Reutzel v. STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS

Peterson, Justice.

The issue for decision, important to the administration of the license suspension provisions of the Safety Responsibility Act, is whether as a matter of either constitutional imperative or statutory intent, the commissioner of public safety must afford an accident-involved, uninsured motorist a hearing, with notice, prior to the commissioner’s determination of the amount of security necessary to satisfy any judgment that might thereafter be entered against the motorist.

The Safety Responsibility Act (L. 1945, c. 285, codified as Minn. St. c. 170), as disclosed in its title,…