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Wis. Stat. § 178.0120 — WI Code / Chapter 178 / Section 178.0120
Fees; certified copies; filing false documents.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to sub. (2) (a) , the department may collect a fee for filing, or providing a certified copy of, a record under this chapter. The department may charge a fee for providing a certified copy of any record, or for filing any record not identified in sub. (2) (a) , pursuant to a rule promulgated under this subsection or s. 182.01 (4) .

(2)

(a) Except as provided under par. (c) , the department shall collect the following fees when the records described in this paragraph are delivered to the department for filing:

1. Annual report of a domestic limited liability partnership, $25.

2. Annual report of a foreign limited liability partnership, $65.

3. Articles of merger, conversion, interest exchange, or domestication, $150.

4. Domestic statement of qualification, $100.

5. Foreign registration statement, $100.

6. Foreign transfer of registration, $50.

7. Reinstatement after revocation, $100.

8. Renewal application, $40.

9. Statement of amendment, cancellation, change, correction, denial, dissociation, dissolution, renewal, rescission, termination, or withdrawal, $40.

10. Statement of partnership authority, $100.

11. Amendment or statement of withdrawal of foreign registration statement, $40.

12. Written application for reserved name or renewal of reserved name, $15.

13. Notice of transfer of reserved or registered name, $10.

14. Application for registered name or renewal of registered name, $50.

15. Domestic or foreign limited liability partnership’s statement of change of registered office, $10.

16. Agent’s statement of change of registered office, $10 for each affected domestic or foreign limited liability partnership, except if simultaneous filings are made, the fee is reduced to $1 for each affected domestic or foreign limited liability partnership in excess of 200.

17. Agent’s statement of resignation, $10.

(b) In addition to the fees required under par. (a) or permitted under sub. (1) , the department may collect the expedited service fee established under s. 182.01 (4) (d) for processing in an expeditious manner a record required or permitted to be filed with the department under this chapter or for preparing in an expeditious manner a certificate of status under s. 178.0121 .

(c) The department may, by rule, specify a larger fee for filing records in paper format.

(3) A certified copy of a record filed by the department is conclusive evidence that the original record is on file with the department.

(4) A person may not sign a document with intent that it be delivered to the department for filing, or deliver a document or cause a document to be delivered to the department for filing, if the person knows that the document is false in any material respect at the time of its delivery. Whoever violates this subsection is guilty of a Class I felony.

History: 2015 a. 295 ; 2017 a. 59 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 195.07 — WI Code / Chapter 195 / Section 195.07
Law enforcement.
Status: in_force

(1) Powers. The office shall inquire into the neglect or violation of the laws of this state by water carriers and railroads, or by the officers, agents or employees thereof, or by persons operating water carriers and railroads, and shall report violations to the attorney general.

(2) Attorney general and district attorney to prosecute. Upon request of the office, the attorney general or the district attorney of the proper county shall aid in any investigation, hearing or trial had under, and shall institute and prosecute all necessary actions or proceedings for the enforcement of, laws relating to water carriers and railroads.

(3) Actions, character, venue. Any forfeiture, fine or other penalty provided in chs. 192 to 195 may be recovered as a forfeiture in a civil action brought in the name of the state in the circuit court of Dane County, or in the county that would be the proper place of trial under s. 801.50 .

History: 1977 c. 29 ; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1) ; 1985 a. 29 ; 1993 a. 16 , 123 ; 2005 a. 179 .
Wis. Stat. § 846.25 — WI Code / Chapter 846 / Section 846.25
Discharge after foreclosure.
Status: in_force

After a mortgage has been foreclosed by action and the judgment and costs have been paid and satisfaction of the mortgage entered upon the court record, the clerk of circuit court, on request, shall sign a certificate attesting to those facts, which certificate is entitled to record.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 768 (1975); 1995 a. 224 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.59 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.59
Merchandising by utilities.
Status: in_force

Each public utility engaged in the production, transmission, delivery or furnishing of heat, light or power either directly or indirectly to or for the use of the public shall keep separate accounts to show any profit or loss resulting from the sale of appliances or other merchandise. The commission may not take the profit or loss into consideration in arriving at any rate to be charged for service by the public utility.

History: 1983 a. 53 .
Wis. Stat. § 116.02 — WI Code / Chapter 116 / Section 116.02
Board of control; membership.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) Each agency shall be governed by a board of control composed of members of school boards of school districts within the agency. Annually on or after the 4th Monday in April, the school board of each school district in the agency shall appoint one of its members as its representative for the purpose of determining the composition of the board of control. For the purpose of determining membership on the board of control, a school district operating elementary grades only and lying in more than one union high school district shall be considered part of the union high school district territory in which the major portion of its equalized valuation lies. The board of control shall hold an annual organizational meeting on or after the 2nd Monday in May. No annual organizational meeting may be held after the 2nd Monday in August.

(c) The state superintendent shall cause to convene annually on the day that the board of control holds its annual organizational meeting under par. (a) a convention composed of the representative from each school board in the agency. There shall be no more than one representative from each union high school district. The convention may direct the board of control to determine a different date for the annual organizational meeting.

(2) The annual convention shall establish bylaws for governing the agency, including bylaws for all of the following:

(a) Subject to sub. (1) (a) , setting the date of the annual convention and establishing procedures for calling a special meeting.

(b) Providing for regular meetings of the board of control.

(c) Establishing an initial plan of representation for the agency and specifying how the plan may be amended.

(d) Specifying the number of members on the board of control.

(e) Specifying what constitutes a vacancy on the board of control and establishing procedures for filling a vacancy on the board of control.

(f) Specifying the officers on the board of control, establishing procedures for choosing those officers, specifying their terms of office and their duties and establishing procedures for removing them from office.

(g) Providing for the establishment of fiscal control, responsibility and accountability requirements.

(h) Designating a public depository.

History: 1979 c. 110 ; 1981 c. 8 ; 1983 a. 27 ; 1993 a. 184 , 492 ; 1995 a. 27 ss. 3914m to 3915s , 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 137.21 — WI Code / Chapter 137 / Section 137.21
Admissibility in evidence.
Status: in_force

In a proceeding, a record or signature may not be excluded as evidence solely because it is in electronic form.

History: 2003 a. 294 .
Wis. Stat. § 349.07 — WI Code / Chapter 349 / Section 349.07
Authority to designate through highways.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may, when it deems it necessary for the public safety, by order declare any state trunk highway or connecting highway or portion thereof to be a through highway.

(2) Every county highway committee may, when it deems necessary for the public safety, by order declare any county trunk highway or portion thereof to be a through highway, except that where a state trunk highway intersects a county trunk highway the department shall designate the through highway.

(3) Every local authority may, when it deems it necessary for the public safety, by ordinance or resolution declare any highway or portion thereof under its exclusive jurisdiction to be a through highway.

(4) No order, ordinance or resolution declaring any highway to be a through highway is effective until official stop signs or traffic control signals have been installed at the entrances thereto from other highways.

(5) Through highway declarations under this section shall not apply to any paralleling service roads.

(6)

(a) Nothing in this section shall prohibit local authorities from placing additional stop signs on the roadway or temporary school zoning warning signs or temporary stop signs in the roadway at school crossings during periods of daylight when school children are using such crossings if such signs do not physically obstruct traffic.

(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit local authorities from placing temporary stop signs in the roadway at intersections or crosswalks for limited periods of time if the local authorities deem it necessary for the public safety and if the signs do not physically obstruct traffic.

(7)

(a) The department may, when it deems necessary for the public safety, by order provide for the installation of yield signs on state trunk highways and connecting highways, and the governing body of any city, or county, may by ordinance or resolution provide, when it deems it necessary for the public safety, for the installation of yield signs on any through highway which has been so declared under sub. (3) and under its exclusive jurisdiction to regulate merging traffic movements and conflicting movements occurring within the intersection of 2 or more highways. Yield signs shall not be used in lieu of stop signs where a highway directly crosses a through 2-way highway.

(b) The governing body of any town, city, village or county may by ordinance or resolution provide for the installation of yield signs at any intersection over which it has exclusive jurisdiction, but if the intersection is part of a through highway such yield signs can be installed at such intersections only as provided in par. (a) .

(8) The governing body of any town, city, village or county may by ordinance or resolution provide for the installation of stop signs and traffic signals at intersections on highways over which it has exclusive jurisdiction.

History: 1975 c. 192 ; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (3) , (8) (a); 1977 c. 116 ss. 7 , 8 , 9 ; 1977 c. 272 ; 1979 c. 34 .
Wis. Stat. § 706.02 — WI Code / Chapter 706 / Section 706.02
Formal requisites.
Status: in_force

(1) Transactions under s. 706.001 (1) shall not be valid unless evidenced by a conveyance that satisfies all of the following:

(a) Identifies the parties; and

(b) Identifies the land; and

(c) Identifies the interest conveyed, and any material term, condition, reservation, exception or contingency upon which the interest is to arise, continue or be extinguished, limited or encumbered; and

(d) Is signed by or on behalf of each of the grantors; and

(e) Is signed by or on behalf of all parties, if a lease or contract to convey; and

(f) Is signed, or joined in by separate conveyance, by or on behalf of each spouse, if the conveyance alienates any interest of a married person in a homestead under s. 706.01 (7) except conveyances between spouses, but on a purchase money mortgage pledging that property as security only the purchaser need sign the mortgage; and

(g) Is delivered. Except under s. 706.09 , a conveyance delivered upon a parol limitation or condition shall be subject thereto only if the issue arises in an action or proceeding commenced within 5 years following the date of such conditional delivery; however, when death or survival of a grantor is made such a limiting or conditioning circumstance, the conveyance shall be subject thereto only if the issue arises in an action or proceeding commenced within such 5-year period and commenced prior to such death.

(2) A conveyance may satisfy any of the foregoing requirements of this section:

(a) By specific reference, in a writing signed as required, to extrinsic writings in existence when the conveyance is executed; or

(b) By physical annexation of several writings to one another, with the mutual consent of the parties; or

(c) By several writings which show expressly on their faces that they refer to the same transaction, and which the parties have mutually acknowledged by conduct or agreement as evidences of the transaction.

History: 1971 c. 211 s. 126 ; 1977 c. 177 ; 1999 a. 85 .
Wis. Stat. § 101.651 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.651
Special requirements for smaller municipalities.
Status: in_force

(1) Definition. In this section, “municipality” means a city, village or town with a population of 2,500 or less.

(2m) Enforcement options. A municipality shall exercise jurisdiction over the construction and inspection of new one- and 2-family dwellings by enacting ordinances under s. 101.65 (1) (a) or shall exercise the jurisdiction granted under s. 101.65 (1) (a) jointly under s. 101.65 (1) (b) , unless any of the following conditions are met:

(a) The municipality adopts a resolution requesting under sub. (3) (a) that a county enforce this subchapter or an ordinance enacted under s. 101.65 (1) (a) throughout the municipality and that a county provide inspection services in the municipality to administer and enforce this subchapter or an ordinance enacted under s. 101.65 (1) (a) .

(c) Under sub. (3) (b) , the department enforces this subchapter throughout the municipality and provides inspection services in the municipality to administer and enforce this subchapter.

(3) Departmental and county authority in municipalities; generally.

(a) A county may not enforce this subchapter or provide inspection services in a municipality unless requested to do so by a person with respect to a particular dwelling or by the municipality. A request by a person or a municipality with respect to a particular dwelling does not give the county authority with respect to any other dwelling. For any services provided under this paragraph, the county shall collect costs under s. 101.65 (1) (c) from the person or municipality that requests the service.

(am) Except as provided in s. 101.64 (2m) , if a municipality exercises jurisdiction under sub. (2m) or adopts a resolution under sub. (2m) (a) , the department may not enforce this subchapter in the municipality unless requested to do so by the municipality. For any services provided under this paragraph, the department shall collect costs under s. 101.63 (9) from the municipality.

(b) The department shall provide inspection services and shall enforce this subchapter throughout any municipality that does not exercise jurisdiction under sub. (2m) and that has not adopted a resolution under sub. (2m) (a) .

(4) Data relating to housing starts in municipalities. Municipalities shall furnish statistical data relating to housing starts to the department as requested by the department.

(5) Effect of section on certain laws. This section does not affect the applicability of rules or an ordinance adopted under this subchapter to builders, designers and owners of dwellings located in a municipality.

History: 1981 c. 20 ; 1989 a. 31 ; 1991 a. 309 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2003 a. 90 ; 2017 a. 330 .
Wis. Stat. § 347.08 — WI Code / Chapter 347 / Section 347.08
Determining the visibility distance and mounted height of lamps.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever this chapter states a requirement as to distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible or within which such lamps or devices shall be visible, such distance shall be measured during hours of darkness under normal atmospheric conditions and upon a straight, level, unlighted highway unless a different time, direction or condition is expressly stated.

(2) Whenever this chapter requires a lamp or device to be mounted at a certain height, the distance shall be measured from the center of the lamp or device to the level ground upon which the vehicle stands when such vehicle is without load.
Wis. Stat. § 409.705 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.705
Effectiveness of action taken before effective date.
Status: in_force

(1) Preeffective-date action; one-year perfection period unless reperfected. If action, other than the filing of a financing statement, is taken before July 1, 2001, and the action would have resulted in priority of a security interest over the rights of a person that becomes a lien creditor had the security interest become enforceable before July 1, 2001, the action is effective to perfect a security interest that attaches under 2001 Wisconsin Act 10 before July 1, 2001. An attached security interest becomes unperfected one year after July 1, 2001, unless the security interest becomes a perfected security interest under 2001 Wisconsin Act 10 before one year after July 1, 2001.

(2) Preeffective-date filing. The filing of a financing statement before July 1, 2001, is effective to perfect a security interest to the extent that the filing would satisfy the applicable requirements for perfection under 2001 Wisconsin Act 10 .

(3) Preeffective-date filing in jurisdiction formerly governing perfection. 2001 Wisconsin Act 10 does not render ineffective an effective financing statement that, before July 1, 2001, is filed and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in s. 409.103 , 1999 stats. However, except as otherwise provided in subs. (4) and (5) and s. 409.706 , the financing statement ceases to be effective at the earlier of:

(a) The time the financing statement would have ceased to be effective under the law of the jurisdiction in which it is filed; or

(b) June 30, 2006.

(4) Continuation statement. The filing of a continuation statement on or after July 1, 2001, does not continue the effectiveness of the financing statement filed before July 1, 2001. However, upon the timely filing of a continuation statement on or after July 1, 2001, and in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in subch. III , the effectiveness of a financing statement filed in the same office in that jurisdiction before July 1, 2001, continues for the period provided by the law of that jurisdiction.

(5) Application of sub. (3) (b) to transmitting utility financing statement. Subsection (3) (b) applies to a financing statement that, before July 1, 2001, is filed against a transmitting utility and satisfies the applicable requirements for perfection under the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in s. 409.103 , 1999 stats., only to the extent that subch. III provides that the law of a jurisdiction other than the jurisdiction in which the financing statement is filed governs perfection of a security interest in collateral covered by the financing statement.

(6) Application of subch. V . A financing statement that includes a financing statement filed before July 1, 2001, and a continuation statement filed on or after July 1, 2001, is effective only to the extent that it satisfies the requirements of subch. V for an initial financing statement.

History: 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 16.895 — WI Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16.895
State-owned or operated heating, cooling or power plants.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “agency” has the meaning given under s. 16.52 (7) .

(2) The department may:

(a) Prepare all specifications, bid and administer contracts for the purchase of fuels for all state-owned or operated heating, cooling or power plants.

(b) Coordinate the state fuel and utility management program to maximize the economy of operations of the program.

(c) Determine the method of operation of state-owned or operated heating, cooling or power plants, including maintenance standards and policies concerning utilization of alternative fuels and energy conservation.

(d) Assure compliance with federal and state laws, federal regulations and state administrative rules applicable to state-owned or operated heating, cooling or power plants.

(e) Delegate to any agency the department’s authority under par. (c) or (d) and approve all expenditures of the agency under par. (c) or (d) .

(f) Review and approve rates charged by any agency for the sale of fuel, water, sewage treatment service, electricity, heat or chilled water under s. 16.93 , and the rates at which any agency charges its appropriations for fuel, water, sewage treatment service, electricity, heat or chilled water that the agency provides to itself.

(g) Provide for emissions testing, waste product disposal and fuel quality testing at state-owned or operated heating, cooling or power plants, and secure permits that are required for operation of the plants.

(h) Periodically assess to agencies their proportionate cost of the expenses incurred by the department under this subsection and ss. 16.85 (4) , 16.90 , 16.91 and 16.92 in accordance with a method of apportionment determined by the department.

History: 1989 a. 31 ss. 135 , 140 .
Wis. Stat. § 179.1012 — WI Code / Chapter 179 / Section 179.1012
Action by attorney general.
Status: in_force

The attorney general may maintain an action to enjoin a foreign limited partnership from doing business in this state in violation of this subchapter.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 183.1023 — WI Code / Chapter 183 / Section 183.1023
Approval of merger; amendment; abandonment.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to s. 183.1061 , a plan of merger must be approved by a vote or consent of all the members of each domestic limited liability company that is a constituent entity.

(2) Subject to s. 183.1061 and the governing law of each constituent entity, after a plan of merger is approved, and at any time before a merger becomes effective, the constituent entities may amend the plan of merger or abandon the merger as provided in the plan of merger or, except as otherwise provided in the plan of merger, with the same vote or consent as was required to approve the plan of merger.

(3) If, after articles of merger have been delivered to the department for filing and before the merger becomes effective, the plan of merger is amended in a manner that requires an amendment to the articles of merger or if the merger is abandoned, a statement of amendment or abandonment, signed by a constituent entity, must be delivered to the department for filing before the merger becomes effective. When the statement of abandonment becomes effective, the merger is abandoned and does not become effective. The statement of amendment or abandonment must contain all of the following:

(a) The name of each constituent entity.

(b) The amendment to or the abandonment of the articles of merger.

(c) A statement that the amendment or abandonment was approved in accordance with this section.

(4) In addition to approval under sub. (1) , a plan of merger must be approved by each constituent entity that is not a domestic limited liability company in accordance with any requirements of its governing law.

History: 2021 a. 258 .