Wisconsin Legislature: 1997 Wisconsin Act 287

Date of enactment: June 15, 1998
1997 Assembly Bill 453 Date of publication*: June 29, 1998

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1995-96: 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 as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

1997 WISCONSIN ACT 287

An Act to amend 60.24 (3) (j) and 66.96 (4) of the statutes; relating to: the publication of a noxious weeds notice by a city, village or town.

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

287,1 Section 1 . 60.24 (3) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

60.24 (3) (j) Publish annually a notice regarding noxious weeds and appoint Appoint one or more commissioners of noxious weeds under ss. 66.96 to 66.99.

287,2 Section 2 . 66.96 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

66.96 (4) The chairperson of each town, the president of each village and the mayor or manager of each city shall may annually on or before May 15 publish a class 2 notice, under ch. 985, that every person is required by law to destroy all noxious weeds, as defined in this section, on lands in the municipality which the person owns, occupies or controls. A town, village or city which has designated as its official newspaper or which uses for its official notices the same newspaper as any other town, village or city may publish the notice under this subsection in combination with the other town, village or city.