2007 Wisconsin Act 217

Date of enactment: April 7, 2008
2007 Assembly Bill 212 Date of publication*: April 21, 2008

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2005-06 : 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].

2007 WISCONSIN ACT 217

An Act to amend 1.10 (4); and to create 1.10 (3) (s) of the statutes; relating to: designating a state tartan.

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

217,1 Section 1. 1.10 (3) (s) of the statutes is created to read:

1.10 (3) (s) The tartan whose thread count is described in this paragraph is the state tartan. The thread count for the state tartan shall begin with 44 threads of muted blue, followed by 6 threads of scarlet, 4 threads of muted blue, 6 threads of gray, 28 threads of black, 40 threads of dark green, 4 threads of dark yellow, 40 threads of dark green, 28 threads of black, 22 threads of muted blue, and 12 threads of dark brown, at which point the weave reverses, going through 22 threads of muted blue, and continuing the sequence in reverse order until the weave reaches the beginning point of 44 threads of muted blue, at which point the weave reverses again.

217,2 Section 2. 1.10 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

1.10 (4) The Wisconsin Blue Book shall include the information contained in this section concerning the state song, ballad, waltz, dance, beverage, tree, grain, flower, bird, fish, animal, domestic animal, wildlife animal, dog, insect, fossil, mineral, rock, soil, and fruit, and tartan.