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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 37
February 12, 2025 - Introduced by Senator
Jacque
, cosponsored by Representatives
Sortwell
,
Armstrong
,
Behnke
,
Dittrich
,
Goeben
,
Kreibich
,
Miresse
,
Wichgers
and
Stroud
. Referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government.
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An Act
to create
66.04075 of the statutes;
relating to:
local regulation of
2
vegetable gardens.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits a political subdivision from requiring a permit for or prohibiting the cultivation of a vegetable or flower garden on residential property not owned by the political subdivision.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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3
Section
1
.
66.04075 of the statutes is created to read:
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4
66.04075
Vegetable and flower gardens.
(1)
In this section:
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(a) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county.
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(b) “Vegetable garden” means a plot of ground or elevated soil bed that is
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located on a residential property and in which any of the following are grown:
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1. Vegetables, herbs, fruits, leafy greens, or other edible plants.
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2. Flowers.
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3. Pollinator plants.
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(2)
A political subdivision may not require a permit for or prohibit the
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cultivation of a vegetable garden on property not owned by the political subdivision.
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(3)
This section does not affect the power of a municipality to do any of the
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following if the regulation does not specifically regulate vegetable gardens:
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(a) Enact a zoning ordinance.
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(b) Regulate the use of water or fertilizer.
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(c) Control noxious weeds, as defined under s. 66.0407 (1) (b), or invasive
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species.
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