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Wis. Stat. § 179.0807 — WI Code / Chapter 179 / Section 179.0807
Claims against dissolved limited partnership generally.
Status: in_force

(1) A dissolved limited partnership may publish notice of its dissolution and request persons having claims, whether known or unknown, against the partnership to present them in accordance with the notice.

(2) A notice under sub. (1) must satisfy all of the following:

(a) It must be published as a class 1 notice, under ch. 985 , in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in this state in which the dissolved limited partnership’s principal office is located or, if the principal office is not located in this state, in the county in which the partnership’s registered office is or was last located.

(b) It must describe the information required to be contained in a claim, state that the claim must be in writing, and provide a mailing address to which the claim is to be sent.

(c) It must state that a claim against the partnership is barred unless an action to enforce the claim is commenced not later than 2 years after publication of the notice.

(d) Unless the partnership has been throughout its existence a limited liability limited partnership, it must state that the barring of a claim against the partnership will also bar any corresponding claim against any general partner or person dissociated as a general partner which is based on s. 179.0404 .

(3) If a dissolved limited partnership publishes a notice in accordance with sub. (2) , the claim of each of the following claimants is barred unless the claimant commences an action to enforce the claim against the partnership not later than 2 years after the publication date of the notice:

(a) A claimant that did not receive notice in a record under s. 179.0806 .

(b) A claimant whose claim was timely sent to the partnership but not acted on.

(c) A claimant whose claim is contingent at, or based on an event occurring after, the date of dissolution.

(4) A claim not barred under this section or s. 179.0806 may be enforced against any of the following:

(a) A dissolved limited partnership, to the extent of its undistributed assets.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in s. 179.0808 , if assets of the partnership have been distributed after dissolution, a partner or transferee to the extent of that person’s proportionate share of the claim or of the partnership’s assets distributed to the partner or transferee after dissolution, whichever is less, but a person’s total liability for all claims under this paragraph may not exceed the total amount of assets distributed to the person after dissolution.

(c) Any person liable on the claim under s. 179.0404 or 179.0607 .

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.595 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.595
Utility advertising practices.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Advertising” means:

1. Printed and published material and descriptive literature of a utility used in newspapers, magazines, radio and TV scripts, billboards and similar displays.

1m. Any material which provides information favorable to a public utility on any issue about which the utility is attempting to influence legislative or administrative action by direct oral or written communication with any elective state official, agency official or legislative employee if the practice is regulated under subch. III of ch. 13 .

2. Descriptive literature and sales aids of all kinds issued by a utility for presentation to utility consumers and other members of the public, including but not limited to any material enclosed with or added to a utility billing statement, circulars, leaflets, booklets, depictions, illustrations and form letters.

3. Prepared sales talks to the public and public informational facilities.

4. Other materials and procedures enumerated by rule of the commission which promote or provide information to the public about a public utility.

(b) “Expenditure” means any cost of advertising directly incurred by a utility and any cost of advertising incurred by contribution to parent or affiliated companies or to trade associations.

(c) “Public utility” in this section means any public utility, as defined in s. 196.01 , engaged in the transmission, delivery, or furnishing of natural gas by means of pipes or mains, heat, light, water, or power. “Public utility” does not include any cooperative association organized under ch. 185 .

(2) A public utility may not charge its ratepayers for any expenditure for advertising unless the advertising:

(b) Produces a demonstrated, direct and substantial benefit for ratepayers. Advertising which produces a direct and substantial benefit for ratepayers is limited to advertising which does any of the following:

1. Demonstrates energy or water conservation methods.

2. Conveys safety information on the use of energy.

2g. Conveys health or safety information related to a water system or the use of water, including information on preventing frozen water laterals.

2r. Identifies the public utility on public utility property or the location of public utility property.

3. Demonstrates methods of reducing ratepayer costs.

4. Otherwise directly and substantially benefits ratepayers.

5. Is required by law, administrative rule, or permit.

(2m) Notwithstanding sub. (2) , a public utility may charge its ratepayers for expenditures for reasonable direct communication to ratepayers that will be directly and substantially impacted by ongoing or future water public utility operations or construction.

(3) The commission shall make rules to carry out the purposes of and to enforce this section.

History: 1983 a. 27 , 235 ; 1985 a. 297 ; 1989 a. 338 ; 1993 a. 496 ; 2017 a. 136 .
Wis. Stat. § 403.402 — WI Code / Chapter 403 / Section 403.402
Signature by representative.
Status: in_force

(1) If a person acting, or purporting to act, as a representative signs an instrument by signing either the name of the represented person or the name of the signer, the represented person is bound by the signature to the same extent that the represented person would be bound if the signature were on a simple contract. If the represented person is bound, the signature of the representative is the authorized signature of the represented person and the represented person is liable on the instrument, whether or not identified in the instrument.

(2) If a representative signs the name of the representative to an instrument and the signature is an authorized signature of the represented person, the following rules apply:

(a) If the form of the signature shows unambiguously that the signature is made on behalf of the represented person who is identified in the instrument, the representative is not liable on the instrument.

(b) Subject to sub. (3) , if the form of the signature does not show unambiguously that the signature is made in a representative capacity or the represented person is not identified in the instrument, the representative is liable on the instrument to a holder in due course that took the instrument without notice that the representative was not intended to be liable on the instrument. With respect to any other person, the representative is liable on the instrument unless the representative proves that the original parties did not intend the representative to be liable on the instrument.

(3) If a representative signs the name of the representative as drawer of a check without indication of the representative status and the check is payable from an account of the represented person who is identified on the check, the signer is not liable on the check if the signature is an authorized signature of the represented person.

History: 1995 a. 449 .
Wis. Stat. § 704.085 — WI Code / Chapter 704 / Section 704.085
Credit and background checks.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) Except as provided under par. (b) , a landlord may require a prospective tenant to pay the landlord’s actual cost, up to $25, to obtain a consumer credit report on the prospective tenant from a consumer credit reporting agency that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis. The landlord shall notify the prospective tenant of the charge before requesting the consumer credit report, and shall provide the prospective tenant with a copy of the report.

(b) A landlord may not require a prospective tenant to pay for a consumer credit report under par. (a) if, before the landlord requests a consumer credit report, the prospective tenant provides the landlord with a consumer credit report, from a consumer credit reporting agency that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis, that is less than 30 days old.

(2) A landlord may require a prospective tenant who is not a resident of this state to pay the landlord’s actual cost, up to $25, to obtain a background check on the prospective tenant. The landlord shall notify the prospective tenant of the charge before requesting the background check and shall provide the prospective tenant with a copy of the report.

History: 2017 a. 317 .
Wis. Stat. § 645.76 — WI Code / Chapter 645 / Section 645.76
Disposition of records during and after termination of liquidation.
Status: in_force

Records of any insurer in the process of liquidation or completely liquidated under this chapter shall be disposed of by the public records board in the same manner as state records under s. 16.61 .

History: 1979 c. 93 ; 1981 c. 350 s. 13 ; 1985 a. 180 s. 30m ; 1987 a. 147 s. 25 ; 1995 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 859.23 — WI Code / Chapter 859 / Section 859.23
Payment of contingent claims by distributees.
Status: in_force

If a contingent claim is filed and allowed against an estate subject to the contingency and all the assets of the estate including the fund set apart for the payment thereof has been distributed, and the claim thereafter is allowed as absolute, the creditor may recover thereon against those distributees, or the persons who furnish bond for the distributees, whose distributive shares have been increased by reason of the fact that the amount of the claim as finally determined was not paid prior to final distribution, if a proceeding therefor is commenced in court within 6 months after the claim is allowed as absolute. A distributee or the person who furnishes bond for the distributee shall not be liable for an amount exceeding his or her proportionate share of the estate subject to the claim, nor for an amount greater than the value of the property which he or she received from the estate, the value to be determined as of the time of distribution to the distributee.

History: 1977 c. 449 .
Wis. Stat. § 289.93 — WI Code / Chapter 289 / Section 289.93
Orders.
Status: in_force

The department may issue orders to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and enforce the same by all appropriate administrative and judicial proceedings.

History: 1995 a. 227 s. 524 .
Wis. Stat. § 87.08 — WI Code / Chapter 87 / Section 87.08
Petition of board; modification of order, court review.
Status: in_force

Upon petition of the flood control board organized pursuant to s. 87.12 for the purpose of carrying out the final order of the department, the department may at any time, after public hearing, modify its final orders insofar as the same relate to the plans and specifications therein adopted by it for the construction of the improvement, but no such modification shall materially change the basic plan of the improvement. The hearing upon application for such modification shall be held upon notice to the clerk of each town, village and city containing property found by the department to be benefited by the improvement. Such order for modification may be reviewed in the same manner as the final order.
Wis. Stat. § 179.1007 — WI Code / Chapter 179 / Section 179.1007
Withdrawal deemed on conversion to or merger into domestic filing entity or domestic limited liability partnership.
Status: in_force

A registered foreign limited partnership that converts to, or merges into, a domestic limited liability partnership or to or into a domestic entity whose formation requires the delivery of a record to the department for filing is deemed to have withdrawn its registration on the effective date of the conversion or merger, unless the registration is transferred to such partnership pursuant to s. 179.1009 .

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 190.005 — WI Code / Chapter 190 / Section 190.005
Scope of chapter.
Status: in_force

Each provision of this chapter applies only to the extent that it is not contrary to or inconsistent with federal law or the constitution of the United States.

History: 2005 a. 179 .
Wis. Stat. § 76.68 — WI Code / Chapter 76 / Section 76.68
License; issuance; collection of fees.
Status: in_force

(1) Every license issued under this subchapter and chs. 600 to 646 shall certify that payment of the license fee or tax and the fee required by s. 601.31 (1) (b) has been made, be signed by the commissioner of insurance and be in a form approved by the attorney general.

(2) No suit may be brought to restrain or enjoin the collection of any license fee or tax imposed or provided for by this subchapter, and the fees required by s. 601.31 . Any action to recover any license fee or tax imposed or provided for by this subchapter or any fee required under s. 601.31 , shall be brought in the circuit court for Dane County within 6 months from the time of the payment. The state may be served in the suit as provided in s. 801.11 (3) . This subsection is the exclusive remedy by which to recover any license fee or tax imposed or provided for by this subchapter or any fee required under s. 601.31 .

(3) No action may be commenced to compel the issuance of the certificate of authority provided for by chs. 600 to 646 until the license fee imposed by this subchapter and the fees under s. 601.31 have been fully paid.

(4) The attorney general shall institute suit in the circuit court for Dane County to recover any license fees or tax not paid within the time prescribed by this subchapter, and the fees required by s. 601.31 .

History: 1971 c. 40 s. 93 ; 1971 c. 260 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 773 (1975); 1977 c. 339 ; 1979 c. 32 s. 92 (5) ; 1979 c. 89 s. 543 ; 1979 c. 102 ss. 26 , 237 ; 1979 c. 177 ; Stats. 1979 s. 76.68; 2007 a. 170 .
Wis. Stat. § 102.25 — WI Code / Chapter 102 / Section 102.25
Appeal from judgment on award.
Status: in_force

(1) Any party aggrieved by a judgment entered upon the review of any order or award may appeal the judgment within the period specified in s. 808.04 (1) . A trial court may not require the commission or any party to the action to execute, serve, or file an undertaking under s. 808.07 or to serve, or secure approval of, a transcript of the notes of the stenographic reporter or the tape of the recording machine. The state is a party aggrieved under this subsection if a judgment is entered upon the review confirming any order or award against the state. At any time before the case is set down for hearing in the court of appeals or the supreme court, the parties may have the record remanded by the court to the department in the same manner and for the same purposes as provided for remanding from the circuit court to the department under s. 102.24 (2) .

(2) It shall be the duty of the clerk of any court rendering a decision affecting an award of the commission to promptly furnish the commission with a copy of such decision without charge.

History: 1971 c. 148 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 774 (1975); 1977 c. 29 , 187 , 195 , 418 ; 1979 c. 278 ; 1983 a. 219 ; 2015 a. 55 ; 2025 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 448.67 — WI Code / Chapter 448 / Section 448.67
Practice requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) Fee splitting. No licensee may give or receive, directly or indirectly, to or from any other person any fee, commission, rebate or other form of compensation or anything of value for sending, referring or otherwise inducing a person to communicate with a licensee in a professional capacity, or for any professional services not actually rendered personally by the licensee or at the licensee’s direction.

(2) Separate billing required. Except as provided in sub. (4) , a licensee who renders any podiatric service or assistance, or gives any podiatric advice or any similar advice or assistance, to any patient, podiatrist, physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, partnership, or corporation, or to any other institution or organization, including a hospital, for which a charge is made to a patient, shall, except as authorized by Title 18 or Title 19 of the federal Social Security Act, render an individual statement or account of the charge directly to the patient, distinct and separate from any statement or account by any other podiatrist, physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, or other person.

(3) Billing for tests performed by the state laboratory of hygiene. A licensee who charges a patient, other person or 3rd-party payer for services performed by the state laboratory of hygiene shall identify the actual amount charged by the state laboratory of hygiene and shall restrict charges for those services to that amount.

(4) Billing by professional partnerships and corporations. If 2 or more podiatrists have entered into a bona fide partnership or formed a service corporation for the practice of podiatry, the partnership or corporation may not render a single bill for podiatry services provided in the name of the partnership or corporation unless each individual licensed, registered or certified under this chapter, subch. I of ch. 457 , or ch. 446 , 449 , 450 , 455 , or 459 , who provided services is individually identified on the bill as having rendered those services.

History: 1997 a. 175 ; 2005 a. 187 ; 2011 a. 161 ; 2023 a. 55 ; 2025 a. 17 .
Wis. Stat. § 184.04 — WI Code / Chapter 184 / Section 184.04
Real and personal property; nonprofit association as legatee or beneficiary.
Status: in_force

(1) A nonprofit association in its name may acquire, hold, encumber or transfer an estate or interest in real or personal property.

(2) A nonprofit association may be a legatee or beneficiary of a trust or contract.

History: 1997 a. 140 .
Wis. Stat. § 411.218 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.218
Insurance and proceeds.
Status: in_force

(1) A lessee obtains an insurable interest when existing goods are identified to the lease contract even though the goods identified are nonconforming and the lessee has an option to reject them.

(2) If a lessee has an insurable interest only by reason of the lessor’s identification of the goods, the lessor, until default or insolvency or notification to the lessee that identification is final, may substitute other goods for those identified.

(3) Notwithstanding a lessee’s insurable interest under subs. (1) and (2) , the lessor retains an insurable interest until an option to buy has been exercised by the lessee and risk of loss has passed to the lessee.

(4) Nothing in this section impairs an insurable interest recognized under any other statute or rule of law.

(5) The parties, by agreement, may determine that one or more parties have an obligation to obtain and, pay for insurance covering the goods and, by agreement, may determine the beneficiary of the proceeds of the insurance.

History: 1991 a. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.703 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.703
Seller’s remedies in general.
Status: in_force

Where the buyer wrongfully rejects or revokes acceptance of goods or fails to make a payment due on or before delivery or repudiates with respect to a part or the whole, then with respect to any goods directly affected and, if the breach is of the whole contract (s. 402.612 ), then also with respect to the whole undelivered balance, the aggrieved seller may:

(1) Withhold delivery of such goods;

(2) Stop delivery by any bailee as provided in s. 402.705 ;

(3) Proceed under s. 402.704 respecting goods still unidentified to the contract;

(4) Resell and recover damages as provided in s. 402.706 ;

(5) Recover damages for nonacceptance (s. 402.708 ) or in a proper case the price (s. 402.709 );

(6) Cancel.
Wis. Stat. § 407.104 — WI Code / Chapter 407 / Section 407.104
Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (3) , a document of title is negotiable if by its terms the goods are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named person.

(2) A document of title other than one described in sub. (1) is nonnegotiable. A bill of lading that states that the goods are consigned to a named person is not made negotiable by a provision that the goods are to be delivered only against an order in a record signed by the same or another named person.

(3) A document of title is nonnegotiable if, at the time it is issued, the document has a conspicuous legend, however expressed, that it is nonnegotiable.

History: 2009 a. 322 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.404 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.404
Fishing shanties on ice, regulation.
Status: in_force

(1) Public nuisance; removal. Any building, vehicle, tent, fish shanty or similar shelter that is used or left on the ice in violation of any department order or that has fallen through the ice is a public nuisance. The department shall notify the owner, if known. If after the expiration of 10 days after notice is given the owner does not claim the nuisance, the department may destroy or sell the nuisance in the name of the state.

(2) Reimbursement for department costs. If the department destroys or sells the building, vehicle, tent, fish shanty or similar shelter that is a public nuisance, the owner shall reimburse the department for all costs associated with the seizure and destruction or sale of the public nuisance. The department shall give the owner written notice containing the amount of costs to be reimbursed and a statement that the owner must reimburse these costs to the department within 20 days after the notice is given.

(3) Forfeiture. If the owner does not reimburse these costs to the department within 20 days after the notice is given under sub. (2) , the owner shall forfeit not more than $100.

History: 1989 a. 359 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1997 a. 248 ss. 443 to 445 ; Stats. 1997 s. 29.404.
Wis. Stat. § 404.102 — WI Code / Chapter 404 / Section 404.102
Applicability.
Status: in_force

(1) The extent that items within this chapter are also within chs. 403 and 408 , they are subject to those chapters. If there is conflict, this chapter governs ch. 403 , but ch. 408 governs this chapter.

(2) The liability of a bank for action or nonaction with respect to an item handled by it for purposes of presentment, payment or collection is governed by the law of the place where the bank is located. In the case of action or nonaction by or at a branch or separate office of a bank, its liability is governed by the law of the place where the branch or separate office is located.