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Wis. Stat. § 909.015 — WI Code / Chapter 909 / Section 909.015
General provision; illustrations.
Status: in_force

By way of illustration only, and not by way of limitation, the following are examples of authentication or identification conforming with the requirements of s. 909.01 :

(1) Testimony of witness with knowledge. Testimony of a witness with knowledge that a matter is what it is claimed to be.

(2) Nonexpert opinion on handwriting. Nonexpert opinion as to the genuineness of handwriting, based upon familiarity not acquired for purposes of the litigation.

(3) Comparison by trier of fact or expert witness. Comparison by the trier of fact or by expert witnesses with specimens which have been authenticated.

(4) Distinctive characteristics and the like. Appearance, contents, substance, internal patterns, or other distinctive characteristics, taken in conjunction with circumstances.

(5) Voice identification. Identification of a voice, whether heard firsthand or through mechanical or electronic transmission or recording, by opinion based upon hearing the voice at any time under circumstances connecting it with the alleged speaker.

(6) Telephone conversations. Telephone conversations, by evidence that a call was made to the number assigned at the time by the telecommunications company to a particular person or business, if:

(a) In the case of a person, circumstances, including self-identification, show the person answering to be the one called; or

(b) In the case of a business, the call was made to a place of business and the conversation related to business reasonably transacted over the telephone.

(7) Public records or reports. Evidence that a writing authorized by law to be recorded or filed and in fact recorded or filed in a public office, or a purported public record, report, statement, or data compilation, in any form, is from the public office where items of this nature are kept.

(8) Ancient documents or data compilations. Evidence that a document or data compilation, in any form:

(a) Is in a condition that creates no suspicion concerning its authenticity;

(b) Was in a place where it, if authentic, would likely be; and

(c) Has been in existence 20 years or more at the time it is offered.

(9) Process or system. Evidence describing a process or system used to produce a result and showing that the process or system produces an accurate result.

(10) Methods provided by statute or rule. Any method of authentication or identification provided by statute or by other rules adopted by the supreme court.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R1, R332 (1973); 1985 a. 297 ; 1999 a. 85 .
Wis. Stat. § 980.065 — WI Code / Chapter 980 / Section 980.065
Institutional care for sexually violent persons.
Status: in_force

(1m) The department shall place a person committed under s. 980.06 at the secure mental health facility established under s. 46.055 , the Wisconsin resource center established under s. 46.056 or a secure mental health unit or facility provided by the department of corrections under sub. (2) .

(1r) Notwithstanding sub. (1m) , the department may place a female person committed under s. 980.06 at Mendota Mental Health Institute, Wisconsin Women’s Resource Center, Winnebago Mental Health Institute, or a privately operated residential facility under contract with the department of health services.

(2) The department may contract with the department of corrections for the provision of a secure mental health unit or facility for persons committed under s. 980.06 . The department shall operate a secure mental health unit or facility provided by the department of corrections under this subsection and shall promulgate rules governing the custody and discipline of persons placed by the department in the secure mental health unit or facility provided by the department of corrections under this subsection.

History: 1993 a. 479 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2007 a. 20 s. 9121 (6) (a) ; 2013 a. 84 .
Wis. Stat. § 168.06 — WI Code / Chapter 168 / Section 168.06
Powers.
Status: in_force

(1) For the purposes of administering this subchapter, inspectors may take samples of gasoline, gasoline-alcohol fuel blends, kerosene, other refined oils, fuel oils and petroleum distillates for tests and make inspections at any points within or without this state, and may open any original container containing gasoline, gasoline-alcohol fuel blends, kerosene, other refined oils, fuel oils and petroleum distillates and take a true sample of not less than 8 ounces of the contents thereof, even though the original containers may still be in the possession of a common or contract carrier, provided the opening and sampling does not unduly inconvenience or hamper the transportation of the products. After the original containers are opened and sampled the same shall be resealed with seals furnished by the department for such purposes. The authority conferred by this section shall be in addition to, and not in limitation of, any of the provisions of s. 168.05 .

(2) If any petroleum product is emptied or transferred into any container in which is contained any other grade of petroleum product, then the entire commingling shall be deemed uninspected and a sample of such commingled petroleum product shall be taken before such commingled petroleum product is removed from such container, sold, offered for sale or used.

(3) Notice of such commingling of any petroleum products shall be given in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as notice of the receipts of petroleum products as provided in s. 168.05 . The sample of such commingled petroleum products shall be taken by the inspector within a reasonable length of time, as defined and set forth in s. 168.05 , after notice. If such inspector does not take such sample within such time, the commingler shall take a true sample of not less than 8 ounces of the commingled petroleum products. The taking, sealing and holding of such sample by the commingler shall, so far as applicable, be governed by the provisions of s. 168.05 relating to the same by a person receiving a petroleum product.

History: 1971 c. 206 ; 1979 c. 140 ; 2013 a. 20 ; 2013 a. 168 s. 21 .
Wis. Stat. § 347.495 — WI Code / Chapter 347 / Section 347.495
Registration plate concealment device.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “registration plate concealment device” means a manual, electronic, or mechanical device designed or adapted to be installed on a motor vehicle to do any of the following:

(a) Switch between 2 or more registration plates.

(b) Move, obstruct, or conceal a registration plate.

(c) Alter the appearance of a registration plate so that the registration number cannot be seen and read.

(2) No person may possess, sell, purchase, install, or use a registration plate concealment device.

(3) No motor vehicle may be equipped with a registration plate concealment device.

(4) Any motor vehicle equipped in violation of sub. (3) may be impounded. A vehicle impounded under this subsection shall be returned to the owner upon payment of reasonable costs of towing and impounding the vehicle.

History: 2025 a. 37 .
Wis. Stat. § 45.47 — WI Code / Chapter 45 / Section 45.47
Record-keeping and audit requirements for grant programs administered by the department.
Status: in_force

(1) Definition. In this section, “grant recipient” means a county, American Indian tribe or band, nonprofit organization, or other person that is not an individual and that receives a grant from the department under this chapter.

(2) Requirements. Each grant recipient shall maintain records as required by the department concerning the grant recipient’s expenditure of grant moneys. Each grant recipient shall give the department access to those records upon request of the department, and the department may audit those records to ensure compliance with applicable grant requirements.

(3) Reduction, suspension, or termination of grant. If a grant recipient fails to comply with sub. (2) , the department may, in addition to any other legal remedy available to the department, reduce, suspend, or terminate a grant the department made to the grant recipient.

History: 2013 a. 190 .
Wis. Stat. § 215.73 — WI Code / Chapter 215 / Section 215.73
Absorption involving stock associations.
Status: in_force

(1) Conditions precedent.

(a) With the consent of the division and subject to any condition that the division prescribes, a stock association organized under this chapter may absorb or be absorbed by a thrift institution, with the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the board of the association and of the thrift institution.

(b) The absorbed thrift institution shall transfer its assets and liabilities to the absorbing thrift institution but not to defeat or defraud creditors.

(2) Effect of absorption.

(a) Upon absorption the rights, franchises and property interests of the absorbed thrift institution shall be deemed to be transferred to the absorbing thrift institution, which shall hold and enjoy same, in the same manner and to the same extent as the absorbed thrift institution.

(b) Stockholders of a thrift institution absorbed under this section may be compensated by converting the shares of the absorbed thrift institution into, in whole or in part: shares, obligations or other securities of the absorbing thrift institution or of any other thrift institution or corporation; or cash or other thing of value.

(c) All savers in the absorbed thrift institution shall be owners of savings accounts of the same withdrawal value in the absorbing thrift institution.

(3) Withdrawal requests. Any saver in an absorbed thrift institution, who intends to file a written withdrawal request for savings accounts within one year after the date of approval of such absorption by the division, may do so by giving 90 days’ written notice of such intention, and the savings accounts shall be withdrawn as provided in s. 215.17 .

History: 1975 c. 359 , 421 ; 1983 a. 167 ; 1989 a. 242 ; 1991 a. 32 , 221 ; 1995 a. 27 , 104 .
Wis. Stat. § 605.30 — WI Code / Chapter 605 / Section 605.30
Inadequacy of fund.
Status: in_force

If the property fund does not have sufficient assets to pay claims that are due, the secretary of administration shall transfer from the general fund to the property fund an amount sufficient to pay the losses and shall pay the losses. The property fund shall thereafter repay the general fund this amount and the secretary of administration shall transfer the amount as soon as there are assets in the property fund.

History: 1973 c. 117 ; 2003 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 700.18 — WI Code / Chapter 700 / Section 700.18
Determination of cotenancy generally.
Status: in_force

Two or more persons named as owners in a document of title, transferees in an instrument of transfer or buyers in a bill of sale are tenants in common, except as otherwise provided in s. 700.19 or ch. 766 .

History: 1991 a. 301 .
Wis. Stat. § 946.17 — WI Code / Chapter 946 / Section 946.17
Corrupt means to influence legislation; disclosure of interest.
Status: in_force

Any person who gives or agrees or offers to give anything of value to any person, for the service of such person or of any other person in procuring the passage or defeat of any measure before the legislature or before either house or any committee thereof, upon the contingency or condition of the passage or defeat of the measure, or who receives, or agrees to receive anything of value for such service, upon any such contingency or condition, or who, having a pecuniary or other interest, or acting as the agent or attorney of any person in procuring or attempting to procure the passage or defeat of any measure before the legislature or before either house or any committee thereof, attempts in any manner to influence any member of the legislature for or against the measure, without first making known to the member the real and true interest he or she has in the measure, either personally or as such agent or attorney, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

History: 1977 c. 278 s. 1 ; Stats. 1977 s. 946.17; 1993 a. 213 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.708 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.708
Seller’s damages for nonacceptance or repudiation.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to sub. (2) and to s. 402.723 with respect to proof of market price the measure of damages for nonacceptance or repudiation by the buyer is the difference between the market price at the time and place for tender and the unpaid contract price together with any incidental damages provided in s. 402.710 , but less expenses saved in consequence of the buyer’s breach.

(2) If the measure of damages provided in sub. (1) is inadequate to put the seller in as good a position as performance would have done then the measure of damages is the profit (including reasonable overhead) which the seller would have made from full performance by the buyer, together with any incidental damages provided in s. 402.710 , due allowance for costs reasonably incurred and due credit for payments or proceeds of resale.
Wis. Stat. § 113.01 — WI Code / Chapter 113 / Section 113.01
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this chapter, unless otherwise expressly stated:

(1) “Obligation” includes a liability in tort.

(2) “Obligee” includes a person having a right based on a tort.

(3) “Obligor” includes a person liable for a tort.

(4) “Several obligors” means obligors severally bound for the same performance.

History: 1983 a. 189 .
Wis. Stat. § 97.23 — WI Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97.23
Drug residues in milk.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Dairy plant” has the meaning given in s. 97.20 (1) (a) .

(c) “Milk producer” has the meaning given in s. 97.22 (1) (f) .

(2)

(a) If, in accordance with a rule promulgated by the department under s. 93.07 (1) , 97.09 (4) , 97.20 (4) , 97.22 (8) , or 97.24 (3) , a dairy plant operator rejects a bulk milk shipment because it is adulterated with a drug residue and if the dairy plant operator incurs a monetary loss as a result of the rejection of the bulk milk shipment, the dairy plant operator may recover the amount of the monetary loss from the milk producer who caused the bulk shipment to be adulterated with the drug residue. A dairy plant operator may deduct the amounts recoverable by him or her under this paragraph from the proceeds of milk sold to or through the dairy plant operator by the milk producer who caused the adulteration.

(b)

1. Except as provided in subd. 2. , the department may, by rule, require a dairy plant operator who rejects a bulk milk shipment because it is adulterated with a drug residue and who suffers a monetary loss as a result of the rejection of the bulk milk shipment to recover all or part of the monetary loss from the milk producer who caused the adulteration by deducting from the proceeds of milk sold by the milk producer an amount that is specified by the department by rule.

2. The department may not require a dairy plant operator who rejects a bulk milk shipment because it is adulterated with a drug residue to recover an amount that exceeds the dairy plant operator’s actual monetary loss.

History: 1991 a. 231 ; 2013 a. 374 ; 2015 a. 242 .
Wis. Stat. § 806.37 — WI Code / Chapter 806 / Section 806.37
Conversions of foreign money in a distribution proceeding.
Status: in_force

The rate of exchange prevailing at or near the closing of business on the day the distribution proceeding is initiated shall govern all exchanges of foreign money in the proceeding. A foreign-money claimant in a distribution proceeding must assert its claim in the named foreign money and show the amount of U.S. dollars resulting from a conversion as of the date the proceeding was initiated.

History: 1991 a. 236 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.1317 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.1317
Relief from liability and indemnification.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a 2nd-trust instrument may not relieve an authorized fiduciary from liability for breach of trust to a greater extent than the first-trust instrument unless any of the following applies:

(a) All the qualified beneficiaries of the 2nd trust consent to the relief from liability in a signed record.

(b) The relief from liability is approved by the court.

(2) A 2nd-trust instrument may provide for indemnification of an authorized fiduciary of the first trust or another person acting in a fiduciary capacity under the first trust for any liability or claim that would have been payable from the first trust if the decanting power had not been exercised.

(3) Absent consent of all qualified beneficiaries or the approval of the court, the 2nd-trust instrument may not reduce the aggregate fiduciary liability of all fiduciaries of the 2nd trust.

(4) Subject to sub. (3) , a 2nd-trust instrument may divide and reallocate fiduciary powers among fiduciaries, including one or more trustees, directing parties, trust protectors, or other persons, and relieve a fiduciary from liability for an act or failure to act of another fiduciary as permitted by law of this state other than this subchapter.

History: 2023 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 115.53 — WI Code / Chapter 115 / Section 115.53
State superintendent; powers.
Status: in_force

The state superintendent may:

(2) Arrange for vocational, trade or academic training for any pupil in either the school operated by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing qualified to take such training advantageously, in either a public school or technical college or a private business establishment in Janesville or Delavan. The public school and the technical college shall be paid the regular tuition for full-time attendance and proportionally for part-time attendance by the school district responsible for the provision of a free appropriate public education under subch. V .

(3) Arrange for otological or ophthalmic examination of any pupil or prospective pupil of the school operated by the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or the school operated by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The examination shall be paid for from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (1) (b) , (gL) , or (gs) .

(4) Apply to the board of directors of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority for admission to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics of any pupil at the school operated by the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or the school operated by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The application shall be accompanied by the report of a physician appointed by the director of the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or the director of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired and shall be in the same form as reports of other physicians for admission of patients to such hospital.

(5) Arrange for visits by members of the staff of either the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired to other public schools or to families of children who are hearing impaired or children who are visually impaired, whenever it appears to the state superintendent that such visits will be of advantage to such children.

(6) Charge the school district responsible for a pupil’s placement in a school under this subchapter for the costs of transporting the pupil to and from the pupil’s home on weekends. All fees received under this subsection shall be deposited in the appropriation under s. 20.255 (1) (gt) .

History: 1971 c. 100 s. 23 ; 1971 c. 125 s. 522 (1) ; 1973 c. 90 ; 1973 c. 243 ss. 50 , 82 ; 1977 c. 29 ; 1977 c. 418 s. 924 (50) ; 1977 c. 447 s. 206 ; 1979 c. 34 s. 2102 (43) (a) ; 1979 c. 110 s. 60 (12) ; 1981 c. 20 ; 1983 a. 27 ss. 1424 , 2202 (42) ; 1985 a. 29 ; 1987 a. 27 ; 1993 a. 399 , 492 ; 1995 a. 27 ss. 3891 , 3892 , 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 , 164 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2001 a. 57 ; 2011 a. 32 .
Wis. Stat. § 973.04 — WI Code / Chapter 973 / Section 973.04
Credit for imprisonment under earlier sentence for the same crime.
Status: in_force

When a sentence is vacated and a new sentence is imposed upon the defendant for the same crime, the department shall credit the defendant with confinement previously served.

History: 1983 a. 66 , 528 .
Wis. Stat. § 410.105 — WI Code / Chapter 410 / Section 410.105
Other definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) In this chapter:

(a) “Authorized account” means a deposit account of a customer in a bank designated by the customer as a source of payment of payment orders issued by the customer to the bank. If a customer does not so designate an account, any account of the customer is an authorized account if payment of a payment order from that account is not inconsistent with a restriction on the use of that account.

(b) “Bank” means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company. A branch or separate office of a bank is a separate bank for purposes of this chapter.

(c) “Customer” means a person, including a bank, having an account with a bank or from whom a bank has agreed to receive payment orders.

(d) “Funds-transfer business day” of a receiving bank means the part of a day during which the receiving bank is open for the receipt, processing, and transmittal of payment orders and for cancellations and amendments of payment orders.

(e) “Funds-transfer system” means a wire transfer network, automated clearinghouse, or other communication system of a clearinghouse or other association of banks through which a payment order by a bank may be transmitted to the bank to which the order is addressed.

(f) “Good faith” means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.

(g) “Prove” with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact.

(2) Other definitions applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:

(a) “Acceptance” — s. 410.209 .

(b) “Beneficiary” — s. 410.103 (1) (a) .

(c) “Beneficiary’s bank” — s. 410.103 (1) (b) .

(d) “Executed” — s. 410.301 (1) .

(e) “Execution date” — s. 410.301 (2) .

(f) “Funds transfer” — s. 410.104 (1) .

(g) “Funds-transfer system rule” — s. 410.501 (2) (a) .

(h) “Intermediary bank” — s. 410.104 (2) .

(i) “Originator” — s. 410.104 (3) .

(j) “Originator’s bank” — s. 410.104 (4) .

(k) “Payment by beneficiary’s bank to beneficiary” — s. 410.405 .

(L) “Payment by originator to beneficiary” — s. 410.406 .

(m) “Payment by sender to receiving bank” — s. 410.403 .

(n) “Payment date” — s. 410.401 .

(p) “Payment order” — s. 410.103 (1) (c) .

(q) “Receiving bank” — s. 410.103 (1) (d) .

(r) “Security procedure” — s. 410.201 .

(s) “Sender” — s. 410.103 (1) (e) .

(3) The following definitions in ch. 404 apply to this chapter:

(a) “Clearinghouse” — s. 404.104 (1) (d) .

(b) “Item” — s. 404.104 (1) (i) .

(c) “Suspends payments” — s. 404.104 (1) (L) .

(4) In addition ch. 401 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.

History: 1991 a. 304 ; 1995 a. 449 .