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30.43 Board duties. The board shall: (1) Review applications for permits under s. 30.44 (1) to (5) and issue permits for activities that comply with their applicable performance standards. (2) Review decisions under s. 30.44 (11). 30.435 Board powers. The board may: (1) Grant waivers under s. 30.44 (8) (c) and impose conditions under s: 30.44 (7) and (11) (d). (2) Issue general permits under s. 30.44 (1) (f). (3) Enter into contracts to carry out its duties and ,powers under ss. 30.40 to 30.49. ..(4) Employ staff outside the classified service in accordance with s. 16.505. (5) Inform or advise a municipality that has land located outside the riverway as to the impact the development of the land may have on the riverway. (6). Advise or make a recommendation to a city or village that has land adjacent to the riverway to encourage the city or village. to adopt ordinances or other rules or regulations that preserve the scenic value of that land. (7) Report to the legislature on the effectiveness of ss. 30.44 to 30.49. . (8) Advise the department on any conflict between the recreational use in the riverway and ss. 30.44 (1) to (5), 30.445 and 30.45 to 30A8. (9) Delegate to its staff' the power to: (a) Issue, grant waivers to and impose conditions on n permits, other than general permits. (b) Enter into contracts. 30.44 Permits. (1) STRUCTURES; MOBILE HOMES. (a) For purposes of this subsection, notwithstanding s. 30.40 (18), "structure" excludes boat shelters, boat- houses, bridges, dams, fishing rafts, fixed houseboats, piers, public access sites, stairways, swimming rafts, high-voltage transmission lines, utility facilities, walk- ways and wharves. (b) _A person shall apply for and receive a permit before starting any of the following activities on land in the riverway: 1. Construction of a structure, including clearing or grading the land for the structure. 2. Placement or replacement of a mobile home. 3. Modification of a structure or a mobile home. 4. Repair of a damaged structure or reconstruction of a destroyed structure unless exempt under par. (g). 5. Repair of a mobile home unless exempt under par. (g). (c) -A person may not be issued a permit for an activity in par. (b) on land that is visible from the river and that is in the riverway unless all of the following performance standards are met: 1. Sufficient vegetation exists on the land to allow the structure or mobile home to be visually inconspicuous. 2. The structure or mobile home shall not be higher than the surrounding vegetation during the time when the leaves are on the deciduous trees. 3. Visual impact shall be minimized by the use of exterior colors that harmonize with the surroundings and by the limited use of glass or other reflective mate- rials, except that a structure that is for agricultural use may be painted in a traditional manner in red or white. 4. The natural slope of the land shall be 12% or less. 5. The site of the structure or mobile home shall be at least 100 feet behind the top of the bluff or 100 feet below the top of the bluff. (d) A person may not be issued a permit for an activity in par. (b) on land that is not visible from the river and that is in the riverway unless the perform- ance standard in par. (e) is met. (e) The height of the structure or mobile home shall not result in its being visible from the river. (f) For land in the riverway that is not visible from the river and that is not zoned shorelands. the board may issue a general permit for an activity in par. (b) that is applicable to a designated area of the riverway, instead of requiring applications for individual per- mits for the activity under par. (b). A person engaging in an activity in par. (b) in an area for which a general permit has been issued for the activity shall comply with the performance standard in par. (e). (g) -Paragraphs (b) to (f) do not apply to the repair of a damaged structure or mobile home or to the reconstruction of a destroyed structure if all of the fol- lowing apply: 1. No municipal ordinance or other municipal reg- ulation prohibits the repair or reconstruction. 2. The repaired mobile home or the repaired or reconstructed structure will not be lareer in size or more visible from the river than it was immediately before it was damaged or destroyed. (2) WALKWAYS; STAIRWAYS. (a) A person shall apply for and receive a permit before starting any of the following activities on land in the riverway: 1. Construction of a stairway or walkway. 2. Modification of a stairway or walkway. 3. Repair of a damaged stairway or, walkway or reconstruction of a destroyed stairway or walkway unless exempt under par. (c). (b) A person may not be issued a permit for an activity in par. (a) unless the following performance standards are met: 1. The walkway or stairway shall be visually inconspicuous. 2. The walkway or stairway shall have sufficient safeguards to minimize erosion.