Section 212.11. Reporting.

  The reporting of bridge inspections shall be as follows:

(1)  Bridges for which the department has inspection responsibility shall be reported for maintenance purposes for the year in which they were inspected. The department personnel responsible for these bridge inspections shall submit the inspection reports for updating the statewide bridge file to the appropriate department official or officials by January 15 of the appropriate year.

(2)  Each authority having jurisdiction over a bridge for which the department has no inspection responsibility shall report the results of all its bridge inspections to the county highway commissioner of the county in which the authority is located by January 1 of each odd year.

(3)  

(a) Each county highway commissioner shall report the results of all non-state maintained bridge inspections in his or her county to the appropriate department official or officials.

(b) Except as provided in par. (c) , paper reports for all local bridges that are not a department responsibility shall be submitted to the department by January 15 of each odd year.

(c) In lieu of par. (b) , electronic reports in a form acceptable to the department may be submitted to the department by February 1 of each odd year.

(4)  The department shall inform the county highway commissioners of revisions to the file data generated by the reports for bridges in their county as soon as practicable after the department's receipt of the reports generating the file data revisions.

(5)  After February 1 of each odd year, the department shall compile a list of any local governments which have not submitted the reports required by subs. (2) and (3) and shall submit this list to the senate and the assembly committees concerned with transportation issues.

History: Cr. Register, February, 1982, No. 314 , eff. 3-1-82; am. (1), Register, July, 1992, No. 439 , eff. 8-1-92 ; am. (1) and (3), Register, July, 1999, No. 523 , eff. 8-1-99 .