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1		-	Date of enactment:
2		-	2023 Assembly Bill 49 Date of publication*:
3		-	2023 WISCONSIN ACT
4		-	AN ACT to amend 346.50 (2) and 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes; relating to: disabled parking privileges on
5		-	University of Wisconsin System campuses.
6		-	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
7		-	senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
8		-	SECTION 1. 346.50 (2) of the statutes is amended to
9		-	read:
10		-	346.50 (2) Except as provided in sub. (3m), a motor
11		-	vehicle bearing a special registration plate issued under
12		-	s. 341.14 (1) to a disabled veteran or on his or her behalf
13		-	is exempt from any ordinance and any administrative rule
14		-	promulgated by the University of Wisconsin System
15		-	imposing time limitations on parking in any street or
16		-	highway zone, on any University of Wisconsin System
17		-	campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (3), and in any parking lot,
18		-	whether municipally owned or leased, or both munici-
19		-	pally owned and leased or a parking place owned or
20		-	leased, or both owned and leased by a municipal parking
21		-	utility, with one−half hour or more limitation but other-
22		-	wise is subject to the laws relating to parking. Where the
23		-	time limitation on a metered stall is one−half hour or
24		-	more, no meter payment is required. Parking privileges
25		-	granted by this subsection are limited to the disabled vet-
26		-	eran to whom or on whose behalf the special plates were
27		-	issued and to qualified operators acting under the dis-
28		-	abled veteran’s express direction with the disabled vet-
29		-	eran present.
30		-	SECTION 2. 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes is
31		-	amended to read:
32		-	346.50 (2a) (intro.) Except as provided in sub. (3m),
33		-	a motor vehicle bearing special registration plates issued
34		-	under s. 341.14 (1a), (1e), (1m), or (1q) or a motor vehicle
35		-	upon which a special identification card issued under s.
36		-	343.51 is displayed or a motor vehicle registered in
37		-	another jurisdiction upon which is displayed a registra-
38		-	tion plate, a card, or an emblem issued by the other juris-
39		-	diction designating the vehicle as a vehicle used by a
40		-	physically disabled person is exempt from any ordinance
41		-	and any administrative rule promulgated by the Univer-
42		-	sity of Wisconsin System imposing time limitations on
43		-	parking in any street or highway zone, on any University
44		-	of Wisconsin System campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (3),
45		-	and in any parking lot, whether municipally owned or
46		-	leased, or both municipally owned and leased or a park-
47		-	ing place owned or leased, or both owned and leased by
48		-	a municipal parking utility, with one−half hour or more
49		-	limitation but otherwise is subject to the laws relating to
50		-	parking. Where the time limitation on a metered stall is
51		-	one−half hour or more, no meter payment is required.
52		-	Parking privileges granted by this subsection are limited
53		-	to the following:
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	3	+	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
	4	+	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 49
	5	+	February 20, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives PENTERMAN, S. JOHNSON,
	6	+	ALLEN, BARE, BEHNKE, DITTRICH, DUCHOW, EDMING, MURPHY, ORTIZ-VELEZ,
	7	+	RETTINGER, SCHMIDT, SINICKI, SPIROS, MYERS and BROOKS, cosponsored by
	8	+	Senators TESTIN, NASS, BALLWEG and COWLES. Referred to Committee on
	9	+	Colleges and Universities.
	10	+	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
	11	+	AN ACT to amend 346.50 (2) and 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes; relating to:
	12	+	disabled parking privileges on University of Wisconsin System campuses.
	13	+	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
	14	+	This bill expands certain parking privileges for vehicles with disabled parking
	15	+	plates or special identification cards to include University of Wisconsin System
	16	+	campuses.
	17	+	Under current law, a person with a disability that limits or impairs the ability
	18	+	to walk may apply for and obtain from the Department of Transportation special
	19	+	motor vehicle registration plates or a special identification card entitling a motor
	20	+	vehicle used by the person to certain parking privileges. Except as provided by
	21	+	ordinance in first or second class cities, vehicles bearing these plates or cards are not
	22	+	subject to time limitations on parking on any municipally owned or leased street or
	23	+	in any municipally owned or leased parking lot with at least a 30-minute time
	24	+	limitation and no meter payment is required to be made.
	25	+	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
	26	+	an appendix to this bill.
	27	+	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
	28	+	enact as follows:
	29	+	SECTION 1. 346.50 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
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	35	+	346.50 (2) Except as provided in sub. (3m), a motor vehicle bearing a special
	36	+	registration plate issued under s. 341.14 (1) to a disabled veteran or on his or her
	37	+	behalf is exempt from any ordinance and any administrative rule promulgated by the
	38	+	University of Wisconsin System imposing time limitations on parking in any street
	39	+	or highway zone, on any University of Wisconsin System campus, as defined in s.
	40	+	36.05 (3), and in any parking lot, whether municipally owned or leased, or both
	41	+	municipally owned and leased or a parking place owned or leased, or both owned and
	42	+	leased by a municipal parking utility, with one-half hour or more limitation but
	43	+	otherwise is subject to the laws relating to parking. Where the time limitation on a
	44	+	metered stall is one-half hour or more, no meter payment is required. Parking
	45	+	privileges granted by this subsection are limited to the disabled veteran to whom or
	46	+	on whose behalf the special plates were issued and to qualified operators acting
	47	+	under the disabled veteran's express direction with the disabled veteran present.
	48	+	SECTION 2. 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
	49	+	346.50 (2a) (intro.) Except as provided in sub. (3m), a motor vehicle bearing
	50	+	special registration plates issued under s. 341.14 (1a), (1e), (1m), or (1q) or a motor
	51	+	vehicle upon which a special identification card issued under s. 343.51 is displayed
	52	+	or a motor vehicle registered in another jurisdiction upon which is displayed a
	53	+	registration plate, a card, or an emblem issued by the other jurisdiction designating
	54	+	the vehicle as a vehicle used by a physically disabled person is exempt from any
	55	+	ordinance and any administrative rule promulgated by the University of Wisconsin
	56	+	System imposing time limitations on parking in any street or highway zone, on any
	57	+	University of Wisconsin System campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (3), and in any parking
	58	+	lot, whether municipally owned or leased, or both municipally owned and leased or
	59	+	a parking place owned or leased, or both owned and leased by a municipal parking
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	89	+	utility, with one-half hour or more limitation but otherwise is subject to the laws
	90	+	relating to parking. Where the time limitation on a metered stall is one-half hour
	91	+	or more, no meter payment is required. Parking privileges granted by this
	92	+	subsection are limited to the following:
54	93		SECTION 3.0Initial applicability.
55		-	(1) This act first applies to motor vehicles parked on
56		-	a University of Wisconsin System campus on the effec-
57		-	tive date of this subsection.
58		-	* 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
59		-	partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”
	94	+	(1) This act first applies to motor vehicles parked on a University of Wisconsin
	95	+	System campus on the effective date of this subsection.
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