Section 327.03. Definitions.

 

(1)  "Anchor" means a device placed in the bed of a waterway or on the adjacent upland and used to hold barges or other vessels in place while in the fleeting area.

(2)  "Barge fleeting" means the temporary storage of barges and the disassembly and assembly of barge tows. It does not include the temporary mooring of line tows or loading or unloading operations.

(3)  "Deadman" means an anchor buried in the upland adjacent to a fleeting area.

(4)  "Department" means the Wisconsin department of natural resources.

(5)  "Dolphins" means a closely grouped cluster of piles driven into the bed of a waterway and tied together so that the group acts as a unit to withstand lateral forces from vessels or other floating objects.

(6)  "Fleeting area" means an area delineated in a permit which is used for barge fleeting.

(7)  "Mooring barge" means a barge held in place by anchors or spuds and used to moor other barges during their stay in the fleeting area.

(8)  "Mooring cell" means a sheet pile structure, usually filled with earth, stone, or concrete and used to hold barges or other vessels in place.

(9)  "Operator" means any person who operates a barge fleeting area.

(10)  "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, joint stock company, association, public or private corporation, municipality, cooperative, estate, trust, receiver, executor, administrator, fiduciary and any representative appointed by order of any court or otherwise acting on behalf of others.

(11)  "Riparian rights" means the legal rights that assure the owner of land abutting a stream or lake access to or use of the water.

History: Cr. Register, November, 1982, No. 323 , eff. 12-1-82.