Minn. Stat. § 160.285
Any county of this state is authorized to expend county road and bridge funds for the purchase of signs under section 160.283, and for the erection of such signs along or adjacent to highways under their jurisdiction or along and adjacent to town roads within the county, provided that the cost of the signs to the counties must be 100 percent reimbursed by the requester.
Counties may erect and maintain these signs at the expense of the requester on those county state-aid highways, county highways and town roads designated in section 160.283, subdivision 2 provided that these signs shall not be erected closer than 500 feet from trunk highways forming a part of the interstate system as provided in section 173.16, subdivision 4, paragraph (d), or closer than 300 feet from other trunk highways as provided in section 173.16, subdivision 4, paragraph (e).
All money received from the purchase of signs from any county must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the trunk highway fund.
Minn. Stat. § 160.285
1971 c 675 s 3; 1973 c 35 s 33; 1976 c 166 s 7; 1984 c 417 s 6