Opinion No. Oag 19-76, (1976)

JAMES WENDLAND, District Attorney Dunn County

You have asked whether a person must have a driver's license to drive a motor vehicle on a public parking lot. The answer to your question depends upon whether a free municipal parking lot is a highway as defined in sec. 340.01 (22), Stats., for the purpose of enforcement of secs. 343.05 (1) and 343.44, Stats. In my opinion it is not.

Section 343.05 (1), Stats., provides in part:

". . . no person shall operate a motor vehicle upon a highway in this state unless such person has a license issued to him by the division . . ."

Also sec. 343.44 (1),…