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Wis. Stat. § 178.1153 — WI Code / Chapter 178 / Section 178.1153
Approval of domestication; amendment; abandonment.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to s. 178.1161 , a plan of domestication must be approved by all the partners of a domesticating Wisconsin partnership. A plan of domestication of a domesticating non-United States entity must be approved pursuant to the governing law of the domesticating entity.

(2) Subject to s. 178.1161 and the governing law of the domesticating entity, after a plan of domestication is approved, and at any time before a domestication becomes effective, except as otherwise provided in the plan of domestication, the domesticating entity may amend the plan of domestication or abandon the domestication as provided in the plan of domestication with the same vote or consent as was required to approve the plan of domestication.

(3) If, after articles of domestication have been delivered to the department for filing and before the domestication becomes effective, the plan of domestication is amended in a manner that requires an amendment to the articles of domestication or if the domestication is abandoned, a statement of amendment or abandonment, signed by the domesticating entity, must be delivered to the department for filing before the domestication becomes effective. When a statement of abandonment becomes effective, the domestication is abandoned and does not become effective. The statement of amendment or abandonment must contain all of the following:

(a) The name of the domesticating entity and the domesticated entity under the plan of domestication.

(c) The amendment to or abandonment of the articles of domestication.

(d) A statement that the amendment or abandonment was approved in accordance with this section.

History: 2015 a. 295 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 99.015 — WI Code / Chapter 99 / Section 99.015
Warehouses classified.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, public warehouses are classified as follows:

(1) Class 1 warehouses have less than 10,000 square feet of floor space.

(2) Class 2 warehouses have 10,000 square feet or over but less than 50,000.

(3) Class 3 warehouses have 50,000 square feet or over but less than 100,000.

(4) Class 4 warehouses have 100,000 square feet or over but less than 150,000.

(5) Class 5 warehouses have 150,000 square feet or over.

History: 1983 a. 500 s. 34 ; Stats. 1983 s. 99.015; 1987 a. 399 ; 1999 a. 83 .
Wis. Stat. § 46.33 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.33
Employee counseling referral programs.
Status: in_force

The department may provide technical assistance to municipalities, counties, school districts and private employers for referral programs for employee counseling. The department may charge fees to cover the costs of these services.

History: 1989 a. 31 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.66 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.66
General forfeiture provisions.
Status: in_force

(1) General forfeiture; failure to obey. If any public utility violates this chapter or ch. 197 or fails or refuses to perform any duty enjoined upon it for which a penalty has not been provided, or fails, neglects or refuses to obey any lawful requirement or order of the commission or the governing body of a municipality or a sanitary commission or any judgment or decree of any court upon its application, for every violation, failure or refusal the public utility shall forfeit not less than $25 nor more than $5,000.

(2) Each day separate offense. Every day during which any public utility or any officer, agent, as defined in sub. (3) (a) , or employee of a public utility fails to comply with any order or direction of the commission or to perform any duty enjoined by this chapter or ch. 197 shall constitute a separate and distinct violation under sub. (1) . If the order is suspended, stayed or enjoined, this penalty shall not accrue.

(3) Considerations in setting forfeitures.

(a) In this subsection, “agent” means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a public utility. “Agent” does not include a director, officer or employee of a public utility.

(b) A court imposing a forfeiture on a public utility or an agent, director, officer or employee of a public utility under this chapter shall consider all of the following in determining the amount of the forfeiture:

1. The appropriateness of the forfeiture to the volume of business of the public utility.

2. The gravity of the violation.

3. Any good faith attempt to achieve compliance after the public utility, agent, director, officer or employee receives notice of the violation.

(4) Treble maximum forfeitures.

(a) If an act or omission causes death or a life-threatening or seriously debilitating injury, and is subject to a forfeiture proceeding under this chapter, the maximum forfeiture that may be imposed shall be trebled.

(b) If a public utility fails to comply with any rule, order or direction of the commission after actual receipt by the public utility of written notice from the commission specifying the failure, the maximum forfeiture under sub. (1) shall be $15,000.

History: 1981 c. 390 ; 1983 a. 53 ; 1989 a. 49 .
Wis. Stat. § 322.010 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.010
Article 10 — Restraint of persons charged with offenses.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to this code charged with an offense under this code may be ordered into arrest or confinement, as circumstances may require. When any person subject to this code is placed in arrest or confinement prior to trial, immediate steps shall be taken to inform the person of the specific wrong of which the person is accused and diligent steps shall be taken to try the person or to dismiss the charges and release the person.

History: 2007 a. 200 .
Wis. Stat. § 891.345 — WI Code / Chapter 891 / Section 891.345
Establishment of citizenship.
Status: in_force

Upon petition and proper showing made, that naturalization papers, or written records thereof, have been lost or destroyed, the circuit court of the county in which the petitioner resides may make an order that the petitioner is a citizen of the United States. Any such order or certified copy thereof shall be prima facie evidence of such citizenship.
Wis. Stat. § 815.09 — WI Code / Chapter 815 / Section 815.09
Execution against debtor’s person.
Status: in_force

If the action be one in which the defendant might have been arrested, as provided in ch. 818 , an execution against the person of the judgment debtor may be issued after the return of an execution against the defendant’s property unsatisfied in whole or in part; but if the defendant be imprisoned on execution in another action, or upon mesne process in the same action, an execution may issue against the defendant’s body without any previous execution against the defendant’s property.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 761, 781 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.09; Sup. Ct. Order, 83 Wis. 2d xiii (1978); 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 102.47 — WI Code / Chapter 102 / Section 102.47
Death benefit, continued.
Status: in_force

If death occurs to an injured employee other than as a proximate result of the injury, before disability indemnity ceases, death benefit and burial expense allowance shall be as follows:

(1) Where the injury proximately causes permanent total disability, they shall be the same as if the injury had caused death, except that the burial expense allowance shall be included in the items subject to the limitation stated in s. 102.46 . The amount available shall be applied toward burial expense before any is applied toward death benefit. If there are no surviving dependents the amount payable to dependents shall be paid, as provided in s. 102.49 (5) (b) , to the fund created under s. 102.65 .

(2) Where the injury proximately causes permanent partial disability, the unaccrued compensation shall first be applied toward funeral expenses, not to exceed the amount specified in s. 102.50 . Any remaining sum shall be paid to dependents, as provided in this section and ss. 102.46 and 102.48 , and there is no liability for any other payments. All computations under this subsection shall take into consideration the present value of future payments. If there are no surviving dependents the amount payable to dependents shall be paid, as provided in s. 102.49 (5) (b) , to the fund created under s. 102.65 .

History: 1971 c. 148 ; 1977 c. 195 ; 1983 a. 98 ; 1987 a. 179 .
Wis. Stat. § 14.32 — WI Code / Chapter 14 / Section 14.32
Service as acting governor.
Status: in_force

(2) When acting as governor because of a vacancy in the office of governor created by the happening of any contingency specified in s. 17.03 , the lieutenant governor shall receive the annual salary and all other rights, privileges and emoluments of the office of governor. The annual salary paid in such instance shall be in lieu of all other compensation provided for the lieutenant governor.

(3) Compensation for service by the lieutenant governor under this section shall be paid from the appropriation in s. 20.525 (1) (a) .

History: 1971 c. 42 ; 1971 c. 125 s. 522 (1) ; 1975 c. 39 s. 734 ; 1977 c. 29 s. 1656 (15) ; 1989 a. 31 .
Wis. Stat. § 40.95 — WI Code / Chapter 40 / Section 40.95
Health insurance premium credits.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) Subject to sub. (2) , the department shall administer a program that provides health insurance premium credits for the purchase of health insurance for a retired employee, or the retired employee’s surviving insured dependents; for an eligible employee under s. 40.02 (25) (b) 6e. , or the eligible employee’s surviving insured dependents; for an employee who is laid off, but who is not on a temporary, school year, seasonal, or sessional layoff, and his or her surviving insured dependents; and for the surviving insured dependents of an employee who dies while employed by the state, for the benefit of an eligible employee whose compensation includes such health insurance premium credits and who satisfies at least one of the following:

1. The employee accrues accumulated unused sick leave under s. 13.121 (4) , 36.30 , 230.35 (2) , 233.10 , 238.04 (8) , or 757.02 (5) .

2. The employee has his or her compensation established in a collective bargaining agreement under subch. V of ch. 111 .

3. The employee has his or her compensation established in a collective bargaining agreement under subch. I of ch. 111 and the employee is employed by the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority.

(b) The health insurance premium credits shall be based on the employee’s years of continuous service, accumulated unused sick leave and any other factor specified as part of the employee’s compensation.

(2) The department is not required to administer any program that provides health insurance premium credits for the purchase of health insurance for a retired employee, or the retired employee’s surviving insured dependents; for an eligible employee under s. 40.02 (25) (b) 6e. , or the eligible employee’s surviving insured dependents; for an employee who is laid off, but who is not on a temporary, school year, seasonal, or sessional layoff, and his or her surviving insured dependents; and for the surviving insured dependents of an employee who dies while employed by the state, if the department determines that the program does not conform to the program approved by the joint committee on employment relations under s. 230.12 (9) .

History: 1995 a. 88 , 89 , 216 ; 2003 a. 33 , 117 , 326 ; 2009 a. 28 ; 2011 a. 10 , 32 .
Wis. Stat. § 70.60 — WI Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70.60
Apportionment of state tax to counties.
Status: in_force

(1) The department of administration shall compute the state tax chargeable against each county basing such computation upon the valuation of the taxable property of the county as determined by the department of revenue pursuant to s. 70.57 . On or before the 4th Monday of August in each year the department of administration shall certify to the county clerk of each county the amount of the taxes apportioned to and levied upon the county, and all special charges which the county clerk is required by law to make in any year to any such county to be collected with the state tax. The county clerk shall then charge to each county the whole amount of such taxes and charges, and the same shall be paid into the state treasury as provided by law.

History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1647 (14) ; 1977 c. 273 ; 1997 a. 35 .
Wis. Stat. § 193.557 — WI Code / Chapter 193 / Section 193.557
Voting of jointly owned membership interests.
Status: in_force

If a membership interest is owned jointly by 2 or more persons, any one of the owners may vote based upon that membership interest, unless the cooperative receives written notice from any of the owners denying the authority of that person to vote based upon that membership interest.

History: 2005 a. 441 .
Wis. Stat. § 64.12 — WI Code / Chapter 64 / Section 64.12
City manager to present monthly reports and accounts.
Status: in_force

(1) The city manager shall each month prepare and present to the council a summarized statement of the income and expenditures of the city for the preceding month arranged in standard form and detailed as to appropriations, funds, and character of expenditures.

(2) Such summaries shall be accompanied by a general account balance sheet, a capital account balance sheet, a statement of current assets and liabilities, a statement of funded assets and liabilities, and a consolidated financial statement showing the exact financial condition of the city at the end of such month. The city manager shall also prepare and present to the council such other detailed schedules and statements of account as the council may by ordinance require.

(3) All such summaries, schedules, and statements, together with a summary of the acts and proceedings of the common council for such month, shall be published in pamphlet form and copies thereof shall be furnished to all the newspapers and libraries of the city and to all persons who shall apply therefor.

(4) At the end of each fiscal year the council shall cause a full and complete examination of all the books and accounts of the city to be made by competent certified public accountants licensed or certified under ch. 442 who shall report in full to the council. The summaries of such audits shall be presented and furnished to all newspapers and libraries of the city and to such other persons as shall apply therefor.

History: 2001 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 898.01 — WI Code / Chapter 898 / Section 898.01
§ 898.01. Discharge of persons confined for tort.
Status: in_force

Every person confined in jail on an execution issued on a judgment recovered in an action founded on a tort shall be discharged therefrom upon the conditions hereinafter specified.
Wis. Stat. § 322.036 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.036
Article 36 — Pretrial, trial, and post-trial procedures.
Status: in_force

Pretrial, trial, and post-trial procedures not specified in this code, including modes of proof, for courts-martial cases arising under this code and for courts of inquiry shall be prescribed by the adjutant general in writing and made publicly available on the department of military affairs’ website.

History: 2007 a. 200 ; 2023 a. 47 .
Wis. Stat. § 645.11 — WI Code / Chapter 645 / Section 645.11
Effect of amendments of this chapter.
Status: in_force

Every proceeding commenced under this chapter before December 9, 1979, is subject to the amendments of this chapter by chapter 93, laws of 1979 , except as to rights which have fully vested before December 9, 1979.

History: 1979 c. 93 , 109 , 154 .
Wis. Stat. § 46.04 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.04
Anchorage program.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Adolescent” means an individual who is at least 12 years of age and under 18 years of age.

(b) “Drug dependent” has the meaning specified under s. 51.01 (8b) .

(c) “Mental illness” has the meaning given in s. 51.01 (13) .

(2) Program. From the appropriations under s. 20.435 (2) (a) and (gk) , the department shall establish at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute a program of inpatient assessment and treatment to be known as the “Anchorage program,” which is designed primarily to meet the needs of adolescents who are drug dependent, who evidence drug-related behavior that may be dangerous to the adolescent or to others, and who have a history of drug dependency and resistance to less restrictive forms of treatment, but that also may be used by the department to provide inpatient assessment and treatment of adolescents who have mental illness, who evidence mental illness-related behavior that may be dangerous to the adolescent or to others, and who have a history of mental illness and resistance to less restrictive forms of treatment. A county department under s. 51.42 may refer an adolescent for assessment or treatment under this section and shall approve all admissions to the program under this section of adolescents committed under s. 51.20 or 51.45 or admitted under s. 51.13 . Transfers under s. 51.35 (3) or 51.37 (5) may also be made to the program under this section.

History: 1987 a. 96 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 2001 a. 103 ; 2017 a. 34 .
Wis. Stat. § 95.27 — WI Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95.27
Pseudorabies control program; indemnities.
Status: in_force

(1) In order to detect, control and eradicate pseudorabies the department shall obtain blood or tissue samples from Wisconsin swine on a systematic basis. The department shall test the samples for pseudorabies.

(2) In the eradication and control of pseudorabies, the department may, whenever such action is necessary to prevent or reduce the spread of disease, quarantine or condemn and order the destruction of any swine which in the opinion of the department are infected with or have been exposed to pseudorabies.

(3) The department may enter into cooperative agreements with the federal government or any department or other agency for the control and eradication of pseudorabies in this state, including the payment of indemnities authorized under this section.

(4) Subject to sub. (5) and s. 95.36 , the department shall indemnify the owner of swine that have been condemned and destroyed under this section. The department shall pay to the owner for each animal destroyed the difference between the net salvage value and the appraised value of the animal, but the payment may not exceed $1,500 for an animal. State payments shall be made from the appropriation under s. 20.115 (2) (b) .

(5) Indemnities may not be paid under this section unless the owner of affected swine enters into, and acts in accordance with, an agreement with the department for the eradication of pseudorabies. An agreement entered into under this section shall contain a plan for the eradication of pseudorabies and shall be based upon scientifically accepted methods. The department shall monitor the implementation of an agreement to determine compliance and to determine whether the agreement needs to be modified.

(6) The owner of any swine affected by this section may appeal an order made under this section by filing with the department a request for a hearing under s. 93.18 within 5 days after receipt of notice of the order.

(7) A person in control of any premises on which swine have died of pseudorabies shall promptly dispose of the carcasses as provided under s. 95.50 or have the carcasses removed by a renderer licensed under s. 95.72 .

(8) The department may adopt rules that are necessary to administer this section.

History: 1983 a. 132 ; 1987 a. 399 ; 1989 a. 31 ; 1991 a. 39 , 109 ; 1995 a. 450 .
Wis. Stat. § 973.07 — WI Code / Chapter 973 / Section 973.07
Failure to pay fine, fees, surcharges, or costs or to comply with certain community service work.
Status: in_force

If the fine, plus costs, fees, and surcharges imposed under ch. 814 , are not paid or community service work under s. 943.017 (3) is not completed as required by the sentence, the defendant may be committed to the county jail until the fine, costs, fees, and surcharges are paid or discharged, or the community service work under s. 943.017 (3) is completed, for a period fixed by the court not to exceed 6 months.

History: 1977 c. 29 ; 1979 c. 34 , 111 ; 1981 c. 20 ; 1983 a. 27 ; 1985 a. 36 ; 1987 a. 27 , 339 ; 1989 a. 64 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 1995 a. 24 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2003 a. 139 .
Wis. Stat. § 347.21 — WI Code / Chapter 347 / Section 347.21
Lamps and flags on trains of agricultural vehicles.
Status: in_force

(1) No person shall operate on a highway during hours of darkness any train of vehicles authorized by s. 348.08 (1) (d) unless there is mounted on each side of every vehicle in such train, including farm tractors and implements of husbandry, at least one lamp emitting a red or amber light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the side of the vehicle on which mounted or, in lieu thereof, at least one red or amber reflector visible from all distances within 500 feet to 50 feet of the side of the vehicle when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps.

(1m) No person shall operate on a highway during hours of darkness any train of vehicles authorized by s. 348.08 (1) (b) unless there is mounted on each side of every vehicle in such train at least one lamp emitting a red or amber light visible from a distance of 500 feet to the side of the vehicle on which mounted or, in lieu thereof, at least one red or amber reflector visible from all distances within 500 feet to 50 feet of the side of the vehicle when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps.

History: 1979 c. 143 , 355 ; 1981 c. 276 ; 1981 c. 391 s. 210 ; 1987 a. 164 ; 2013 a. 377 ; 2015 a. 232 .
Wis. Stat. § 349.015 — WI Code / Chapter 349 / Section 349.015
Applicability of chapter to electric scooters and electric personal assistive mobility devices.
Status: in_force

An electric scooter and an electric personal assistive mobility device shall be considered a vehicle for purposes of this chapter, except those provisions which by their express terms apply only to motor vehicles or which by their very nature would have no application to electric scooters or electric personal assistive mobility devices.

History: 2001 a. 90 ; 2019 a. 11 .
Wis. Stat. § 345.55 — WI Code / Chapter 345 / Section 345.55
Traffic officers not to profit from arrests.
Status: in_force

(1) No traffic officer shall demand, solicit, receive or be paid any remuneration upon the basis of number of arrests made, convictions obtained or amount of fines collected.

(2) Any person violating this section may be required to forfeit not less than $25 nor more than $200 for the first offense and, for the second and each subsequent conviction within one year thereafter, may be required to forfeit not less than $50 nor more than $500.

History: 1971 c. 278 s. 42 ; Stats. 1971 s. 345.55.