AB55: Text as Enrolled

  Date of enactment:
2005 Assembly Bill 55   Date of publication*:

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2003-04 : 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].

2005 WISCONSIN ACT

An Act to create 895.523 of the statutes; relating to: immunity of private campground owners and operators.

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

AB55,1 Section 1. 895.523 of the statutes is created to read:

895.523 Liability exemption; private campgrounds. (1) In this section:

(a) “Private campground" means a facility that is issued a campground permit under s. 254.47 and that is owned and operated by someone other than a public agency.

(b) “Public agency" has the meaning given in s. 66.0825 (3) (h).

(2) The owner or operator of a private campground and the employees and agents of the owner or operator are immune from civil liability for damage to property or for the death of or injury to an individual if that damage, death, or injury is a proximate result of the acts or omissions of a person other than the owner or operator of the campground or the employees and agents of the owner or operator.

AB55,2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to acts or omissions that occur on the effective date of this subsection.