Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB1121 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1121
5	5	March 6, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives MADISON, MAXEY, DONOVAN, C.
6	6	ANDERSON, J. ANDERSON, ANDRACA, BALDEH, CLANCY, CONLEY, CONSIDINE,
7	7	DRAKE, GUNDRUM, JACOBSON, JOERS, S. JOHNSON, MELOTIK, MICHALSKI,
8	8	RATCLIFF, SCHMIDT, SINICKI, STUBBS, SUBECK and PALMERI, cosponsored by
9	9	Senators LARSON and COWLES. Referred to Committee on Housing and Real
10	10	Estate.
11	11	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
12	12	AN ACT to create 101.1115 of the statutes; relating to: requiring periodic
13	13	inspections of parking structures.
14	14	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
15	15	This bill requires the owner of a parking structure to engage a professional
16	16	engineer to inspect the structural integrity of the parking structure at least once
17	17	within five years after the bill takes effect, and at least once every five years
18	18	thereafter. The owner must also submit a report containing the results of the
19	19	inspection to the Department of Safety and Professional Services or, if the city,
20	20	village, town, or county within which the parking structure is located is authorized
21	21	to perform commercial building plan examinations, to that city, village, town, or
22	22	county. During the period beginning six months after the date by which the bill
23	23	requires an inspection and ending 12 months after that date, an owner of a parking
24	24	structure who violates the bill's requirement is subject to a forfeiture of $200 for each
25	25	month that no inspection is conducted. One year after the date by which the bill
26	26	requires an inspection, DSPS must close the parking garage if no inspection is
27	27	conducted.
28	28	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
29	29	enact as follows:
30	30	SECTION 1. 101.1115 of the statutes is created to read:
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35	35	SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 1121
36	36	101.1115 Periodic inspection of parking structure. (1) In this section,
37	37	“plan review authority” means the department or, if the city, village, town, or county
38	38	within which a parking structure is located is authorized to perform examinations
39	39	under s. 101.12, that city, village, town, or county.
40	40	(2) (a) The owner of a parking structure shall engage a professional engineer
41	41	registered under s. 443.04 at least once within 5 years of the effective date of this
42	42	paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], and at least once every 5 years after the most recent
43	43	such inspection, to inspect the structural integrity of the parking structure to ensure
44	44	that it can continue to meet the loads and uses for which it was designed.
45	45	(b) An inspection of the structural integrity of a parking structure conducted
46	46	under s. 101.02 or 101.12 satisfies the requirement under par. (a).
47	47	(c) The owner of a parking structure shall submit a report containing the
48	48	results of an inspection required under par. (a), other than an inspection conducted
49	49	under s. 101.02 or 101.12, to the plan review authority of the parking structure.
50	50	(3) (a) If the owner of a parking structure violates sub. (2) (a), the plan review
51	51	authority of the parking structure, if not the department, shall notify the department
52	52	of the violation no later than 30 days after the date by which sub. (2) (a) requires an
53	53	inspection.
54	54	(b) No later than 30 days after receiving notice under par. (a), the department
55	55	shall notify the owner of the parking structure of the requirements and penalties
56	56	under this section.
57	57	(c) For the period beginning 6 months after the date by which sub. (2) (a)
58	58	requires an inspection and ending 12 months after the date by which sub. (2) (a)
59	59	requires an inspection, the owner of a parking structure who violates sub. (2) (a) shall
60	60	forfeit $200 for each month that the owner violates sub. (2) (a).
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90	90	(d) One year after the date by which sub. (2) (a) requires an inspection, the
91	91	department shall close a parking structure that has not been inspected as described
92	92	under sub. (2) (a). If the plan review authority of the parking structure is a city,
93	93	village, town, or county, the department shall notify the plan review authority of the
94	94	closure of the parking structure.
95	95	(e) If the department closes a parking structure under par. (d) and the parking
96	96	structure is later inspected as described under sub. (2) (a) and the department allows
97	97	the parking structure to reopen, if the plan review authority of the parking structure
98	98	is a city, village, town, or county, the department shall notify the plan review
99	99	authority of the date that the inspection was conducted.
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