Definitions
Any device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except railroad trains. A snowmobile, an all−terrain vehicle, a personal delivery device, an electric scooter, and an electric personal assistive mobility device are not considered these unless specifically included by statute.
What is a vehicle? [340.01(74)]
A motor vehicle designed primarily for the transportation of persons rather than property and having a passenger−carrying capacity of 16 or more persons, including the operator. Passenger−carrying capacity is determined by dividing the total seating space measured in inches by 20 inches.
What is a motor bus? [s. 340.01(31)]
DMV is generally prohibited from issuing one of these to a person whose operating privilege is suspended or revoked.
What is a driver license? [343.06(1)(a) and (b)].
When driving, it is illegal to increase speed if another driver does this.
What is begins to overtake or pass a car. [s. 346.07(3)]
These two laws contain most of the motor vehicle equipment requirements for Wisconsin.
What are Ch. 347, Stats., and Ch. Trans 305, Wis. Admin Code.
Any public ways or thoroughfares including bridges on either. It includes the entire width between the boundary lines of every way open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular travel.
What is a highway? [340.01(22)]
A motor vehicle originally manufactured with motive power, a seat or saddle requiring the rider to sit astride, not more than 3 wheels in contact with the ground, steering controlled by handlebars, acceleration and braking controlled with handlebar and foot controls, and capable of speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour.
What is a motorcycle?
A Wisconsin resident whose operating privilege is suspended or revoked may apply for this, which may allow the person to drive to or from work, church, or to perform homemaker duties, for limited amounts of time and in specified areas.
What is an occupational license? [s. 343.10]
Even if this person is outside of the United States at the time, he or she may be charged with illegally passing a school bus in Wisconsin if a school bus driver files a report about being passed improperly with a police officer.
The owner of the vehicle that illegally passed the bus. [346.485]
In Wisconsin, the number of ways a person must be able to apply the brakes on any motor vehicle other than a moped or motorcycle.
What are 2? [s. 347.35(1), Stats.]
That portion of a highway between the regularly established curb lines or that portion which is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, excluding the berm or shoulder. In a divided highway one exists on each side of the dividing median.
What is a roadway? [340.01(54)]
A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for carrying persons but which does not come within the definition of a motor bus, motorcycle, moped or motor bicycle.
What is a Type 1 Automobile? [340.01(4)]
Truck drivers and bus drivers need one of these in order to operate those big vehicles in the United States or Canada.
What is a commercial driver license? [343.03, 343.05, 343.055]
No vehicle may park on a street within 4 feet of one of these.
What is a driveway or alley entrance. [s. 346.53(4).]
Fire hydrants require 10'; crosswalks 15'. 346.53(3) and (5).
Wisconsin state and local governments may enact traffic laws only if they are in strict conformity with this.
What are Chs. 341 to 348, Stats. [s. 349.06(1)]
An "electric personal assistive mobility device" is not a scooter for disabled persons, but rather a self-balancing two-nontandem-wheeled device that can transport one person, first sold in the U.S. under this trademarked name?
What is a Segway? [340.01(15pm)]
There are a number of vehicles on the market today that appear to qualify as EPAMDs.
A person needs to do this before operating a motor vehicle on a highway in this state, unless the Governor has declared an emergency under Ch. 323, Stats.
What is register the vehicle. [s.341.04]
A person's photograph or image, social security number, medical or disability information.
What is "highly restricted personal information" under the Federal Driver Privacy Protection Act? [23 U.S.C. s. 2725(4)]
The speed limit in any alley in Wisconsin, absent any speed limit signs.
What is 15 miles per hour. [346.57(4)(d).]
This distinguished American served as the original host of Jeopardy!, spent 38 seasons as the announcer for Saturday Night Live, and told Weird Al Yankovic what he didn't win.
Who is Don Pardo?
A wick−type liquid−burning device designed to produce a steady burning flame as a warning signal.
What is a pot torch? [s. 340.01(44)]
A person's eligibility for this is a prerequisite to obtaining registration plates for a vehicle in Wisconsin.
What is a vehicle title? [342.05(2)]
A person whose operator's license is suspended or revoked cannot be properly charged with this offense.
Operating without a license. [343.05(6)]
(Note that if the person never held a license, they may be charged even if their operating privilege is suspended or revoked.)
This vehicle is not permitted on a roadway except to cross at a crosswalk.
What is a personal delivery device? [s. 346.807(2)(b).]
It is illegal to transport explosives, flammable liquids or compressed gasses with one of these in the vehicle.
What is a pot torch? [348.27(2)]