75 Relating to: reports or records kept on the occurrence of fires.  

  • Date of enactment: March 12, 2008
    2007 Senate Bill 436 Date of publication*: March 26, 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 75
    An Act to repeal and recreate 101.141 of the statutes; relating to: reports or records kept on the occurrence of fires.
    The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
    Section 1m . 101.141 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
    101.141 Record keeping of fires. (1) Each city, village, and town fire department shall file a report for each fire that involves a building and that occurs within the boundaries of the city, village, or town with the U.S. fire administration for placement in the fire incident reporting system maintained by the U.S. fire administration. The report shall be filed within 60 days after the fire occurs.
    (2) Each report filed under sub. (1) shall include all of the following information:
    (a) The age of the building.
    (b) The purpose for which the building was used at the time of the fire.
    (c) If the building was used as a home, whether the building was a multifamily dwelling complex, a single-family dwelling, or a mixed-use building with one or more dwelling units.
    (d) The number of dwelling units in the building, if the building was a multifamily dwelling complex or a mixed-use building.
    (e) Whether the building had an automatic fire sprinkler system at the time of the fire and, if so, whether the system was operational.
    (f) Whether the building had a fire alarm system at the time of the fire and, if so, whether the system was operational.
    (g) The cause of the fire.
    (gg) An estimate of the amount of damages to the building as a result of the fire.
    (gm) The number of human deaths due to the fire, if any.
    (gr) The number of human injuries due to the fire, if any.
    (h) Any other relevant information concerning the building, as determined by the fire department.
    (3) The department may review, correct, and update any report filed by a fire department under this section.

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