27 Relating to: lighting underneath motorcycles.

  Date of enactment: July 1, 2015
2015 Assembly Bill 100   Date of publication*: July 2, 2015

* 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 27

An Act to amend 347.07 (2) (intro.); and to create 347.07 (3) of the statutes; relating to: lighting underneath motorcycles.

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

Section 1 . 347.07 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

347.07 (2) (intro.) Except as provided in sub. (3), or as otherwise expressly authorized or required by this chapter, no person shall operate any vehicle or equipment on a highway which has displayed thereon:

Section 2 . 347.07 (3) of the statutes is created to read:

347.07 (3) A motorcycle may be equipped with a lighting device that illuminates the ground directly beneath the motorcycle if all of the following apply:

(a) The lighting device is not visible to approaching vehicles.

(b) The lighting device does not display a red, blue, or amber light.

(c) The lighting device does not display a flashing, oscillating, or rotating light.

Section 3 . Initial applicability.

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