280 Relating to: wildlife damage abatement assistance and claim payments for damage caused by cougar.

Date of enactment: April 12, 2012
2011 Assembly Bill 82 Date of publication*: April 26, 2012

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2009-10 : 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].

2011 WISCONSIN ACT 280

An Act to create 29.889 (1) (g) and 29.889 (7m) (at) of the statutes; relating to: wildlife damage abatement assistance and claim payments for damage caused by cougar.

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

Section 1 . 29.889 (1) (g) of the statutes is created to read:

29.889 (1) (g) Cougar.

Section 2 . 29.889 (7m) (at) of the statutes is created to read:

29.889 (7m) (at) Exemption; damage caused by cougar. The requirements to allow hunting under par. (a) do not apply to a person seeking wildlife damage abatement assistance or wildlife damage claim payments for damage caused by cougar.