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Wis. Stat. § 409.507 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.507
Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing statement.
Status: in_force

(1) Disposition. A filed financing statement remains effective with respect to collateral that is sold, exchanged, leased, licensed, or otherwise disposed of and in which a security interest or agricultural lien continues, even if the secured party knows of or consents to the disposition.

(2) Information becoming seriously misleading. Except as otherwise provided in sub. (3) and s. 409.508 , a financing statement is not rendered ineffective if, after the financing statement is filed, the information provided in the financing statement becomes seriously misleading under s. 409.506 .

(3) Change in debtor’s name. If the name that a filed financing statement provides for a debtor becomes insufficient as the name of the debtor under s. 409.503 (1) so that the financing statement becomes seriously misleading under s. 409.506 :

(a) The financing statement is effective to perfect a security interest in collateral acquired by the debtor before, or within 4 months after, the filed financing statement becomes seriously misleading; and

(b) The financing statement is not effective to perfect a security interest in collateral acquired by the debtor more than 4 months after the filed financing statement becomes seriously misleading, unless an amendment to the financing statement which renders the financing statement not seriously misleading is filed within 4 months after the financing statement became seriously misleading.

History: 2001 a. 10 ; 2011 a. 206 .
Wis. Stat. § 16.309 — WI Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16.309
Community development block grant programs.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may administer programs, including the housing improvement grant program, the initial rehabilitation grant program, the community development grant program, and the revolving loan fund program, that are funded by a community development block grant, 42 USC 5301 to 5320 .

(2) The department may promulgate rules to administer this section.

(3) Notwithstanding sub. (2) , the department shall promulgate rules that specify that an applicant for funds under a program under this section shall be eligible to receive funds under the program in the year following the year for which the applicant submits an application, without having to submit another application for that following year, if all of the following apply:

(a) The applicant is an eligible applicant under the terms of the program.

(b) The applicant did not receive funds under the program in the year for which the application was submitted.

History: 1991 a. 39 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 9116 (5) ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2003 a. 33 s. 160 ; Stats. 2003 s. 560.9809; 2011 a. 32 s. 3459m ; Stats. 2011 s. 16.309; 2013 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 782.02 — WI Code / Chapter 782 / Section 782.02
Who not entitled to.
Status: in_force

No person shall be entitled to prosecute such writ who shall have been committed or detained by virtue of the final judgment or order of any competent tribunal of civil or criminal jurisdiction or by virtue of any execution issued upon such order or judgment; but no order of commitment for any alleged contempt or upon proceedings as for contempt to enforce the rights or remedies of any party shall be deemed a judgment or order within the meaning of this section; nor shall any attachment or other process issued upon any such order be deemed an execution within the meaning of this section.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 59 ; Stats. 1979 s. 782.02.
Wis. Stat. § 5.84 — WI Code / Chapter 5 / Section 5.84
Testing of equipment; requirements for programs and ballots.
Status: in_force

(1) Where any municipality employs an electronic voting system which utilizes automatic tabulating equipment, either at the polling place or at a central counting location, the municipal clerk shall, on any day not more than 10 days prior to the election day on which the equipment is to be utilized, have the equipment tested to ascertain that it will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all measures. Public notice of the time and place of the test shall be given by the clerk at least 48 hours prior to the test by publication of a class 1 notice under ch. 985 in one or more newspapers published within the municipality if a newspaper is published therein, otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation therein. The test shall be open to the public. The test shall be conducted by processing a preaudited group of ballots so marked as to record a predetermined number of valid votes for each candidate and on each referendum. The test shall include for each office one or more ballots which have votes in excess of the number allowed by law and, for a partisan primary election, one or more ballots which have votes cast for candidates of more than one recognized political party, in order to test the ability of the automatic tabulating equipment to reject such votes. If any error is detected, the municipal clerk shall ascertain the cause and correct the error. The clerk shall make an errorless count before the automatic tabulating equipment is approved by the clerk for use in the election.

(2) Before beginning the ballot count at each polling place or at the central counting location, the election officials shall witness a test of the automatic tabulating equipment by engaging the printing mechanism and securing a printed result showing a zero count for every candidate and referendum. After the completion of the count, the ballots and programs used shall be sealed and retained under the custody of the municipal clerk in a secure location.

History: 1979 c. 311 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2005 a. 92 .
Wis. Stat. § 908.06 — WI Code / Chapter 908 / Section 908.06
Attacking and supporting credibility of declarant.
Status: in_force

When a hearsay statement has been admitted in evidence, the credibility of the declarant may be attacked, and if attacked may be supported by any evidence which would be admissible for those purposes if declarant had testified as a witness. Evidence of a statement or conduct by the declarant at any time, inconsistent with the declarant’s hearsay statement, is not subject to any requirement that the declarant may have been afforded an opportunity to deny or explain. If the party against whom a hearsay statement has been admitted calls the declarant as a witness, the party is entitled to examine the declarant on the statement as if under cross-examination.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R1, R325 (1973); 1991 a. 32 .
Wis. Stat. § 645.49 — WI Code / Chapter 645 / Section 645.49
Actions by and against liquidator.
Status: in_force

(1) Termination of actions against insurer by order appointing liquidator. Upon issuance of any order appointing the commissioner liquidator of a domestic insurer or of an alien insurer domiciled in this state, all actions and all proceedings against the insurer whether in this state or elsewhere shall be abated and the liquidator shall not intervene in them, except as provided in this subsection. Whenever in the liquidator’s judgment an action in this state has proceeded to a point where fairness or convenience would be served by its continuation to judgment, the liquidator may apply to the court for leave to defend or to be substituted for the insurer, and if the court grants the application, the action shall not be abated. Whenever in the liquidator’s judgment, protection of the estate of the insurer necessitates intervention in an action against the insurer that is pending outside this state, with approval of the court the liquidator may intervene in the action. The liquidator may defend at the expense of the estate of the insurer any action in which he or she intervenes under this section at the expense of the estate of the insurer.

(2) Statutes of limitations on claims by insurer. The liquidator may, within 2 years subsequent to the entry of an order for liquidation or within such further time as applicable law permits, institute an action or proceeding on behalf of the estate of the insurer upon any cause of action against which the period of limitation fixed by applicable law has not expired at the time of the filing of the petition upon which such order is entered. Where, by any agreement, a period of limitation is fixed for instituting a suit or proceeding upon any claim or for filing any claim, proof of claim, proof of loss, demand, notice or the like, or where in any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, a period of limitation is fixed, either in the proceeding or by applicable law, for taking any action, filing any claim or pleading or doing any act, and where in any such case the period had not expired at the date of the filing of the petition, the liquidator may, for the benefit of the estate, take any such action or do any such act, required of or permitted to the insurer, within a period of 60 days subsequent to the entry of an order for liquidation, or within such further period as is permitted by the agreement, or in the proceeding or by applicable law, or within such further period as is shown to the satisfaction of the court not to be unfairly prejudicial to the other party.

(3) Statutes of limitations on claims against insurer. The time between the filing of a petition for liquidation against an insurer and the denial of the petition shall not be considered to be a part of the time within which any action may be commenced against the insurer. Any action against the insurer that might have been commenced when the petition was filed may be commenced for at least 60 days after the petition is denied.

History: 1979 c. 102 .
Wis. Stat. § 125.65 — WI Code / Chapter 125 / Section 125.65
Permit to solicit for future sales.
Status: in_force

(1) The division may issue a permit for wholesale sales for future delivery which authorizes the permittee to solicit orders, and to engage in the sale, of intoxicating liquor for delivery at a future date. A person holding a permit under this section may give a sample of a brand of intoxicating liquor to a “Class A” licensee who has not previously purchased that brand from the permittee.

(2) Permits for wholesale sale for future delivery may be issued to any person who holds a valid certificate issued under s. 73.03 (50) , who is qualified under s. 125.04 (5) (a) 1. and (b) and who is at least 18 years of age.

(3) Both natural persons engaged in actual solicitation of orders or sales and their employers shall obtain permits under this section.

(4) The division shall require the following information in applications for permits under this section:

(a) The type of permit desired.

(b) The name and address of the applicant; if the applicant is a partnership, limited liability company or association, the name and address of each member thereof; or if the applicant is a corporation, the name and address of each of its officers.

(c) The places where the business is to be conducted.

(d) For the period of at least 3 years immediately preceding the date of application, the business or occupation, if any, engaged in by the applicant; if a partnership, limited liability company or association, by each member thereof; or if a corporation, by each officer.

(e) Any other information required by the division.

(6) Employers shall furnish the division with the names of all employees engaged in activities requiring a permit under this section and shall notify the division whenever an employee begins or terminates employment. Upon leaving employment, an employee shall submit his or her permit to the division for cancellation.

(7) Every person holding a permit under this section shall exhibit it upon request to any prospective purchaser.

(8) Nonresident persons holding permits under this section may solicit sales from retailers in this state only if the orders are solicited for, and will be filled by, persons holding permits under s. 125.54 .

(9) Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500 or imprisoned for not less than 30 days nor more than 6 months or both. Conviction for a violation of this section shall result in automatic revocation of any permit issued under this section. If a permit issued under this section is so revoked, another permit may not be issued to the same person for a period of 2 years following revocation.

(10) The division may not require a fee for a permit under this section for an individual who is eligible for the veterans fee waiver program under s. 45.44 .

History: 1981 c. 79 ; 1985 a. 302 ; 1989 a. 253 ; 1993 a. 112 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2007 a. 85 ; 2011 a. 209 ; 2023 a. 73 .
Wis. Stat. § 905.065 — WI Code / Chapter 905 / Section 905.065
Honesty testing devices.
Status: in_force

(1) Definition. In this section, “honesty testing device” means a polygraph, voice stress analysis, psychological stress evaluator or any other similar test purporting to test honesty.

(2) General rule of the privilege. A person has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent another from disclosing any oral or written communications during or any results of an examination using an honesty testing device in which the person was the test subject.

(3) Who may claim privilege. The privilege may be claimed by the person, by the person’s guardian or conservator or by the person’s personal representative, if the person is deceased.

(4) Exception. There is no privilege under this section if there is a valid and voluntary written agreement between the test subject and the person administering the test.

History: 1979 c. 319 .
Wis. Stat. § 30.81 — WI Code / Chapter 30 / Section 30.81
Local regulations on icebound inland waters.
Status: in_force

(1) Town, village and city ordinances. Any town, village or city, in the interest of public health or safety, may enact ordinances that are not inconsistent with this chapter, relative to the use or operation of boats and other craft, including snowmobiles and other motor vehicles, on icebound inland lakes, but an ordinance is not valid unless each town, village and city having jurisdiction over any portion of the lake has enacted an identical ordinance. When the identical ordinances have been enacted, the ordinance of any individual town, village or city is in effect on the entire lake.

(1m) Lake district ordinances.

(a) A public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, in the interest of public health or safety, may enact and enforce ordinances applicable to a lake entirely within its boundaries if each town, village and city having jurisdiction on the lake adopts a resolution authorizing the lake district to do so.

(b) An ordinance enacted under par. (a) must be consistent with this chapter and must relate to the use or operation of boats and other craft, including snowmobiles and other motor vehicles, on icebound inland lakes.

(c) If a public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district enacts an ordinance under this subsection, the district ordinance supersedes all conflicting provisions of a town, village or city ordinance enacted under sub. (1) that are applicable to the lake.

(d) If a town, village or city having jurisdiction on the lake rescinds the resolution authorizing the public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district to enact and enforce ordinances under this paragraph, the lake district ordinances are void.

(2) County ordinances. Any county, in the interest of public health or safety, may enact ordinances not inconsistent with this chapter, relative to the use or operation of boats and other craft, including snowmobiles and other motor vehicles, on any of the icebound inland waters over which it has jurisdiction, except inland icebound lakes that are regulated by valid local ordinances enacted pursuant to sub. (1) or (1m) .

(3) Liability of local government. All traffic on icebound, inland waters shall be at the risk of the traveler. An ordinance by any municipality or any public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district that is enacted under this section permitting traffic on icebound inland waters shall not render the municipality or lake district enacting the ordinance liable for any accident to those engaged in permitted traffic while the ordinance is in effect.

(4) Enforcement. A law enforcement officer of a town, village or city that is subject to an ordinance enacted under sub. (1) or (1m) has the powers of sheriff in enforcing the ordinance on any portion of the lake, whether or not that portion of the lake is within the jurisdiction of the town, village or city for other purposes.

History: 1989 a. 159 ; 1993 a. 167 .
Wis. Stat. § 183.0909 — WI Code / Chapter 183 / Section 183.0909
Transfer of registration.
Status: in_force

(1) When a registered foreign limited liability company has merged into a foreign entity that is not registered to do business in this state or has converted to a foreign entity required to register with the department to do business in this state, the foreign entity shall deliver to the department for filing an application for transfer of registration. The application must state all of the following:

(a) The name of the registered foreign limited liability company before the merger or conversion.

(b) That before the merger or conversion the registration pertained to a foreign limited liability company.

(c) The name of the applicant foreign entity into which the foreign limited liability company has merged or to which it has been converted and, if the name does not comply with s. 183.0112 , a fictitious name adopted pursuant to s. 183.0906 (1) .

(d) The type of entity of the applicant foreign entity and the jurisdiction of its governing law.

(e) The street and mailing addresses of the principal office of the applicant foreign entity and, if the entity’s governing law requires the entity to maintain an office in the jurisdiction of that governing law, the street and mailing addresses of that office.

(f) The street address of the applicant foreign entity’s registered office in this state and the name and e-mail address of its registered agent at that office.

(2) When an application for transfer of registration takes effect, the registration of the foreign limited liability company to do business in this state is transferred without interruption to the foreign entity into which the company has merged or to which it has been converted.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 229.854 — WI Code / Chapter 229 / Section 229.854
Sponsoring city employment regulations.
Status: in_force

Any ordinance of a sponsoring city that regulates employment relations or practices of all private employers, generally, shall apply to employees of the district, unless the sponsoring city’s common council excludes the application of such an ordinance to the district’s employees.

History: 1999 a. 65 .
Wis. Stat. § 289.21 — WI Code / Chapter 289 / Section 289.21
Initial site report.
Status: in_force

(1) Initial site report required. Prior to constructing a landfill, the person who seeks to construct the facility shall submit to the department an initial site report. The department shall specify by rule the minimum contents of an initial site report.

(2) Determination if initial site report is complete. Within 30 days after an initial site report is submitted, the department shall either determine that the initial site report is complete or notify the applicant in writing that the initial site report is not complete and specify the information which is required to be submitted before the initial site report is complete. The department shall notify the applicant in writing when the initial site report is complete.

History: 1995 a. 227 s. 543 .
Wis. Stat. § 179.0401 — WI Code / Chapter 179 / Section 179.0401
Becoming general partner.
Status: in_force

(1) Upon formation of a limited partnership, a person becomes a general partner as agreed among the persons that are to be the initial partners.

(2) After formation of a limited partnership, a person becomes a general partner in any of the following ways:

(a) As provided in the partnership agreement.

(b) As a result of a transaction effective under subch. XI .

(c) With the affirmative vote or consent of all the partners.

(d) As provided in s. 179.0801 (1) (c) 2.

(3) A person may become a general partner without doing any of the following:

(a) Acquiring a transferable interest.

(b) Making or being obligated to make a contribution to the partnership.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.707 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.707
“Person in the position of a seller”.
Status: in_force

(1) A “person in the position of a seller” includes as against a principal an agent who has paid or become responsible for the price of goods on behalf of the agent’s principal or anyone who otherwise holds a security interest or other right in goods similar to that of a seller.

(2) A person in the position of a seller may as provided in this chapter withhold or stop delivery (s. 402.705 ) and resell (s. 402.706 ) and recover incidental damages (s. 402.710 ).

History: 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 612.61 — WI Code / Chapter 612 / Section 612.61
Licensing of agents.
Status: in_force

Persons soliciting insurance for town mutuals shall comply with s. 628.05 .

History: 1973 c. 22 ; 1975 c. 371 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.977 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.977
Civil actions for damages caused by law violations.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may bring a civil action in the name of the state for the recovery of damages against any person killing, wounding, catching, taking, trapping or possessing in violation of this chapter any of the following named protected wild animals, birds, or fish, or any part of an animal, bird or fish, and the sum assessed for damages for each wild animal, bird, or fish shall be not less than the amount stated in this section:

(a) Any endangered species protected under s. 29.604 , $875.

(am) Any elk, $2,000.

(b) Any moose, fisher, prairie chicken, or sand hill crane, $262.50.

(c) Any deer, bear, wild turkey or wild swan, $175.

(d) Any bobcat, fox, wolf, beaver, or otter, $87.50.

(e) Any coyote, raccoon or mink, $43.75.

(f) Any sharp-tailed grouse, ruffed grouse, spruce hen, wild duck, coot, wild goose or brant, $26.25.

(g) Any pheasant, gray partridge, quail, rail, Wilson’s snipe, woodcock or shore bird, or protected song bird or harmless bird, $17.50.

(h) Any muskrat, rabbit or squirrel, $8.75.

(i) Any muskellunge or lake sturgeon, $43.75.

(j) Any largemouth or smallmouth bass, $26.25.

(k) Any brook, rainbow, brown, or steel head trout, $26.25.

(L) Any walleye pike, northern pike, or any other game fish not mentioned in pars. (i) to (k) , $8.75.

(m) Any game or fur-bearing animal or bird not mentioned in pars. (am) to (h) , $17.50.

(2) Any damages recovered in a civil action under this section shall be paid into the conservation fund. The costs of the action, if the judgment is in favor of the defendant, shall be paid out of the conservation fund.

(3) A civil action brought under this section shall be a bar to a criminal prosecution for the same offense and any criminal prosecution for any offense chargeable under this section shall be a bar to a civil action brought under this section.

History: 1975 c. 365 ; 1977 c. 386 ; 1979 c. 34 ; 1985 a. 332 s. 251 (1) ; 1995 a. 376 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 248 ss. 691 to 698 ; Stats. 1997 s. 29.977; 2001 a. 56 , 109 ; 2011 a. 169 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0803 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0803
Number of directors.
Status: in_force

(1) Minimum number. A board shall consist of 3 or more individuals, with the number specified in or fixed in accordance with the articles of incorporation or bylaws.

(2) Changes in board size. The number of directors may be increased or, subject to sub. (1) , decreased from time to time by amendment to, or in the manner provided in, the articles of incorporation or bylaws.

History: 1997 a. 79 .