Date of enactment: March 21, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 363 Date of publication*: March 22, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 156
AN ACT to renumber and amend 348.27 (9r) (a); and to create 348.27 (9r) (ag) of the statutes; relating to: permits
for the overweight transport of pig iron.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1m. 348.27 (9r) (a) of the statutes is renum-
bered 348.27 (9r) (ar) and amended to read:
348.27 (9r) (ar) Metallic or nonmetallic scrap for the
purpose of recycling or processing on a vehicle or combi-
nation of vehicles which exceeds statutory weight or
length limitations and for the return of the vehicle or com-
bination of vehicles when empty. This paragraph does
not apply to the transportation of scrap A permit issued
under this paragraph is not valid on highways designated
as part of the national system of interstate and defense
highways, except for the I 39 corridor and the I 41 corri-
dor to the extent permitted under federal law without any
loss or reduction of federal aid or any other sanction.
SECTION 2. 348.27 (9r) (ag) of the statutes is created
to read:
348.27 (9r) (ag) In this subsection, “metallic or non-
metallic scrap” means metallic or nonmetallic material in
waste for which there exists a commercially demon-
strated processing or manufacturing technology that uses
the material as a raw material and that is transported for
use as a raw material. “Metallic or nonmetallic scrap”
includes pig iron.
* 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.”