Amendment SSA1-SB300

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2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE

SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO 2009 SENATE BILL 300

October 15, 2009 - Offered by Committee on Transportation, Tourism, Forestry, and Natural Resources.

SB300-SSA1,1,3 An Act to amend 77.83 (1) (a) (intro.); and to create 77.83 (1) (d) of the statutes; relating to: certain areas of land subject to managed forest land orders that were part of certain parcels of land that exceeded 8,000 acres in size.

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

SB300-SSA1, s. 1 Section 1. 77.83 (1) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB300-SSA1,1,7 77.83 (1) (a) (intro.) An Except as prohibited under par. (d), an owner may designate an area of land subject to a managed forest land order as closed to public access. The closed area may consist of either:

SB300-SSA1, s. 2 Section 2. 77.83 (1) (d) of the statutes is created to read:

SB300-SSA1,1,12 77.83 (1) (d) An area of land 160 acres in size or less that is subject to a managed forest land order dated January 1, 2010, or later may not be closed to public access if the land was, on January 1, 2009, part of a contiguous parcel to which all of the following applied on January 1, 2009:

SB300-SSA1,1,13 1. The parcel exceeded 8,000 acres in size.

SB300-SSA1,2,3 2. The parcel was located in a single municipality and was under single ownership.

SB300-SSA1,2,6 3. The parcel was not subject to a contract under the forest cropland program or the woodland tax law under subch I of ch. 77, or to an order under the managed forest land program under subch. VI of ch. 77.

SB300-SSA1,2,7 (End)