86.12 Highway railroad grade crossings; construction and repair.
(1) All railroad companies owning or operating tracks crossing streets or highways at grade shall keep the surface of the crossings between the tracks and rails and extending 4 feet on either side of the outside rails, in good condition and repair for highway travel. The county board or the common council, village board or town board of the municipality in which the crossing is located may, by resolution, require any such railroad company to pave, plank, repair, change or otherwise improve the crossings, as the needs require. The clerk of the county, city, village or town shall serve a copy of the resolution upon the local agent of the railroad company.
(2) If a railroad company fails to comply with the resolution in sub. (1) within 30 days after service of the resolution, the county board, common council, village board or town board may file a complaint with the office alleging the failure. The office shall investigate and determine the matter in controversy as provided in ch. 195. An order issued by the office under this subsection has the same effect as an order in a proceeding brought under ch. 195.
History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (10) (b); 1977 c. 72; 1985 a. 29; 1993 a. 16, 123.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.
86.01 - Materials left in highway; penalty.
86.021 - Highways, cultivation of; injury by farm machinery.
86.022 - Obstructing highway with embankment or ditch.
86.03 - Trees on and adjacent to highway.
86.04 - Highway encroachments.
86.05 - Entrances to highways restored.
86.06 - Highways closed to travel; penalties.
86.07 - Digging in highways or using bridges for advertising.
86.073 - Review of denial of permit.
86.075 - Highway authorities to notify drainage board of highway construction.
86.08 - Dust-free surfacing at licensed dairy or meat packing plants.
86.09 - Access to cemetery preserved.
86.10 - Salvage in highway construction.
86.105 - Snow removal in private driveways.
86.11 - Highways; railroad crossings; grade separation.
86.12 - Highway railroad grade crossings; construction and repair.
86.13 - Railroads to maintain highway crossings.
86.135 - Railroad highway crossings; traffic control.
86.15 - Donations of highway aid to adjoining municipalities.
86.16 - Utility lines on highways; place of poles; penalty.
86.17 - Taking water from highway streams.
86.18 - Milwaukee County highways; location, alteration, maintenance.
86.185 - Populous counties; power over county trunk highways.
86.19 - Highway signs, regulation, prohibition.
86.191 - Advertising in highways prohibited, where.
86.192 - Penalty for injuring guide board, markers, etc.
86.195 - Specific information signs.
86.196 - Tourist-oriented directional signs.
86.20 - Interstate bridge corporations.
86.21 - Interstate toll bridges.
86.22 - Interstate railroad bridges must have convenient approaches.
86.23 - Maintenance of drawbridges owned jointly.
86.25 - Municipal cooperation as to highways improved with state or federal aid.
86.255 - Limitation on moneys used to purchase land remote from highway project.
86.257 - Transfer of highways.
86.30 - General transportation aids.
86.302 - Local roads; inventory.
86.305 - Eligibility for transportation aids.
86.31 - Local roads improvement program.
86.312 - Local roads for job preservation program.
86.315 - County forest road aids.