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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
February 28, 2006 - Introduced by Representative Loeffelholz, cosponsored by
Senator Schultz, by request of Jim Muench. Referred to Committee on Rural
Development.
AB1079,1,3
1An Act to amend 23.33 (4) (c) (title); and
to create 23.33 (4) (c) 3. and 23.33 (11)
2(ag) of the statutes;
relating to: allowing all-terrain vehicles on highways for
3the purpose of plowing snow.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, no person may operate an all-terrain vehicle upon any part
of any freeway that is a part of the federal system of interstate and defense highways
or upon any part of any other highway except for limited operations such as crossing
a highway between trails. There are limited exceptions that allow a person to
operate an all-terrain vehicle on a closed highway during a special event or for
certain municipal, state, and utility operations.
This bill allows a county, town, city, or village to allow a person to operate an
all-terrain vehicle on a highway for the purpose of removing snow. In order to
operate an all-terrain vehicle on a highway, a person must have a snowplow attached
to his or her all-terrain vehicle and there must be an accumulation of snow on the
ground.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB1079, s. 1
4Section
1. 23.33 (4) (c) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB1079,2,2
123.33
(4) (c) (title)
Exceptions; municipal, state and utility operations; races and
2derbies; snow removal; land surveying operations.
AB1079, s. 2
3Section
2. 23.33 (4) (c) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
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23.33
(4) (c) 3. Paragraph (b) does not apply to the operator of an all-terrain
5vehicle who is engaged in snow removal in a county, town, city, or village that has
6passed an ordinance under sub. (11) (ag).
AB1079, s. 3
7Section
3. 23.33 (11) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:
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23.33
(11) (ag) A county, town, city, or village may enact an ordinance that
9allows a person to operate an all-terrain vehicle on a highway for the purpose of
10removing snow. An ordinance enacted under this subsection may allow the operation
11of an all-terrain vehicle on a highway only when there is accumulated snowfall on
12the ground and only if the all-terrain vehicle has an attached snowplow.
