175 Relating to: registration plates for vehicle transporters.

Date of enactment: March 26, 2008
2007 Senate Bill 511 Date of publication*: April 9, 2008

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2005-06 : 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].

2007 WISCONSIN ACT 175

An Act to amend 340.01 (72) (a) and 341.47 (3) of the statutes; relating to: registration plates for vehicle transporters.

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

Section 1 . 340.01 (72) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

340.01 (72) (a) A person who is engaged in this state in the business of transporting and delivering motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers or recreational vehicles in tow on their own wheels or under their own power from the manufacturer to the a distributor, a dealer , the manufacturer, or a branch of the manufacturer to the purchaser , or from the any location to a distributor or , a dealer to another distributor or dealer , the manufacturer , or a branch of the manufacturer or from the branch of the manufacturer to the distributor, dealer or manufacturer , and who is a 3rd party with no ownership interest in the vehicles .

Section 2 . 341.47 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

341.47 (3) A vehicle which is being transported in tow on its own wheels or under its own power from the manufacturer to the a distributor, a dealer , the manufacturer, or a branch of the manufacturer to the purchaser , or from the any location to a distributor or , a dealer to another distributor or dealer or to , the manufacturer , or a branch of manufacturer, or from the branch of the manufacturer to the distributor, dealer or manufacturer by a transporter of vehicles who is a 3rd party with no ownership interest in the vehicle, need not be registered if such vehicle has displayed upon it valid registration plates issued to the transporter pursuant to s. 341.51. The requirement under this subsection that the vehicle be transported in tow on its own wheels or under its own power does not apply to trailers, semitrailers or truck tractors.