2019 Wisconsin Act 163

  Date of enactment: March 3, 2020
2019 Senate Bill 523   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 163

An Act to amend 343.055 (1) (c) of the statutes; relating to: commercial driver license waiver for certain operation of commercial motor vehicles by farmers.

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

163,1 Section 1. 343.055 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

343.055 (1) (c) Farmers. The operator of the commercial motor vehicle is a farmer or a family member or employee of a farmer who is using the commercial motor vehicle within 150 miles of the operator's farm to transport agricultural products, farm machinery, or farm supplies including transporting hazardous materials requiring placarding, or a combination thereof to or from a farm and the commercial motor vehicle is operated and controlled by a farmer and not used in the operations of a common motor carrier or contract motor carrier, as defined in s. 194.01 (1) and (2). If the operator of the commercial motor vehicle is transporting hazardous materials requiring placarding, the waiver under this paragraph applies only within 150 miles of a farm where the operator is a farmer or a family member or employee of a farmer. In this paragraph, “controlled" means leased or owned; and “farmer" and “leased" have the meanings given in s. 340.01 (18) (b).