Pruszinske v. State, Commissioner of Highways, State Department of Public Safety

PETERSON, Justice.

This appeal by the Commissioner of Public Safety raises the issue of whether the district court can issue a limited driver’s license over the objection of the commissioner in a case in which the commissioner “canceled” the driver’s license pursuant to Minn.Stat. §§ 171.04(8) and 171.14 (1982).

Wayne Burton Pruszinske works for the City of Eden Prairie, Department of Public Works, a job that involves driving a snowplow in the winter and mowing grass in the summer.

His privileges were revoked by the commissioner for four different violations between 1977 and 1980, two times…