139 Relating to: right-of-way in roundabouts.

  Date of enactment: February 4, 2016
2015 Assembly Bill 451   Date of publication*: February 5, 2016

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes : 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."

2015 WISCONSIN ACT 139

An Act to create 346.13 (5) and 346.18 (8) of the statutes; relating to: right-of-way in roundabouts.

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

Section 1 . 346.13 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

346.13 (5) Notwithstanding sub. (1), the operator of a vehicle or combination of vehicles with a total length of not less than 40 feet or a total width of not less than 10 feet may, with due regard for all other traffic, deviate from the lane in which the operator is driving to the extent necessary to approach and drive through a roundabout.

Section 2 . 346.18 (8) of the statutes is created to read:

346.18 (8) Roundabout. (a) The operator of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle or combination of vehicles with a total length of not less than 40 feet or a total width of not less than 10 feet when approaching or driving through a roundabout at approximately the same time or so closely as to constitute a hazard of collision and, if necessary, shall reduce speed or stop in order to so yield.

(b) If 2 vehicles or combinations of vehicles each having a total length of not less than 40 feet or a total width of not less than 10 feet approach or drive through a roundabout at approximately the same time or so closely as to constitute a hazard of collision, the operator of the vehicle or combination of vehicles on the right shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle or combination of vehicles on the left and, if necessary, shall reduce speed or stop in order to so yield.