1997 Wisconsin Act 267

  Date of enactment: June 10, 1998
1997 Assembly Bill 436   Date of publication*: June 24, 1998

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1995-96: 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].

1997 WISCONSIN ACT 267

An Act to renumber 350.03; and to create 350.01 (11m) and 350.03 (2) of the statutes; relating to: operation of snowmobiles in proximity to persons not on snowmobiles.

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

267,1 Section 1 . 350.01 (11m) of the statutes is created to read:

350.01 (11m) “Sanctioned race or derby" means a competitive snowmobile event sponsored by a county, town, city or village, by a promoter, by a chamber of commerce or by a snowmobile club or other similar organization.

267,2 Section 2 . 350.03 of the statutes is renumbered 350.03 (1).

267,3 Section 3 . 350.03 (2) of the statutes is created to read:

350.03 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:

(a) The operator of a snowmobile on a privately owned raceway facility.

(b) The operator of a snowmobile in a sanctioned race or derby on public land, a highway or a snowmobile trail if the sponsor of the sanctioned race or derby marks the race or derby route or track to warn spectators from entering the route or track. In this paragraph, “public land" does not include the frozen surface of public waters.