236 Relating to: planting trees, shrubs, or hedges on the side of certain highways. (FE)

  Date of enactment: March 1, 2016
2015 Senate Bill 541   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 236

An Act to renumber 86.03 (3); and to create 86.03 (3) (b) of the statutes; relating to: planting trees, shrubs, or hedges on the side of certain highways.

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

Section 1 . 86.03 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 86.03 (3) (a).

Section 2 . 86.03 (3) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

86.03 (3) (b) Notwithstanding par. (a), if the person who owns or occupies the land that adjoins a highway is a town, the town may, with the approval of the public authority that maintains the highway, authorize another person to plant trees, shrubs, or hedges on the land. If the public authority maintaining the highway is a county, the town may request approval under this paragraph from the county on behalf of the person to be authorized.