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WI Stat § 349.025 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.025 - Quotas relating to the enforcement of traffic regulations prohibited.

349.025  Quotas relating to the enforcement of traffic regulations prohibited. (1) In this section:(a) “Law enforcement officer" has the meaning given in s. 165.85 (2) (c).(b) “Political subdivision" means a city, village, town or county.(c) “State agency" means an office, commission, department or independent agency in the executive branch of state government.(d) “Traffic regulation" means a provision of chs. 194 or 341 to 348 or an ordinance enacted in accordance with this chapter. (2) No state agency or political subdivision of this state may require a law enforcement officer to issue a specific number of citations, complaints or warning notices during any specified time period for violations of traffic regulations. (3) A state agency or political subdivision may, for purposes of evaluating a law enforcement officer's job performance, compare the number of citations, complaints or warning notices issued by the law enforcement officer to the number of citations, complaints or warning notices issued by all law enforcement officers employed by the state agency or political subdivision who have similar job duties and who serve in the same administrative unit as the law enforcement officer.History:  1999 a. 16.
WI Stat § 349.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.04 - Truck driver education surcharges.

349.04  Truck driver education surcharges. (1) If a court imposes a fine or forfeiture for a violation of a provision of chs. 346 to 348 or a rule issued under chs. 346 to 348 and the violation involved a commercial motor vehicle, the court shall impose under ch. 814 a truck driver education surcharge of $8. (2) If a fine or forfeiture is suspended in whole or in part, the truck driver education surcharge shall be reduced in proportion to the suspension. (3) If any deposit is made for an offense to which this section applies, the person making the deposit shall also deposit a sufficient amount to include the truck driver education surcharge under this section. If the deposit is forfeited, the amount of the truck driver education surcharge shall be transmitted to the secretary of administration under sub. (4). If the deposit is returned, the amount of the truck driver education surcharge shall also be returned. (4) The clerk of the circuit court shall collect and transmit to the county treasurer the truck driver education surcharge as required under s. 59.40 (2) (m). The county treasurer shall then pay the secretary of administration as provided in s. 59.25 (3) (f) 2. The secretary of administration shall deposit all amounts received under this subsection in the general fund to be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.292 (1) (hm). (5) This section first applies to fines and forfeitures imposed on the first day of the first month beginning after the director of the technical college system notifies the director of state courts under 2001 Wisconsin Act 16, section 9148 (1f) that the truck driver training center at Waukesha County Technical College is scheduled to open.History:  2001 a. 16; 2003 a. 33, 139, 326.
WI Stat § 349.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.06 - Authority to adopt traffic regulations in strict conformity with state law.

349.06  Authority to adopt traffic regulations in strict conformity with state law. (1) (a) Except for the suspension or revocation of motor vehicle operator's licenses or except as provided in par. (b), any local authority may enact and enforce any traffic regulation which is in strict conformity with one or more provisions of chs. 341 to 348 and 350 for which the penalty for violation thereof is a forfeiture.(b) Any local authority shall enact and enforce parking regulations and penalties for violations of those regulations which are in conformity with the provisions of ss. 346.503, 346.505 and 346.56.(c) Any local authority may enact and enforce any traffic regulation that is in strict conformity with any rule of the department promulgated under ch. 110, 347 or 348, except rules pertaining to federal motor carrier safety standards, for which the penalty for a violation thereof is a forfeiture. (1m) Notwithstanding sub. (1), a municipal court may suspend a license for a violation of a local ordinance in conformity with s. 346.63 (1) or (2m). (2) Traffic regulations adopted by local authorities which incorporate by reference existing or future amendments to chs. 340 to 348 or rules of the department shall be deemed to be in strict conformity and not contrary to or inconsistent with such chapters or rules. This subsection does not require local traffic regulations to incorporate state traffic laws or rules by reference in order to meet the requirements of s. 349.03 or sub. (1). (3) If an operator of a vehicle violates a local ordinance in strict conformity with s. 346.04 (1) or (2), 346.18 (6), 346.27, 346.37, 346.39, 346.46 (1), 346.57 (2), (3), (4) (d) to (h), or (5), or 346.62 (2) where persons engaged in work in a highway maintenance or construction area or in a utility work area are at risk from traffic or violates a local ordinance in strict conformity with s. 346.57 (2), (3), (4) (d) to (h), or (5) or 346.62 (2) where sanitation workers are at risk from traffic and the operator knows or should know that sanitation workers are present, any applicable minimum and maximum forfeiture for the violation shall be doubled. History:  1971 c. 277, 278, 307; 1973 c. 336; 1975 c. 248; 1981 c. 20; 1987 a. 3, 27; 1993 a. 198, 256; 1995 a. 44; 1997 a. 190, 277; 2013 a. 39.Section 349.03, in prohibitory language, is the same concept of municipal power that is expressed affirmatively in this section. These sections must be read together and establish one test. Janesville v. Walker, 50 Wis. 2d 35, 183 N.W.2d 158 (1971).A city ordinance prohibiting loud and unnecessary tire or engine noise was valid under s. 349.03 (1) and sub. (1). City of Janesville v. Garthwaite, 83 Wis. 2d 866, 266 N.W.2d 418 (1978).A county can enact and enforce traffic ordinances in strict conformance with state statutes that are applicable to town roads. 64 Atty. Gen. 172.
WI Stat § 349.065 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.065 - Uniform traffic control devices.

349.065  Uniform traffic control devices. Local authorities shall place and maintain traffic control devices upon highways under their jurisdiction to regulate, warn, guide or inform traffic. The design, installation and operation or use of new traffic control devices placed and maintained by local authorities after the adoption of the uniform traffic control devices manual under s. 84.02 (4) (e) shall conform to the manual. After January 1, 1977, all traffic control devices placed and maintained by local authorities shall conform to the manual.History:  1973 c. 185.The decision to erect a stop sign, once made, carries with it the responsibility to ensure that the sign is properly installed and maintained to ensure that it remains visible to the motorists whose conduct the sign was intended to control. A local government that erects a stop sign should not be shielded on public policy grounds from liability when a tree obscures the stop sign. Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation v. Midwest Mutual Insurance Co. 2001 WI App 148, 246 Wis. 2d 933, 632 N.W.2d 59, 00-1836.Affirmed. 2002 WI 80, 254 Wis. 2d 77, 646 N.W.2d 777, 00-1836.That the county erected a stop sign at the intersection of town and county highways, within the town right-of-way did not preclude possible liability in the town or the adjacent landowner for an accident resulting from the sign being obscured by a tree. Both units of government and the landowner had a duty to correct the hazardous condition created by the tree. Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation v. Midwest Mutual Insurance Co. 2001 WI App 148, 246 Wis. 2d 933, 632 N.W.2d 59, 00-1836.Affirmed. 2002 WI 80, 254 Wis. 2d 77, 646 N.W.2d 777, 00-1836.
WI Stat § 349.08 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.08 - Cost of signs and traffic control signals.

349.08  Cost of signs and traffic control signals. The department may, when requested, furnish official traffic control devices and highway paint at cost to any local authority.History:  1975 c. 23, 48, 237, 239, 367, 422; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (3), (8) (a); 1977 c. 116.
WI Stat § 349.085 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.085 - Authority to install stop signs at railroad grade crossings.

349.085  Authority to install stop signs at railroad grade crossings. Local authorities may, by ordinance, when they deem it necessary for the public safety, install official stop signs at public traveled railroad grade crossings on highways maintained by the respective authorities.History:  1977 c. 116.
WI Stat § 349.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.09 - Authority to remove prohibited signs or signals.

349.09  Authority to remove prohibited signs or signals. Every sign, signal, pavement marking, or device which is placed, maintained, or displayed in violation of s. 346.41 is declared to be a public nuisance. The authority in charge of maintenance of the highway in question may notify in writing the owner or occupant of the premises upon which the nuisance exists or the person causing or maintaining the nuisance to remove the same. If such nuisance is not removed within 30 days after such notice is given or if an unauthorized signal or device is found to be in operation at any time after such notice is given, the authority in charge of maintenance of the highway may cause the nuisance to be removed and collect the expense of removal from the person notified to remove it. The expense of removal may be charged against the premises and, upon certificate of the highway authority causing the removal, assessed as are other special taxes. History:  2015 a. 124.
WI Stat § 349.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.10 - Authority to designate one-way highways, safety zones, turns and lanes.

349.10  Authority to designate one-way highways, safety zones, turns and lanes. (1) The department, county highway committees and local authorities in regard to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may:(a) Declare by order, ordinance or resolution and designate by appropriate signs any highway or portion thereof to be a one-way highway and require that all vehicles be operated in one specific direction on such highway.(b) Designate by pavement marking certain places on highways as safety zones or erect and maintain islands of safety and regulate and control traffic with respect to such safety zones and islands of safety. (c) By order, ordinance or resolution and by the erection of appropriate signs, prohibit right or left turns at intersections by all vehicles or by certain types of vehicles.(d) Place official traffic control devices within or adjacent to intersections and thereby require and direct that a different course from that specified in s. 346.31 be traveled by vehicles turning at the intersection.(e) Mark lanes for traffic upon any roadway and designate specific lanes for slow-moving traffic or for traffic moving in a particular direction.(f) By order, ordinance or resolution and by the erection of appropriate signs, prohibit U-turns at specified locations. The local authority with the approval of the department may prohibit U-turns and erect appropriate signs on state trunk highways within cities, villages and towns. (2) No local authority shall declare any part of a connecting highway between portions of the state trunk highway system to be a one-way highway or prohibit right or left turns or U-turns at any intersection of one such connecting highway with another without due regard for the expeditious flow of intercity traffic using the state trunk highways and without first conferring with the department on the problems involved. History:  1973 c. 175; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (3), (8) (a); 1977 c. 116, 272; 1993 a. 246; 2009 a. 97; 2015 a. 124.
WI Stat § 349.105 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.105 - Authority to prohibit certain traffic on expressways and freeways.

349.105  Authority to prohibit certain traffic on expressways and freeways. The authority in charge of maintenance of an expressway or freeway may, by order, ordinance or resolution, prohibit the use of such expressway or freeway by pedestrians, persons riding bicycles or other nonmotorized traffic or by persons operating mopeds or motor bicycles. The state or local authority adopting any such prohibitory regulation shall erect and maintain official signs giving notice thereof on the expressway or freeway to which such prohibition applies.History:  1983 a. 243.
WI Stat § 349.12 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.12 - Authority to designate no-passing zones.

349.12  Authority to designate no-passing zones. The department, county highway committees and local authorities, in regard to highways under their respective jurisdictions, may determine, in accordance with standards and procedures adopted by the department, where overtaking or passing or driving to the left of the center of the roadway would be especially hazardous and may, by signs approved by the department or by a yellow unbroken line on the pavement on the right-hand side of and adjacent to the center line or a lane line of a roadway, indicate the beginning and end of such zones.History:  1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (8) (a); 1979 c. 76.
WI Stat § 349.132 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.132 - Authority to require vehicle registration.

349.132  Authority to require vehicle registration. The governing body of any town, city, village, or county may enact an ordinance requiring that no vehicle that has been impounded or towed may be released unless the motor vehicle is registered under ch. 341 or exempt from registration under s. 341.05. History:  2015 a. 60.
WI Stat § 349.135 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.135 - Authority to regulate radios or other electric sound amplification devices.

349.135  Authority to regulate radios or other electric sound amplification devices. (1) Notwithstanding s. 346.94 (16), the governing body of any town, city, village or county may, by ordinance, provide that, except as provided in s. 347.38 (1), no person may operate or park, stop or leave standing a motor vehicle while using a radio or other electric sound amplification device emitting sound from the vehicle that is clearly audible under normal conditions from a distance of 50 or more feet, unless the electric sound amplification device is being used to request assistance or warn against an unsafe condition. The ordinance may provide that any person violating the ordinance may be required to forfeit not less than $40 nor more than $80 for the first violation and not less than $100 nor more than $200 for the 2nd or subsequent violation within a year. (2) Any ordinance enacted under sub. (1) may not apply to any of the following:(a) The operator of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call or when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm.(b) The operator of a vehicle of a public utility. In this paragraph, public utility means any corporation, company, individual or association which furnishes products or services to the public, and which is regulated under ch. 195 or 196, including railroads, telecommunications, or telegraph companies and any company furnishing or producing heat, light, power, or water. (c) The operator of a vehicle that is being used for advertising purposes.(d) The operator of a vehicle that is being used in a community event or celebration, procession or assemblage.(e) The activation of a theft alarm signal device.(f) The operator of a motorcycle being operated outside of a business or residence district.History:  1995 a. 373; 1997 a. 35; 2015 a. 117; 2017 a. 365 s. 111.
WI Stat § 349.14 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.14 - Authority to use parking meters.

349.14  Authority to use parking meters. (1) It is the public policy of this state that the use of parking meters by cities, villages, towns and counties to measure the time for parking vehicles is a local matter to be determined by the local authorities. (2) Cities, villages, towns and counties may by ordinance or resolution provide for the installation and operation of parking meters and may provide for the use of the revenue collected from such meters for general street and highway maintenance, repair and construction, for meeting the cost of traffic and parking regulation, for the purchase and operation of publicly owned off-street parking facilities, and for such other expenses and purposes as the local authority deems reasonably necessary to provide for the convenience, safety and welfare of persons using the streets and highways for vehicular traffic.History:  1993 a. 246.
WI Stat § 349.145 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.145 - Authority to establish disabled parking enforcement assistance councils.

349.145  Authority to establish disabled parking enforcement assistance councils. Any city, village or county may by ordinance or resolution establish a disabled parking enforcement assistance council. The majority of such a council shall be appointed by the local authorities from among those residents of the city, village or county to whom or on whose behalf the department has issued a special registration plate under s. 341.14 (1) to (1q) or a special identification card under s. 343.51. Members of such a council may report violations of s. 341.625 (1), 343.52, 346.503 or 346.505 (2) or ordinances in conformity therewith to a traffic officer of the city, village or county as provided in s. 341.625 (2), 343.52 (3), 346.503 (5) or 346.505 (3). If a 1st or 2nd class city has enacted an ordinance under s. 346.50 (3m), the council shall perform any duties required by s. 346.50 (3m).History:  1987 a. 260; 1991 a. 87; 1993 a. 256; 1995 a. 131; 2009 a. 246.
WI Stat § 349.15 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.15 - Authority to modify weight limitations and classify highways.

349.15  Authority to modify weight limitations and classify highways. (1) The limitations on size and weight imposed by ch. 348 are lawful throughout the state and local authorities may not alter such limitations except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (2) The county highway committee with respect to the county trunk highway system and the local authorities with respect to highways maintained by them may designate all or parts of such highways to be class “B" highways for the purpose of putting into effect the weight limitations set forth in s. 348.16, except that no portion of any such highway which is a state trunk highway or connecting highway may be so designated. (3) Any city of the first class may, with respect to the streets of such city, by ordinance increase the maximum weight limitations specified in ss. 348.15 and 348.16.History:  1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (3).The police power under this section need not be based on the condition of the roadbed, but may be exercised to promote the general welfare of the public. 66 Atty. Gen. 110.
WI Stat § 349.17 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.17 - Authority of cities, villages and towns to regulate heavy traffic.

349.17  Authority of cities, villages and towns to regulate heavy traffic. (1) Any city, village or town may by ordinance or resolution designate any street or highway under its jurisdiction as a heavy traffic route and designate the type and character of vehicles which may be operated thereon. A city, village or town may restrict or prohibit heavy traffic from using other streets or highways under its jurisdiction except that it may not place such restrictions on streets or highways over which are routed state trunk highways and may not prohibit heavy traffic from using a street or highway for the purpose of obtaining orders for supplies or moving or delivering supplies or commodities to or from any place of business or residence which has an entrance on such street or highway. Whenever a city, village or town designates any street or highway under its jurisdiction as a heavy traffic route, it shall cause appropriate signs to be erected giving notice thereof. (2) In this section, “heavy traffic" means all vehicles not operating completely on pneumatic tires and all vehicles or combination of vehicles, other than motor buses, designed or used for transporting property of any nature and having a gross weight of more than 6,000 pounds.History:  1977 c. 116; 1993 a. 246.Legislative Council Note, 1977: Sub. (1) authorizes cities and villages to designate any street as a heavy traffic route. As defined in s. 340.01 (64), the term “street" means every highway within the corporate limits of a city or village except alleys. By adding “or highway" after “street", s. 349.17 (1) authorizes a city or village to prohibit heavy traffic from using any street or alley which has not been designated as a heavy traffic route unless such street or alley is being used to obtain orders for supplies or to deliver supplies or commodities to or from a place of business or residence with an entrance on such street or alley. “Highway" is defined in s. 340.01 (22), to mean “all public ways and thoroughfares", including alleys. [Bill 465-A]
WI Stat § 349.185 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.185 - Authority to regulate certain events and pedestrians.

349.185  Authority to regulate certain events and pedestrians. The authority in charge of the maintenance of a highway may by order, ordinance or resolution: (1) Regulate community events or celebrations, processions or assemblages on the highways, including reasonable regulations on the use of radios or other electric sound amplification devices, subject to s. 84.07 (4). (2) Regulate the traffic of pedestrians upon highways within its jurisdiction, including the prohibition of pedestrian crossings at places otherwise permitted by law and the erection of signs indicating such prohibition.History:  1977 c. 116 ss. 14, 15; 1989 a. 31; 1991 a. 83.
WI Stat § 349.19 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 349 - Vehicles — powers of state and local authorities.|349.19 - Authority to require accident reports.

349.19  Authority to require accident reports. Any city, village, town or county may by ordinance require the operator of a vehicle involved in an accident to file with a designated municipal department or officer a report of such accident or a copy of any report required to be filed with the department. All such reports are for the confidential use of such department or officer and are otherwise subject to s. 346.73, except that this section does not prohibit the disclosure of a person's name or address, of the name or address of a person's employer or of financial information that relates to a person when requested under s. 49.22 (2m) to the department of children and families or a county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5).History:  1971 c. 164; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (a); 1997 a. 191; 2007 a. 20; 2011 a. 260 s. 81.