2003 Wisconsin Act 248

Date of enactment: April 13, 2004
2003 Assembly Bill 530 Date of publication*: April 27, 2004

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2001-02 : 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].

2003 WISCONSIN ACT 248

An Act to create 30.26 (4) of the statutes; relating to: suspending the Department of Natural Resources rule related to limits on bridges over wild rivers.

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

248,1 Section 1. 30.26 (4) of the statutes is created to read:

30.26 (4) Restriction on department. (a) The department may not prohibit the crossing of a bridge over a wild river by an all-terrain vehicle traveling on an all-terrain vehicle trail, as defined under s. 23.33 (1) (d), or by a snowmobile traveling on a snowmobile trail, as defined under s. 350.01 (17) that is constructed in any of the following locations:

1. Along the Nicolet State Trail where the trail crosses the existing railroad trestle over the Pine River and the Popple River.

3. In Florence County along County Highway N where the trail would cross the Pine River.

(b) The state shall permit all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles to travel in a corridor across any state land that separates an all-terrain vehicle trail or a snowmobile trail and the bridges constructed at the locations listed under par. (a).