Date of enactment: December 6, 2023
2023 Assembly Bill 49 Date of publication*: December 7, 2023
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 59
AN ACT to amend 346.50 (2) and 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes; relating to: disabled parking privileges on
University of Wisconsin System campuses.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 346.50 (2) of the statutes is amended to
read:
346.50 (2) Except as provided in sub. (3m), a motor
vehicle bearing a special registration plate issued under
s. 341.14 (1) to a disabled veteran or on his or her behalf
is exempt from any ordinance and any administrative rule
promulgated by the University of Wisconsin System
imposing time limitations on parking in any street or
highway zone, on any University of Wisconsin System
campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (3), and in any parking lot,
whether municipally owned or leased, or both munici-
pally owned and leased or a parking place owned or
leased, or both owned and leased by a municipal parking
utility, with one−half hour or more limitation but other-
wise is subject to the laws relating to parking. Where the
time limitation on a metered stall is one−half hour or
more, no meter payment is required. Parking privileges
granted by this subsection are limited to the disabled vet-
eran to whom or on whose behalf the special plates were
issued and to qualified operators acting under the dis-
abled veteran’s express direction with the disabled vet-
eran present.
SECTION 2. 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes is
amended to read:
346.50 (2a) (intro.) Except as provided in sub. (3m),
a motor vehicle bearing special registration plates issued
under s. 341.14 (1a), (1e), (1m), or (1q) or a motor vehicle
upon which a special identification card issued under s.
343.51 is displayed or a motor vehicle registered in
another jurisdiction upon which is displayed a registra-
tion plate, a card, or an emblem issued by the other juris-
diction designating the vehicle as a vehicle used by a
physically disabled person is exempt from any ordinance
and any administrative rule promulgated by the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin System imposing time limitations on
parking in any street or highway zone, on any University
of Wisconsin System campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (3),
and in any parking lot, whether municipally owned or
leased, or both municipally owned and leased or a park-
ing place owned or leased, or both owned and leased by
a municipal parking utility, with one−half hour or more
limitation but otherwise is subject to the laws relating to
parking. Where the time limitation on a metered stall is
one−half hour or more, no meter payment is required.
Parking privileges granted by this subsection are limited
to the following:
SECTION 3.0Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to motor vehicles parked on
a University of Wisconsin System campus on the effec-
tive date of this subsection.
* 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.”