41 Relating to: town zoning ordinances affecting shorelands.  

  •   Date of enactment: July 1, 2015
    2015 Assembly Bill 165   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 41
    An Act to create 60.61 (3r) and 60.62 (5) of the statutes; relating to: town zoning ordinances affecting shorelands.
    The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
    Section 1 . 60.61 (3r) of the statutes is created to read:
    60.61 (3r) Zoning in shorelands. (a) In this subsection, "shorelands" has the meaning given in s. 59.692 (1) (b).
    (b) A town may enact a zoning ordinance under this section that applies in shorelands, except as provided in par. (c).
    (c) A town zoning ordinance enacted under this section may not impose restrictions or requirements in shorelands with respect to matters regulated by a county shoreland zoning ordinance enacted under s. 59.692 affecting the same shorelands, regardless of whether the county shoreland zoning ordinance was enacted separately from, or together with, an ordinance enacted under s. 59.69, except as provided in s. 59.692 (2) (b).
    Section 2 . 60.62 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
    60.62 (5) Zoning in shorelands. (a) In this subsection, "shorelands" has the meaning given in s. 59.692 (1) (b).
    (b) A town may enact a zoning ordinance under this section that applies in shorelands, except as provided in par. (c).
    (c) A town zoning ordinance enacted under this section may not impose restrictions or requirements in shorelands with respect to matters regulated by a county shoreland zoning ordinance enacted under s. 59.692 affecting the same shorelands, regardless of whether the county shoreland zoning ordinance was enacted separately from, or together with, an ordinance enacted under s. 59.69, except as provided in s. 59.692 (2) (b).

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