LRB-1876/P1
EVM:skw
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Aslesen, BB0534 - Quarry hours of operation
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
local government
Nonmetallic quarry hours of operation
The bill prohibits a political subdivision from limiting the times that activities related to extracting or processing minerals at a quarry occur if the minerals will be used in a public works project that requires nighttime construction or an emergency repair.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 66.0441 of the statutes is created to read:
66.0441 Quarry hours of operation.
(1) In this section:
(a) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county.
(b) “Public works project” means a federal, state, county, or municipal project that involves the construction, maintenance, or repair of a public transportation facility or other public infrastructure and in which nonmetallic minerals are used.
(c) “Quarry” means the surface area from which nonmetallic minerals, including soil, clay, sand, gravel, and construction aggregate, that are used for a public works project or a private construction or transportation project are extracted and processed.
(d) “Quarry operations” means the extraction and processing of minerals at a quarry and all related activities, including blasting, vehicle and equipment access to the quarry, and loading and hauling of material to and from the quarry.
(2) A political subdivision may not limit the times that quarry operations may occur if the materials produced by the quarry will be used in a public works project that requires construction work to be performed during the night or an emergency repair.
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