2017 Wisconsin Act 62

  Date of enactment: November 11, 2017
2017 Assembly Bill 455   Date of publication*: November 12, 2017

* 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 62

An Act to repeal 29.592 (3); to amend 29.324 (2) and 29.592 (1) (intro.); and to create 29.324 (5) of the statutes; relating to: age and hunting restrictions applicable to the hunting mentorship program.

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

62,1 Section 1. 29.324 (2) of the statutes, as affected by 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, is amended to read:

29.324 (2) Any Except as provided in sub. (5), any member of a group deer hunting party may kill a deer for another member of the group deer hunting party if at the time and place of the kill, the person who kills the deer is in contact with the person for whom the deer is killed.

62,2 Section 2 . 29.324 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

29.324 (5) No member of a group hunting party who is serving as a mentor under s. 29.592 for another member of the group hunting party may kill a deer for the person being mentored or use a deer approval issued to the person being mentored.

62,3 Section 3. 29.592 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

29.592 (1) (intro.) A person who is at least 10 years of age may hunt in this state without obtaining a certificate of accomplishment under s. 29.591 and may, while hunting, possess or control a firearm if all of the following apply:

62,4 Section 4. 29.592 (3) of the statutes is repealed.