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181-3. OPERATION ON PUBLIC LANDS, PUBLIC ROADS, AND PUB- F. Nothing in the requirements of this LIC WATER RESTRICTED. Section shall be deemed to prohibit the (1) Except as provided in Paragraph 4 below, no Owner shall permit the Opera- operation of an MRV on the Traveled Surface of public roads for the following tion of, and no Operator under age 16, shall Operate an MRV on any roadway, emergencies: — when weather condi- tions have made the roads impassible by or within the Right-of-way of any City road, except that this prohibition shall automobiles; or — when a medical emergency exists, or — when a civil not be interpreted to restrict the ability defense or civil disaster emergency ex- of licensed motor vehicles or licensed motorcycles from use of the Traveled ists 1814. OPERATION ON PRIVATE Surface pursuant to State law. (2) No Owner shall permit the Opera- LANDS RESTRICTED. (1) No MRV Owner shall permit the tion of, and no Operator shall Operate, Operation of, and no MRV Operator shall Operate, an MRV on privately an MRV on or in any public park, public nature preserve, restricted public owned lands or waters not owned by the prop- erty, or public waters, except that this Owner or Operator of the MRV without restriction shall not apply for those pub- lic waters under the jurisdiction of the the written or oral permission of the Landowner, provided that in the case of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. oral permission, the Landowner must be present to verify the grant of permis- (3) Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to prohibit or restrict public of- siod (2) No Owner shall permit the Opera- ficials and law enforcement officers from operating any type of vehicle on tion of, and no Operator shall Operate, an MRV on privately owned lands at a public or private lands and waters when speed greater than that which is safe for acting within the scope of official duties the conditions existing at the time of and employment. (4) A Group I MRV may be operated operation. (3) No Owner shall permit the Opera- within the Right-of-Way of a City road tion of and no Operator shall operate, under the following restrictions: an MRV except on-road motorcycles, within a Residential Zone, in excess 15 A. A Group I MRV may be operated on the Inside Banks or on the Traveled of miles per hour in the Metropolitan Ur- Surface only traveling with the flow ban Service Area of the City of Hugo. traffic. All road crossing shall be done in 1 181-5. OPERATING UNDER INFLU- accordance with the provisions of Minn. ENCE OF ALCOHOL OR CON- 84.87, Subdivisions 1, 2, and 2b, which TROLLED SUBSTANCE. shall be applicable as though set forth No Owner shall Operate or permit the fully herein, substituting this Ordi- Operation of an MRV b Y a person who is nance's definition of MRV for the stat- under the influence of alcohol, mind or ute's definition of a snowmobile. mood-altering drugs, hallucinogens or B. All snowmobiles Operated within a controlled substances as those are City road Right-of-Way shall be regis- defined by State law. No Person shall tered, licensed, equipped, and operated operate an MRV while under the influ- in accordance with the provisions of ence of alcohol, mind or mood-altering Minn. 84.81 through 84.89, inclusive, and drugs, hallucinogens, or controlled sub- in accordance with Minnesota Rules stances as those substances are defined part 6100.5000 through 6100.5800, in- by State law. This provision is in addi- clusive, and amended statutes and rules tion to the statutes and regulations which are adopted and included herein adopted by reference elsewhere in this by reference. Ordinance. C. All Terrain Vehicles Operated within a City Right-of-Way shall be reg- 181-6 PENALTY. Any person who violates any provision istered, licensed, equipped, and of this Section is guilty of a misde- operated in accordance with the meanor punishable as provided in Chap- provisions of Minn. 84.92 through 84.929 ter 230, entitled "Penalties," of the Hugo as amended, inclusive, which statutes City Code. An MRV, which is Operated are adopted and included herein by ref- in such a manner as to cause damage to erence. D. Snowbikes, public property or to private property, shall subject the Owner and the offend- unregistered off-road motorcycles, and unregistered am- ing Operator to the requirement to make phibious vehicles shall be Operated in restitution for the damages. This restitu- the same manner as All Terrain Vehi- tion requirement is in addition to the cles, substituting the applicable MRV misdemeanor penalties, and may be en- for the definition of All Terrain Vehicles forced as part o[ the misdemeanor in the statutes where appropriate. proceeding. E. No Person under 16 years of age This Ordinance shall be effective from shall Operate any MRV on or within any and after its adoption and publication. City Right-of-Way or City land, except Upon roll call, the following members that a Person 14 years of age or older, voted AYE: McAllister, Jesinski, Olson, but less than 16 years of age, may Operate a snowmobile in the Ditch Bot- Vail, Atkinson Upon roll call, the following members tom or Outer Bank of a City Right-of- voted NAY: NONE Way only if that person is licensed in ac- cordance with the provisions of Minn. Whereupon said Ordinance was declared passed and adopted this 7th 84.872. All other Operators of an MRV day of August, 1989. within aCity Right-of-Way must be in /s/ George Atkinson possession of a valid Motor Vehicles Op- George Atkinson, Mayor erator's license issued by the Minnesota Commissioner of Public Safety or the ATTEST: /s/Mary Ann Creager driver's license authority of another Mary Ann Creager, City Clerk state. (Published in THE TIMES August 24, 1989)