(1) "AASHTO manual" means the Manual for
Condition Evaluation of Bridges, 1994 as revised by Interim Specifications,
Bridges 1995-1998, published by the American association of state highway and
transportation officials, 444 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20001.
Note: This manual is on file at the offices of the Division of
Transportation Infrastructure Development, Wisconsin Department of
Transportation, the Secretary of State, and the Legislative Reference
Bureau.
(2) "Bridge" means
a structure, including supports, erected over a depression or an obstruction,
such as water, a highway, or a railway, having a track or passageway for
carrying traffic or other moving loads, and having an opening measured along
the center of the roadway of more than 20 feet between the undercoping of
abutments or spring lines of arches, or extreme ends of the openings for
multiple boxes. It may include multiple pipes where the clear distance between
openings is less than half of the smaller contiguous opening.
(3) "Bridge inspector's training manual"
means the Bridge Inspector's Training Manual 90, 1991, published by the federal
highway administration and available from the superintendent of documents, U.S.
government printing office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
Note: This manual is on file at the offices of the Division of
Transportation Infrastructure Development, Wisconsin Department of
Transportation, the Secretary of State, and the Legislative Reference
Bureau.
(4) "Department"
means the Wisconsin department of transportation.
(5) "Inspection" means the examination of a
bridge, the evaluation of the physical condition observed, and the report of
the observations and evaluations on a bridge inspection report form adopted by
the department.
Note: The bridge inspection report forms referred to in this
subsection are:
(1) "Field Bridge
Inspection Report," #E-M-30, and
(2) "Supplemental Information to Field Bridge
Inspection," #E-M-36. Copies of these report forms may be obtained from the
department.
(6)
"Inventory" means the gathering and reporting of all information required on
the bridge inventory form adopted by the department.
(7) "Posting" means the placement of
regulatory signs at a bridge indicating the safe load-carrying capacity of the
bridge.
(8) "Rating" means
determining the safe load-carrying capacity of a bridge.
Notes
Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation § Trans 212.02
Cr. Register, February,
1982, No. 314, eff. 3-1-82; am. (1) and (8), Register, July, 1992, No. 439,
eff. 8-1-92; correction in (3) to (6) and (8) made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 1,
Stats., Register, July, 1992, No. 439; am. (1) and (3), Register, July 1999,
No. 523, eff. 8-1-99.
