Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 109 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 23.33 (4) (c) 1.; and to create 23.33 (4) (c) 1g. of the statutes; relating to: operation of an all−ter-
rain or utility terrain vehicle on a highway by or at the direction of a municipality or an electric cooperative.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 23.33 (4) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended
to read:
23.33 (4) (c) 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply
to the operator of an all−terrain vehicle or utility terrain
vehicle owned by a municipality, state agency, or public
utility, or electric cooperative, or by the Great Lakes
Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, while the operator
is engaged in an emergency or in the operation of an all−
terrain vehicle or utility terrain vehicle directly related to
the functions of the municipality, state agency, or public
utility, or electric cooperative, or of the Great Lakes
Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, if safety does not
require strict adherence to these restrictions.
SECTION 2m. 23.33 (4) (c) 1g. of the statutes is cre-
ated to read:
23.33 (4) (c) 1g. Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply
to the operator of an all−terrain vehicle or utility terrain
vehicle while the operator is engaged in activities at the
direction of and under contract with a municipality or
electric cooperative, if safety does not require strict
adherence to these restrictions.
* 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.”