57 Relating to: single trip permits for the movement of oversize mobile homes, manufactured homes, and modular homes.

Date of enactment: November 9, 2011
2011 Assembly Bill 64 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 57

An Act to amend 348.25 (4) (intro.) and 348.26 (4) of the statutes; relating to: single trip permits for the movement of oversize mobile homes, manufactured homes, and modular homes.

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

Section 1 . 348.25 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

348.25 (4) (intro.) Except as provided under s. 348.26 (4), (5), (6), or (7) or 348.27 (3m), (4m), (9), (9m), (9r), (9t), (10), (12), (13), or (15) permits shall be issued only for the transporting of a single article or vehicle which exceeds statutory size, weight or load limitations and which cannot reasonably be divided or reduced to comply with statutory size, weight or load limitations, except that:

Section 2 . 348.26 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

348.26 (4) Mobile home, manufactured home, and modular home permits. Single trip permits for the movement of oversize mobile homes, manufactured homes, or modular homes may be issued only by the department, regardless of the highways to be used. Every such permit shall designate the route to be used by the permittee. No permit may be issued under this subsection for operation of a vehicle combination exceeding 110 feet in overall length or for movement of a mobile home, manufactured home, or modular home exceeding 80 feet in length. A permit may be issued under this subsection for the movement of more than one modular home section on a carrier if each home section is a component of the same home as evidenced by serial numbers or other distinguishing marks and the overall dimensions of the load will not exceed the size limits specified in the permit. A permit may be issued under this subsection only if at least one portion of the load under this permit would require a permit had it been transported on a separate carrier.

Section 3 . Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to single trip permits issued on the effective date of this subsection.