1995 Wisconsin Act 397

  Date of enactment: June 6, 1996
1995 Senate Bill 590   Date of publication*: June 20, 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 397

An Act to create 30.725 of the statutes; relating to: placing and using boats and boating equipment, and placing boat trailers, with zebra mussels attached in the Lower St. Croix River.

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

397,1 Section 1 . 30.725 of the statutes is created to read:

30.725 Placement of boats, trailers and equipment; Lower St. Croix River. (1) No person may place or use a boat or boating equipment or place a boat trailer in the Lower St. Croix River if the person has reason to believe that the boat, boat trailer or boating equipment has zebra mussels attached.

(2) A law enforcement officer may order a person to do any of the following:

(a) Remove zebra mussels from a boat, boat trailer or boating equipment before placing it in the Lower St. Croix River.

(b) Remove or not place a boat, boat trailer or boating equipment in the Lower St. Croix River if the law enforcement officer has reason to believe that the boat, boat trailer or boating equipment has zebra mussels attached.

(3) No person may refuse to obey the order of a law enforcement officer who is acting under sub. (2).