Unauthorized lights.
Minneapolis Code of Ordinances § 466.180
in effect466.180. - Unauthorized lights.
(a) No person shall use red, green or amber lights on the highways for advertising or for signaling purposes, except as provided in the traffic code.
(b) No person or corporation shall place, maintain or display any red, green or amber light or sign, signal or lighting device or maintain the same in view of any highway or any line of railroad on or over which trains are operated in such a way as to interfere with the effectiveness or efficiency of any highway traffic-control device or signals or devices used in the operation of a railroad.
(c) Where such prohibited light, sign, signal or device interferes with the effectiveness or efficiency of any highway traffic-control device or signal the city engineer shall have authority to cause the removal of the same upon written notice to such person or corporation.
(d) No person or corporation shall continue to maintain or display any such light, sign, signal or device after written notice from the city engineer that said light, sign, signal or device constitutes a traffic hazard and ordering the removal thereof. (Code 1960, As Amend., § 421.060)
Source: City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Code of Ordinances, City Charter and Park and Recreation Board Code of Ordinances (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=MICOOR_TIT18TRCO_CH466INGE_466.180UNLIFetched: 11/2/2026