235 Relating to: seasonal weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural crops. (FE)

  Date of enactment: March 1, 2016
2015 Senate Bill 509   Date of publication*: March 2, 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 235

An Act to amend 348.17 (5) (a) (intro.) 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) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

348.17 (5) (a) (intro.) From September August 1 to 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 that exceeds the weight limitations under s. 348.15 by not more than 15 percent and that satisfies all of the following:

Section 2m . Nonstatutory provisions.

(1) Notwithstanding section 13.096 (2) of the statutes, the department of transportation may not prepare a report on this bill under section 13.096 (2) and (3) of the statutes.