98 Relating to: special identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation providing parking privileges for persons with physical disabilities and providing a penalty.

Date of enactment: December 7, 2011
2011 Assembly Bill 81 Date of publication*: December 20, 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 98

An Act to renumber and amend 343.52 (1m); to amend 343.52 (1) (a) and (b); and to create 343.52 (1m) (a), (b) and (c) of the statutes; relating to: special identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation providing parking privileges for persons with physical disabilities and providing a penalty.

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

Section 1 . 343.52 (1) (a) and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:

343.52 (1) (a) Sells or lends Lends to another a special identification card issued under s. 343.51, knowing that the person purchasing or borrowing the card is not authorized by law to use it.

(b) Displays a special identification card issued under s. 343.51 upon a vehicle knowing that the vehicle is not authorized by law to have the card displayed thereon or otherwise fraudulently uses a special identification card issued under s. 343.51 to the person or organization .

Section 2 . 343.52 (1m) of the statutes is renumbered 343.52 (1m) (intro.) and amended to read:

343.52 (1m) (intro.) Any person or organization that fraudulently procures, makes, alters, reproduces, or duplicates a special identification card issued under s. 343.51, except as authorized by the department, does any of the following shall forfeit not less than $200 nor more than $500 . :

Section 3 . 343.52 (1m) (a), (b) and (c) of the statutes are created to read:

343.52 (1m) (a) Fraudulently procures, makes, alters, reproduces, or duplicates a special identification card issued under s. 343.51, except as authorized by the department.

(b) Fraudulently uses a special identification card issued under s. 343.51 that was not issued to the person or organization by the department.

(c) Sells to another a special identification card issued under s. 343.51.

Section 4 . Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to violations committed on the effective date of this subsection.