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Wis. Stat. § 180.0502 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.0502
Change of registered office or registered agent.
Status: in_force

(1) A corporation may change its registered office or registered agent, or both, by delivering to the department for filing a statement of change that states all of the following:

(a) The name of the corporation or foreign corporation.

(b) The information that is to be in effect as a result of the filing of the statement of change.

(1m) A statement of change under this section designating a new registered agent is an affirmation of fact by the corporation that the agent has consented to serve.

(1r) As an alternative to using the procedure in this section, a corporation may amend or restate its articles of incorporation.

(3) If the name or e-mail address of a registered agent changes or if the street address of a registered agent’s business office changes, the registered agent may change the name or e-mail address of the registered agent or street address of the registered office of any corporation for which he, she, or it is the registered agent. To make a change under this subsection, the registered agent shall notify the corporation in writing of the change and deliver to the department for filing a statement of change that recites that the corporation has been notified of the change and states all of the following:

(a) The name of the corporation represented by the registered agent.

(b) The name, e-mail address, and street address of the agent as currently shown in the records of the department for the corporation.

(c) The new name, new e-mail address, or new street address of the agent.

(5) A registered agent promptly shall furnish notice to the represented corporation of the filing by the department of the statement of change and the changes made by the statement.

History: 1989 a. 303 ; 1991 a. 269 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2005 a. 476 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 779.26 — WI Code / Chapter 779 / Section 779.26
Lien of improvement companies.
Status: in_force

Every company whose charter authorizes it to collect tolls on logs, lumber or timber shall have a lien thereon, with the remedies herein given to enforce liens for labor and services in respect to logs or timber.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 57 ; Stats. 1979 s. 779.26.
Wis. Stat. § 448.63 — WI Code / Chapter 448 / Section 448.63
Licensure of podiatrists.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to sub. (4) , the affiliated credentialing board shall grant a license as a podiatrist to a person who does all of the following:

(a) Submits an application for the license to the department on a form provided by the department.

(b) Pays the fee specified in s. 440.05 (1) .

(c) Subject to ss. 111.321 , 111.322 and 111.335 , submits evidence satisfactory to the affiliated credentialing board that the applicant does not have an arrest or conviction record.

(d) Submits evidence satisfactory to the affiliated credentialing board of all of the following:

1. That the applicant is a graduate of a school of podiatric medicine and surgery approved by the affiliated credentialing board and possesses a diploma from such school conferring the degree of doctor of podiatric medicine, or equivalent degree as determined by the affiliated credentialing board, unless the affiliated credentialing board waives these requirements under sub. (2) .

2. That the applicant has completed 2 years of postgraduate training in a program approved by the affiliated credentialing board or one year of postgraduate training in a program approved by the affiliated credentialing board if the one-year postgraduate training was completed by June 1, 2010.

(e) Passes an examination under s. 448.64 .

(2) The affiliated credentialing board may waive the requirement under sub. (1) (d) 1. for an applicant who establishes, to the satisfaction of the affiliated credentialing board, all of the following:

(a) That he or she is a graduate of a podiatry school.

(b) That he or she is licensed as a podiatrist by another licensing jurisdiction in the United States.

(c) That the jurisdiction in which he or she is licensed required the licensee to be a graduate of a school approved by the licensing jurisdiction or of a school that the licensing jurisdiction evaluated for education equivalency.

(d) That he or she has actively practiced podiatry, under the license issued by the other licensing jurisdiction in the United States, for at least 3 years immediately preceding the date of his or her application.

(3) The affiliated credentialing board may promulgate rules providing for various classes of temporary licenses to practice podiatry.

(4) The affiliated credentialing board may grant a limited license to an applicant for a license under sub. (1) if the affiliated credentialing board finds that the applicant has not demonstrated adequate education, training or performance on any past examination or in any past practice, and that, based upon considerations of public health and safety, the applicant does not qualify for full licensure under sub. (1) .

History: 1997 a. 175 ; 2005 a. 334 ; 2011 a. 146 .
Wis. Stat. § 46.248 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.248
Reach Out and Read Wisconsin grants.
Status: in_force

From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (dx) , the department shall distribute moneys to Reach Out and Read, Inc., for the early literacy program known as Reach Out and Read Wisconsin.

History: 2021 a. 58 .
Wis. Stat. § 895.345 — WI Code / Chapter 895 / Section 895.345
Justification of individual sureties.
Status: in_force

(1) This section shall apply to any bond or undertaking in an amount of more than $1,000 whereon individuals are offered as sureties, which is authorized or required by any provision of the statutes to be given or furnished in or in connection with any civil action or proceeding in any court of record in this state, in connection with which bond or undertaking real property is offered as security.

(2) Before any such bond or undertaking shall be approved, there shall be attached thereto and made a part of such bond or undertaking a statement under oath in duplicate by the surety that the surety is the sole owner of the property offered by the surety as security and containing the following additional information:

(a) The full name and address of the surety.

(b) That the surety is a resident of this state.

(c) An accurate description by lot and block number, if part of a recorded and filed plat, or by metes and bounds of the real estate offered as security.

(d) A statement that none of the properties offered constitute the homestead of the surety.

(e) A statement of the total amount of the liens, unpaid taxes and other encumbrances against each property offered.

(f) A statement as to the assessed value of each property offered, its market value and the value of the equity over and above all encumbrances, liens and unpaid taxes.

(g) That the equity of the real property is equal to twice the penalty of the bond or undertaking.

(3) This sworn statement shall be in addition to and notwithstanding other affidavits or statements of justification required or provided for elsewhere in the statutes in connection with such bonds and undertakings.

History: 1993 a. 486 ; 1999 a. 96 .
Wis. Stat. § 49.37 — WI Code / Chapter 49 / Section 49.37
Offender reentry demonstration project.
Status: in_force

(1) Beginning in fiscal year 2017-18, the department of children and families shall establish a 5-year offender reentry demonstration project focused on noncustodial fathers in a 1st class city.

(2) Upon completion of the demonstration project under sub. (1) and by June 30, 2023, the department of children and families shall conduct an evaluation of the demonstration project.

History: 2017 a. 59 .
Wis. Stat. § 613.52 — WI Code / Chapter 613 / Section 613.52
Officers.
Status: in_force

(1) General. Sections 181.0840 and 181.0841 apply to service insurance corporations, as modified by s. 613.12 (3) .

(2) Removal. Sections 181.0843 and 181.0844 apply to service insurance corporations.

History: 1975 c. 223 ; 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 97.635 — WI Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97.635
Liability of hotelkeeper for loss of property by fire or theft; owner’s risk.
Status: in_force

A hotelkeeper is not liable for the loss of baggage or other property of a hotel guest by a fire unintentionally produced by the hotelkeeper. Every hotelkeeper is liable for loss of baggage or other property of a guest caused by theft or gross negligence of the hotelkeeper. The liability may not exceed $200 for each trunk and its contents, $75 for each valise and its contents and $10 for each box, bundle or package and contents, so placed under the care of the hotelkeeper; and $50 for all other effects including wearing apparel and personal belongings, unless the hotelkeeper has agreed in writing with the guest to assume a greater liability. When any person permits his or her baggage or property to remain in any hotel after the person’s status as a guest has ceased, or forwards the baggage or property to a hotel before becoming a guest and the baggage or property is received into the hotel, the hotelkeeper holds the baggage or property at the risk of the owner.

History: 1975 c. 413 s. 15 ; Stats. 1975 s. 50.82; 1991 a. 316 ; 1993 a. 27 s. 87 ; Stats. 1993 s. 254.82; 2015 a. 55 s. 4097 ; 2015 Stats. s. 97.635.
Wis. Stat. § 341.615 — WI Code / Chapter 341 / Section 341.615
Reproducing evidence of registration prohibited.
Status: in_force

Except as authorized by the department, any person who reproduces, by any means whatever, a registration plate, insert tag, decal or other evidence of registration shall forfeit not less than $200 nor more than $500.

History: 1995 a. 128 .
Wis. Stat. § 96.11 — WI Code / Chapter 96 / Section 96.11
Assessments.
Status: in_force

(1) Each marketing order issued under this chapter shall provide for the levying and collection of assessments in sufficient amounts to defray the expenses incurred by the marketing board for program operations and administration of the order. Each marketing order shall indicate the maximum rate of any such assessment which may be collected and the proportion, if any, payable by each producer or handler directly affected by the marketing order. The marketing board may recommend to the secretary the assessment rate necessary to provide sufficient funds to cover the marketing order budget. The marketing board shall determine when assessments become due and payable and the units upon which the assessment rate applies. All assessments collected are payable to the marketing board.

(2) If the secretary finds that the marketing order budget or assessment rate exceeds the limitations of, or is contrary to, the declared purposes of this chapter or the marketing order, the secretary may disapprove the budget and any amendments to the budget, or assessment rate.

(3)

(a)

1. Except as provided under par. (c) , a corn producer who sells corn that is subject to the assessment levied under sub. (1) under the marketing order for corn shall pay an additional assessment of 0.4 cents per bushel, to be collected and remitted to the marketing board in the manner provided in the marketing order for the assessment under sub. (1) .

2. If the marketing order for corn provides for rebates under s. 96.13 (2) , a producer to whom subd. 1. applies may obtain a rebate of the assessment paid under subd. 1. in the manner provided in the marketing order for obtaining a rebate of the assessment levied under sub. (1) .

(b) The marketing board for corn shall use the moneys received under par. (a) for the purposes of the marketing order for corn.

(c)

1. The department shall conduct a referendum on whether to terminate the assessment under par. (a) if after June 30, 2011, and before January 1, 2012, 10 percent of the producers who sell corn that is subject to the assessment levied under sub. (1) petition for a referendum. The assessment under par. (a) does not apply after June 30, 2012, if a referendum to terminate the assessment is approved by affected producers.

2. If the marketing order for corn is terminated, pars. (a) and (b) do not apply.

History: 1981 c. 283 ss. 22 , 29 , 30 ; Stats. 1981 s. 96.11; 2007 a. 26 .
Wis. Stat. § 118.57 — WI Code / Chapter 118 / Section 118.57
Notice of educational options; accountability report performance category; pupil assessments.
Status: in_force

(1) Annually, by January 31, each school board shall publish as a class 1 notice, under ch. 985 , and post on its Internet site a description of the educational options available to children in the school district, including public schools, private schools participating in a parental choice program, charter schools, virtual schools, full-time or part-time open enrollment in a nonresident school district, the youth apprenticeship program under s. 106.13 , and the early college credit program. A school board that does not operate high school grades is not required to include an educational option offered only to high school pupils in a description of educational options under this subsection.

(2) The school board shall include in the notice under sub. (1) the most recent performance category assigned under s. 115.385 (1) (b) to each school within the school district boundaries, including charter schools established under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x) and private schools participating in a parental choice program under s. 118.60 or 119.23 . The notice published by the school board shall inform parents that the full school and school district accountability report is available on the school board’s Internet site.

History: 2015 a. 55 ; 2017 a. 59 , 143 ; 2021 a. 83 .
Wis. Stat. § 221.0803 — WI Code / Chapter 221 / Section 221.0803
Charter, how forfeited.
Status: in_force

If the board of directors or a quorum thereof or any committee of the board of any bank knowingly violates or knowingly permits any of the officers, agents or employees of the bank to violate this chapter, the directors are jointly and severally liable for the amount of the loss sustained by the bank. If, after a warning from the division, the directors shall fail to make good any loss or damage resulting from the violations, or continue such conduct, it shall constitute a ground for the forfeiture of the charter of the bank, and the division shall institute proceedings to enforce the forfeiture and to secure a dissolution and a winding up of the affairs of the bank.

History: 1995 a. 336 .
Wis. Stat. § 61.195 — WI Code / Chapter 61 / Section 61.195
Discontinuance and change of term of offices.
Status: in_force

Any village may proceed pursuant to s. 66.0101 to discontinue the office of marshal or constable, to change the method of selection of or tenure of any officer other than members of the village board, to consolidate any such office or to change the term of office of members of the village board.

History: 1999 a. 150 s. 672 .
Wis. Stat. § 625.23 — WI Code / Chapter 625 / Section 625.23
Special restrictions on individual insurers.
Status: in_force

The commissioner may by order require that a particular insurer file any or all of its rates and supplementary rate information 15 days prior to their effective date, if and to the extent that he or she finds, after a hearing, that the protection of the interests of its insureds and the public in this state requires closer supervision of its rates because of the insurer’s financial condition or rating practices. The commissioner may extend the waiting period for any filing for not to exceed 15 additional days by written notice to the insurer before the first 15-day period expires. A filing not disapproved before the expiration of the waiting period shall be deemed to meet the requirements of this chapter, subject to the possibility of subsequent disapproval under s. 625.22 .

History: 1979 c. 102 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0303 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0303
Emergency powers.
Status: in_force

(1) Definition. In this section, “emergency” has the meaning given in s. 181.0207 (1) .

(2) Powers. In anticipation of or during an emergency, the board or members of a corporation may do all of the following:

(a) Modify lines of succession to accommodate the incapacity of a director, officer, employee or agent.

(b) Relocate the principal office, designate alternative principal offices or regional offices, or authorize the officers to do so.

(3) Meetings. Unless emergency bylaws adopted under s. 181.0207 provide otherwise, all of the following apply to a meeting of the board during an emergency:

(a) The corporation need give notice of a meeting of the board only to those directors whom it is practicable to reach and the corporation may give notice in any practicable manner, including by publication and radio.

(b) One or more officers of the corporation present at a meeting of the board may be considered to be a director for the meeting, in order of rank and within the same rank in order of seniority, as necessary to achieve a quorum.

(4) Action taken during emergency. Corporate action taken in good faith during an emergency under this section to further the ordinary affairs of the corporation binds the corporation and may not be used to impose liability on a corporate director, officer, member, employee or agent.

History: 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 626.13 — WI Code / Chapter 626 / Section 626.13
Approval of rates and rating plans.
Status: in_force

The bureau shall 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. Every such filing shall state its proposed effective date. The bureau shall also file the information upon which it supports the filings. All filings must comply with the law and shall not be effective nor used until approved by the commissioner. A filing that has been on file for 30 days is deemed to meet the requirements of ss. 626.11 and 626.12 unless the commissioner earlier disapproves in a written order.

History: 1975 c. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 105.01 — WI Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105.01
Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Employment agent” means all persons who furnish to persons seeking employment, information enabling or tending to enable such persons to secure the same, or who furnish employers seeking laborers or other help of any kind, information enabling or tending to enable such employers to secure such help, or who keep a register of persons seeking employment or help as aforesaid, whether such agents conduct their operations at a fixed place of business, on the streets or as transients, and also whether such operations constitute the principal business of such agents or only a sideline or an incident to another business. Employment agent does not include:

(a) Any employer who procures help for himself or herself only or an employee of such an employer who procures help for the employer and does not act in a similar capacity for any other employer.

(b) Any temporary help service defined as any person employing individuals to render part-time or temporary services to, for or under the direction of a 3rd person, if:

1. The person employing the individuals in addition to wages or salaries pays federal social security taxes, state and federal unemployment contributions or taxes, carries worker’s compensation insurance as required by state law and maintains liability insurance covering the acts of its employees while rendering services to, for or under the direction of a 3rd person; and

2. The employer’s contracts with its employees do not contain any provision requiring the forfeiture or payment of any amount by the employee as liquidated damages upon the acceptance of permanent employment by an employee with a 3rd person who has received the employee’s part-time or temporary services.

(c) Any hiring hall operated by a bona fide labor union.

(d) Any theatrical or booking agent.

(e) An employment counselor.

(f) A person whose fees or charges are paid entirely by an employer.

(2) “Employment counselor” means any placement manager, placement director, interviewer or any other person employed by an employment agency who interviews, counsels or confers with job applicants or employers for the purpose of placing or procuring job applicants. This term does not include employees of an employment agency who are primarily engaged in clerical or administrative occupations.

History: 1973 c. 226 ; 1975 c. 147 s. 54 ; 1977 c. 26 ; 1989 a. 220 ; 1993 a. 492 .
Wis. Stat. § 1.055 — WI Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1.055
National forest.
Status: in_force

(1) Consent of this state is given to the acquisition by the United States by purchase, gift, lease or condemnation, with adequate compensation therefor, of such areas of land not exceeding 2,000,000 acres as the United States deems necessary for the establishment of national forests in the state, in accordance with the act of congress approved June 7, 1924, and the board of commissioners of public lands are authorized to sell and convey for a fair consideration to the United States any state lands included within such areas; provided, that this state shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over such areas so far that civil process, in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of this state against any persons charged with the commission of any crime within or without said areas, may be executed thereon in like manner as if this consent had not been given. Provided, further, that the boundaries of any areas so selected shall be first approved by the governor, the board of commissioners of public lands, the department of natural resources, and the county board of each county in which any such area is located.

(2) Power is conferred upon the congress of the United States to pass such laws and to make or provide for the making of such rules and regulations, of both a civil and criminal nature and provide punishment therefor, as in its judgment may be necessary for the administration, control and protection of such lands as may be acquired by the United States under sub. (1) .
Wis. Stat. § 111.89 — WI Code / Chapter 111 / Section 111.89
Strike prohibited.
Status: in_force

(1) Upon establishing that a strike is in progress, the employer may either seek an injunction or file an unfair labor practice charge with the commission under s. 111.84 (2) (e) or both. It is the responsibility of the division to decide whether to seek an injunction or file an unfair labor practice charge. The existence of an administrative remedy does not constitute grounds for denial of injunctive relief.

(2) The occurrence of a strike and the participation therein by an employee do not affect the rights of the employer, in law or in equity, to deal with the strike, including:

(a) The right to impose discipline, including discharge, or suspension without pay, of any employee participating therein;

(b) The right to cancel the reinstatement eligibility of any employee engaging therein; and

(c) The right of the employer to request the imposition of fines, either against the labor organization or the employee engaging therein, or to sue for damages because of such strike activity.

History: 1971 c. 270 ; 1977 c. 196 s. 130 (9) ; 1977 c. 273 ; 1985 a. 42 ; 1989 a. 336 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2003 a. 33 ; 2015 a. 55 .