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.
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.