Date of enactment: March 1, 2016
2015 Senate Bill 450   Date of publication*: March 2, 2016
* 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."
2015 WISCONSIN ACT 233
An Act to repeal 173.12 (1m), 173.12 (2), 173.12 (3), 173.13 (1) (a) 7., 173.21 (1) (c), 173.22 (3) (a) 1. and 173.22 (3) (a) 3.; to renumber 173.12 (1); to renumber and amend 173.19; to amend 173.12 (title), 173.13 (1) (a) 8., 173.13 (3) (title), 173.13 (3) (a), 173.13 (3) (b), 173.21 (1) (a), 173.21 (4), 173.22 (1), 173.22 (3) (a) (intro.), 173.23 (1m) (intro.), 173.23 (2), 173.23 (3) (a) (intro.), 173.23 (3) (a) 3., 173.23 (3) (e), 173.24 (1), 951.18 (4) (b) 2. and 968.20 (1) (intro.); and to create 173.19 (1m), 173.19 (3) and 173.22 (4) of the statutes; relating to: animals believed to have been involved in crimes against animals, when a stray or abandoned animal may be considered unclaimed, and a court order relating to an animal taken into or held in custody.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
233,1 Section 1. 173.12 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
173.12 (title) Animal fighting ; seizure.
233,2 Section 2. 173.12 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 173.12.