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Wis. Stat. § 254.164 — WI Code / Chapter 254 / Section 254.164
Care for children with lead poisoning or lead exposure.
Status: in_force

The department may promulgate rules establishing standards for the care coordination and follow-up of children under 6 years of age with lead poisoning or lead exposure. Any rules promulgated under this section shall meet any federal requirements for the care coordination and follow-up of children under 6 years of age with elevated blood lead levels. Rules promulgated under this subsection may specify different care coordination and follow-up requirements based on different blood lead levels and may, where appropriate, require that the care coordination and follow-up include any of the following:

(1) Physical, developmental and nutritional assessment.

(2) Parent education.

(3) Medical evaluation.

(4) A lead investigation of all or part of the child’s dwelling or other dwellings or premises that may have contributed to the child’s lead poisoning or lead exposure.

(5) Assistance in developing a plan for lead hazard reduction or other actions needed to reduce exposure to lead and the consequences of such exposure.

(6) Where necessary, assistance in obtaining permanent or temporary lead-safe housing.

(7) Nutritional supplements.

(8) Follow-up services, including monitoring the provision of services to the child.

History: 1993 a. 450 ; 2007 a. 91 .
Wis. Stat. § 408.107 — WI Code / Chapter 408 / Section 408.107
Whether endorsement, instruction or entitlement order is effective.
Status: in_force

(1) In this chapter, “appropriate person” means:

(a) With respect to an endorsement, the person specified by a security certificate or by an effective special endorsement to be entitled to the security;

(b) With respect to an instruction, the registered owner of an uncertificated security;

(c) With respect to an entitlement order, the entitlement holder;

(d) If the person designated in par. (a) , (b) or (c) is deceased, the designated person’s successor taking under other law or the designated person’s personal representative acting for the estate of the decedent; or

(e) If the person designated in par. (a) , (b) or (c) lacks capacity, the designated person’s guardian, conservator or other similar representative who has power under other law to transfer the security or financial asset.

(2) An endorsement, instruction or entitlement order is effective if:

(a) It is made by the appropriate person;

(b) It is made by a person who has power under the law of agency to transfer the security or financial asset on behalf of the appropriate person, including, in the case of an instruction or entitlement order, a person who has control under s. 408.106 (3) (b) or (4) (b) ; or

(c) The appropriate person has ratified it or is otherwise precluded from asserting its ineffectiveness.

(3) An endorsement, instruction or entitlement order made by a representative is effective even if:

(a) The representative has failed to comply with a controlling instrument or with the law of the state having jurisdiction of the representative relationship, including any law requiring the representative to obtain court approval of the transaction; or

(b) The representative’s action in making the endorsement, instruction or entitlement order or using the proceeds of the transaction is otherwise a breach of duty.

(4) If a security is registered in the name of or specially endorsed to a person described as a representative, or if a securities account is maintained in the name of a person described as a representative, an endorsement, instruction or entitlement order made by the person is effective even though the person is no longer serving in the described capacity.

(5) Effectiveness of an endorsement, instruction or entitlement order is determined as of the date the endorsement, instruction or entitlement order is made, and an endorsement, instruction or entitlement order does not become ineffective by reason of any later change of circumstances.

History: 1997 a. 297 .
Wis. Stat. § 11.1108 — WI Code / Chapter 11 / Section 11.1108
Anonymous contributions.
Status: in_force

No committee may accept an anonymous contribution exceeding $10. If an anonymous contribution exceeds $10, the committee shall donate the contribution to the common school fund or to a charitable organization and report the donation as required under this chapter.

History: 2015 a. 117 .
Wis. Stat. § 847.07 — WI Code / Chapter 847 / Section 847.07
Correction of description in conveyance.
Status: in_force

(1) The circuit court of any county in which a conveyance of real estate has been recorded may make an order correcting the description in the conveyance on proof being made to the satisfaction of the court that any of the following applies:

(a) The conveyance contains an erroneous description, not intended by the parties to the conveyance.

(b) The description is ambiguous and does not clearly or fully describe the premises intended to be conveyed.

(c) The grantor of the conveyance is dead, a nonresident of the state, a corporation that has ceased to exist, or a personal representative, guardian, trustee, or other person authorized to convey who has been discharged from his or her trust and the grantee or his or her heirs, legal representatives, or assigns have been in the quiet, undisturbed, and peaceable possession of the premises intended to be conveyed from the date of the conveyance.

(2) This section does not prevent an action for the reformation of any conveyance, and if in any doubt the court shall direct the action to be brought.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 768 (1975); 1977 c. 449 ; 2001 a. 102 .
Wis. Stat. § 187.09 — WI Code / Chapter 187 / Section 187.09
Existing organizations legalized.
Status: in_force

Every religious or religious educational and charitable society organized or attempted to be organized under ch. 47 , Revised Statutes of 1849, or ch. 66 , Revised Statutes of 1858, or ch. 91 , Revised Statutes of 1878, and the acts amendatory thereof, by filing or recording a certificate of the election of trustees or a certificate of organization designating the name of the church or society with the register of deeds of the proper county, and which, since such filing or recording, has acted as a religious or a religious educational and charitable corporation in pursuance thereof, shall be deemed to be legally incorporated and shall have all the powers and be subject to all the liabilities of religious corporations under the provisions of this chapter. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any action or proceeding pending by or against any such corporation on April 19, 1895.

History: 1993 a. 301 .
Wis. Stat. § 178.0913 — WI Code / Chapter 178 / Section 178.0913
Annual report for department.
Status: in_force

(1) A limited liability partnership or registered foreign limited liability partnership shall deliver to the department for filing an annual report that states all of the following:

(a) The name of the partnership or registered foreign partnership.

(b) The street address of its registered office in this state and the name and e-mail address of its registered agent at that office.

(c) The street address of its principal office.

(d) The name of at least one partner.

(e) In the case of a foreign partnership, the jurisdiction of its governing law and any fictitious name adopted under s. 178.1006 (1) .

(2) Information in the annual report must be current as of the date the report is signed by the limited liability partnership or registered foreign limited liability partnership.

(3)

(a) A domestic limited liability partnership shall deliver its annual report to the department in each year following the calendar year in which the domestic limited liability partnership’s statement of qualification became effective, during the calendar year quarter in which the anniversary date of the statement of qualification’s effective date occurs.

(b) A registered foreign limited liability partnership shall deliver its annual report to the department during the first calendar quarter of each year following the calendar year in which the foreign limited liability partnership registered to do business in this state.

(4) If an annual report does not contain the information required by this section, the department promptly shall notify the reporting limited liability partnership or registered foreign limited liability partnership in a record and return the report to it for correction. If the annual report is corrected to contain the information required by this section and delivered to the department within 30 days after the effective date of the notice under s. 178.0103 (6) , the annual report is timely filed.

(5) If an annual report contains a registered office or registered agent which differs from the information shown in the records of the department immediately before the report becomes effective, the differing information is considered a statement of change under s. 178.0909 .

History: 2015 a. 295 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 765.04 — WI Code / Chapter 765 / Section 765.04
Marriage abroad to circumvent the laws.
Status: in_force

(1) If any person residing and intending to continue to reside in this state who is disabled or prohibited from contracting marriage under the laws of this state goes into another state or country and there contracts a marriage prohibited or declared void under the laws of this state, such marriage shall be void for all purposes in this state with the same effect as though it had been entered into in this state.

(2) Proof that a person contracting a marriage in another jurisdiction was (a) domiciled in this state within 12 months prior to the marriage, and resumed residence in this state within 18 months after the date of departure therefrom, or (b) at all times after departure from this state, and until returning maintained a place of residence within this state, shall be prima facie evidence that at the time such marriage was contracted the person resided and intended to continue to reside in this state.

(3) No marriage shall be contracted in this state by a party residing and intending to continue to reside in another state or jurisdiction, if such marriage would be void if contracted in such other state or jurisdiction and every marriage celebrated in this state in violation of this provision shall be null and void.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 48 ; 1979 c. 176 ; Stats. 1979 s. 765.04.
Wis. Stat. § 177.0207 — WI Code / Chapter 177 / Section 177.0207
When security presumed abandoned.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to s. 177.0210 , a security is presumed to be abandoned 3 years after the following:

(a) The date on which a 2nd consecutive communication sent by the holder by 1st class mail to the apparent owner is returned to the holder by the U.S. postal service as undeliverable.

(b) If the 2nd communication is sent by the holder to the apparent owner later than 30 days after the date on which the first communication is returned to the holder by the U.S. postal service as undeliverable, the date on which the first communication was returned as undeliverable.

(2) If the holder does not send communications to the apparent owner of the security by 1st class mail, as described in sub. (1) , the holder shall attempt to confirm the apparent owner’s interest in the security by sending the apparent owner e-mail not later than 2 years after the apparent owner’s last indication of interest in the security, except that the holder shall promptly attempt to contact the apparent owner by 1st class mail if any of the following applies:

(a) The holder does not have information needed to send the apparent owner e-mail or the holder believes that the apparent owner’s e-mail address in the holder’s records is not valid.

(b) The holder receives notification that the e-mail was not received.

(c) The apparent owner does not respond to the e-mail within 30 days from the date on which the e-mail was sent.

(3) If 1st class mail sent under sub. (2) is returned to the holder by the U.S. postal service as undeliverable, the security is presumed abandoned 3 years after the date on which the mail is returned.

History: 2021 a. 87 .
Wis. Stat. § 856.27 — WI Code / Chapter 856 / Section 856.27
Appointment of special administrator if appointment of personal representative is delayed.
Status: in_force

If for any cause, a personal representative is not appointed in an estate at the hearing on appointment, the court at the hearing shall appoint a special administrator to administer the estate until a personal representative is appointed.
Wis. Stat. § 289.28 — WI Code / Chapter 289 / Section 289.28
Determination of need.
Status: in_force

(1) Determination of need; issues considered. A feasibility report shall contain an evaluation to justify the need for the proposed facility unless the facility is exempt under sub. (2) . The department shall consider the following issues in evaluating the need for the proposed facility:

(a) An approximate service area for the proposed facility which takes into account the economics of waste collection, transportation and disposal.

(b) The quantity of waste suitable for disposal at the proposed facility generated within the anticipated service area.

(c) The design capacity of the following facilities located within the anticipated service area of the proposed facility:

1. Approved facilities, including the potential for expansion of those facilities on contiguous property already owned or controlled by the applicant.

2. Nonapproved facilities which are environmentally sound. It is presumed that a nonapproved facility is not environmentally sound unless evidence to the contrary is produced.

3. Other proposed facilities for which feasibility reports are submitted and determined to be complete by the department.

4. Facilities for the recycling of solid waste or for the recovery of resources from solid waste which are licensed by the department.

5. Proposed facilities for the recycling of solid waste or for the recovery of resources from solid waste which have plans of operation which are approved by the department.

6. Solid waste incinerators licensed by the department.

7. Proposed solid waste incinerators which have plans of operation which are approved by the department.

(d) If the need for a proposed municipal facility cannot be established under pars. (a) to (c) , the extent to which the proposed facility is needed to replace other facilities of that municipality at the time those facilities are projected to be closed in the plans of operation.

(2) Determination of need; exempt facilities. Subsections (1) and (3) and ss. 289.24 (1) (f) and 289.29 (1) (d) do not apply to:

(a) Any facility which is part of a prospecting or mining operation with a permit under s. 293.45 or 293.49 .

(b) Any solid waste disposal facility designed for the disposal of waste generated by a pulp or paper mill.

(3) Issuance of determination of need. Except for a facility which is exempt under sub. (2) , the department shall issue a determination of need for the proposed facility at the same time the final determination of feasibility is issued. If the department determines that there is insufficient need for the facility, the applicant may not construct or operate the facility.

History: 1995 a. 227 ss. 556 , 557 , 560 , 991 .
Wis. Stat. § 349.19 — WI Code / Chapter 349 / Section 349.19
Authority to require accident reports.
Status: in_force

Any city, village, town or county may by ordinance require the operator of a vehicle involved in an accident to file with a designated municipal department or officer a report of such accident or a copy of any report required to be filed with the department. All such reports are for the confidential use of such department or officer and are otherwise subject to s. 346.73 , except that this section does not prohibit the disclosure of a person’s name or address, of the name or address of a person’s employer or of financial information that relates to a person when requested under s. 49.22 (2m) to the department of children and families or a county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) .

History: 1971 c. 164 ; 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (a) ; 1997 a. 191 ; 2007 a. 20 ; 2011 a. 260 s. 81 .
Wis. Stat. § 23.325 — WI Code / Chapter 23 / Section 23.325
Aerial photographic survey.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall make, on a periodic basis, an aerial photographic survey of the state to provide the basis for state planning and resource and forestry management. In performing this duty, the department:

(a) Shall consult with the department of administration, the department of transportation, and the state cartographer, and may consult with other potential users of the photographic products resulting from the survey, to determine the scope and character of the survey.

(b) May contract with other state agencies or nongovernmental entities to carry out the photographic imagery acquisition phases of the survey and to prepare specific photographic products for use by federal, state and local agencies and the general public.

(2)

(a) After consultation with the department of transportation and the state cartographer, the department of natural resources shall select the photographic products to be sold.

(b) The department of administration shall establish sale prices for the photographic products. The department of administration shall establish sale prices annually at a level that at least equals the amount necessary to cover the costs of photographic imagery acquisition and the production of photographic products and the costs of selling and reproducing the productions.

(3) The department of natural resources may sell and may enter into contracts to sell the photographic products.

(4) All income received by the department of natural resources and the department of transportation from the sale of the photographic products, less the amount retained by the department of transportation under s. 85.10 , shall be deposited in the conservation fund.

History: 1991 a. 39 ; 1997 a. 27 ss. 775am , 9456 (3m) ; 2003 a. 33 s. 2811 ; 2003 a. 48 ss. 10 , 11 ; 2003 a. 206 s. 23 ; 2005 a. 25 ss. 498 , 2493 .
Wis. Stat. § 145.045 — WI Code / Chapter 145 / Section 145.045
Certification of soil testers.
Status: in_force

(1) Powers and duties. The department shall by rule establish an examining program for the certification of soil testers, setting such standards as the department finds necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter. Such standards shall include formal written examinations for all applicants. The department shall charge applicants for the cost of examination and certification. After July 1, 1974, no person may construct soil bore holes or conduct soil percolation tests or other similar tests specified by the department that relate to private on-site wastewater treatment systems unless the person holds a valid certificate issued under this section.

(3) Plumbers may be soil testers. A plumber may also be a soil tester and install any system after approval of the site or project by the department or the governmental unit responsible for the regulation of private on-site wastewater treatment systems.

History: 1973 c. 287 ; 1975 c. 41 ; 1979 c. 34 , 221 ; 1993 a. 482 ; 2007 a. 147 ; 2011 a. 146 ; 2017 a. 331 .
Wis. Stat. § 71.16 — WI Code / Chapter 71 / Section 71.16
Allocation of modifications.
Status: in_force

The Wisconsin modifications applicable to the Wisconsin taxable income or Wisconsin adjusted gross income of estates, trusts and beneficiaries thereof with respect to income derived from such estates or trusts shall be computed and allocated as follows:

(1) A modification or portion thereof which relates to an item of income, gain, loss or deduction which affects the computation of the federal distributable net income of the estate or trust for the current year shall be apportioned among and taken into account by the fiduciary and the beneficiary or beneficiaries in the same proportion that the item to which it relates is considered as distributed among them for federal income tax purposes.

(2) Any remaining modifications or portions thereof shall be taken into account by the fiduciary.

(3) If an additional assessment is made against the fiduciary or any beneficiary as a result of correction of an erroneous allocation of the modifications applicable to the income of an estate or trust, any overpayment resulting from consistent application of such correction to all other taxpayers interested in such estate or trust shall be refunded notwithstanding any rule of law which would otherwise bar such refund.

History: 1987 a. 312 .
Wis. Stat. § 350.125 — WI Code / Chapter 350 / Section 350.125
Completion of application for registration by snowmobile dealers.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) When a snowmobile dealer sells a snowmobile, the dealer, at the time of sale, shall require the buyer to complete an application for an original registration certificate, collect the required fee, and do one of the following:

1. Mail the application and fee to the department no later than 5 days after the date of sale and furnish the buyer with a validated registration receipt.

2. Use the expedited service under s. 350.12 (3h) (ag) as an agent of the department.

(ag) The department shall provide combination application and receipt forms to be used by the dealer.

(ar) No snowmobile dealer may charge an additional fee to the buyer for performing the service required under this subsection unless the dealer uses the expedited service specified in s. 350.12 (3h) (ag) . No snowmobile dealer may perform this service for a registration under s. 350.122 .

(b) When a snowmobile dealer sells a snowmobile to a person from another state who wishes to register the snowmobile in his or her home state or to a person who wishes to register the snowmobile under s. 350.122 , the dealer shall, at the time of sale, complete an application for a registration certificate and indicate on the application that the snowmobile is to be registered in another state or under s. 350.122 and mail one copy to the department no later than 14 days after the date of sale, furnish the buyer with one copy and retain one copy for the dealer’s records.

(2) Every dealer shall maintain, for one year, a record in the form prescribed by the department for each new snowmobile sold. These records shall be open to inspection by the department.

History: 1973 c. 298 ; 1975 c. 230 , 399 , 421 ; 1977 c. 402 ; 1981 c. 295 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2005 a. 25 .