31 Relating to: the operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake.

Date of enactment: July 10, 2009
2009 Senate Bill 12 Date of publication*: July 24, 2009

* 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 31

An Act to amend 30.66 (3) (a), 30.66 (3) (b) and 30.69 (3) (d); and to create 30.66 (3) (ag), 30.66 (3) (ar) and 30.66 (3) (c) of the statutes; relating to: the operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake.

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

Section 1 . 30.66 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.66 (3) Prohibited operation. (a) Except under s. 30.69 (3), no No person may operate a motorboat within 100 feet of any dock, raft, pier , or buoyed restricted area on any lake at a speed in excess of slow-no-wake speed .

Section 2 . 30.66 (3) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:

30.66 (3) (ag) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., no person may operate a motorboat, other than a personal watercraft, at a speed in excess of slow-no-wake within 100 feet of the shoreline of any lake.

2. In its ordinances enacted under s. 30.77, a city, village, town, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or a town sanitary district may provide an exemption from the prohibition in subd. 1. or may substitute a lesser number of feet.

3. This paragraph does not affect any of the following:

a. The authority of a local governmental unit specified in subd. 2. to enact more restrictive ordinances under s. 30.77.

b. The authority of the Dane County board to enact more restrictive ordinances under s. 33.455 (3).

Section 3 . 30.66 (3) (ar) of the statutes is created to read:

30.66 (3) (ar) No person may operate a personal watercraft at a speed in excess of slow-no-wake within 200 feet of the shoreline of any lake.

Section 4 . 30.66 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.66 (3) (b) No person may operate a personal watercraft at a speed in excess of slow-no-wake within 100 feet of any other boat or within 200 feet of the shoreline of any lake. This paragraph does not apply if s. 30.69 (3) (a), (c) or (d) applies to the operation of the personal watercraft .

Section 5 . 30.66 (3) (c) of the statutes is created to read:

30.66 (3) (c) Paragraphs (a) to (b) do not apply to pickup or drop areas that are marked with regulatory markers and that are open to operators of personal watercraft and to persons and motorboats engaged in water skiing or similar activity.

Section 6 . 30.69 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

30.69 (3) (d) Paragraphs (a) to (c) do not apply to pickup or drop areas that are marked with regulatory markers and that are open to operators of personal watercraft and to persons and motorboats engaged in water skiing or similar activity .

Section 7 . Effective date.

(1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 7th month beginning after publication.