Wisconsin to resume enforcement of fire sprinklers in multi-family dwellings
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The State of Wisconsin is resuming enforcing a code provision requiring fire sprinkler systems in certain multi-family homes, a policy that may help stop a plague of home fires in the Milwaukee area this winter.
Multi-family homes taller than 60 feet, or six stories, and with three or more attached dwelling units will need to have an automatic fire sprinkler system installed. That is unless the building meets the narrowly defined exceptions outlined here, according to the Department of Safety and Professional Services.
In 2017, the Wisconsin Attorney General issued an opinion stating that the fire sprinkler requirements in the state s Administrative Code SPS § 362.0903 could not be enforced. DSPS stopped enforcing the requirement, but did not remove it from the administrative code.
FOND DU LAC - A Malone dairy farm has been ordered by pay $60,000 for violating the state’s wastewater discharge laws.
Redtail Ridge Dairy in northeast Fond du Lac County, owned by Joe and Diane Thome, must pay costs to remedy the adverse effects of polluted discharges to the tributaries of the Sheboygan River, including the cost of replacing fish or other wildlife destroyed by the discharge, according to the Wisconsin Attorney General s Office.
The case was settled before it went to trial in the courtroom of Fond du Lac Circuit Court Judge Peter Grimm, who issued the fines earlier this month. Grimm found the dairy guilty of three violations: manure ponding on application site, manure runoff from site and manure discharge to waters through subsurface drains.
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After residency claims against Wisconsin lawmaker, commission to review elections complaint
Complainants have alleged Wisconsin state Rep. Shannon Zimmerman, R-River Falls, does not primarily live in his elected district and has failed to disclose a Florida business
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Records indicate the Wisconsin Elections Commission is set to discuss complaints alleging state Rep. Shannon Zimmerman, R-River Falls, doesn’t reside in the district he serves.
Emails obtained by Bring Me The News show the committee has planned to discuss the topic at its meeting Wednesday. The agenda includes a closed session to discuss an elections complaint.
The outcome could provide a response to yearslong questioning, from Democrats and Republicans, of Zimmerman’s compliance with Wisconsin residence requirements for voting and holding office. However, this would necessitate a break from WEC’s track record of ending meetings with a tied vote. The commission, which replaced the nonpartisan Wisconsi