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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
March 10, 2022 - Introduced by Representatives Bowen, Cabrera, Shelton and
Sinicki. Referred to Committee on Rules.
AB1181,1,3 1An Act to renumber and amend 346.57 (4) (i); and to create 86.198, 346.57
2(4) (i) 2. and 346.60 (2) (c) of the statutes; relating to: speed limits on highways
3adjacent to parks and playgrounds and providing a penalty.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law requires a motorist to slow to 15 miles per hour on any street or
town road, except a state trunk highway or connecting highway, abutting a public
park or recreation area when children are going to or from or are playing within the
area. The reduced speed limit applies only if the local authority in charge of the
street or road has enacted an ordinance reflecting the reduced speed limit and has
marked the area with official traffic control devices.
Under this bill, the reduced speed limit applies on any highway contiguous to
or adjacent to a playground, public park, or recreation area in an urban area or any
highway properly marked with a park or playground sign when children are present.
Any person who violates these requirements may be required to forfeit not more than
$100 for a first offense and not more than $200 for a second or subsequent offense.
The bill also requires the authority in charge of the maintenance of a highway
that borders a playground, public park, or recreation area where children accessing
or using the facility are likely to be at risk from traffic to erect signs warning
motorists of the presence of the facility.

For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB1181,1 1Section 1. 86.198 of the statutes is created to read:
AB1181,2,8 286.198 Park or playground zones. The authority in charge of the
3maintenance of a highway that borders a playground, public park, or recreation area
4where children accessing or using the playground, park, or recreation area are likely
5to be at risk from traffic shall erect warning signs along the highway warning
6motorists of the presence of the playground, public park, or recreation area. The
7department shall establish standards for the design and installation of signs under
8this section.
AB1181,2 9Section 2. 346.57 (4) (i) of the statutes is renumbered 346.57 (4) (i) (intro.) and
10amended to read:
AB1181,2,1211 346.57 (4) (i) (intro.) Fifteen miles per hour on any street or town road, except
12a state trunk
of the following when children are present:
AB1181,2,20 131. A highway or connecting highway, within, contiguous to or adjacent to a
14playground, public park, or recreation area when children are going to or from or are
15playing within such area, when the local authority has enacted an ordinance
16regulating such traffic and has properly marked such area with official traffic control
17devices erected at such points as said authority deems necessary and at those points
18on the streets or town roads concerned where persons traversing the same would
19enter such area from an area where a different speed limit is in effect
in an urban
20area
.
AB1181,3 21Section 3. 346.57 (4) (i) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
AB1181,3,1
1346.57 (4) (i) 2. A highway properly marked under s. 86.198.
AB1181,4 2Section 4. 346.60 (2) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
AB1181,3,53 346.60 (2) (c) Except as provided in sub. (3m) or (5), any person violating s.
4346.57 (4) (i) may be required to forfeit not more than $100 for a first offense and not
5more than $200 for a 2nd or subsequent offense.
AB1181,5 6Section 5. Initial applicability.
AB1181,3,97 (1) This act first applies to violations committed on the effective date of this
8subsection, but does not preclude the counting of other violations as prior violations
9for purposes of sentencing a person.
AB1181,3,1010 (End)
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