Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 343 - Operators' licenses.
343.60 - Definitions.

343.60 Definitions. In ss. 343.60 to 343.73:
(1) “Driver school" means a business that gives instruction, for compensation, in the operation of motor vehicles, except that it does not include any of the following:
(a) A high school or technical college that teaches driver training as part of its regular school program and whose course of study in driver training meets the criteria for a driver education course under this chapter has been approved by the department of public instruction or technical college system board.
(b) An institution of higher learning that teaches driver training as part of its teacher training program.
(c) A motorcycle training school that offers a basic or experienced rider training course approved by the department.
(d) Any driver training school that offers training exclusively in the operation of vehicles designed and manufactured for off-highway operation.
(e) An instructor.
(1g) “Driver school classroom" means any facility that is approved by the department and used to conduct driver training, but does not include a motor vehicle.
(1m) “Driver school office" means the location at which the driver school business is conducted and approved by the department. “Driver school office" does not include any facility used only as a driver school classroom.
(2) “Fraudulent practices" includes, but is not limited to:
(a) Any conduct or representation tending to give the impression that a license to operate a motor vehicle or any other license, registration or service granted by the secretary or department may be obtained by any means other than the means prescribed by law or by furnishing or obtaining the same by illegal or improper means; or
(b) The requesting, accepting, exacting or collecting of money for such purpose.
(3) “Instructor" means any person who is employed by a driver school licensed under this chapter and who, for compensation, gives instruction in the operation of a motor vehicle.
History: 1971 c. 154 s. 79 (2); 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (a), (c); 1983 a. 189; 1993 a. 399; 1995 a. 27 s. 9145 (1); 1997 a. 27; 2005 a. 397.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 343 - Operators' licenses.

343.01 - Words and phrases defined.

343.02 - Administration of driver license law.

343.025 - Medicare acceptance of assignment; information; report.

343.027 - Confidentiality of signatures.

343.03 - Classified driver license system.

343.04 - Vehicle classifications.

343.05 - Operators to be licensed; exceptions.

343.055 - Commercial driver license waivers.

343.06 - Persons not to be licensed.

343.065 - Restricted commercial driver license.

343.07 - Instruction permits.

343.075 - Instructional permits for applicants for special restricted operators' licenses.

343.08 - Restricted licenses for persons under 18 years of age.

343.085 - Probationary licenses to new drivers.

343.10 - Occupational licenses.

343.11 - Temporary license for persons previously licensed in another state.

343.12 - School bus operators to obtain special authorization.

343.125 - Endorsements for transporting certain hazardous materials.

343.13 - Restricted licenses.

343.135 - Special restricted operator's license.

343.14 - Application for license.

343.15 - Application of persons under 18; liability of sponsors; release from liability; notification of juvenile violation.

343.16 - Examination of applicants; reexamination of licensed persons.

343.165 - Processing license and identification card applications.

343.17 - Contents and issuance of operator's license.

343.175 - Organ donor information.

343.18 - License to be carried; verification of signature.

343.19 - Duplicate licenses or identification cards.

343.20 - Expiration of licenses.

343.21 - License fees.

343.22 - Notice of change of address or name.

343.23 - Records to be kept by the department.

343.234 - Department to furnish information to the selective service system.

343.235 - Access to license and identification card records.

343.237 - Access to license and identification card photographs and fingerprints.

343.24 - Department to furnish operating record.

343.245 - Duties of commercial motor vehicle drivers; employer responsibilities; penalties.

343.247 - Employer notification program.

343.25 - Cancellation of licenses.

343.26 - License after cancellation.

343.265 - Voluntary surrender and reissuance after surrender.

343.28 - Courts to report convictions and forward licenses to the department.

343.30 - Suspension and revocation by the courts.

343.301 - Installation of ignition interlock device.

343.303 - Preliminary breath screening test.

343.305 - Tests for intoxication; administrative suspension and court-ordered revocation.

343.307 - Prior convictions, suspensions or revocations to be counted as offenses.

343.31 - Revocation or suspension of licenses after certain convictions or declarations.

343.315 - Commercial motor vehicle disqualifications; effects.

343.32 - Other grounds for revocation or suspension of licenses; demerit points.

343.325 - Courts to report appeals; when appeal stays suspension, revocation or disqualification.

343.33 - Hearing on suspensions and revocations.

343.34 - Suspension of licenses.

343.345 - Restriction, limitation or suspension of operating privilege.

343.35 - Surrender of licenses upon cancellation, revocation or suspension.

343.36 - Department to distribute suspension, revocation and disqualification lists and nonresidents' records of conviction.

343.37 - No operation under foreign license during revocation or suspension.

343.38 - Reinstatement after revocation, suspension, cancellation, or disqualification.

343.39 - When operating privilege automatically reinstated.

343.40 - Judicial review of suspension, revocation, cancellation or denial of license.

343.43 - Unlawful use of license.

343.435 - License not to be used as security.

343.44 - Operating while suspended, revoked, ordered out-of-service or disqualified.

343.45 - Permitting unauthorized person to drive.

343.46 - Duty of persons renting vehicles to another.

343.50 - Identification cards.

343.51 - Special identification cards for physically disabled.

343.52 - Unlawful use of special identification cards.

343.60 - Definitions.

343.61 - Driver school requirements.

343.62 - Instructor requirements.

343.66 - Revocation, suspension, cancellation, or denial of renewal of driver school licenses and instructor's licenses.

343.69 - Hearings on license denials, cancellations, restrictions, suspensions, and revocations, and progressive enforcement action.

343.71 - Driver school records, curriculum, and operations.

343.72 - Rules for conducting driver schools; prohibited practices.

343.73 - Penalty.

343.75 - Control group testing by department.