Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 355 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to renumber and amend 347.26 (9); to amend 346.072 (1g) (d); and to create 347.26 (9) (a) 3. and 347.26
(9) (b) of the statutes; relating to: warning lights on public utility, telecommunications carrier, or cooperative vehi-
cles.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 346.072 (1g) (d) of the statutes is
amended to read:
346.072 (1g) (d) Any vehicle of a public utility, tele-
communications carrier, or cooperative association
described in s. 347.26 (9) displaying one or more flashing
amber or green lamps as provided in s. 347.26 (9).
SECTION 2. 347.26 (9) of the statutes is renumbered
347.26 (9) (a) (intro.) and amended to read:
347.26 (9) (a) (intro.) Any Subject to par. (b), any
vehicle of a public utility, as defined in s. 196.01 (5), of
a telecommunications carrier, as defined in s. 196.01
(8m), or of a cooperative association organized under ch.
185 for the purpose of producing or furnishing heat, light,
power, or water to its members, which that by reason of
its use upon a highway creates a vehicular traffic hazard
requiring the exercise of unusual care in approaching,
overtaking, or passing may be equipped with a any of the
following configurations of flashing amber lamp or
green lamps:
1. A lamp of the dome dome−light type or with 2
flashing amber.
2. Two lamps, one showing to the front and one show-
ing to the rear. Such The lamps shall be mounted approxi-
mately midway between the extremities of the width of
the vehicle and at the highest practicable point and shall
be used only for the purpose of warning operators of other
vehicles of the presence of the traffic hazard. Should
such vehicle be of a type so as to make impractical If the
mounting of such lamps midway between the extremities
of the width of the vehicle is impracticable because of the
vehicle’s design, then such the mountings shall be made
at or near the upper left front and rear corners of such the
vehicle.
SECTION 3. 347.26 (9) (a) 3. of the statutes is created
to read:
347.26 (9) (a) 3. Four lamps, 2 showing to the front
and 2 showing to the rear. The lamps showing to the front
shall be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced
laterally as practicable. The lamps showing to the rear
shall be mounted at the same level and as widely spaced
laterally as practicable.
SECTION 4. 347.26 (9) (b) of the statutes is created to
read:
347.26 (9) (b) In this paragraph, “maintenance and
restoration of utility service” means the immediate
restoration of a utility service that is outside the normal
parameters of general maintenance or construction when
damage or interruption of service has been caused to util-
ity infrastructure by adverse weather or other events and
that requires utility crews to park utility vehicles in the
* 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.” − 2 −2023 Wisconsin Act 2023 Senate Bill 355
roadway or on the shoulder of the roadway. No person
may use flashing green lamps under par. (a) unless the
vehicle upon which the lamps are mounted is operated
for the purpose of maintenance and restoration of utility
service.