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More guidance to roadside services under bill passed by House

Some businesses near state highways in Greater Minnesota may be able to have their logos placed on two service signs that direct motorists to roadside services.

The House passed HF2927, sponsored by Rep. Jim Nash (R-Waconia), 128-0 on Tuesday.

The legislation, now headed to the Senate where Sen. Julianne Ortman (R-Chanhassen) is the sponsor, would alter state law to allow the placement of business directional signs at two separate trunk highway intersection or interchange locations for businesses eligible for the Department of Transportation’s “specific service” sign program.

The program is intended to help drivers find businesses like service stations and restaurants near non-freeway trunk state highways in Greater Minnesota.

The business would have to be eligible for the existing program, and located between and within 15 miles of the two signs on which they appear.

There is no fiscal impact, Nash said on the House Floor, as “the people who deploy these signs actually pay for the signs themselves.”


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