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2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE
March 9, 2009 - Introduced by Representatives Schneider and Pope-Roberts.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
AB133,1,2
1An Act to create 86.035 of the statutes;
relating to: spraying water onto
2highways and providing a penalty.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits a person who owns or occupies land adjoining a highway from
causing water to spray more than two feet onto the roadway of the highway. A person
who violates this prohibition must forfeit $10 for the first offense, $100 for the second
offense, and $1,000 for the third and each subsequent offense.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB133, s. 1
3Section
1. 86.035 of the statutes is created to read:
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486.035 Water overspray onto highway.
(1) In this section:
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(a) "Highway" has the meaning given in s. 340.01 (22).
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(b) "Roadway" has the meaning given in s. 340.01 (54).
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7(2) No person owning or occupying land adjoining any highway may cause
8water to spray from this land onto the roadway of the highway to a distance exceeding
92 feet from the edge of the roadway nearest the person's land.
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1(3) Any person who violates sub. (2) shall forfeit $10 for the first offense, $100
2for the second offense, and $1,000 for the third and each subsequent offense.
