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2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 869
January 2, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives SNYDER, EDMING, C. ANDERSON,
GUNDRUM, MOSES, MURSAU, O'CONNOR, PENTERMAN, SINICKI, SUBECK and
JACOBSON, cosponsored by Senators TOMCZYK, BALLWEG, CARPENTER, COWLES,
FELZKOWSKI and SPREITZER. Referred to Committee on Transportation.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to renumber and amend 347.385 (1m) (b) and 347.385 (1m) (c); to
amend 347.385 (title), 347.385 (2m), 347.385 (5) (a) and 347.385 (5) (b); and to
create 347.385 (1m) (d), 347.385 (1m) (e), 347.385 (1m) (g), 347.385 (2r) and
347.385 (6) of the statutes; relating to: traffic control signal priority devices
for snow removal vehicles.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill authorizes snow removal vehicles to be equipped with lamps or other
transmitters to communicate with traffic control signals equipped with traffic
control signal priority devices. These devices allow the operator of the vehicle to
request that a green signal be provided or maintained to allow the vehicle to proceed
through the intersection.
Under current law, authorized emergency vehicles may be equipped with lamps
or other transmitters to communicate with traffic control signals equipped with
emergency preemption devices, which allow the operator of the vehicle to alter the
normal traffic control sequence to provide or maintain a green signal to allow the
vehicle to proceed through the intersection.
The bill provides that the authority responsible for maintenance of a traffic
control signal may establish procedures for resolving conflicts between multiple
requests for signal preemption or priority at a traffic signal, except that a signal
preemption request from an emergency vehicle must be given priority over any
signal priority request.
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For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 347.385 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
347.385 (title) Auxiliary lamps on emergency vehicles; traffic Traffic
control signal emergency preemption and priority devices.
SECTION 2. 347.385 (1m) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 347.385 (1m) (f) and
amended to read:
347.385 (1m) (f) “Emergency Traffic control signal preemption device" means
a device, located on or within a traffic control signal, that is designed to receive an
electronic, radio, light, or sound transmission from an approaching vehicle that
alters the normal sequence of the traffic control signal to provide or maintain a green
signal for the vehicle to proceed through the intersection.
SECTION 3. 347.385 (1m) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 347.385 (1m) (i) and
amended to read:
347.385 (1m) (i) “Transmitter" means a device that emits a signal for the
purpose of activating an emergency a traffic control signal preemption device or a
traffic control signal priority device.
SECTION 4. 347.385 (1m) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
347.385 (1m) (d) “Political subdivision” means a county, city, village, or town.
SECTION 5. 347.385 (1m) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
347.385 (1m) (e) “Snow removal vehicle” means any vehicle equipped with a
snowplow or anti-icing equipment that is used by a political subdivision for snow
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removal and is operated by a political subdivision or the agent or lessee of a political
subdivision.
SECTION 6. 347.385 (1m) (g) of the statutes is created to read:
347.385 (1m) (g) “Traffic control signal priority device" means a device, located
on or within a traffic control signal, that is designed to receive an electronic, radio,
light, or sound transmission from an approaching vehicle to request that a green
signal be provided or maintained for the vehicle to proceed through the intersection.
SECTION 7. 347.385 (2m) of the statutes is amended to read:
347.385 (2m) An authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped and operated
with lamps designed and used, or with any other transmitter designed and used, to
activate emergency traffic control signal preemption devices.
SECTION 8. 347.385 (2r) of the statutes is created to read:
347.385 (2r) A snow removal vehicle equipped with oscillating, rotating, or
flashing lights that is actively engaged in snow removal activities may be equipped
and operated with lamps designed and used, or with any other transmitter designed
and used, to activate traffic control signal priority devices.
SECTION 9. 347.385 (5) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
347.385 (5) (a) No person may operate upon a highway a motor vehicle, other
than an authorized emergency vehicle or snow removal vehicle, that is equipped with
a transmitter or in which a transmitter is located. This subsection does not apply to
a motor carrier or person in the business of selling transmitters to authorized users
who transports a transmitter in original, unopened packaging or in an inoperative
condition in an enclosed storage compartment of the vehicle.
SECTION 10. 347.385 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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347.385 (5) (b) No person may sell a transmitter except for use for authorized
purposes as described in sub. (2m) or (2r).
SECTION 11. 347.385 (6) of the statutes is created to read:
347.385 (6) The authority responsible for maintenance of a traffic control
signal may establish procedures for resolving conflicts between multiple requests for
signal preemption or priority at a traffic signal, except that a signal preemption
request from an authorized emergency vehicle must be given priority over any signal
priority request.
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