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Wis. Stat. § 188.17 — WI Code / Chapter 188 / Section 188.17
Corporate powers of Navy Club.
Status: in_force

(1) Any unit, department or auxiliary of the Navy Club of the United States of America organized in this state under 36 USC 140 to 140c shall have full corporate power to transact business in this state and to take over the assets and liabilities of existing navy clubs and navy club auxiliaries upon filing with the department of financial institutions a statement of its intent so to do and a full and complete list of its duly elected officers and shall by so doing become a body corporate. No filing fee shall be charged by the department of financial institutions for so doing.

(2) All acts done by any such corporation or its constituted authorities shall be considered acts of said corporation as a body corporate and no personal liability shall be attached to any member therefor.

(3) Sections 180.0203 and 181.0203 shall not apply to corporations organized under this section. In the execution of any conveyance or encumbrance by such corporation the commandant and the ship’s writer, or like or similar officers, shall have the powers and duties granted to presidents and secretaries respectively under s. 706.03 (2) and (3) . The provisions of this section shall apply to all corporations incorporated hereunder whether incorporated before or after April 8, 1943.

History: 1981 c. 391 ; 1989 a. 303 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 79 ; 2025 a. 129 .
Wis. Stat. § 134.20 — WI Code / Chapter 134 / Section 134.20
Fraudulent issuance or use of warehouse receipts or bills of lading.
Status: in_force

(1) Whoever, with intent to defraud, does any of the following is guilty of a Class H felony:

(a) Issues a warehouse receipt or bill of lading covering goods which, at the time of issuance of the receipt or bill, have not been received or shipped in accordance with the purported terms and meaning of such receipt or bill.

(b) Issues a warehouse receipt or bill of lading which the person knows contains a false statement.

(c) Issues a duplicate or additional warehouse receipt or bill of lading, knowing that a former receipt or bill for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncanceled.

(d) Issues a warehouse receipt covering goods owned by the warehouse keeper, either solely or jointly or in common with others, without disclosing such ownership in the receipt.

(e) Delivers goods out of the possession of such warehouse keeper or carrier to a person who he or she knows is not entitled thereto or with knowledge that the goods are covered by a negotiable warehouse receipt or bill of lading which is outstanding and uncanceled and without obtaining possession of such receipt or bill at or before the time of delivery and either canceling it or conspicuously noting thereon any partial deliveries made.

(f) In any manner removes beyond the immediate control of a warehouse keeper or carrier any goods covered by a warehouse receipt or bill of lading issued by such warehouse keeper or carrier, contrary to the terms and meaning of such receipt or bill and without the consent of the holder thereof.

(g) Negotiates or transfers for value a warehouse receipt or bill of lading covering goods which he or she knows are subject to a lien or security interest, other than the warehouse keeper’s or carrier’s lien, or to which he or she does not have title or which he or she knows have not been received or shipped in accordance with the purported terms and meaning of the warehouse receipt or bill of lading and fails to disclose those facts to the purchaser thereof.

(2) In this section:

(a) “Bill of lading” means a document evidencing the receipt of goods for shipment issued by a person engaged in the business of transporting or forwarding goods, and includes an airbill. “Airbill” means a document serving for air transportation as a bill of lading does for marine or rail transportation, and includes an air consignment note or air waybill.

(b) “Warehouse receipt” means a receipt issued by a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.

History: 1983 a. 500 s. 43 ; 1993 a. 482 ; 1995 a. 225 ; 1997 a. 283 ; 2001 a. 109 .
Wis. Stat. § 112.09 — WI Code / Chapter 112 / Section 112.09
Surety, how discharged.
Status: in_force

(1) Any surety or the personal representative of any surety upon the bond of any trustee, guardian, receiver, executor, or other fiduciary, may be discharged from liability as provided in this section. On 5 days’ notice to the principal in such bond, application may be made to the court where it is filed, or which has jurisdiction of such fiduciary or to any judge of such court for a discharge from liability as surety, and that such principal be required to account.

(2) Notice of such application may be served personally within or without the state. If it shall satisfactorily appear to the court or the judge that personal service cannot be had with due diligence within the state, the notice may be served in such manner as the court or judge shall direct. Pending such application the principal may be restrained from acting, except to preserve the trust estate.

(3) If at the time appointed the principal shall fail to file a new bond satisfactory to the court or judge, an order shall be made requiring the principal to file a new bond within 5 days. When such new bond shall be filed, the court or judge shall make an order requiring the principal to account for all of the principal’s acts to and including the date of the order, and to file such account within a time fixed not exceeding 20 days; and shall discharge the surety making such application from liability for any act or default of the principal subsequent to the date of such order.

(4) If the principal shall fail to file a new bond within the time specified, an order shall be made removing the principal from office, and requiring the principal to file the principal’s account within 20 days. If the principal shall fail to file the principal’s account as required, the surety may make and file such account; and upon settlement thereof and upon the trust fund or estate being found or made good and paid over or properly secured, credit shall be given for all commissions, costs, disbursements and allowances to which the principal would be entitled were the principal accounting.

(5) The procedure for hearing, settling, and allowing the principal’s account shall be according to the practice prescribed by ch. 862 for personal representatives. Upon the trust fund or estate being found or made good and paid over or properly secured, the surety shall be discharged from all liability. Upon demand by the principal, the discharged surety shall return the unearned part of the premium paid for the canceled bond.

(6) Any such fiduciary may institute and conduct proceedings for the discharge of the fiduciary’s surety and for the filing of a new bond; and the procedure shall in all respects conform substantially to the practice prescribed by this section in cases where the proceeding is instituted by a surety, and with like effect.

History: 1993 a. 486 ; 2001 a. 102 ; 2005 a. 155 s. 39 ; Stats. 2005 s. 112.09.
Wis. Stat. § 885.12 — WI Code / Chapter 885 / Section 885.12
Coercing witnesses before officers and boards.
Status: in_force

If any person, without reasonable excuse, fails to attend as a witness, or to testify as lawfully required before any arbitrator, coroner, medical examiner, board, commission, commissioner, examiner, committee, or other officer or person authorized to take testimony, or to produce a book or paper which the person was lawfully directed to bring, or to subscribe the person’s deposition when correctly reduced to writing, any judge of a court of record or a circuit court commissioner in the county where the person was obliged to attend may, upon sworn proof of the facts, issue an attachment for the person, and unless the person shall purge the contempt and go and testify or do such other act as required by law, may commit the person to close confinement in the county jail until the person shall so testify or do such act, or be discharged according to law. The sheriff of the county shall execute the commitment.

History: 1973 c. 272 ; 1993 a. 486 ; 2001 a. 61 .
Wis. Stat. § 428.104 — WI Code / Chapter 428 / Section 428.104
Receipts, accounting.
Status: in_force

(1) Any time a payment is made in cash, or any other time the method of payment does not itself provide evidence of payment, the creditor shall furnish the customer, without request, a written receipt, evidencing such payment. The customer shall be entitled upon request, free of charge, to an annual statement of account showing receipts and disbursements. Subject to s. 708.15 , upon payment in full of the customer’s obligation, the creditor shall release any mortgage by either recording the necessary instrument and forwarding the same to the customer, or by forwarding a satisfaction of such debt to the purchaser of the real property subject to such satisfied mortgage, or the creditor of such purchaser.

(2) A person who commits a violation of this section is liable to the customer in an amount equal to:

(a) Twenty-five dollars; and

(b) The actual damages, including any incidental and consequential damages, sustained by the customer by reason of the violation.

History: 1973 c. 18 ; 2013 a. 66 .
Wis. Stat. § 183.0707 — WI Code / Chapter 183 / Section 183.0707
Disposition of assets in winding up.
Status: in_force

(1) In winding up its activities and affairs, a limited liability company shall apply its assets to discharge its obligations to creditors, including members that are creditors.

(2) After a limited liability company complies with sub. (1) , any surplus must be distributed in the following order, subject to any charging order in effect under s. 183.0503 :

(a) To members and dissociated members in satisfaction of liabilities for distributions previously approved under s. 183.0404 .

(b) To members and dissociated members first for the return of their contributions in proportion to their respective values as specified in the records required to be kept under s. 183.0402 (2) , or, in the case of a company treated as a partnership for tax purposes, the partnership capital account of each such member.

(c) To members and dissociated members for their transferable interests in proportion to their respective rights to share in distributions from the limited liability company before dissolution, except to the extent necessary to comply with any transfer effective under s. 183.0502 .

(3) If a limited liability company does not have sufficient surplus to comply with sub. (2) (a) , any surplus must be distributed among the owners of transferable interests in proportion to the value of the respective unreturned contributions.

(4) All distributions made under subs. (2) and (3) must be paid in money.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 19.02 — WI Code / Chapter 19 / Section 19.02
Actions by individuals.
Status: in_force

Any person injured by the act, neglect or default of any officer, except the state officers, the officer’s deputies or other persons which constitutes a breach of the condition of the official bond of the officer, may maintain an action in that person’s name against the officer and the officer’s sureties upon such bond for the recovery of any damages the person may have sustained by reason thereof, without leave and without any assignment of any such bond.

History: 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 59.90 — WI Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59.90
Provisions applicable to certain counties with special sales tax authority.
Status: in_force

All of the following apply to a county in which a 1st class city is located:

(1) With regard to the budget of the county, all of the following apply:

(a) The total amount of budgeted expenditures related to cultural or entertainment matters or involving partnerships with nonprofit groups may not be greater than 5 percent of the total amount of budgeted expenditures for the budget period. This paragraph does not apply to any expenditure of a county for parks, including zoos, or for health or transit services.

(b) When each department of the county submits estimated revenues and expenditures for the ensuing budget period, it shall also provide a proposal to reduce the department’s expenditures for the ensuing fiscal period by an amount equal to a total of 5 percent of the department’s base level for its budget for the current fiscal period.

(2) The board may enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution that includes new program spending only upon a two-thirds vote of all of the members of the board. This subsection does not apply to a program that is intended to reduce expenditures or consolidate or reorganize existing services into a different administrative structure without increasing expenditures. If the county imposes a tax under s. 77.70 (2) (a) and subsequently repeals the tax, this subsection does not apply after the repeal.

(3) The board may enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution that increases the total number of positions in the county only upon a two-thirds vote of all of the members of the board. If the county imposes a tax under s. 77.70 (2) (a) and subsequently repeals the tax, this subsection does not apply after the repeal.

(4) The county shall prepare a report on changes to its compensation plan that are necessary and desirable to make the county competitive in the market for correctional workers at a sustainable level of funding.

(5) The county shall identify all buildings that the county has authority to sell and that are not being used by the county and prepare a plan for the use or sale of these buildings. The county shall submit that plan to the joint committee on finance in the manner provided under s. 13.172 (2) .

(6)

(a) In this subsection, “qualified amount” means the required amount of the retirement system’s unfunded actuarial accrued liability contribution in 2022.

(b) In any year in which the county imposes a tax under s. 77.70 (2) (a) , other than the first year in which the tax is imposed, the county shall spend a total of not less than the qualified amount on the following:

1. The Milwaukee County circuit court.

2. The Milwaukee County secure residential care center for children and youth.

3. Maintaining or increasing the compensation of Milwaukee County correctional workers.

4. The Milwaukee County medical examiner.

(7) Repayment of pension bonds. Not later than December 31, 2030, the county shall retire its pension bond obligations and any debt incurred to refund its pension bond obligations.

History: 2023 a. 12 , 40 .
Wis. Stat. § 74.42 — WI Code / Chapter 74 / Section 74.42
Charge back of personal property taxes; subsequent distributions.
Status: in_force

(1) Charge back. No earlier than February 2 and no later than April 1, the taxation district treasurer may charge back to each taxing jurisdiction within the taxation district, except this state, its proportionate share of those personal property taxes for which the taxation district settled in full the previous year, which were delinquent at the time of settlement, which have not been collected in the intervening year, and which remain delinquent, if the taxes are owed by an entity that has ceased operations, or filed a petition for bankruptcy, or are due on personal property that has been removed from the next assessment roll. At the same time, if there are charge-backs, the taxation district treasurer shall charge back to the county the state’s proportionate share of those taxes. No later than the first May 1 after receipt of a notice of a charge-back, the taxing jurisdiction shall pay to the taxation district treasurer the amount due, and the state shall pay to the proper county treasurer the amount due.

(2) Subsequent distributions. An amount equal to any delinquent personal property taxes charged back under sub. (1) which are subsequently collected by the taxation district, minus the cost of collecting those taxes, shall be proportionately distributed to each taxing jurisdiction to which the delinquent taxes were charged back under sub. (1) . Distributions under this subsection shall be made on May 15, August 15, November 15 and February 15.

History: 1987 a. 378 ; 1989 a. 104 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1995 a. 278 ; 2009 a. 171 .
Wis. Stat. § 191.10 — WI Code / Chapter 191 / Section 191.10
Certificate of necessity.
Status: in_force

(1) Issuance, filing, recording, condemnation. If the office of the commissioner of railroads finds that the proposed railroad would be a public convenience and that a necessity requires its construction, the office of the commissioner of railroads shall enter an order to that effect and issue to the applicant a certificate that public convenience and a necessity require the construction of the railroad as proposed. The certificate shall be filed in the office of the department of financial institutions and the department of financial institutions shall approve the map showing the route of the railroad. The applicant shall record the map certified by the office of the commissioner of railroads in the office of the register of deeds in each county in which the railroad shall be located. The filing of the certificate with the department of financial institutions and the recording of the map, as above provided, are conditions precedent to the right of the applicant to institute condemnation proceedings.

(2) Certificate for part of line. Whenever it shall appear to the office that public convenience and a necessity do not require the construction of the railroad as proposed in the application, but do require the construction of a part thereof, the office may issue a certificate for the construction of such part of the railroad as public convenience and necessity require.

(3) Refusal of certificate; renewal of application. If the office shall determine that the proposed railroad is not a necessity or is not required by public convenience, the office shall by order refuse to grant a certificate, stating the reasons for the refusal. The application may be renewed after 2 years from the date of the refusal, but not sooner.

History: 1981 c. 347 ss. 28 , 80 (1) ; 1993 a. 16 , 123 , 301 , 491 ; 1995 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 450.12 — WI Code / Chapter 450 / Section 450.12
Labeling of prescription drugs and prescription drug products.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Brand name” means the name, other than the generic name, that the labeler of a drug or drug product places on its commercial container at the time of packaging.

(b) “Generic name” means the official or established name given a drug by the U.S. department of health and human services or the U.S. adopted names council.

(2) The manufacturer’s or distributor’s commercial container of every prescription drug or prescription drug product delivered to any pharmacist, practitioner, hospital or nursing home shall bear a label containing the generic name of the drug, if any, the brand name of the drug or drug product, if any, the name and address of the manufacturer of the drug or drug product and, if different from the manufacturer, the name and address of the distributor of the drug or drug product.

(3) Every prescription order or medication profile record shall include the brand name, if any, or the name of the manufacturer or distributor of the drug product dispensed.

(4) This section does not apply with respect to biological products.

History: 1985 a. 146 ; 2017 a. 149 .
Wis. Stat. § 221.0617 — WI Code / Chapter 221 / Section 221.0617
Consideration of interests in addition to shareholders’ interests.
Status: in_force

In discharging his or her duties to the bank and in determining what he or she believes to be in the best interests of the bank, a director or officer may, in addition to considering the effects of an action on shareholders, consider the following:

(1) The effects of the action on employees, suppliers and customers of the bank.

(2) The effects of the action on communities in which the bank operates.

(3) Other factors that the director or officer considers pertinent.

History: 1995 a. 336 .
Wis. Stat. § 30.131 — WI Code / Chapter 30 / Section 30.131
Wharves and piers placed and maintained by persons other than riparian owners.
Status: in_force

(1) Notwithstanding s. 30.133 , a wharf or pier of the type which does not require a permit under ss. 30.12 (1) and 30.13 that abuts riparian land and that is placed in a navigable water by a person other than the owner of the riparian land may not be considered to be an unlawful structure on the grounds that it is not placed and maintained by the owner if all of the following requirements are met:

(a) The owner of the riparian land or the owner’s predecessor in interest entered into a written easement that was recorded before December 31, 1986, and that authorizes access to the shore to a person who is not an owner of the riparian land.

(b) The person to whom the easement was granted or that person’s successor in interest is the person who places and maintains the wharf or pier.

(c) The placement and maintenance of the wharf or pier is not prohibited by and is not inconsistent with the terms of the written easement.

(d) The wharf or pier has been placed seasonally in the same location at least once every 4 years since the written easement described in par. (a) was recorded.

(e) The wharf or pier is substantially the same size and configuration as it was on April 28, 1990, or during its last placement before April 28, 1990, whichever is later.

(f) The placement of the wharf or pier complies with the provisions of this chapter, with any rules promulgated under this chapter and with any applicable municipal regulations or ordinances.

(2) Notwithstanding s. 30.133 , an easement under sub. (1) may be conveyed if it is conveyed at the same time, and to the same person, that the land to which the easement is appurtenant is conveyed.

History: 1989 a. 217 ; 1993 a. 167 .
Wis. Stat. § 991.11 — WI Code / Chapter 991 / Section 991.11
Effective date of acts.
Status: in_force

Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as prescribed in s. 35.095 (1) (b) .

History: 1981 c. 372 s. 14 ; Stats. 1981 s. 991.11; 1983 a. 36 ; 2013 a. 5 .