SB 558

Under current law, the Department of Transportation (DOT) administers a

general transportation aids program that makes aid payments to a county based on

a share-of-costs formula, and to a village, city, or town (municipality) based on the

greater of a share-of-costs formula for municipalities or an aid rate per mile. Each

municipality and county must annually file with DOT a certified plat of the

municipality or county showing the highways under its jurisdiction and the mileage

of these highways open and used for travel, unless there have been no changes since

the last time the municipality or county filed a plat with DOT. One-half of the

mileage of highways on boundary lines must be considered as lying in each

municipality or county. DOT may use these plats in making computations of

transportation aids.

This bill allows two municipalities to agree that any highway on a boundary

line between the two municipalities is under the jurisdiction of only one of the

municipalities for purposes of general transportation aid payments. If such an

agreement is made, the certified plats filed by the two municipalities must reflect

this agreement in showing the highways under their jurisdiction and the mileage of

those highways, and the municipality claiming jurisdiction of the highway is entitled

to claim the entire mileage of the highway on its certified plat.