2005 Minnesota Statutes - 65B.46 — Right to benefits.

     65B.46 Right to benefits. 


    Subdivision 1.    Motor vehicle or motorcycle accident in this 
 state.  If the accident causing injury occurs in 
 this state, every person suffering loss from injury arising out 
 of maintenance or use of a motor vehicle or as a result of being 
 struck as a pedestrian by a motorcycle has a right to basic 
 economic loss benefits. 


    Subd. 2.    Motor vehicle or motorcycle accident outside this 
 state.  If the accident causing injury occurs outside 
 this state in the United States, United States possessions, or 
 Canada, the following persons and their surviving dependents 
 suffering loss from injury arising out of maintenance or use of 
 a motor vehicle or as a result of being struck as a pedestrian 
 by a motorcycle have a right to basic economic loss benefits: 


    (1) insureds, and 


    (2) the driver and other occupants of a secured vehicle, 
 other than (a) a vehicle which is regularly used in the course 
 of the business of transporting persons or property and which is 
 one of five or more vehicles under common ownership, or (b) a 
 vehicle owned by a government other than this state, its 
 political subdivisions, municipal corporations, or public 
 agencies.  The reparation obligor may, if the policy expressly 
 states, extend the basic economic loss benefits to any stated 
 area beyond the limits of the United States, United States 
 possessions and Canada.  


    Subd. 3.    Limitation; motorcycle injuries.  For the purposes 
 of sections 65B.41 to 65B.71, 
 injuries suffered by a person while on, mounting or alighting 
 from a motorcycle do not arise out of the maintenance or use of 
 a motor vehicle although a motor vehicle is involved in the 
 accident causing the injury. 


    HIST: 1974 c 408 s 6; 1978 c 674 s 57; 1980 c 539 s 1; 1987 c 
 337 s 104