AB925: Bill Text

Note: Modifies punctuation consistent with the remainder of the section.

AB925, s. 37 Section 37. 280.15 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,19,2 280.15 (4) Except as herein otherwise provided, no person, firm or corporation shall engage in the industry of well drilling or pump installing for compensation in this state without having duly registered and obtained a permit therefor as herein provided. No permit shall be person is required of any person to obtain a permit under this section for driving, digging or otherwise obtaining groundwater supply on real estate owned or leased by him that person, but such the well and the work done thereon shall comply and be in conformity with the law and the rules and regulations prescribed promulgated by the department.

Note: Deletes redundant sentence. 1983 Wis. Act 27 added the following to sub. (1) without treating sub. (4):

"Except as provided under ss. 280.17 and 280.19, no person may engage in the business of well drilling or pump installing in this state unless the person registers each place of business or retail outlet he or she operates as a well driller or pump installer and pays the required permit fee."

Also reorders text for improved readability and replaces gender-specific pronoun under s. 13.93 (1) (m). Amends language regarding administrative law consistent with ch. 227.

AB925, s. 38 Section 38. 281.41 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 281.41 (1) (a) and amended to read:

AB925,19,15 281.41 (1) (a) Except as provided under sub. (2), every owner within the time prescribed by the department, shall file with the department a certified copy of complete plans of a proposed system or plant or extension thereof, in scope and detail satisfactory to the department, and, if required, of existing systems or plants, and such any other information concerning maintenance, operation and other details as that the department requires, including the information specified under s. 281.35 (5) (a), if applicable. Material changes with a statement of the reasons shall be likewise submitted. Before plans are drawn, a statement concerning the improvement may be made to the department and the department may, if requested, outline generally what it will require. Upon receipt of such the plans for approval, the department or its duly authorized representative shall notify the owner of the date of receipt.

AB925,20,9 (b) Within 90 days from the time of receipt of complete plans or within the time specified in s. 281.35 (5) (c), if applicable, the department or its authorized representative shall examine and take action to approve, approve conditionally or reject the plans and shall state in writing any conditions of approval or reasons for rejection. Approval or disapproval of such the plans and specifications shall may not be contingent upon eligibility of such the proposed project for federal aid. The time period for review may be extended by agreement with the owner if the plans and specifications cannot be reviewed within the specified time limitation due to circumstances beyond the control of the department or in the case of extensive installation involving expenditures of $350,000 or more. The extension shall may not exceed 6 months. Failure of the department or its authorized representative to act before the expiration of the time period allowed for review shall constitute an approval of the plans, and upon demand a written certificate of approval shall be issued. Approval may be subject to modification by the department upon due notice.

AB925,20,19 (c) Construction or material change shall be according to approved plans only. The department may disapprove plans which that are not in conformance with any existing approved areawide waste treatment management plan prepared pursuant to the federal water pollution control act, P.L. 92-500, as amended, and shall disapprove plans that do not meet the grounds for approval specified under s. 281.35 (5) (d), if applicable. The department shall require each person whose plans are approved under this section to report that person's volume and rate of water withdrawal, as defined under s. 281.35 (1) (m), and that person's volume and rate of water loss, as defined under s. 281.35 (1) (L), if any, in the form and at the times specified by the department.

Note: Subdivides provision to break up long subsection and improve readability. Replaces disfavored terms and improperly used "which".

AB925, s. 39 Section 39. 281.47 (1) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 281.47 (1) (c) 1. and amended to read:

AB925,21,12 281.47 (1) (c) 1. In Except as provided in subd. 2., in lieu of the construction in compliance with the foregoing provision par. (a) for diversion from such lakes described in par. (a), any owner of an existing plant, on or before September 1, 1967, or any owner of a new system or plant prior to construction of such the new system or plant, may file with the department such plans for advanced treatment of effluent from primary or secondary treatment as that in the judgment of the department will accomplish substantially the same results in eliminating nuisance conditions on such a lake described in par. (a) as would be accomplished by diversion of secondary sewage effluent from said the lake (, without at the same time creating other objectionable or damaging results), and such. The owner shall be of the plant or system is exempt from the foregoing provisions of this subsection par. (a) for diversion from such the lakes described in par. (a) upon approval of such the plans submitted under this paragraph and installation of advanced treatment facilities and procedures in compliance therewith, but nothing shall impair.

AB925,21,14 2. Nothing in subd. 1. impairs the authority of the department to require at any time preliminary or final plans, or both, for diversion construction.

Note: Breaks up and subdivides long sentence, replaces parentheses, replaces disfavored terms and inserts specific references and cross-references for improved readability and conformity with current style.

AB925, s. 40 Section 40. 283.31 (3) (a) to (c) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB925,21,16 283.31 (3) (a) Effluent limitations;.

AB925,21,17 (b) Standards of performance for new sources;.

AB925,21,18 (c) Effluent standards, effluents prohibitions and pretreatment standards;.

Note: Replaces punctuation for internal consistency and conformity with current style.

AB925, s. 41 Section 41. 283.55 (1) (intro.) and (a) to (d) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB925,21,22 283.55 (1) Monitoring and reporting requirements. (intro.) Every owner or operator of a point source who is required to obtain a permit issued under s. 283.31 shall do all of the following:

AB925,22,3 (a) Establish and maintain records of the volume of effluent discharged and the amount of each pollutant discharged from each point source under the owner's or operator's ownership or control;.

AB925,22,6 (b) Make regular reports to the department on the volume of effluent discharged and the amount of each pollutant discharged from each such point source; under the owner's or operator's ownership or control.

AB925,22,11 (c) Install, use and maintain such monitoring equipment or methods, including where appropriate, biological monitoring methods, as are necessary to determine the volume of effluent discharged and to identify and determine the amount of each pollutant discharged from each such point source; under the owner's or operator's ownership or control.

AB925,22,14 (d) Sample the effluents discharged from each such point source under the owner's or operator's ownership or control in accordance with such methods, at such locations and in such manner as the department shall by rule prescribe ;.

Note: Modifies (intro.) subsection, inserts specific references and replaces punctuation for internal consistency and conformity with current style.

AB925, s. 42 Section 42. 340.01 (3) (a) to (dm) (intro.) and (e) to (h) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB925,22,18 340.01 (3) (a) Police vehicles, whether publicly or privately owned. Police vehicles include, including bicycles being operated by law enforcement officers.

AB925,22,20 (b) Conservation wardens' vehicles or foresters' trucks, whether publicly or privately owned;.

AB925,22,21 (c) Vehicles of a fire department or fire patrol;.

AB925,23,2 (d) Privately owned motor vehicles being used by deputy state fire marshals or by personnel of a full-time or part-time fire department or by members of a volunteer fire department while enroute en route to a fire or on an emergency call pursuant to orders of their chief or other commanding officer;.

AB925,23,4 (dm) (intro.) A privately Privately owned motor vehicle which is vehicles that are all of the following:

AB925,23,7 (e) Such emergency Emergency vehicles of municipal or county departments or public service corporations as that are designated or authorized by the local authorities to be authorized emergency vehicles;.

AB925,23,10 (f) Such emergency Emergency vehicles of state departments as that are designated or authorized by the heads of such those departments to be authorized emergency vehicles;.

AB925,23,12 (g) Such ambulances, publicly Publicly owned, as ambulances that are designated or authorized by local authorities to be authorized emergency vehicles.

AB925,23,17 (h) The An emergency vehicle authorized by the county board of supervisors of any county may authorize for use by the county coroners or medical examiners to use an emergency vehicle for the purpose of traveling en route to the scene of a fatal accident or a death and on such any other occasions as that are authorized pursuant to under par. (e).

Note: Replaces punctuation for internal consistency and consistency with current style. Rearranges text for agreement with the subdivision (intro.).

AB925, s. 43 Section 43. 340.01 (3) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,24,9 340.01 (3) (i) Such Privately owned ambulances which are privately owned and that are operated by their owners or by their owners' agents and which vehicles that are authorized in writing by the sheriff or others designated by the county board to be operated as emergency vehicles. The sheriff or others designated by the county board may make such authorization which shall be in writing and which shall be The authorization is effective throughout the state until rescinded. The sheriff or others designated by the county board may designate any owner of ambulances usually kept in the county to operate such vehicles those ambulances as authorized emergency vehicles. Such The written authorization shall at all times be carried on each ambulance used for emergency purposes. The sheriff shall keep a file of such authorizations made under this paragraph in the sheriff's office for public inspection, and all other persons permitted to issue authorizations under this paragraph shall file a copy of all authorizations issued with the sheriff who shall keep them on file.

Note: Reorders text for improved readability; changes disfavored terms and inserts cross-references consistent with current style.

AB925, s. 44 Section 44. 341.05 (intro.) and (1) to (25) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB925,24,13 341.05 When vehicles exempt from registration. (intro.) A vehicle, even though operated upon a highway of this state, is exempt from registration when such vehicle if any of the following applies:

AB925,24,16 (1) Is The vehicle is operated in accordance with the provisions relating to registration of dealers, distributors, manufacturers, transporters or finance companies; or.

AB925,24,18 (2) Is The vehicle is operated in accordance with the provisions exempting nonresident or foreign-registered vehicles from registration; or.

AB925,24,19 (3) Is The vehicle is operated in accordance with s. 341.405.

AB925,24,20 (6) Is The vehicle is operated exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; or.

AB925,24,23 (7) Is The vehicle is a farm tractor used exclusively in agricultural operations, including threshing, or used exclusively to provide power to drive other machinery, or to transport from job to job machinery driven by such a farm tractor; or.

AB925,25,3 (9) Is The vehicle is a trailer or semitrailer used exclusively for the transportation of farm machinery, implements, produce or supplies on a farm or between farms; or.

AB925,25,6 (11) Is The vehicle is a trailer or semitrailer permanently equipped with a well-drilling outfit or designed for moving pea viners and used exclusively for either of such those purposes; or.

AB925,25,9 (12) Is The vehicle is a fork-lift truck, a specially constructed road or truck tractor used for shunting trailers or semitrailers in terminal areas or a trailer which that is used principally off the highway; or.

AB925,25,11 (13m) Is The vehicle is a trailer or, semitrailer or camping trailer having a gross weight of 3,000 pounds or less and not used for hire or rental ; or.

AB925,25,13 (14) Is The vehicle is a trailer or semitrailer not operated in conjunction with a motor vehicle; or.

AB925,25,15 (14m) Is The vehicle is a new motor vehicle being operated only across a highway from its point of manufacture or assembly.

AB925,25,18 (15) Is The vehicle is a motor vehicle being towed, except that when the person operating the vehicle supplying the motive power is a transporter, that person must be registered as a transporter; or.

AB925,25,19 (16) Is The vehicle is a piece of road machinery.

AB925,25,20 (17) Is The vehicle is an implement of husbandry.

AB925,25,22 (18) Is The vehicle is a motor truck which that is operated upon a highway only when directly crossing such the highway.

AB925,25,25 (19) Is The vehicle is a repaired salvage vehicle operated to or from a location where it is to be inspected as required by s. 342.07, or is an unregistered vehicle operated to or from a location where it is to be inspected as required by s. 110.20.

AB925,26,6 (19m) Is The vehicle is owned by a technical college district board, used exclusively to instruct students in techniques of automotive repair and maintenance and is operated only within 5 miles of the technical college to transport the vehicle to or from a technical college. The operator of the vehicle shall, when operating the vehicle upon a highway, carry in the vehicle a letter from the district director of the technical college stating that the vehicle is exempt from registration.

AB925,26,10 (20) Is The vehicle is an amphibious motor vehicle capable of carrying 10 or more passengers when used for sight-seeing purposes, registered as a boat with the department of natural resources and operated upon a highway for a distance not to exceed 2 miles.

AB925,26,11 (21) Is The vehicle is owned by the United States.

AB925,26,14 (22) Is The vehicle is registered by a federally recognized Indian band or tribe and is exempt under a reciprocal registration exemption agreement under s. 341.409.

AB925,26,15 (23) Is The vehicle is a motor bicycle or bicycle, except as provided in s. 349.18.

AB925,26,17 (24) Is The vehicle is a golf cart being operated in accordance with s. 349.18 (1) (b) or (c).

AB925,26,19 (25) Is The vehicle is a wood harvesting slasher, as defined by the department by rule, that is used principally off the highway.

Note: Amends section (intro.) for conformity with current style for (intro.) provisions and the subsequent subsections for conformity therewith. Disfavored terms and improperly used "that" are replaced and punctuation is amended for internal consistency and conformity with current style.

AB925, s. 45 Section 45. 341.05 (26) of the statutes, as created by 1999 Wisconsin Act 9, is amended to read:

AB925,26,23 341.05 (26) (a) Is The vehicle is a mobile home, as defined in s. 101.91 (2e), or a manufactured home, as defined in s. 101.91 (2).

AB925,27,6 (b) Is The vehicle is a structure that is transportable in one or more sections and that is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, if the structure's manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the secretary of the U.S. department of housing and urban development and complies with regulations established under 42 USC 5401 to 5425.

Note: This amendment conforms to style change made to the rest of this section by this bill.

AB925, s. 46 Section 46. 341.10 (14) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,27,10 341.10 (14) After December 31, 1993, the The vehicle has a mobile air conditioner, as defined in s. 100.45 (1) (b), the distribution of which in this state would be prohibited under s. 100.45 (2).

Note: Eliminates obsolete provision.

AB925, s. 47 Section 47. 341.26 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,27,16 341.26 (2) Five-dollar fee for 5-year registration of certain vehicles. (intro.) A registration under this subsection expires on December 31 every 5th year. The first 5-year registration period under this subsection terminates on December 31, 1993. A registration fee of $5 shall be paid to the department for the registration of each of the following vehicles:

Note: Eliminates obsolete provision.

AB925, s. 48 Section 48. 341.41 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,27,20 341.41 (2) A nonresident operating a vehicle in this state is not exempt by virtue of any reciprocity agreement entered into pursuant to sub. (1) unless all of the following requirements are met:

AB925,28,3 (a) The vehicle is properly registered in the jurisdiction of the residence of its owner, its domicile, or the principal place of business of its owner or is registered on a proportional registration basis pursuant to an interstate compact ; and.

AB925,28,5 (b) The vehicle has conspicuously displayed upon it a valid registration plate; and.

AB925,28,7 (c) The operator of the vehicle has in his or her possession a valid registration certificate or other evidence that the vehicle is properly registered ; and.

Note: Amends section (intro.) for conformity with current style for (intro.) provisions. Punctuation is amended for internal consistency and conformity with current style.

AB925, s. 49 Section 49. 343.315 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB925,28,12 343.315 (4) Notification. Beginning on April 1, 1992, the The department shall send the notice of disqualification by 1st class mail to a person's last-known residence address. This subsection does not apply to disqualifications under sub. (2) (g).

Note: Eliminates obsolete provision.

AB925, s. 50 Section 50. 343.50 (6) (title) of the statutes is created to read:

AB925,28,14 343.50 (6) (title) Renewal.

Note: The other subsections of s. 343.50 have titles.