Section Trans 117.09 - Specific time and routes or areas of travel limitations(1) GENERAL. An occupational license shall specify definite hours of operation by specifying the exact times and days of the week during which the operator may operate a motor vehicle to or from church, in connection with a driver safety plan, or in order to perform the person's occupation, trade, or duties as a homemaker or student.(2) EMERGENCY SERVICE PROVIDERS.(a) "Emergency service provider" means a person who is employed by a unit of government, is providing services to a unit of government, or is employed by a public utility or medical services provider, and whose occupation involves providing essential life sustaining emergency services to the public. The term includes, but is not limited to, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, forest rangers, correctional officers, snow plow and emergency vehicle drivers, doctors, veterinarians, emergency medical technicians, certified first responders, paramedics, and electric, telephone and natural or propane gas repair technicians. A person who claims to be an emergency service provider may be required to provide documentation to the department proving the person provides essential life-sustaining emergency services to the public as part of the person's occupation.(b) In an application for occupational license, an emergency services provider may request authorization to operate a motor vehicle, during an emergency threatening injury to a person or property, outside the specific hours of operation set forth in the application. An order authorizing such operation shall authorize only the operation of motor vehicles directly to and from the location of the emergency or the person's place of employment and shall not authorize operation of a motor vehicle in excess of 12 hours per day or 60 hours per week.(c) An emergency services provider who has authority to operate a motor vehicle under par. (b) and who is charged with an offense stemming from the person's operating a motor vehicle outside the specified hours of operation set forth in the occupational license may not be convicted if the person produces in court or in the office of the arresting officer satisfactory documentation that the person was operating a motor vehicle in response to a bona fide emergency at the time of the citation.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation § Trans 117.09
Cr. Register, December, 1990, No. 420, eff. 1-1-91; am. (2) (a), Register, August, 1993, No. 452, eff. 9-1-93; em. am. (1) to (3) (a), (e) 3. and (f), eff. 11-1-96; am. (1), (2) (a) to (c), (3) (a) and (f), Register, June, 1997, No. 498, eff. 7-1-97; CR 05-034: r. (3) Register September 2005 No. 597, eff. 10-1-05.