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Wis. Stat. § 806.33 — WI Code / Chapter 806 / Section 806.33
Determining the money of the claim.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (2) , the proper money of the claim is one of the following:

(a) The money regularly used between the parties as a matter of usage or course of dealing.

(b) The money used at the time of a transaction in international trade, by trade usage, or common practice, for valuing or settling transactions in the particular commodity or service involved.

(c) The money in which the loss was ultimately felt or will be incurred by a party.

(2) The money in which the parties have contracted that a payment be made is the proper money of the claim for that payment.

History: 1991 a. 236 .
Wis. Stat. § 139.83 — WI Code / Chapter 139 / Section 139.83
Administration and enforcement.
Status: in_force

Sections 139.355 , 139.365 , 139.39 and 139.40 , as they apply to the tax under subch. II , apply to the administration and enforcement of this subchapter.

History: 1981 c. 20 ; 1985 a. 302 ; 1991 a. 39 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.1103 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.1103
Fiduciary duties; general principles.
Status: in_force

(1) In allocating receipts and disbursements to income or principal or between income and principal, and with respect to any matter within the scope of ss. 701.1110 to 701.1114 , a fiduciary:

(a) Shall first administer a trust or estate in accordance with the terms of the trust or the will, even if there is a different provision in this subchapter.

(b) May administer a trust or estate by the exercise of a discretionary power of administration given to the fiduciary by the terms of the trust or the will, even if the exercise of the power produces a result different from a result required or permitted by this subchapter.

(c) Shall administer a trust or estate in accordance with this subchapter if the terms of the trust or the will do not contain a different provision or do not give the fiduciary a discretionary power of administration.

(d) Shall add a receipt or charge a disbursement to principal to the extent that the terms of the trust and this subchapter do not provide a rule for allocating the receipt or disbursement to principal or income or between principal and income.

(2) In exercising the power to adjust under s. 701.1104 (1) or a discretionary power of administration regarding a matter within the scope of this subchapter, whether granted by the terms of a trust, a will, or this subchapter, a fiduciary shall administer a trust or estate impartially, based on what is fair and reasonable to all of the beneficiaries, except to the extent that the terms of the trust or the will clearly manifest an intention that the fiduciary shall or may favor one or more of the beneficiaries. A determination in accordance with this subchapter is presumed to be fair and reasonable to all of the beneficiaries.

History: 2013 a. 92 s. 217 .
Wis. Stat. § 879.67 — WI Code / Chapter 879 / Section 879.67
Out-of-state service on personal representative.
Status: in_force

If it is necessary to serve upon a personal representative any order, notice or process of the court, and service cannot be made in this state, service may be made under s. 801.11 (1) for the service of summons.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 784 (1975); 1977 c. 449 .
Wis. Stat. § 51.045 — WI Code / Chapter 51 / Section 51.045
Availability of inpatient psychiatric and other beds.
Status: in_force

(1m) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (2) (cm) , the department shall award a grant in the amount of $80,000 in fiscal year 2021-22 and $50,000 in each fiscal year thereafter to the entity under contract under s. 153.05 (2m) (a) to develop and operate an Internet site and system to show the availability of inpatient psychiatric beds, peer run respite beds, and crisis stabilization beds statewide. To receive the grant, the entity shall use a password protected Internet site to allow an inpatient psychiatric unit or hospital or a facility, center, or program that has inpatient psychiatric, peer run respite, or crisis stabilization beds to enter all of the following information and to enable any hospital emergency department or person who approves emergency detentions under s. 51.15 (2) (c) in the state to view all of the following information reported to the system:

(a) The number of available child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric beds, as applicable, that are inpatient psychiatric, peer run respite, or crisis stabilization beds and that are currently available at the hospital, unit, facility, center, or program at the time of reporting.

(b) Any special information that the hospital, unit, facility, center, or program reports regarding the available beds under par. (a) .

(c) The date the hospital, unit, facility, center, or program reports the information under pars. (a) and (b) .

(d) The location of the hospital, unit, facility, center, or program that is reporting.

(e) The contact information for admission coordination for the hospital, unit, facility, center, or program.

History: 2015 a. 153 ; 2021 a. 58 .
Wis. Stat. § 251.20 — WI Code / Chapter 251 / Section 251.20
Rule making.
Status: in_force

The department shall promulgate rules that specify all of the following:

(1) Required services for each of Levels I, II and III local health departments under s. 251.05 (2) .

(3) Additional required services for Level II and Level III local health departments under s. 251.05 (2) (b) and (c) , including services that the department of health services determines appropriately address objectives or services specified in the most recent public health agenda under s. 250.07 (1) (a) .

History: 1993 a. 27 ; 2005 a. 198 ; 2009 a. 180 .
Wis. Stat. § 939.621 — WI Code / Chapter 939 / Section 939.621
Increased penalty for certain domestic abuse offenses.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “domestic abuse repeater” means either of the following:

(a) A person who commits, during the 72 hours immediately following an arrest for a domestic abuse incident as set forth in s. 968.075 (5) , an act of domestic abuse, as defined in s. 968.075 (1) (a) that constitutes the commission of a crime. For the purpose of the definition under this paragraph, the 72-hour period applies whether or not there has been a waiver by the victim under s. 968.075 (5) (c) .

(b) A person who, during the 10-year period immediately prior to the commission of the crime for which the person is presently being sentenced if the convictions remain of record and unreversed, was convicted on 2 or more separate occasions of a felony or a misdemeanor for which a court imposed a domestic abuse surcharge under s. 973.055 (1) , a felony or a misdemeanor for which a court waived a domestic abuse surcharge pursuant to s. 973.055 (4) , or a felony or a misdemeanor that was committed in another state but that, had it been committed in this state, would have subjected the person to a domestic abuse surcharge under s. 973.055 (1) or that is a crime of domestic abuse under the laws of that state. For the purpose of the definition under this paragraph, it is immaterial that sentence was stayed, withheld or suspended, or that the person was pardoned, unless such pardon was granted on the ground of innocence. In computing the preceding 10-year period, time that the person spent in actual confinement serving a criminal sentence shall be excluded.

(2) If a person commits an act of domestic abuse, as defined in s. 968.075 (1) (a) and the act constitutes the commission of a crime, the maximum term of imprisonment for that crime may be increased by not more than 2 years if the person is a domestic abuse repeater. The victim of the domestic abuse crime does not have to be the same as the victim of the domestic abuse incident that resulted in the prior arrest or conviction. The penalty increase under this section changes the status of a misdemeanor to a felony.

History: 1987 a. 346 ; 1995 a. 304 ; 2011 a. 277 ; 2017 a. 188 .
Wis. Stat. § 33.26 — WI Code / Chapter 33 / Section 33.26
Hearings, time, notice, boundaries, approval, limitations.
Status: in_force

(1) Upon receipt of the petition the county board shall arrange a hearing to be held not later than 30 days from the date of presentation of the petition, and shall appoint a committee to conduct the hearing. At the hearing all interested persons may offer objections, criticisms or suggestions as to the necessity of the proposed district as outlined and to the question of whether their property will be benefited by the establishment of such district. Any person wishing to object to the organization of such district may, before the date set for the hearing, file objections to the formation of such district with the county clerk.

(2) Notice announcing the hearing and stating the boundaries of the proposed district shall be published in a paper of general circulation in the county in which the proposed district is located as a class 1 notice, under ch. 985 , and shall be mailed or emailed by the county board to the last-known address or email address of each landowner within the proposed district. The notice required under this subsection may be provided by email only to landowners who have agreed to receive notice via email.

(3) The committee shall report to the county board within 3 months after the date of the hearing. Within 6 months after the date of the hearing, the board shall issue its order under this subsection. If the board finds, after consideration of the committee’s report and any other evidence submitted to the board, that the petition is signed by the requisite owners as provided in s. 33.25 , that the proposed district is necessary, that the public health, comfort, convenience, necessity or public welfare will be promoted by the establishment of the district, and that the property to be included in the district will be benefited by the establishment of the proposed district, the board, by order, shall declare its findings, shall establish the boundaries and shall declare the district organized and give it a corporate name by which it shall be known. Thereupon the district shall be a body corporate with the powers of a municipal corporation for the purposes of carrying out this chapter. If the board does not so find, the board, by order, shall declare its findings and deny the petition.

(5) The department shall be notified in writing of the hearing for the creation of the district at the time the hearing date is set.

(6) In establishing the district, the county board may change the boundaries from those originally proposed. However, lands not originally proposed for inclusion may not be included until a public hearing is held under this section.

(7) Any person aggrieved by the action of the board may petition the circuit court for judicial review. A verified petition shall be presented to the court not more than 30 days after the decision of the board, and shall specify the grounds upon which the appeal is based.

History: 1973 c. 301 ; 1979 c. 34 s. 2102 (39) (g) ; 1981 c. 20 ; 1991 a. 316 ; 1993 a. 167 ; 1995 a. 227 ; 2003 a. 275 ; 2023 a. 62 .
Wis. Stat. § 946.495 — WI Code / Chapter 946 / Section 946.495
Violation of nonsecure custody order.
Status: in_force

If a person has been placed in nonsecure custody by an intake worker under s. 938.207 or by a judge or circuit court commissioner under s. 938.21 (4) and the person is alleged to be delinquent under s. 938.12 , alleged to be in need of protection or services under s. 938.13 (12) or has been taken into custody for committing an act that is a violation of a state or federal criminal law, the person is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor if he or she intentionally fails to comply with the conditions of his or her placement in nonsecure custody.

History: 1997 a. 328 ; 2001 a. 61 .
Wis. Stat. § 38.125 — WI Code / Chapter 38 / Section 38.125
Public broadcasting stations.
Status: in_force

If the district board governing the Milwaukee area technical college determines to relinquish its public broadcasting licenses, it shall offer to assign the licenses to the educational communications board, subject to approval of the federal communications commission.

History: 1985 a. 29 ; 1987 a. 399 .
Wis. Stat. § 101.595 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.595
Employee rights.
Status: in_force

(1) Not to work with toxic substance, infectious agent or pesticide. Except as provided in ss. 101.589 (3) and 101.592 , if an employee has requested information about a toxic substance, infectious agent or pesticide under s. 101.583 , 101.585 or 101.586 and has not received the information required to be provided under s. 101.583 , 101.585 , 101.586 or 101.589 (1) or (2) , the employee may refuse to work with or be exposed to the toxic substance, infectious agent or pesticide until such time as the employer or agricultural employer supplies the information under s. 101.583 , 101.585 or 101.586 to the employee who has made the request.

(2) Retaliation prohibited.

(a) No employer or agricultural employer may discharge or otherwise discipline or discriminate against any employee because the employee has exercised any rights under ss. 101.58 to 101.599 .

(b) Section 111.322 (2m) applies to discharge and other discriminatory acts arising in connection with any proceeding under ss. 101.58 to 101.599 .

(3) Waiver prohibited. No person may request or require any employee to waive any rights under ss. 101.58 to 101.599 .

History: 1981 c. 364 ; 1983 a. 392 ; 1989 a. 228 .
Wis. Stat. § 292.26 — WI Code / Chapter 292 / Section 292.26
Civil immunity; local governmental units.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “local governmental unit” has the meaning given in s. 292.11 (9) (e) 1.

(2) Except as provided in sub. (3) , a local governmental unit is immune from civil liability related to the discharge of a hazardous substance on or from property formerly owned or controlled by the local governmental unit if the property is no longer owned by the local governmental unit at the time that the discharge is discovered and if any of the following applies:

(a) The local governmental unit acquired the property through tax delinquency proceedings or as the result of an order by a bankruptcy court.

(b) The local governmental unit acquired the property from a local governmental unit that acquired the property under a method described in par. (a) .

(c) The local governmental unit acquired the property through condemnation or other proceeding under ch. 32 .

(d) The local governmental unit acquired the property for the purpose of slum clearance or blight elimination.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply with respect to a discharge of a hazardous substance caused by an activity conducted by the local governmental unit while the local governmental unit owned or controlled the property.

History: 1997 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 46.225 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.225
Indigency determinations.
Status: in_force

If applicable under s. 977.07 (1) , a county department under s. 46.21 , 46.22 or 46.23 shall make indigency determinations.

History: 1979 c. 356 ; 1985 a. 176 .
Wis. Stat. § 408.303 — WI Code / Chapter 408 / Section 408.303
Protected purchaser.
Status: in_force

(1) In this chapter, “protected purchaser” means a purchaser of a certificated or uncertificated security, or of an interest therein, who:

(a) Gives value;

(b) Does not have notice of any adverse claim to the security; and

(c) Obtains control of the certificated or uncertificated security.

(2) In addition to acquiring the rights of a purchaser, a protected purchaser also acquires its interest in the security free of any adverse claim.

History: 1997 a. 297 .
Wis. Stat. § 111.61 — WI Code / Chapter 111 / Section 111.61
Commission to establish rules.
Status: in_force

The commission shall establish appropriate rules and regulations to govern the conduct of conciliation and arbitration proceedings under this subchapter.
Wis. Stat. § 175.38 — WI Code / Chapter 175 / Section 175.38
Enforcement of video gambling law.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “law enforcement officer” has the meaning given in s. 165.85 (2) (c) but does not include a special agent of the department of revenue.

(2) Notwithstanding s. 945.041 , no law enforcement officer may investigate violations of or otherwise enforce s. 945.03 (2m) or 945.04 (2m) .

(3) No law enforcement officer may investigate violations of or otherwise enforce s. 945.05 (1m) unless he or she reasonably believes that the video gambling machine involved may be used in connection with a violation of ch. 945 other than a violation of s. 945.03 (2m) or 945.04 (2m) .

History: 2003 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 84.10415 — WI Code / Chapter 84 / Section 84.10415
Steven Drees Memorial Bridge.
Status: in_force

The department shall designate and mark the bridge on USH 41 across the Peshtigo River in the city of Peshtigo as the “Steven Drees Memorial Bridge” in honor of Private First Class Steven Drees, a member of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, United States Army, who died on June 28, 2009, as a result of combat wounds suffered on June 24, 2009, while serving in Afghanistan.

History: 2009 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 812.11 — WI Code / Chapter 812 / Section 812.11
Garnishee answer.
Status: in_force

The garnishee shall, within 20 days from the service of a garnishee summons and complaint, exclusive of the day of service, serve upon the attorney for the plaintiff, and file with the clerk of court, an answer in which the garnishee shall state:

(1) Whether the garnishee was, at the time of the service of the garnishee summons, indebted or under any liability to the defendant, naming the defendant, in any manner or upon any account, specifying, if indebted or liable, the amount, the interest thereon, the manner in which evidenced, when payable, whether an absolute or contingent liability and the facts necessary to a complete understanding of such indebtedness or liability. When the garnishee is in doubt respecting any liability or indebtedness to the defendant, the garnishee may set forth the facts concerning the possible liability or indebtedness.

(2) Whether the garnishee held, at the time of the service of the garnishee summons, title to, possession of or any other interest in any land or personal property or any instruments or papers relating to any such land or personal property belonging to the defendant or in which the defendant is interested. If the garnishee admits holding any interest in property described in this subsection or is in doubt respecting whether the garnishee holds an interest in property described in this subsection, the garnishee shall set forth a description of the property and the facts concerning the property, and the title, interest or claim of the defendant in or to the property.

(3) If the garnishee claims any setoff or defense to any debt or liability or any lien or claim to property described in sub. (2) , the garnishee shall allege the facts.

(4) The garnishee may state any claim of exemption from execution on the part of the defendant or other objection, known to the garnishee, against the right of the plaintiff to apply upon the plaintiff’s demand the debt or property disclosed.

(5) If the garnishee discloses any debt or the possession of any property to which the defendant and other persons make claim, the garnishee may allege the names and residences of such other claimants and, so far as known, the nature of their claims.

(7) In addition to the requirements of sub. (1) , if the garnishee is indebted to or under any liability to the defendant for payment for the sale of any crops, livestock, dairy products or another product grown or produced by a person or by his or her minor children, the garnishee answer shall state the amount to be paid under s. 812.18 (2m) (b) to the defendant and the balance held by the garnishee.

(8) Service upon the attorney for the plaintiff may be effected by mailing a copy of the garnishee answer to the attorney for the plaintiff at the attorney’s post-office address as shown on the summons.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 759 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 812.11; 1983 a. 92 ; 1993 a. 80 , 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 49.24 — WI Code / Chapter 49 / Section 49.24
Child support incentive payments.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall provide child support incentive payments to counties from one of the following appropriations:

(a) Unless par. (b) applies, from the appropriation under s. 20.437 (2) (bc) .

(b) If federal legislation provides for the matching of federal funds for federal child support incentive payments at a rate of 66 percent or more, from the appropriation under s. 20.437 (2) (k) while the federal legislation is in effect. Total payments under this paragraph may not exceed $5,690,000 per year.

(2)

(a) The department shall, in consultation with representatives of counties, promulgate a rule that specifies the formula according to which the payments under sub. (1) and federal child support incentive payments will be distributed to counties. The rule shall provide that the total of state and federal incentive payments per year to a county may not exceed the costs per year of the county’s child support program under s. 49.22 .

(b) Subject to the incentive payments limit specified in par. (a) , the department shall distribute to counties, in accordance with the formula established under par. (a) , all of the following:

2. Of the amount of federal child support incentive payments awarded to the state for each federal fiscal year, the amount awarded if that amount is less than $12,340,000, or $12,340,000 plus 30 percent of the amount awarded that exceeds $12,340,000.

3. All federal matching funds associated with the amounts distributed under subd. 2.

(c) The department may retain 70 percent of the amount of federal child support incentive payments awarded to the state for each federal fiscal year that exceeds $12,340,000, to be used to pay the costs of the department’s activities under ss. 49.22 and 49.227 and costs related to receiving and disbursing support and support-related payments.

(dm) If the amount of federal child support incentive payments awarded to the state for a federal fiscal year is less than $12,340,000 and the department is providing child support incentive payments to counties for that federal fiscal year under sub. (1) (b) , the total of payments distributed to counties under par. (b) and sub. (1) for that federal fiscal year may not exceed $12,340,000.

(3) A county that receives any state child support incentive payment under sub. (1) or any federal child support incentive payment under sub. (2) may use the funds only to pay costs under its child support program under s. 49.22 .

History: 1997 a. 27 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2003 a. 33 ; 2007 a. 20 ; 2009 a. 28 .