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Wis. Stat. § 16.97 — WI Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16.97
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1m) “Agency” has the meaning given in s. 16.70 (1e) .

(2) “Authority” has the meaning given in s. 16.70 (2) .

(3) “Computer services” means any services in which a computer is utilized other than for personal computing purposes.

(4) “Data processing” means the delivery of information processing services.

(5m) “Executive branch agency” has the meaning given in s. 16.70 (4) .

(5p) “Form” means any written material, by whatever means printed, generated or reproduced, with blank spaces left for the entry of additional information to be used for the purpose of providing information, collecting information or requiring action in any transaction involving this state.

(5s) “Forms management” means the system of providing forms to accomplish necessary operations efficiently and economically, including analysis and design of forms, improvement of methods of procurement, distribution and disposition of forms and improvement of methods to keep to a reasonable level the public’s duty to report. “Forms management” includes the elimination of unnecessary forms and of unnecessary data collection and standardizing, consolidating and simplifying forms and related procedures.

(6) “Information technology” means the electronic processing, storage and transmission of information including data processing and telecommunications.

(6m) “Information technology portfolio” means information technology systems, applications, infrastructure, and information resources and human resources devoted to developing and maintaining information technology systems.

(7) “Local governmental unit” means a political subdivision of this state, a special purpose district in this state, an instrumentality or corporation of such a political subdivision or special purpose district, a combination or subunit of any of the foregoing or an instrumentality of the state and any of the foregoing.

(8) “Personal computing” means utilizing a computer that is located at the same work station where the input or output of data is conducted.

(8m) “Public contact form” means a form generated and used by any agency in transactions between the agency and a member of the public.

(9) “Supercomputer” means a special purpose computer that performs in a scientific environment and that is characterized by a very high processing speed and power.

(10) “Telecommunications” means all services and facilities capable of transmitting, switching, or receiving information in any form by wire, radio, or other electronic means.

History: 2001 a. 16 ss. 346 , 347 , 348 , 1027 ; Stats. 2001 s. 22.01; 2003 a. 33 ss. 232 , 752 to 756 ; Stats. 2003 s. 16.97; 2015 a. 55 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.741 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.741
Food in the wild for game birds.
Status: in_force

No person may, from the public waters of this state, take, remove, sell, or transport any duck potato, wild celery, or any other plant or plant product except wild rice, that is native to these waters and that is commonly known to furnish food for game birds.

History: 1989 a. 359 ; 1997 a. 248 s. 593 ; Stats. 1997 s. 29.741; 2001 a. 16 , 56 .
Wis. Stat. § 186.13 — WI Code / Chapter 186 / Section 186.13
Expulsion.
Status: in_force

If the board of directors adopts a written policy, a credit union may expel a member if the member neglects or refuses to comply with this chapter or the credit union bylaws or if the board has other just cause. The credit union shall provide notice to the member in writing of the reason for expulsion. The notice shall include a description of the member’s right to petition the board for reconsideration of the member’s expulsion and the time period for the member to petition. If a member petitions the board in writing within 45 days of receipt of the expulsion notice, the board shall reconsider the expulsion within 90 days after the date of the expulsion notice.

History: 1971 c. 193 ; 1981 c. 156 ; 1995 a. 151 ; 1997 a. 152 ; 2015 a. 304 .
Wis. Stat. § 823.15 — WI Code / Chapter 823 / Section 823.15
Undertaking to release building or structure.
Status: in_force

The owner of any building or structure, or the owner of the land upon which the building or structure is located, affected by an action under s. 823.10 or 823.113 may appear at any time after the commencement of the action and file an undertaking in a sum and with the sureties required by the court to the effect that he or she will immediately abate the alleged nuisance, if it exists, and prevent the same from being reestablished in the building or structure, and will pay all costs that may be awarded against him or her in the action. Upon receipt of the undertaking, the court may dismiss the action as to the building or structure and revoke any order previously made closing the building or structure; but that dismissal and revocation shall not release the property from any judgment, lien, penalty, or liability that the property is subject to by law. The court has discretion in accepting any undertaking, the sum, supervision, satisfaction, and all other conditions of the undertaking, but the period that the undertaking shall run may not be less than one year.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 762, 782 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 823.15; 1989 a. 122 .
Wis. Stat. § 625.03 — WI Code / Chapter 625 / Section 625.03
Scope of application.
Status: in_force

(1m) This chapter applies to all kinds and lines of direct insurance written on risks or operations in this state by any insurer authorized to do business in this state, except:

(a) Ocean marine insurance;

(b) Worker’s compensation insurance;

(c) Life insurance other than credit life insurance;

(d) Variable and fixed annuities; and

(e) Group and blanket accident and sickness insurance other than credit accident and sickness insurance.

(f) Funding agreements authorized under s. 632.66 .

(7) To the extent that ch. 424 is inconsistent with this chapter, ch. 424 shall apply.

History: 1973 c. 3 ; 1975 c. 147 s. 54 ; 1975 c. 373 ; 1999 a. 85 ; 2021 a. 114 .
Wis. Stat. § 231.09 — WI Code / Chapter 231 / Section 231.09
Bond security.
Status: in_force

The authority may secure any bonds issued under this chapter by a trust agreement, trust indenture, indenture of mortgage or deed of trust by and between the authority and one or more corporate trustees, which may be any trust company or bank in this state having the powers of a trust company. The bond resolution providing for the issuance of bonds so secured shall pledge the revenues to be received by the authority as a result of the terms of the financing referred to in the resolution, and may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as are reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including particularly such provisions as are specifically authorized by this chapter to be included in any bond resolution of the authority, and may restrict the individual right of action by bondholders. In addition, any bond resolution may contain such other provisions as the authority deems reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of the bond resolution may be treated as a part of the cost of the operation of a project.

History: 1973 c. 304 ; 1977 c. 29 .
Wis. Stat. § 86.022 — WI Code / Chapter 86 / Section 86.022
Obstructing highway with embankment or ditch.
Status: in_force

Any person who shall willfully or maliciously make any ditch, depression or embankment or place any obstruction in any public highway intended or calculated to impede or incommode the use of such highway, or who shall place any obstruction in any ditch constructed to drain any highway, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100.
Wis. Stat. § 229.850 — WI Code / Chapter 229 / Section 229.850
Special fund for payment of principal and interest costs on certain bonds.
Status: in_force

The district may maintain a special fund into which it deposits any income or property of the district that is used for the payment of principal and interest costs of bonds issued by the district or by a community development authority created under s. 66.1335 for purposes related to the district.

History: 1999 a. 65 , 186 .
Wis. Stat. § 118.145 — WI Code / Chapter 118 / Section 118.145
Admission to high school.
Status: in_force

(1) The school board of a district operating high school grades shall determine the minimum standards for admission to high school.

(2) A certificate or diploma or other written evidence issued by a school board showing that the pupil has completed the course of study in the elementary grades of the school district in which the pupil resides shall entitle the pupil to admission to high school. Such certificate or diploma or a certified copy thereof or a certified copy of a list of graduates shall be filed with the school district clerk of the school district operating the high school.

(3) If the superintendent of a private school or of a tribal school files with the department the course of study for elementary grades prescribed by such school and if such course of study is substantially equivalent to the course of study prepared for elementary grades by the department, a certificate or diploma or other written evidence issued by the superintendent of the private school or tribal school showing that the pupil has completed such course of study shall entitle the pupil to admission to a public high school. The certificate or diploma or a certified copy thereof or a certified copy of a list of graduates shall be filed with the school district clerk of the school district operating the high school.

(4) The school board of a school district operating high school grades shall allow a pupil enrolled in a private school or a pupil enrolled in a tribal school, who has met the standards for admission to high school under sub. (1) , to take up to 2 courses during each school semester if the pupil resides in the school district in which the public school is located and if the school board determines that there is sufficient space in the classroom.

History: 1975 c. 39 , 199 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 , 240 ; 2009 a. 302 ; 2013 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 40.74 — WI Code / Chapter 40 / Section 40.74
Beneficiaries.
Status: in_force

(1) Payment to 2 or more persons as joint beneficiaries shall be equal unless the participant, employee or annuitant has designated otherwise in the written designation of beneficiary on file with the department.

(2) A beneficiary of a deceased participant, annuitant, alternate payee, beneficiary, or employee may waive absolutely and without right of reconsideration or recovery all or part of any benefit payable under this chapter. The beneficiary shall then be determined as if the waiving beneficiary had died prior to the decedent except that if the person was a beneficiary under group 2 under s. 40.02 (8) (a) 2. , payment shall be made as if at least one child had survived the participant, alternate payee, beneficiary, employee, or annuitant. Unless the department receives the beneficiary’s written request to cancel the waiver before the date on which it would otherwise become effective, the waiver shall be effective 30 days after it is received by the department or the date specified in the waiver, if earlier. The waiver may be cancelled by the beneficiary in writing before the effective date. A waiver received after the effective date on which a beneficiary has commenced a monthly annuity under s. 40.73 (2) or (3) shall apply to monthly payments payable after the effective date of the waiver. Payment shall be subject to the restrictions specified in s. 40.73 (2) (b) .

(4) If a participant, employee or annuitant fully terminates all coverage and closes all accounts to which a written beneficiary designation applies, the designation does not apply if the individual again becomes a participant, employee or annuitant.

(5) A designation of a testamentary trust as beneficiary shall satisfy the requirement of s. 40.02 (8) (a) 1. that a person or trust be specifically named in a written designation of beneficiary whether the will establishing the trust is written before or after the designation of beneficiary is received by the department. If, however, a designation specified the date or otherwise identified a specific will, the designation shall not apply if the will is not the last will and testament of the participant, employee or annuitant.

(6) Any potential primary beneficiary under s. 40.02 (8) who cannot be located by reasonable efforts within 12 months after the later of the date of death of the participant or the date on which the department determines the person, trust, or estate initially became a potential primary beneficiary may be treated as a beneficiary that predeceased the participant and all other potential beneficiaries.

(7) A trust that does not exist on the date of the participant’s death or an estate not opened or reopened within 12 months after the department determines the estate initially became a potential primary beneficiary under s. 40.02 (8) may be treated as a beneficiary that predeceased the participant and all other potential beneficiaries.

History: 1981 c. 96 ; 1987 a. 309 ; 2005 a. 151 ; 2007 a. 131 .
Wis. Stat. § 33.001 — WI Code / Chapter 33 / Section 33.001
Findings and declaration of intent.
Status: in_force

(1) The legislature finds environmental values, wildlife, public rights in navigable waters, and the public welfare are threatened by the deterioration of public lakes; that the protection and rehabilitation of the public inland lakes of this state are in the best interest of the citizens of this state; that the public health and welfare will be benefited thereby; that the current state effort to abate water pollution will not undo the eutrophic and other deteriorated conditions of many lakes; that current efforts to protect and rehabilitate the water quality of the navigable waters in Dane County, which receive intense urban, recreational and agricultural usage, are seriously handicapped by the fact that numerous governmental bodies have jurisdiction over the management of the watersheds in Dane County; that lakes form an important basis of the state’s recreation industry; that the increasing recreational usage of the waters of this state justifies state action to enhance and restore the potential of our inland lakes to satisfy the needs of the citizenry; and that the positive public duty of this state as trustee of waters requires affirmative steps to protect and enhance this resource and protect environmental values.

(2) In accordance with sub. (1) , the legislature declares all the following:

(a) It is necessary to embark upon a program of lake protection and rehabilitation, to authorize a conjunctive state and local program of lake protection and rehabilitation to fulfill the positive duty of the state as trustee of navigable waters, and protect environmental values.

(b) A state effort of research, analysis, planning and financing, and a local effort undertaken by districts, the Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission and the Southeastern Wisconsin Fox River Commission of Planning and Plan Implementation are necessary and desirable and that the districts should be formed by persons directly affected by the deteriorated condition of inland waters and willing to assist financially, or through other means, in remedying lake problems.

(c) State efforts are needed to aid and assist local efforts, to ensure that projects are undertaken only if they promote the public rights in navigable waters, environmental values and the public welfare.

(d) State efforts are needed to administer a program of financial aids to support protection and rehabilitation projects with benefits to all state citizens.

History: 1973 c. 301 ; 1985 a. 332 ; 1989 a. 159 , 324 , 359 ; 1995 a. 349 ; 1997 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 27.14 — WI Code / Chapter 27 / Section 27.14
Police protection.
Status: in_force

(1) Every city may exercise police supervision over all parks, parkways, boulevards and pleasure drives managed and controlled by its common council or by its board of park commissioners.

(2) The board of park commissioners shall recommend to the common council the enactment of such ordinances as it deems necessary to protect and preserve the parks, parkways, boulevards and pleasure drives under its charge, or to secure the free and reasonable use and enjoyment thereof by the public; and the common council shall enact such proposed ordinances or such other ordinances as will be suitable for the purposes stated.

(3) The city attorney shall prosecute in a court or courts of competent jurisdiction all violations of said ordinances.

(4) Each member of a board of park commissioners and its superintendent are vested with the powers of police officers for the enforcement of all rules and regulations of the board and the ordinances aforesaid.
Wis. Stat. § 815.39 — WI Code / Chapter 815 / Section 815.39
Execution sale; redemption of real estate.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (2) , within one year after an execution sale the real estate sold, or any lot, tract or portion that was separately sold, may be redeemed by the payment to the purchaser, to the purchaser’s personal representatives or assigns, or to the sheriff of the county where the real estate is situated, for the use of such purchaser, of the sum paid on the sale thereof, together with the interest from the time of the sale.

(2) If an execution sale is for a lien filed under s. 823.23 (5) , the period of redemption under sub. (1) is 2 months.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 815.39; 1993 a. 486 ; 2001 a. 86 .
Wis. Stat. § 411.502 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.502
Notice after default.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or the lease agreement, the lessor or lessee in default under the lease contract is not entitled to notice of default or notice of enforcement from the other party to the lease agreement.

History: 1991 a. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 148.09 — WI Code / Chapter 148 / Section 148.09
Medical society may limit indemnification.
Status: in_force

(1) A medical society’s obligations to indemnify under s. 148.05 may be limited as follows:

(a) With respect to the state medical society or, except as provided in s. 148.02 (4) , a county medical society organized under s. 148.02 (1) before June 13, 1987, by an amendment to its constitution or bylaws which becomes effective on or after June 13, 1987.

(b) With respect to a county medical society organized under s. 148.02 (1) on or after June 13, 1987, except as provided in s. 148.02 (4) , by its constitution or bylaws, including any amendments to its constitution or bylaws.

(2) 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: 1987 a. 13 .
Wis. Stat. § 655.54 — WI Code / Chapter 655 / Section 655.54
Filing fee.
Status: in_force

Requests for mediation filed with the director of state courts are subject to a filing fee of $11. The filing fee shall be paid into the mediation fund under s. 655.68 .

History: 1985 a. 340 ; 1989 a. 187 s. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 49.703 — WI Code / Chapter 49 / Section 49.703
County homes; commitments; admissions.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person upon his or her application to the board of trustees may be admitted to the county home upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board. If the person or his or her relatives are unable to pay for his or her care and maintenance the person may be admitted as a charge of the county of his or her residence.

(3) The county board of any county may by resolution provide that the county shall bear the expense of maintaining all dependent persons committed or admitted to the county home, and may repeal any resolution adopted under this subsection.

History: 1977 c. 428 , 1985 a. 29 ; 1995 a. 27 ss. 2816 , 2817 , 2819 ; Stats. 1995 s. 49.703.
Wis. Stat. § 611.69 — WI Code / Chapter 611 / Section 611.69
Dividends and other distributions.
Status: in_force

(1) Distributions. Subject to the requirements of ss. 617.22 and 617.225 , a stock corporation may make distributions under ss. 180.0623 , 180.0640 and 180.1708 (2) .

(2) Unclaimed dividends and distributions. Chapter 177 applies to stock corporations.

History: 1971 c. 260 ; 1989 a. 303 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.721 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.721
Remedies for fraud.
Status: in_force

Remedies for material misrepresentation or fraud include all remedies available under this chapter for nonfraudulent breach. Neither rescission or a claim for rescission of the contract for sale nor rejection or return of the goods shall bar or be deemed inconsistent with a claim for damages or other remedy.
Wis. Stat. § 346.92 — WI Code / Chapter 346 / Section 346.92
Illegal riding.
Status: in_force

(1) No person shall drive a vehicle when any person other than an employee engaged in the necessary discharge of the employee’s duty is upon any portion thereof not designed or intended for the use of passengers.

(2) No person other than an employee engaged in the necessary discharge of the employee’s duty shall ride upon any portion of a vehicle not designed or intended for the use of passengers.

(3) This section does not apply to persons riding within truck bodies in spaces intended for merchandise or to the operator of any such vehicle.

History: 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 628.05 — WI Code / Chapter 628 / Section 628.05
Licensing of town mutual agents.
Status: in_force

(1) General exemption. Except as otherwise provided in sub. (2) , or by rule promulgated by the commissioner, persons engaged in soliciting insurance exclusively for town mutuals are not subject to the licensing requirements of s. 628.03 (1) .

(2) Agents soliciting insurance requiring reinsurance. No person may solicit any application for a contract providing coverage of the kind specified in s. 612.31 (3) unless the person first obtains a license to do so under this chapter. The license need be only for those coverages the town mutual is authorized to write and any examination of applicants shall be appropriately limited.

History: 1975 c. 371 , 421 ; 2011 a. 224 .
Wis. Stat. § 322.079 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.079
Article 79 — Conviction of lesser included offense.
Status: in_force

An accused may be found guilty of an offense necessarily included in the offense charged or of an attempt to commit either the offense charged or an offense necessarily included.

History: 2007 a. 200 .
Wis. Stat. § 782.35 — WI Code / Chapter 782 / Section 782.35
Warrant, how executed.
Status: in_force

Any officer or person to whom such warrant shall be directed shall execute the same by bringing the prisoner therein named and the person who detained the prisoner, if so commanded by the warrant, before the officer issuing the same; and thereupon the person detaining such prisoner shall make return in like manner and the like proceedings shall be had as if a writ of habeas corpus had been issued in the first instance.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 59 ; Stats. 1979 s. 782.35; 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 778.06 — WI Code / Chapter 778 / Section 778.06
Action for what sum.
Status: in_force

When a forfeiture is imposed, not exceeding a specific sum or when it is not less than one sum or more than another, the action may be brought for the highest sum specified, plus costs, fees, and surcharges imposed under ch. 814 ; and judgment may be rendered for such sum as the court or jury shall assess or determine to be proportionate to the offense.

History: 1977 c. 29 ; 1979 c. 32 s. 56 ; Stats. 1979 s. 778.06; 1987 a. 27 ; 1989 a. 107 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2003 a. 139 .