42 Relating to: traffic control at nonfunctioning or malfunctioning traffic control signals.

  Date of enactment: July 1, 2015
2015 Assembly Bill 28   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 42

An Act to create 346.37 (3) of the statutes; relating to: traffic control at nonfunctioning or malfunctioning traffic control signals.

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

Section 1 . 346.37 (3) of the statutes is created to read:

346.37 (3) If a traffic control signal suffers a loss of power or otherwise malfunctions so that the traffic control signal does not exhibit any color of light, vehicular traffic, pedestrians, and persons riding bicycles or electric personal assistive mobility devices shall proceed at the traffic control signal as if the traffic control signal were an official stop sign and shall comply with the requirements applicable under ss. 346.18 (1) and (3) and 346.46 (1), (2), and (4), unless otherwise directed by a traffic officer.