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Wis. Stat. § 14.832 — WI Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14.832
Respiratory care interstate compact.
Status: in_force

There is created a respiratory care interstate compact commission as specified in s. 448.9889 . The commissioner on the commission representing this state shall be appointed by the medical examining board as provided in s. 448.9889 (7) (b) 1. , with the advice of the respiratory care practitioners examining council, and shall be an individual described in s. 448.9889 (7) (b) 2. The commission has the powers and duties granted and imposed under s. 448.9889 .

History: 2025 a. 76 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0744 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0744
Derivative proceedings; dismissal.
Status: in_force

(1) When dismissal required. The court shall dismiss a derivative proceeding on motion by the corporation if the court finds, subject to the burden of proof assigned under sub. (5) or (6) , that one of the groups specified in sub. (2) or (6) has determined, acting in good faith after conducting a reasonable inquiry upon which its conclusions are based, that maintenance of the derivative proceeding is not in the best interests of the corporation.

(2) Independent director determination. Unless a panel is appointed under sub. (6) , the determination in sub. (1) shall be made by any of the following:

(a) A majority vote of independent directors present at a meeting of the board of directors if the independent directors constitute a quorum.

(b) A majority vote of a committee consisting of 2 or more independent directors appointed by a majority vote of the independent directors present at a meeting of the board of directors, whether or not the voting independent directors constitute a quorum.

(3) Who is considered an independent director. Whether a director is independent for purposes of this section may not be determined solely on the basis of any one or more of the following factors:

(a) The nomination or election of the director by persons who are defendants in the derivative proceeding or against whom action is demanded.

(b) The naming of the director as a defendant in the derivative proceeding or as a person against whom action is demanded.

(c) The approval by the director of the act being challenged in the derivative proceeding or demand if the act resulted in no personal benefit to the director.

(4) Pleadings when demand rejected. If a derivative proceeding is commenced after a determination was made rejecting a demand by a member, the complaint shall allege with particularity facts establishing any of the following:

(a) That a majority of the board of directors did not consist of independent directors at the time that the determination was made.

(b) That the requirements of sub. (1) have not been met.

(5) Burden of proof. If a majority of the board of directors did not consist of independent directors at the time that the determination rejecting a demand was made, the corporation shall have the burden of proving that the requirements of sub. (1) have been met. If a majority of the board of directors consisted of independent directors at the time that the determination was made, the members shall have the burden of proving that the requirements of sub. (1) have not been met.

(6) Court-appointed panel. Upon motion by the corporation, the court may appoint a panel of one or more independent persons to determine whether maintenance of the derivative proceeding is in the best interests of the corporation. If a panel is appointed under this subsection, the members shall have the burden of proving that the requirements of sub. (1) have not been met.

History: 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 785.06 — WI Code / Chapter 785 / Section 785.06
Court commissioners, municipal courts and administrative agencies.
Status: in_force

A court commissioner, municipal court or state administrative agency conducting an action or proceeding or a party to the action or proceeding may petition the circuit court in the county in which the action or proceeding is being conducted for a remedial or punitive sanction specified in s. 785.04 for conduct specified in s. 785.01 in the action or proceeding.

History: 1979 c. 257 .
Wis. Stat. § 15.43 — WI Code / Chapter 15 / Section 15.43
Department of revenue; creation.
Status: in_force

There is created a department of revenue under the direction and supervision of the secretary of revenue.
Wis. Stat. § 44.06 — WI Code / Chapter 44 / Section 44.06
Depository of public documents.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “state document” has the meaning given in s. 35.81 (3) .

(2) The director of the historical society shall file with the department of administration, and may revise, lists of state, county, municipal, federal, or other agencies to which state documents shall be distributed in accordance with interstate or international comity, with or without exchange, as provided in s. 35.86 , in order to maintain or enlarge the reference collections of the society and the state. The department of administration shall obtain the state documents so specified from the agencies publishing them, at the expense of the agencies, and shall ship the state documents to the addressees provided by the director. The department of administration shall prepay carriage charges and shall collect the charges from the agencies publishing the state documents being shipped.

(3) The historical society shall keep available to other state agencies and to citizens of Wisconsin and other states its public document collections under such proper and reasonable regulations as may be deemed advisable.

(4) The historical society may loan public documents, except those of rare nature, to other state agencies for official use or on interlibrary loan to other reference libraries under such rules and regulations and for such period as may appear desirable.

(5) The historical society shall prepare a periodic checklist of state documents and shall publish the list in such form and with such notes as to show the scope and purpose of such documents as the society considers advisable.

History: 1991 a. 285 .
Wis. Stat. § 409.621 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.621
Notification of proposal to accept collateral.
Status: in_force

(1) Persons to which proposal to be sent. A secured party that desires to accept collateral in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to:

(a) Any person from which the secured party has received, before the debtor consented to the acceptance, an authenticated notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral;

(b) Any other secured party or lienholder that, 10 days before the debtor consented to the acceptance, held a security interest in or other lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that:

1. Identified the collateral;

2. Was indexed under the debtor’s name as of that date; and

3. Was filed in the office or offices in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date; and

(c) Any other secured party that, 10 days before the debtor consented to the acceptance, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation, or treaty described in s. 409.311 (1) .

(2) Proposal to be sent to secondary obligor in partial satisfaction. A secured party that desires to accept collateral in partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures shall send its proposal to any secondary obligor in addition to the persons described in sub. (1) .

History: 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 145.175 — WI Code / Chapter 145 / Section 145.175
Automatic fire sprinkler-maintenance only registration.
Status: in_force

An automatic fire sprinkler-maintenance only registration certificate is required before any business establishment may maintain or repair existing automatic fire sprinkler systems in its physical facilities. The department shall, by rule, specify the qualifications for issuing an automatic fire sprinkler-maintenance only registration certificate. The department shall, by rule, specify the activities in which a person holding a registration certificate under this section may engage.

History: 1981 c. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 808.03 — WI Code / Chapter 808 / Section 808.03
Appeals to the court of appeals.
Status: in_force

(1) Appeals as of right. A final judgment or a final order of a circuit court may be appealed as a matter of right to the court of appeals unless otherwise expressly provided by law. A final judgment or final order is a judgment, order or disposition that disposes of the entire matter in litigation as to one or more of the parties, whether rendered in an action or special proceeding, and that is one of the following:

(a) Entered in accordance with s. 806.06 (1) (b) or 807.11 (2) .

(b) Recorded in docket entries in ch. 799 cases.

(c) Recorded in docket entries in traffic regulation cases prosecuted in, or following a decision in a municipal court, appealed to, circuit court if a person convicted of a violation may be ordered to pay a forfeiture.

(d) Recorded in docket entries in municipal ordinance violation cases prosecuted in, or following a decision in a municipal court, appealed to, circuit court.

(2) Appeals by permission. A judgment or order not appealable as a matter of right under sub. (1) may be appealed to the court of appeals in advance of a final judgment or order upon leave granted by the court if it determines that an appeal will:

(a) Materially advance the termination of the litigation or clarify further proceedings in the litigation;

(b) Protect the petitioner from substantial or irreparable injury; or

(c) Clarify an issue of general importance in the administration of justice.

(3) Review of an order denying suppression or exclusion of evidence.

(a) An order denying a motion to suppress evidence or a motion challenging the admissibility of a statement of a juvenile may be reviewed upon appeal from a final judgment or order notwithstanding the fact that the judgment or order was entered upon an admission or a plea of no contest to the allegations in the petition.

(b) An order denying a motion to suppress evidence or a motion challenging the admissibility of a statement of a defendant may be reviewed upon appeal from a final judgment or order notwithstanding the fact that the judgment or order was entered upon a plea of guilty or no contest to the information or criminal complaint.

History: 1977 c. 187 ; 1979 c. 192 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 130 Wis. 2d xix (1986); 1995 a. 139 , 224 ; 1997 a. 35 ; 2009 a. 27 ; 2015 a. 12 .
Wis. Stat. § 25.165 — WI Code / Chapter 25 / Section 25.165
Internal auditor.
Status: in_force

(1) There is created in the board an internal audit subunit, under the supervision of the internal auditor. The internal auditor shall report directly to the board and shall appoint all employees necessary to carry out the duties of the internal auditor. The internal auditor shall appoint all employees outside the classified service. The internal auditor shall fix the compensation of all employees appointed by the internal auditor, but the board may provide for bonus compensation to employees.

(2) The internal auditor may review any activity, information or investment of the board and have access to records of the board and any external party under contract with the board and shall do all of the following:

(a) Plan and conduct audit activities, risk assessments, research projects and management reviews under the direction of the board and in accordance with policies, principles and directives determined by the board.

(b) Coordinate and assist with external audits and reviews of the board.

(c) Through periodic internal audits, monitor for compliance with applicable legal requirements and with the board’s contractual agreements any bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union with which the board has entered into a custodial agreement under s. 25.17 (11) ; any investment advisers with which the board has contracted to manage and control board assets under s. 25.18 (2) (e) ; and any other external parties with which the board has contracted to provide investment services to the board.

History: 1995 a. 274 ; 1999 a. 9 , 83 , 186 ; 2011 a. 32 ; 2021 a. 177 .
Wis. Stat. § 977.09 — WI Code / Chapter 977 / Section 977.09
Confidentiality of files.
Status: in_force

The files maintained by the office of the state public defender which relate to the handling of any case shall be considered confidential and shall not be open to inspection by any person unless authorized by law, court order, the board or the state public defender.

History: 1977 c. 29 .
Wis. Stat. § 183.0108 — WI Code / Chapter 183 / Section 183.0108
Nature, purpose, and duration of limited liability company.
Status: in_force

(1) A limited liability company is an entity distinct from its member or members.

(2) A limited liability company may have any lawful purpose, regardless of whether for profit. A limited liability company engaging in a business that is subject to the provisions of another chapter may organize under this chapter only if not prohibited by, and is subject to all limitations of, the other chapter.

(3) A limited liability company has perpetual duration.

(3m) An interest in a limited liability company may be a security, as specified in s. 551.102 (28) (e) .

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 452.134 — WI Code / Chapter 452 / Section 452.134
Agency relationships; multiple representation relationships.
Status: in_force

(1) Agency relationship not required.

(a) Subject to par. (b) , a firm and any licensees associated with the firm may provide brokerage services to any party, whether or not the firm has entered into an agency agreement with a party or the firm has been engaged to provide brokerage services as a subagent.

(b) A firm and any licensees associated with the firm may not negotiate on behalf of a party to a transaction unless a party to the transaction is one of the following:

1. The firm’s client.

2. A client of a principal firm who has engaged the firm as a subagent.

(2) Multiple representation relationships. A firm and any licensees associated with the firm may not provide brokerage services in a multiple representation relationship unless all of the firm’s clients in the multiple representation relationship have consented to a multiple representation relationship in writing.

(3) Designated agency.

(a) A firm in a multiple representation relationship may not engage in designated agency unless all of the firm’s clients in the relationship have consented to designated agency in writing. A client may withdraw consent to designated agency by written notice to the firm at any time.

(b) If a firm is engaged in designated agency, the licensee associated with the firm that is negotiating on behalf of a client of the firm in the transaction may provide to the client on whose behalf the licensee is negotiating information, opinions, and advice to assist the client in the negotiations, whether or not the information, opinions, and advice place the interests of one of the firm’s clients ahead of the interests of another client of the firm.

(4) Multiple representation relationships without designated agency. If a firm’s client in a multiple representation relationship does not consent to designated agency or withdraws consent to designated agency, the firm and any licensees associated with the firm may not place the interests of any client ahead of the interests of any other in the negotiations.

History: 2005 a. 87 ; 2015 a. 258 ; 2017 a. 110 .
Wis. Stat. § 844.21 — WI Code / Chapter 844 / Section 844.21
Abatement.
Status: in_force

(1) Warrant may be stayed. The court, on the application of the defendant, may order a stay of execution of a judgment under s. 844.20 (2) ordering abatement for such time as may be necessary, not exceeding 6 months, to give the defendant an opportunity to remove the nuisance, structure or encroachment upon the defendant’s giving satisfactory security to do so within the time specified in the order.

(2) Expense of abating, how collected. The sheriff’s expense of abatement pursuant to such judgment shall be collected by the officer from the defendant in the same manner as damages and costs are collected upon execution; and such officer may sell any material of any fences, buildings or other things abated as personal property is sold upon execution and apply the proceeds to pay the expenses of such abatement, paying the residue, if any, to the defendant.

History: 1973 c. 189 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 767, 783 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 844.21; 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 100.186 — WI Code / Chapter 100 / Section 100.186
Section 100.186
Status: in_force

(3) Linseed oil compounds designed to take the place of raw or boiled linseed oil, whether sold under invented proprietary names or titles, or otherwise, shall bear conspicuously upon the containing receptacle in which the same is sold, in ordinary bold-faced capital letters not smaller than 60-point type, the word “Compound,” followed immediately with the true distinctive names of the actual ingredients in the order of their greater preponderance, in the English language, in plain legible type of the same style, not smaller than 36-point type, in continuous list with no intervening matter of any kind and shall also bear the name and address of the manufacturer.

(4) No person shall sell:

(a) As and for dry white lead any substance other than basic carbonate of lead or basic sulfate of lead;

(b) As and for white lead in oil, any product other than basic carbonate of lead ground in pure linseed oil or basic sulfate of lead ground in pure linseed oil;

(c) Any basic carbonate of lead ground in linseed oil, unless each receptacle containing it has distinctly and durably marked thereon the words, “white lead, basic carbonate, in oil,” and the name and address of the manufacturer or jobber;

(d) Any basic sulfate of lead ground in linseed oil, unless each receptacle containing it has distinctly and durably marked thereon the words “white lead, basic sulfate, in oil,” and the name and address of the manufacturer or jobber;

(e) As and for dry oxide of zinc, or zinc oxide, or zinc white, any substance other than commercially pure oxide of zinc;

(f) As and for oxide of zinc in oil, or zinc oxide in oil, or zinc white in oil, any product other than commercially pure oxide of zinc ground in pure linseed oil;

(g) Any oxide of zinc ground in linseed oil, unless each receptacle containing the same has distinctly and durably marked thereon the words “oxide of zinc in oil” or “zinc oxide in oil” or “zinc white in oil” and the name and address of the manufacturer or jobber.

(5) No person shall sell:

(a) As and for turpentine, spirits of turpentine or oil of turpentine, any article except pure oil of turpentine distilled from the natural gum, dip or scrape of pine trees and unmixed with kerosene or other mineral oil or other foreign substance;

(b) As and for wood turpentine or wood spirits of turpentine any article except the distillates and spirits prepared directly from or by the distillation of the wood of pine trees, and unmixed with kerosene or other mineral oil or other foreign substance;

(c) Any oil of turpentine or wood spirits of turpentine except under its true name, and unless each tank car, tank, barrel, keg, can or vessel of such oil has distinctly and durably marked thereon in ordinary bold-faced capital letters, not smaller than 60-point type, the words “Oil of Turpentine” or “Wood Spirits of Turpentine” and the name and address of the manufacturer or jobber.

History: 2009 a. 177 .
Wis. Stat. § 194.34 — WI Code / Chapter 194 / Section 194.34
Contract motor carriers; license; application and hearing.
Status: in_force

(1) No person may operate any motor vehicle as a contract motor carrier unless the person first obtains a license and, if required under this chapter, a permit issued by the department, or unless the person is registered by another state under the unified carrier registration system consistent with the standards under 49 USC 13908 and 14504a , for the operation of the motor vehicle, except that no permit is required for the operation of a semitrailer. The department may refuse to issue any license or may attach to the exercise of the privilege granted by a license any terms or conditions which are permitted under this chapter.

(2) The department shall issue a license without a hearing and order if the department finds that the applicant is fit, willing and able to provide the transportation to be authorized by the license and to comply with this chapter.

(3) In determining the ability and fitness of a contract motor carrier under sub. (2) , the department shall consider all of the following:

(a) The applicant’s compliance with the requirements of ss. 194.41 and 194.42 .

(b) The applicant’s safety record.

(c) The applicant’s financial ability to provide cargo insurance or to have adequate financial resources in order to pay for damage claims against the company.

(d) The applicant’s reliability and service record.

(4) If the department denies a license, the department shall notify the applicant in writing of the reason, and the applicant shall have 30 days to correct the deficiency and reapply without payment of an additional application fee.

History: 1981 c. 347 ss. 61 , 80 (1) ; 1985 a. 208 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 1999 a. 139 ; 2007 a. 20 ; 2013 a. 163 .