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Wis. Stat. § 157.02 — WI Code / Chapter 157 / Section 157.02
Disposal of unclaimed corpses.
Status: in_force

(1g) Definition. In this section, “burial” has the meaning given in s. 157.061 (1) .

(1r) Notice to relatives.

(am) When an inmate of any state, county or municipal institution dies, the superintendent or other person in charge of the institution shall immediately notify a relative of the decedent. A public officer having the possession or the disposition of a corpse shall immediately notify a relative of the decedent. If no relative is known, or discoverable by use of ordinary diligence, notice may be dispensed with.

(b) If the deceased had been an inmate of a state correctional institution, the department of corrections shall provide written notification to the relative informing him or her that the department of corrections, upon request, will do any or all of the following:

1. Provide a copy of any autopsy report or other report or information pertaining to the death.

2. Allow the relative to claim the cremated remains of the inmate before burial of the remains.

(c) The department of corrections shall describe how requests under par. (b) may be made and shall promptly comply with any such request.

(2) Time allowed relative to act. If a relative or friend fails to arrange for taking charge of the corpse within a reasonable time after death, the superintendent or other officer may proceed as provided in this section, but relatives or friends may claim the corpse at any time before it has been delivered pursuant to sub. (3) or, if a request is made under sub. (1r) (b) 2. , after it has been cremated but before burial of the cremated remains under sub. (5) .

(3) Notice to university or school. If the corpse is in the Mendota Mental Health Institute district, the University of Wisconsin shall be notified that it may have the corpse. If the corpse is in the Winnebago Mental Health Institute district, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., or any accredited school of mortuary science at Milwaukee shall be notified that it may have the corpse. The university or school so notified shall immediately inform the superintendent or public officer whether it desires to have the corpse. If it does, the corpse shall be delivered accordingly, properly encased, to the most available facility for transportation to the consignee, the consignee to pay the cost of transportation.

(4) Standing applications. If there are advance applications for such bodies, by the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., or any accredited school of mortuary science, the superintendent or public officer shall make an equitable distribution between them.

(5) Other disposition. If the corpse is not disposed of under subs. (1r) to (4) , the superintendent or public officer shall properly bury it, or cremate it, subject to s. 979.10 , and bury the cremated remains.

History: 1971 c. 211 ; 1973 c. 90 s. 560 (3) ; 1985 a. 316 s. 14 ; Stats. 1985 s. 157.02; 1987 a. 27 ; 1989 a. 31 ; 2001 a. 103 ; 2017 a. 246 ; 2021 a. 238 ss. 44 , 45 .
Wis. Stat. § 422.405 — WI Code / Chapter 422 / Section 422.405
Authorization to confess judgment prohibited.
Status: in_force

(1) No merchant shall take or accept from the customer a warrant or power of attorney or other authorization for the creditor, or other person acting on the creditor’s behalf, to confess judgment.

(2) A violation of this section is subject to s. 425.305 .

History: 1971 c. 239 ; 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 222.0303 — WI Code / Chapter 222 / Section 222.0303
Name.
Status: in_force

(1) Use of “bank”. Notwithstanding ss. 214.035 , 215.40 (1) (c) , and 215.60 (1) (c) and subject to subs. (2) and (3) (b) , a universal bank may use the word “bank” in its name, without having to include the word “savings.” Notwithstanding ss. 215.40 (1) (a) and 215.60 (1) (a) and subject to subs. (2) and (3) (b) , a universal bank that is organized under ch. 215 and that uses the word “bank” in its name in accordance with this section need not include the words “savings and loan association” or “savings association” in its name.

(2) Distinguishability. Except as provided in sub. (3) , the name of the universal bank shall be distinguishable upon the records of the division from all of the following names:

(a) The name of every other financial institution organized under the laws of this state.

(b) The name of every national bank or foreign bank authorized to transact business in this state.

(3) Exceptions.

(a) A universal bank may apply to the division for authority to use a name that does not meet the requirements under sub. (2) . The division may authorize the use of the name if any of the conditions under s. 221.0403 (2) (a) or (b) is met.

(b) A universal bank may use a name that is used in this state by another financial institution or by an institution authorized to transact business in this state, if the universal bank has done any of the following:

1. Merged with the other institution.

2. Been formed by reorganization of the other institution.

3. Acquired all or substantially all of the assets, including the name, of the other institution.

History: 2003 a. 63 .
Wis. Stat. § 31.04 — WI Code / Chapter 31 / Section 31.04
Permits for dams.
Status: in_force

Permits to construct, operate and maintain dams may be granted to persons, corporations or municipalities under this chapter.
Wis. Stat. § 84.51 — WI Code / Chapter 84 / Section 84.51
Construction of state highways.
Status: in_force

(1) The secretary with approval of the governor and subject to the limits of s. 20.866 (2) (ur) , (us) and (uu) may direct that state debt be contracted for the purposes set forth in subs. (2) and (3) subject to the limits set forth in subs. (2) and (3) . Said debts shall be contracted in accordance with ch. 18 .

(2) It is the intent of the legislature that state debt not to exceed $185,000,000 for the construction of highways be appropriated over a 6-year period except that if funds allocated to any project hereunder are not used for such project or if additional highway construction funds are made available hereunder, they shall first be used for development of state trunk highway 45 from the intersection with highway 41 to and including the West Bend bypass, and except that no funds shall be used for the construction of the proposed Bay freeway and no funds shall be used for the “Augusta Bypass” project in Eau Claire County. Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to allow the redevelopment of state trunk highway 83 in Washington and Waukesha counties. U.S. numbered highway 16 from Tomah to the interchange with I-90 east of Sparta shall be retained as part of the state highway system in the same route as in use on November 1, 1969. The improvement project for state trunk highway 23 from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac shall be undertaken as swiftly as practicable.

(3) It is the intent of the legislature that state debt not to exceed $15,000,000 shall be incurred for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, development, enlargement or improvement of the connecting highway facility known as the 27th Street viaduct in Milwaukee County.

History: 1971 c. 40 , 202 , 264 , 307 ; 1973 c. 90 ; 1977 c. 29 ; 1981 c. 20 ; 1983 a. 212 ; 1989 a. 56 s. 259 .
Wis. Stat. § 904.14 — WI Code / Chapter 904 / Section 904.14
Inadmissibility of statement by health care provider of apology or condolence.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Health care provider” has the meaning given in s. 146.81 (1) and includes an ambulatory surgery center, an adult family home as defined in s. 50.01 (1) , and a residential care apartment complex, as defined in s. 50.01 (6d) , that is certified or registered by the department of health services.

(b) “Relative” has the meaning given in s. 106.50 (1m) (q) .

(2) A statement, a gesture, or the conduct of a health care provider, or a health care provider’s employee or agent, that satisfies all of the following is not admissible into evidence in any civil action, administrative hearing, disciplinary proceeding, mediation, or arbitration regarding the health care provider as evidence of liability or as an admission against interest:

(a) The statement, gesture, or conduct is made or occurs before the commencement of the civil action, administrative hearing, disciplinary proceeding, mediation, or arbitration.

(b) The statement, gesture, or conduct expresses apology, benevolence, compassion, condolence, fault, liability, remorse, responsibility, or sympathy to a patient or his or her relative or representative.

History: 2013 a. 242 .
Wis. Stat. § 645.22 — WI Code / Chapter 645 / Section 645.22
Court’s seizure order.
Status: in_force

(1) Issuance. Upon the filing by the commissioner in any circuit court in this state of a verified petition alleging any ground that would justify a court order for a formal delinquency proceeding against an insurer under this chapter and that the interests of policyholders, creditors or the public will be endangered by delay, and setting out the order considered necessary by the commissioner, the court shall issue forthwith, ex parte and without a hearing, the requested order, which may do any of the following:

(a) Direct the commissioner to take possession and control of all or a part of the property, books, accounts, documents and other records of an insurer and of the premises occupied by it for the transaction of its business.

(b) Until further order of the court, enjoin the insurer and its officers, managers, agents, and employees from disposition of its property and from transaction of its business except with the written consent of the commissioner.

(2) Duration. The court shall specify in the order what its duration shall be, which shall be such time as the court deems necessary for the commissioner to ascertain the condition of the insurer. On motion of either party or on its own motion, the court may hold such hearings as it deems desirable after such notice as it deems appropriate, and may extend, shorten or modify the terms of the seizure order. The court shall vacate the seizure order if the commissioner fails to commence a formal proceeding under this chapter after having had a reasonable opportunity to do so. The issuance of an order of the court pursuant to a formal proceeding under this chapter vacates the seizure order.

(3) Anticipatory breach. Entry of a seizure order under this section does not constitute an anticipatory breach of any contract of the insurer.

History: 1979 c. 93 ; 1995 a. 225 ; 1997 a. 35 .
Wis. Stat. § 769.210 — WI Code / Chapter 769 / Section 769.210
Application of act to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident in a proceeding under this chapter, under other law of this state relating to a support order, or recognizing a foreign support order may receive evidence from outside this state pursuant to s. 769.316 , communicate with a tribunal outside this state pursuant to s. 769.317 , and obtain discovery through a tribunal outside this state pursuant to s. 769.318 . In all other respects, subchs. III to VI do not apply, and the tribunal shall apply the procedural and substantive law of this state.

History: 2009 a. 321 ; 2015 a. 82 s. 12 .
Wis. Stat. § 244.45 — WI Code / Chapter 244 / Section 244.45
Tangible personal property.
Status: in_force

Unless the power of attorney otherwise provides, language in a power of attorney granting general authority with respect to tangible personal property authorizes the agent to do all of the following:

(1) Demand, buy, receive, accept as a gift or as security for an extension of credit, or otherwise acquire or reject ownership or possession of tangible personal property or an interest in tangible personal property.

(2) Sell; exchange; convey with or without covenants, representations, or warranties; quit claim; release; surrender; create a security interest in; grant options concerning; lease; sublease; or otherwise dispose of tangible personal property or an interest in tangible personal property.

(3) Grant a security interest in tangible personal property or an interest in tangible personal property as security to borrow money or pay, renew, or extend the time of payment of a debt of the principal or a debt guaranteed by the principal.

(4) Release, assign, satisfy, or enforce by litigation or otherwise, a security interest, lien, or other claim on behalf of the principal, with respect to tangible personal property or an interest in tangible personal property.

(5) Manage or conserve tangible personal property or an interest in tangible personal property on behalf of the principal, including by doing any of the following:

(a) Insuring against liability or casualty or other loss.

(b) Obtaining or regaining possession of or protecting the property or interest, by litigation or otherwise.

(c) Paying, assessing, compromising, or contesting taxes or assessments or applying for and receiving refunds in connection with taxes or assessments.

(d) Moving the property from place to place.

(e) Storing the property for hire or under a gratuitous bailment.

(f) Using and making repairs, alterations, or improvements to the property.

(6) Change the form of title of an interest in tangible personal property.

History: 2009 a. 319 .
Wis. Stat. § 169.27 — WI Code / Chapter 169 / Section 169.27
Nonresident temporary exhibiting license.
Status: in_force

(1) Issuance. The department shall issue a nonresident temporary exhibiting license to any individual who is a nonresident or to any business organization that is not organized under the laws of this state, if the individual or organization meets the requirement under sub. (2) , files a proper application, and pays the applicable fee.

(2) Federal requirement. An applicant for a nonresident temporary exhibiting license shall hold any license or permit that may be required under 7 USC 2131 to 2159 at the time the department issues the applicant the license.

(3) Authorization. A person holding a nonresident temporary exhibiting license may do all of the following:

(a) Possess and exhibit live wild animals at locations designated by the department under the license for the production of motion pictures or television programs or as parts of theatrical acts, carnivals, or other animal attractions or displays.

(b) Move live wild animals in mobile facilities that do not meet the rules for housing under s. 169.39 .

(4) Rules. The department may promulgate rules to establish additional standards, limitations, and requirements for nonresident temporary exhibiting licenses.

History: 2001 a. 56 .
Wis. Stat. § 135.025 — WI Code / Chapter 135 / Section 135.025
Purposes; rules of construction; variation by contract.
Status: in_force

(1) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying remedial purposes and policies.

(2) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are:

(a) To promote the compelling interest of the public in fair business relations between dealers and grantors, and in the continuation of dealerships on a fair basis;

(b) To protect dealers against unfair treatment by grantors, who inherently have superior economic power and superior bargaining power in the negotiation of dealerships;

(c) To provide dealers with rights and remedies in addition to those existing by contract or common law;

(d) To govern all dealerships, including any renewals or amendments, to the full extent consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States.

(3) The effect of this chapter may not be varied by contract or agreement. Any contract or agreement purporting to do so is void and unenforceable to that extent only.

History: 1977 c. 171 .
Wis. Stat. § 409.626 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.626
Action in which deficiency or surplus is in issue.
Status: in_force

(1) Applicable rules if amount of deficiency or surplus in issue. In an action arising from a transaction, other than a consumer transaction, in which the amount of a deficiency or surplus is in issue, the following rules apply:

(a) A secured party need not prove compliance with the provisions of this subchapter relating to collection, enforcement, disposition, or acceptance unless the debtor or a secondary obligor places the secured party’s compliance in issue.

(b) If the secured party’s compliance is placed in issue, the secured party has the burden of establishing that the collection, enforcement, disposition, or acceptance was conducted in accordance with this subchapter.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in s. 409.628 , if a secured party fails to prove that the collection, enforcement, disposition, or acceptance was conducted in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter relating to collection, enforcement, disposition, or acceptance, the liability of a debtor or a secondary obligor for a deficiency is limited to an amount by which the sum of the secured obligation, expenses, and attorney fees exceeds the greater of:

1. The proceeds of the collection, enforcement, disposition, or acceptance; or

2. The amount of proceeds that would have been realized had the noncomplying secured party proceeded in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter relating to collection, enforcement, disposition, or acceptance.

(d) For purposes of par. (c) 2. , the amount of proceeds that would have been realized is equal to the sum of the secured obligation, expenses, and attorney fees unless the secured party proves that the amount is less than that sum.

(e) If a deficiency or surplus is calculated under s. 409.615 (6) , the debtor or obligor has the burden of establishing that the amount of proceeds of the disposition is significantly below the range of prices that a complying disposition to a person other than the secured party, a person related to the secured party, or a secondary obligor would have brought.

(2) Nonconsumer transactions; no inference. The limitation of the rules in sub. (1) to transactions other than consumer transactions is intended to leave to the court the determination of the proper rules in consumer transactions. The court may not infer from that limitation the nature of the proper rule in consumer transactions and may continue to apply established approaches.

History: 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.1310 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.1310
Formalities.
Status: in_force

An exercise of the decanting power must be made in a record signed by an authorized fiduciary. The signed record must, directly or by reference to the notice required by s. 701.1307 , identify the first trust and the 2nd trust or trusts and state the property of the first trust being distributed to each 2nd trust and the property, if any, that remains in the first trust.

History: 2023 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 605.24 — WI Code / Chapter 605 / Section 605.24
Recovery of losses from other parties.
Status: in_force

(1) Suit by attorney general. Upon the request of the manager, the attorney general may proceed in the courts of any jurisdiction to recover from any responsible party other than an insured or any person using or dealing with the property in the course of the person’s employment for the insured, for any loss or damage to any property covered by insurance under this chapter. Any recovery less expenses shall be paid into the property fund, but if the amount recovered less expenses exceeds that paid out by the fund, the difference shall be paid to the insured.

(2) Collection of reinsurance. The manager shall collect reinsurance due and pay the amount collected into the property fund.

(3) Right over against 3rd persons. The property fund may name other persons as additional persons protected under s. 605.02 , but unless it does so the fund shall have any right of recovery by subrogation or otherwise against such persons that a private insurer would have and shall not lose such right because the governmental unit protected has after commencement of the coverage waived any right of recovery it would otherwise have had, or has thereafter contracted to assume the risk that general law would have placed elsewhere.

History: 1973 c. 117 ; 1979 c. 102 s. 236 (15) ; 2005 a. 253 .
Wis. Stat. § 82.28 — WI Code / Chapter 82 / Section 82.28
Highways and bridges on state boundaries.
Status: in_force

The board of any town or county that is bounded in part by a river or a highway that is also a state boundary line may enter into an agreement with any adjoining municipality or county in the other state for the maintenance, construction, and reconstruction of boundary line highways and bridges. The costs shall be apportioned by agreement.

History: 2003 a. 214 .
Wis. Stat. § 350.15 — WI Code / Chapter 350 / Section 350.15
Accidents and accident reports.
Status: in_force

(2) Duty to render aid. Insofar as the operator is capable of doing, the operator of a snowmobile involved in a snowmobile accident shall render to other persons affected thereby such assistance as is practicable and necessary to save them from or minimize any danger caused by the accident and shall give his or her name and address and identification of his or her snowmobile to any person injured and to the owner of any property damaged in the accident.

(3) Duty to report.

(a) If a snowmobile accident results in the death of any person, or in an injury that requires the treatment of a person by a physician, the operator of each snowmobile involved in the accident shall give notice of the accident to a conservation warden or local law enforcement officer as soon as possible and, within 10 days after the accident, shall file a written report of the accident with the department on the form prescribed by it.

(b) If the operator of a snowmobile is physically incapable of making the report required by this subsection and there was another occupant on the snowmobile at the time of the accident capable of making the report that other occupant shall make such report.

(4) Reports not used as evidence. No report required by this section to be filed with the department shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an accident, except that the department shall furnish upon demand of any person who has or claims to have made such a report, or upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a specified accident report has or has not been made to the department solely to prove a compliance or a failure to comply with the requirement that such a report be made.

(5) Investigations.

(a) The department shall investigate any snowmobile accident that results in the death of any person.

(b) The department may investigate any snowmobile accident that results in an injury that requires the treatment of a person by a physician.

(6) Exception. This section does not apply to snowmobile accidents that occur during a sanctioned race or derby.

History: 1971 c. 277 ; 1983 a. 27 ; 1987 a. 403 ; 1989 a. 31 ; 1991 a. 316 ; 2003 a. 166 .
Wis. Stat. § 757.37 — WI Code / Chapter 757 / Section 757.37
When action settled by parties, what proof to enforce lien.
Status: in_force

If any such cause of action is settled by the parties thereto after judgment has been procured without notice to the attorney claiming the lien, the lien may be enforced and it shall only be required to prove the facts of the agreement by which the lien was given, notice to the opposite party or his or her attorney and the rendition of the judgment, and if any such settlement of the cause of action is had or effected before judgment therein, then it shall only be necessary to enforce the lien to prove the agreement creating the same, notice to the opposite party or his or her attorney and the amount for which the case was settled, which shall be the basis for the lien and it shall not be necessary to prove up the original cause of action in order to enforce the lien and suit.

History: 1977 c. 187 s. 96 ; Stats. 1977 s. 757.37.
Wis. Stat. § 192.005 — WI Code / Chapter 192 / Section 192.005
Scope of chapter.
Status: in_force

Each provision of this chapter applies only to the extent that it is not contrary to or inconsistent with federal law or the constitution of the United States.

History: 2005 a. 179 .