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Wis. Stat. § 95.14 — WI Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95.14
Corporations to improve livestock.
Status: in_force

(1) Three or more adult persons of this state may form a corporation, without capital stock, to be managed and directed as herein provided, for the purpose of improving the breeding of livestock by such means and methods as may be deemed most advisable, and to receive and manage contributions therefor made from time to time by way of gifts, deed, devise, bequest or otherwise, and to expend the income thereof for the purpose of the corporation. The work of any such corporation shall be entirely educational and designed by practical work with the breeder upon the farm to result in a better understanding and practical application of the scientific and technical principles taught in agricultural colleges and experiment stations, so as to effect the greatest possible coordination between the science and the art or practice of breeding, but such work shall not be merged with the work of any educational institution. Any corporation organized hereunder shall have authority to pay all necessary expenses properly incurred in carrying out the purposes of the corporation, including compensation to employees and to directors for services actually rendered in conducting the affairs of the corporation, but no pecuniary profit shall ever be paid to any incorporator or director.

(2) Any corporation organized under this section shall be managed and directed by a self-perpetuating board of directors of 5 members, consisting of the dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who shall be permanent chairperson of the board, and 4 others to be appointed in the first instance by the incorporators; at least 3 of the 5 members shall always be representative livestock breeders of the state. If the dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences fails to act as a member of the board by reason of refusal, disability, or vacancy in the chair of the dean, the remaining members of the board shall appoint a representative livestock breeder to act in his or her place on the board until the time as such refusal, disability, or vacancy in the chair ceases to exist. Whenever the dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences becomes a member of the board of directors after any such interim, the dean shall automatically become chairperson of the board.

(3) The term of office of all members of the board, except the permanent chairperson, shall expire one each year by lot. The remaining members shall elect a member to succeed the person whose term shall have thus expired. Vacancies occurring during the year may be filled at once by the remaining members.

(4) Any such corporation shall have the general powers of other corporations and its articles of organization shall conform to s. 181.0202 with such modifications as this section requires.

History: 1973 c. 335 s. 12 ; 1979 c. 32 ; 1993 a. 184 ; 1997 a. 79 ; 2001 a. 103 .
Wis. Stat. § 975.01 — WI Code / Chapter 975 / Section 975.01
End of commitments; declaration of policy.
Status: in_force

(1) No person may be committed under this chapter after July 1, 1980.

(2) The legislature finds and declares that persons violating s. 940.225 , 948.02 , 948.025 or 948.06 or committing crimes when motivated by a desire for sexual excitement may be in need of specialized treatment. The legislature intends that the department should provide treatment for those persons.

History: 1975 c. 184 s. 13 ; 1975 c. 421 ; 1979 c. 117 ; 1987 a. 332 s. 64 ; 1993 a. 227 .
Wis. Stat. § 115.41 — WI Code / Chapter 115 / Section 115.41
Teacher improvement program.
Status: in_force

The state superintendent shall operate a program to provide prospective teachers with one-semester internships under the supervision of licensed teachers. The program may also fund in-service activities and professional staff development research projects. The state superintendent shall charge school districts fees for participation in the program. Program costs shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (1) (hg) .

History: 1987 a. 27 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 891.22 — WI Code / Chapter 891 / Section 891.22
Certificate of insurance assessment.
Status: in_force

Whenever an action is brought by any mutual insurance company to collect any assessment, the certificate of the secretary of said company, specifying such assessment, the amount due said company by means thereof, and that notice thereof was given the person liable therefor, shall be received as presumptive evidence of the facts so certified.
Wis. Stat. § 119.74 — WI Code / Chapter 119 / Section 119.74
Extended-day elementary grade, 4-year-old kindergarten and alcohol and other drug abuse programs.
Status: in_force

The board shall spend at least $430,000 for the following programs in each school year:

(1) Extended-day preschool to grade 6 programs.

(2) Four-year-old kindergarten programs.

(3) Alcohol and other drug abuse programs at 68th Street school.

History: 1987 a. 399 ; 1989 a. 31 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 ; 1999 a. 9 .
Wis. Stat. § 807.10 — WI Code / Chapter 807 / Section 807.10
Settlements in behalf of minors or individuals adjudicated incompetent; judgments.
Status: in_force

(1) A compromise or settlement of an action or proceeding to which a minor or individual adjudicated incompetent is a party may be made by the guardian, if the guardian is represented by an attorney, or the guardian ad litem with the approval of the court in which such action or proceeding is pending.

(2) A cause of action in favor of or against a minor or individual adjudicated incompetent may, without the commencement of an action thereon, be settled by the guardian, if the guardian is represented by an attorney, with the approval of the court appointing the guardian, or by the guardian ad litem with the approval of any court of record. An order approving a settlement or compromise under this subsection and directing the consummation thereof shall have the same force and effect as a judgment of the court.

(3) If the amount awarded to a minor or individual adjudicated incompetent by judgment or by an order of the court approving a compromise settlement of a claim or cause of action of the minor or individual does not exceed the amount specified under s. 867.03 (1g) (intro.) , exclusive of interest and costs and disbursements, and if there is no guardian of the ward, the court may upon application by the guardian ad litem after judgment, or in the order approving settlement, fix and allow the expenses of the action, including attorney fees and fees of guardian ad litem, authorize the payment of the total recovery to the clerk of the court, authorize and direct the guardian ad litem upon the payment to satisfy and discharge the judgment, or to execute releases to the parties entitled thereto, and enter into a stipulation dismissing the action upon its merits. The order shall also direct the clerk upon the payment to pay the costs, disbursements, and expenses of the action and to dispose of the balance in a manner provided in s. 54.12 (1) , as selected by the court. The fee for the clerk’s services for handling, depositing, and disbursing funds under this subsection is prescribed in s. 814.61 (12) (a) .

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 746 (1975); 1975 c. 218 ; 1981 c. 317 ; 1997 a. 290 ; 1999 a. 32 ; 2005 a. 387 .
Wis. Stat. § 96.03 — WI Code / Chapter 96 / Section 96.03
Marketing orders.
Status: in_force

(1) Applicability. A marketing order is applicable to all producers and handlers included under the terms of the order.

(2) Provisions. A marketing order issued under this chapter may contain any of the following:

(a) Provisions for market research and development programs to maintain present markets or to create new or additional markets for affected agricultural commodities produced in this state. Any such programs must be directed toward increasing the sale of the affected commodity without reference to a particular brand or trade name. No market development program may be funded under a marketing order which makes use of false or unwarranted claims on behalf of an affected commodity or disparages the quality, value, sale or use of any other agricultural commodity.

(b) Provisions for funding research studies to improve production, processing or distribution of an affected commodity.

(c) Provisions for educational programs designed to inform producers, handlers or other interested persons about quality improvement and nutritional value of the affected commodity, or about practices, procedures and methods used in the production, processing and marketing of the affected commodity.

(d) Provisions for the development and funding of programs, jointly or cooperatively with public or private organizations, to carry out the purposes of a marketing order.

(e) Provisions that establish a minimum volume or other standard for affected producers. The order may define the area of the state to be covered by the order, which may be all or any portion of the state, and it may provide that its provisions apply to all of the affected commodity produced or marketed within that area regardless of where sold or processed.

History: 1981 c. 283 , 391 .
Wis. Stat. § 632.67 — WI Code / Chapter 632 / Section 632.67
Effect of power of attorney for health care.
Status: in_force

Executing a power of attorney for health care under ch. 155 may not be used to impair in any manner the procurement of a life insurance policy or to modify the terms of an existing life insurance policy. A life insurance policy may not be impaired or invalidated in any manner by the exercise of a health care decision by a health care agent on behalf of a person whose life is insured under the policy and who has authorized the health care agent under ch. 155 .

History: 1989 a. 200 .
Wis. Stat. § 97.603 — WI Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97.603
Motels.
Status: in_force

Upon the written request of the hotel operator made on forms furnished by the department, the department may classify a hotel as a “motel”, if the operator of the hotel furnishes on-premises parking facilities for the motor vehicles of the hotel guests as a part of the room charge, without extra cost.

History: 1983 a. 203 ss. 3 , 5 ; 1983 a. 538 s. 67 ; 1993 a. 27 s. 66 ; Stats. 1993 s. 254.63; 2015 a. 55 s. 4079 ; Stats. 2015 s. 97.603.
Wis. Stat. § 23.62 — WI Code / Chapter 23 / Section 23.62
Issuance of a citation.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever an enforcing officer has probable cause to believe that a person subject to his or her authority is committing or has committed a violation of those statutes enumerated in s. 23.50 (1) , any administrative rules promulgated thereunder, any rule of the Kickapoo reserve management board under s. 41.41 (7) (k) , or any local ordinances enacted by any local authority in accordance with s. 23.33 (11) (am) , 23.335 (21) (a) , or 30.77 , the officer may proceed in the following manner:

(a) Issue a citation to the defendant in the form specified in s. 23.54 , a copy of which shall be filed with the clerk of courts in the county where the violation was committed or with the office of the municipal judge in the case of an ordinance violation;

(b) Proceed, in proper cases, under s. 23.56 or 23.57 ; or

(c) Bring the information to the district attorney so that he or she may proceed pursuant to s. 23.65 .

(2)

(a) If the defendant is a resident of this state, a law enforcement officer may serve a citation anywhere in the state by following the procedures used for the service of a summons under s. 801.11 (1) (a) or (b) 1. or 1m. or (2) or by mailing a copy to the defendant’s last-known address.

(b) If the defendant is not a resident of the state, a law enforcement officer may serve a citation by delivering a copy to the defendant personally or by mailing a copy to the defendant’s last-known address.

History: 1975 c. 365 ; 1979 c. 175 ; 1987 a. 200 s. 4 ; 1993 a. 156 , 349 ; 1995 a. 27 , 216 ; 2005 a. 282 ; 2015 a. 170 .
Wis. Stat. § 801.59 — WI Code / Chapter 801 / Section 801.59
Assigned judge.
Status: in_force

In any case where another judge has been assigned under s. 751.03 to hear a particular action or proceeding, the clerk of circuit court shall forthwith notify all parties to the action or proceeding, by mail or telephone, noting in the case file the time notice was sent or given and, if notice is given by telephone, the person with whom he or she spoke. If a written request for a substitution of a new judge is filed with regard to an assigned judge, it shall be filed within 7 days after notice of the assignment has been received. A copy of the written request shall be mailed forthwith to all parties and to the named judge.

History: 1971 c. 296 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 757 (1975); 1977 c. 187 s. 135 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 141 Wis. 2d xiii (1987).
Wis. Stat. § 822.28 — WI Code / Chapter 822 / Section 822.28
Jurisdiction declined by reason of conduct.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in s. 822.24 , if a court of this state has jurisdiction under this chapter because a person seeking to invoke its jurisdiction has engaged in unjustifiable conduct, the court shall decline to exercise its jurisdiction unless any of the following occurs:

(a) The parents and all persons acting as parents have acquiesced in the exercise of jurisdiction.

(b) A court of the state otherwise having jurisdiction under ss. 822.21 to 822.23 determines that this state is a more appropriate forum under s. 822.27 .

(c) No court of any other state would have jurisdiction under the criteria specified in ss. 822.21 to 822.23 .

(2) If a court of this state declines to exercise its jurisdiction under sub. (1) , it may fashion an appropriate remedy to ensure the safety of the child and prevent a repetition of the unjustifiable conduct, including staying the proceeding until a child custody proceeding is commenced in a court having jurisdiction under ss. 822.21 to 822.23 .

(3) If a court dismisses a petition or stays a proceeding because it declines to exercise its jurisdiction under sub. (1) , it shall assess against the party seeking to invoke its jurisdiction necessary and reasonable expenses including costs, communication expenses, attorney fees, investigative fees, expenses for witnesses, travel expenses, and expenses for child care during the course of the proceedings, unless the party from whom fees are sought establishes that the assessment would be clearly inappropriate. The court may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against this state unless authorized by law other than this chapter.

History: 2005 a. 130 .
Wis. Stat. § 59.792 — WI Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59.792
Section 59.792
Status: in_force

13. Contract with private collectors and municipalities and transporters to receive and dispose of waste other than garbage at dumpage and incinerator sites.

14. Levy taxes to provide funds to acquire sites and to construct and equip incinerators and other structures for disposal of wastes.

15. Enact and enforce ordinances, and adopt and enforce rules and regulations, necessary for the orderly conduct of providing dumpage facilities and services and provide forfeitures for the violation thereof.

(b) The charges for waste disposal services shall be determined by the board and shall include a reasonable charge for depreciation. In the determination of the charges the board shall give full consideration to any fees directly collected for the service. Waste disposal charges shall be apportioned under s. 70.63 to the respective municipalities receiving the service. The depreciation charges shall create a reserve for future capital outlays for waste disposal facilities.

(c) Before acquiring any site in the county to be used for dumping or the erection of an incinerator or other structure for the disposal of waste, a public hearing shall be held in the county following notice of hearing by publication as a class 3 notice, under ch. 985 .

(d) The powers conferred by this subsection are declared to be necessary to the preservation of the public health, welfare and convenience of the county.

History: 1999 a. 83 ; 1999 a. 150 s. 672 ; 2017 a. 207 s. 5 .
Wis. Stat. § 769.503 — WI Code / Chapter 769 / Section 769.503
Compliance with multiple income-withholding orders.
Status: in_force

If an obligor’s employer receives multiple orders to withhold support from the earnings of the same obligor, the employer shall be considered to have satisfied the terms of the multiple orders if the employer complies with the law of the state of the obligor’s principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for multiple child support obligees.

History: 1997 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 786.18 — WI Code / Chapter 786 / Section 786.18
Ward’s estate is subject to particular estates.
Status: in_force

(1) If the real estate or interest therein of any minor or any individual adjudicated incompetent that is directed to be sold is subject to an estate for life or for years in the whole or any part thereof the order for the sale may, in the discretion of the court or presiding judge, direct that such estate shall be sold, with the reversionary estate or interest of the minor or individual.

(2) After a sale under sub. (1) , the court or judge shall ascertain the present value of the estate and direct the payment of the sum in gross, or the investment of the proceeds or the proper portion of the proceeds and the payment of the interest to the person having the particular estate until the expiration of the estate.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 63 ; Stats. 1979 s. 786.18; 1985 a. 29 ; 2005 a. 387 .
Wis. Stat. § 769.209 — WI Code / Chapter 769 / Section 769.209
Credit for payments.
Status: in_force

A tribunal of this state shall credit amounts collected for a particular period pursuant to any child support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country.

History: 1993 a. 326 ; 2009 a. 321 ; 2015 a. 82 s. 12 .
Wis. Stat. § 895.056 — WI Code / Chapter 895 / Section 895.056
Recovery of money wagered.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Property” means any money, property or thing in action.

(b) “Wagerer” means any person who, by playing at any game or by betting or wagering on any game, election, horse or other race, ball playing, cock fighting, fight, sport or pastime or on the issue or event thereof, or on any future contingent or unknown occurrence or result in respect to anything whatever, shall have put up, staked or deposited any property with any stakeholder or 3rd person, or shall have lost and delivered any property to any winner thereof.

(2)

(a) A wagerer may, within 3 months after putting up, staking or depositing property with a stakeholder or 3rd person, sue for and recover the property from the stakeholder or 3rd person whether the property has been lost or won or whether it has been delivered over by the stakeholder or 3rd person to the winner.

(b) A wagerer may, within 6 months after any delivery by the wagerer or the stakeholder of the property put up, staked or deposited, sue for and recover the property from the winner thereof if the property has been delivered over to the winner.

(3) If the wagerer does not sue for and recover the property, which was put up, staked or deposited, within the time specified under sub. (1) , any other person may, in the person’s behalf and the person’s name, sue for and recover the property for the use and benefit of the wagerer’s family or heirs, in case of the wagerer’s death. The suit may be brought against and property recovered from any of the following:

(a) The stakeholder or a 3rd person if the property is still held by the stakeholder or 3rd person, within 6 months after the putting up, staking or depositing of the property.

(b) The winner of the property, within one year from the delivery of the property to the winner.

(4) This section does not apply to any property that is permitted to be played, bet or wagered under chs. 562 to 569 or under state or federal laws relating to the conduct of gaming on Indian lands.

History: 1993 a. 174 , 486 ; 1995 a. 225 ; 1997 a. 27 , 35 .
Wis. Stat. § 94.38 — WI Code / Chapter 94 / Section 94.38
Agricultural and vegetable seeds; definitions.
Status: in_force

When used in ss. 94.38 to 94.46 unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) “Advertisement” means all representations, other than those on the label, disseminated in any manner or by any means relating to seed within the scope of ss. 94.38 to 94.46 .

(2) “Agricultural seed” includes the seeds of grass, forage, cereal, fiber crops and lawn seeds and any other kinds of seeds commonly recognized and sold within this state for sowing purposes as agricultural seeds or mixtures thereof, and may include noxious weed seeds if used as agricultural seed.

(7) “Label” means the display of written, printed or graphic matter upon or attached to the container of seed or, for seed sold in bulk quantities, included with the invoice or shipping document furnished the purchaser at time of delivery.

(8) “Labeler” means any person who as grower, processor, jobber, distributor or seller labels or accepts responsibility for labeling information pertaining to any container or lot of agricultural seed or vegetable seed and whose name and address are required by the department by rule to appear on the label.

(10) “Lawn seed” means the seed of grasses, clovers or other agricultural seeds or mixtures thereof commonly used or sold for seeding lawns, parks or turf areas in this state.

(11) “Lot” means a definite quantity of seed identified by a lot number or other mark, every portion or bag of which is uniform within recognized tolerances for the factors which appear in the labeling.

(14) “Preinoculated seed” means legume seed which has received an application, prior to sale, of a culture of bacteria which will effectively inoculate the legume as shown by nodulation of the roots, growth of the plants and accumulation of nitrogen in the plants.

(16) “Record” means all information relating to lot, identification, source, origin, variety, amount, processing, blending, testing, labeling, sale and distribution of seed and includes a file sample of each lot.

(18) “Seizure” means the taking of legal custody over seed by court order.

History: 1975 c. 39 , 308 ; 1983 a. 189 ; 1985 a. 138 ; 1993 a. 112 ; 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 632.726 — WI Code / Chapter 632 / Section 632.726
Current procedural terminology code changes.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “current procedural terminology code” means a number established by the American Medical Association that a health care provider puts on a health insurance claim form to describe the services that he or she performed.

(2) If an insurer changes a current procedural terminology code that was submitted by a health care provider on a health insurance claim form, the insurer shall include on the explanation of benefits form the reason for the change to the current procedural terminology code and shall cite on the explanation of benefits form the source for the change.

History: 2007 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 447.31 — WI Code / Chapter 447 / Section 447.31
Insurance.
Status: in_force

A dental society may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of an individual who is an employee, agent, director or officer of the dental society against liability asserted against and incurred by the individual in his or her capacity as an employee, agent, director or officer, or arising from his or her status as an employee, agent, director or officer, regardless of whether the dental society is required or authorized to indemnify or allow expenses to the individual against the same liability under ss. 447.17 , 447.21 , 447.25 and 447.29 .

History: 1987 a. 13 .