Section 212.04. Responsibility for inspection.

  The responsibility for the continuing inspection program shall be as follows:

(1)  The department shall inspect highway bridges on the state trunk highway system and all other bridges for which the department has been assigned maintenance responsibility.

(2)  Each local authority or other authority having jurisdiction over a non-department maintained bridge shall inspect the highway bridges on highways under its jurisdiction.

(3)  When the department determines that a local authority or other authority having jurisdiction over a non-departmental maintained bridge has failed to inspect any highway bridge as required, the department shall inform the county highway commissioner of the county in which the bridge is located of the inspection failure and shall direct the county to inspect or cause the bridge to be inspected. Upon receipt of the department's notice and direction, the county shall perform the bridge inspection or cause it to be performed.

History: Cr. Register, February, 1982, No. 314 , eff. 3-1-82; emerg. cr. (3), eff. 8-20-85; cr. (3), Register, April, 1986, No. 364 , eff. 5-1-86.