SB44, s. 2215 5Section 2215. 195.03 (11) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,880,116 195.03 (11) Uniform system of accounting. The office department may
7prescribe a uniform system of keeping and rendering accounts of all railroad
8business transacted in this state, and the time within which railroads shall adopt
9such system; provided that all forms of accounts which may be prescribed by the
10office department shall conform as nearly as practicable to similar forms prescribed
11by federal authority.
SB44, s. 2216 12Section 2216. 195.03 (12) of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2217 13Section 2217. 195.03 (13) of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2218 14Section 2218. 195.03 (14) of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2219 15Section 2219. 195.03 (15) of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2220 16Section 2220. 195.03 (16) of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2221 17Section 2221. 195.03 (17) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,880,2118 195.03 (17) Private tracks. The office department shall have control of private
19railroad tracks insofar as the same are used by common carriers for the
20transportation of freight, in all respects the same as though such tracks were part
21of a public railroad.
SB44, s. 2222 22Section 2222. 195.03 (18) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,880,2523 195.03 (18) Safety devices. The office department may make reasonable rules,
24regulations, specifications and standards for the installation, operation and
25maintenance of all safety devices and measures.
SB44, s. 2223
1Section 2223. 195.03 (19) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,881,32 195.03 (19) Railroad structures. The office department may order the repair
3or reconstruction of any inadequate or unsafe railroad track or structure.
SB44, s. 2224 4Section 2224. 195.03 (25) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,881,75 195.03 (25) Distribution of orders. The office department shall upon
6application furnish certified copies, under its seal, of any order made by it, which
7shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.
SB44, s. 2225 8Section 2225. 195.03 (28) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,881,119 195.03 (28) Legal Actions. The office may sue and be sued in that name, and
10department may confer with or participate in any proceedings before any regulatory
11agency of any other state or of the federal government.
SB44, s. 2226 12Section 2226. 195.03 (29) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,881,1713 195.03 (29) Train privileges. The employees authorized by the office
14department to perform railroad inspection duties may, in the performance of such
15duties, ride in and upon any engine, car or train of any class, of any railroad, upon
16payment of the lawful passenger fare, but such railroad shall not thereby be deemed
17to become a common carrier of passengers other than on passenger cars.
SB44, s. 2227 18Section 2227. 195.03 (30) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,881,2119 195.03 (30) (a) The office department shall give testimony at the hearing under
20s. 350.138 (4) (b), or shall submit a written report for introduction into the hearing
21record, on the factors stated in s. 350.138 (4) (d) 1., 2., 3., and 4.
SB44, s. 2228 22Section 2228. 195.03 (30) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,882,223 195.03 (30) (b) The office department shall give the department of natural
24resources the office's department's opinion on whether the snowmobile crossing

1should be closed or removed in testimony at the hearing under s. 350.1395 (2) (b) 2.
2or in a written report for introduction into the hearing record.
SB44, s. 2229 3Section 2229. 195.04 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2230 4Section 2230. 195.041 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2231 5Section 2231. 195.042 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2232 6Section 2232. 195.043 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2233 7Section 2233. 195.044 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2234 8Section 2234. 195.045 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2235 9Section 2235. 195.046 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2236 10Section 2236. 195.047 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2237 11Section 2237. 195.05 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2238 12Section 2238. 195.055 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,882,14 13195.055 Judicial review. All orders and determinations of the office
14department under this chapter are subject to judicial review under ch. 227.
SB44, s. 2239 15Section 2239. 195.06 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2240 16Section 2240. 195.07 (1) of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2241 17Section 2241. 195.07 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,882,2218 195.07 (2) Attorney general and district attorney to prosecute. Upon
19request of the office department, the attorney general or the district attorney of the
20proper county shall aid in any investigation, hearing or trial had under, and shall
21institute and prosecute all necessary actions or proceedings for the enforcement of,
22laws relating to railroads.
SB44, s. 2242 23Section 2242. 195.08 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2243 24Section 2243. 195.09 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2244 25Section 2244. 195.10 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2245
1Section 2245. 195.11 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2246 2Section 2246. 195.12 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2247 3Section 2247. 195.13 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2248 4Section 2248. 195.14 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2249 5Section 2249. 195.15 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2250 6Section 2250. 195.16 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2251 7Section 2251. 195.17 of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2252 8Section 2252. 195.19 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,883,199 195.19 (1) Passenger. Every railroad shall provide and maintain adequate
10passenger depots equipped with proper toilet facilities at its regular stations for the
11accommodation of passengers, and said depots shall be kept clean, well-lighted and
12warmed, for the comfort and accommodation of the traveling public, and shall be kept
13open continuously from not less than 20 minutes before any train carrying
14passengers is scheduled to arrive and until such train has departed and for such
15longer period in any case as the office department may determine is necessary for the
16convenience and accommodation of the public. Where the office department
17determines that the service of certain trains in making stops on signals is in excess
18of reasonably adequate service, the provisions of this section shall not apply in
19connection with the rendition of such service.
SB44, s. 2253 20Section 2253. 195.19 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,884,821 195.19 (3) Union depot. In every city, village or town in which 2 or more
22railroads maintain passenger depots, it shall be the duty of such railroads to
23construct, maintain and use an adequate union passenger depot, whenever practical
24and required by public convenience and necessity. If, after investigation, the office
25department shall determine that it is practicable and that public convenience and

1necessity required the construction, maintenance and use of a union passenger depot
2in any such city, village or town the office department may order such railroads to
3construct, maintain and use an adequate union passenger depot, and shall in such
4order fix the location of such depot. If the railroads shall be unable to agree upon an
5apportionment of the original cost of such union passenger depot, and the expense
6of maintaining the same, within 20 days after the service of such order, the office
7department may, after a hearing, issue a supplemental order declaring the
8apportionment of such original cost and the expense of maintaining such depot.
SB44, s. 2254 9Section 2254. 195.20 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,884,19 10195.20 Joint use of railroad property. Whenever, upon complaint and after
11hearing had, the office department finds that public convenience and necessity
12require
the use by one or more railroads of the tracks, wires, poles, rights-of-way,
13switches, bridges or other property belonging to another railroad over or on any
14street, railroad, railway, right-of-way, bridge or viaduct, upon or over which said
15railroads have a right to operate, and that such use will not prevent the owners or
16other users thereof from performing their public duties, nor result in irreparable
17injury to such owners or other users thereof, the office department may, by order,
18direct that such use be permitted, and prescribe a reasonable compensation and
19reasonable terms and conditions for such joint use.
SB44, s. 2255 20Section 2255. 195.21 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,885,11 21195.21 Warehouses. Any person proposing to erect or maintain a public
22elevator or public warehouse for the purchase, sale, storage, receiving or shipping of
23grain, or other personal property, to be received from or transported upon any
24railroad, shall be furnished by such railroad at a reasonable rental, a site upon its
25right-of-way or depot grounds, within the yard limits of any station or terminal of

1such railroad; and any private elevator or warehouse situated upon such grounds
2may be converted into a public elevator or warehouse at the option of the owner, upon
3notice in writing to the railroad and thereby be permitted to remain thereon under
4the same conditions as provided herein for a public elevator or warehouse; and the
5office department shall, upon application by such owner, if the public interest so
6requires, by order, direct the railroad to furnish such site and the office department
7shall make reasonable regulations therefor and in case of disagreement, the office
8department shall determine the rental therefor. Elevators and warehouses erected
9or maintained under the foregoing provisions of this section shall be subject to such
10rules and regulations as to charges and the manner of conducting business as the
11office department shall prescribe.
SB44, s. 2256 12Section 2256. 195.26 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,885,19 13195.26 Safety devices; block system. Every railroad shall adopt reasonably
14adequate safety measures and install, operate and maintain reasonably adequate
15safety devices for the protection of life and property. If after investigation the office
16department shall determine that public safety requires it, the office department may
17order the railroad to install, operate and maintain a block system or other safety
18device or measure as may be necessary to render the operation of such railroad
19reasonably safe.
SB44, s. 2257 20Section 2257. 195.27 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,886,3 21195.27 Safe tracks and bridges. Every railroad shall construct and
22maintain its tracks, bridges and line structures in a reasonably adequate and safe
23manner. The office may direct the department to investigate complaints in the
24manner provided by s. 195.04.
If, upon complaint or upon its own motion and after
25hearing, the office the department determines that the track or structures of any

1railroad are inadequate or unsafe for the operation of its railroad, the office
2department shall order the railroad to reconstruct or repair the inadequate or unsafe
3track or structures.
SB44, s. 2258 4Section 2258. 195.28 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,887,85 195.28 (1) Petition; hearing; order. Upon petition of the department, city a
6city
council, village board, town board, superintendent of highways or by 5 or more
7electors in any town, village or city, or of any railroad corporation or railroad
8historical society, to determine whether a public highway and railroad grade crossing
9protects and promotes public safety, or upon its own motion, the office department
10may investigate and issue an appropriate order without a public hearing. The
11department shall issue its order on the basis of investigation and criteria
12promulgated by rule with respect to the adequacy of grade crossing protection. The
13rule may include programming criteria relating to the priority of grade crossings in
14need of protection.
If the petitioner, railroad, railroad historical society or any
15interested party objects to the order and requests a hearing within 20 days after the
16date that the order is issued, the office shall proceed under s. 195.04. Notice of an
17investigation or hearing shall be served upon the department, which shall be an
18interested party, and any recommendation it may file with the office at or prior to a
19hearing, if there is one, regarding crossing protection shall be considered as evidence
20in the proceeding
department shall refer the order to the division of hearings and
21appeals for review as provided in s. 195.325
. The office department or the division
22of hearings and appeals
shall determine whether the existing warning devices at
23such crossing are adequate to protect and promote public safety. If the office
24department or division of hearings and appeals determines, either without or after
25a hearing,
that protection any such warning device is not adequate, it may order the

1railroad company or railroad historical society to keep a flagman at the crossing or
2to install automatic signals or other suitable safety device at specific locations at
3such crossing. The office department or the division of hearings and appeals may
4order the relocation of existing signals and devices to improve protection at a
5crossing. Any crossing protection warning device installed or maintained as
6approved by the office department or the division of hearings and appeals, whether
7by order or otherwise, shall be deemed adequate and appropriate protection for the
8crossing.
SB44, s. 2259 9Section 2259. 195.28 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,887,2210 195.28 (3) Maintenance costs. Except as otherwise provided in this
11subsection, the cost of maintaining crossing protection warning devices ordered
12under sub. (1) shall be the responsibility of the railroad or railroad historical society.
13Any railroad company or railroad historical society that incurs expenses for
14maintenance of signals or other safety devices may file a claim for reimbursement
15with the department regardless of the date of installation of the signals or devices.
16At the close of each fiscal year the department shall reimburse claimants under this
17subsection for 50% of the costs, as determined by the office department, incurred for
18maintenance of railroad crossing protection warning devices from the
19appropriations under s. 20.395 (2) (gj) and (gq). If the amount in the appropriations
20under s. 20.395 (2) (gj) and (gq) is not adequate to fund maintenance reimbursement
21under this subsection, the amount shall be prorated in the manner determined by
22the office department.
SB44, s. 2260 23Section 2260. 195.28 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,888,3
1195.28 (4) Previous office orders. Subsection (3) applies to maintenance costs
2for all crossing protection warning devices regardless of any prior order of the office
3apportioning maintenance costs.
SB44, s. 2261 4Section 2261. 195.285 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,888,215 195.285 (1) Upon If, upon its own motion or upon the petition of a railroad
6corporation, the department, or the governing body of any city, village, town or
7county asserting that the stopping of vehicles under s. 346.45 at a railroad crossing
8is hazardous to human life, the office shall hold a hearing on the matter as provided
9under s. 195.04. Notice of petition shall be served upon the department, which shall
10be an interested party, and any recommendations it may file with the office regarding
11the hazardous effect of vehicles stopping at such crossings shall be considered as
12evidence in the proceedings. Upon the recommendation of the department and
13concurrence by the office, the petition may be dismissed without holding a hearing.
14If, upon the public hearing, the office
department determines that it would be in the
15public interest to exempt vehicles specified in s. 346.45 from stopping at such grade
16crossing, it may, without a hearing, order the public body having jurisdiction over the
17highway to erect signs, signals, markings or other devices exempting such vehicles
18from stopping at the crossing. If a petitioner or interested party objects to an order
19under this subsection within 20 days after the date that the order is issued, the
20department shall refer the order to the division of hearings and appeals for review
21as provided in s. 195.325.
SB44, s. 2262 22Section 2262. 195.285 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,889,223 195.285 (2) Signs placed upon the order of the office department or the division
24of hearings and appeals
under this section shall exempt vehicles from stopping as

1required under s. 346.45, unless a train or engine is occupying or approaching the
2crossing.
SB44, s. 2263 3Section 2263. 195.285 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,889,84 195.285 (3) The department shall establish standards for the type of signs,
5signals, markings or other devices for exempting vehicles from stopping as required
6under s. 346.45 and their location in relation to the highway and railroad track. The
7office department may upon petition or its own motion, with or without a hearing,
8order the removal of a sign exempting vehicles from stopping at a crossing.
SB44, s. 2264 9Section 2264. 195.286 (2) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
SB44,889,1410 195.286 (2) Description and location. The signs shall be constructed, erected
11and located as specified by the manual adopted by the department under s. 84.02 (4)
12(e). This subsection does not apply to any sign complying with s. 195.286 (2) and (3),
132001 stats., on the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], until such
14time as the sign is replaced or relocated.
SB44, s. 2265 15Section 2265. 195.286 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
SB44, s. 2266 16Section 2266. 195.286 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,889,2017 195.286 (5) Other signs prohibited. No other sign of the general size or
18appearance of the signs provided for in this section shall be placed or permitted upon
19any highway, nor any sign between such advance signs except signs or signals now
20required by law or permitted by the office for protection at railway crossings
.
SB44, s. 2267 21Section 2267. 195.286 (6) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,889,2222 195.286 (6) (title) Penalties relating to fences signs.
SB44, s. 2268 23Section 2268. 195.286 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,890,224 195.286 (8) Prosecutions. The district attorney shall prosecute any person
25violating this section, or begin and maintain any civil action necessary for its

1enforcement upon the demand of any county highway commissioner , or the
2department, or the office.
SB44, s. 2269 3Section 2269. 195.29 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,891,74 195.29 (1) Petition, hearing, Public safety; order. Upon If, upon its own
5motion or upon
petition by the common council or board of any city, village, town or
6county within or bordering upon which a highway or street crosses a railroad, or a
7highway or street is proposed to be laid out across a railroad, or a public highway
8bridge across a railroad is required to connect existing streets or highways, or upon
9petition by any railroad whose track crosses or is about to cross, or is crossed or about
10to be crossed by a street or highway, or upon petition by the department, in cases
11where provision has been made for the improvement of the highway adjacent to such
12crossing under any state aid or federal aid law, the department determines that
13public safety requires an alteration in such crossing, its approaches, the method of
14crossing, the location of the highway or crossing, or the closing of the crossing, and
15the substitution of another therefor at grade or not at grade, or the removal of
16obstructions to the view at such crossing, the relocation of the highway, or requires
17the determination of the manner of making such new crossing, or of making the
18proposed improvement or promoting the public safety or public convenience through
19any other reasonable method, and praying that the same may be ordered, the office
20shall give notice to the parties in interest and proceed to investigate the same and
21to order a hearing thereon in the manner provided by s. 195.04. The office shall
22determine
the department may issue an appropriate order without a public hearing.
23The department shall make its determination on the basis of investigation and the
24criteria relating to the requirements of public safety promulgated under sub. (9). The
25order shall state
what, if anything, shall be done to promote the public safety and the

1means by which it shall be accomplished, whether by the relocation of the highway,
2the alteration in such crossing, approaches, mode of crossing, location of highway
3crossing, closing of highway crossing, with or without the substitution of another
4therefor, the construction of a public highway bridge, the removal of obstructions to
5sight at crossing, or by the use of other reasonable methods, and by whom the same
6shall be made, and in case of new crossings the advisability of allowing such crossings
7to be established and manner of making them.
SB44, s. 2270 8Section 2270. 195.29 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,891,179 195.29 (2) Apportionment of expense. The office department shall fix the
10proportion of the cost and expense of alterations, removals and new crossings, or any
11other work ordered, including the damages to any person whose land is taken, and
12the special damages which the owner of any land adjoining the public street or
13highway shall sustain by reason of a change in the grade of such street or highway,
14or by reason of the removal of obstructions to view at such crossings, to be paid or
15borne by the railroad companies and the municipalities in interest. In fixing such
16proportion, the office department may order such cost and expense so apportioned
17to be paid by the parties against which the apportionment shall be made.
SB44, s. 2271 18Section 2271. 195.29 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,892,519 195.29 (3) Restoration of spur tracks. Whenever the office department shall
20have ordered a separation of the grade of a railway from the grade of a street or
21highway, it may, if safe and practicable and if a necessity exists therefor, order the
22alteration, restoration and connection of any track serving an industry. Demand for
23such restoration shall be in writing and filed with the office department within 90
24days after the date of the order for the separation of grades, and any such track for
25which no such demand shall have been made shall be deemed abandoned. If the

1office department shall order the alteration, restoration and connection of any such
2track, it shall by its order apportion the cost thereof between the owner of the
3industry served and the railway company, in such proportion as to the office
4department may seem just and equitable; and the office department shall in its order
5prescribe the terms and conditions for securing the payment of such cost.
SB44, s. 2272 6Section 2272. 195.29 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB44,893,77 195.29 (4) Grade separation in Milwaukee County. The office department may
8upon petition of any town, city or village, or upon its own motion, when the interests
9of the public demand it and it is found practicable so to do, establish the grade of the
10tracks of any railroad, or of all the railroads throughout any county having a
11population of 500,000 or more, or any part thereof, and the grades of the streets or
12highways, or any of them, where they cross such railroad track or tracks, in
13anticipation of the future separation of grades of the railroad tracks from the grades
14of such streets or highways. The office department, before making any such order,
15shall mail notice to the railroad company or companies affected, the owners or
16occupants of any building abutting on that part of the railroad the grade of which is
17to be established, all 1st class cities in the county, and if the grades to be established
18are outside the 1st class city, the towns, cities or villages in which such grades are
19to be established, of the filing of such petition or that the office department
20contemplates establishing such grades, and fixing a time at which the 1st class cities
21and such other towns, cities or villages and the railroad company or companies
22affected thereby and any other person or corporation interested therein may be
23heard. The grades so established under this subsection shall be described by
24reference to a base or datum line to be established by the office department, from
25which all elevations and the height of all grades shall be measured, and the grades

1so established shall be such that when brought to the established grade the railroad
2tracks will cross the streets and highways above or below the same. Such order shall
3not necessarily require a present change in grade but the office department may at
4any time order the railroad track or tracks and the street and highways brought to
5the grade established or any street or highways closed by the order, in accordance
6with sub. (1), and may, at the time of making the order, apportion the cost of
7separating the grades as provided in sub. (2).
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