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Wis. Stat. § 604.07 — WI Code / Chapter 604 / Section 604.07
Bonds.
Status: in_force

The commissioner as manager of the funds and the secretary of administration shall file surety bonds, specifically conditioned on the performance of their duties under chs. 605 to 607 , in amounts required by, and with sureties approved by, the governor.

History: 1973 c. 117 ; 1981 c. 20 s. 2202 (26) (c) ; 2003 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 91.80 — WI Code / Chapter 91 / Section 91.80
Soil and water conservation by persons claiming tax credits.
Status: in_force

An owner claiming farmland preservation tax credits under s. 71.613 shall comply with applicable land and water conservation standards promulgated by the department under ss. 92.05 (3) (c) and (k) , 92.14 (8) , and 281.16 (3) (b) and (c) .

History: 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 867.09 — WI Code / Chapter 867 / Section 867.09
Who may petition for appointment of special administrator.
Status: in_force

Petition for the appointment of a special administrator may be made by any person who has standing to petition for administration of the estate under s. 856.07 , and waiting periods stated in that section do not apply.
Wis. Stat. § 74.15 — WI Code / Chapter 74 / Section 74.15
Payment of real property taxes by grantor and grantee.
Status: in_force

If real property is conveyed and there is no valid written agreement between the grantor and the grantee concerning the payment of real property taxes for the year in which the conveyance is made, the grantor shall pay to the grantee an amount equal to one-twelfth of the taxes assessed against the property for the calendar year preceding the year in which the conveyance is made multiplied by the number of months in the calendar year of the conveyance which have elapsed before the date of the conveyance, including the month in which the conveyance is made if the conveyance occurs after the 15th day of the month.

History: 1987 a. 378 ; 1989 a. 104 .
Wis. Stat. § 345.27 — WI Code / Chapter 345 / Section 345.27
Information to persons charged.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever a person is charged with a violation of a traffic regulation, the law enforcement officer shall inform the person of the following:

(a) That certain convictions may result in revocation or suspension of his or her operating privilege if the conviction will have that effect.

(b) That demerit points may be assessed against his or her driving record for the offense. The law enforcement officer may estimate the number of demerit points for the particular offense and list it on the traffic citation form.

(c) The number of demerit points that is cause for revocation or suspension.

(2) Before taking the plea of a person charged with a violation of law the judge shall inform the violator of the following:

(a) That conviction of the charge may result in the revocation or suspension of his or her operating privilege.

(b) The number of demerit points that may be assessed against the violator upon conviction of the violation, based on the available information.

(3) Whenever a person has been convicted in this state on the basis of a forfeiture of deposit or a plea of guilty or no contest and the person was not informed as required under subs. (1) and (2) , the person may, within 60 days after being notified of the revocation or suspension of the operating privilege, petition the court to reopen the judgment and grant him or her an opportunity to defend on the merits. If the court finds that the petitioner was not informed as required under subs. (1) and (2) , the court shall order the judgment reopened. The court order reopening the judgment automatically reinstates the revoked or suspended operating privilege.

History: 1989 a. 170 .
Wis. Stat. § 126.88 — WI Code / Chapter 126 / Section 126.88
Modifying fund assessments.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may by rule modify the fund assessments provided under s. 126.15 , 126.30 , or 126.60 . The department shall modify fund assessments under ss. 126.15 , 126.30 , 126.46 , and 126.60 as necessary to do all of the following:

(a) Maintain an overall fund balance of at least $5,000,000, but not more than $22,000,000.

(b) Maintain a combined fund balance attributable to grain dealers and grain warehouse keepers of at least $1,200,000, but not more than $7,000,000.

(d) Maintain a fund balance attributable to milk contractors of at least $3,000,000, but not more than $12,000,000.

(e) Maintain a fund balance attributable to vegetable contractors of at least $800,000, but not more than $3,000,000.

(2)

(a) If the fund balance for a portion of the fund under sub. (1) (b) to (e) falls below the minimum amount required for that portion of the fund, the department shall by rule modify the assessment rates for the type of contractor that contributes to that portion of the fund so that the assessment rates are adequate to reach and maintain the minimum balance within a reasonable time.

(b) The department may use the procedure under s. 227.24 to promulgate a rule modifying an assessment under par. (a) . In a rule promulgated under this paragraph, the department may not provide that the modification of an assessment takes effect before the beginning of the next license year. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (c) and (2) , a rule promulgated under this paragraph may remain in effect for not more than 24 months. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3) , the department is not required to determine that promulgating a rule under this paragraph as an emergency rule is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of emergency for a rule promulgated under this paragraph.

History: 2001 a. 16 ; 2009 a. 296 ; 2017 a. 155 .
Wis. Stat. § 347.46 — WI Code / Chapter 347 / Section 347.46
Fenders and mudguards.
Status: in_force

(1) No person shall operate a vehicle of the tractor type on a highway unless the driving wheels of such vehicle are protected by suitable fenders.

(2) No person shall operate on a highway in intercity movement any privately owned motor truck or privately owned semitrailer drawn by a truck tractor, except those motor trucks and semitrailers equipped with dump bodies, unless such motor truck or semitrailer is equipped with rear fenders or mudguards of such material and so constructed and placed as to restrict to a minimum the splashing of water, mud or other material which may be thrown by the rear wheels. Such rear fenders or mudguards shall meet the following minimum specifications:

(a) The fenders or mudguards shall cover the tire or multiple tires they are protecting starting at the top from a line drawn vertically through the center of the axle and extending rearward and downward so that the fender or mudguard under any condition of operation or loading of the vehicle has a ground clearance of not more than one third of the horizontal distance from the center of the rearmost axle to the fender or mudguard;

(b) The fenders or mudguards shall be at least as wide as the tire or multiple tires they are protecting;

(c) If the vehicle is so designed and constructed that the rear wheels are covered in the manner specified in pars. (a) and (b) by means of fenders, body construction or other means of enclosure, then no special mudguards are required. Otherwise, the vehicle shall be equipped with special mudguards to the extent necessary to meet the requirements of pars. (a) and (b) .
Wis. Stat. § 701.0504 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.0504
Discretionary trusts; effect of standard.
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of this subchapter, and except as provided in sub. (3) , a beneficiary’s interest in a trust that is subject to the trustee’s discretion does not constitute an interest in property or an enforceable right even if the discretion is expressed in the form of a standard of distribution or the beneficiary is then serving as sole trustee or cotrustee.

(2) Except as provided in this subchapter, a creditor or other claimant may not attach present or future distributions from a beneficiary’s interest in property or an enforceable right, obtain an order from a court forcing the judicial sale of the interest or compelling the trustee to make distributions, or reach the interest or right by any other means, even if the trustee has abused the trustee’s discretion.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply if a beneficiary is acting as sole trustee of a trust for his or her benefit and his or her discretion to make distributions to himself or herself is not limited by an ascertainable standard or the consent of a party holding an adverse interest to the beneficiary.

(4)

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) , this section does not limit the right of a beneficiary to maintain a judicial proceeding against a trustee for an abuse of discretion or failure to comply with a standard for distribution.

(b) The right of a beneficiary described in par. (a) may not be exercised by a creditor.

History: 2013 a. 92 .
Wis. Stat. § 422.415 — WI Code / Chapter 422 / Section 422.415
Changes in open-end credit terms.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (2) , no creditor shall make any change in the terms of open-end credit plans that is adverse to the interests of the customer with respect to any outstanding balances or that imposes or alters a charge permitted under s. 422.202 (2m) . For the purposes of this section, a change shall be presumed to be adverse if the result thereof is to increase the rate of the finance charge or the amount of the periodic payment due. Outstanding balances shall be determined on the assumption that all payments shall be credited first to any finance charges that may be due and then to the payment of debts in the order in which the entries to the account showing the debts were made.

(2) A change that is adverse to the interests of the customer with respect to outstanding balances or that imposes or alters a charge permitted under s. 422.202 (2m) may be made if any of the following conditions is met:

(a) The change is required by legislation, regulations or administrative rules becoming effective after the date of the agreement with the customer and the creditor has mailed or delivered to the customer written notice disclosing such proposed change not less than 3 months prior to the effective date of such change or such lesser period of time as may be available before such change is required to be made.

(b) The change is made within 3 months of March 1, 1973 or within 3 months after the repeal or expiration of any federal legislation, administrative order, rule, guideline or regulation, the purpose of which was to limit or freeze finance charges or other charges, in effect on March 1, 1973, whichever is later.

(c) The creditor mails or otherwise delivers to the customer a written disclosure of the proposed change not less than 90 days prior to the effective date of such change.

(d) The customer agrees in writing to a change other than a change made to apply a finance charge permitted by the treatment of s. 422.201 (2) by chapter 168, laws of 1979 , to a balance outstanding on April 6, 1980.

(3) No term of a writing executed by the customer shall constitute authorization for a creditor to unilaterally make changes in the terms of the credit plan, which are otherwise prohibited by this section.

(4) A violation of this section is subject to s. 425.304 .

History: 1971 c. 239 ; 1979 c. 168 ; 1981 c. 45 s. 51 ; 1993 a. 150 ; 1995 a. 328 .
Wis. Stat. § 75.37 — WI Code / Chapter 75 / Section 75.37
Waste on land subject to a tax certificate.
Status: in_force

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to cut, destroy or remove any logs, wood or timber or any buildings, fixtures and other improvements assessed as real property from any land included in a tax certificate for the nonpayment of taxes while such taxes remain unpaid; and if any person shall cut, destroy or remove the same from such lands during the time aforesaid the county treasurer of the county in which such lands are situated shall issue a warrant under the treasurer’s hand and seal to the sheriff, giving therein a description of such lands, the amount of such taxes, with interest and charges thereon then remaining unpaid and the years for which the same are unpaid, commanding such sheriff forthwith to seize such logs, wood, timber, buildings, fixtures and improvements, or materials salvaged therefrom, wherever the same may be found and to sell the same or a sufficient amount thereof to satisfy such taxes, with the interest and charges thereon and the costs of such seizure and sale.

(2) The sheriff shall receive such warrant and execute the same as therein directed, as in case of levy and sale on execution, and make return thereof with his or her doings thereon to the county treasurer within 60 days after the receipt of the same and pay over all money collected thereon to such treasurer.

History: 1987 a. 378 .
Wis. Stat. § 49.273 — WI Code / Chapter 49 / Section 49.273
Research, investigations.
Status: in_force

The secretary shall plan for and establish within the department a program of research designed to determine the effectiveness of the treatment, curative, and rehabilitative programs of the various divisions of the department. The secretary may inquire into any matter affecting children and families, hold hearings, subpoena witnesses and make recommendations on those matters to the appropriate public or private agencies.

History: 2007 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 97.18 — WI Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97.18
Oleomargarine regulations.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) For the purposes of this section “oleomargarine” or “margarine” includes oleomargarine, margarine, butterine and other similar substances, fats and fat compounds sufficiently adaptable to the ordinary uses of butter, to lead readily to use as an alternative to butter, but this section shall not apply to lard, cream cheese, cheese food compounds, nor to any other dairy product made exclusively of cow’s milk or milk solids with or without added vitamins, if such product is sold or distributed in such manner and form as will clearly distinguish it from butter. Nor shall this section apply to shortenings not churned or emulsified in milk or cream or having a melting point of 112 degrees Fahrenheit or more as determined by the capillary tube method unless there is sold or given away with such shortening any compound which, when mixed with such shortening, makes oleomargarine, butterine or similar substances.

(b) “Colored oleomargarine” or “colored margarine” is oleomargarine or margarine having a tint or shade containing more than 1 6/10 degrees of yellow or of yellow and red collectively but with an excess of yellow over red, as measured in terms of Lovibond tintometer scales or its equivalent.

(3) No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale at retail any oleomargarine or margarine unless:

(a) Such oleomargarine or margarine is packaged;

(b) The net weight of the contents of any package sold in a retail establishment is one pound;

(c) There appears on the label of the package the word “oleomargarine” or “margarine” in type or lettering at least as large as any other type or lettering on the label in a color of print which clearly contrasts with its background, and a full accurate statement of the ingredients contained in the oleomargarine or margarine; and

(d) Each part of the contents of the package is contained in a wrapper or separate container which bears the word “oleomargarine” or “margarine” in type or lettering not smaller than 20-point type.

(4) The serving of colored oleomargarine or margarine at a public eating place as a substitute for table butter is prohibited unless it is ordered by the customer.

(5) The serving of oleomargarine or margarine to students, patients or inmates of any state institutions as a substitute for table butter is prohibited, except that such substitution may be ordered by the institution superintendent when necessary for the health of a specific patient or inmate, if directed by the physician in charge of the patient or inmate.

(6) Any person who violates any provision of this section may be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 3 months or both; and for each subsequent offense may be fined not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 or imprisoned in the county jail not less than 6 months nor more than one year.

History: 1971 c. 125 ; 1973 c. 90 ; 1975 c. 41 ; 1977 c. 289 ss. 3m , 11 ; Stats. 1977 s. 97.18; 1995 a. 27 s. 9126 (19) ; 1995 a. 225 ; 1997 a. 35 ; 2007 a. 20 s. 9121 (6) (a) ; 2013 a. 374 ; 2015 a. 55 , 242 .
Wis. Stat. § 940.07 — WI Code / Chapter 940 / Section 940.07
Homicide resulting from negligent control of vicious animal.
Status: in_force

Whoever knowing the vicious propensities of any animal intentionally allows it to go at large or keeps it without ordinary care, if such animal, while so at large or not confined, kills any human being who has taken all the precautions which the circumstances may permit to avoid such animal, is guilty of a Class G felony.

History: 1977 c. 173 ; 2001 a. 109 .
Wis. Stat. § 769.611 — WI Code / Chapter 769 / Section 769.611
Modification of child support order of another state.
Status: in_force

(1) After a child support order issued in another state has been registered in this state, unless s. 769.613 applies a tribunal of this state may, upon petition, modify that child support order if, after notice and hearing, it finds one of the following:

(a) That all of the following requirements are met:

1. Neither the child, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the obligor resides in the issuing state.

2. A petitioner who is a nonresident of this state seeks modification.

3. The respondent is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this state.

(b) That this state is the residence of the child, or a party who is an individual is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this state, and that all of the parties who are individuals have filed consents in a record in the issuing tribunal providing that a tribunal of this state may modify the child support order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.

(2) Modification of a registered child support order is subject to the same requirements, procedures and defenses as apply to the modification of an order issued by a tribunal of this state, and the order may be enforced and satisfied in the same manner.

(3) A tribunal of this state may not modify any aspect of a child support order that may not be modified under the law of the issuing state, including the duration of the obligation of support. If 2 or more tribunals have issued child support orders for the same obligor and same child, the child support order that is controlling and must be recognized under s. 769.207 establishes the nonmodifiable aspects of the support order.

(3m) In a proceeding to modify a child support order, the law of the state that is determined to have issued the initial controlling order governs the duration of the obligation of support. The obligor’s fulfillment of the duty of support established by that order precludes the imposition of a further obligation of support by a tribunal of this state.

(4) Upon issuance of an order modifying a child support order issued in another state, a tribunal of this state becomes the tribunal of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.

(5) Notwithstanding subs. (1) to (4) and s. 769.201 (2m) , a tribunal of this state retains jurisdiction to modify an order issued by a tribunal of this state if one party resides in another state and the other party resides outside the United States.

History: 1993 a. 326 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2009 a. 321 ; 2015 a. 82 ss. 9 , 12 .
Wis. Stat. § 48.833 — WI Code / Chapter 48 / Section 48.833
Placement of children for adoption by the department, county departments, and child welfare agencies.
Status: in_force

(1) Placement by department or county department. The department or a county department under s. 48.57 (1) (e) or (hm) may place a child for adoption in a licensed foster home without a court order if the department or county department is the guardian of the child or makes the placement at the request of another agency that is the guardian of the child, if the investigation made under s. 48.75 (3) has been supplemented to evaluate whether the home is suitable for the child, and if the proposed adoptive parents have completed the preadoption preparation required under s. 48.84 (1) or the department or county department determines that the proposed adoptive parents are not required to complete that preparation. The department or a county department under s. 48.57 (1) (e) or (hm) may also place a child for adoption in a licensed foster home without a court order under s. 48.63 (3) (b) . When a child is placed under this subsection in a licensed foster home for adoption, the department or county department making the placement shall enter into a written agreement with the proposed adoptive parent, which shall state the date on which the child is placed in the licensed foster home for adoption by the proposed adoptive parent.

(2) Placement by child welfare agency. A child welfare agency licensed under s. 48.60 may place a child for adoption in a licensed foster home without a court order if the child welfare agency is the guardian of the child or makes the placement at the request of another agency that is the guardian of the child, if the investigation made under s. 48.75 (3) has been supplemented to evaluate whether the home is suitable for the child, and if the proposed adoptive parents have completed the preadoption preparation required under s. 48.84 (1) or the child welfare agency determines that the proposed adoptive parents are not required to complete that preparation. A child welfare agency licensed under s. 48.60 may also place a child for adoption in a licensed foster home without a court order under s. 48.63 (3) (b) . When a child is placed under this subsection in a licensed foster home for adoption, the child welfare agency making the placement shall enter into a written agreement with the proposed adoptive parent, which shall state the date on which the child is placed in the licensed foster home for adoption by the proposed adoptive parent.

(3) Indian child; placement preferences. In placing an Indian child for adoption under sub. (1) or (2) , the department, county department, or child welfare agency shall comply with the order of placement preference under s. 48.028 (7) (a) or, if applicable, s. 48.028 (7) (c) , unless the department, county department, or child welfare agency finds good cause, as described in s. 48.028 (7) (e) , for departing from that order.

History: 1981 c. 81 , 384 ; 1985 a. 176 ; 1989 a. 336 ; 1993 a. 446 ; 1995 a. 275 ; 2005 a. 293 , 448 ; 2007 a. 96 , 186 ; 2009 a. 28 , 94 ; 2015 a. 378 .
Wis. Stat. § 183.0209 — WI Code / Chapter 183 / Section 183.0209
Correcting filed record.
Status: in_force

(1) A person on whose behalf a filed record was delivered to the department for filing may correct the record if any of the following applies:

(a) The record at the time of filing was inaccurate.

(b) The record was defectively signed.

(c) The electronic transmission of the record to the department was defective.

(2) To correct a filed record, a person on whose behalf the record was delivered to the department must deliver to the department for filing a statement of correction.

(3)

(a) A statement of correction may not state a delayed effective date.

(b) A statement of correction must satisfy all of the following:

1. It must be signed by the person correcting the filed record.

2. It must identify the filed record to be corrected.

3. It must specify the inaccuracy or defect to be corrected.

4. It must correct the inaccuracy or defect.

(4) A statement of correction is effective as of the effective date of the filed record that it corrects except for purposes of s. 183.0103 (4) and as to persons relying on the uncorrected filed record and adversely affected by the correction. For those purposes and as to those persons, the statement of correction is effective when filed.

History: 2021 a. 258 .