2019 Wisconsin Act 52

  Date of enactment: November 22, 2019
2019 Senate Bill 290   Date of publication*: November 23, 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 52

An Act to renumber and amend 941.26 (1c); to amend 941.26 (4) (a); and to create 941.26 (1c) (a) of the statutes; relating to: pepper spray and CS gel substances.

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

52,1 Section 1. 941.26 (1c) of the statutes is renumbered 941.26 (1c) (intro.) and amended to read:

941.26 (1c) (intro.) In this section, “ machine:

(b) “Machine gun" has the meaning given in s. 941.25 (1).

52,2 Section 2. 941.26 (1c) (a) of the statutes is created to read:

941.26 (1c) (a) “CS gel” means nonatomizing, gel-form chlorobenzalmalononitrile.

52,3 Section 3. 941.26 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

941.26 (4) (a) Subsections (1g) to (3) do not apply to any device or container that contains a combination of oleoresin of capsicum or CS gel and inert ingredients but does not contain any other gas or substance that will cause bodily discomfort.