SB44: Bill Text

SB44,855,2 186.098 (12) Loans to members. A credit union may make loans to members secured by assignment or transfer of stock certificates or other evidence of the borrower's ownership interest in a corporation formed for the cooperative ownership of real estate. Sections 846.10 and 846.101, as they apply to a foreclosure of a mortgage involving a one-family residence, apply to a proceeding to enforce the lender's rights in security given for a loan under this subsection. The office of credit unions shall promulgate joint rules with the division of savings institutions and the division of banking that establish procedures for enforcing a lender's rights in security given for a loan under this subsection.

SB44, s. 2134 Section 2134. 186.235 (11) (dg) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,855,21 186.235 (11) (dg) Special deputies. The office of credit unions may appoint one or more special deputies as agent to assist in the duty of liquidation and distribution of the assets of one or more credit unions whose business and property the office of credit unions holds. A certificate of appointment shall be filed in the office of credit unions and a certified copy in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which the credit union is located. The On behalf of the office of credit unions, the department of administration may employ counsel and the office of credit unions may procure expert assistance and advice as necessary in the liquidation and distribution of the assets of the credit union, and may retain any officers or employees of the credit union that the office of credit unions considers to be necessary. The special deputies and assistants shall furnish security for the faithful discharge of their duties in an amount that the office of credit unions considers to be necessary. The special deputies may execute, acknowledge and deliver any deeds, assignments, releases or other instruments necessary to effect any sale and transfer or encumbrance of real estate or personal property and may borrow money for use in the liquidation after the liquidation has been approved by the office of credit unions and an order obtained from the circuit court of the county in which the credit union is located.

SB44, s. 2135 Section 2135. 186.235 (16) (title) and (a) of the statutes are amended to read:

SB44,855,23 186.235 (16) (title) Annual Periodic examination.

SB44,856,3 (a) At Except as provided in par. (b), at least once each year every 18 months, the office of credit unions shall examine the records and accounts of each credit union. For that purpose the office of credit unions shall have full access to, and may compel the production of, each credit union's records and accounts. They may administer oaths to and examine each credit union's officers and agents.

SB44, s. 2136 Section 2136. 186.235 (16) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,856,9 186.235 (16) (b) Instead of an annual examination of a credit union under par. (a), the office of credit unions may accept an audit report of the condition of the credit union made by a certified public accountant not an employee of the credit union in accordance with rules promulgated by the office of credit unions or may accept an examination or audit made or approved by the national board.

SB44, s. 2137 Section 2137. Chapter 189 of the statutes is repealed.

SB44, s. 2138 Section 2138. 190.001 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:

SB44,856,13 190.001 Definition. In this chapter, "division of hearings and appeals" means the division of hearings and appeals in the department of administration.

SB44, s. 2139 Section 2139. 190.02 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,856,21 190.02 (6) Railroad intersections. To cross, intersect, join or unite its railroad with any other railroad, at any point, with the necessary turnouts, sidings and switches and other conveniences in furtherance of the objects of its connections. And if the 2 corporations cannot agree upon the amount of compensation to be made therefor or the points and manner of such crossings and connections the same shall be ascertained by the office division of hearings and appeals on application of either corporation.

SB44, s. 2140 Section 2140. 190.025 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,857,12 190.025 (2) (b) A railroad corporation that is subject to this subsection shall have all powers conferred by law upon railroad corporations. The railroad corporation may issue, sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of its evidences of debt, at such times, in such amounts, for such considerations and upon such terms and conditions as the board of directors of the corporation shall determine, and as shall be authorized by the office department of financial institutions, or the interstate commerce commission federal surface transportation board in the case of a railroad corporation organized for the purpose of acquiring a railroad engaged in interstate commerce, or any existing railroad corporation reorganized under the act and acquiring railroad property used in interstate commerce. The evidences of debt may be convertible, at the option of the holder, into stock, and shares of stock. The shares may have a nominal or par value or, if the shares are shares of common stock, be without nominal or par value. The shares may be of such classes, with such rights and voting powers as may be expressed in the corporation's articles or any amendment thereto.

SB44, s. 2141 Section 2141. 190.03 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,858,3 190.03 Office in state; books produced. Any railroad corporation existing under the laws of this state shall produce before the office of the commissioner of railroads department of financial institutions, the legislature, or any committee of either house, or any court of record, its books of account and stock books, or so many and such parts thereof as may be required by them, or in the discretion of the office of the commissioner of railroads department of financial institutions, legislature, committee or court, transcripts from such books, or such parts thereof as may be called for, duly authenticated; and each such railroad corporation shall designate some office within this state as its principal office and inform the office of the commissioner of railroads department of financial institutions of such designation, and shall keep there or at the office of its transfer agents or registrars a list of its stockholders, giving the names and addresses of its stockholders, together with a statement of the number and class of shares of its stock held by each of them, as shown by its books. A failure or refusal to comply with any of the foregoing provisions shall be cause of forfeiture of its franchises.

SB44, s. 2142 Section 2142. 190.13 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,858,14 190.13 Report to stockholders. Every railroad corporation shall make an annual report to its stockholders of its operations for the preceding calendar year, or for its fiscal year, as the case may be, which report shall contain a balance sheet showing its assets and liabilities, its capital stock, and funded debt, and an income account showing its operating revenues, operating expenses, gross and net income, as the result of its traffic or business operations, and such other information in respect of its affairs as the board of directors shall deem advisable. A copy of each such report shall be kept on file in its principal office in this state, shall be mailed to each stockholder whose post-office address is known and shall be filed with the office of the commissioner of railroads department of financial institutions.

SB44, s. 2143 Section 2143. 190.16 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,858,23 190.16 (4) (a) Every railroad shall acquire the necessary right-of-way for and shall construct, connect, maintain and operate a reasonably adequate spur track whenever such spur track does not necessarily exceed 3 miles in length, is practically indispensable to the successful operation of any existing or proposed industry or enterprise, and its construction and operation is not unusually dangerous, and is not unreasonably harmful to public interest, and any person aggrieved by the failure of any railroad to fully perform such obligation may prosecute proceedings before the office division of hearings and appeals to compel compliance therewith.

SB44, s. 2144 Section 2144. 190.16 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,859,17 190.16 (4) (b) Such railroad may require the person primarily to be served thereby to pay the legitimate cost and expense of acquiring the necessary right-of-way for such spur track, and of constructing the same, the cost to be estimated in separate items by the office department of transportation or the division of hearings and appeals, and deposited with the railroad, before it shall be required to incur any expense whatever therefor; but such person, in lieu of depositing the total estimated cost may offer in writing to construct such spur track, the offer to be accompanied by a surety company bond, running to such railroad, and conditioned upon the construction of such spur track in a good and workmanlike manner, according to the plans and specifications of such railroad, approved by the office department of transportation or the division of hearings and appeals, and deposit with such railroad the estimated cost of the necessary right-of-way. Provided that before the railroad shall be required to incur any expense whatever in the construction of such spur track, the person primarily to be served thereby shall give the railroad a bond to be approved by the office department of transportation or the division of hearings and appeals as to form, amount and surety, securing the railroad against loss on account of any expense incurred beyond the estimated cost.

SB44, s. 2145 Section 2145. 190.16 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,859,25 190.16 (4) (c) Whenever a spur track is so constructed at the expense of the owner of any industry or enterprise, and any other person shall desire a connection with such spur track, application therefor shall be made to the office department of transportation or the division of hearings and appeals, and such other person shall be required to pay to such owner an equitable proportion of the cost thereof, to be determined by the office department of transportation or the division of hearings and appeals.

SB44, s. 2146 Section 2146. 190.16 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,860,11 190.16 (5) Removal, when. Except where a spur track was constructed prior to June 16, 1925, at the expense of the railroad company, no spur track shall be removed, dismantled or otherwise rendered unfit for service except upon order of the office department of transportation or the division of hearings and appeals made after hearing held upon notice to all parties interested, and for good cause shown; provided that if no objection has been filed with the office department of transportation or the division of hearings and appeals within 20 days from the original publication of such notice, the office department of transportation or the division of hearings and appeals may without hearing authorize such spur track removed, dismantled or otherwise rendered unfit for service.

SB44, s. 2147 Section 2147. 191.001 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,860,14 191.001 Definition. In this chapter, "office" "department" means the office of the commissioner of railroads department of transportation.

SB44, s. 2148 Section 2148. 191.01 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,860,21 191.01 (2) Construction, certificate from office department prerequisite. No railroad corporation shall begin the construction of any proposed line of railroad in this state until it shall have obtained from the office department a certificate that public convenience and a necessity require authorizing the construction of the railroad, and the certificate shall constitute the license from this state to the company to build its proposed railroad.

SB44, s. 2149 Section 2149. 191.02 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,860,23 191.02 (title) Application for certificate of necessity.

SB44, s. 2150 Section 2150. 191.03 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,861,6 191.03 Articles; publication prerequisite to certificate. No railroad corporation shall make application for a certificate authorizing construction of a railroad unless it has caused a copy of its corporate articles to be published as a class 2 notice, under ch. 985, in each county in which the railroad is proposed to be located within 6 months next prior to the time of making such application, and files satisfactory proof thereof with the office department.

SB44, s. 2151 Section 2151. 191.05 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,861,12 191.05 Maps and profiles with application; changes. Complete maps and profiles of the proposed railroad shall be filed with the application for a certificate of convenience and necessity authorizing construction. The office department may permit errors, omissions or defects in the application, maps and profiles to be supplied or corrected, and permit changes in the proposed route to be made.

SB44, s. 2152 Section 2152. 191.06 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,861,19 191.06 Railroad extensions; certificate and notice necessary. If any railroad company organized prior to July 1, 1907, shall desire to extend its lines in this state or to build branches connected therewith, or to construct any portion of its authorized line of railroad, it shall, before beginning construction thereof, obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity authorizing the construction; but it shall not be necessary to publish the articles of such railroad.

SB44, s. 2153 Section 2153. 191.07 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,862,5 191.07 Hearing of applicants; notice. Upon receiving such an application for a certificate authorizing construction, the office shall department may set a time and place for a hearing, which time shall not be less than 3 weeks nor more than 8 weeks from the date of filing the application, and the place shall be at the city of Madison, or at some place along the line of the proposed railroad, if the office department deems the latter more convenient , and. If the department sets a hearing, the department shall give to the applicant notice thereof, which notice shall be published by the applicant, as a class 2 notice, under ch. 985, in each county in which the railroad, extension or branch is proposed to be located, and proof of such publication shall be filed with the office department.

SB44, s. 2154 Section 2154. 191.09 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:

SB44,862,8 191.09 Procedures before the department. Chapter 227 applies to all proceedings under this chapter.

SB44, s. 2155 Section 2155. 191.10 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,862,10 191.10 (title) Certificate of necessity.

SB44, s. 2156 Section 2156. 191.10 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,863,2 191.10 (1) Issuance, filing, recording, condemnation. If the office of the commissioner of railroads finds that the proposed railroad would be a public convenience and that a necessity requires its construction, the office of the commissioner of railroads shall enter an order to that effect and issue department issues to the applicant a certificate that public convenience and a necessity require the construction of the railroad as proposed. The certificate shall be filed in the office of the department of financial institutions and the department of financial institutions under this chapter, the applicant shall file the certificate with the department of financial institutions. The department of transportation shall approve the map showing the route of the railroad. The applicant shall record the map certified by the office of the commissioner of railroads department of transportation in the office of the register of deeds in each county in which the railroad shall be located. The filing of the certificate with the department of financial institutions and the recording of the map, as above provided, are conditions precedent to the right of the applicant to institute condemnation proceedings.

SB44, s. 2157 Section 2157. 191.10 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,863,9 191.10 (2) Certificate for part of line. Whenever it shall appear to the office that public convenience and a necessity do not require the construction of the railroad as proposed in the application, but do require the construction of a part thereof, the office The department may issue a certificate for the construction of such part of the railroad as public convenience and necessity require proposed in the application.

SB44, s. 2158 Section 2158. 191.10 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,863,16 191.10 (3) Refusal of certificate; renewal of application. If the office shall determine that the proposed railroad is not a necessity or is not required by public convenience, the office shall by order refuse to grant a certificate, department denies the application for a certificate, the department shall issue an order refusing the certificate and stating the reasons for the refusal. The application may be renewed after 2 years from the date of the refusal, but not sooner.

SB44, s. 2159 Section 2159. 191.11 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,863,24 191.11 Revocation of certificate. If any railroad company after obtaining a certificate that public convenience and a necessity require authorizing the construction of the whole or part of its railroad fails to begin construction within one year from the date of the certificate, or having begun such construction, fails to prosecute the same, the office department may inquire into the reasons for such failure and may revoke the certificate, if the office department finds, after notice and hearing, that such failure is unreasonable.

SB44, s. 2160 Section 2160. 191.13 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,864,11 191.13 (2) No railroad corporation shall exercise such power until it has obtained from the office department a certificate that public convenience and necessity require authorizing the construction of the temporary railroad, and the certificate shall constitute the license to the company to build its proposed temporary railroad. The certificate shall specify the length of time the railroad may be maintained and operated, and may be renewed from time to time upon application by the railroad company. At the expiration of the time specified in the certificate, or any renewal thereof, the railroad company shall discontinue, dismantle and remove the temporary railroad; and may prior to the expiration of such time, upon order of the office department, and after a hearing, upon notice to all parties interested and good cause shown, discontinue, dismantle and remove the railroad.

SB44, s. 2161 Section 2161. 191.16 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,864,23 191.16 Construction items submitted to office department. Upon receiving the certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing construction, the applicant shall before commencing construction submit to the office department a condensed specification of the character of construction that the applicant proposes to install, showing the kind, quality and weight of the rail proposed to be used, the mode of construction, character, quality, and strength of all bridges, culverts and viaducts, the abutments and approaches proposed to be built, the grade of and proposed method of draining the roadbed, and the kind of power to be used and the plant and appliances to be employed in power production, and such other facts relating to the construction of the proposed railroad as the office department requires.

SB44, s. 2162 Section 2162. 191.17 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,865,10 191.17 Public safety; investigation; approval of plans. Upon receiving the specification required by s. 191.16, the office department shall examine the same and shall hear the applicant in support thereof, shall suggest and require modifications of the specification if the public safety so demands, eliminating so far as may be practicable, consistent with reasonable cost, all grade crossings of public highways, shall inspect the route of the proposed railroad if deemed desirable, and shall otherwise investigate and determine that the proposed construction will be adequate for securing public safety in the operation of the railroad, and thereupon the office department shall enter an order approving the specification and authorizing the construction of the railroad in accordance therewith.

SB44, s. 2163 Section 2163. 191.19 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,865,19 191.19 (1) Upon the completion of the construction of any railroad under the approved specification, the company shall, before operating the same for public service, report to the office department; and the office department shall inspect the work. If the office department finds that the railroad has been constructed in accordance with the approved specification and is otherwise suitable and properly constructed so as to secure public safety in the operation thereof, the office department shall enter an order authorizing its operation, which order shall be presumptive evidence of the sufficiency of such construction.

SB44, s. 2164 Section 2164. 191.19 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,866,2 191.19 (3) If upon inspection the office department shall deem that public safety requires the installation, operation and maintenance of some protective appliance at any grade crossing of railroad tracks the office department may, before granting the order, after notice and hearing, require the installation, operation and maintenance of suitable protective appliances, and shall apportion the expense of constructing, maintaining and operating such protective appliances among the owners of the tracks.

SB44, s. 2165 Section 2165. 191.20 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,866,14 191.20 Railroad routes; right to alter. Every railroad company may, by the vote of two-thirds of its directors, alter or change the route of its railroad, by making and filing with the office of the commissioner of railroads department and the department of financial institutions and also by recording in the office of the register of deeds of the county or counties where the alteration or change is to be made, a surveyed map and certificate of the alteration or change. The alteration or change may not deviate from the original route for a greater distance than one mile at any point. No city or village may be left off the railroad by the change of route. The original end points of the railroad, or the route in any city or village, shall not be changed without the approval of the office of the commissioner of railroads department of transportation after notice to the municipality.

SB44, s. 2166 Section 2166. 191.21 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,866,19 191.21 Notices in counties without newspapers. If no newspaper is published in any county in which a railroad is proposed to be located, the publications required by this chapter may be made in such manner and at such places as the office department shall designate.

SB44, s. 2167 Section 2167. 192.001 (1r) of the statutes is created to read:

SB44,866,22 192.001 (1r) "Division of hearings and appeals" means the division of hearings and appeals in the department of administration.

SB44, s. 2168 Section 2168. 192.001 (2) of the statutes is repealed.

SB44, s. 2169 Section 2169. 192.14 (10) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,867,6 192.14 (10) If in any particular case any temporary exemption from any requirement of this section is deemed necessary by a carrier, the office department shall consider the application of the carrier for temporary exemption and may grant the exemption when accompanied by a full statement of the conditions existing and the reasons for the exemption. Any exemption so granted will be limited to the particular case specified and shall be limited to a stated period of time.

SB44, s. 2170 Section 2170. 192.14 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,867,9 192.14 (12) The office department may after public hearing make rules and establish the standards deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.

SB44, s. 2171 Section 2171. 192.15 (14) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,867,16 192.15 (14) If in any particular case any exemption from any requirement of this section is deemed necessary by a carrier, the office department shall consider the application of the carrier for exemption and may grant the exemption when accompanied by a full statement of the conditions existing and the reasons for the exemption. Any exemption so granted shall be limited to the particular case specified and shall be limited to a stated period of time.

SB44, s. 2172 Section 2172. 192.25 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,867,20 192.25 (3) (a) The office department, by rule, may grant an exception to sub. (2) if the office department determines that the exception will not endanger the life or property of any person.

SB44, s. 2173 Section 2173. 192.27 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,868,5 192.27 (1) When the track of a railway corporation crosses the track of any other railway corporation at grade, or when their tracks and right-of-way are adjacent, except in counties having a population of at least 150,000, the corporations shall, within 60 days after a written request of the office department or the council or board of the city, town or village within which the tracks so cross or are adjacent, make a track connection within such town, city or village to afford reasonable and proper facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines for forwarding and delivering freight, and the expense thereof shall be borne equally by those corporations, unless otherwise ordered by the office department.

SB44, s. 2174 Section 2174. 192.29 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,869,12 192.29 (1) Setting maximum speed. Upon petition to the office department by the governing body of any city or village or by any railroad corporation alleging that any railroad crossing of one or more public highways or streets in the city or village is dangerous to human life and that public safety requires a designation of the maximum speed of a train over such crossing or crossings, or that an order previously made by the office department or, prior to the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], by the office of the commissioner of transportation under ch. 195, 1991 stats., or the office of the commissioner of railroads under ch. 195, 2001 stats., should be modified, the office department shall give notice to the parties in interest and order a hearing thereon in the manner provided by s. 195.04 under ch. 227. If after the hearing the office shall determine department determines that the crossing or crossings described in the petition are dangerous to human life, it may by order determine what maximum speed of a train over the crossing is reasonably required by public safety and is consistent with the public need for adequate and expeditious passenger and freight service by railroad, having due regard for other orders entered by the office department, or, prior to the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], by the office of the commissioner of transportation or the office of the commissioner of railroads, and to practical railroad operating conditions. Where the office department has designated the maximum speed of any train or trains over such crossing or crossings, or, prior to the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], the office of the commissioner of transportation or the office of the commissioner of railroads has designated the maximum speed of any train or trains over such crossing or crossings and the designation remains unmodified by the department, the rate of speed shall be the lawful maximum speed at which any train affected by the order can be operated over the public highway or street crossing, until changed by subsequent order of the office department. Every railroad corporation violating any order entered under this subsection shall for every violation forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $100. The jurisdiction over train speeds hereby vested in the office department shall be exclusive, but any order entered by the office department hereunder shall be subject to judicial review in the manner provided by ch. 227.

SB44, s. 2175 Section 2175. 192.29 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,869,16 192.29 (2) Arterial stop signs. In any proceeding under sub. (1) or under s. 195.28, the office department may by order require that the state or municipality install at any crossing involved in such proceeding an official stop sign.

SB44, s. 2176 Section 2176. 192.29 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,869,24 192.29 (4) Highways, whistle, horn, bell. No railroad train or locomotive shall run over any public traveled grade highway crossing outside of the limits of municipalities unless the whistle or horn shall be blown 1,320 feet from such crossing and the engine bell rung continuously from thence until the crossing be reached. But the office department may order that the ringing of the bell or the blowing of the whistle, or horn, or both, as required by this subsection shall be omitted at any crossing.

SB44, s. 2177 Section 2177. 192.29 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB44,870,7 192.29 (5) Danger Warning signs. Wherever its track crosses a public highway or street, every railroad corporation shall maintain on each side of the track and near such crossing a large signboard with the following inscription, painted in large letters: "Railroad Crossing," in such manner as to be visible to approaching traffic on the highway or street at least 100 feet distant railroad crossing sign. The sign shall be constructed and erected as provided in the manual adopted by the department under s. 84.02 (4) (e).

SB44, s. 2178 Section 2178. 192.31 (1) of the statutes is amended to read: