2019 Wisconsin Act 38

  Date of enactment: November 21, 2019
2019 Assembly Bill 117   Date of publication*: November 22, 2019

* 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."

2019 WISCONSIN ACT 38

An Act to renumber and amend 101.65 (3); and to create 101.65 (3) (a) and (b) of the statutes; relating to: submission of building permit applications for one-family and two-family dwellings.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

38,1 Section 1. 101.65 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 101.65 (3) (intro.) and amended to read:

101.65 (3) (intro.) Shall Except as provided in par. (a), shall use the standard building permit form prescribed and furnished by the department. or, if approved by the department under s. 101.63 (7m), a different building permit form. A city, village, town, or county may require an applicant to submit the form in paper or electronic form, but may not require that an applicant submit the form in both paper and electronic forms. If a city, village, town, or county requires submission of the form in paper form, both of the following apply:

38,2 Section 2. 101.65 (3) (a) and (b) of the statutes are created to read:

101.65 (3) (a) The applicant may submit any of the following:

1. A printed copy of the form that the city, village, town, or county makes available electronically.

2. A printed copy of the form that the department makes available electronically.

3. The form that the department makes available to the public in paper form.

(b) The city, village, town, or county shall submit electronically to the department the information on the form submitted by the applicant under par. (a).