2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions. › 86.302 - Local roads; inventory.

86.302
Local roads; inventory.
(1d)
(a)
“Highway" has the meaning given in s. 340.01 (22).
(b)
“Municipality" means a city, village or town.
(1g)
Except as provided in sub. (1m), beginning on January 1, 2001, the board of every town, village and county, and the governing body of every city, shall file with the department not later than December 15 of every year, a certified plat of the municipality or county showing the highways under its jurisdiction and the mileage thereof to be open and used for travel as of the succeeding January 1. The department may use the plats in making computations of transportation aids. One-half of the mileage of highways on boundary lines shall be considered as lying in each municipality or county.
(1m)
(a)
1.
In lieu of filing a certified plat under sub. (1g), if a municipality or county has not added or deleted jurisdictional mileage since filing its last preceding certified plat under sub. (1g), its board or governing body may file a certified statement to that effect with the department.
2.
Notwithstanding subd. 1., the department may require every municipality and county to file a certified plat under sub. (1g) with the department in the year after the year in which a federal decennial census is conducted.
(b)
Upon incorporation of a village or city, the board of the village and the governing body of the city shall file with the department a certified plat of the village or city showing the highways under its jurisdiction and the mileage thereof to be open and used for travel as of the date of incorporation, which may be used by the department in making computations of transportation aids. One-half of the mileage of highways on boundary lines shall be considered as lying in the village or city.
(2)
Not later than December 15, 2001, and biennially thereafter, each municipality and county shall assess the physical condition of highways under its jurisdiction, using a pavement rating system approved by the department and report the results of that assessment to the department. The department shall assess the accuracy of mileage or other data concerning highways reported by municipalities and counties and may use field investigations to verify a portion of the data constituting a valid random sample or such specialized sample as the department considers appropriate. The department shall cooperate with and provide assistance to local units of government in their efforts under this subsection. Information collected under this subsection is inadmissible as evidence, except to show compliance with this subsection.
(3)
For the purposes of transportation aid determinations under s. 86.30, the department shall use changes in the highway mileage of a municipality or county indicated on the certified plat filed under sub. (1g) in making computations of transportation aids to be paid beginning in the 2nd year following the year in which the certified plat is filed. The department shall consider the following factors:
(a)
New highways.
(b)
Abandoned highways.
(c)
Changes in jurisdictional mileage responsibilities for existing highways.
(4)
Islands of this state consisting of one or more towns shall receive all state aids regularly payable to towns under s. 86.30. For purposes of determining aids payable under s. 86.30, mileage under the jurisdiction of an island under this subsection includes the number of miles equal to the distance between an island port and the closest mainland port where such distance is regularly traveled by a licensed ferry transporting persons, cars, trucks, buses and other mechanized equipment.
History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 20; 1983 a. 27; 1987 a. 27 ss. 1675m, 1684m; 1989 a. 31; 1991 a. 39; 1995 a. 216; 1999 a. 9.