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WI Stat § 86.25 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.|86.25 - Municipal cooperation as to highways improved with state or federal aid.

86.25  Municipal cooperation as to highways improved with state or federal aid. (1) Any county, city, village or town may by any lawful means provide funds to match or supplement state or federal aid for the construction, reconstruction or improvement, under ch. 84, of any highway, street or bridge which it is authorized to construct, reconstruct or improve, and to pay such funds to the department or state treasury as provided in s. 84.03 (1) (b). (1m) If lands or interests in lands necessary for an improvement under ch. 84 are acquired by a county or local municipality specifically for such improvement, the department may reimburse such county or local municipality therefor from funds available for such improvement. (2) Any county, city, village or town, through its governing body or a committee which it may designate, may enter into agreements with the department providing for the construction, reconstruction or improvement with state or federal aid, of highways, streets or bridges which such county, city, village or town is authorized to construct, reconstruct or improve, providing for the subsequent maintenance by such county, city, village or town of any such highway, street or bridge improved with state or federal aid which it has authority to maintain, and providing for the subsequent regulation as to the location, form and character of informational, regulatory and warning signs, curb and pavement or other markings and traffic signals on any such highway, street or bridge improved with state or federal aid. (3) Any city, village or town may levy special assessments under s. 66.0703 not exceeding the cost to the city, village or town against the property benefited thereby to provide funds to match or supplement state or federal aid or both for the construction, reconstruction or improvement under ch. 84, or under any other statute of any highway or street which it is authorized to construct, reconstruct or improve, and any city, village or town is authorized to pay the proceeds of such assessments, certificates or special assessment bonds issued to finance the improvement to the department or state treasury as provided in s. 84.03 (1) (b). (4) Sections 61.54, 62.15 and 66.0901 (1) and (2) to (9) shall not apply to funds provided or agreements made pursuant to this section. History:  1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (8) (c); 1977 c. 418 s. 924 (48); 1981 c. 314; 1987 a. 137 s. 6; 1993 a. 246; 1995 a. 225; 1999 a. 150 s. 672; 2009 a. 173; 2011 a. 32.
WI Stat § 86.255 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.|86.255 - Limitation on moneys used to purchase land remote from highway project.

86.255  Limitation on moneys used to purchase land remote from highway project. (1) Notwithstanding ss. 84.09 and 86.25, beginning with purchase contracts executed on October 29, 1999, and with relocation orders initially filed under ch. 32 on October 29, 1999, the department may not encumber or expend any moneys from the appropriations under s. 20.395 (3) for purposes related to the purchase of land, easements, or development rights in land, unless the land or interest in land is purchased in association with a highway project and the land or interest in land is located within one-quarter mile of the highway. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:(a) The purchase of any land that is acquired as compensatory mitigation for another wetland, as defined in s. 23.32 (1), that will suffer an adverse impact by degradation or destruction as part of a highway project.(b) The purchase of any land, easements, or development rights in land, under an agreement executed in the name of the department before October 29, 1999, or under a relocation order filed under ch. 32 before October 29, 1999.History:  1999 a. 9.
WI Stat § 86.257 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.|86.257 - Transfer of highways.

86.257  Transfer of highways. The department or a political subdivision, as defined in s. 86.31 (1) (d), may transfer jurisdiction and ownership of, or other property interest in, a highway that is under the jurisdiction of the department or political subdivision to a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state or an agency of the United States government that is acting on behalf of a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state by entering into a jurisdictional transfer agreement with the tribe or band or agency. The jurisdictional transfer agreement shall contain all of the following: (1) A dispute resolution procedure. (2) A provision that requires that the transferred highway remain open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular traffic unless the tribe or band or agency conducts proceedings, makes findings, and meets other conditions for discontinuation that would be applicable to the governing body of a 1st class city under s. 62.73, if the highway is located in a 1st class city; the governing body of a village or city, except a 1st class city, under s. 66.1003, if the highway is located in a village or city, except a 1st class city; or the governing body of a town under s. 82.10, if the highway is located in a town.History:  2009 a. 231.
WI Stat § 86.305 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.|86.305 - Eligibility for transportation aids.

86.305  Eligibility for transportation aids. The restriction of access to a street under s. 66.0429 (3) may not affect the eligibility of a city to receive any state transportation aids.History:  1993 a. 113; 1999 a. 150 s. 672.
WI Stat § 86.315 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.|86.315 - County forest road aids.

86.315  County forest road aids. (1) From the appropriation under s. 20.395 (1) (fu), the department shall annually, on March 10, pay to counties having county forests established under ch. 28, for the improvement of public roads within the county forests which are open and used for travel and which are not state or county trunk highways or town roads and for which no aids are paid under s. 86.30, the amount of $351 per mile of road designated in the comprehensive county forest land use plan as approved by the county board and the department of natural resources. If the amount appropriated under s. 20.395 (1) (fu) is insufficient to make the payments required under this subsection, the department shall prorate the amount appropriated in the manner it considers desirable. (2) The amounts allotted under this section shall be paid into the county forest road fund and shall be administered by the committee designated to administer the county forest program for the maintenance, brush control, snow plowing and rebuilding of the roads. (3) County forest roads must meet the minimum design standards under s. 82.50 (1) (a) 2. and 3. in order to qualify for aids under this section.  (4) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the committee designated to administer the county forest program shall, not later than September 15 of every odd-numbered year, file with the department and the county clerk a certified plat of the county forests showing the roads to be open and used for travel as of the succeeding January 1. The certified plat shall show the mileage of the roads for use by the department in making computations of road aids under this section.(b) The committee designated to administer the county forest program need not file a certified plat under par. (a) if the county has not added or deleted public road mileage within the county forests as specified in sub. (1) since the committee last filed a certified plat under par. (a).History:  1987 a. 137; 1989 a. 31; 1995 a. 113; 1997 a. 27; 2003 a. 214; 2019 a. 9.NOTE:  2003 Wis. Act 214, which affected this section, contains extensive explanatory notes.
WI Stat § 86.33 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.|86.33 - Population estimates.

86.33  Population estimates. Population determination for the purpose of calculating aids under ss. 86.30 and 86.32 shall be based on the final population estimates arrived at by the department of administration under s. 16.96 as of November 30 of the preceding year.History:  1973 c. 333 s. 201w; 1977 c. 29.
WI Stat § 86.51 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.|86.51 - Requirements for local projects.

86.51  Requirements for local projects. (1) In this section:(a) “Local bridge" means a bridge that is not on the state trunk highway system or on marked routes of the state trunk highway system designated as connecting highways.(b) “Local roads" means streets under the authority of cities or villages, county trunk highways, or town roads.(c) “Political subdivision” means a county, city, village, or town.(d) “Project" means the development, construction, repair, or improvement of a local road or a local bridge. (2) If the department disburses aid to a political subdivision for a project, the department shall notify the political subdivision whether the aid includes federal moneys and which project components must be paid for with federal moneys, if any. (3) For any project meeting all of the following criteria, the department may not require a political subdivision to comply with any portion of the department's facilities development manual other than design standards:(a) The project proposal is reviewed and approved by a professional engineer or by the highway commissioner for the county in which the project will be located.(b) The project is conducted by a political subdivision with no expenditure of federal money. (4) Any local project funded in whole or in part with state funds under the surface transportation urban program, the surface transportation rural program, or the local bridge program shall be let through competitive bidding and by contract to the lowest responsible bidder as provided in s. 84.06 (2).History:  2017 a. 368.
WI Stat § 87.01 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.01 - Definitions.

87.01  Definitions. In this chapter: (1) “Department" means the department of natural resources. (2) “Drainage area" means any parcel or parcels of land within the area whose drainage causes or contributes to flood conditions upon or in the vicinity of a designated stream or body of water. (3) “Equalized assessed value" means:(a) As applied to any town, village or city, the value of the real property therein as determined by the department of revenue under s. 70.57;(b) As applied to any tract of land, such proportion of the assessed value thereof, as determined by the local assessor, as the equalized assessed value of all the real estate in the town, village or city in which such tract is located bears to the aggregate assessed value of the real estate in such town, village or city, as determined by its assessor;(c) As applied to a parcel of land, such proportion of the equalized assessed value of the tract of which such parcel is a part, as the department shall determine to correctly represent the relative value of such parcel as compared with the remainder of the tract. (4) “Owner" means any person, partnership, association or corporation having the fee title or any lesser estate in lands, except estates at will and by sufferance. (5) “Parcel of land" means that portion of a tract of land which is benefited by the abatement or diminution of flood conditions. (6) “Public corporation" means any county, town, village, city, school district, board of park commissioners and any other public body empowered to hold property, borrow money or levy taxes. (7) “Public service corporation" means any corporation specified in s. 201.01.  (8) “Tract of land" means all of the land separately assessed as a unit for the purpose of general taxation pursuant to s. 70.23.History:  1981 c. 20; 1983 a. 189; 1985 a. 225; 1987 a. 282; 1993 a. 490; 1997 a. 140; 1999 a. 150.
WI Stat § 87.02 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.02 - Powers of department.

87.02  Powers of department. To accomplish the purposes of ss. 87.01 to 87.17, the department of natural resources is hereby authorized and empowered: (1) To order the straightening, widening, altering, deepening, changing or the removing of obstructions from the course of any river, watercourse, pond, lake, creek or natural stream, ditch, drain or sewer, and the concentration, diversion or division of the flow of water therein; provided, that in the case of navigable waters no such work shall substantially impair the navigability thereof. (2) To order the construction and maintenance or the removal of ditches, canals, levees, dikes, dams, sluices, revetments, reservoirs, holding basins, floodways, pumping stations, sewers and siphons, and any other works reasonably adapted or required to accomplish the purposes of said ss. 87.01 to 87.17.
WI Stat § 87.03 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.03 - Petition for flood works.

87.03  Petition for flood works. Any 25 owners of lands which have been recurrently flooded by the waters of any designated stream, lake or pond or any tributaries thereof, or any public corporation within whose boundaries are located any lands subject to such overflow, may file with the department a written petition setting forth: (1) The necessity for the construction of such works of improvement as will abate or substantially diminish the overflow of such lands, together with a statement that the construction of such works is required by the public health, safety, convenience or welfare; (2) A general description of the purpose of the contemplated improvement and of the territory proposed to be benefited by the construction thereof. Said description need not be given by metes and bounds nor by legal or political subdivisions but shall be sufficient if it designate in general terms the territory proposed to be benefited by the improvement; (3) A prayer for appropriate action and relief.
WI Stat § 87.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.04 - Action on petition.

87.04  Action on petition. (1) Upon the filing of any petition as authorized by s. 87.03, the department shall give the project a name embodying the name of the principal river or body of water involved in the project, and shall fix a date and place of hearing upon the petition, the date being so fixed as to allow for the giving of the notice herein provided for. The department shall publish in each county in which any portion of the territory referred to in the petition is located, a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, stating the nature of the proceeding and the time and place of the proposed hearing, and shall also forward a copy of such notice to the county clerk of each such county. Each such county clerk shall thereupon mail a copy of the notice to the clerk of each town, village and city within that clerk's county. The failure of any county clerk to comply with the foregoing requirements shall not, however, affect the jurisdiction of the department to proceed. (2) If the petition alleges that the proposed project will be located wholly upon land owned by the petitioners, that the stream affected is nonnavigable, or if navigable in fact, is not navigable for any substantial commercial or major recreational purposes, that the project is required by public health, safety, convenience or welfare and that the petitioners desire to construct and operate the project as a cooperative enterprise, the department may hear the petition upon due notice to the petitioners and to the town clerk of each town in which the project is located. If the department finds that the allegations of the petition are true, it may authorize the petitioners to proceed with the construction and operation of the project subject to plans to be approved by the department and all other procedural requirements of this chapter may thereafter be omitted, provided that the petitioners shall be jointly and severally liable for any damage to the property of others resulting from said project.History:  1991 a. 316.
WI Stat § 87.05 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.05 - Scope of hearing.

87.05  Scope of hearing. The hearing under s. 87.04 shall be confined to the question whether the improvement prayed for in the petition is required by the public health, safety, convenience or welfare. Any person interested may appear at such hearing in person or by attorney and be heard upon said question without the filing of any formal pleading. In considering and deciding this question the department may consider investigations and reports made by the engineering staff and by the U.S. government or an officer or agency thereof, provided such reports are made a part of the record of the hearing. If at the close of such hearing the department determines that the public health, safety, convenience or welfare require the abatement or substantial diminution of the flood conditions referred to in the petition, it shall make written findings to that effect and shall direct the hearing upon the petition to proceed; but if its finding is to the contrary, it shall enter an order dismissing the petition.
WI Stat § 87.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.06 - Court review of dismissal.

87.06  Court review of dismissal. An order dismissing the petition shall be subject to review in the manner provided in ch. 227. An order directing the hearing to proceed shall not be subject to review except upon review of the final order made pursuant to s. 87.07.
WI Stat § 87.076 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.076 - Financing.

87.076  Financing. Any flood control project other than a project described in s. 87.04 (2) may, in addition to any other method of financing mentioned in this chapter, be financed from funds received in whole or in part by the flood control board from any governmental agency or other person. To implement this section, every municipality may obtain and provide funds for a flood control project: (1) By levying a special assessment as provided in s. 66.0703. (2) By borrowing money and issuing bonds as provided in ch. 67. (3) By grants or donations. (4) By exercise of the general power of taxation.History:  1999 a. 150 s. 672.
WI Stat § 87.08 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.08 - Petition of board; modification of order, court review.

87.08  Petition of board; modification of order, court review. Upon petition of the flood control board organized pursuant to s. 87.12 for the purpose of carrying out the final order of the department, the department may at any time, after public hearing, modify its final orders insofar as the same relate to the plans and specifications therein adopted by it for the construction of the improvement, but no such modification shall materially change the basic plan of the improvement. The hearing upon application for such modification shall be held upon notice to the clerk of each town, village and city containing property found by the department to be benefited by the improvement. Such order for modification may be reviewed in the same manner as the final order.
WI Stat § 87.085 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.085 - Federal cooperation.

87.085  Federal cooperation. Any public corporation or flood control board acting under its powers and in conformity with state law may enter into an agreement with an agency of the federal government to cooperate in the construction, operation or maintenance of any federally authorized project contemplated under this chapter or to assume any potential liability appurtenant to such project and may do all things necessary to consummate the agreement. Such public corporation or flood control board may jointly or separately enter into such an agreement with an agency of the federal government carrying such terms and provisions concerning the division of costs and responsibilities as may be mutually agreed upon.
WI Stat § 87.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.09 - Assessment of benefits.

87.09  Assessment of benefits. The department shall determine the parcel or parcels of land benefited directly or indirectly and shall levy such assessment in proportion to the benefit accruing to such parcel or parcels of land.
WI Stat § 87.095 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 87 - Flood control.|87.095 - Public park lands not benefited by improvement.

87.095  Public park lands not benefited by improvement. For the purposes of this chapter it is determined that public park lands are not benefited either directly or indirectly by such improvement, and shall not be considered in the assessment of benefits made by the department or by the flood control board acting under the provisions of s. 87.075 or 87.076.