SB216: Text as Enrolled

  Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 216   Date of publication*:

* 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."

2023 WISCONSIN ACT

An Act to create 23.33 (6) (ce) of the statutes; relating to: whip lights on all-terrain and utility terrain vehicles.

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

SB216,1 Section 1. 23.33 (6) (ce) of the statutes is created to read:

23.33 (6) (ce) 1. In this paragraph, “whip light” means a series of lights arranged vertically along a flexible rod that is attached to an all-terrain vehicle or utility terrain vehicle so that the emitted light is visible from any direction approaching the all-terrain vehicle or utility terrain vehicle.

2. A person may operate an all-terrain vehicle or utility terrain vehicle that is equipped with a whip light that emits any color of light in a fixed display or according to any pattern or sequence.

3. Notwithstanding subd. 2., a person may not operate an all-terrain vehicle or utility terrain vehicle that is equipped with a whip light that emits a flashing red or blue color of light.