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Wis. Stat. § 403.115 — WI Code / Chapter 403 / Section 403.115
Incomplete instrument.
Status: in_force

(1) “Incomplete instrument” means a signed writing, whether or not issued by the signer, the contents of which show at the time of signing that it is incomplete but that the signer intended it to be completed by the addition of words or numbers.

(2) Subject to sub. (3) , if an incomplete instrument is an instrument under s. 403.104 , it may be enforced according to its terms if it is not completed, or according to its terms as augmented by completion. If an incomplete instrument is not an instrument under s. 403.104 , but, after completion, the requirements of s. 403.104 are met, the instrument may be enforced according to its terms as augmented by completion.

(3) If words or numbers are added to an incomplete instrument without authority of the signer, there is an alteration of the incomplete instrument under s. 403.407 .

(4) The burden of establishing that words or numbers were added to an incomplete instrument without authority of the signer is on the person asserting the lack of authority.

History: 1995 a. 449 .
Wis. Stat. § 101.645 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.645
Smoke detectors.
Status: in_force

(1) Definition. The definition of “smoke detector” under s. 101.145 (1) (c) also applies to this section.

(2) Approval and installation. A smoke detector required under this section shall be approved and installed as required under s. 101.145 (2) and (3) (a) .

(3) Requirement. The owner of a dwelling shall install a functional smoke detector in the basement of the dwelling and on each floor level except the attic or storage area of each dwelling unit. The occupant of such a dwelling unit shall maintain any smoke detector in that unit, except that if any occupant who is not the owner, or any state, county, city, village or town officer, agent or employee charged under statute or municipal ordinance with powers or duties involving inspection of real or personal property, gives written notice to the owner that the smoke detector is not functional the owner shall provide, within 5 days after receipt of that notice, any maintenance necessary to make that smoke detector functional.

(4) Inspection. Except as provided under s. 101.64 (2m) , the department or a municipal authority may inspect a new dwelling, may inspect the common areas of a dwelling, and, at the request of the owner or renter, may inspect the interior of a dwelling unit in a dwelling to ensure compliance with this section.

History: 1977 c. 388 ; 1983 a. 189 s. 329 (4) ; 1987 a. 376 ; 1989 a. 109 ; 2017 a. 330 .
Wis. Stat. § 33.265 — WI Code / Chapter 33 / Section 33.265
Notice, filing and recording requirements.
Status: in_force

If a district is created or its boundaries altered, the board of commissioners shall record the authorizing document, including a legal description of the boundary, with the register of deeds in each county where the district is situated, and file the document and legal description with the department of natural resources and the department of revenue.

History: 1981 c. 20 ; 1993 a. 301 .
Wis. Stat. § 645.32 — WI Code / Chapter 645 / Section 645.32
Rehabilitation orders.
Status: in_force

(1) Appointment of rehabilitator. An order to rehabilitate the business of a domestic insurer, or an alien insurer domiciled in this state, shall appoint the commissioner and his or her successors in office rehabilitator and shall direct the rehabilitator to take possession of the assets of the insurer and to administer them under the orders of the court. The recording of the order with any register of deeds in the state imparts the same notice as a deed, bill of sale or other evidence of title recorded with that register of deeds.

(2) Anticipatory breach. Entry of an order of rehabilitation does not constitute an anticipatory breach of any contracts of the insurer.

History: 1979 c. 93 ; 1979 c. 102 s. 236 (13) ; 1993 a. 301 .
Wis. Stat. § 348.195 — WI Code / Chapter 348 / Section 348.195
Weight records of raw forest products purchasers.
Status: in_force

(1) Any purchaser of raw forest products transported by a vehicle or vehicle combination subject to the requirements of this subchapter that generates a weight scale record identifying the gross weight of the vehicle or vehicle combination or the weight of the load transported by the vehicle or vehicle combination shall retain the weight scale record for not less than 30 days from the date that the weight scale record is generated.

(2) Upon demand by any traffic officer in this state within the 30-day period specified in sub. (1) , any person required to retain records under sub. (1) shall promptly provide such records to the requesting officer.

(3) For purposes of this section, a true, accurate, and legible copy of any weight scale record may be substituted for, and shall be given the effect of, an original.

(4) Any person required to retain records under sub. (1) or to produce records under sub. (2) who fails to retain or produce such records shall forfeit $1,000. Each violation constitutes a separate offense.

(5) In any prosecution of a person for transporting raw forest products in violation of the requirements of this subchapter, the records required to be retained under sub. (1) and produced under sub. (2) may be relevant evidence under s. 904.01 and admissible under s. 904.06 .

History: 2005 a. 167 .
Wis. Stat. § 102.65 — WI Code / Chapter 102 / Section 102.65
Work injury supplemental benefit fund.
Status: in_force

(1) The moneys payable to the state treasury under ss. 102.35 (1) , 102.47 , 102.49 , 102.59 , and 102.60 , together with all accrued interest on those moneys, and all interest payments received under s. 102.75 (2) , shall constitute a separate nonlapsible fund designated as the work injury supplemental benefit fund. Moneys in the fund may be expended only as provided in s. 20.445 (1) (t) and may not be used for any other purpose of the state.

(2) For proper administration of the moneys available in the fund the department shall by order, set aside in the state treasury suitable reserves to carry to maturity the liability for benefits under ss. 102.44 , 102.49 , 102.59 and 102.66 . Such moneys shall be invested by the investment board in accordance with s. 25.14 (5) .

(3) The department of workforce development may retain the department of administration to process, investigate, and pay claims under ss. 102.44 (1) , 102.49 , 102.59 , and 102.66 . If retained by the department of workforce development, the department of administration may compromise a claim processed by that department, but a compromise made by that department is subject to review by the department of workforce development. The department of workforce development shall pay for the services retained under this subsection from the appropriation account under s. 20.445 (1) (t) .

(4) The secretary shall monitor the cash balance in, and incurred losses to, the work injury supplemental benefit fund using generally accepted actuarial principles. If the secretary determines that the expected ultimate losses to the work injury supplemental benefit fund on known claims exceed 85 percent of the cash balance in that fund, the secretary shall consult with the council on worker’s compensation. If the secretary, after consulting with the council on worker’s compensation, determines that there is a reasonable likelihood that the cash balance in the work injury supplemental benefit fund may become inadequate to fund all claims under ss. 102.49 , 102.59 , and 102.66 , the secretary shall file with the secretary of administration a certificate attesting that the cash balance in that fund is likely to become inadequate to fund all claims under ss. 102.49 , 102.59 , and 102.66 and specifying one of the following:

(a) That payment of those claims will be made as provided in a schedule that the department shall promulgate by rule.

(b) A date after which payment of those claims will be reduced.

(c) A date after which no new claims under those provisions will be paid.

History: 1975 c. 147 ; 1977 c. 29 ; 1981 c. 20 s. 2202 (28) (a) ; 1983 a. 98 s. 31 ; 1989 a. 64 ; 1991 a. 174 ; 1995 a. 117 ; 2005 a. 172 ; 2007 a. 185 ; 2011 a. 183 ; 2015 a. 55 ; 2025 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 61.35 — WI Code / Chapter 61 / Section 61.35
Village planning.
Status: in_force

Section 62.23 applies to villages, and the powers and duties conferred and imposed by s. 62.23 upon mayors, councils and specified city officials are hereby conferred upon presidents, village boards, and village officials performing duties similar to the duties of such specified city officials, respectively. Any ordinance or resolution passed prior to May 30, 1925, by any village board under s. 61.35 , 1923 stats., shall remain in effect until repealed or amended by such village board.

History: 1981 c. 390 .
Wis. Stat. § 788.14 — WI Code / Chapter 788 / Section 788.14
Papers filed with motion regarding award; entry of judgment, effect of judgment.
Status: in_force

(1) Any party to a proceeding for an order confirming, modifying or correcting an award shall, at the time the order is filed with the clerk of circuit court for the entry of judgment thereon, also file the following papers with the clerk of circuit court:

(a) The agreement, the selection or appointment, if any, of an additional arbitrator or umpire, and each written extension of the time, if any, within which to make the award;

(b) The award;

(c) Each notice, affidavit or other paper used upon an application to confirm, modify or correct the award, and a copy of each order of the court upon such an application.

(2) The judgment shall be entered in the judgment and lien docket as if it was rendered in an action.

(3) The judgment so entered shall have the same force and effect, in all respects, as, and be subject to all the provisions of law relating to, a judgment in an action; and it may be enforced as if it had been rendered in an action in the court in which it is entered.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 64 ; Stats. 1979 s. 788.14; 1995 a. 224 .
Wis. Stat. § 154.05 — WI Code / Chapter 154 / Section 154.05
Revocation of declaration.
Status: in_force

(1) Method of revocation. A declaration may be revoked at any time by the declarant by any of the following methods:

(a) By being canceled, defaced, obliterated, burned, torn or otherwise destroyed by the declarant or by some person who is directed by the declarant and who acts in the presence of the declarant.

(b) By a written revocation of the declarant expressing the intent to revoke, signed and dated by the declarant.

(c) By a verbal expression by the declarant of his or her intent to revoke the declaration. This revocation becomes effective only if the declarant or a person who is acting on behalf of the declarant notifies the attending health care professional of the revocation.

(d) By executing a subsequent declaration.

(2) Recording the revocation. The attending health care professional shall record in the patient’s medical record the time, date and place of the revocation and the time, date and place, if different, that he or she was notified of the revocation.

History: 1983 a. 202 ; 1995 a. 168 ; 2019 a. 90 .
Wis. Stat. § 114.76 — WI Code / Chapter 114 / Section 114.76
Bonds exempt from taxation.
Status: in_force

The state covenants with the purchasers and all subsequent holders and transferees of bonds issued by the authority, in consideration of the acceptance of any payment for the bonds, that its fees, charges, gifts, grants, revenues, receipts, and other moneys received or to be received, pledged to pay or secure the payment of such bonds shall at all times be free and exempt from all state, city, county, or other taxation provided by the laws of the state.

History: 2005 a. 335 .
Wis. Stat. § 411.406 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.406
Procedure on excused performance.
Status: in_force

(1) If the lessee receives notification of a material or indefinite delay or an allocation justified under s. 411.405 , the lessee may by written notification to the lessor as to any goods involved, and with respect to all of the goods if under an installment lease contract the value of the whole lease contract is substantially impaired, do any of the following:

(a) Terminate the lease contract.

(b) Except in a finance lease that is not a consumer lease, modify the lease contract by accepting the available quota in substitution, with due allowance from the rent payable for the balance of the lease term for the deficiency but without further right against the lessor.

(2) If after receipt of a notification from the lessor under s. 411.405 the lessee fails to modify the lease agreement within a reasonable time not exceeding 30 days, the lease contract lapses with respect to any deliveries affected.

History: 1991 a. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 168.14 — WI Code / Chapter 168 / Section 168.14
Misbranding.
Status: in_force

(1) It is unlawful for any person to represent, advertise, promote for sale, offer for sale or sell any lubricating oil which is in part or wholly derived from previously used lubricating oil unless such representation, advertisement, sales promotion and the container or item of equipment through which such previously used lubricating oil is shipped, stored, offered for sale or sold, clearly and conspicuously identifies to the public that such lubricating oil has been previously used. The identification shall contain appropriate and descriptive words such as “Reclaimed used lubricating oil,” “Rerefined used lubricating oil,” “Recleaned used lubricating oil” or “Reconditioned used lubricating oil”.

(2) No person may receive, unload, use, sell or offer for sale in this state, any gasoline, gasoline-alcohol fuel blends, kerosene, fuel oils, diesel fuels or other petroleum distillates which the person knows, or reasonably should know, is misidentified as to name or grade. Gasoline-ethanol blends that are identified in compliance with s. 168.11 when sold at retail are correctly identified as to name. Biodiesel blends that are identified in compliance with sub. (2m) (c) 4. when sold at retail are correctly identified as to name.

(2m)

(a) “Biodiesel fuel” means a fuel that is comprised of monoalkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats.

(b) No person may represent, advertise, label, or otherwise promote for sale a fuel as being biodiesel fuel unless the fuel meets all of the following requirements:

1. The fuel is registered as biodiesel fuel by a manufacturer under 40 CFR Part 79 .

2. The fuel is pure biodiesel fuel, is identified as such with the alphanumeric B100, and does not contain any petroleum product, any additive, or other foreign material.

3. The fuel meets all of the applicable requirements of ASTM International.

(c) No person may represent, advertise, label, or otherwise promote for sale a fuel as being a blend of biodiesel and petroleum-based fuel unless the fuel meets all of the following requirements:

1. The volume percentage of the biodiesel fuel to the petroleum-based fuel is at least 2 percent.

2. The fuel is blended with petroleum-based diesel fuel.

3. The fuel meets all of the applicable requirements of ASTM International.

4. The volume percentage under subd. 1. is disclosed to the purchaser and is identified by use of the alphanumeric Bxx, with a number replacing the xx in the alphanumeric and with that number representing the volume percentage of biodiesel fuel in the biodiesel fuel blend.

(3) A person who sells a gasoline-ethanol fuel blend to a person selling or offering to sell it at wholesale or retail shall provide information before the sale on the ethanol content of the fuel blend to the person selling or offering to sell it and shall provide written verification of the ethanol content at delivery of the fuel blend.

History: 1971 c. 206 ; 1977 c. 29 ; 1979 c. 140 ; 1989 a. 295 .; 2005 a. 83 ; 2015 a. 186 .
Wis. Stat. § 46.285 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.285
Operation of resource center and care management organization.
Status: in_force

In order to meet federal requirements and assure federal financial participation in funding of the family care benefit, a county, a tribe or band, a long-term care district or an organization, including a private, nonprofit corporation, may not directly operate both a resource center and a care management organization.

History: 1999 a. 9 ; 2005 a. 386 ; 2007 a. 20 ; 2019 a. 9 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0723 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0723
Voting requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) In general. A majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the members present in person or represented by proxy at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be necessary for the adoption of any matter voted upon by the members, unless a greater proportion is required by this chapter, the articles of incorporation or the bylaws.

(2) Amendment to change voting requirements. A bylaw amendment to increase or decrease the vote required for any member action must be approved by the members.

(3) Votes by corporations and limited liability companies. A corporate member’s vote may be cast by the president of the member corporation, or by any other officer or proxy appointed by the president of such corporation, in the absence of express notice of the designation of some other person by the board of directors or bylaws of the member corporation. A limited liability company member’s vote may be cast by a manager of the member limited liability company.

History: 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 146.348 — WI Code / Chapter 146 / Section 146.348
Reimbursement in cancer clinical trial programs.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Cancer clinical trial” means a research study that tests a new cancer treatment regimen on patients, including chemotherapy and other new treatments.

(b) “Inducement” means paying a person money, including a lump sum or salary payment, to participate in a cancer clinical trial.

(c) “Patient-subject” means a person participating in a cancer clinical trial.

(2) All sponsors of cancer clinical trials shall provide potential patient-subjects at the time of the informed consent process the following information:

(a) Whether reimbursement for travel and ancillary costs may be available to patient-subjects.

(b) That coverage of the travel and ancillary costs is done to eliminate financial barriers to enrollment in order to retain patient-subjects in the cancer clinical trial.

(c) Whether family members, friends, or chaperones who attend the cancer clinical trial treatments to support the patient-subject may be eligible for reimbursement of their travel and ancillary costs.

(3)

(a) Reimbursement of travel, ancillary costs, and other direct patient-incurred expenses related to cancer clinical trial participation will not be considered an undue inducement to participate in a cancer clinical trial.

(b) Reimbursement for travel and ancillary costs may not be considered coercive or as exerting undue influence to participate in a cancer clinical trial, but rather shall be considered a means to create parity in cancer clinical trial access and remove a barrier to participation for financially burdened patient-subjects.

(c) Government, industry, public charities, private foundations and other nonprofit organizations, associations, corporations and other business entities, individuals, and any other legal or commercial entities may offer financial support to patient-subjects, or the family, friends, or chaperones of patient-subjects, to cover ancillary costs through their support of a reimbursement entity or program.

(4)

(a) Language informing patient-subjects that reimbursement entities or programs that cover travel, ancillary costs, and other direct patient-incurred expenses may be available must be submitted for review to the relevant federally designated institutional review board in conjunction with the review of a proposed cancer clinical trial and included in the informed consent form approved by the institutional review board.

(b) A reimbursement entity or program must disclose the nature of the ancillary support and general guidelines on financial eligibility to interested patient-subjects and employ a reimbursement process that conforms to federal law and guidance.

History: 2019 a. 150 .
Wis. Stat. § 889.11 — WI Code / Chapter 889 / Section 889.11
Reporter’s transcript as evidence.
Status: in_force

Any writing certified by the official reporter of any court to have been carefully compared by the reporter with the reporter’s minutes of testimony and proceedings taken on any trial or hearing in such court, and to be a true and correct transcript of all or a specified portion of such minutes, and to be a correct statement of the evidence and proceedings had on such trial or hearing, shall be received in evidence with the same effect as the oral testimony of such reporter to the facts so certified.

History: 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 134.26 — WI Code / Chapter 134 / Section 134.26
Misbranding of sterling silver articles.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (2) and s. 134.29 , any person who sells any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of silver or of any alloy of silver marked with the words “sterling silver” or “sterling” or any colorable imitation of “sterling silver” or “sterling”, unless nine hundred twenty-five one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal appearing or purporting to be silver are pure silver is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(2) In the case of all articles that are subject to sub. (1) , there shall be allowed a divergence in fineness of four one-thousandths parts from the standards under sub. (1) .

History: 1997 a. 254 .
Wis. Stat. § 20.910 — WI Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20.910
State percentage; notice of default.
Status: in_force

If the department of administration does not receive from the clerk of the circuit court the statement relative to the state percentage of fees and other payments required by s. 59.40 (2) (m) together with a receipt for the sum required by law to be paid on the actions so entered during the preceding month, on or before the first day of the next succeeding month, it shall immediately notify the judge of the circuit court of the county of the failure to transmit the statement or receipt or both; and the judge shall thereupon notify the clerk to show cause why he or she should not be removed from office in the manner provided by law.

History: 1977 c. 29 ; 1981 c. 317 ; 1995 a. 201 .
Wis. Stat. § 1.05 — WI Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1.05
United States sites for aids to navigation.
Status: in_force

Whenever the United States shall desire to acquire title to any land belonging to the state and covered by the navigable waters of the United States, for sites for lighthouses, beacons, or other aids to navigation, the governor may, upon application therefor by any authorized officer of the United States, setting forth an exact description of the place desired, and accompanied by a plat thereof, grant and convey to the United States, by a deed executed by the governor in the name of the state and under the great seal, all the title of the state thereto; and such conveyance shall be evidence of the consent of the legislature to such purchase upon the conditions specified in s. 1.03 .

History: 1989 a. 56 .
Wis. Stat. § 769.308 — WI Code / Chapter 769 / Section 769.308
Duty of attorney general.
Status: in_force

(1) If the attorney general determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the attorney general may order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services directly to the individual.

(2) The attorney general may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.

History: 1993 a. 326 ; 2009 a. 321 ; 2015 a. 82 s. 12 .