The weight limit for utility terrain vehicles, the official text

2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 339
June 19, 2025 - Introduced by Senators Felzkowski, Quinn, Feyen, Nass, Spreitzer, Wimberger and Tomczyk, cosponsored by Representatives Krug, Tucker, B. Jacobson, Armstrong, Brooks, Callahan, Dallman, Dittrich, Doyle, Emerson, Green, Joers, Kaufert, Knodl, Kreibich, Maxey, Melotik, Moses, Mursau, Palmeri, Penterman, O'Connor, Swearingen, Tittl and Gustafson. Referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government.

An Act to amend 23.33 (1) (ng) 1. a. and 23.33 (1) (ng) 2. a. of the statutes; relating to: the weight limit for utility terrain vehicles.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill raises from 3,000 pounds to 3,500 pounds the maximum weight allowable for a motor driven device to be classified as a utility terrain vehicle (UTV).
Under current law, a UTV is defined as a commercially designed and manufactured motor driven device, other than a golf cart, low-speed vehicle, dune buggy, mini-truck, or tracked vehicle, that is designed to be used primarily off of a highway and that was manufactured to meet certain size and equipment specifications. Current law specifications limit UTVs to a weight, without fluids, of not more than 3,000 pounds.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 23.33 (1) (ng) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
23.33 (1) (ng) 1. a. A weight, without fluids, of 3,000 3,500 pounds or less.
Section 2. 23.33 (1) (ng) 2. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

23.33 (1) (ng) 2. a. It does not meet federal motor vehicle safety standards in effect on July 1, 2012; is not a golf cart, low-speed vehicle, dune buggy, mini-truck, or tracked vehicle; is designed to be used primarily off of a highway; and has, and was originally manufactured with, a weight, without fluids, of not more than 3,000 3,500 pounds.
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