2009 WISCONSIN ACT 392 Relating to: eligibility for grant funding under a maintenance program that applies to private sewage systems.

Date of enactment: May 18, 2010
2009 Assembly Bill 950 Date of publication*: June 1, 2010

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2007-08 : 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].

2009 WISCONSIN ACT 392

An Act to amend 145.20 (5) (a) and 145.245 (9) (intro.); and to create 145.20 (5) (am) of the statutes; relating to: eligibility for grant funding under a maintenance program that applies to private sewage systems.

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

Section 1 . 145.20 (5) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

145.20 (5) (a) The department shall establish a maintenance program to be administered by governmental units responsible for the regulation of private sewage systems. The department shall determine the private sewage systems to which the maintenance program applies. At a minimum the maintenance program is applicable to all new or replacement private sewage systems constructed in a governmental unit after the date on which the governmental unit adopts this program. The department may apply the maintenance program by rule to private sewage systems constructed in a governmental unit responsible for the regulation of private sewage systems on or before the date on which the governmental unit adopts the program. The department shall determine the private sewage systems to which the maintenance program applies in governmental units that do not meet the conditions for eligibility under s. 145.245 (9) , except that the maintenance program in these governmental units does not commence until January 1, 2008 .

Section 2 . 145.20 (5) (am) of the statutes is created to read:

145.20 (5) (am) Each governmental unit responsible for the regulation of private sewage systems shall adopt and begin the administration of the program established under par. (a) before October 1, 2015. As part of adopting and administering the program, the governmental unit shall conduct and maintain an inventory of all the private sewage systems located in the governmental unit and shall complete the initial inventory before October 1, 2013. In order to be eligible for grant funding under s. 145.245, a governmental unit must comply with these deadlines.

Section 3 . 145.245 (9) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

145.245 (9) Conditions; governmental units. (intro.) As a condition for obtaining a grant funding under this section, a governmental unit shall: