2019 Wisconsin Act 146

  Date of enactment: March 3, 2020
2019 Assembly Bill 818   Date of publication*: March 4, 2020

* 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 146

An Act to renumber and amend 348.27 (9r); and to create 348.27 (9r) (b) of the statutes; relating to: permits for the overweight transport of the residue material resulting from treatment of municipal sewage.

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

146,1 Section 1. 348.27 (9r) of the statutes is renumbered 348.27 (9r) (intro.) and amended to read:

348.27 (9r) Transportation of scrap and municipal sewage residue. (intro.) The department may issue an annual or consecutive month permit for the transportation of metallic any of the following:

(a) Metallic or nonmetallic scrap for the purpose of recycling or processing on a vehicle or combination of vehicles which exceeds statutory weight or length limitations and for the return of the vehicle or combination of vehicles when empty. This subsection paragraph does not apply to the transportation of scrap on highways designated as part of the national system of interstate and defense highways, except for the I 39 corridor and the I 41 corridor.

146,2 Section 2. 348.27 (9r) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

348.27 (9r) (b) The residue material resulting from treatment of municipal sewage for the purpose of processing in a vehicle combination that exceeds the maximum gross weight limitations under s. 348.15 (3) (c) by not more than 20,000 pounds if the vehicle combination has 5 or more axles and for the return of the vehicle combination to the municipal sewage treatment facility while transporting the liquid removed from the residue material during processing, including any chemical treatment added to the liquid. This paragraph does not apply to the transportation of municipal sewage residue material or liquid removed from municipal sewage residue material on highways designated as part of the national system of interstate and defense highways.

146,3 Section 3 . Nonstatutory provisions.

(1) Notwithstanding s. 13.096 (2), the department of transportation may not prepare a report on this bill under s. 13.096 (2) and (3).