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| 3 | 3 | | 2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1133 |
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| 5 | 5 | | March 6, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives MAGNAFICI, EDMING, BEHNKE, |
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| 6 | 6 | | BODDEN and S. JOHNSON. Referred to Committee on Transportation. |
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| 7 | 7 | | ***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*** |
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| 8 | 8 | | AN ACT to amend 23.33 (1) (ng) 1. a. and 23.33 (1) (ng) 2. a. of the statutes; |
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| 9 | 9 | | relating to: the weight limit for utility terrain vehicles. |
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| 10 | 10 | | Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau |
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| 11 | 11 | | This bill raises from 3,000 pounds to 3,500 pounds the maximum weight |
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| 12 | 12 | | allowable for a motor driven device to be classified as a utility terrain vehicle (UTV). |
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| 13 | 13 | | Under current law, a UTV is defined as a commercially designed and |
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| 14 | 14 | | manufactured motor driven device, other than a golf cart, low-speed vehicle, dune |
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| 15 | 15 | | buggy, mini-truck, or tracked vehicle, that is designed to be used primarily off of a |
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| 16 | 16 | | highway and that was manufactured to meet certain size and equipment |
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| 17 | 17 | | specifications. Current law specifications limit UTVs to a weight, without fluids, of |
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| 18 | 18 | | not more than 3,000 pounds. |
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| 19 | 19 | | The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do |
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| 20 | 20 | | enact as follows: |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. 23.33 (1) (ng) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read: |
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| 22 | 22 | | 23.33 (1) (ng) 1. a. A weight, without fluids, of 3,000 3,500 pounds or less. |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 2. 23.33 (1) (ng) 2. a. of the statutes is amended to read: |
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| 24 | 24 | | 23.33 (1) (ng) 2. a. It does not meet federal motor vehicle safety standards in |
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| 25 | 25 | | effect on July 1, 2012; is not a golf cart, low-speed vehicle, dune buggy, mini-truck, |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 2 ASSEMBLY BILL 1133 |
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| 35 | 35 | | or tracked vehicle; is designed to be used primarily off of a highway; and has, and was |
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| 36 | 36 | | originally manufactured with, a weight, without fluids, of not more than 3,000 3,500 |
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| 37 | 37 | | pounds. |
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