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Wis. Stat. § 201.02 — WI Code / Chapter 201 / Section 201.02
Power of alienation, state control.
Status: in_force

The power to create liens or mortgages on corporate property by public service corporations in this state, or to deed such property in trust, or to issue capital stock, is a special privilege, the right of supervision, regulation, restriction and control of which shall be vested in the state, and such power shall be exercised according to the provisions of these statutes.

History: 1997 a. 140 s. 11 ; Stats. 1997 s. 200.02; 1999 a. 150 s. 653 ; Stats. 1999 s. 201.02.
Wis. Stat. § 102.195 — WI Code / Chapter 102 / Section 102.195
Employees confined in institutions; payment of benefits.
Status: in_force

In case an employee is adjudged mentally ill or incompetent or convicted of a felony, and is confined in a public institution and has wholly dependent upon the employee for support a person whose dependency is determined as if the employee were deceased, compensation payable during the period of the employee’s confinement may be paid to the employee and the employee’s dependents in such manner, for such time, and in such amount as the department by order provides.

History: 1993 a. 492 ; 2015 a. 55 ; 2025 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 611.57 — WI Code / Chapter 611 / Section 611.57
Interlocking directorates and other relationships.
Status: in_force

No person may simultaneously be a director or officer in one insurance corporation and a director, officer, employee or agent for another insurer if the effect is to lessen competition substantially or if the 2 insurers have materially adverse interests.

History: 1971 c. 260 ; 1973 c. 128 .
Wis. Stat. § 322.074 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.074
Article 74 — Remission and suspension.
Status: in_force

(1) Any authority competent to convene, for the command in which the accused is serving or assigned, a court of the kind that imposed the sentence may remit or suspend any part or amount of the unexecuted part of any sentence, including all uncollected forfeitures other than a sentence approved by the governor.

(2) The governor may, for good cause, substitute an administrative form of discharge for a discharge or dismissal executed in accordance with the sentence of a court-martial.

History: 2007 a. 200 .
Wis. Stat. § 164.06 — WI Code / Chapter 164 / Section 164.06
Officers may be candidates.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “law enforcement officer” means any person employed by a city, village, town or county, other than a 1st class city or a county having a population of 750,000 or more, for the purpose of detecting and preventing crime and enforcing laws or ordinances, who is authorized to make arrests for violations of the laws or ordinances which he or she is employed to enforce.

(2) No city, village, town or county may prohibit a law enforcement officer from being a candidate for any elective public office, if that law enforcement officer is otherwise qualified to be a candidate. No law enforcement officer may be required, as a condition of being a candidate for any elective public office, to take a leave of absence during his or her candidacy. This section does not affect the authority of a city, village, town or county to regulate the conduct of a law enforcement officer while the law enforcement officer is on duty or otherwise acting in an official capacity.

History: 1987 a. 350 ; 2017 a. 207 s. 5 .
Wis. Stat. § 948.075 — WI Code / Chapter 948 / Section 948.075
Use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime.
Status: in_force

(1r) Whoever uses a computerized communication system to communicate with an individual who the actor believes or has reason to believe has not attained the age of 16 years with intent to have sexual contact or sexual intercourse with the individual in violation of s. 948.02 (1) or (2) is guilty of a Class C felony.

(2) This section does not apply if, at the time of the communication, the actor reasonably believed that the age of the person to whom the communication was sent was no more than 24 months less than the age of the actor.

(3) Proof that the actor did an act, other than use a computerized communication system to communicate with the individual, to effect the actor’s intent under sub. (1r) shall be necessary to prove that intent.

History: 2001 a. 109 ; 2003 a. 321 ; 2005 a. 433 ; 2007 a. 96 .
Wis. Stat. § 70.109 — WI Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70.109
Presumption of taxability.
Status: in_force

Exemptions under this chapter shall be strictly construed in every instance with a presumption that the property in question is taxable, and the burden of proof is on the person who claims the exemption.

History: 1997 a. 237 .
Wis. Stat. § 448.978 — WI Code / Chapter 448 / Section 448.978
Professional discipline.
Status: in_force

(1g) In this section:

(a) “Unprofessional conduct” includes a determination made by a physician assistant under ch. 154 or 155 if the physician assistant does not have sufficient education, training, and experience to make the determination.

(b) “Unprofessional conduct” does not include any of the following:

1. Providing expedited partner therapy as described in s. 448.9725 .

2. Prescribing or delivering an opioid antagonist in accordance with s. 448.9727 (2) .

(1r) Subject to the rules promulgated under s. 440.03 (1) , the board may conduct investigations and hearings to determine whether a person has violated this subchapter or a rule promulgated under this subchapter.

(2) Subject to the rules promulgated under s. 440.03 (1) , if a person who applies for or holds a license or compact privilege issued under s. 448.974 does any of the following, the board may reprimand the person or deny, limit, suspend, or revoke the person’s license or compact privilege:

(a) Makes a material misstatement in an application for a license or compact privilege or an application for renewal of a license or compact privilege under s. 448.974 .

(b) Violates any law of this state or federal law that substantially relates to the practice of a physician assistant, violates this subchapter, or violates a rule promulgated under this subchapter.

(c) Advertises, practices, or attempts to practice under another person’s name.

(d) Engages in unprofessional conduct.

(e) Subject to ss. 111.321 , 111.322 , and 111.335 , is arrested for or convicted of a felony.

(f) Subject to ss. 111.321 , 111.322 , and 111.34 , practices as a physician assistant while his or her ability is impaired by alcohol or other drugs.

(g) Engages in fraud or deceit in obtaining or using his or her license or compact privilege.

(h) Is adjudicated mentally incompetent by a court.

(i) Demonstrates gross negligence, incompetence, or misconduct in practice.

(j) Knowingly, recklessly, or negligently divulges a privileged communication or other confidential patient health care information except as required or permitted by state or federal law.

(k) Fails to cooperate with the board, or fails to timely respond to a request for information by the board, in connection with an investigation under this section.

(L) Prescribes, sells, administers, distributes, orders, or provides a controlled substance for a purpose other than a medical purpose.

(m) Demonstrates a lack of physical or mental ability to safely practice as a physician assistant.

(n) Engages in any practice that is outside the scope of his or her experience, education, or training.

(o) Is disciplined or has been disciplined by another state or jurisdiction based upon acts or conduct similar to acts or conduct prohibited under pars. (a) to (n) .

History: 2021 a. 23 ; 2023 a. 81 ss. 23 , 34 to 39 .
Wis. Stat. § 48.215 — WI Code / Chapter 48 / Section 48.215
Mother-young child care program.
Status: in_force

Sections 48.19 to 48.21 do not apply to children participating in the mother-young child care program under s. 301.049 .

History: 1991 a. 39 .
Wis. Stat. § 422.307 — WI Code / Chapter 422 / Section 422.307
Estimates or approximations.
Status: in_force

If at the time disclosures must be made, an amount or other item of information required to be disclosed or needed to determine a required disclosure is unknown or not available to the creditor, and a reasonable effort has been made to ascertain it, the creditor may use an estimated amount or approximation of the information, if:

(1) The estimate or approximation is clearly identified as such, is reasonable and is based on the best information available to the creditor; and

(2) The estimate or approximation is not used for the purpose of circumventing or evading the disclosure requirements of this subchapter.

History: 1971 c. 239 .
Wis. Stat. § 11.0702 — WI Code / Chapter 11 / Section 11.0702
Registration; timing.
Status: in_force

Every conduit that accepts and releases contributions made to support or oppose a candidate in a calendar year shall, upon its inception and prior to accepting or releasing any such contribution, file a registration statement giving the information required by s. 11.0703 .

History: 2015 a. 117 .
Wis. Stat. § 24.355 — WI Code / Chapter 24 / Section 24.355
Limitation of actions.
Status: in_force

All claims under s. 24.34 or 24.35 shall be barred, unless application for a payment refund is made within 5 years from the time of the payment, or, in cases in which the state never had title, from the time when the invalidity of the title of the state was established.

History: 2005 a. 149 .
Wis. Stat. § 229.833 — WI Code / Chapter 229 / Section 229.833
Trust funds.
Status: in_force

All moneys received under this subchapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or from any other source, are trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this subchapter. Any officer with whom, or any bank or trust company with which, those moneys are deposited shall act as trustee of those moneys and shall hold and apply the moneys for the purposes of this subchapter, subject to this subchapter and the bond resolution authorizing issuance of the bonds.

History: 1999 a. 167 .
Wis. Stat. § 180.1423 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.1423
Appeal from denial of reinstatement.
Status: in_force

(1) If the department denies a corporation’s application for reinstatement under s. 180.1422 , the department shall serve the corporation under s. 180.0504 with a written notice that explains each reason for denial.

(2) The corporation may appeal the denial of reinstatement to the circuit court for the county where the corporation’s principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office is located, within 30 days after service of the notice of denial is effective under s. 180.0141 (5) (a) . The corporation shall appeal by petitioning the court to set aside the dissolution and attaching to the petition copies of the department’s certificate of dissolution, the corporation’s application for reinstatement and the department’s notice of denial.

(3) The court may order the department to reinstate the dissolved corporation or may take other action that the court considers appropriate.

(4) The court’s final decision may be appealed as in other civil proceedings.

History: 1989 a. 303 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 224.90 — WI Code / Chapter 224 / Section 224.90
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) “Division” means the division of banking.

(2) “In control” means any of the following:

(a) Owning 10 percent or more of the outstanding voting stock of a nondepository lender.

(b) Possessing, directly or indirectly, alone or in concert with others, the power to control or vote 10 percent or more of the outstanding voting stock of a nondepository lender or to elect or control the election of a majority of the board of directors of a nondepository lender.

(3) “Licensee” means a lender licensed under this subchapter.

(4) “Nondepository lender” means a commercial small business lender that participates in the loan guarantee program of the U.S. small business administration described in 13 CFR 120.2 (a) and that provides financial assistance to small businesses that qualify for financial assistance pursuant to 15 USC 636 (a). “Nondepository lender” does not include a bank, credit union, savings and loan association or savings bank.

History: 1999 a. 9 .
Wis. Stat. § 46.297 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.297
Telecommunication aid for the hearing impaired.
Status: in_force

(1) Assistance. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (da) , the department shall, subject to the availability of funds, provide assistance to hearing-impaired persons to secure telecommunication devices capable of serving their needs. Except in extraordinary circumstances, the department shall purchase or provide funds for the purchase of telecommunication devices.

(2) Eligibility. A person is eligible to receive assistance under sub. (1) if all of the following conditions are met:

(a) The person is certified as deaf or severely hearing impaired by a physician, an audiologist who is licensed under subch. II of ch. 459 or who holds a compact privilege under subch. III of ch. 459 , or the department.

(b) The adjusted gross income of the person’s family is equal to or less than 200 percent of the poverty line established under 42 USC 9902 (2).

(3) Hearing rights. Any person aggrieved by a decision of the department under this section has a right to a contested case hearing under ch. 227 .

(4) Departmental duties. The department shall:

(a) Promulgate rules necessary for the administration of this section.

(b) Establish application procedures and determine eligibility.

History: 1983 a. 427 ; Stats. 1983 s. 46.90; 1983 a. 538 s. 51 ; Stats. 1983 s. 46.92; 1987 a. 27 ; 1987 a. 257 s. 2 ; 1989 a. 173 s. 3 ; Stats. 1989 s. 47.20; 1989 a. 316 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 2421 ; Stats. 1995 s. 46.297; 2017 a. 59 ; 2023 a. 56 .
Wis. Stat. § 403.501 — WI Code / Chapter 403 / Section 403.501
Presentment.
Status: in_force

(1) “Presentment” means a demand made by or on behalf of a person entitled to enforce an instrument to do any of the following:

(a) Pay the instrument made to the drawee or a party obliged to pay the instrument or, in the case of a note or accepted draft payable at a bank, to the bank.

(b) Accept a draft made to the drawee.

(2) The following rules are subject to ch. 404 , agreement of the parties, and clearinghouse rules and the like:

(a) Presentment may be made at the place of payment of the instrument and shall be made at the place of payment if the instrument is payable at a bank in the United States; may be made by any commercially reasonable means, including an oral, written or electronic communication; is effective when the demand for payment or acceptance is received by the person to whom presentment is made; and is effective if made to any one of 2 or more makers, acceptors, drawees or other payers.

(b) Upon demand of the person to whom presentment is made, the person making presentment shall do all of the following:

1. Exhibit the instrument.

2. Give reasonable identification and, if presentment is made on behalf of another person, reasonable evidence of authority to do so.

3. Sign a receipt on the instrument for any payment made or surrender the instrument if full payment is made.

(c) Without dishonoring the instrument, the party to whom presentment is made may return the instrument for lack of a necessary endorsement or refuse payment or acceptance for failure of the presentment to comply with the terms of the instrument, an agreement of the parties or other applicable law or rule.

(d) The party to whom presentment is made may treat presentment as occurring on the next business day after the day of presentment if the party to whom presentment is made has established a cutoff hour not earlier than 2 p.m. for the receipt and processing of instruments presented for payment or acceptance and presentment is made after the cutoff hour.

History: 1995 a. 449 .
Wis. Stat. § 106.26 — WI Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106.26
Employment transit assistance program.
Status: in_force

(1) Findings and purpose. The legislature finds that, for many workers and persons seeking employment in outlying suburban and sparsely populated and developed areas, conventional, fixed-route mass transit systems do not provide adequate transportation service. The purpose of the employment transit assistance program under this section is to correct this deficiency in access to employment locations and to stimulate the development of innovative transit service methods.

(2) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Eligible applicant” means a local public body or a private organization.

(b) “Local public body” has the meaning given in s. 85.20 (1) (d) .

(c) “Mass transit system” has the meaning given in s. 85.20 (1) (e) .

(d) “Project” means a project designed to improve access to jobs, including part-time jobs and Wisconsin works employment positions, as defined in s. 49.141 (1) (r) , located in outlying suburban and sparsely populated and developed areas that are not adequately served by a mass transit system and to develop innovative transit service methods.

(3) Administration. The department shall administer the employment transit assistance program and shall have all powers necessary and convenient to implement this section, including the following:

(a) To conduct a project.

(b) To make and execute contracts with eligible applicants.

(c) To make grants from the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (fg) to eligible applicants to conduct projects or to match a federal grant awarded to an eligible applicant to conduct a project. Grants by the department are subject to all of the following requirements:

1. A grant may not exceed 80 percent of the total cost of a project.

2. A grant may only be made to an eligible applicant that provides access to nontemporary employment or to Wisconsin works employment positions, as defined in s. 49.141 (1) (r) .

(d) To receive and review applications from eligible applicants for grants under this section and to prescribe the form, nature and extent of information that shall be included in applications.

(e) To establish criteria for evaluating applications for grants under this section.

History: 1989 a. 31 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 3526m ; Stats. 1995 s. 106.26; 1997 a. 27 ; 2003 a. 33 ; 2015 a. 348 ; 2017 a. 370 .
Wis. Stat. § 103.03 — WI Code / Chapter 103 / Section 103.03
Violations; penalty.
Status: in_force

The employment of any person in any employment or place of employment at any time other than the permissible hours of labor shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section. Every day for each person employed, and every week for each person employed, during which any employer fails to observe or to comply with any order of the department, or to perform any duty enjoined by ss. 103.01 to 103.03 , shall constitute a separate offense.

History: 1975 c. 94 ; Stats. s. 103.03.
Wis. Stat. § 410.506 — WI Code / Chapter 410 / Section 410.506
Rate of interest.
Status: in_force

(1) If, under this chapter, a receiving bank is obliged to pay interest with respect to a payment order issued to the bank, the amount payable may be determined by agreement of the sender and receiving bank, or may be determined by a funds-transfer system rule if the payment order is transmitted through a funds-transfer system.

(2) If the amount of interest is not determined by an agreement or rule as stated in sub. (1) , the amount is calculated by multiplying the applicable federal funds rate by the amount on which interest is payable, and then multiplying the product by the number of days for which interest is payable. The applicable federal funds rate is the average of the federal funds rates published by the federal reserve bank of New York for each of the days for which interest is payable divided by 360. The federal funds rate for any day on which a published rate is not available is the same as the published rate for the next preceding day for which there is a published rate. If a receiving bank that accepted a payment order is required to refund payment to the sender of the order because the funds transfer was not completed, but the failure to complete was not due to any fault by the bank, the interest payable is reduced by a percentage equal to the reserve requirement on deposits of the receiving bank.

History: 1991 a. 304 .
Wis. Stat. § 102.66 — WI Code / Chapter 102 / Section 102.66
Payment of certain barred claims.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to any certificate filed under s. 102.65 (4) , if there is an otherwise meritorious claim for occupational disease, or for a traumatic injury described in s. 102.17 (4) in which the date of injury or death or last payment of compensation, other than for treatment or burial expenses, is before April 1, 2006, and if the claim is barred solely by the statute of limitations under s. 102.17 (4) , the department may, in lieu of worker’s compensation benefits, direct payment from the work injury supplemental benefit fund under s. 102.65 of such compensation and such medical expenses as would otherwise be due, based on the date of injury, to or on behalf of the injured employee. The benefits shall be supplemental, to the extent of compensation liability, to any disability or medical benefits payable from any group insurance policy whose premium is paid in whole or in part by any employer, or under any federal insurance or benefit program providing disability or medical benefits. Death benefits payable under any such group policy do not limit the benefits payable under this section.

(2) In the case of occupational disease, or of a traumatic injury described in s. 102.17 (4) in which the date of injury or death or last payment of compensation, other than for treatment for burial expenses, is before April 1, 2006, appropriate benefits may be awarded from the work injury supplemental benefit fund when the status or existence of the employer or its insurance carrier cannot be determined or when there is otherwise no adequate remedy, subject to the limitations contained in sub. (1) .

History: 1975 c. 147 ; 1979 c. 278 ; 2001 a. 37 ; 2005 a. 172 ; 2011 a. 183 ; 2015 a. 55 ; 2025 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 187.11 — WI Code / Chapter 187 / Section 187.11
Property of Church of Christ or Christian Church.
Status: in_force

Whenever any local religious society of the denomination known as the Church of Christ or the Christian Church that accepts Crossroads College, or any predecessor or successor organization of Crossroads College, as its missionary organization becomes defunct or is dissolved, the property thereof shall vest in Crossroads College, or any successor organization of Crossroads College, and if within 3 years from the date when such local society becomes defunct or is dissolved it is reincorporated in the manner prescribed in s. 187.01 , the said property so belonging to such defunct or dissolved local corporation at the time of its dissolution shall vest in such new corporation. Any local religious society shall be deemed defunct within the meaning of this section when it shall have ceased to maintain at least one regular service per month for a period of 2 years. Section 187.03 shall not apply to or affect religious societies of the denomination known as the Church of Christ or the Christian Church.

History: 2023 a. 252 .
Wis. Stat. § 840.18 — WI Code / Chapter 840 / Section 840.18
Deeds by sheriffs’ successors.
Status: in_force

In all cases where any sale has been made or is hereafter made by any sheriff under or in pursuance of any order, judgment or decree of any court and the sheriff did not, or does not, before the expiration of the sheriff’s term of office, execute a deed to carry the sale into effect, the deed may be executed by the successor of the sheriff in office at the time of the application for the deed, and any deed so executed by any successor of the sheriff making the sale while in office shall have the same effect as though it had been executed by the sheriff making the sale.

History: 1973 c. 189 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 767 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 840.18; 1993 a. 486 .