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Wis. Stat. § 169.43 — WI Code / Chapter 169 / Section 169.43
Local ordinances.
Status: in_force

A municipality or county may enact and enforce an ordinance that prohibits the possession or selling of live wild animals.

History: 2001 a. 56 .
Wis. Stat. § 322.030 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.030
Article 30 — Charges and specifications.
Status: in_force

(1) Charges and specifications shall be signed by a person subject to this code under oath before a commissioned officer authorized by s. 322.136 (1) to administer oaths and shall state all of the following:

(a) That the signer has personal knowledge of, or has investigated, the matters set forth in the charges and specifications.

(b) That the facts are true to the best of the signer’s knowledge and belief.

(2) Upon the preferring of charges, the proper authority shall take immediate steps to determine what disposition should be made in the interest of justice and discipline, and the person accused shall be informed of the charges as soon as practicable.

History: 2007 a. 200 ; 2009 a. 179 .
Wis. Stat. § 891.46 — WI Code / Chapter 891 / Section 891.46
Mailed service.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise specifically provided by statute or rule adopted under s. 751.12 , summonses, citations, notices, motions and other papers required or authorized to be served by mail in judicial or administrative proceedings are presumed to be served when deposited in the U.S. mail with properly affixed evidence of prepaid postage.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, No. 95-10, 195 Wis. 2d xv (1996).
Wis. Stat. § 91.70 — WI Code / Chapter 91 / Section 91.70
Farmland preservation agreements; exemption from special assessments.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (3) , no political subdivision, special purpose district, or other local governmental entity may levy a special assessment for sanitary sewers or water against land in agricultural use, if the land is covered by a farmland preservation agreement.

(2) A political subdivision, special purpose district or other local governmental entity may deny the use of improvements for which the special assessment is levied to land that is exempt from the assessment under sub. (1) .

(3) The exemption under sub. (1) does not apply to an assessment that an owner voluntarily pays, after the assessing authority provides notice of the exemption under sub. (1) .

History: 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 458.31 — WI Code / Chapter 458 / Section 458.31
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) “Appraisal management company” has the meaning given in 12 CFR 34.211 (c) .

(2) “Appraisal management services” has the meaning given in 12 CFR 34.211 (d) .

(3)

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) , “appraisal review” means the process of developing and communicating an opinion about the quality of another appraiser’s work that was performed as part of an appraisal assignment or appraisal review assignment related to the appraiser’s data collection, analysis, opinions, conclusions, estimate of value, or compliance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice described in s. 458.24 .

(b) “Appraisal review” does not include any of the following:

1. A general examination for grammatical, typographical, mathematical, or other similar errors.

2. A general examination for completeness, including regulatory or client requirements as specified in the agreement process, that does not communicate an opinion of value.

(4) “Appraiser panel” has the meaning given in 12 CFR 34.211 (e) .

(5) “Client” means a person that contracts with an appraisal management company for the performance of appraisal management services for the person.

(6) “Controlling individual” means any of the following:

(a) An owner, officer, or director of an appraisal management company.

(b) An individual who is authorized by an appraisal management company to do all of the following:

1. Contract with a client.

2. Contract with an independent appraiser to perform an appraisal service.

(c) An individual who has, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of an appraisal management company.

(7) “Federally regulated appraisal management company” has the meaning given in 12 CFR 34.211 (k) .

(8) “Independent appraiser” means an appraiser who performs an appraisal service on an independent contractor basis.

(9) “Licensed appraisal management company” means an appraisal management company licensed under s. 458.33 .

(10) “Person” has the meaning given in 12 CFR 34.211 (m) .

History: 2017 a. 113 .
Wis. Stat. § 601.80 — WI Code / Chapter 601 / Section 601.80
Definitions; healthcare stability plan.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) “Affordable Care Act” means the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148 , as amended by the federal Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, P.L. 111-152 , and any amendments to or regulations or guidance issued under those acts.

(2) “Attachment point” means the amount set under s. 601.83 (2) for the healthcare stability plan that is the threshold amount for claims costs incurred by an eligible health carrier for an enrolled individual’s covered benefits in a benefit year, beyond which the claims costs are eligible for reinsurance payments.

(3) “Benefit year” means the calendar year for which an eligible health carrier provides coverage through an individual health plan.

(4) “Coinsurance rate” means the rate set under s. 601.83 (2) for the healthcare stability plan that is the rate at which the commissioner will reimburse an eligible health carrier for claims incurred for an enrolled individual’s covered benefits in a benefit year above the attachment point and below the reinsurance cap.

(5) “Eligible health carrier” means an insurer, as defined in s. 632.745 (15) , that offers an individual health plan and incurs claims costs for an enrolled individual’s covered benefits in the applicable benefit year.

(6) “Grandfathered plan” means a health plan in which an individual was enrolled on March 23, 2010, for as long as it maintains that status in accordance with the Affordable Care Act.

(7) “Health benefit plan” has the meaning given in s. 632.745 (11) .

(8) “Healthcare stability plan” means the state-based reinsurance program known as the Wisconsin Healthcare Stability Plan administered under s. 601.83 (1) .

(9) “Individual health plan” means a health benefit plan that is not a group health plan, as defined in s. 632.745 (10) , or a grandfathered plan.

(10) “Payment parameters” means the attachment point, reinsurance cap, and coinsurance rate for the healthcare stability plan.

(12) “Reinsurance cap” means the threshold amount set under s. 601.83 (2) for the healthcare stability plan for claims costs incurred by an eligible health carrier for an enrolled individual’s covered benefits, after which the claims costs for benefits are no longer eligible for reinsurance payments.

(13) “Reinsurance payment” means an amount paid by the commissioner to an eligible health carrier under the healthcare stability plan.

History: 2017 a. 138 .
Wis. Stat. § 61.75 — WI Code / Chapter 61 / Section 61.75
Rewards.
Status: in_force

Section 62.26 (4) shall apply to villages. As used in that section:

(1) “Alderpersons” means village trustees.

(2) “Mayor” means village president.

History: 1971 c. 116 ; 1983 a. 189 ; 1993 a. 184 , 491 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.0416 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.0416
Modification or termination to achieve settlor’s tax objectives.
Status: in_force

To achieve the settlor’s tax objectives, the court may modify the terms of a trust or terminate a trust in a manner that is not contrary to the settlor’s probable intent. The court may provide that the modification or termination has retroactive effect. A party petitioning the court for action under this section shall give notice of the proceeding to the settlor, if living, the trustee, each trust protector, each directing party, and the qualified beneficiaries.

History: 2013 a. 92 ; 2023 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 456.11 — WI Code / Chapter 456 / Section 456.11
Restoration of licenses and registrations.
Status: in_force

(1) The examining board may reinstate a license or registration to any person whose license or registration has been revoked. This subsection does not apply to a license or registration that is revoked under s. 440.12 .

(2) Application for the reinstatement of a license or registration shall not be made prior to one year after revocation and shall be made in such manner as the examining board directs. This subsection does not apply to a license or registration that is revoked under s. 440.12 .

History: 1997 a. 237 .
Wis. Stat. § 409.619 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.619
Transfer of record or legal title.
Status: in_force

(1) Transfer statement. In this section, “transfer statement” means a record authenticated by a secured party stating:

(a) That the debtor has defaulted in connection with an obligation secured by specified collateral;

(b) That the secured party has exercised its postdefault remedies with respect to the collateral;

(c) That, by reason of the exercise, a transferee has acquired the rights of the debtor in the collateral; and

(d) The name and mailing address of the secured party, debtor, and transferee.

(2) Effect of transfer statement. A transfer statement entitles the transferee to the transfer of record of all rights of the debtor in the collateral specified in the statement in any official filing, recording, registration, or certificate-of-title system covering the collateral. If a transfer statement is presented with the applicable fee and request form to the official or office responsible for maintaining the system, the official or office shall:

(a) Accept the transfer statement;

(b) Promptly amend its records to reflect the transfer; and

(c) If applicable, issue a new appropriate certificate of title in the name of the transferee.

(3) Transfer not a disposition; no relief of secured party’s duties. A transfer of the record or legal title to collateral to a secured party under sub. (2) or otherwise is not of itself a disposition of collateral under this chapter and does not of itself relieve the secured party of its duties under this chapter.

History: 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 35.835 — WI Code / Chapter 35 / Section 35.835
State document distribution; exemptions.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as specified in sub. (2) , state documents published exclusively for public sale by presses established by the state historical society and state documents sold primarily on a subscription basis are exempt from the state document depository library distribution requirements under s. 35.83 .

(2) Each state agency shall deliver to the division without charge 3 copies of each state document exempted under sub. (1) . The division shall deliver one copy to the state historical society and one copy to the legislative reference bureau.

(3) A state agency may restrict distribution of a state document prepared by or for that state agency to only that number necessary for distribution to the state document depository libraries specified under s. 35.83 (3) (a) to (d) if the state document is published in limited quantities because of its cost or the nature of the information that it contains.

(4) This section does not apply to state documents distributed under s. 35.84 .

History: 1991 a. 285 ; 2015 a. 55 .
Wis. Stat. § 88.48 — WI Code / Chapter 88 / Section 88.48
Assessment of county and municipal lands.
Status: in_force

(1) Lands owned by a county, town, village or city may be assessed benefits, awarded damages and assessed for costs the same as other lands within the district. Notice of hearing on the report assessing benefits against such lands shall be served on the clerk of the county, town, village or city in the same manner as upon resident landowners.

(2) As assessments for costs levied against any city, village, or town become due, the board shall certify the assessments to the clerk of the city, village, or town, and the clerk shall place them upon the next tax roll. If the assessments exceed one-fourth of one percent of the assessed value of the property in the city, village, or town for the last previous assessed valuation, the assessments shall be paid in installments of one-fourth of one percent of the valuation for each year until paid unless the drainage board orders them paid in smaller amounts.

History: 1993 a. 456 ; 2009 a. 177 .
Wis. Stat. § 180.0743 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.0743
Stay of proceedings.
Status: in_force

If the domestic corporation or foreign corporation commences an inquiry into the allegations made in the demand or complaint, the court may stay any derivative proceeding for the period that the court considers appropriate.

History: 1989 a. 303 ; 1991 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 193.531 — WI Code / Chapter 193 / Section 193.531
Virtual members’ meetings and attendance.
Status: in_force

(1) Construction and application. This section shall be construed and applied as follows:

(a) To facilitate remote communication consistent with other applicable law.

(b) To be consistent with reasonable practices concerning remote communication and with the continued expansion of those practices.

(2) Virtual members’ meetings and attendance. To the extent authorized in the articles or bylaws or, unless prohibited by the articles or bylaws, in a member control agreement, and as determined by the board, a members’ meeting may be held such that all members participate in the meeting by a means of communication rather than by being physically present at the meeting. To the extent authorized in the articles or bylaws or, unless prohibited by the articles or bylaws, in a member control agreement, and as determined by the board, a member may participate in a members’ meeting at which other members are physically present by a means of communication rather than by being physically present at the meeting. A meeting may be held or a member may participate in a meeting as authorized under this subsection only if the requirements of sub. (4) are satisfied. The number of members physically present at a meeting, if any, shall be added to the number of members otherwise participating in the meeting under this subsection to determine whether a quorum is present under s. 193.525 , except that any member who objects at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened and who fails to participate in the meeting after the objection may not be considered as present at the meeting for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present.

(4) Requirements for virtual meetings and attendance. All of the following apply to any meeting held under sub. (2) :

(a) The cooperative shall implement reasonable measures to verify that each person participating in the meeting by a means of communication is a member.

(b) The cooperative shall implement reasonable measures to provide each member participating in the meeting by a means of communication with a reasonable opportunity to actively participate, including an opportunity to do all of the following:

1. Read or hear the proceedings of the meeting substantially concurrently with those proceedings.

2. If allowed by the procedures governing the meeting, have the member’s remarks heard or read by other participants in the meeting substantially concurrently with the making of those remarks.

3. If otherwise entitled, vote on matters submitted to the members.

History: 2005 a. 441 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0613 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0613
Member’s liability for dues, assessments and fees.
Status: in_force

A member may become liable to the corporation for dues, assessments or fees. An article of incorporation or bylaw provision or a resolution adopted by the board authorizing or imposing dues, assessments or fees does not, of itself, create liability.

History: 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 863.39 — WI Code / Chapter 863 / Section 863.39
Escheats.
Status: in_force

(1) Generally. If any legacy or intestate property is not claimed by the distributee within 120 days after entry of final judgment, or within the time designated in the judgment, it shall be converted into money as close to the inventory value as possible and paid to the administrator, as defined in s. 177.01 (1) , for deposit as provided under s. 177.0801 . Claims for the money shall be made under sub. (3) .

(2) Foreign distributee. If notice is given to a distributee domiciled in a foreign country under s. 879.03 and the distributee is not heard from within 120 days after entry of final judgment of distribution, or within a longer time designated in the judgment, the property which the distributee would take shall not escheat, but shall descend as intestate property.

(3) Recovery of money.

(a) Within 10 years after the date of publication under s. 177.0503 , any person claiming any amount deposited under sub. (1) may file in the probate court in which the estate was settled a petition alleging the basis of his or her claim. The court shall order a hearing upon the petition, and 20 days’ notice of the hearing and a copy of the petition shall be given by the claimant to the department of revenue and to the attorney general, who may appear for the state at the hearing. If the claim is established it shall be allowed without interest, but including any increment which may have occurred on securities held, and the court shall so certify to the department of administration, which shall audit the claim. The secretary of revenue shall pay the claim out of the appropriation under s. 20.566 (4) (j) . Before issuing the order distributing the estate, the court shall issue an order determining the death tax due, if any. If real property has been adjudged to escheat to the state under s. 852.01 (3) the probate court which made the adjudication may adjudge at any time before title has been transferred from the state that the title shall be transferred to the proper owners under this subsection.

(b) Notwithstanding par. (a) , whenever moneys arising from an unclaimed legacy or unclaimed intestate property have been deposited with the state treasurer on or after April 1, 1971, but before April 30, 1980, claims may be made for the property under this section within 10 years after April 30, 1980.

History: 1979 c. 221 ; 1983 a. 408 ; 1987 a. 27 s. 3200 (47) ; 1993 a. 486 ; 2013 a. 20 ; 2021 a. 87 , 240 .
Wis. Stat. § 644.03 — WI Code / Chapter 644 / Section 644.03
Scope and purposes.
Status: in_force

(1) Scope. This chapter applies to all mutual insurance holding companies organized under the laws of this state.

(2) Purposes.

(a) The purposes of this chapter are to provide complete, self-contained procedures for the formation of mutual insurance holding companies. Subject to par. (b) , a corporation organized as a mutual insurance holding company under this chapter may be organized for any lawful purpose and shall hold directly or indirectly as a subsidiary at least one stock insurance company converted from a mutual insurance company or from a service insurance corporation that converted to a mutual insurance company. A mutual holding company is not an insurer.

(b) A corporation organized as a mutual insurance holding company under this chapter may engage, directly or indirectly, in a business that is subject to regulation under another statute of this state only if not prohibited by, and subject to all limitations of, the other statute.

History: 1997 a. 227 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0875 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0875
Corporation may limit indemnification.
Status: in_force

(1) Methods of limiting obligation. A corporation’s obligations to indemnify under s. 181.0872 may be limited as follows:

(a) If the corporation is incorporated on or after June 13, 1987, by the articles of incorporation, including any amendments or restatements of the articles of incorporation.

(b) If the corporation was incorporated before June 13, 1987, by an amendment to, or restatement of, the articles of incorporation which becomes effective on or after June 13, 1987.

(2) Applicability. A limitation under sub. (1) applies if the first alleged act of a director or officer for which indemnification is sought occurred while the limitation was in effect.

History: 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 810.14 — WI Code / Chapter 810 / Section 810.14
Judgment in replevin.
Status: in_force

In any action of replevin judgment for the plaintiff may be for the possession or for the recovery of possession of the property, or the value thereof in case a delivery cannot be had, and of damages for the detention; and when the property shall have been delivered to the defendant, under s. 810.06 , judgment may be as aforesaid or absolutely for the value thereof at the plaintiff’s option, and damages for the detention. If the property shall have been delivered to the plaintiff under ss. 810.01 to 810.13 and the defendant prevails, judgment for the defendant may be for a return of the property or the value thereof, at the defendant’s option, and damages for taking and withholding the same.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 761, 778 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 810.14; 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 168.25 — WI Code / Chapter 168 / Section 168.25
Enforcement.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall enforce this subchapter.

(2) The department shall issue orders directing and requiring compliance with the rules and standards of the department adopted under this subchapter whenever, in the judgment of the department, the rules or standards are threatened with violation, are being violated or have been violated.

(3) The circuit court for any county where violation of such an order occurs has jurisdiction to enforce the order by injunctive and other appropriate relief.

History: 2013 a. 20 ss. 1623 to 1626 ; Stats. 2013 s. 168.25.
Wis. Stat. § 348.20 — WI Code / Chapter 348 / Section 348.20
Policy in prosecuting weight violations.
Status: in_force

(1) It is declared to be the public policy of the state that prosecutions for overweight violations shall in every instance where practicable be instituted against the person holding the authority, certificates, licenses or permits evidencing operating privileges from the department which may be the proper object of cancellation or revocation proceedings. In instances where a combination of tractor and trailer or semitrailer is used, the person standing in the relationship of principal or employer to the driver of the tractor portion of the vehicle combination is liable for violation of ss. 348.15 to 348.17 along with the owner holding authority, certificates, licenses or permits from the state. It is a violation of ss. 348.15 to 348.17 for the owner or any other person employing or otherwise directing the operator of the vehicle to require or permit the operation of such vehicle upon a highway contrary to ss. 348.15 to 348.17 . This section shall not apply to individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies or corporations whose principal business is leasing, for compensation, vehicles including trailers and semitrailers, but such prosecutions shall be instituted against the lessee of the vehicle.

(2) The operator of a vehicle, as agent of the person holding authority, certificate, license or permit from the state or as agent of the owner of the tractor portion of a vehicle combination of tractor and trailer or semitrailer, shall accept service of a summons on behalf of such person or owner.

History: 1977 c. 29 ss. 1487t , 1654 (9) (d) ; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (2) ; 1987 a. 369 ; 1993 a. 16 , 112 , 490 .
Wis. Stat. § 968.47 — WI Code / Chapter 968 / Section 968.47
District attorney, when to attend.
Status: in_force

Whenever required by the grand jury it shall be the duty of the district attorney of the county to attend them for the purpose of examining witnesses in their presence or of giving them advice upon any legal matter, and to issue subpoenas and other process to bring up witnesses.

History: 1977 c. 187 s. 95 ; Stats. 1977 s. 756.15; Sup. Ct. Order No. 96-08 , 207 Wis. 2d xv (1997); Stats. 1997 s. 968.47.