1995 Wisconsin Act 311

  Date of enactment: May 1, 1996
1995 Assembly Bill 584   Date of publication*: May 15, 1996

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1993-94: 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].

1995 WISCONSIN ACT 311

An Act to create 87.30 (1g) of the statutes; relating to: the regulation of floodproofed residential basements under floodplain zoning ordinances.

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

311,1 Section 1 . 87.30 (1g) of the statutes is created to read:

87.30 (1g) Regulation of floodproofed basements. The department may not promulgate any rule or impose any restriction that does any of the following:

(a) Results in an ordinance or other regulation containing provisions for floodproofed residential basements that are more restrictive than those imposed by the federal emergency management agency.

(b) Allows the department to deny an exception for such basements if the federal emergency management agency has granted an exception under 44 CFR 60.6.

311,2 Section 2 . Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to floodplain zoning ordinances on the effective date of this subsection regardless of when the floodplain zoning ordinances were enacted.