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2025 SENATE BILL 37
February 12, 2025 - Introduced by Senator JACQUE, cosponsored by Representatives
SORTWELL, ARMSTRONG, BEHNKE, DITTRICH, GOEBEN, KREIBICH, MIRESSE,
WICHGERS and STROUD. Referred to Committee on Transportation and Local
Government.
AN ACT to create 66.04075 of the statutes; relating to: local regulation of
vegetable gardens.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits a political subdivision from requiring a permit for or
prohibiting the cultivation of a vegetable or flower garden on residential property
not owned by the political subdivision.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 66.04075 of the statutes is created to read:
66.04075 Vegetable and flower gardens. (1) In this section:
(a) XPolitical subdivisionY means a city, village, town, or county.
(b) XVegetable gardenY means a plot of ground or elevated soil bed that is
located on a residential property and in which any of the following are grown:
1. Vegetables, herbs, fruits, leafy greens, or other edible plants.
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2. Flowers.
3. Pollinator plants.
(2) A political subdivision may not require a permit for or prohibit the
cultivation of a vegetable garden on property not owned by the political subdivision.
(3) This section does not affect the power of a municipality to do any of the
following if the regulation does not specifically regulate vegetable gardens:
(a) Enact a zoning ordinance.
(b) Regulate the use of water or fertilizer.
(c) Control noxious weeds, as defined under s. 66.0407 (1) (b), or invasive
species.
(END)
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