Section Trans 4.02 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Capital equipment" means non-expendable personal property for use in the provision of public transit service having all of the following: (a) An anticipated useful life of one year or more.(b) An acquisition cost of $5,000 or more per unit.(1d) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of transportation.(1m) "Eligible applicant" means a local public body in an urban area which is served by an urban mass transit system incurring an operating deficit.(1o) "Eligible project cost" means an expense that an eligible applicant incurs in the operation of an urban mass transit system for which it is eligible to receive operating assistance authorized under s. 85.20, Stats.(1p) "Job access and reverse commute project" means a transportation project to finance planning, capital, or operating costs that support the development and maintenance of transportation services designed to transport welfare recipients and low-income individuals to and from jobs and employment-related activities, including transportation projects that facilitate the provision of public transportation services from rural and urbanized areas to suburban employment locations.(1t) "Joint-use facility" means a facility that is shared by a mass transit system and at least one other business.(2) "Local public body" means one of the following:(a) A county or a municipality, as defined in s. 59.001(3), Stats., or an agency thereof;(b) A transit or transportation commission or authority, or a public corporation established by law or by interstate compact to provide mass transportation services and facilities;(c) Two or more of any such bodies acting jointly under s. 66.0301, Stats.(2m) "Low-income individual" means an individual whose family income is at or below 150 percent of the poverty line, as that term is defined in Section 673 (2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act, 42 USC 9902(2), including any revision required by that section.(3) "Mass transit system" has the meaning given in s. 85.20(1) (e), Stats., and may include specialized transportation subsystems for seniors and individuals with disabilities, but does not include transportation services exclusively for a subgroup of the general public.(3g) "Operating deficit" means the amount by which the total operating expenses incurred in the operation of a mass transit system exceeds the amount of operating revenues derived therefrom.(3r) "Operating revenues" means income that accrues to a mass transit system by virtue of its operations, excluding any income derived from the sale of charter service or the hauling of freight.(4) "Private provider" means a privately owned entity that provides public transit service.(4g) "Project" means operation of an urban mass transit system, or subsystem thereof, during a project year.(4r) "Project year" means a calendar year in which an eligible applicant executes a public transit project receiving funding under s. 85.20, Stats.(5) "Public provider" means any provider of mass transit service not defined as a private provider.(5m) "Revenue hours" means the annual number of hours for which a mass transit system's revenue passenger vehicles offer advertised public transit service, plus the annual sum of any additional hours during which these vehicles transport revenue paying passengers and, for shared-ride taxicab services, during which they travel to a base destination at the end of daily operation or undergo a pre-trip inspection.(6) "Revenue passenger vehicle" means a vehicle used to transport revenue paying passengers on a mass transit system.(6m) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Wisconsin department of transportation.(7) "Shared-ride taxicab" means a taxicab legally able to simultaneously transport passengers having different origins, different destinations, or both.(8) "Subsystem" means that part of a transit system which provides special services to seniors or individuals with disabilities.(8m) "Unlinked trip" means a trip beginning when a passenger boards the vehicle and ending when the passenger alights the vehicle, even if the passenger transfers to another vehicle to reach a destination.(9) "Urban area" means any area that includes a city or village having a population of 2,500 or more or an area that includes 2 American Indian reservations and that is served by a mass transit system operated by a transit commission. The department shall determine the population of a city or village within an urban area using the most recent estimates prepared by the department of administration.(10) "Urban mass transit system" means a mass transit system providing at least two-thirds of its revenue miles of service within the boundaries of an urban area.(10g) "Urbanized area" means an area of the state so defined by the U.S. bureau of the census.(10r) "Useful life" means a minimum time period, specified by the department, during which an asset is expected to remain in suitable condition for continued use in its intended capacity.(11) "User-side subsidy" means financial assistance provided directly to a user of a mass transit system in the form of a voucher provided to the user by the local public body for use in payment of a fare, or a portion of a fare, for a trip taken on an urban transit system.(12) "Welfare recipient" means an individual who has received assistance under a State or tribal program funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, 42 USC 601 et seq., at any time during the previous three-year period.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation Trans 4.02
Cr. Register, November, 1978, No. 275, eff. 12-1-78; am. (1), (3) and (6), Register, May, 1982, No. 317, eff. 6-1-82; renum. (3) to (6) to be (10), (3), (9) and (8) and am. (3), cr. (4) to (7) and (11), Register, October, 1986, No. 370, eff. 11-1-86; am. (9), Register, August, 1989, No. 404, eff. 9-1-89; r. and recr. (9), Register, December, 1989, No. 408, eff. 1-1-90; cr. (intro.), am. (1), (3) and (8), Register, April, 1993, No. 448, eff. 5-1-93; renum. (1) to be (1m) and cr. (1), (1r), (5m), (6m) and (8m), Register, November, 2000, No. 539, eff. 12-1-00; correction in (2) (c) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 7, Stats., Register March 2012 No. 675.Amended by, CR 18-065: renum. (1) to (1d), cr. (1), (1h), (1p), renum. (1r) to (1t) and am., am. (2) (intro.), (a), (b), cr. (2m), r. and recr. (3), cr. (3g), (3r), am. (4), cr. (4g), (4r), am. (5m), (7), (8m), cr. (10g), (10r), am. (11), cr. (12) Register October 2020 No. 778, eff. 11-1-20; renum. (1h) to (1o) under s. 13.92(4) (b) 1, Stats., Register October 2020 No. 778; correction in (2) (a) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register October 2020 No. 778, eff. 11/1/2020Amended by, CR 22-048: am. (8) Register July 2023 No. 811, eff. 8/1/2023