2001 Wisconsin Act 49

Date of enactment: April 2, 2002
2001 Assembly Bill 249 Date of publication*: April 16, 2002

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1999-00 : 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].

2001 WISCONSIN ACT 49

An Act to amend 125.51 (4) (b) (intro.); and to create 125.51 (4) (c) and (d) of the statutes; relating to: the effect of annexation or detachment of territory on a municipality's quota of "Class B" intoxicating liquor licenses.

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

49,1 Section 1. 125.51 (4) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

125.51 (4) (b) (intro.) The Except as provided in pars. (c) and (d), the quota of each municipality is the sum of the following:

49,2 Section 2. 125.51 (4) (c) and (d) of the statutes are created to read:

125.51 (4) (c) If territory containing premises covered by a license or reserve "Class B" license is annexed to a municipality and if the municipality's quota would not otherwise allow a license or reserve "Class B" license for the premises, the quota is increased to include the license or reserve "Class B" license of each premises in the annexed territory.

(d) Detachment of territory decreases the quota of the remainder of the municipality by the number of licenses or reserve "Class B" licenses issued for premises in the detached territory, except that detachment does not decrease the quota of the remainder to less than one license per 500 persons or less than one license.

49,3 Section 3. Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to territory annexed or detached on the effective date of this subsection.