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Wis. Stat. § 84.15 — WI Code / Chapter 84 / Section 84.15
Bridges.
Status: in_force

(1) Maintenance and operation of intrastate bridges. Except as provided in a jurisdictional transfer agreement under s. 84.16 , all matters relating to the maintenance and operation of bridges constructed, reconstructed or purchased under s. 84.11 before August 9, 1989, shall be under the jurisdiction and complete control of the department and the cost of such maintenance and operation thereof shall be the direct obligation of the state. Such portion of the approaches as may be determined by the department shall be considered a part of such bridge for maintenance and operation purposes. The portion of the approaches or highway not considered a part of such bridge for maintenance and operation purposes as determined by the department shall be maintained by the town, city or village in which it lies but this provision shall not diminish or otherwise affect the duty of the county with respect to the county trunk highways or the state with respect to the state trunk highways. Authority is given the department to carry fire or tornado insurance, or both, on bridges where such hazard exists and the premium on such insurance shall be included as a portion of such maintenance and operation costs.

(2) Across bay of Great Lakes. In the case of any intrastate bridge built across a bay of any of the Great Lakes, the maintenance under sub. (1) shall be deemed to include repair or reconstruction necessitated by any accidental damage done to such bridge by vessels using such bay, or some other catastrophe, in which event the department may use for such repair or reconstruction moneys available for the construction of such bridges.

(3) Interstate bridges, Wisconsin’s share. The provisions of this section shall also apply to all interstate bridges constructed, reconstructed or purchased under s. 84.12 ; and the term “bridge” as used in sub. (1) means Wisconsin’s portion of such interstate bridges.

History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (8) (a) ; 1989 a. 31 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0504 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0504
Service of process, notice, or demand.
Status: in_force

(1) A corporation may be served with any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law by serving its registered agent. The department may serve any written notice required or authorized under this chapter by e-mailing it to the registered agent’s e-mail address on file with the department, and such notice shall be effective as provided in s. 181.0105 (4) .

(2) Except as provided in sub. (3) , if a corporation has no registered agent, or its registered agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the corporation may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by similar commercial delivery service, addressed to the corporation at its principal office, as shown on the records of the department on the date of sending. Service is perfected under this subsection at the earliest of the following:

(a) The date the corporation receives the mail or delivery by commercial delivery service.

(b) The date shown on the return receipt, if signed on behalf of the corporation.

(c) Five days after it is deposited in the U.S. mail, or with the commercial delivery service, if correctly addressed and with sufficient postage or payment.

(3) If process, notice, or demand in an action cannot be served on a corporation pursuant to sub. (1) or (2) , service may be made by handing a copy to the individual in charge of any regular place of business or activity of the corporation if the individual served is not a plaintiff in the action. If the address of the corporation’s principal office cannot be determined from the records of the department, the corporation may be served by publishing a class 3 notice, under ch. 985 , in the community where the corporation’s principal office or registered office, as most recently designated in the records of the department, is located.

(3m) Service of process, notice, or demand on a registered agent must be in a written record.

(4) Service of process, notice, or demand may be made by other means under law other than this chapter.

History: 1997 a. 79 ; 2011 a. 234 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 174.053 — WI Code / Chapter 174 / Section 174.053
Multiple dog licenses.
Status: in_force

(1) Multiple dog license option. Any person who keeps more than one dog may, instead of the license tax for each dog required by this chapter, apply to the collecting official for a multiple dog license for the keeping of the dogs. Such person shall pay for the license year a license tax of $35 for 12 or fewer dogs and an additional $3 for each dog in excess of 12. Upon payment of the required multiple dog license tax and upon presentation of evidence that all dogs over 5 months of age are currently immunized against rabies, the collecting official shall issue the multiple dog license and a number of tags equal to the number of dogs authorized to be kept by the person.

(2) Multiple dog license tags. Multiple dog license tags shall be made in a form so that they may be readily distinguishable from the individual license tags for the same year. The owner or keeper of dogs for which a multiple dog license has been issued shall keep at all times a multiple dog license tag attached to the collar of each dog over 5 months old kept by the owner or keeper under a multiple dog license, but this requirement does not apply to a dog during competition or training, to a dog securely confined indoors, to a dog while hunting, or to a dog securely confined in a fenced area. An owner or keeper may transfer a multiple dog license tag from a dog that the owner or keeper no longer owns or keeps to another dog if the other dog is currently immunized against rabies. The rabies vaccination tag or substitute tag shall remain attached to the dog for which it is issued at all times, but this requirement does not apply to a dog during competition or training, to a dog securely confined indoors, to a dog while hunting, or to a dog securely confined in a fenced area. No dog bearing a multiple dog license tag shall be permitted to stray or to be taken anywhere outside the limits of the owner’s or keeper’s premises unless the dog is in leash or temporarily out for the purposes of hunting, breeding, trial, training, or competition.

(3) Applicability of other requirements. Unless clearly inapplicable, all the provisions of this chapter relating to the individual dog license tax, licenses, and tags shall apply to the multiple dog license and tags.

History: 1979 c. 289 ss. 12 , 18 , 19 , 21 ; 1981 c. 285 ; 1983 a. 451 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 2001 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 343.39 — WI Code / Chapter 343 / Section 343.39
When operating privilege automatically reinstated.
Status: in_force

(1) An operating privilege is automatically reinstated under any of the following circumstances:

(b) When, in the case of a revocation, suspension, or disqualification based on a conviction, the conviction is reversed, set aside or vacated. This paragraph applies whether or not the conviction occurred in this state and whether or not the conviction was cause for revocation, suspension, or disqualification only when considered in connection with the person’s entire operating record.

(c) Whenever any other provision of law provides for automatic reinstatement.

(2) Whenever a person’s operating privilege is automatically reinstated, the department shall forthwith notify such person thereof. If the person’s license is expired, the person may renew the license at the standard renewal fee at any time after the reinstatement of the person’s operating privilege. If the person states to the department that he or she no longer possesses the license because the license was surrendered to a court, and the person has satisfied all requirements under sub. (1) , the department shall issue a new license without any additional fee for the license.

History: 1973 c. 90 ; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (a) ; 1977 c. 273 ; 1991 a. 39 , 277 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 1997 a. 84 ; 2007 a. 20 ; 2009 a. 100 , 103 .
Wis. Stat. § 64.35 — WI Code / Chapter 64 / Section 64.35
Existing appropriations; powers concerning.
Status: in_force

If, at the beginning of the term of office of the first council elected under ss. 64.25 to 64.40 , the appropriation for the expenditures of the city government for the current fiscal year have been made, the council shall have power by ordinance to revise, repeal or change such appropriations and to make additional appropriations.
Wis. Stat. § 66.0121 — WI Code / Chapter 66 / Section 66.0121
Orders; action; proof of demand.
Status: in_force

No action may be brought upon a city, village, town or school district order until 30 days after a demand for the payment of the order has been made. If an action is brought and the defendant fails to appear and defend the action, judgment shall not be entered without affirmative proof of the demand. If judgment is entered without proof of the demand, the judgment is void.

History: 1993 a. 246 ; 1995 a. 225 ; 1999 a. 150 s. 294 ; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0121.
Wis. Stat. § 94.45 — WI Code / Chapter 94 / Section 94.45
Powers and authority of the department.
Status: in_force

(1) The department is authorized:

(a) To enter during regular business hours all places of business, warehouses, freight depots, cars, trucks and all other places where seed is stored, transported, sold or exposed for sale. The department is empowered to sample any container of seed, analyze and test the samples and inspect all records relating to any lot of seed in order to secure evidence of violation of ss. 94.38 to 94.46 .

(b) To establish and maintain a seed laboratory for the testing and analysis of seed.

(c) To make purity and germination tests of seed for persons on request and for this purpose may prescribe rules governing such testing and fix and collect charges for tests made.

(d) To cooperate with the U.S. department of agriculture and other agencies in seed law enforcement.

(e) To publish at least once a year, in such form as the department deems proper, information concerning the inspection and sales of seed and the results of the analysis of official samples of agricultural and vegetable seeds distributed within the state.

(6) The department shall promulgate rules that do all of the following:

(a) Prescribe standards for the labeling, distribution, and sale of agricultural seed and vegetable seed.

(b) Govern methods of sampling, inspecting, analyzing, testing, and examining agricultural seed and vegetable seed.

(c) Prescribe tolerances for purity and rate of germination of agricultural seed and vegetable seed.

(d) Prescribe tolerances for the occurrence of noxious weed seeds in agricultural seed and vegetable seed.

(e) Identify noxious weeds and prohibited noxious weeds.

(f) Govern the issuance of seed labeler licenses.

(g) Govern the administration and enforcement of ss. 94.38 to 94.46 .

History: 1975 c. 39 , 308 ; 1983 a. 189 s. 329 (20) ; 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 783.08 — WI Code / Chapter 783 / Section 783.08
Writs of prohibition, how issued.
Status: in_force

Writs of prohibition issued out of the supreme court shall be applied for upon relation or affidavits filed in the same manner as for writs of mandamus; and if the cause shown shall appear to the court to be sufficient a writ shall be thereupon issued, which shall command the court and party to whom it shall be directed to desist and refrain from any further proceedings in the action or matter specified therein until a day therein named to be fixed by the court and the further order of such court thereon; and then to show cause why they should not be absolutely restrained from any further proceedings in such action or matter.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 60 ; Stats. 1979 s. 783.08.
Wis. Stat. § 16.425 — WI Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16.425
Summary of tax exemption devices.
Status: in_force

(1) Declaration of policy. Because state policy objectives are sought and achieved by both governmental expenditures and tax exemption, and because both have an impact on the government’s capacity to lower tax rates or raise expenditures, both should receive regular comprehensive review by the governor and the legislature in the budgetary process. This section seeks to facilitate such comprehensive review by providing for the generation of information concerning tax exemptions and other similar devices comparable to expenditure information.

(2) Definition. For the purposes of this section “tax exemption device” means any tax provision which exempts, in whole or in part, certain persons, income, goods, services, or property from the impact of established taxes, including, but not limited because of failure of enumeration, to those devices known as tax deductions, tax allowances, tax exclusions, tax credits and tax exemptions.

(3) Report on tax exemption devices. The department of revenue shall, in each even-numbered year on the date prescribed for it by the secretary, furnish to the secretary a report detailing the approximate costs in lost revenue, the policy purposes and to the extent possible, indicators of effectiveness in achieving such purposes, for all state tax exemption devices, including those based on the internal revenue code, in effect at the time of the report. The report need relate only to chs. 71 , 76 and 77 tax exemption devices and to property tax exemptions for which reports are required under s. 70.337 . The report shall be prepared in such a manner as to facilitate the making of comparisons with the information reported in s. 16.46 (1) to (6) .

History: 1973 c. 90 ; 1981 c. 20 ; 1983 a. 27 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1993 a. 490 .
Wis. Stat. § 167.22 — WI Code / Chapter 167 / Section 167.22
Cigars not to be manufactured in basements.
Status: in_force

No shop or place wherein cigars are manufactured shall be located below the ground floor.
Wis. Stat. § 285.49 — WI Code / Chapter 285 / Section 285.49
Trading program for nitrogen oxide emissions credits.
Status: in_force

The department shall establish or authorize air contaminant sources to participate in a market-based trading program for the purchase, sale and transfer of nitrogen oxide emissions credits for use in any state implementation plan under s. 285.11 (6) that requires reductions in nitrogen oxide emissions. To the extent allowed under federal law, the department shall allow nitrogen oxide emissions reductions by any source in this state, regardless of whether the source is subject to nitrogen oxide controls under a state implementation plan, to be purchased, sold or transferred under the trading program.

History: 1999 a. 9 .
Wis. Stat. § 118.27 — WI Code / Chapter 118 / Section 118.27
Gifts and grants.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “community foundation” means a charitable organization, described in section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code, dedicated to encouraging and assisting charitable activities and enterprises in a designated community in this state and having expertise in finance, fund development, and grantmaking.

(2) The school board of a district may receive, accept, and use gifts or grants of furniture, books, equipment, supplies, moneys, securities, or other property, real or personal, used or useful for school research and educational purposes. All moneys received as gifts or grants shall be placed in the school district treasury but shall be considered segregated trust funds. Whenever a school board receives gifts or grants under this section, it shall make such use thereof, or invest the same in the case of moneys, as the donor or grantor specifies. In the absence of any specific direction as to the use of such gifts or grants by a donor or grantor, the school board may determine the use of or invest the same in accordance with the law applicable to trust investments, or may, subject to sub. (3) , transfer any such gift or grant to a community foundation. In the use, control, or investment of such gifts or grants, the school board may exercise the rights and powers generally conferred upon trustees.

(3) A school board may transfer a gift or grant to a community foundation only if the school board and the community foundation agree, in writing and at the time of the transfer of the gift or grant, to each of the following:

(a) The community foundation agrees to make disbursements from and of the gift or grant to the school board upon the written request of the school board.

(b) Subject to par. (bm) , the school board retains control over the manner in which any disbursement made under par. (a) is used.

(bm) The school board’s use of any disbursement made under par. (a) shall be consistent with the intent of the donor of the gift, bequest, or endowment and with the agreement between the school board and the community foundation.

(c) The school board exercises its rights over the use of each disbursement made under par. (a) in accordance with the law applicable to trust investments.

History: 2011 a. 163 .
Wis. Stat. § 126.64 — WI Code / Chapter 126 / Section 126.64
Vegetable contractors; prohibited practices.
Status: in_force

No vegetable contractor, or officer, employee, or agent of a vegetable contractor, may do any of the following:

(1) Misrepresent the weight, grade, or quality of processing vegetables under a vegetable procurement contract.

(2) Falsify any record or account, or conspire with any other person to falsify a record or account.

(3) Make any false or misleading representation to the department.

(4) If the vegetable contractor is licensed under s. 126.56 , engage in any activity that is inconsistent with representations made in the vegetable contractor’s annual license application.

(5) Make any false or misleading representation to a vegetable producer or producer agent related to matters regulated under this chapter.

(6) Fail to file the full amount of security required under s. 126.61 (6) by the date that the department specifies.

(7) Assault, threaten, intimidate, or otherwise interfere with an officer, employee, or agent of the department in the performance of his or her duties.

History: 2001 a. 16 ; 2009 a. 296 .
Wis. Stat. § 24.251 — WI Code / Chapter 24 / Section 24.251
Patents, issuance; county may record.
Status: in_force

Whenever it appears to the board that all the conditions relating to the issuance of patents have been complied with, the board may issue patents, and the county board of any county may cause the patents to be recorded in the county and pay the cost of the recording.

History: 2005 a. 149 .
Wis. Stat. § 440.17 — WI Code / Chapter 440 / Section 440.17
Telehealth.
Status: in_force

If the department, an examining board, or an affiliated credentialing board promulgates rules related to telehealth, the department, the examining board, or the affiliated credentialing board shall define “telehealth” to have the meaning given in s. 440.01 (1) (hm) .

History: 2021 a. 121 .
Wis. Stat. § 322.126 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.126
Article 126 — Arson.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who willfully and maliciously burns or sets on fire an inhabited dwelling, or any other structure, movable or immovable, in which the offender knows there is at the time a human being, is guilty of aggravated arson and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(2) Any person who willfully and maliciously burns or sets fire to the property of another, except as provided in sub. (1) , is guilty of simple arson and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

History: 2007 a. 200 ; 2009 a. 179 .
Wis. Stat. § 703.22 — WI Code / Chapter 703 / Section 703.22
Construction and suppliers’ liens.
Status: in_force

(1) Subsequent to recording a declaration under this chapter and while the property remains subject to this chapter, any and all liens will exist only against individual units and the percentage of undivided interest in the common elements appurtenant to such unit, in the same manner and under the same conditions in every respect as liens or encumbrances may arise or be created upon or against any other separate parcel of real property subject to individual ownership.

(2) Any construction lien or suppliers’ lien under subch. I of ch. 779 arising as a result of repairs to or improvements of a unit by a unit owner shall be a lien only against the unit.

(3) Any construction lien or suppliers’ lien under subch. I of ch. 779 arising as a result of repairs to or improvements of the common elements, if authorized in writing by the association, shall be paid by the association as a common expense and until paid shall be a lien against each unit in proportion to the unit’s percentage interest in the common elements. On payment of the proportionate amount by any unit owner to the lienor or on the filing of a written undertaking in the manner specified by s. 779.08 , the unit owner shall be entitled to a release of the unit owner’s unit from the lien, and the association shall not be entitled to assess the unit owner’s unit for payment of the remaining amount due for the repairs or improvements.

History: 1977 c. 407 ; 1979 c. 32 s. 92 (9) ; 2005 a. 204 ; 2017 a. 333 .
Wis. Stat. § 940.08 — WI Code / Chapter 940 / Section 940.08
Homicide by negligent handling of dangerous weapon, explosives or fire.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (3) , whoever causes the death of another human being by the negligent operation or handling of a dangerous weapon, explosives or fire is guilty of a Class G felony.

(2) Whoever causes the death of an unborn child by the negligent operation or handling of a dangerous weapon, explosives or fire is guilty of a Class G felony.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a health care provider acting within the scope of his or her practice or employment.

History: 1977 c. 173 ; 1985 a. 293 ; 1987 a. 399 ; 1997 a. 295 ; 2001 a. 109 ; 2011 a. 2 .