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WI Stat § 194.53 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 194 - Motor vehicle transportation.|194.53 - Certain liability provisions in motor carrier transportation contracts prohibited.

194.53  Certain liability provisions in motor carrier transportation contracts prohibited. (1) In this section:(a) “Affiliate" of a promisee means any agent of the promisee or any independent contractor that is directly responsible to the promisee, but excludes a motor carrier that is a party to a motor carrier transportation contract with the promisee, any employee or agent of such a motor carrier, or any independent contractor directly responsible to such a motor carrier.(b) “Motor carrier" means a common motor carrier or contract motor carrier.(c)1. “Motor carrier transportation contract" means any agreement, regardless of whether it is written, oral, express, or implied, between a motor carrier and a promisee covering any of the following:a. The transportation of property for hire by the motor carrier.b. The motor carrier's entrance on property for the purpose of loading, unloading, or transporting property for hire.c. Any service of the motor carrier incidental to any activity under subd. 1. a. or b., including the storage of property.2. “Motor carrier transportation contract" does not include the Uniform Intermodal Interchange and Facilities Access Agreement administered by the Intermodal Association of North America or other agreements providing for the interchange, use, or possession of intermodal chassis, containers, or other intermodal equipment.(d) “Promisee" means any person that enters into a motor carrier transportation contract with a motor carrier. (2) (a) Notwithstanding s. 401.302, ch. 407, and any other provision of law, no provision of a motor carrier transportation contract, and no covenant or agreement collateral to or affecting a motor carrier transportation contract, may indemnify, hold harmless, or require the motor carrier to provide a defense to the promisee or any employee or affiliate of the promisee, or have the effect of indemnifying, holding harmless, or requiring the provision of a defense, from or against any liability for loss or damage resulting from the negligence or intentional acts or omissions of the promisee or any employee or affiliate of the promisee.(b) Any provision, covenant, or agreement in violation of par. (a) is void and unenforceable.History:  2011 a. 33.
WI Stat § 195.001 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.001 - Definitions.

195.001  Definitions. In this chapter: (1m) “Department" means the department of transportation. (2) “Office" means the office of the commissioner of railroads. (2m) “Railroad historical society" means a nonprofit historical society that operates railroad locomotives and rolling stock on railroad tracks for the purpose of historic preservation and is not a common carrier. (3) “Railroad track equipment" means a device that is operated on rails and used primarily for the maintenance of railroads. History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347; 1983 a. 189; 1991 a. 269; 1993 a. 16, 123; 2011 a. 101.
WI Stat § 195.02 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.02 - Definitions, scope of chapter, application of statute.

195.02  Definitions, scope of chapter, application of statute. (1) In this chapter, unless a different meaning is manifest: “Railroad" means and embraces all corporations, companies, individuals, associations, their lessees, trustees or receivers that own, operate, manage or control any railroad or part of a railroad as a common carrier in this state, or cars, or other equipment used thereon, or bridges, terminals or sidetracks, used in connection therewith, whether owned by such railroad or otherwise. (3) This chapter applies to the transportation of passengers and property between points within this state, and to the receiving, switching, delivering, storing and handling of such property, and to all water carrier charges connected therewith, and applies to all common carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by rail or partly by rail and partly by water, and to all common carriers of property wholly by water which operate between fixed end points, but shall not apply to transportation of property by water under contract as a private carrier.  (4) This chapter shall not apply to private railroads that are not common carriers. (4m) Each provision of this chapter applies only to the extent that it is not contrary to or inconsistent with federal law or the constitution of the United States. (5) “Water carrier" means a common or contract carrier of property by water that operates between fixed end points, but does not include a water carrier under common control with a railroad when transporting freight for continuous carriage or shipment. In this chapter, “common carrier," with respect to a water carrier, includes a contract carrier other than a private contract carrier.History:  1977 c. 29; 1979 c. 110; 1985 a. 187; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.04 - Complaints, investigation, hearings, notice.

195.04  Complaints, investigation, hearings, notice. (1) Upon complaint of any person, including any state agency, water carrier, or railroad, either relating to a railroad as provided under s. 192.324, 192.34, 195.20, 195.28 (1), 195.285 (1), 195.29 (1), (5), or (6), 195.31, or 195.32 or that any water carrier rate, fare, charge, or classification or any regulation or practice whatever affecting the transportation of persons or property, or any service in connection therewith, is in any respect unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory or that any service is inadequate, the office may investigate the complaint and shall set the complaint for hearing. No order may be entered by the office without a public hearing, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (2) The office shall, prior to any hearing, notify the water carrier or railroad complained of that a complaint has been made, and 20 days after such notice has been given the office may proceed to set a time and place for a hearing.  (3) The office shall give the water carrier or railroad and the complainant 20 days' notice of the hearing and the matters to be considered and determined. Both the water carrier or railroad and the complainant shall be entitled to be heard and shall have process to enforce the attendance of witnesses. (4) The notice provided for in subs. (2) and (3) may be combined but if combined the notice shall not be less than 20 days.History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.041 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.041 - Separate rate hearings; absence of direct damage.

195.041  Separate rate hearings; absence of direct damage. The office may, when complaint is made of more than one water carrier rate or charge, order separate hearings thereon, and may consider and determine the several matters complained of separately and at such times as it may prescribe. No complaint shall at any time be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant. History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.042 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.042 - Summary investigations.

195.042  Summary investigations. Whenever the office believes that any water carrier rate or charge may be unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory or that any service is inadequate or cannot be obtained or that an investigation of any matter relating to any water carrier or, if a matter arising under s. 192.324, 192.34, 195.20, 195.28 (1), 195.285 (1), 195.29 (1), (5), or (6), 195.31, or 195.32, to any railroad should for any reason be made, it may investigate the same with or without notice.History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.043 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.043 - Procedure after summary investigation.

195.043  Procedure after summary investigation. (1) If, after summary investigation, the office becomes satisfied that sufficient grounds exist to warrant a formal hearing being ordered as to the matters investigated, it shall set a time and place for a hearing. The office shall publish notice of any such investigation in its weekly calendar and any report and all matters considered by the office with respect thereto shall be available for public inspection upon request. (2) Notice of the time and place for such hearing shall be given to the water carrier or railroad, and to such other interested persons as the office deems necessary, as provided in s. 195.04, and thereafter proceedings shall be had and conducted in reference to the matter investigated in like manner as though complaint had been filed with the office relative to the matter investigated, and the same order or orders may be made in reference thereto as if such investigation had been made on complaint. History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.044 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.044 - Witness fees and mileage.

195.044  Witness fees and mileage. (1) Each witness who appears before the office or its agent, by its order, shall receive for attendance the fees and mileage now provided for witnesses in civil cases in courts of record, which shall be audited and paid by the state in the same manner as other expenses are audited and paid, upon the presentation of proper vouchers sworn to by such witnesses and approved by the office. Said fees and mileage shall be charged to the appropriation for the office. (2) No witness subpoenaed at the instance of parties other than the office is entitled to compensation from the state for attendance or travel unless the office certifies that the witness' testimony was material to the matter investigated.History:  1977 c. 29, 273; 1981 c. 347 ss. 71, 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.045 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.045 - Depositions.

195.045  Depositions. The office or any party may in any hearing cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in circuit courts. Any expense incurred or authorized by the office in taking such depositions shall be charged to the appropriation for the office.History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.046 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.046 - Record.

195.046  Record. A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings before the office or its hearing examiners.History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.047 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.047 - Transcripts as evidence.

195.047  Transcripts as evidence. A transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings or any specific part thereof, on any hearing under this chapter taken by the stenographer, being certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript of all the testimony or of a particular witness, or of other specific part thereof, carefully compared with the original notes, and to be a correct statement of the evidence and proceedings had on such hearing so purporting to be taken and transcribed, shall be received in evidence with the same effect as if such reporter were present and testified to the fact so certified. A copy of such transcript shall be furnished on demand free of cost to any party to such hearing.History:  1977 c. 29.
WI Stat § 195.048 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.048 - Incriminating evidence.

195.048  Incriminating evidence. (1) No person may be excused from testifying or from producing books, accounts and papers in any proceeding based upon or growing out of any violation of this chapter on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence may tend to incriminate or subject the person to penalty or forfeiture, but no person having so testified may be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any such testimony. No person so testifying may be exempted from prosecution or punishment for perjury in testifying. (2) The immunity provided under sub. (1) is subject to the restrictions under s. 972.085.History:  1977 c. 29, 273; 1989 a. 122.
WI Stat § 195.05 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.05 - Office; water carrier rates, regulations, service, procedure.

195.05  Office; water carrier rates, regulations, service, procedure. (1) Orders for rates and service. Whenever the office shall find that any existing water carrier rate, fare, charge, or classification, or any joint rate, or any regulation or practice affecting the transportation of persons or property, or any service in connection therewith is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory or that any service is inadequate, it shall determine and by order fix a reasonable rate, fare, charge, classification, joint rate, regulation, practice or service to be imposed, observed and followed in the future, in lieu of that found to be unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory or inadequate. (2)  Time to comply with orders. Where the order made relates to service, and the same cannot, in the judgment of the office, be complied with within 20 days, the office may prescribe such additional time as in its judgment is reasonably necessary to comply with the order and may on application and for good cause shown further extend the time. (3)  Rates not changed by water carrier. All water carriers to which the order applies shall make such changes in their schedule on file as may be necessary to make the same conform to said order, and no change shall thereafter be made by any water carrier in any such rates, fares or charges, or in any joint rates except as provided in s. 195.08. (4)  Modification of orders. The office may by order at any time, upon notice to the water carrier and after opportunity to be heard, rescind, alter or amend any order fixing any rate or rates, fares, charges or classification, or any other order made by the office.History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1985 a. 187; 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.Res judicata is inapplicable to commission orders since no time limitation is imposed for petitioning to reopen and the commission can rescind the previous executory order at any time. Village of Prentice v. Wisconsin Transportation Commission, 123 Wis. 2d 113, 365 N.W.2d 899 (Ct. App. 1985).
WI Stat § 195.055 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.055 - Judicial review.

195.055  Judicial review. All orders and determinations of the office are subject to judicial review under ch. 227.History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.06 - Office orders prima facie lawful.

195.06  Office orders prima facie lawful. All orders, determinations and decisions made by the office shall be in force and effective 20 days after the same has been served as required by s. 227.48 unless the office shall specify a different date upon which the same shall be effective, and shall be prima facie lawful, and all regulations, practices and service prescribed by the office shall be in force and shall be prima facie lawful and reasonable, until finally found otherwise upon judicial review thereof instituted pursuant to ch. 227.History:  1975 c. 414 s. 28; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1985 a. 182 s. 57; 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 195.07 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.07 - Law enforcement.

195.07  Law enforcement. (1) Powers. The office shall inquire into the neglect or violation of the laws of this state by water carriers and railroads, or by the officers, agents or employees thereof, or by persons operating water carriers and railroads, and shall report violations to the attorney general. (2)  Attorney general and district attorney to prosecute. Upon request of the office, the attorney general or the district attorney of the proper county shall aid in any investigation, hearing or trial had under, and shall institute and prosecute all necessary actions or proceedings for the enforcement of, laws relating to water carriers and railroads. (3)  Actions, character, venue. Any forfeiture, fine or other penalty provided in chs. 192 to 195 may be recovered as a forfeiture in a civil action brought in the name of the state in the circuit court of Dane County, or in the county that would be the proper place of trial under s. 801.50.History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1985 a. 29; 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.09 - Commodity rates.

195.09  Commodity rates. Concentration, commodity, transit and other special contract rates are permitted, but all such rates shall be open to all shippers for a like kind of traffic under similar circumstances and conditions, and shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
WI Stat § 195.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.10 - Emergency rates.

195.10  Emergency rates. The office shall have power, when deemed by it necessary to prevent injury to the business or interests of the people or water carriers of this state in consequence of any emergency to be judged of by the office, to temporarily alter, amend, or, with the consent of the water carrier company concerned, suspend any existing passenger rates, freight rates, schedules and orders on any water carrier in this state. Such rates so made by the office shall apply on one or more of the water carriers in this state or any portion thereof as may be directed by the office, and shall take effect at such time and remain in force for such length of time as may be prescribed by the office. History:  1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.11 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.11 - Discriminations prohibited.

195.11  Discriminations prohibited. (1) If any water carrier, or any agent or officer thereof, shall directly or indirectly, or by any device whatsoever, charge, demand, collect or receive a greater, less or different compensation for the transportation of persons or property or of any service in connection therewith than that prescribed in the tariffs then in force, or than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person, firm or corporation for a like and contemporaneous service, such water carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited. (2) It shall be unlawful for any water carrier to demand, charge, collect or receive from any shipper a less compensation for the transportation of property or for any service rendered or to be rendered by said water carrier, in consideration of said shipper furnishing any part of the facilities incident thereto; but any water carrier may rent any facilities incident to transportation and pay a reasonable rental therefor, but no payment shall be made by any carrier to an industry for performing any part of the service incident to the origination or determination of shipments which the carriers have assumed to perform under the provisions of the bill of lading.History:  2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.12 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.12 - Preference by water carriers prohibited.

195.12  Preference by water carriers prohibited. If any water carrier shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, firm or corporation, or shall subject any person, firm or corporation to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever, such water carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited.History:  2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 195.13 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 195 - Railroad and water carrier regulation.|195.13 - Rebates and concessions, unlawful to accept.

195.13  Rebates and concessions, unlawful to accept. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation knowingly to accept or receive any rebate, concession or discrimination in respect to water carrier transportation of property wholly within this state, or for any service in connection therewith, whereby any such property shall, by any device whatsoever, be transported at a less rate than that named in the tariffs in force, or whereby any service or advantage is received other than is therein specified. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 for each offense.History:  1997 a. 254; 2005 a. 179.