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- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRB-2472/1 KRP:skw ASSEMBLY BILL 669 November 27, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives UCHOW , ARMSTRONG , EHNKE , D ITTRICH, EMERSON , KITCHENS , MAGNAFICI, M URPHY , MURSAU , N EDWESKI, O C ONNOR , RTIZ-VELEZ, RODRIGUEZ and W ICHGERS, cosponsored by Senators F ELZKOWSKI, BALLWEG, NASS and TAYLOR.
Date of enactment:
Referred to Committee on Consumer Protection.
Assembly Bill 669 Date of publication*:
A N A CT to amend 342.15 (3);
WISCONSIN ACT A N A CT to amend 342.15 (3);
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Under this bill, a seller of a motor vehicle who holds legal title to the motor vehicle and has transferred possession of the motor vehicle to a buyer is immune from civil and criminal liability and is not responsible for local ordinance violations committed involving the motor vehicle after the seller has signed the motor vehicle title and given it to the buyer.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in s.
The bill also applies the immunity to a circumstance in which the buyer and seller intend for ownership of the motor vehicle to be transferred to the buyer, even when certain formalities of the transfer of ownership have not occurred.
218.0101 (23) (a) 2.
The immunity provided under the bill does not apply if death or injury was caused by the seller's willful or wanton acts or omissions.
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
The immunity under the bill also does not apply to motor vehicle or wholesale dealers.
(c) “Seller” does not include a motor vehicle dealer or wholesale dealer.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
342.15 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
342.15 (3) of the statutes is amended to (d) “Wholesale dealer” has the meaning given in s.
342.15(3) Except as provided in s.
read:
342.16 and as between the parties, a transfer by an owner is not effective until the provisions of this section have been complied - 2024 Legislature - 2 - LRB-2472/1 KRP:skw ASSEMBLY BILL 669 SECTION 1 with.
218.0101 (38).
An owner who has delivered possession of the vehicle to the transferee and has complied with the provisions of this section is not liable as owner for any damages thereafter resulting from operation of the vehicle.
342.15 (3) Except as provided in s.
Nothing in this section limits the immunity from liability described under s.
342.16 and as (2) Except as provided under sub.
(3), a seller of a between the parties, a transfer by an owner is not effective motor vehicle who holds legal title to the motor vehicle until the provisions of this section have been complied and who has transferred possession of the motor vehicle with.
An owner who has delivered possession of the to a buyer is immune from civil and criminal liability and vehicle to the transferee and has complied with the provi- is not responsible for local ordinance violations commit- sions of this section is not liable as owner for any dam- ted involving the motor vehicle under any of the follow- ages thereafter resulting from operation of the vehicle.
ing circumstances:
Nothing in this section limits the immunity from liability (a) The seller has signed the motor vehicle title and described under s.
given the title to the buyer.
(b) Regardless of whether full compliance with s.
vehicle seller after sale.
vehicle seller after 342.15 has been attained, the buyer and seller intend to sale.
transfer ownership of the motor vehicle to the buyer.
340.01 (35).
(3) Immunity under this section does not apply if 340.01 (35).
(b) “Motor vehicle dealer” has the meaning given in s.
death or injury was caused by willful or wanton acts or (b) “Motor vehicle dealer” has the meaning given in omissions by the seller.
218.0101 (23) (a) 2.
* Section 991.11,ISCONSISTATUTES:
(c) “Seller” does not include a motor vehicle dealer or wholesale dealer.
Effective date of acts.
(d) “Wholesale dealer” has the meaning given in s.
“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.”
218.0101 (38).
(2) Except as provided under sub.
(3), a seller of a motor vehicle who holds legal title to the motor vehicle and who has transferred possession of the motor vehicle to a buyer is immune from civil and criminal liability and is not responsible for local ordinance violations committed involving the motor vehicle under any of the following circumstances:
(a) The seller has signed the motor vehicle title and given the title to the buyer.
(b) Regardless of whether full compliance with s.
342.15 has been attained, the buyer and seller intend to transfer ownership of the motor vehicle to the buyer.
(3) Immunity under this section does not apply if death or injury was caused by willful or wanton acts or omissions by the seller.
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