fee under subdivision 1 is paid; (3) a transit bus providing public transit, as defined in section 174.22, subdivision 7; and (4) an authorized emergency vehicle, as defined in section 169.011, subdivision 3. (c) The commissioner shall erect signs to indicate when the lanes may be used. History: 1Sp2003 c 19 art 2 s 7; 2008 c 306 s 2