AB530: Bill Text

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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE

2001 Assembly BILL 530

October 8, 2001 - Introduced by Representatives Miller, Powers, Meyerhofer, Olsen, Gunderson, Ryba, Jeskewitz, J. Lehman, Albers, Musser, Sykora and Townsend, cosponsored by Senators Burke and Schultz. Referred to Committee on Transportation.

AB530,1,3 An Act to amend 341.47 of the statutes; relating to: delivering a trailer or semitrailer from the manufacturer to a dealer or distributor or from the dealer or distributor to a purchaser.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the department of transportation issues a registration plate to motor vehicle dealers, distributors, manufacturers, and transporters. Current law allows a motor vehicle manufacturer to deliver to a dealer or distributor, or a dealer or distributor to deliver to a purchaser, a motor vehicle, recreational vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer without registering that vehicle if the vehicle displays a registration plate that is issued to the manufacturer, dealer, or distributor.

Under this bill, a motor vehicle manufacturer may pick up and deliver a load of freight incidental to the delivery of a trailer or semitrailer to a distributor, dealer, purchaser, or lessee without registering the trailer or semitrailer if the vehicle displays a registration plate that is issued to the manufacturer. A distributor or dealer may also pick up and deliver a load of freight incidental to the delivery of a trailer or semitrailer to a purchaser or lessee without registering the trailer or semitrailer if the vehicle displays a registration plate that is issued to the dealer or distributor.

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

AB530, s. 1 Section 1. 341.47 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB530,2,9 341.47 When vehicles of dealers, distributors, manufacturers, and transporters are exempt from general registration requirements. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), any motor vehicle, recreational vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer that is owned or repossessed by, or consigned for sale to, a dealer, distributor, or manufacturer may be operated on the highways of this state for either private or business purposes without being registered if the vehicle has displayed upon it valid registration plates issued under s. 341.51 to the dealer, distributor, or manufacturer and the vehicle is one of the following:

AB530,2,11 (a) Is actually Actually offered for sale or lease by a dealer, distributor, or manufacturer, including for sale on consignment; or.

AB530,2,15 (b) Is in In transit from the factory to a distributor or, dealer, purchaser, or lessee, or from the dealer to the a purchaser; or or lessee. A trailer or semitrailer in transit under this paragraph may be incidentally operated to pick up, carry, and deliver no more than one load of freight.

AB530,2,16 (c) Is being Being used by a manufacturer primarily for trial tests; or.

AB530,2,18 (d) Is being Being repossessed, being reconditioned for resale, or being foreclosed or resold.

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