1995 Wisconsin Act 16

  Date of enactment: May 16, 1995
1995 Senate Bill 111   Date of publication*: May 30, 1995

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1993-94: 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].

1995 WISCONSIN ACT 16

An Act to amend 59.997 (7) of the statutes; relating to: adjustment of the date of the 1996 spring primary and election and presidential preference primary and certain other dates for election procedures.

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

16,1 Section 1 . 59.997 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:

59.997 (7) When the publication of the said consolidation agreement in each of the said counties is completed, of which the certificate to the judge of the circuit court of the said counties from the owner-editor or manager of each newspaper publishing the same shall be proof, the judge or judges of the circuit courts of the said counties shall, by order entered of record in each of such counties, require the several county clerks of the counties included in the consolidation agreement to submit such question to a vote of the qualified electors of such counties at the next election to be held on the first Tuesday in April, or the next regular election, or at a special election to be held on the day fixed in said order, which day shall be the same in each of the counties proposing to consolidate. A copy of said order shall be filed with the county clerk of each of such counties. If such question is submitted at a special election, it shall be held not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days from the completion of the consolidation agreement, but not within sixty days of any April spring or general election.

16,2 Section 2 . Nonstatutory provisions; 1996 spring primary and election and related events.

(1)  Notwithstanding the provisions of the statutes shown in Column A, for the period beginning on September 15, 1995, and ending on May 15, 1996, the dates for acts to be performed specified in Column B are the dates specified in Column C: - See PDF for table