CHAPTER 84
STATE TRUNK HIGHWAYS; FEDERAL AID
84.01 Department powers and duties.
84.011 Who to sign contracts.
84.015 Federal highway aid accepted.
84.02 State trunk highway system.
84.03 Federal aid; state and local funds.
84.04 Roadside improvement.
84.05 Railroad crossing improvements.
84.06 Highway construction.
84.063 Utility facilities relocation.
84.065 Railroad and utility alteration and relocation loan program.
84.07 Maintenance of state trunk highways.
84.075 Contracting with minority businesses.
84.076 Disadvantaged business demonstration and training program.
84.078 Use of recovered material.
84.09 Acquisition of lands and interests therein.
84.093 Cooperative acquisition of rights-of-way.
84.095 Transportation project plats.
84.10 Maintenance and operation of bridges not on state trunks.
84.102 Governor Nelson Dewey Memorial Highway.
84.1022 Green Bay ethnic trail.
84.1025 Frank Lloyd Wright Memorial Highway.
84.103 Veterans memorial highways.
84.1032 Blue Star memorial highway.
84.1035 Peace memorial highway.
84.1038 Iron Brigade memorial highway.
84.1039 84th Division "Railsplitters" Memorial Highway.
84.104 32nd Division memorial highway.
84.1042 Lloyd Spriggle Memorial Bridge.
84.1043 Cinco de mayo memorial highway.
84.1045 Roland Kampo bridge.
84.1046 Airborne forces memorial bridge.
84.1047 POW/MIA memorial highway.
84.1048 Polish Heritage Highway.
84.1049 Polish Veterans Memorial Highway.
84.105 National parkways.
84.11 Local bridge construction and reconstruction.
84.12 Interstate bridges.
84.13 Purchase of toll bridges.
84.135 Purchase of interstate toll bridges.
84.14 Bridge construction.
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.
84.28 State park, forest and riverway roads.
84.29 National system of interstate highways.
84.295 Freeways and expressways.
84.30 Regulation of outdoor advertising.
84.31 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.
84.59 Funding of transportation facilities and highway projects.
84.61 Milwaukee Brewers stadium project; East-West Freeway.
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(2)
(2) "Secretary" means the secretary of transportation.
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(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)(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(10)
(10) Right of entry. The department or its authorized representatives may enter private lands to make surveys or inspections.
84.01(11)
(11) Reports and bulletins. The department shall issue such bulletins, pamphlets and literature as it deems necessary.
84.01(12)
(12) Acting county commissioner. The secretary of transportation shall appoint, upon the request of any county board, a county highway commissioner, who shall have all the powers and duties conferred by statutes upon county highway commissioners.
