Chapter 84

84.10416   Veterans Memorial Bridge in Marinette County.

84.10417   Valentine T. Warrichaiet Memorial Bridge.

84.1042   Lloyd Spriggle Memorial Bridge.

84.10425   Eisenhower Bridge of Valor.

84.1043   Cinco De Mayo Memorial Highway.

84.1044   John R. Plewa Memorial Lake Parkway.

84.1045   Roland Kampo Bridge.

84.1046   Airborne Forces Memorial Bridge.

84.1047   POW/MIA Memorial Highway.

84.10475   Deputy LaVonne Zenner Memorial Bridge.

84.10477   Deputy Kaitie Leising Memorial Highway.

84.1048   Polish Heritage Highway.

84.1049   Polish Veterans Memorial Highway.

84.105   National parkways.

84.1051   Gaylord Nelson Highway.

84.1052   Michael G. Ellis Memorial Interchange.

84.1053   Jeannetta Simpson-Robinson Memorial Highway.

84.106   Scenic byways program.

84.107   Great River Road.

84.11   Local bridge construction and reconstruction.

84.115   Bridge in Door County.

84.12   Interstate bridges.

84.13   Purchase of toll bridges.

84.135   Purchase of interstate toll bridges.

84.14   Bridge construction.

84.15   Bridges.

84.16   Jurisdictional transfers of bridges.

84.17   Bridge inspection and inventory.

84.18   Local bridge program.

84.185   Transportation facilities economic assistance and development.

84.20   State repair and maintenance of highways and streets.

84.25   Controlled-access highways.

84.27   Institution roads.

84.28   State park, forest and riverway roads.

84.29   National system of interstate highways.

84.295   Freeways and expressways.

84.30   Regulation of outdoor advertising.

84.305   Vegetation obstructing view of outdoor advertising signs.

84.31   Regulation of junkyards.

84.40   Department; relation to nonprofit corporations.

84.41   State liability; applicable laws; tax exemption; securing of federal aids.

84.42   Limitations on bonding.

84.51   Construction of state highways.

84.52   Construction of intrastate and interstate bridges.

84.53   Matching of federal aid.

84.54   Minimum federal expenditures for projects receiving federal funding.

84.555   Additional funding of major highway and rehabilitation projects.

84.56   Additional funding for major highway projects.

84.57   Additional funding for certain state highway rehabilitation projects.

84.58   Additional contingent funding for major highway and rehabilitation projects.

84.585   Additional contingent funding for southeast Wisconsin freeway megaprojects.

84.59   Funding of transportation facilities and highway projects.

84.60   Bikeways.

84.95   General obligation bonding for highway rehabilitation projects.

84.001 84.001 Definitions. As used in this chapter unless the context requires another interpretation:

84.001(1) (1) “Department” means the department of transportation.

84.001(1m) (1m) “Division of hearings and appeals” means the division of hearings and appeals in the department of administration.

84.001(1r) (1r) “Intelligent transportation system” means a specialized computer system or other electronic, information processing, communication, or technical system, including roadway detector loops, closed circuit television, permanent variable message signs, or ramp meters, that is used to improve the efficiency or safety of a surface transportation system.

84.001(2) (2) “Secretary” means the secretary of transportation.

84.001 History History: 1977 c. 29; 1983 a. 27; 1993 a. 16; 2001 a. 16.

84.01 84.01 Department powers and duties.

84.01(1) (1) Offices. The department shall maintain its principal office at Madison and district offices at such other cities, villages and towns as the necessities of the work demand.

84.01(2) (2) Powers and duties; general provision. The department shall have charge of all matters pertaining to the expenditure of state and federal aid for the improvement of highways, and shall do all things necessary and expedient in the exercise of such supervision.

84.01(3) (3) District offices. Any internal reorganization of the department under s. 15.02 shall provide for maintenance by the department of district offices throughout the state.

84.01(5) (5) Advise local authorities. The department shall advise towns, villages, cities and counties with regard to the construction and maintenance of any highway or bridge, when requested. On the request of any town, village, city or county board, or county highway committee, any supervision or engineering work necessary in connection with highway improvements by any town, village, city or county may be performed by the department and charged at cost to such town, village, city or county.

84.01(6) (6) Surveys and plans. The department shall make provision for and direct the surveys, plans, construction, inspection and maintenance of all highways, whenever the construction or maintenance is under its jurisdiction.

84.01(6m) (6m) Goals and accountability measures for economic development programs.

84.01(6m)(a) (a) In this subsection, “economic development program” means a program or activity having the primary purpose of encouraging the establishment and growth of business in this state, including the creation and retention of jobs, and that satisfies all of the following:

84.01(6m)(a)1. 1. The program receives funding from the state or federal government that is allocated through an appropriation under ch. 20.

84.01(6m)(a)2. 2. The program provides financial assistance, tax benefits, or direct services to specific industries, businesses, local governments, or organizations.

84.01(6m)(b) (b) The department, in consultation with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, shall do all of the following for each economic development program administered by the department:

84.01(6m)(b)1. 1. Establish clear and measurable goals for the program that are tied to statutory policy objectives.

84.01(6m)(b)2. 2. Establish at least one quantifiable benchmark for each program goal described in subd. 1.

84.01(6m)(b)3. 3. Require that each recipient of a grant or loan under the program submit a report to the department. Each contract with a recipient of a grant or loan under the program shall specify the frequency and format of the report to be submitted to the department and the performance measures to be included in the report.

84.01(6m)(b)4. 4. Establish a method for evaluating the projected results of the program with actual outcomes as determined by evaluating the information described in subds. 1. and 2.

84.01(6m)(b)5. 5. Annually and independently verify, from a sample of grants and loans, the accuracy of the information required to be reported under subd. 3.

84.01(6m)(b)6. 6. Establish by rule a requirement that the recipient of a grant or loan under the program of at least $100,000 submit to the department a verified statement signed by both an independent certified public accountant licensed or certified under ch. 442 and the director or principal officer of the recipient to attest to the accuracy of the verified statement, and make available for inspection the documents supporting the verified statement. The department shall include the requirement established by rule under this subdivision in the contract entered into by a grant or loan recipient.

84.01(6m)(b)7. 7. Establish by rule policies and procedures permitting the department to do all of the following if a recipient of a grant or loan or tax benefits under the program submits false or misleading information to the department or fails to comply with the terms of a contract entered into with the department under the program and fails to provide to the satisfaction of the department an explanation for the noncompliance:

84.01(6m)(b)7.a. a. Recoup payments made to the recipient.

84.01(6m)(b)7.b. b. Withhold payments to be made to the recipient.

84.01(6m)(b)7.c. c. Impose a forfeiture on the recipient.

84.01(7) (7) Experiments, meetings, conventions. The department shall conduct such investigations and experiments, hold such public meetings and attend or be represented at such meetings and conventions inside or outside of the state as may, in its judgment, tend to promote improved highways, and shall cooperate with state and national organizations in experiments and work for the advancement of improved highways.

84.01(8) (8) Donations. The department shall receive gifts, appropriations and bequests made to it or to the state for highway purposes, pay all moneys received by it into the state treasury, and, as far as practicable, expend the same in accordance with the wishes of the donor, such expenditures to be audited and paid as other disbursements of the department are audited and paid, and shall apportion the allotments of state highway funds among the counties and municipalities as provided by law.

84.01(9) (9) County trunk system.

84.01(9)(a) (a) The department shall review the system of county trunk highways and alter the same so as to connect the system of adjoining counties into continuous and direct routes.

84.01(9)(b) (b) To insure modern safe design in the construction of county trunk highways, the department shall establish rules providing uniform minimum design standards for the improvement of county trunk highways. “Improvement” as used in this paragraph includes construction, reconstruction and the processes incidental to building, fabricating or bettering a highway, but not maintenance.

84.01 Cross-reference Cross-reference: See also ch. Trans 205, Wis. adm. code.

84.01(10) (10) Right of entry. The department or its authorized representatives may enter private lands to make surveys or inspections.