83.013 County traffic safety commissions.
(1)
(a) For each county, the county highway commissioner or a designated representative, the chief county traffic law enforcement officer or a designated representative, the county highway safety coordinator, and a representative designated by the county board from each of the disciplines of education, medicine and law and 3 representatives involved in law enforcement, highways and highway safety designated by the secretary of transportation shall comprise a traffic safety commission that shall meet at least quarterly to review traffic accident data from the county and other traffic safety related matters. The county board chairperson, or the county executive or county administrator in a county having such offices, may appoint additional persons to serve as a member of the county traffic safety commission. The commissions shall designate a person to prepare and maintain a spot map showing the locations of traffic accidents on county and town roads and on city and village streets if the population of the city or village is less than 5,000 and to maintain traffic accident data received from cities, villages and towns with a population of 5,000 or more under s. 66.0141. Upon each review, the commission shall make written recommendations for any corrective actions it deems appropriate to the department, the county board, the county highway committee or any other appropriate branch of local government.
(b) Counties may combine for the purposes of par. (a), if desired.
(c) The commissions shall file a report on each meeting with the department.
(2) The department shall furnish each commission with traffic accident data and uniform traffic citation data for the rural, federal, state, and county highways in the jurisdictions represented in each commission, which shall identify the accident rates and arrest rates on their highways, and shall also furnish a suitable map for use in spotting accidents.
History: 1971 c. 125, 279; 1975 c. 381, 421; 1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 314; 1983 a. 291; 1985 a. 223 s. 5; 1993 a. 246; 1997 a. 27; 1999 a. 150 s. 672.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
83.01 - County highway commissioner.
83.013 - County traffic safety commissions.
83.015 - County highway committee.
83.016 - Traffic patrol officers, appointment, duties, bond.
83.018 - Road supplies; committee may sell to municipalities.
83.025 - County trunk highways.
83.026 - Federal aid secondary highways.
83.027 - Controlled-access highways.
83.03 - County aid; local levy; donations.
83.035 - Streets and highways, construction.
83.04 - Highway construction by county; noncontract work; payments.
83.05 - Improving streets over 18 feet wide.
83.06 - Maintenance of county aid highways.
83.065 - County road and bridge fund; tax levy.
83.07 - Acquisition of lands, quarries, gravel pits; relocation; eminent domain.
83.08 - Acquisition of lands and interest therein.
83.09 - Emergency repairs of county trunk highways.
83.11 - Marking section and quarter section corners in highways.
83.14 - County aid on town and village initiative.
83.15 - Aid by county for state line bridge or highway.
83.16 - County may contract with foreign county.
83.17 - County may assume compensation liability; agreements with localities.