2023 Wisconsin Act 59

* 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.”

  Date of enactment: December 6, 2023
2023 Assembly Bill 49   Date of publication*: December 7, 2023

2023 WISCONSIN ACT 59

An Act to amend 346.50 (2) and 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes; relating to: disabled parking privileges on University of Wisconsin System campuses.

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

59,1 Section 1. 346.50 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

346.50 (2) Except as provided in sub. (3m), a motor vehicle bearing a special registration plate issued under s. 341.14 (1) to a disabled veteran or on his or her behalf is exempt from any ordinance and any administrative rule promulgated by the University of Wisconsin System imposing time limitations on parking in any street or highway zone, on any University of Wisconsin System campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (3), and in any parking lot, whether municipally owned or leased, or both municipally owned and leased or a parking place owned or leased, or both owned and leased by a municipal parking utility, with one-half hour or more limitation but otherwise is subject to the laws relating to parking. Where the time limitation on a metered stall is one-half hour or more, no meter payment is required. Parking privileges granted by this subsection are limited to the disabled veteran to whom or on whose behalf the special plates were issued and to qualified operators acting under the disabled veteran’s express direction with the disabled veteran present.

59,2 Section 2. 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

346.50 (2a) (intro.) Except as provided in sub. (3m), a motor vehicle bearing special registration plates issued under s. 341.14 (1a), (1e), (1m), or (1q) or a motor vehicle upon which a special identification card issued under s. 343.51 is displayed or a motor vehicle registered in another jurisdiction upon which is displayed a registration plate, a card, or an emblem issued by the other jurisdiction designating the vehicle as a vehicle used by a physically disabled person is exempt from any ordinance and any administrative rule promulgated by the University of Wisconsin System imposing time limitations on parking in any street or highway zone, on any University of Wisconsin System campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (3), and in any parking lot, whether municipally owned or leased, or both municipally owned and leased or a parking place owned or leased, or both owned and leased by a municipal parking utility, with one-half hour or more limitation but otherwise is subject to the laws relating to parking. Where the time limitation on a metered stall is one-half hour or more, no meter payment is required. Parking privileges granted by this subsection are limited to the following:

59,3 Section 3. Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to motor vehicles parked on a University of Wisconsin System campus on the effective date of this subsection.