AB1183: Bill Text

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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE

2005 Assembly BILL 1183

April 18, 2006 - Introduced by Representatives Friske, Ainsworth, Davis, Jeskewitz, Lehman, Montgomery, Musser, Ott, Petrowski, Pridemore, Seidel, Van Roy and M. Williams, cosponsored by Senators Breske and Decker. Referred to Committee on Urban and Local Affairs.

AB1183,1,3 An Act to create 84.1024 of the statutes; relating to: designating and marking a bridge across the Wisconsin River in the city of Tomahawk as Veterans Memorial Bridge.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, certain highway routes and bridges have been designated and marked to memorialize, commemorate, or recognize certain individuals, groups, or events. This bill directs the Department of Transportation to designate and, upon receipt of sufficient contributions from interested parties, mark the 4th Street bridge across the Wisconsin River in the city of Tomahawk as "Veterans Memorial Bridge" as a living memorial to and in honor of all Wisconsin veterans, living and dead, of all wars in which the United States has engaged. No state funds, other than from contributions from interested parties, may be used for the erection or maintenance of any marker to identify the bridge as "Veterans Memorial Bridge."

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

AB1183, s. 1 Section 1. 84.1024 of the statutes is created to read:

AB1183,2,4 84.1024 Veterans Memorial Bridge. (1) The department shall designate and, subject to sub. (2), mark the 4th Street bridge, under the department's jurisdiction under s. 84.10 (1), on CTH "L" across the Wisconsin River in the city of Tomahawk in Lincoln County as "Veterans Memorial Bridge" as a living memorial to and in honor of all Wisconsin veterans, living and dead, of all wars in which the United States has engaged.

AB1183,2,11 (2) Upon receipt of sufficient contributions from interested parties, including any county, city, village, or town, to cover the costs of erecting and maintaining markers at the bridge specified in sub. (1) to clearly identify to motorists the designation of the bridge as "Veterans Memorial Bridge," the department shall erect and maintain the markers. No state funds, other than from the receipt of contributions under this subsection, may be expended for the erection or maintenance of the markers.

AB1183,2,12 (End)