52 Relating to: seasonal weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural crops.

Date of enactment: November 9, 2011
2011 Assembly Bill 252 Date of publication*: November 23, 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 52

An Act to amend 348.17 (5) of the statutes; relating to: seasonal weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural crops.

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

Section 1 . 348.17 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

348.17 (5) From September 1 to November 30 December 31 of each year, no permit shall be required for the transportation of corn, soybeans, potatoes, vegetables, or cranberries from the field to storage on the grower's owned or leased land, from the field to initial storage at a location not owned or leased by the grower, or from the field to initial processing in a vehicle or combination of vehicles having a registered gross weight of 50,000 pounds or more or described in s. 340.01 (24) (b) that exceeds the weight limitations under s. 348.15 by not more than 15 percent. This subsection does not apply to the national system of interstate and defense highways, except for that portion of I 39 between USH 51 and I 90/94.