27.01 (7) (gm) 1. Notwithstanding
Instead of the fees under pars. (f) 1. and (g) 1., the department shall charge an individual 50% of the applicable fee under par. (f) 1. or (g) 1. $8.50 or $12, respectively, for an annual vehicle admission sticker receipt if the individual applying for the sticker receipt or a member of his or her household owns a vehicle for which a current annual vehicle admission sticker receipt has been issued for the applicable fee under par. (f) 1. or (g) 1.
27,939
Section 939
. 27.01 (7) (gm) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
27,940
Section 940
. 27.01 (7) (gm) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
27.01 (7) (gm) 3. Notwithstanding par. (f) 1., the fee for an annual vehicle admission sticker receipt for a vehicle that has Wisconsin registration plates and that is owned by a resident senior citizen, as defined in s. 29.01 (12m), is $9 $8.50.
27,941
Section 941
. 27.01 (7) (gm) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
27.01 (7) (gm) 4. Notwithstanding par. (f) 2., the fee for a daily vehicle admission sticker receipt for a vehicle that has Wisconsin registration plates and that is owned by a resident senior citizen, as defined in s. 29.01 (12m), is $3 $2.85.
27,942
Section 942
. 27.01 (7) (gr) of the statutes is created to read:
27.01 (7) (gr) Issuing fees. The department shall collect an issuing fee of 50 cents for each annual vehicle admission receipt issued and an issuing fee of 15 cents for each daily vehicle admission receipt issued.
27,943
Section 943
. 27.01 (7) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
27.01 (7) (h) (title) Use of vehicle admission sticker receipt and issuing fees. All moneys collected from the sale of annual vehicle admission stickers and daily vehicle admission stickers as fees under pars. (g) to (gr) and sub. (7m) (b) that are not retained by agents appointed under sub. (7m) (a) shall be paid within one week into the state treasury, credited to the conservation fund and used for state parks, state recreation areas, recreation areas in state forests and the Bong area lands.
27,944
Section 944
. 27.01 (7m) of the statutes is created to read:
27.01 (7m) Collection; agents; vehicle admission and issuing fees. (a) The department may appoint agents who are not employes of the department to issue vehicle admission receipts and collect the vehicle admission fees under sub. (7).
(b) An agent appointed under par. (a) shall collect the applicable issuing fee specified in sub. (7) (gr). The agent may retain the issuing fees to compensate the agent for the agent's services in issuing the receipts.
(c) The department may promulgate rules regulating the activities of persons who are authorized as agents under this subsection.
27,945
Section 945
. 27.01 (8m) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
27.01 (8m) (title) Collection; agents
; Heritage Hill State Park; state trails.
27,946
Section 946
. 27.01 (8m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
27.01 (8m) (c) The department shall regulate may promulgate rules regulating the activities of agents under this subsection in a manner similar to s. 29.09.
27,947
Section 947
. 27.01 (11) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
27.01 (11) (a) Authorization. The department may establish and operate a campground reservation system at any of the state parks or for state forest campgrounds and in state parks, state forests and other lands under the department's supervision and control. The department may participate with owners of private campgrounds in a cooperative reservation system.
27,948
Section 948
. 27.01 (11) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
27.01 (11) (b) Rules. The department shall promulgate rules for the operation of the campground reservation system. The rules shall include all of the following:
1. The authority to refuse to accept campground reservation applications before a certain date or to treat applications received before that date as if they had been made on that date.
2. The authority to give reservations for each year until all of the available sites in a campground that are open for reservations for a given date have been reserved.
27,948m
Section 948m. 27.01 (11) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:
27.01 (11) (cm) Contracts. 1. The department may enter into a contract with another party to operate the campground reservation system that the department establishes under par. (a).
Before entering into such a contract, the department shall first notify the joint committee on finance in writing of the proposed contract. If the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the department within 14 working days after the date of the department's notification that the committee has scheduled a meeting to review the proposed contract, the department may enter into the proposed contract. If, within 14 working days after the date of the department's notification, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the department that the committee has scheduled a meeting to review the proposed contract, the department may enter into the proposed contract only upon approval of the committee.
2. A contract entered into under this paragraph shall require that the department retain $1 of each reservation fee collected.
27,949
Section 949
. 27.01 (11) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
27,950
Section 950
. 27.01 (11) (e) of the statutes is repealed.
27,951
Section 951
. 27.01 (11) (f) of the statutes is repealed.
27,952
Section 952
. 27.01 (11) (g) of the statutes is repealed.
27,953
Section 953
. 27.01 (11) (h) of the statutes is repealed.
27,953m
Section 953m. 27.012 of the statutes is created to read:
27.012 Mountain Bay State Trail. The department shall expend up to $333,000 from the appropriations under s. 20.370 (1) (ea), (eq), (mu) and (my) for the completion of the Mountain Bay State Trail in Shawano County and for the maintenance of trail crossings for the Mountain Bay State Trail in Brown, Oconto, Shawano and Marathon counties. The department shall determine how the moneys to be expended under this section shall be allocated from one or more of these appropriations.
27,954mm
Section 954mm. 27.014 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 27.014 (1m), and 27.014 (1m) (a), as renumbered, is amended to read:
27.014 (1m) (a) If the department finds a vehicle in a vehicle admission area, as defined in s. 27.01 (7) (a) 3., that does not have a valid sticker receipt affixed to it or otherwise displayed as authorized under s. 27.01 (7) (e) and the department cannot locate the operator of the vehicle, the owner of the vehicle shall be presumed liable for a violation of s. 27.01 (7) (b).
27,955m
Section 955m. 27.014 (1c) of the statutes is created to read:
27.014 (1c) Definition. In this section, with respect to a vehicle that is registered, or is required to be registered, by a lessee of the vehicle under ch. 341, “owner" means the lessee of the vehicle.
27,956m
Section 956m. 27.014 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
27.014 (2) Defenses. (intro.) The following are defenses to the imposition of liability under sub. (1)
(1m):
27,957m
Section 957m. 27.014 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
27.014 (2) (b) If the owner of the vehicle provides the department with the name and address of the person operating the vehicle or having the vehicle under his or her control at the time of the violation and sufficient information for the department to determine that probable cause does not exist to believe that the owner of the vehicle was operating the vehicle at the time of the violation, then the owner of the vehicle shall not be liable under sub. (1) (1m) or s. 27.01 (7) (b).
27,958m
Section 958m. 27.014 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
27.014 (2) (c) If the vehicle is owned by a lessor of vehicles and at the time of the violation the vehicle was in the possession of a lessee, and the lessor provides the department with the information required under s. 343.46 (3), then the lessee and not the lessor shall be liable under sub. (1) (1m) or s. 27.01 (7) (b).
27,959m
Section 959m. 27.014 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
27.014 (2) (d) If the vehicle is owned by a dealer, as defined in s. 340.01 (11) (intro.) but including the persons specified in s. 340.01 (11) (a) to (d), and at the time of the violation the vehicle was being operated by or was under the control of any person on a trial run, and if the dealer provides the department with the name, address and operator's license number of the person operating the vehicle, then that person, and not the dealer, shall be liable under sub. (1) (1m) or s. 27.01 (7) (b).
27,960
Section 960
. 27.065 (10) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
27.065 (10) (a) The special improvement bonds herein mentioned shall be equal liens against all lots, parts of lots or parcels of land against which special assessments have been made, without priority one over another, which liens shall take precedence of all other claims or liens thereon, except a lien under s. 292.31 (8) (i), 292.41 (6) (d) or 292.81, and when issued shall transfer to the holders thereof all the right, title and interest of such county in and to the assessment made on account of the improvement mentioned therein and the liens thereby created, with full power to enforce the collection thereof by foreclosure in the manner mortgages on real estate are foreclosed. The time of redemption therefrom shall be fixed by the court, and a copy of the bond foreclosed may be filed as a part of the judgment roll in said action in lieu of the original thereof.
27,960g
Section 960g. 28.02 (4) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:
28.02 (4) (bm) Paragraph (b) does not apply to sales under s. 23.15 (2r).
27,960mn
Section 960mn. 29.01 (2s) of the statutes is created to read:
29.01 (2s) “Farm-raised fish" means a fish that is kept on a fish farm for propagation purposes or reared on a fish farm and that has not been introduced, stocked or planted into waters outside a fish farm or that has not escaped from a fish farm.
27,960np
Section 960np. 29.01 (2w) of the statutes is created to read:
29.01 (2w) “Fish farm" has the meaning given in s. 95.60 (1) (a), except that “fish farm" does not include a state or municipal fish hatchery or a private fishing preserve.
27,960p
Section 960p. 29.01 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
29.01 (3) “Fishing" includes taking, capturing, killing, or fishing for fish of any variety in any manner but does not include taking, capturing, killing or fishing for farm-raised fish. When the word “fish" is used as a verb, it shall have the same meaning as the word “fishing" as defined herein.
27,960qg
Section 960qg. 29.01 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:
29.01 (3m) “Freeze-out pond" means a natural, self-contained body of water in which freezing or anoxic conditions prevent the body of water from naturally sustaining a fish population at least twice every 5 years.
27,960qj
Section 960qj. 29.01 (11c) of the statutes is created to read:
29.01 (11c) “Preexisting fish rearing facility" means a body of water that is a fish farm or part of a fish farm and that is not a self-contained body of water but that was licensed as a private fish hatchery, or as part of a private fish hatchery, under s. 29.52, 1995 stats., on the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date] and that has been continuously used to rear fish since that date.
27,960qL
Section 960qL. 29.01 (11d) of the statutes is created to read:
29.01 (11d) “Preexisting fish rearing facility that is barrier equipped" means a preexisting fish rearing facility that is equipped with barriers that prevent the passage of fish between the facility and the other waters of the state.
27,960qm
Section 960qm. 29.01 (12p) of the statutes is created to read:
29.01 (12p) “Self-contained body of water" means a body of water that has no inlet from or outlet to a natural body of water, except that it may have pipes or similar conduits to put in or withdraw water that are equipped with barriers that prevent the passage of fish between the body of water and the other waters of the state.
27,960qr
Section 960qr. 29.01 (12r) of the statutes is created to read:
29.01 (12r) “Self-contained fish rearing facility" means any of the following:
(a) An artificial, self-contained body of water that is a fish farm or part of a fish farm.
(b) A freeze-out pond for which a permit is issued under s. 29.521 (2).
27,960r
Section 960r. 29.02 (3m) of the statutes is amended to read:
29.02 (3m) This section does not permit the seizure by the department, or prohibit the possession or sale, of farm-raised deer or farm-raised fish.
27,967m
Section 967m. 29.087 of the statutes is created to read:
29.087 Agreements to retire licenses. (1) Beginning on the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], the department may not enter into any agreement to make payments to persons holding approvals issued under s. 29.134, 29.135, 29.136, 29.137, 29.165, 29.166, 29.17, 29.33, 29.34, 29.343, 29.344, 29.36, 29.37, 29.38, 29.52, 29.544, 29.547, 29.573, 29.574, 29.575, 29.578 or 29.585 in exchange for the retirement of the approval or for the temporary or permanent cessation of any activity authorized under the approval.
(2) Notwithstanding sub. (1), an agreement entered into by the department before the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], to make payments to persons holding commercial fishing licenses in exchange for the retirement of the licenses or for the permanent or temporary cessation of commercial fishing shall remain valid except that no moneys may be expended from the conservation fund to make payments under the agreement.
27,967n
Section 967n. 29.087 (1) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:
29.087 (1) Beginning on the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], the department may not enter into any agreement to make payments to persons holding approvals issued under s. 29.134, 29.135, 29.136, 29.137, 29.165, 29.166, 29.17, 29.33, 29.34, 29.343, 29.344, 29.36, 29.37, 29.38, 29.52, 29.544, 29.547, 29.573, 29.574, 29.575, 29.578 or 29.585 in exchange for the retirement of the approval or for the temporary or permanent cessation of any activity authorized under the approval.
27,968
Section 968
. 29.09 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:
29.09 (1m) Conditions and restrictions on licenses and other approvals. A hunting, trapping or fishing approval may be issued only to and obtained only by a natural person entitled to the approval. Except as provided under sub. (12) (a), a resident hunting, trapping or fishing approval may be issued only to a person who presents to the county clerk or issuing agent
or the department definite proof of his or her identity and that he or she is a resident. No more than one of the same series of approval may be issued to the same person in any year. Except as provided under s. 29.33 (2) (d), no person may transfer his or her approval or permit the use of any approval by any other person and no person while hunting, trapping or fishing may use or carry any approval issued to another person. No Except as authorized by rules promulgated under sub. (3m) (a) 2., no person may obtain a hunting, trapping or fishing approval for another person. No approval authorizing hunting may be issued to any person who is prohibited from obtaining this type of approval under s. 29.226 or 29.227 (1) (c).
27,969
Section 969
. 29.09 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
29.09 (3) (a) Date; expiration. Each license or stamp issued under this chapter shall state for what period the license or stamp is effective and the date of expiration.
27,970
Section 970
. 29.09 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:
29.09 (3m) Forms of approvals. (a) Department rules. The department shall promulgate rules regulating the issuance of approvals. The rules shall include all of the following:
1. The signature requirements, if any, for each type of approval.
2. The conditions, if any, under which a person may be issued an approval for another person.
3. The authorized forms for stamps, which may include facsimiles, and the methods of attaching stamps to or imprinting stamps on other approvals issued under this chapter.
27,971
Section 971
. 29.09 (3r) of the statutes is created to read:
29.09 (3r) Issuance of approvals by department and by agents. (a) In issuing approvals under this section, the department may do any of the following for each type of approval:
1. Directly issue the approvals.
2. Appoint, as an agent of the department, the clerk of one or more counties to issue the approvals.
3. Appoint persons who are not employes of the department to issue the approvals as agents of the department.
