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Wis. Stat. § 45.09 — WI Code / Chapter 45 / Section 45.09
Veterans as classroom volunteers.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Private school” has the meaning given in s. 115.001 (3r) .

(b) “Public school” has the meaning given in s. 115.01 (1) .

(c) “School term” has the meaning given in s. 115.001 (12) .

(d) “Tribal school” has the meaning given in s. 115.001 (15m) .

(2) Subject to sub. (3) , the department shall award a certificate of achievement and appreciation to any veteran who completes 20 hours of volunteer service in a public, private, or tribal school during a school term.

(3) A certificate shall be awarded under sub. (2) if all of the following requirements are met:

(a) The volunteer service consists of classroom service that involves direct interaction with pupils, with an emphasis on sharing the lessons the veteran learned from his or her military experience.

(b) The veteran is not an employee of the school or school district during the term in which the volunteer service takes place.

(c) By July 1 after the school term in which the volunteer service takes place, the veteran submits to the department a form signed by the school principal or school district administrator verifying that the veteran fulfilled the 20 hours of volunteer service specified under par. (a) .

History: 2007 a. 22 ; 2009 a. 302 .
Wis. Stat. § 179.0810 — WI Code / Chapter 179 / Section 179.0810
Disposition of assets in winding up; when contributions required.
Status: in_force

(1) In winding up its activities and affairs, a limited partnership shall apply its assets, including the contributions required by this section, to discharge the partnership’s obligations to creditors, including partners that are creditors.

(2) After a limited partnership complies with sub. (1) , any surplus must be distributed in the following order, subject to any charging order in effect under s. 179.0703 :

(a) To each person owning a transferable interest that reflects contributions made and not previously returned, an amount equal to the value of the unreturned contributions.

(b) Among persons owning transferable interests, in proportion to their respective rights to share in distributions immediately before the dissolution of the partnership.

(3) If a limited partnership’s assets are insufficient to satisfy all its obligations under sub. (1) , with respect to each unsatisfied obligation incurred when the partnership was not a limited liability limited partnership, the following rules apply:

(a) Each person that was a general partner when the obligation was incurred and that has not been released from the obligation under s. 179.0607 shall contribute to the partnership for the purpose of enabling the partnership to satisfy the obligation. The contribution due from each of those persons is in proportion to the right to receive distributions in the capacity of a general partner in effect for each of those persons when the obligation was incurred.

(b) If a person does not contribute the full amount required under par. (a) with respect to an unsatisfied obligation of the partnership, the other persons required to contribute by par. (a) on account of the obligation shall contribute the additional amount necessary to discharge the obligation. The additional contribution due from each of those other persons is in proportion to the right to receive distributions in the capacity of a general partner in effect for each of those other persons when the obligation was incurred.

(c) If a person does not make the additional contribution required by par. (b) , further additional contributions are determined and due in the same manner as provided in that paragraph.

(4) A person that makes an additional contribution under sub. (3) (b) or (c) may recover from any person whose failure to contribute under sub. (3) (a) or (b) necessitated the additional contribution. A person may not recover under this subsection more than the amount additionally contributed. A person’s liability under this subsection may not exceed the amount the person failed to contribute.

(4r) If a limited partnership 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.

(5) All distributions made under sub. (2) must be paid in money.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 30.16 — WI Code / Chapter 30 / Section 30.16
Removal of obstructions to navigation.
Status: in_force

(1) Watercraft and floats.

(a) Removal. The governing body of any municipality in this state may cause to be removed to a convenient and safe place any watercraft or float obstructing or interfering with the free navigation of any river, canal, water channel or slip within its harbor after having given reasonable notice to the master or owner or the agent of the master or owner, if known and a resident of this state, or to the person in charge thereof, to so remove such watercraft or float. The governing body of the municipality by ordinance or resolution may authorize any harbor master or other public officer over whom it has jurisdiction to remove the obstruction, and may prescribe the officer’s duties with respect thereto and the mode of carrying them into effect and may prescribe penalties for violation of such ordinance or resolution.

(b) Costs of removal. All costs, charges and expenses of such removal are a first lien on such watercraft or float, which lien may be enforced in the manner provided by law. The owner of any such watercraft or float is also personally liable for such costs, charges and expenses, to be recovered by the municipality by a personal action.

(2) Removal of obstructions to navigation; wharves and piers; alternative. As an alternative to the procedure specified under sub. (1) , the governing body of a city, village or town may remove that portion of a wharf or pier which constitutes an unlawful obstruction to navigation as provided under s. 30.13 (5m) .

History: 1981 c. 252 ; 1991 a. 316 ; 1993 a. 246 ; 1997 a. 35 ; 1999 a. 150 ss. 4 , 672 ; 2001 a. 30 s. 96 .
Wis. Stat. § 36.40 — WI Code / Chapter 36 / Section 36.40
Use of animals for research purposes.
Status: in_force

The board shall adopt criteria for researchers to follow regarding humane treatment of animals for scientific research purposes.

History: 1983 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 349.21 — WI Code / Chapter 349 / Section 349.21
Authority to regulate school bus warning lights.
Status: in_force

(1) The governing body of any town, city, village or county may by ordinance provide for the use of flashing red or amber warning lights by school bus operators in a residence or business district when pupils or other authorized passengers are to be loaded or unloaded at a location at which there are no traffic signals and such persons must cross the street or highway before being loaded or after being unloaded.

(2) The governing body of any town, city, village or county may, by ordinance, prohibit the use of flashing red or amber warning lights by school bus operators when pupils or other authorized passengers are loaded or unloaded directly from or onto the school grounds or that portion of the right-of-way between the roadway and the school grounds in a zone designated by “school” warning signs as provided in s. 118.08 (1) in which a street or highway borders the grounds of a school.

History: 1973 c. 93 ; 1987 a. 125 ; 2013 a. 96 .
Wis. Stat. § 180.0128 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.0128
Confirmation of status.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person may obtain from the department, upon request, a certificate of status for a domestic corporation or foreign corporation.

(2) A certificate of status shall include all of the following information:

(a) The domestic corporation’s corporate name or the foreign corporation’s corporate name and fictitious name, if any, used in this state.

(b) Whether each of the following is true:

1. The domestic corporation is incorporated under the laws of this state, or the foreign corporation is authorized to transact business in this state.

3. The domestic corporation or foreign corporation has, during its most recently completed report year, filed with the department an annual report required by s. 180.1622 , or, if a service corporation, by s. 180.1921 .

4. The domestic corporation has not filed articles of dissolution.

5. The foreign corporation has not applied for a certificate of withdrawal under s. 180.1520 and, if not, the effective date of its certificate of authority.

(c) The domestic corporation’s date of incorporation and the period of its duration if less than perpetual.

(3) The certificate of status may include other facts of record in the department that are requested.

(4) Upon request, the department shall issue, by telegraph, teletype, facsimile or other form of wire or wireless communication, a statement of status, which shall contain the information required in a certificate of status under sub. (2) and may contain any other information permitted under sub. (3) .

(5) Subject to any qualification stated in a certificate or statement of status issued by the department, the certificate or statement is conclusive evidence that the domestic corporation or foreign corporation is in existence or is authorized to transact business in this state.

(6) Upon request by telephone or otherwise, the department shall confirm, by telephone, any of the information required in a certificate of status under sub. (2) and may confirm any other information permitted under sub. (3) .

History: 1989 a. 303 ; 1991 a. 16 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 454.13 — WI Code / Chapter 454 / Section 454.13
Licensees of other jurisdictions.
Status: in_force

(1) Upon application and payment of the fee specified in s. 440.05 (2) , the examining board may issue a license to practice cosmetology, aesthetics, electrology, or manicuring to an applicant who is licensed in another state or territory of the United States or in another country to perform services that are substantially the same as those performed by licensees in this state and to whom either of the following applies:

(a) The applicant completes a one-hour course educating the applicant on statutes and rules that apply to the practice, has never been disciplined by the licensing authority of another jurisdiction, and is not a party to a proceeding before the licensing agency in which it is alleged that the applicant was negligent in the licensed practice or violated the law relating to the licensed practice.

(b) The applicant meets the requirements established in a reciprocal agreement under sub. (2) between the examining board and the licensing authority in the state where the applicant is licensed.

(2) The examining board may enter into reciprocal agreements with officials of other states for licensing cosmetologists, aestheticians, electrologists, and manicurists and grant licenses to persons licensed in other states according to the terms of such an agreement.

History: 1987 a. 265 ; 2011 a. 190 ; 2017 a. 81 , 82 .
Wis. Stat. § 292.01 — WI Code / Chapter 292 / Section 292.01
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) “Approved facility” has the meaning given in s. 289.01 (3) .

(1m) “Approved mining facility” has the meaning given in s. 289.01 (4) and includes a mining waste site, as defined in s. 295.41 (31) .

(1s) “Contaminated sediment” means sediment that contains a hazardous substance.

(2) “Department” means the department of natural resources.

(3) “Discharge” means, but is not limited to, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping.

(3m) “Engineering control” means an object or action designed and implemented to contain contamination or to minimize the spread of contamination, including a cap, soil cover, or in-place stabilization, but not including a sediment cover.

(4) “Environmental pollution” means the contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land or waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.

(5) “Hazardous substance” means any substance or combination of substances including any waste of a solid, semisolid, liquid or gaseous form which may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness or which may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics. This term includes, but is not limited to, substances which are toxic, corrosive, flammable, irritants, strong sensitizers or explosives as determined by the department.

(6) “Hazardous waste” means any solid waste identified by the department as hazardous under s. 291.05 .

(7) “Landfill” means a solid waste facility for solid waste disposal.

(8) “Lender” means a bank, credit union, savings bank, savings and loan association, mortgage banker or similar financial institution, the primary business of which is to engage in lending activities or an insurance company, pension fund or government agency engaged in secured lending.
Wis. Stat. § 943.84 — WI Code / Chapter 943 / Section 943.84
Transfer of encumbered property.
Status: in_force

(1) Whoever, with intent to defraud, conveys real property which he or she knows is encumbered, without informing the grantee of the existence of the encumbrance may be penalized as provided in s. 943.91 .

(2) Whoever, with intent to defraud, does any of the following may be penalized as provided in s. 943.91 :

(a) Conceals, removes or transfers any personal property in which he or she knows another has a security interest; or

(b) In violation of the security agreement, fails or refuses to pay over to the secured party the proceeds from the sale of property subject to a security interest.

(3) It is prima facie evidence of an intent to defraud within the meaning of sub. (2) (a) if a person, with knowledge that the security interest exists, removes or sells the property without either the consent of the secured party or authorization by the security agreement and fails within 72 hours after service of written demand for the return of the property either to return it or, in the event that return is not possible, to make full disclosure to the secured party of all the information the person has concerning its disposition, location and possession.

(4) In this section “security interest” means an interest in property which secures payment or other performance of an obligation; “security agreement” means the agreement creating the security interest; “secured party” means the person designated in the security agreement as the person in whose favor there is a security interest or, in the case of an assignment of which the debtor has been notified, the assignee.

(5) In prosecutions for violation of sub. (2) arising out of transfers of livestock subject to a security agreement in violation of the terms of the security agreement, evidence that the debtor who transferred the livestock signed or endorsed any writing arising from the transaction, including a check or draft, which states that the transfer of the livestock is permitted by the secured party establishes a rebuttable presumption of intent to defraud.

History: 1977 c. 173 ; 1979 c. 144 ; 1993 a. 486 ; 2001 a. 109 ; 2005 a. 212 s. 7m ; Stats. 2005 s. 943.84.
Wis. Stat. § 812.22 — WI Code / Chapter 812 / Section 812.22
Costs.
Status: in_force

In case of a trial of an issue between the plaintiff and any garnishee, the prevailing party shall recover taxable costs.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 759 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 812.22.
Wis. Stat. § 181.1102 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.1102
Plan of merger.
Status: in_force

(1) A plan of merger must be in a record and contain all of the following:

(a) As to each constituent entity, its name, type of entity, and governing law.

(b) The terms and conditions of the merger.

(c) The manner and basis of converting the interests in each constituent entity into interests, securities, or obligations of the surviving entity, rights to acquire such interests or securities, money, other property, or any combination of the foregoing.

(d) If the surviving entity preexists the merger, any proposed amendments to its organizational documents that are to be in a record immediately after the merger becomes effective.

(e) If the surviving entity is to be created in the merger, any of its organizational documents that are to be in a record immediately after the merger becomes effective.

(f) Any other matters required under the governing law of any constituent entity.

(2) In addition to the requirements of sub. (1) , a plan of merger may contain any other provision relating to the merger and not prohibited by law.

(3) This section does not limit the power of a corporation to acquire all or part of the interests of one or more classes or series of another constituent entity through a voluntary exchange or otherwise.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 625.15 — WI Code / Chapter 625 / Section 625.15
Delegation of rate making and rate filing obligation.
Status: in_force

(1) Rate making. An insurer may itself establish rates and supplementary rate information for one or more market segments based on the factors in s. 625.12 and, if the rates are for motor vehicle liability insurance, subject to s. 632.365 , or the insurer may use rates and supplementary rate information prepared by a rate service organization, with average expense factors determined by the rate service organization or with such modification for its own expense and loss experience as the credibility of that experience allows.

(2) Rate filing. An insurer may discharge its obligation under s. 625.13 (1) by giving notice to the commissioner that it uses rates and supplementary rate information prepared by a designated rate service organization, with such information about modifications thereof as is necessary fully to inform the commissioner. The insurer’s rates and supplementary rate information shall be those filed from time to time by the rate service organization, including any amendments thereto as filed, subject, however, to the modifications filed by the insurer.

History: 1979 c. 177 s. 85 ; 1991 a. 279 .
Wis. Stat. § 459.11 — WI Code / Chapter 459 / Section 459.11
Testing equipment.
Status: in_force

The examining board may, in addition to any other powers granted, purchase and maintain or rent audiometric equipment and facilities necessary to carry out the examination of applicants for licenses.
Wis. Stat. § 54.952 — WI Code / Chapter 54 / Section 54.952
Custodial trust; general.
Status: in_force

(1) A person may create a custodial trust of property by a written transfer of the property to another person, evidenced by registration or by other instrument of transfer executed in any lawful manner, naming as beneficiary an individual who may be the transferor, in which the transferee is designated, in substance, as custodial trustee under the Wisconsin uniform custodial trust act.

(2) A person may create a custodial trust of property by a written declaration, evidenced by registration of the property or by other instrument of declaration executed in any lawful manner, describing the property, naming as beneficiary an individual other than the declarant, in which the declarant as titleholder is designated, in substance, as custodial trustee under the Wisconsin uniform custodial trust act. A registration or other declaration of trust for the sole benefit of the declarant is not a custodial trust under this subchapter.

(3) Title to custodial trust property is in the custodial trustee and the beneficial interest is in the beneficiary.

(4) Except as provided in sub. (5) , a transferor may not terminate a custodial trust.

(5) The beneficiary, if not incapacitated, or the conservator or guardian of the estate of an incapacitated beneficiary, may terminate a custodial trust by delivering to the custodial trustee a writing signed by the beneficiary, conservator or guardian of the estate declaring the termination. If not previously terminated, the custodial trust terminates on the death of the beneficiary.

(6) Any person may augment existing custodial trust property by the addition of other property pursuant to this subchapter.

(7) The transferor may designate, or authorize the designation of, a successor custodial trustee in the trust instrument.

(8) Sections 54.950 to 54.988 do not displace or restrict other means of creating trusts. A trust whose terms do not conform to this subchapter may be enforceable according to its terms under other law.

History: 1991 a. 246 ; 2005 a. 387 s. 555 ; Stats. 2005 s. 54.952; 2017 a. 364 s. 49 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.1325 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.1325
Settlor.
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of law of this state other than this subchapter and subject to sub. (2) , a settlor of a first trust is deemed to be the settlor of the 2nd trust with respect to the portion of the principal of the first trust subject to the exercise of the decanting power.

(2) In determining settlor intent with respect to a 2nd trust, the intent of a settlor of the first trust, a settlor of the 2nd trust, and the authorized fiduciary may be considered.

History: 2023 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 13.08 — WI Code / Chapter 13 / Section 13.08
Mileage allowance.
Status: in_force

(1) The chief clerk of each house, immediately after the commencement of each regular or special session of the legislature, shall certify to the department of administration the names of all qualified members and the number of miles for which each member is entitled to be reimbursed. All such certificates shall be approved by the presiding officer.

(2) All members of the legislature shall be entitled to an allowance for transportation expenses incurred in going to and returning from the state capitol once every week during any legislative session, at the same rate per mile for each mile traveled in going to and returning from the state capitol on the most usual route as is provided for transportation for state officers and employees under s. 20.916 . Such allowances shall be paid monthly upon presentation to the department of administration of a verified written statement containing such information as the department requires.

(4) Any member of the legislature may use any convenient public transportation and be reimbursed in full for not to exceed one round trip weekly actually traveled via such transportation.

History: 1971 c. 13 .
Wis. Stat. § 806.44 — WI Code / Chapter 806 / Section 806.44
Short title.
Status: in_force

Sections 806.30 to 806.44 may be cited as the “Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act”.

History: 1991 a. 236 .
Wis. Stat. § 563.62 — WI Code / Chapter 563 / Section 563.62
Reports improperly filed.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may refuse to renew a license of an organization found to be delinquent in filing its financial statement or found to have filed an incomplete statement of bingo operations.

(2) If a licensed organization fails to file a financial statement of bingo operations within 5 days after notification by the department of the delinquency, the department may suspend the license, pending the filing of the financial statement.

(3) If the financial statement filed by a licensed organization is not fully, accurately and truthfully completed, the department may refuse to renew a license or may suspend a license until such time as a statement in proper form has been filed.

History: 1973 c. 156 ; 1977 c. 418 ; 1979 c. 34 s. 2100 (45) (a) ; 1991 a. 269 ss. 782ih ; Stats. 1991 s. 563.62; 1995 a. 27 s. 9123 (6pp) ; 1997 a. 27 .