2017 Wisconsin Act 171

  Date of enactment: March 28, 2018
2017 Assembly Bill 314   Date of publication*: March 29, 2018

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: 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."

2017 WISCONSIN ACT 171

An Act to create 167.31 (4) (j) of the statutes; relating to: authorizing hunting from a mechanized lift attached to a motor vehicle.

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

171,1 Section 1. 167.31 (4) (j) of the statutes is created to read:

167.31 (4) (j) Subsection (2) (b) and (c) does not apply to a person legally hunting from a stationary motor vehicle if the person is hunting from a part of the vehicle or a piece of equipment attached to the vehicle that is raised by mechanical means not fewer than 5 feet above the ground or above the lowered resting position of the part or piece of equipment, whichever is higher.

171,2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to a person hunting on the effective date of this subsection.