48 Relating to: designating and marking a bridge across the Menominee River in Marinette County as Veterans Memorial Bridge.

Date of enactment: November 4, 2011
2011 Assembly Bill 270 Date of publication*: November 18, 2011

* 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 48

An Act to create 84.10416 of the statutes; relating to: designating and marking a bridge across the Menominee River in Marinette County as Veterans Memorial Bridge.

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

Section 1 . 84.10416 of the statutes is created to read:

84.10416 Veterans Memorial Bridge in Marinette County. (1) The department shall designate and, subject to sub. (2), mark, but not beyond the Wisconsin-Michigan border, the bridge on USH 141 across the Menominee River in the city of Niagara in Marinette County as "Veterans Memorial Bridge" as a living memorial to and in honor of all Wisconsin veterans, living and dead, of all wars in which the United States has engaged.

(2) Upon receipt of sufficient contributions from interested parties, including any county, city, village, or town, to cover the costs of erecting and maintaining markers for the bridge specified in sub. (1) to clearly identify to motorists the designation of the bridge as the "Veterans Memorial Bridge," the department shall erect and maintain the markers. No state funds, other than from the receipt of contributions under this subsection, may be expended for the erection or maintenance of the markers.