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     168B.01 Legislative findings; purpose.  

    Abandoned motor vehicles constitute a hazard to the health 
 and welfare of the people of the state in that such vehicles can 
 harbor noxious diseases, furnish shelter and breeding places for 
 vermin, and present physical dangers to the safety and 
 well-being of children and other citizens.  Abandoned motor 
 vehicles and other scrap metals also constitute a blight on the 
 landscape of the state and therefore a detriment to the 
 environment.  The abandonment and retirement of motor vehicles 
 and other scrap metals constitutes a waste of a valuable source 
 of useful metal.  It is therefore in the public interest that 
 the present accumulation of abandoned motor vehicles and other 
 scrap metals be eliminated, that future abandonment of motor 
 vehicles and other scrap metals be prevented, that the expansion 
 of existing scrap recycling facilities be developed and that 
 other acceptable and economically useful methods for the 
 disposal of abandoned motor vehicles and other forms of scrap 
 metal be developed.  

    HIST: 1971 c 734 s 1 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.