INTERPRETATION AND EFFECT.
Known as the Highway Traffic Regulation Act
The act spans §§ 169–169 (199 sections).
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case 216 Ill. App. 3d 418 - Wade v. City of Chicago Heights (1991)
Most recently applied in Soo Line Railroad v. Werner Enterprises (June 2016)
(2720-291) 1937 c 464 s 141; 1939 c 430 s 30
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) This chapter shall be interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.
(b) In all civil actions, a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, by either or any of the parties to such action or actions shall not be negligence per se but shall be prima facie evidence of negligence only.
Official source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Minnesota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.