2019 Wisconsin Act 74

  Date of enactment: January 21, 2020
2019 Senate Bill 297   Date of publication*: January 22, 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 74

An Act to create 23.1165 of the statutes; relating to: making insect repellant available for sale in state parks and state forests.

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

74,1 Section 1. 23.1165 of the statutes is created to read:

23.1165 Sale of insect repellant. (1) In this section, “friends group” has the meaning given in s. 23.098 (1) (b).

(2) The department shall ensure that insect repellant is available for purchase in every state park and state forest through one of the following methods:

(a) Making insect repellant available for sale at the state park office, state forest office, or other location in the state park or state forest at all times when the office or other location is open to the public and staffed.

(b) Arranging by agreement with a friends group that operates a concession stand in a state park or state forest to have insect repellant available for purchase in that concession stand when open to the public and staffed.

(3) The requirement under sub. (2) does not apply with respect to a state park or state forest if there is no state park office, state forest office, or other location in the state park or state forest where the department can make insect repellant available for sale or no friends group that operates a concession stand in the state park or state forest or, if the state park or state forest office, other location, or friends group concession stand sells out of insect repellant, for an amount of time that is sufficient to allow for restocking.