147 Relating to: penalty for hiding or burying a corpse illegally and providing a penalty.

  Date of enactment: February 4, 2016
2015 Senate Bill 133   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 147

An Act to amend 940.11 (2) of the statutes; relating to: penalty for hiding or burying a corpse illegally and providing a penalty.

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

Section 1 . 940.11 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

940.11 (2) Whoever hides or buries a corpse, with intent to conceal a crime or avoid apprehension, prosecution, or conviction for a crime or notwithstanding s. 946.90 (2) or (3), 946.91 (2), 946.92, or 946.93 (2) or (3) with intent to collect benefits under the assistance program for families with dependent children administered under ss. 49.141 to 49.161, the Medical Assistance program administered under subch. IV of ch. 49, or the food stamp program, as defined in s. 49.79 (1) (c), is guilty of a Class G F felony.