SB154: Bill Text

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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE

2005 Senate BILL 154

April 1, 2005 - Introduced by Senators Breske and Grothman, cosponsored by Representatives Suder, Sheridan and Hines. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources and Transportation.

SB154,1,3 An Act to repeal 348.07 (2) (im); and to amend 348.07 (1) of the statutes; relating to: allowing two-vehicle combinations of a certain length to operate on a highway without a permit.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, with limited exceptions, no person may operate on a highway any single vehicle with an overall length in excess of 40 feet or any combination of two vehicles with an overall length in excess of 65 feet, unless the person has a permit to exceed these lengths. An exception allows a two-vehicle combination transporting livestock that is not more than 75 feet in total length to be operated without a permit if certain requirements are met.

This bill increases, from 65 feet to 75 feet, the maximum overall length of a two-vehicle combination that may be operated on a highway without a permit, and eliminates the specific requirements applicable to two-vehicle combinations transporting livestock.

For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

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

SB154, s. 1 Section 1. 348.07 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB154,2,4 348.07 (1) No person, without a permit therefor, may operate on a highway any single vehicle with an overall length in excess of 40 feet or any combination of 2 vehicles with an overall length in excess of 65 75 feet, except as otherwise provided in subs. (2) and (2a).

SB154, s. 2 Section 2. 348.07 (2) (im) of the statutes is repealed.

SB154, s. 3 Section 3. Initial applicability.

SB154,2,9 (1) This act first applies to violations under section 348.07 (1) of the statutes committed on the effective date of this subsection, but does not preclude the counting of other violations as prior violations for purposes of sentencing a person.

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