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Wis. Stat. § 196.12 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.12
Report by public utilities; items.
Status: in_force

(1) Each public utility shall furnish to the commission, in the form and at the time the commission requires, accounts, reports or other information which shows in itemized detail:

(a) Depreciation.

(b) Salaries and wages.

(c) Legal expenses.

(d) Taxes and rentals.

(e) The quantity and value of material used.

(f) Receipts from residuals, by-products, services or other sales.

(g) Total and net cost.

(h) Gross and net profit.

(i) Dividends and interest.

(j) Surplus or reserve.

(k) Prices paid by consumers.

(L) Any other information whether or not similar to the information under pars. (a) to (k) .

(2) No public utility operated by a city, village or town having a population of less than 5,000 shall be required to report under this section except as to earnings, operating expenses, including depreciation and maintenance, cost of renewals, extensions and improvements to the property and the nature and amount of service furnished in such detail as the commission deems necessary, except that if the commission conducts any investigation of the public utility upon formal complaint, the commission may require the detailed reports required under sub. (1) .

History: 1983 a. 53 ; 1993 a. 246 .
Wis. Stat. § 11.1202 — WI Code / Chapter 11 / Section 11.1202
Earmarking.
Status: in_force

(1) The treasurer of a candidate committee may agree with a prospective contributor that a contribution is received to be used for a specific purpose not prohibited by law. That purpose may not include a disbursement to a committee to support or oppose another candidate.

(2) When a contribution is made to a committee other than a candidate committee, the contributor may not direct the committee to make a disbursement to a committee to support or oppose another candidate.

(3) Except for transfers of membership-related moneys between committees of the same political party, no committee may transfer to another committee the earmarked contributions of others. Transfers of membership-related moneys between political parties shall be treated in the same manner as other transfers.

History: 2015 a. 117 .
Wis. Stat. § 322.013 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.013
Article 13 — Punishment prohibited before trial.
Status: in_force

No person, while being held for trial or awaiting a verdict, may be subjected to punishment or penalty other than arrest or confinement upon the charges pending against the person, nor shall the arrest or confinement imposed upon the person be any more rigorous than the circumstances required to insure the person’s presence, but the person may be subjected to minor punishment during that period for infractions of discipline.

History: 2007 a. 200 .
Wis. Stat. § 348.11 — WI Code / Chapter 348 / Section 348.11
Penalty for violating size and load limitations.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person violating s. 348.09 or 348.10 may be required to forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $200.

(2) Any person violating ss. 348.05 to 348.08 may be required to forfeit not less than $50 nor more than $100 for the first offense and may be required to forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $200 for the 2nd and each subsequent conviction within one year.

(3) Any person violating s. 348.105 may be required to forfeit not less than $2,000 nor more than $5,000.

History: 1971 c. 278 ; 2015 a. 137 .
Wis. Stat. § 85.63 — WI Code / Chapter 85 / Section 85.63
Surveying reference station system.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall administer a surveying reference station system consisting of all of the following:

(a) A passive system consisting of a network of monuments located throughout the state that are used to generate latitude, longitude, and elevation data.

(b) An active surveying reference station system consisting of reference stations statewide that continuously transmit global positioning system data to a system server, and the server that receives and processes the data received from the reference stations.

(2) The department may charge a fee for providing access to the system under sub. (1) in an amount to be established by rule. All fees received under this subsection shall be deposited in the general fund and credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.395 (3) (jg) .

History: 2013 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 182.44 — WI Code / Chapter 182 / Section 182.44
Limitations on powers.
Status: in_force

Turnpike corporations shall not have the power to secure any of their obligations by mortgage or pledge of all or any of their properties, either real, personal or mixed, except the pledging of tolls as herein provided.
Wis. Stat. § 125.272 — WI Code / Chapter 125 / Section 125.272
Face-to-face retail sales.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in ss. 125.26 (2m) , (2s) , and (2x) and 125.27 (4) and except with respect to caterers, a retail license issued under s. 125.25 or 125.26 , and a retail permit issued under s. 125.27 , authorizes only face-to-face sales to consumers at the premises described in the retail license or permit.

History: 2007 a. 85 ; 2017 a. 95 .
Wis. Stat. § 190.03 — WI Code / Chapter 190 / Section 190.03
Office in state; books produced.
Status: in_force

Any railroad corporation existing under the laws of this state shall produce before the office of the commissioner of railroads, the legislature, or any committee of either house, or any court of record, its books of account and stock books, or so many and such parts thereof as may be required by them, or in the discretion of the office of the commissioner of railroads, legislature, committee or court, transcripts from such books, or such parts thereof as may be called for, duly authenticated; and each such railroad corporation shall designate some office within this state as its principal office and inform the office of the commissioner of railroads of such designation, and shall keep there or at the office of its transfer agents or registrars a list of its stockholders, giving the names and addresses of its stockholders, together with a statement of the number and class of shares of its stock held by each of them, as shown by its books. A failure or refusal to comply with any of the foregoing provisions shall be cause of forfeiture of its franchises.

History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (9) (e) ; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1) ; 1993 a. 16 , 123 .
Wis. Stat. § 805.04 — WI Code / Chapter 805 / Section 805.04
Voluntary dismissal: effect thereof.
Status: in_force

(1) By plaintiff; by stipulation. An action may be dismissed by the plaintiff without order of court by serving and filing a notice of dismissal at any time before service by an adverse party of responsive pleading or motion or by the filing of a stipulation of dismissal signed by all parties who have appeared in the action. Unless otherwise stated in the notice of dismissal or stipulation, the dismissal is not on the merits, except that a notice of dismissal operates as an adjudication on the merits when filed by a plaintiff who has once dismissed in any court an action based on or including the same claim.

(2) By order of court. Except as provided in sub. (1) , an action shall not be dismissed at the plaintiff’s instance save upon order of court and upon such terms and conditions as the court deems proper. Unless otherwise specified in the order, a dismissal under this subsection is not on the merits.

(3) Counterclaim, cross claim and 3rd-party claim. This section applies to the voluntary dismissal of any counterclaim, cross claim, or 3rd-party claim. A voluntary dismissal by the claimant alone shall be made before a responsive pleading is served, or if there is none, before the introduction of evidence at the trial or hearing.

(4) Costs of previously dismissed action. If a plaintiff who has once dismissed an action in any court commences an action based upon or including the same claim against the same defendant, the court may make such order for the payment of costs of the action previously dismissed as it deems proper and may stay proceedings in the action until the plaintiff has complied with the order.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 691 (1975); 2005 a. 253 ; 2007 a. 20 , 97 ; 2015 a. 55 .
Wis. Stat. § 626.09 — WI Code / Chapter 626 / Section 626.09
General provisions concerning the bureau.
Status: in_force

(1) Purposes. The bureau has the following purposes:

(a) To establish, maintain and administer rules, regulations, classifications, rates and rating plans to govern the transaction of insurance included in s. 626.03 ;

(b) To cooperate with other rate service organizations and with insurers in the development of rules, rates and rating plans and insurance policies and forms;

(c) To secure and analyze statistical and other data required to accomplish these purposes;

(d) To inspect and classify risks;

(e) To file with the commissioner on behalf of its members every manual of classifications, rules and rates, every rating plan and every modification of any of them proposed for use in this state;

(f) To assist the commissioner and insurers in the promotion of safety in industry; and

(g) To assist in any matter necessary for the accomplishment of these purposes.

(2) Licensing. The bureau’s license which it holds under s. 205.03 (2) , 1973 stats., immediately prior to January 17, 1976 shall continue as its license under s. 625.32 , and thereafter the bureau shall be treated as if it had applied for and had received a license under s. 625.32 .

(3) Examinations. Sections 601.43 to 601.45 apply to the bureau.

(4) Fees. Section 601.31 (1) (c) 2. applies to the bureau.

History: 1975 c. 148 ; 1979 c. 102 s. 237 .
Wis. Stat. § 157.065 — WI Code / Chapter 157 / Section 157.065
Section 157.065
Status: in_force

2. Outside a recorded plat or recorded addition to a plat of any city or village if the cemetery is within 3,300 feet of an inhabited dwelling that is located within a recorded plat or addition, unless the city or village consents;

3. Within 250 feet of any habitable dwelling, publicly owned building or school, unless the cemetery is establishing an extension on property it has owned continually since June 18, 1929; or

4. Within 3,300 feet of any of the following state facilities, without the consent of the state:

a. Any institution for the deaf or the blind;

b. Any mental health institute, as defined in s. 51.01 ;

c. A Type 1 juvenile correctional facility, as defined in s. 938.02 (19) ;

d. Any center for the developmentally disabled; or

e. Any state reformatory.

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to enlargements under sub. (3m) or s. 157.064 (2) or (3) .

(3)

(a) Any incorporated college of a religious order in a 4th class city may establish a private cemetery within the city on land the college owns to bury members of the religious order, if the common council consents and if each person owning a private building within 825 feet of the proposed cemetery consents.

(b) Any private military academy that provides an educational program for grades 7 to 12 in a 4th class city may establish a private cemetery within the city on land that the military academy owns, if the common council consents. No mausoleum within a cemetery established under this paragraph may exceed 3,500 square feet in area.

(3m) Any of the following cemeteries may enlarge only in the following manner:

(a) Any cemetery in a village may enlarge with the consent of the village board and of the owners of each building within 250 feet of the addition.

(b) Any cemetery in a 3rd or 4th class city may enlarge with the consent of the common council.

(c) Notwithstanding pars. (a) and (d) , any cemetery established before April 30, 1887, in a village and located within 100 feet of the village limits may extend to the village limits with the consent of the village board.

(d) Notwithstanding pars. (a) to (c) , any cemetery established before April 30, 1887, may expand as provided in s. 157.064 .

(5) Any violation of this section is a public nuisance.

History: 1975 c. 39 , 106 ; 1975 c. 189 s. 99 (2) ; 1975 c. 200 , 422 , 430 ; 1977 c. 83 ; 1977 c. 449 s. 497 ; 1979 c. 221 ; 1981 c. 20 ; 1985 a. 316 ss. 18 , 25 ; Stats. 1985 s. 157.065; 1987 a. 190 ; 1989 a. 43 , 307 ; 1993 a. 98 , 112 ; 1995 a. 77 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2001 a. 103 , 107 ; 2005 a. 344 .
Wis. Stat. § 52.12 — WI Code / Chapter 52 / Section 52.12
Authority of supporter.
Status: in_force

A supporter may exercise the authority granted to the supporter in the supported decision-making agreement.

History: 2017 a. 345 ; 2021 a. 238 s. 44 .
Wis. Stat. § 768.05 — WI Code / Chapter 768 / Section 768.05
Contracts executed as to such claims barred.
Status: in_force

(1) All contracts and instruments of every kind, which may hereafter be executed in this state in payment, satisfaction, settlement, or compromise of any claim or cause of action abolished or barred by this chapter, whether such claim or cause of action arose within or without this state, are declared to be contrary to the public policy of this state and void.

(2) No person shall cause, induce or procure any person to execute such contract or instrument, or to give, pay, transfer or deliver any money or thing of value in payment, satisfaction, settlement, or compromise of any such claim or cause of action, or to receive, take, or accept any such money or thing of value in such payment, satisfaction, settlement, or compromise.

(3) No person, either as a party or attorney, shall commence or cause to be commenced, in any court in this state, any proceeding or action seeking to enforce or recover upon such contract or instrument, knowing it to be such, whether the same has been executed within or without this state.

(4) This section shall not apply to the payment, satisfaction, settlement, or compromise of any causes of action which are not abolished or barred by this chapter, on any contracts or instruments heretofore executed, or to the bona fide holder in due course of any negotiable instrument which may be executed hereafter.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 51 ; Stats. 1979 s. 768.05.
Wis. Stat. § 111.93 — WI Code / Chapter 111 / Section 111.93
Effect of labor organization; status of existing benefits and rights.
Status: in_force

(1) If no collective bargaining agreement exists between the employer and a labor organization representing classified employees in a collective bargaining unit for which a representative is recognized or certified, employees in the unit shall retain the right of appeal under s. 230.44 .

(2) All civil service and other applicable statutes concerning wages, fringe benefits, hours and conditions of employment apply to employees specified in s. 111.81 (7) (a) who are not included in collective bargaining units for which a representative is recognized or certified and to employees specified in s. 111.81 (7) (b) to (f) who are not included in a collective bargaining unit for which a representative is certified.

(3) Except as provided in ss. 7.33 (4) , 40.05 , 40.80 (3) , 111.91 (1) (cm) , 230.35 (2d) and (3) (e) 6. , and 230.88 (2) (b) , all of the following apply:

(a) If a collective bargaining agreement exists between the employer and a labor organization representing employees in a collective bargaining unit under s. 111.825 (1) (g) , the provisions of that agreement shall supersede the provisions of civil service and other applicable statutes, as well as rules and policies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System, related to wages, fringe benefits, hours, and conditions of employment whether or not the matters contained in those statutes, rules, and policies are set forth in the collective bargaining agreement.

(b) If a collective bargaining agreement exists between the employer and a labor organization representing general employees in a collective bargaining unit, the provisions of that agreement shall supersede the provisions of civil service and other applicable statutes, as well as rules and policies of the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System, related to wages, whether or not the matters contained in those statutes, rules, and policies are set forth in the collective bargaining agreement.

History: 1971 c. 270 , 336 ; 1977 c. 196 s. 131 ; 1981 c. 187 ; 1983 a. 46 , 409 ; 1985 a. 42 ; 1989 a. 13 , 31 ; 1999 a. 101 , 125 ; 2001 a. 16 , 38 ; 2011 a. 10 , 32 ; 2013 a. 20 ss. 2365m , 9448 ; 2013 a. 166 .
Wis. Stat. § 177.1403 — WI Code / Chapter 177 / Section 177.1403
When confidential information may be disclosed.
Status: in_force

(1) When reasonably necessary to enforce or implement this chapter, the administrator may disclose confidential information concerning property held by the administrator or the administrator’s agent only to the following:

(a) An apparent owner or the apparent owner’s personal representative or special administrator, attorney, guardian, other legal representative, or a person entitled to inherit from the deceased apparent owner.

(b) A department or agency of this state or the United States.

(c) The person that administers the unclaimed property law of another state, if the other state accords substantially reciprocal privileges to the administrator of this state and if the other state is required to maintain the confidentiality and security of information obtained in a manner substantially equivalent to that under this subchapter.

(d) A person subject to an examination as required by subch. X .

(2)

(a) Except as otherwise provided in s. 177.1402 (1) , the administrator shall include on the administrator’s Internet site or in the database required by s. 177.0503 the name of each apparent owner of property held by the administrator.

(b) The administrator may include on the administrator’s Internet site or in the database additional information concerning the apparent owner’s property, if the administrator believes that the information will assist in identifying and returning property to the owner and if the information does not disclose personal information, except the apparent owner’s name and residential address.

(c) The administrator may include the information described in par. (b) in published notices, printed publications, telecommunications, or other media or on the Internet.

(3) The administrator and the administrator’s agent may not use confidential information provided to them or in their possession except as expressly authorized by this chapter or by other law.

History: 2021 a. 87 .
Wis. Stat. § 945.02 — WI Code / Chapter 945 / Section 945.02
Gambling.
Status: in_force

Whoever does any of the following is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor:

(1) Makes a bet; or

(2) Enters or remains in a gambling place with intent to make a bet, to participate in a lottery, or to play a gambling machine; or

(3) Conducts a lottery, or with intent to conduct a lottery, possesses facilities to do so.

History: 1977 c. 173 .
Wis. Stat. § 451.12 — WI Code / Chapter 451 / Section 451.12
Infection control.
Status: in_force

The department shall promulgate rules relating to the prevention of infection, the sterilization of needles and other equipment or materials capable of transmitting infection and the safe disposal of potentially infectious materials. The rules shall require acupuncture needles to be thoroughly cleansed with an antiseptic solution prior to sterilization by autoclave and shall permit an acupuncturist to use needles that are presterilized, prewrapped and disposable.

History: 1989 a. 31 , 336 .
Wis. Stat. § 768.04 — WI Code / Chapter 768 / Section 768.04
Time for filing actions.
Status: in_force

(1) All actions for breach of contract, now existing, to marry shall be commenced, and the process, pleading or paper setting forth the same filed, within 6 months of January 1, 1960 and, if not so commenced and filed, shall thereafter be barred.

(2) Actions for alienation of affection and criminal conversation accruing upon or prior to April 12, 1972 shall be commenced, and the process, pleading or paper setting forth the same filed, within 6 months after January 1, 1972, and, if not so commenced and filed, shall thereafter be barred.

History: 1971 c. 220 ; 1979 c. 32 s. 51 ; Stats. 1979 s. 768.04.
Wis. Stat. § 458.11 — WI Code / Chapter 458 / Section 458.11
Expiration and renewal.
Status: in_force

Renewal applications shall be submitted to the department on a form provided by the department on or before the applicable renewal date specified under s. 440.08 (2) (a) and shall include the applicable renewal fee determined by the department under s. 440.03 (9) (a) . Renewal of an appraiser certificate automatically renews the individual’s appraiser license without payment of the renewal fee for the appraiser license or completion of any additional continuing education requirements that would otherwise be required for renewal of the appraiser license. Renewal applications shall be accompanied by proof of completion of the continuing education requirements in s. 458.13 . Notwithstanding s. 458.06 (3) (b) 2. and (4) (b) 2. , 1989 stats., and s. 458.08 (3) (b) 2. and (c) 2. , 1991 stats., the department may not renew a certificate that was granted under s. 458.06 (3) or (4) before May 29, 1993, unless the holder of the certificate submits evidence satisfactory to the department that he or she has successfully completed the applicable educational requirements specified in rules promulgated under s. 458.085 (1) and the department may not renew a certificate that was granted under s. 458.08 (3) before May 29, 1993, unless the holder of the certificate submits evidence satisfactory to the department that he or she has successfully completed the applicable education and experience requirements specified in rules promulgated under s. 458.085 (1) and (2) .

History: 1991 a. 39 s. 3419b ; 1991 a. 78 ; 1993 a. 3 ; 1997 a. 225 ; 2007 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 822.09 — WI Code / Chapter 822 / Section 822.09
Appearance and limited immunity.
Status: in_force

(1) A party to a child custody proceeding, including a modification proceeding, or a petitioner or respondent in a proceeding to enforce or register a child custody determination, is not subject to personal jurisdiction in this state for another proceeding or purpose solely by reason of having participated, or of having been physically present for the purpose of participating, in the proceeding.

(2) A person who is subject to personal jurisdiction in this state on a basis other than physical presence is not immune from service of process in this state. A party present in this state who is subject to the jurisdiction of another state is not immune from service of process allowable under the laws of that state.

(3) The immunity granted by sub. (1) does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to the participation in a proceeding under this chapter committed by an individual while present in this state.

History: 2005 a. 130 .
Wis. Stat. § 118.18 — WI Code / Chapter 118 / Section 118.18
Teacher reports.
Status: in_force

Every teacher shall record the names, ages and studies of all pupils under his or her charge and their daily attendance and such other facts or matters relating to the school as the state superintendent or school board requires.

History: 1979 c. 301 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 .