Section Trans 8.02 - Definitions(1) "Capital assistance" means provision of funds to pay part of the cost of a capital project.(1m) "Capital project" means any of the following for an eligible mass transit system: (a) The acquisition, construction, reconstruction or improvement of facilities.(b) The acquisition of vehicles or equipment.(c) Capitalized maintenance costs.(2) "Capitalized maintenance project" means vehicle and facility related maintenance which a mass transit system has classified as a capital project as allowed under 49 USC chapter 53.(2m) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of transportation.(2r) "Eligible recipient" means a local public body in an urbanized area under 200,000 population that has been designated as a recipient of federal section 5307 funds by the secretary of the department of transportation acting on behalf of the governor.(3) "Eligible urban mass transit system" means a mass transit system operating or designated to operate in urbanized areas of less than 200,000 population.(4) "Federal section 5307 funds" means all federal funds apportioned to the state for distribution by the governor for urban mass transit operating assistance and capital assistance in urbanized areas under 200,000 population.(5) "Local public body" has the meaning given in s. Trans 4.02(2).(6) "Mass transit system" has the meaning given in s. Trans 4.02(3).(7) ''Operating assistance" means a subsidy to pay part of the operating deficit of an eligible urban mass transit system.(8) "Operating deficit" has the meaning given in s. Trans 4.02(3g).(10) "Project" means a capital project or operation of a mass transit system or subsystem thereof during a project year.(11) "Project year" means a calendar year.(12) "Urbanized area" means an area of the state so defined by the U.S. bureau of the census.(13) "Useful life" means a minimum time period, specified by the department, during which an asset is expected to remain in suitable operating condition for continued use in its intended capacity.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation § Trans 8.02
Cr. Register, January, 1987, No. 373, eff. 2-1-87; renum. and am. (2) to be (2r), cr. (2), (2m) and (11m) and am. (4), (7) and (10), Register, November, 2000, No. 539, eff. 12-1-00; reprinted to correct printing error in sub. (7), Register, March, 2001, No. 543.Amended by, CR 18-065: r. and recr. (1), cr. (1m), am. (2), (2r), (4) to (6), (8), r. (9), r. and recr. (10), r. (11m), am. (12), cr. (13) Register October 2020 No. 778, eff. 11-1-20; correction in (2) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register October 2020 No. 778, eff. 11/1/2020