1999 Wisconsin Act 66

Date of enactment: April 12, 2000
1999 Assembly Bill 2 Date of publication*: April 25, 2000

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1997-98: Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

1999 WISCONSIN ACT 66

An Act to amend 347.12 (1) (a) and (b) of the statutes; relating to: the use of high-beam headlamps on motor vehicles.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

66,1 Section 1. 347.12 (1) (a) and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:

347.12 (1) (a) Whenever the operator of a vehicle equipped with multiple-beam headlamps approaches an oncoming vehicle within 500 feet, the operator shall dim, depress or tilt the vehicle's headlights so that the glaring rays are not directed into the eyes of the operator of the other vehicle. This paragraph does not prohibit an operator from intermittently flashing the vehicle's high-beam headlamps at an oncoming vehicle whose high-beam headlamps are lit.

(b) Whenever the operator of a vehicle equipped with multiple-beam headlamps approaches or follows another vehicle within 500 feet to the rear, the operator shall dim, depress, or tilt the vehicle's headlights so that the glaring rays are not reflected into the eyes of the operator of the other vehicle. This paragraph does not prohibit an operator from intermittently flashing the vehicle's high-beam headlamps as provided under par. (a).

66,2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to the operation of motor vehicles occurring on the effective date of this subsection.