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WI Stat § 195.14 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.14 - Free transportation; reduced rates, passes, limitations.

195.14  Free transportation; reduced rates, passes, limitations. (1) This chapter does not prohibit the carriage, storage or handling by water carriers of freight free or at reduced rates for the United States, the state, or any municipality thereof, or for charitable purposes, or to and from fairs and expositions for exhibition thereat, or household goods the property of water carrier employees, or commodities shipped by employees for their exclusive use or consumption; or the issuance of mileage, commutation, party or excursion passengers' tickets; or the sale of such tickets as were usually and customarily sold at reduced rates prior to June 15, 1905; provided the same are issued and sold without discrimination to all persons applying therefor under like circumstances and conditions. (2) (a) Water carriers may give transportation free or at reduced rates to any minister of the gospel, officers or agent of incorporated colleges, inmates of soldiers' homes, regular agents of charitable societies when traveling upon the business of the society only, destitute and homeless persons, water carrier officers, attorneys, physicians, directors, employees or members of their families, or to former water carrier employees or members of their families where the employees have become disabled in the water carrier service, or are unable from physical disqualification to continue in the service, or to members of families of deceased water carrier employees.(b) Water carriers may exchange passes with officers, attorneys, physicians or employees of other water carriers and members of their families. No person holding any public office or position under the laws of this state shall be given transportation free or at reduced rates that are not open to the public, except that notaries public and regular employees of a water carrier or other public utility who are candidates for or hold public office for which the annual compensation is not more than $300 to whom no passes or privileges are extended beyond those that are extended to other regular employees of such corporations may be granted free transportation or reduced rates for the transmission of any message or communication. (3) Upon any shipment of livestock or other property of such nature as to require the care of an attendant, the water carrier may furnish to the shipper or persons designated by the shipper, free transportation for such attendant, including return passage to the point at which the shipment originated; provided, there shall be no discrimination in reference thereto. (4) Except as provided in this section, no free transportation for intrastate traffic shall be given by any water carrier.History:  1993 a. 213, 482; 1997 a. 254; 1999 a. 32; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.15 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.15 - Transportation contracts, filed.

195.15  Transportation contracts, filed. Every water carrier shall, when required and within the time fixed by the office, deliver to the office for its use copies of all contracts which relate to the transportation of persons or property, or any service in connection therewith, made or entered into by it with any other water carrier or any shipper or other person doing business with it. History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.16 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.16 - Pass lists.

195.16  Pass lists. Every water carrier shall keep and for 2 years preserve a record of every ticket, pass or mileage book issued to a resident of this state free or for a money consideration less than that charged the general public. Such record shall consist of the name of the recipient, the amount received, and the reason for issuance, and shall be open to inspection by the office upon reasonable notice during such period of 2 years. History:  1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (9) (e); 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.19 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.19 - Relocation of facilities.

195.19  Relocation of facilities. (2) Water carrier freight. All water carriers shall keep and maintain adequate and suitable buildings and facilities for the receiving, handling and delivering of freight transported or to be transported by such water carriers. (4)  Relocation of railroad facilities. Any city, village or town may cooperate with a railroad in grade crossing elimination or relocation, elimination or relocation of switchyards, roundhouses or terminals and may appropriate or borrow money therefor.History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123, 246; 1995 a. 225; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.20 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.20 - Joint use of railroad property.

195.20  Joint use of railroad property. Whenever, upon complaint and after hearing had, the office finds that public convenience and necessity require the use by one or more railroads of the tracks, wires, poles, rights-of-way, switches, bridges or other property belonging to another railroad over or on any street, railroad, railway, right-of-way, bridge or viaduct, upon or over which said railroads have a right to operate, and that such use will not prevent the owners or other users thereof from performing their public duties, nor result in irreparable injury to such owners or other users thereof, the office may, by order, direct that such use be permitted, and prescribe a reasonable compensation and reasonable terms and conditions for such joint use.History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.21 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.21 - Warehouses.

195.21  Warehouses. Any person proposing to erect or maintain a public elevator or public warehouse for the purchase, sale, storage, receiving or shipping of grain, or other personal property, to be received from or transported upon any water carrier, shall be furnished by such water carrier at a reasonable rental, a site upon its property or terminal; and any private elevator or warehouse situated upon such grounds may be converted into a public elevator or warehouse at the option of the owner, upon notice in writing to the water carrier and thereby be permitted to remain thereon under the same conditions as provided herein for a public elevator or warehouse; and the office shall, upon application by such owner, if the public interest so requires, by order, direct the water carrier to furnish such site and the office shall make reasonable regulations therefor and in case of disagreement, the office shall determine the rental therefor. Elevators and warehouses erected or maintained under the foregoing provisions of this section shall be subject to such rules and regulations as to charges and the manner of conducting business as the office shall prescribe.History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123, 490; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.25 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.25 - Medical supplies on trains.

195.25  Medical supplies on trains. (1) No railroad company shall operate any train that is not equipped with at least one medical emergency case with suitable equipment which shall be at all times kept in a definitely fixed, convenient and accessible place on such trains. (2) Any railroad company violating this section shall forfeit not less than $25 nor more than $100. Any person who shall remove or destroy or cause the removal or destruction of the medical supplies required under sub. (1) after the railroad company has supplied them shall be subject to the same penalty.History:  1985 a. 187; 1997 a. 254.
WI Stat § 195.26 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.26 - Safety devices; block system.

195.26  Safety devices; block system. Every railroad and water carrier shall adopt reasonably adequate safety measures and install, operate and maintain reasonably adequate safety devices for the protection of life and property to the extent consistent with federal law. If after investigation the office shall determine that public safety requires it, the office may, if permitted under federal law, order a railroad to install, operate and maintain a block system or order a railroad or water carrier to install, operate, and maintain any other safety device or measure as may be necessary to render the operation of the railroad or water carrier reasonably safe.History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.27 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.27 - Safe tracks and bridges.

195.27  Safe tracks and bridges. Every railroad shall construct and maintain its tracks, bridges and line structures in a reasonably adequate and safe manner consistent with federal law.History:  1977 c. 418; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.285 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.285 - Exempt railroad crossings.

195.285  Exempt railroad crossings. (1) Upon the petition of a railroad corporation, the department, or the governing body of any city, village, town or county asserting that the stopping of vehicles under s. 346.45 at a railroad crossing is hazardous to human life, the office shall hold a hearing on the matter as provided under s. 195.04. Notice of petition shall be served upon the department, which shall be an interested party, and any recommendations it may file with the office regarding the hazardous effect of vehicles stopping at such crossings shall be considered as evidence in the proceedings. Upon the recommendation of the department and concurrence by the office, the petition may be dismissed without holding a hearing. If, upon the public hearing, the office determines that it would be in the public interest to exempt vehicles specified in s. 346.45 from stopping at such grade crossing, it may order the public body having jurisdiction over the highway to erect signs, signals, markings or other devices exempting such vehicles from stopping at the crossing. (2) Signs placed upon the order of the office under this section shall exempt vehicles from stopping as required under s. 346.45, unless a train, an engine, or railroad track equipment is occupying or approaching the crossing.  (3) The department shall establish standards for the type of signs, signals, markings or other devices for exempting vehicles from stopping as required under s. 346.45 and their location in relation to the highway and railroad track. The office may upon petition or its own motion, with or without a hearing, order the removal of a sign exempting vehicles from stopping at a crossing.History:  1975 c. 63; 1977 c. 29 ss. 1654 (8) (a), (9) (f), 1656 (43); 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1), (2); 1985 a. 29; 1993 a. 16, 123; 2011 a. 101.
WI Stat § 195.30 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.30 - Railroad crossings; grade separation, safety devices.

195.30  Railroad crossings; grade separation, safety devices. (1) Upon a petition by the common council of any city, or the board of any village, town or county within which a railroad crosses another railroad at grade, or by any such railroad, that public safety requires an alteration in the crossing or the installation of protective appliances, the office shall give notice to the parties in interest, and proceed to investigate the same and may order a hearing on the matter. The office shall determine what alteration in such crossing, if any, shall be made, and by whom made and maintained, or what protective appliances shall be installed, operated and maintained at the crossing and by whom installed, operated and maintained. The office shall fix the proportion of the cost and expense of such change in grade and maintenance of the crossing or of the installation, operation and maintenance of the safety appliance which shall be paid by the railroad companies, respectively. (2) The provisions of this section shall apply to drawbridges, junctions and other fouling points on railroads.History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.307 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.307 - Snowmobile rail crossings.

195.307  Snowmobile rail crossings. Sections 195.28, 195.285, 195.286, and 195.29 do not apply to snowmobile rail crossings for which a permit is issued under s. 350.138.History:  2001 a. 14.
WI Stat § 195.31 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.31 - Bridges made safe.

195.31  Bridges made safe. Whenever a complaint is lodged with the office by the common council of any city, the village board of any village, a member of a town board, or a supervisor of highways, or by 5 or more electors and taxpayers in any town, or 5 or more electors of the county in which such bridge is located, and who are users of such bridge or railway, to the effect that a bridge erected over a stream intersecting a public highway or highways upon which a railway is constructed and operated, is unsafe and dangerous to travelers over such highway or highways or bridge or railroad, and that public safety requires the alteration, the repair or reconstruction of such bridge, or the substitution of another bridge therefor, it shall be the duty of the office to give notice to the party or parties in interest, other than the petitioners, of the filing of such complaint, and to furnish a copy of the complaint to the party or parties in interest other than the petitioners, and to order a hearing thereon, in the manner provided for hearings in ss. 195.04 to 195.043. The office may proceed in a similar manner in the absence of a petition when, in the opinion of the office, public safety requires the alteration, repair or reconstruction of a bridge or the substitution of another bridge for the bridge in question. After the hearing, the office shall determine what alteration or repair or reconstruction of such bridge, and the approaches thereto, shall be made, or if it shall determine that public safety requires the substitution of a new bridge, it shall determine the character, manner of construction and location of such bridge and the approaches thereto. The office shall fix the proportion of the cost and expense of such alteration, repair, reconstruction or substitution of a new bridge, including the damage to any person whose land is taken, and the special damage which the owner of any land adjoining the approaches to said bridge shall sustain by reason of the alteration, repair, reconstruction or substitution of a new bridge, to be paid by the railroad company and the city, village or town in interest.History:  1977 c. 29 ss. 1654 (9) (e), 1656 (43); 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.32 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.32 - Safety gates on drawbridges.

195.32  Safety gates on drawbridges. Whenever a complaint is filed with the office to the effect that any drawbridge is not equipped with gates or other safety devices, the office may notify the proper party or parties in interest of the complaint, and may proceed to investigate the complaint and to hold a hearing on the matter in the manner provided for hearings in ss. 195.04 to 195.043. If after the investigation the office determines that public safety requires the erection and maintenance of gates or other safety devices at the points mentioned in the complaint, it may order the county, city, village, town, corporation or person whose duty it is to maintain such bridge to erect and maintain at such points such gates or other safety devices as the office prescribes. The office may conduct the investigations, hold the hearings and make the orders provided for in this section upon its own motion in the same manner and with the same effect as though a complaint were filed.History:  1977 c. 29 ss. 1654 (9) (e), 1656 (43); 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.34 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.34 - Reports of accidents, investigation.

195.34  Reports of accidents, investigation. Every water carrier shall report to the office all accidents resulting in injury to persons arising from its operation. The office may issue rules concerning the reporting of accidents by water carriers and may also, if public interests require, cause an investigation of any accident. Every railroad shall submit to the office a copy of any accident or injury report provided by the railroad to the applicable federal authority for all collisions, derailments or other accidents resulting in injury to persons, equipment, or roadway arising from its operation. The office may issue rules concerning the submission of copies of federal reports under this section and may also, to the extent permitted by federal law, participate in any accident investigation.History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.35 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.35 - Treble damages.

195.35  Treble damages. (1) If any director, officer, employee or agent of a railroad or water carrier, in the course of the discharge of his or her duties, willfully, wantonly or recklessly causes to be done or permits to be done any matter, act or thing in this chapter prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or willfully, wantonly or recklessly fails to do any act, matter or thing required to be done by this chapter, the railroad or water carrier shall be liable to the person injured thereby in treble the amount of damages sustained in consequence of the violation. No recovery as in this section provided shall affect a recovery by the state of the penalty prescribed for such violation. (2) The burden of proof in an action under sub. (1) rests with the person injured to prove the case by clear and convincing evidence.History:  1979 c. 89; 1991 a. 39; 2005 a. 179.A treble damage claim is no longer a separate cause of action because gross negligence is to be compared like all other negligence. Kania v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. 57 Wis. 2d 761, 204 N.W.2d 681 (1973).
WI Stat § 195.36 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.36 - General penalty upon railroads and water carriers.

195.36  General penalty upon railroads and water carriers. If any railroad or water carrier shall violate any provision of this chapter, or shall do any act herein prohibited, or shall fail or refuse to perform any duty enjoined upon it, for which a penalty has not been provided, or shall fail, neglect or refuse to obey any lawful requirement or order made by the office, or any judgment or decree made by any court upon its application, for every such violation, failure or refusal in respect to any matter prescribed by this chapter such railroad or water carrier shall forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $10,000. The act, omission or failure of any officer, agent or other person employed by any railroad or water carrier, acting within the scope of his or her employment, shall be deemed to be the act, omission or failure of such railroad or water carrier.History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.38 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.38 - Water carrier freight bills; examination; refunds.

195.38  Water carrier freight bills; examination; refunds. Within 3 years after the delivery of any shipment of property at destination by a water carrier, any person, firm or corporation may submit to the office, by mail or in person, any water carrier expense bill or receipt showing charges paid for transportation of such property by freight for the purpose of having the expense bill or receipt examined with respect to the correctness of weights, rates and charges indicated thereon. Upon receipt of any such expense bill or receipt, the office may make such examination as is necessary, and if it is found that any such weights, rates or charges are incorrect, the office shall order the water carrier in error to refund to the person, firm or corporation which submitted such expense bills or receipts, any over or excessive charges paid by such person, firm or corporation. History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.45 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.45 - Common carriers of passengers or property by water; certificate required.

195.45  Common carriers of passengers or property by water; certificate required. (1) No person shall operate as a common carrier of passengers or property by water except in accordance with the terms and conditions of a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the office. The office shall issue any certificate upon a finding that the service proposed to be performed is in the public interest and required by public convenience and necessity. (2) Application for the certificate shall be made on forms furnished by the office and shall contain such information as the office requires. (3) Every application for a certificate under this section shall be accompanied by a filing fee of $40. (4) The office may promulgate rules for the operation of this section.History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.50 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.50 - Information, papers and accounting.

195.50  Information, papers and accounting. (1) Any officer, agent or employee of any railroad or water carrier who fails to fill out and return any forms required by this chapter, or fails to answer any question therein, or knowingly gives a false answer to any such question, or evades the answer to any such question where the fact inquired of is within his or her knowledge, or who, upon proper demand, fails to exhibit to the office or department or any person authorized to examine the same, any book, paper, account, record or memoranda of such railroad or water carrier which is in the possession or under control of the officer, agent or employee, or who fails to properly use and keep the system of accounting prescribed by the office, or who refuses to do any act or thing in connection with such system of accounting when so directed by the office or its authorized representatives, shall forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 for each offense. (2) A forfeiture of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 shall be recovered from the railroad or water carrier for each such offense when such officer, agent or employee acted in obedience to the direction, instruction or request of such railroad or water carrier or any general officer thereof.History:  1977 c. 29, 273; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 196.012 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 196 - Regulation of public utilities.|196.012 - Interstate commerce.

196.012  Interstate commerce. This chapter applies to interstate commerce only so far as the constitution and laws of the United States permit. History:  2005 a. 179 s. 99; Stats. 2005 s. 196.012.