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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 175
April 15, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives MAXEY, DONOVAN, MADISON,
DITTRICH, HONG, JOERS, MIRESSE, MOORE OMOKUNDE, MURSAU, ORTIZ-VELEZ,
PALMERI, PHELPS, RODRIGUEZ, SINICKI, UDELL, KIRSCH and O'CONNOR,
cosponsored by Senators TOMCZYK, WANGGAARD, LARSON and SPREITZER.
Referred to Committee on Housing and Real Estate.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to create 101.1115 of the statutes; relating to: requiring periodic
inspections of parking structures.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the owner of a parking structure to engage a professional
engineer to inspect the structural integrity of the parking structure at least once
within five years after the bill takes effect, and at least once every five years
thereafter. The owner must also submit a report containing the results of the
inspection to the Department of Safety and Professional Services or, if the city,
village, town, or county within which the parking structure is located is authorized
to perform commercial building plan examinations, to that city, village, town, or
county. During the period beginning six months after the date by which the bill
requires an inspection and ending 12 months after that date, an owner of a parking
structure who violates the bill[s requirement is subject to a forfeiture of $200 for
each month that no inspection is conducted. One year after the date by which the
bill requires an inspection, DSPS must close the parking structure if no inspection
is conducted.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
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SECTION 1. 101.1115 of the statutes is created to read:
101.1115 Periodic inspection of parking structure. (1) In this section,
Xplan review authorityY means the department or, if the city, village, town, or
county within which a parking structure is located is authorized to perform
examinations under s. 101.12, that city, village, town, or county.
(2) (a) The owner of a parking structure shall engage a professional engineer
registered under s. 443.04 at least once within 5 years of the effective date of this
paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], and at least once every 5 years after the most
recent such inspection, to inspect the structural integrity of the parking structure
to ensure that it can continue to meet the loads and uses for which it was designed.
(b) An inspection of the structural integrity of a parking structure conducted
under s. 101.02 (5) or (15) or 101.12 satisfies the requirement under par. (a).
(c) The owner of a parking structure shall submit a report containing the
results of an inspection required under par. (a), other than an inspection conducted
under s. 101.02 (5) or (15) or 101.12, to the plan review authority of the parking
structure.
(3) (a) If the owner of a parking structure violates sub. (2) (a), the plan review
authority of the parking structure, if not the department, shall notify the
department of the violation no later than 30 days after the date by which sub. (2) (a)
requires an inspection.
(b) No later than 30 days after receiving notice under par. (a), the department
shall notify the owner of the parking structure of the requirements and penalties
under this section.
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(c) For the period beginning 6 months after the date by which sub. (2) (a)
requires an inspection and ending 12 months after the date by which sub. (2) (a)
requires an inspection, the owner of a parking structure who violates sub. (2) (a)
shall forfeit $200 for each month that the owner violates sub. (2) (a).
(d) One year after the date by which sub. (2) (a) requires an inspection, the
department shall close a parking structure that has not been inspected as described
under sub. (2) (a). If the plan review authority of the parking structure is a city,
village, town, or county, the department shall notify the plan review authority of
the closure of the parking structure.
(e) If the department closes a parking structure under par. (d), and the
parking structure is later inspected as described under sub. (2) (a) and the
department allows the parking structure to reopen, and if the plan review authority
of the parking structure is a city, village, town, or county, the department shall
notify the plan review authority of the date that the inspection was conducted.
(END)
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