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Wis. Stat. § 24.17 — WI Code / Chapter 24 / Section 24.17
Receipt and certificate.
Status: in_force

(1) When the purchaser of any public lands makes payment to the secretary of administration of the amount required to be paid on the sale and, in case of a private sale, produces the memorandum described in s. 24.16 , the secretary of administration shall give a receipt to the purchaser for the amount paid, and, unless the sale is wholly for cash, the board shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a duplicate certificate of sale, in which the board shall certify all of the following:

(a) The description of the land sold.

(b) The sum paid and the amount remaining due.

(c) The times, place, and terms of payments.

(d) That if the payments are made in accordance with the terms stated in the certificate of sale, the purchaser, or the purchaser’s assigns or other legal representatives, shall be entitled to a patent for the land.

(e) That in case of the nonpayment into the state treasury of any of the following, the certificate of sale from the time of the nonpayment shall be void and the board may take possession of and resell the land described in the certificate:

1. The purchase money as it becomes due.

2. The interest on the purchase money by the first day of February in each year or on or before the next following June 30th.

3. Any taxes lawfully assessed on the lands described in the certificate and then remaining unpaid by the purchaser or purchasers or by any person claiming under the purchaser or purchasers.

(2) When the sale of public lands under sub. (1) is wholly for cash, upon payment of the full purchase price to the secretary of administration, the secretary of administration shall immediately give to the purchaser a receipt stating the amount paid, giving a description of the lot or tract of land sold, and stating that the purchaser is entitled to receive a patent according to law.

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 2003 a. 33 ; 2005 a. 149 .
Wis. Stat. § 190.08 — WI Code / Chapter 190 / Section 190.08
Streams, highways, restored.
Status: in_force

Every corporation constructing, owning or operating a railroad shall restore every watercourse, street, highway, road or canal across, along or upon which such railroad may be constructed to its former state or to such condition that its usefulness shall not be materially impaired and thereafter maintain the same in such condition against any effects in any manner produced by such railroad. And may acquire any lands required to change or restore any highway, street, canal or watercourse, and lands so taken shall become a part of such highway or street. This section shall not apply to sloughs or bayous closed by the government prior to April 14, 1893, to aid the navigation of rivers; but in case such sloughs or bayous are thereafter closed by any railroad company such company shall be liable in damages to any person owning lands thereon injured thereby. The statutes for acquiring land by right of eminent domain shall apply in assessing damages for such closing.
Wis. Stat. § 229.852 — WI Code / Chapter 229 / Section 229.852
Pledge of revenues.
Status: in_force

A district may pledge the revenues derived, or to be derived, from any cultural arts facility for any of the following purposes:

(1) The payment of administrative costs and expenses of the district.

(2) The payment of the principal of, the premium on, if any, and the interest on outstanding bonds and other debt of the district.

(3) The creation and maintenance of a special fund or reserves with respect to bonds issued by the district.

History: 1999 a. 65 .
Wis. Stat. § 119.9001 — WI Code / Chapter 119 / Section 119.9001
Commissioner of opportunity schools and partnership program; general provisions.
Status: in_force

(1) The governor, the mayor of the city, and the county executive shall each appoint a person who is not an elected official to compile a list of candidates for the position of commissioner.

(2)

(a) No later than 120 days after July 14, 2015, the county executive shall select, from the list of qualified candidates provided under sub. (1) , an individual to serve as the commissioner of the opportunity schools and partnership program.

(b) In the event of a vacancy in the commissioner position, the county executive shall notify the governor and the mayor of the city who shall follow the procedure under sub. (1) . No later than 120 days after providing notice under this paragraph, the county executive shall select an individual to fill the vacant position.

(c) The commissioner shall report to the county executive and may be removed from office only by the county executive.

(3) The commissioner is subject to all restrictions, liabilities, punishments, and limitations, other than recall under s. 9.10 (4) , prescribed by law for members of the common council in their city.

(4) The commissioner shall be paid an annual salary in the amount set by the county executive.

(5)

(a) The corporation counsel of the county shall be the legal adviser of and attorney for the commissioner and the opportunity schools and partnership program, except that the commissioner shall retain an attorney to represent the commissioner and the opportunity schools and partnership program in any matter if any of the following applies:

1. The county executive, the county corporation counsel, or the commissioner determines that the commissioner or the opportunity schools and partnership program requires specialized legal expertise not possessed by the county corporation counsel.

2. The county executive, the county corporation counsel, or the commissioner determines that the county corporation counsel does not have sufficient staff to adequately represent the interests of the commissioner or the opportunity schools and partnership program.

3. The county executive, the county corporation counsel, or the commissioner determines that a conflict of interest exists.

(b) The county corporation counsel shall notify the commissioner as soon as a determination is made under par. (a) that the county corporation counsel is unable to represent the commissioner.

(c) The commissioner shall provide the county corporation counsel with reasonable notice of any meeting at which the commissioner will consider retention of an attorney.

History: 2015 a. 55 ; 2017 a. 150 .
Wis. Stat. § 93.01 — WI Code / Chapter 93 / Section 93.01
Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following terms, wherever used in chs. 93 to 100 or in any order, regulation or standard made thereunder, have the meaning here indicated, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1b) “Agriculture” includes aquaculture.

(1d) “Aquaculture” means the controlled cultivation of aquatic plants and animals.

(1m) “Business” includes any business, except that of banks, savings banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, and insurance companies. “Business” includes public utilities and telecommunications carriers to the extent that their activities, beyond registration, notice, and reporting activities, are not regulated by the public service commission and includes public utility and telecommunications carrier methods of competition or trade and advertising practices that are exempt from regulation by the public service commission under s. 196.195 , 196.202 , 196.203 , 196.206 , 196.219 , 196.499 , or 196.50 (2) (i) or by other action of the commission.

(2) “Cooperative association” includes cooperatives and foreign cooperatives as defined in ss. 185.01 and 193.005 .

(3) “Department” means the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection.

(4) “Documents” includes books, papers, accounts, records and correspondence.

(5) “Farm products” includes all products of agriculture, horticulture, dairying, livestock, poultry and bee raising.
Wis. Stat. § 169.08 — WI Code / Chapter 169 / Section 169.08
Propagation of wild animals.
Status: in_force

(1) Requirement. No person may propagate any native wild animal or any nonnative wild animal of the family ursidae except as authorized under a captive wild animal farm license, a bird hunting preserve license, a wild fur farm license, a nonprofit educational exhibiting license, or a scientific research license.

(2) Exemption for certain wild animals. A person is exempt from the requirement under sub. (1) if the wild animal that the person propagates is a wild animal that is exempt under s. 169.04 (4) (a) or (b) .

(3) Exemption for certain institutions. Each of the following is exempt from the requirement under sub. (1) :

(a) A public zoo or aquarium.

(b) A circus or the Circus World Museum located in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

(c) The department.

(4) Inapplicability to certain wild animals. This section does not authorize the propagating of harmful wild animals.

History: 2001 a. 56 .
Wis. Stat. § 939.47 — WI Code / Chapter 939 / Section 939.47
Necessity.
Status: in_force

Pressure of natural physical forces which causes the actor reasonably to believe that his or her act is the only means of preventing imminent public disaster, or imminent death or great bodily harm to the actor or another and which causes him or her so to act, is a defense to a prosecution for any crime based on that act, except that if the prosecution is for first-degree intentional homicide, the degree of the crime is reduced to 2nd-degree intentional homicide.

History: 1987 a. 399 .
Wis. Stat. § 165.50 — WI Code / Chapter 165 / Section 165.50
Criminal investigation.
Status: in_force

(1) The department of justice shall perform the following criminal investigatory functions for the state:

(a) Investigate crime that is statewide in nature, importance or influence.

(b) Conduct arson investigations.

(2) Special criminal investigation agents of the department shall have the same general police powers as are conferred upon peace officers.

(3) Except as provided in s. 20.001 (5) , all moneys received as restitution payments reimbursing the department of justice for moneys expended in undercover investigations and operations shall be deposited as general purpose revenue — earned.

History: 1975 c. 39 ; 1985 a. 29 ; 1987 a. 27 ; 1993 a. 213 .
Wis. Stat. § 409.526 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.526
Filing-office rules.
Status: in_force

(1) Promulgation of filing-office rules. The secretary of financial institutions shall promulgate filing-office rules to implement this chapter. The filing-office rules must be:

(a) Consistent with this chapter; and

(b) Promulgated in accordance with ch. 227 .

(2) Harmonization of rules. To keep the filing-office rules and practices of the filing office in harmony with the rules and practices of filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially this subchapter, and to keep the technology used by the filing office compatible with the technology used by filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially this subchapter, the secretary of financial institutions, so far as is consistent with the purposes, policies, and provisions of this chapter, in promulgating filing-office rules, shall:

(a) Consult with filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially this subchapter;

(b) Consult the most recent version of the Model Rules promulgated by the International Association of Corporate Administrators or any successor organization; and

(c) Take into consideration the rules and practices of, and the technology used by, filing offices in other jurisdictions that enact substantially this subchapter.

History: 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 341.43 — WI Code / Chapter 341 / Section 341.43
Audits and appeals.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may conduct such audits as it deems necessary to determine the adequacy of fees paid under the international registration plan or other proportional registration law or agreement and taxes and fees paid under s. 341.45 . Audits shall be conducted during normal business hours. Credits shall be given for overpayments and deficiencies shall be assessed, with interest. Actual and necessary expenses incurred by an auditor, plus wages, may be assessed against the person audited.

(2) Any person feeling aggrieved by a notice under this section of additional assessment, refund or denial of refund may, within 30 days after the receipt of the notice, petition the department for a redetermination. A person feeling aggrieved by a redetermination may appeal to the tax appeals commission in the manner provided for appeals of tax determinations under s. 73.01 (5) . If an appeal of a redetermination is not filed within the time period provided under s. 73.01 (5) , the redetermination is final and conclusive.

History: 1977 c. 29 ; 1987 a. 27 ; 1995 a. 113 ; 1999 a. 145 .
Wis. Stat. § 185.75 — WI Code / Chapter 185 / Section 185.75
Unclaimed assets.
Status: in_force

(1) Assets distributable in the course of the liquidation of a cooperative that remain unclaimed after 2 years may be forfeited to the cooperative in the manner set forth in s. 185.03 (10) , except that the board, a committee designated to liquidate the assets under s. 185.71 , a court, trustee or other person authorized to liquidate the assets of the cooperative may declare the funds forfeited, give the notice, determine the purpose or purposes and dedicate the funds under s. 185.03 (10) and except that any of these persons may declare the funds forfeited no earlier than 2 years and no later than 5 years after the funds are first made available to their owners in the course of the liquidation of the cooperative.

(2) Assets distributable in the course of the liquidation of a cooperative that remain unclaimed after one year may be reported and delivered to the secretary of revenue as provided under ch. 177 . Assets distributable in the course of the liquidation of a cooperative that are not forfeited under sub. (1) and that remain unclaimed after 5 years shall be reported and delivered to the secretary of revenue under ch. 177 .

History: 1983 a. 408 ; 1985 a. 30 ; 2013 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 631.89 — WI Code / Chapter 631 / Section 631.89
Restrictions on use of genetic test results.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “genetic test” means a test using deoxyribonucleic acid extracted from an individual’s cells in order to determine the presence of a genetic disease or disorder or the individual’s predisposition for a particular genetic disease or disorder.

(2) An insurer, the state with respect to a self-insured health plan, or a county, city, village or school board that provides health care services for individuals on a self-insured basis, may not do any of the following:

(a) Require or request directly or indirectly any individual or a member of the individual’s family to obtain a genetic test.

(b) Require or request directly or indirectly any individual to reveal whether the individual or a member of the individual’s family has obtained a genetic test or what the results of the test, if obtained by the individual or a member of the individual’s family, were.

(bm) Require or request directly or indirectly a health care provider, as defined in s. 146.81 (1) (a) to (p) , who is or may be providing or who has or may have provided health care services to an individual to reveal whether the individual or a member of the individual’s family has obtained a genetic test or what the results of the test, if obtained by the individual or a member of the individual’s family, were.

(c) Condition the provision of insurance coverage or health care benefits on whether an individual or a member of the individual’s family has obtained a genetic test or what the results of the test, if obtained by the individual or a member of the individual’s family, were.

(d) Consider in the determination of rates or any other aspect of insurance coverage or health care benefits provided to an individual whether an individual or a member of the individual’s family has obtained a genetic test or what the results of the test, if obtained by the individual or a member of the individual’s family, were.

(3)

(a) Subsection (2) does not apply to an insurer writing life insurance coverage or income continuation insurance coverage.

(b) An insurer writing life insurance coverage or income continuation insurance coverage that obtains information under sub. (2) (a) or (b) may not do any of the following:

1. Use the information contrary to sub. (2) (c) or (d) in writing a type of insurance coverage other than life or income continuation for the individual or a member of the individual’s family.

2. Provide for rates or any other aspect of coverage that is not reasonably related to the risk involved.

History: 1991 a. 269 ; 1997 a. 74 ; 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 97.03 — WI Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97.03
Standards; misbranding.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, a food is misbranded if it is misbranded within the meaning of 21 USC 343 .

History: 1971 c. 156 ss. 2 , 3 , 5 ; 1977 c. 216 ; 1991 a. 111 ; 1993 a. 492 ; 1995 a. 225 ; 2013 a. 374 .
Wis. Stat. § 230.46 — WI Code / Chapter 230 / Section 230.46
Duties of council on affirmative action.
Status: in_force

The council on affirmative action shall serve in a direct advisory capacity to the administrator and as part of that relationship shall evaluate the progress of affirmative action programs throughout the civil service system, seek compliance with state and federal regulations and recommend improvements in the state’s affirmative action efforts as an employer. In carrying out its responsibilities, the council may recommend legislation, consult with agency personnel and other interested persons, conduct hearings and take other appropriate action to promote affirmative action. The council shall report at least once per year to the governor and the legislature.

History: 1977 c. 196 ; 1983 a. 27 ; 2003 a. 33 ; 2015 a. 55 .
Wis. Stat. § 51.605 — WI Code / Chapter 51 / Section 51.605
Reimbursement for counsel provided by the state.
Status: in_force

(1) Inquiry. At or after the conclusion of a proceeding under this chapter in which the state public defender has provided counsel for an adult individual, the court may inquire as to the individual’s ability to reimburse the state for the costs of representation. If the court determines that the individual is able to make reimbursement for all or part of the costs of representation, the court may order the individual to reimburse the state an amount not to exceed the maximum amount established by the public defender board under s. 977.075 (4) . Upon the court’s request, the state public defender shall conduct a determination of indigency under s. 977.07 and report the results of the determination to the court.

(2) Payment. Reimbursement ordered under this section shall be made to the clerk of courts of the county where the proceedings took place. The clerk of courts shall transmit payments under this section to the county treasurer, who shall deposit 25 percent of the payment amount in the county treasury and transmit the remainder to the secretary of administration. Payments transmitted to the secretary of administration shall be deposited in the general fund and credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.550 (1) (L) .

(3) Report. By January 31st of each year, the clerk of courts for each county shall report to the state public defender the total amount of reimbursements ordered under sub. (1) in the previous calendar year and the total amount of reimbursements paid to the clerk under sub. (2) in the previous year.

History: 2007 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 251.13 — WI Code / Chapter 251 / Section 251.13
City-county health department and multiple county health department, joint funds.
Status: in_force

For each multiple county or city-county health department, a joint health department fund shall be created either in the treasurer’s office where the principal office of the health department is located or in the office of the city treasurer of a city within the health department’s jurisdiction, as determined by the local board of health. The treasurer of each county and city participating in the health department shall annually pay or cause to be paid into the fund the share of the county or city. This fund shall be expended by the treasurer in whose office the fund is kept in the manner prescribed by the local board of health pursuant to properly authenticated vouchers of the health department signed by the local health officer.

History: 1993 a. 27 s. 218 .
Wis. Stat. § 961.455 — WI Code / Chapter 961 / Section 961.455
Using a child for illegal drug distribution or manufacturing purposes.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who has attained the age of 17 years who knowingly solicits, hires, directs, employs or uses a person who is under the age of 17 years for the purpose of violating s. 961.41 (1) is guilty of a Class F felony.

(2) The knowledge requirement under sub. (1) does not require proof of knowledge of the age of the child. It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that the actor mistakenly believed that the person solicited, hired, directed, employed or used under sub. (1) had attained the age of 18 years, even if the mistaken belief was reasonable.

(3) Solicitation under sub. (1) occurs in the manner described under s. 939.30 , but the penalties under sub. (1) apply instead of the penalties under s. 939.30 .

(4) If the conduct described under sub. (1) results in a violation under s. 961.41 (1) , the actor is subject to prosecution and conviction under s. 961.41 (1) or this section or both.

History: 1989 a. 121 ; 1991 a. 153 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 1995 a. 448 ss. 273 to 275 ; Stats. 1995 s. 961.455; 1997 a. 283 ; 2001 a. 109 .
Wis. Stat. § 782.16 — WI Code / Chapter 782 / Section 782.16
Obedience to writ compelled.
Status: in_force

If any person upon whom such writ shall have been duly served shall refuse or neglect to obey the same, within the time required, and no sufficient excuse shall be shown for such refusal or neglect the court or judge before whom such writ is returnable shall, upon proof of such service, forthwith issue an attachment against such person, directed to the sheriff of any county, commanding the sheriff forthwith to apprehend such person and to bring the person before such court or judge. The person so brought shall be committed to the county jail until making return to such writ and comply with any order that may be made in relation to the prisoner.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 59 ; 1979 c. 176 ; Stats. 1979 s. 782.16.
Wis. Stat. § 197.02 — WI Code / Chapter 197 / Section 197.02
Action by municipalities to acquire utility.
Status: in_force

If a municipality has determined to acquire a plant operated under an indeterminate permit provided in s. 196.54 (2) , by a vote of a majority of the electors, the municipality shall bring an action in the circuit court against the public utility for an adjudication as to the necessity of the taking by the municipality. Unless the parties waive a jury, the question as to the necessity of the taking of the property by the municipality shall be submitted to a jury.

History: 1983 a. 53 s. 114 ; 1997 a. 254 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0610 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0610
Differences in rights and obligations of members.
Status: in_force

All members shall have the same rights and obligations with respect to voting, dissolution, redemption and transfer, unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws establish classes of membership with different rights or obligations. All members shall have the same rights and obligations with respect to any other matters, except as set forth in or authorized by the articles of incorporation or bylaws.

History: 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 710.09 — WI Code / Chapter 710 / Section 710.09
Navigable stream does not divide parcel.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise provided by local ordinance, a navigable stream running through a parcel of land does not, in and of itself, divide the parcel into 2 parcels if the parcel, on both sides of the stream, is owned by the same owner.

History: 2013 a. 358 .
Wis. Stat. § 705.31 — WI Code / Chapter 705 / Section 705.31
Applicability of general transfers at death provisions.
Status: in_force

Chapter 854 applies to transfers at death under this subchapter.

History: 1997 a. 188 .