AB925: Bill Text

AB925,24,9 340.01 (3) (i) Such Privately owned ambulances which are privately owned and that are operated by their owners or by their owners' agents and which vehicles that are authorized in writing by the sheriff or others designated by the county board to be operated as emergency vehicles. The sheriff or others designated by the county board may make such authorization which shall be in writing and which shall be The authorization is effective throughout the state until rescinded. The sheriff or others designated by the county board may designate any owner of ambulances usually kept in the county to operate such vehicles those ambulances as authorized emergency vehicles. Such The written authorization shall at all times be carried on each ambulance used for emergency purposes. The sheriff shall keep a file of such authorizations made under this paragraph in the sheriff's office for public inspection, and all other persons permitted to issue authorizations under this paragraph shall file a copy of all authorizations issued with the sheriff who shall keep them on file.

Note: Reorders text for improved readability; changes disfavored terms and inserts cross-references consistent with current style.

AB925, s. 44 Section 44. 341.05 (intro.) and (1) to (25) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB925,24,13 341.05 When vehicles exempt from registration. (intro.) A vehicle, even though operated upon a highway of this state, is exempt from registration when such vehicle if any of the following applies:

AB925,24,16 (1) Is The vehicle is operated in accordance with the provisions relating to registration of dealers, distributors, manufacturers, transporters or finance companies; or.

AB925,24,18 (2) Is The vehicle is operated in accordance with the provisions exempting nonresident or foreign-registered vehicles from registration; or.

AB925,24,19 (3) Is The vehicle is operated in accordance with s. 341.405.

AB925,24,20 (6) Is The vehicle is operated exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; or.

AB925,24,23 (7) Is The vehicle is a farm tractor used exclusively in agricultural operations, including threshing, or used exclusively to provide power to drive other machinery, or to transport from job to job machinery driven by such a farm tractor; or.

AB925,25,3 (9) Is The vehicle is a trailer or semitrailer used exclusively for the transportation of farm machinery, implements, produce or supplies on a farm or between farms; or.

AB925,25,6 (11) Is The vehicle is a trailer or semitrailer permanently equipped with a well-drilling outfit or designed for moving pea viners and used exclusively for either of such those purposes; or.

AB925,25,9 (12) Is The vehicle is a fork-lift truck, a specially constructed road or truck tractor used for shunting trailers or semitrailers in terminal areas or a trailer which that is used principally off the highway; or.

AB925,25,11 (13m) Is The vehicle is a trailer or, semitrailer or camping trailer having a gross weight of 3,000 pounds or less and not used for hire or rental ; or.

AB925,25,13 (14) Is The vehicle is a trailer or semitrailer not operated in conjunction with a motor vehicle; or.

AB925,25,15 (14m) Is The vehicle is a new motor vehicle being operated only across a highway from its point of manufacture or assembly.

AB925,25,18 (15) Is The vehicle is a motor vehicle being towed, except that when the person operating the vehicle supplying the motive power is a transporter, that person must be registered as a transporter; or.

AB925,25,19 (16) Is The vehicle is a piece of road machinery.

AB925,25,20 (17) Is The vehicle is an implement of husbandry.

AB925,25,22 (18) Is The vehicle is a motor truck which that is operated upon a highway only when directly crossing such the highway.

AB925,25,25 (19) Is The vehicle is a repaired salvage vehicle operated to or from a location where it is to be inspected as required by s. 342.07, or is an unregistered vehicle operated to or from a location where it is to be inspected as required by s. 110.20.

AB925,26,6 (19m) Is The vehicle is owned by a technical college district board, used exclusively to instruct students in techniques of automotive repair and maintenance and is operated only within 5 miles of the technical college to transport the vehicle to or from a technical college. The operator of the vehicle shall, when operating the vehicle upon a highway, carry in the vehicle a letter from the district director of the technical college stating that the vehicle is exempt from registration.

AB925,26,10 (20) Is The vehicle is an amphibious motor vehicle capable of carrying 10 or more passengers when used for sight-seeing purposes, registered as a boat with the department of natural resources and operated upon a highway for a distance not to exceed 2 miles.

AB925,26,11 (21) Is The vehicle is owned by the United States.

AB925,26,14 (22) Is The vehicle is registered by a federally recognized Indian band or tribe and is exempt under a reciprocal registration exemption agreement under s. 341.409.

AB925,26,15 (23) Is The vehicle is a motor bicycle or bicycle, except as provided in s. 349.18.

AB925,26,17 (24) Is The vehicle is a golf cart being operated in accordance with s. 349.18 (1) (b) or (c).

AB925,26,19 (25) Is The vehicle is a wood harvesting slasher, as defined by the department by rule, that is used principally off the highway.

Note: Amends section (intro.) for conformity with current style for (intro.) provisions and the subsequent subsections for conformity therewith. Disfavored terms and improperly used "that" are replaced and punctuation is amended for internal consistency and conformity with current style.

AB925, s. 45 Section 45. 341.05 (26) of the statutes, as created by 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, is amended to read:

AB925,26,23 341.05 (26) (a) Is The vehicle is a mobile home, as defined in s. 101.91 (2e), or a manufactured home, as defined in s. 101.91 (2).

AB925,27,6 (b) Is The vehicle is a structure that is transportable in one or more sections and that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, if the structure's manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the secretary of the U.S. department of housing and urban development and complies with regulations established under 42 USC 5401 to 5425.

Note: This amendment conforms to style change made to the rest of this section by this bill.

AB925, s. 46 Section 46. 341.10 (14) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,27,10 341.10 (14) After December 31, 1993, the The vehicle has a mobile air conditioner, as defined in s. 100.45 (1) (b), the distribution of which in this state would be prohibited under s. 100.45 (2).

Note: Eliminates obsolete provision.

AB925, s. 47 Section 47. 341.26 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,27,16 341.26 (2) Five-dollar fee for 5-year registration of certain vehicles. (intro.) A registration under this subsection expires on December 31 every 5th year. The first 5-year registration period under this subsection terminates on December 31, 1993. A registration fee of $5 shall be paid to the department for the registration of each of the following vehicles:

Note: Eliminates obsolete provision.

AB925, s. 48 Section 48. 341.41 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,27,20 341.41 (2) A nonresident operating a vehicle in this state is not exempt by virtue of any reciprocity agreement entered into pursuant to sub. (1) unless all of the following requirements are met:

AB925,28,3 (a) The vehicle is properly registered in the jurisdiction of the residence of its owner, its domicile, or the principal place of business of its owner or is registered on a proportional registration basis pursuant to an interstate compact ; and.

AB925,28,5 (b) The vehicle has conspicuously displayed upon it a valid registration plate; and.

AB925,28,7 (c) The operator of the vehicle has in his or her possession a valid registration certificate or other evidence that the vehicle is properly registered ; and.

Note: Amends section (intro.) for conformity with current style for (intro.) provisions. Punctuation is amended for internal consistency and conformity with current style.

AB925, s. 49 Section 49. 343.315 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,28,12 343.315 (4) Notification. Beginning on April 1, 1992, the The department shall send the notice of disqualification by 1st class mail to a person's last-known residence address. This subsection does not apply to disqualifications under sub. (2) (g).

Note: Eliminates obsolete provision.

AB925, s. 50 Section 50. 343.50 (6) (title) of the statutes is created to read:

AB925,28,14 343.50 (6) (title) Renewal.

Note: The other subsections of s. 343.50 have titles.

AB925, s. 51 Section 51. 345.05 (1) (c) of the statutes, as affected by 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, is amended to read:

AB925,28,20 345.05 (1) (c) "Municipality" means any county, city, village, town, school district as enumerated in s. 67.01 (5), sewer district, drainage district, commission formed by a contract under s. 66.30 (2) and, without restriction because of failure of enumeration, any other political subdivision of the state.

Note: Prior to 1985 Wis. Act 225, s. 67.01 (5) listed 3 types of school districts. That act replaced the enumerated school district types with a single reference to "school district" but did not amend this provision accordingly.

AB925, s. 52 Section 52. 346.52 (1) (intro.) and (a) to (h) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB925,29,4 346.52 (1) (intro.) No person shall may stop or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended and whether temporarily or otherwise, in any of the following places:

AB925,29,5 (a) Within an intersection;.

AB925,29,6 (b) On a crosswalk;.

AB925,29,9 (c) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb, or within 15 feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the end of a safety zone unless a different distance is clearly indicated by an official traffic sign or marker or parking meter;.

AB925,29,12 (d) On a sidewalk or sidewalk area, except when parking in such place on the sidewalk or sidewalk area is clearly indicated by official traffic signs or markers or parking meters;.

AB925,29,15 (e) Alongside or opposite any highway excavation or obstruction when such stopping or standing at that place would obstruct traffic or when pedestrian traffic would be required to travel in the roadway;.

AB925,29,17 (f) On the roadway side of any parked vehicle unless double parking is clearly indicated by official traffic signs or markers;.

AB925,29,19 (g) Within 15 feet of the driveway entrance to a fire station or directly across the highway from such a fire station entrance;.

AB925,29,22 (h) Upon any portion of a highway where, and at the time when, stopping or standing is prohibited by official traffic signs indicating the prohibition of any stopping or standing.

Note: Replaces improperly used "shall" in the negation in the subsection (intro.), adds commas in par. (h) for clarity and replaces disfavored terms and punctuation for internal consistency and consistency with current style.

AB925, s. 53 Section 53. 346.53 (1) to (5) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB925,30,1 346.53 (1) In a loading zone; .

AB925,30,2 (2) In an alley in a business district; .

AB925,30,4 (3) Within 10 feet of a fire hydrant, unless a greater distance is indicated by an official traffic sign;.

AB925,30,5 (4) Within 4 feet of the entrance to an alley or a private road or driveway;.

AB925,30,6 (5) Closer than 15 feet to the near limits of a crosswalk;.

Note: Replaces punctuation for internal consistency and consistency with current style.

AB925, s. 54 Section 54. 346.54 (1) (a) and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB925,30,11 346.54 (1) (a) Upon a street where traffic is permitted to move in both directions simultaneously and where angle parking is not clearly designated by official traffic signs or markers, a vehicle must be parked parallel to the edge of the street, headed in the direction of traffic on the right side of the street;.

AB925,30,14 (b) Upon a one-way street or divided street where parking on the left side of the roadway is clearly authorized by official traffic signs or markers, vehicles shall may be parked only as indicated by such the signs or markers;.

Note: Replaces punctuation for internal consistency and consistency with current style. Clarifies language consistent with current style.

AB925, s. 55 Section 55 . 346.58 of the statutes is renumbered 346.58 (1) and amended to read:

AB925,30,19 346.58 (1) In addition to complying with other speed restrictions imposed by law, no person shall drive any of the following types of vehicles at a speed in excess of the limits fixed by this section:

AB925,30,22 (a) 15 miles per hour for any vehicle equipped with metal or solid rubber tires. "Metal tire" means a tire the surface of which in contact with the highway is wholly or partially of metal or other hard, nonresilient material; "solid.

AB925,31,2 (b) "Solid rubber tire" means a tire made of rubber but not inflated with compressed air.

Note: See the note to the treatment of s. 346.58 (2) by this bill.

AB925, s. 56 Section 56 . 346.58 (2) of the statutes is created to read:

AB925,31,6 346.58 (2) In addition to complying with other speed restrictions imposed by law, no person may drive any vehicle equipped with metal tires or solid rubber tires at a speed in excess 15 miles per hour.

Note: Text is reorganized to move definitions to the beginning of the section and to reflect the fact that there is only one restriction currently under this section.

AB925, s. 57 Section 57. 346.63 (2) (a) 3. of the statutes is renumbered 346.63 (2) (am) and amended to read:

AB925,31,17 346.63 (2) (am) A person may be charged with and a prosecutor may proceed upon a complaint based upon a violation of subd. par. (a) 1. or 2. or both for acts arising out of the same incident or occurrence. If the person is charged with violating both subds. par. (a) 1. and 2. in the complaint, the crimes shall be joined under s. 971.12. If the person is found guilty of both subds. par. (a) 1. and 2. for acts arising out of the same incident or occurrence, there shall be a single conviction for purposes of sentencing and for purposes of counting convictions under ss. 343.30 (1q) and 343.305. Subdivisions Paragraph (a) 1. and 2. each require proof of a fact for conviction which the other does not require.

Note: The subject matter of this paragraph does not fit within the series under s. 343.63 (2) (a) (intro.) and is grammatically incompatible with sub. (2) (a) (intro.). Changes cross-references to accommodate renumbering.

AB925, s. 58 Section 58. 347.02 (1) (a) to (d) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB925,31,19 347.02 (1) (a) Farm tractors and self-propelled farm implements;.

AB925,31,20 (b) Implements of husbandry;.