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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 44
February 12, 2025 - Introduced by Senator
Cabral-Guevara
, cosponsored by Representatives
Sortwell
,
Behnke
,
Goeben
,
Miresse
,
Piwowarczyk
,
Stroud
and
Wichgers
. Referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government.
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An Act
to create
66.0443 of the statutes;
relating to:
local regulation of fowl.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits political subdivisions and sewerage districts from prohibiting the keeping of up to four chickens or quail (fowl) by property owners or certain lessors on properties zoned for residential use. The bill specifically allows political subdivisions and sewerage districts to do any of the following with regard to the keeping of fowl:
1. Require a keeper of fowl to obtain a permit.
2. Require notification of adjoining land owners.
3. Impose reasonable regulations related to the location of fowl housing on a property.
4. Prohibit the keeping of roosters.
5. Impose reasonable cleanliness standards.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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2
Section
1
.
66.0443 of the statutes is created to read:
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3
66.0443
Local regulation of fowl.
(1)
In this section:
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(a) “Fowl” means chickens or quail.
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(b) “Local governmental unit” means a city, village, town, county, or sewerage
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district.
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(2)
No local governmental unit may prohibit the keeping of 4 or fewer fowl by
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any of the following on a property zoned for residential use:
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(a) The owner of the property. A local governmental unit may prohibit any
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keeping of fowl that is inconsistent with the condominium’s declarations, bylaws,
8
and rules on a property that is a condominium.
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(b) A lessor of the property if the property is owner-occupied.
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(3)
Notwithstanding sub. (2), a local governmental unit may do any of the
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following with regard to the keeping of fowl:
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(a) Require a keeper of fowl to obtain a permit.
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(b) Require notification of owners of properties adjoining the property on
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which fowl are to be kept.
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(c) Impose reasonable regulations related to the location of fowl housing on a
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property.
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(d) Prohibit the keeping of roosters.
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(e) Impose reasonable cleanliness standards.
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