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Wis. Stat. § 343.36 — WI Code / Chapter 343 / Section 343.36
Department to distribute suspension, revocation and disqualification lists and nonresidents’ records of conviction.
Status: in_force

(2) Once each month, the department shall compile a list of the names and addresses of all residents of this state whose operating privileges were revoked or suspended or who were disqualified under s. 343.315 during the preceding month and the periods of those revocations, suspensions and disqualifications and, upon request, shall forward the list to the sheriff of each county, to the chief of police or the constable, respectively, of each city, village and town and to all county traffic officers.

(3) Upon receiving a record of conviction showing that a nonresident operator of a motor vehicle has been convicted in this state of an offense which is grounds for revocation, suspension or disqualification under the laws of this state, the department shall forward a certified copy of such record to the motor vehicle administrator in the state wherein the person so convicted is a resident.

History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (a) ; 1977 c. 273 ; 1989 a. 167 ; 1995 a. 338 .
Wis. Stat. § 178.0112 — WI Code / Chapter 178 / Section 178.0112
Signing and filing pursuant to judicial order.
Status: in_force

(1) If a person required by this chapter to sign a record or deliver a record to the department for filing under this chapter does not do so, any other person that is aggrieved may petition the circuit court to order any of the following:

(a) The person to sign the record.

(b) The person to deliver the record to the department for filing.

(c) The department to file the record unsigned.

(2) If a petitioner under sub. (1) is not the partnership or foreign partnership to which the record pertains, the petitioner shall make the partnership or foreign partnership a party to the action.

(3) A record filed under sub. (1) (c) is effective without being signed.

History: 2015 a. 295 .
Wis. Stat. § 48.92 — WI Code / Chapter 48 / Section 48.92
Effect of adoption.
Status: in_force

(1) After the order of adoption is entered the relation of parent and child and all the rights, duties and other legal consequences of the natural relation of child and parent thereafter exists between the adopted person and the adoptive parents.

(2) After the order of adoption is entered the relationship of parent and child between the adopted person and the adopted person’s birth parents and the relationship between the adopted person and all persons whose relationship to the adopted person is derived through those birth parents shall be completely altered and all the rights, duties, and other legal consequences of those relationships shall cease to exist, unless the birth parent is the spouse of the adoptive parent, in which case those relationships shall be completely altered and those rights, duties, and other legal consequences shall cease to exist only with respect to the birth parent who is not the spouse of the adoptive parent and all persons whose relationship to the adopted person is derived through that birth parent. Notwithstanding the extinction of all parental rights under this subsection, a court may order reasonable visitation under s. 48.925 .

(3) Rights of inheritance by, from and through an adopted child are governed by ss. 854.20 and 854.21 .

(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed to abrogate the right of the department to make payments to adoptive families under s. 48.48 (12) .

History: 1973 c. 90 ; 1981 c. 359 s. 16 ; 1991 a. 191 , 316 ; 1997 a. 35 , 188 ; 2005 a. 232 .
Wis. Stat. § 250.02 — WI Code / Chapter 250 / Section 250.02
State health officials.
Status: in_force

(1) State health officer; duties. The secretary shall appoint a state health officer and may assign the state health officer such duties of the secretary or department as the secretary provides. The state health officer may appoint such advisory and examining bodies as are needed to carry out the duties of the state health officer and as provided by law. The state health officer shall appoint state epidemiologists for program areas of acute and communicable diseases, occupational and environmental diseases, maternal and child health and chronic diseases. Individuals appointed as state epidemiologists shall have advanced training and expertise in epidemiology in their program areas.

(2) Chief medical officers; qualifications; duties. The state health officer shall appoint chief medical officers in the classified service to provide public health consultation to, and leadership for, state health programs. The chief medical officers shall also serve as state epidemiologists under sub. (1) , for acute and communicable diseases, occupational and environmental diseases, maternal and child health and chronic diseases. The chief medical officers shall be physicians who have training and expertise, as prescribed by the department, appropriate to their areas of assignment. The chief medical officers shall have all of the powers and duties that are designated to them by the state health officer to enforce the health laws of the state and to advise state and local officials as to health promotion, disease prevention and public health intervention strategies necessary to prevent morbidity and unnecessary mortality.

History: 1993 a. 27 ss. 163 , 450 ; Stats. 1993 s. 250.02.
Wis. Stat. § 807.12 — WI Code / Chapter 807 / Section 807.12
Suing by fictitious name or as unknown; partners’ names unknown.
Status: in_force

(1) When the name or a part of the name of any defendant, or when any proper party defendant to an action to establish or enforce, redeem from or discharge a lien or claim to property is unknown to the plaintiff, such defendant may be designated a defendant by so much of the name as is known, or by a fictitious name, or as an unknown heir, representative, owner or person as the case may require, adding such description as may reasonably indicate the person intended. But no person whose title to or interest in land appears of record or who is in actual occupancy of land shall be proceeded against as an unknown owner.

(2) When the name of such defendant is ascertained the process, pleadings and all proceedings may be amended by an order directing the insertion of the true name instead of the designation employed.

(3) In an action against a partnership, if the names of the partners are unknown to the plaintiff, all proceedings may be in the partnership name until the names of the partners are ascertained, whereupon the process, pleadings and all proceedings shall be amended by order directing the insertion of such names.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 748 (1975).
Wis. Stat. § 949.13 — WI Code / Chapter 949 / Section 949.13
Agency cooperation.
Status: in_force

Upon request by the department, any state or local agency, including a district attorney or law enforcement agency, shall make available all reports, files and other appropriate information which the department requests in order to make a determination that a person is eligible for an award under this subchapter.

History: 1981 c. 20 ; 1985 a. 242 ; 2007 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 200.43 — WI Code / Chapter 200 / Section 200.43
Acquisition of property.
Status: in_force

(1) General power of the commission. The commission may acquire by gift, purchase, lease or other methods of acquisition or by condemnation, any real property situated in the state and all tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances belonging or in any way appertaining to, or in any interest, franchise, easement, right or privilege therein, that may be needed for the purpose of projecting, planning, constructing and maintaining the sewerage system, that may be needed for the collection, transmission or disposal of all sewage or drainage of the district or that may be needed for improving any river or stream within the district under s. 200.35 (8) (a) or (b) .

(2) Altering streams over private lands. No stream over private lands may be altered unless the commission acquires the lands under sub. (1) or unless the governing body of the village, town or city in which the stream is located approves the proposed alteration.

(3) Condemnation. Section 32.05 controls the process of condemnation under this section. The commission shall establish the public necessity for any acquisition by condemnation.

(4) Conveyance of property acquired. All property, real or personal, acquired by the commission shall be taken for the benefit of and shall belong to the district. The commission may convey any part of its interest in real or personal property it has acquired that is not needed to carry out the powers and duties of the commission.

History: 1981 c. 282 , 391 ; 1999 a. 150 s. 587 ; Stats. 1999 s. 200.43.
Wis. Stat. § 611.34 — WI Code / Chapter 611 / Section 611.34
Corporate repurchase of shares.
Status: in_force

No stock corporation may repurchase any of its own shares within 5 years after initial issuance of the certificate of authority, except pursuant to a plan for the repurchase which has been approved by the commissioner. After 5 years a stock corporation may repurchase its own shares under ss. 180.0631 , 180.0640 , and 180.1708 (2) , but within 10 days after the end of any month in which it purchases more than one percent of any class of its outstanding shares the corporation shall report the price and the names of the registered shareholders from whom the shares are acquired and of any other persons beneficially interested, so far as the latter are known to the corporation. The corporation shall make a like report within 10 days after the end of any 3-month period in which it purchases more than 2 percent of any class of its outstanding shares or within 10 days after the end of any 12-month period in which it purchases more than 5 percent of any class of its outstanding shares.

History: 1971 c. 260 ; 1989 a. 303 ; 2009 a. 177 .
Wis. Stat. § 252.25 — WI Code / Chapter 252 / Section 252.25
Violation of law relating to health.
Status: in_force

Any person who willfully violates or obstructs the execution of any state statute or rule, county, city or village ordinance or departmental order under this chapter and relating to the public health, for which no other penalty is prescribed, shall be imprisoned for not more than 30 days or fined not more than $500 or both.

History: 1981 c. 291 ; 1993 a. 27 s. 300 ; Stats. 1993 s. 252.25.
Wis. Stat. § 601.19 — WI Code / Chapter 601 / Section 601.19
Organization of the office.
Status: in_force

The commissioner shall publish periodically in the Wisconsin administrative code an up-to-date chart and explanation of the organization of the commissioner’s office, making clear the allocation of responsibility and authority among the staff.

History: 1979 c. 102 s. 236 (14) .
Wis. Stat. § 28.035 — WI Code / Chapter 28 / Section 28.035
American Legion State Forest.
Status: in_force

(1) The state forest located in townships 38 and 39 north, ranges 7, 8 and 9 east, Oneida County, shall be named the American Legion State Forest.

(2) The department shall enter into an agreement with the Wisconsin department of the American Legion for hunting in the state forest lands described as lots 3, 4, 6 and 7 of section 8 and lots 2 and 3 of section 17, township 38 north, range 7 east, Oneida County, which are used in connection with Camp American Legion and which the Legion is now maintaining on this location as a restoration camp for sick and disabled veterans and their dependents.

(3)

(a) The written lease entered into between the Wisconsin state department of the American Legion and the department of natural resources dated June 15, 1944, which leases Camp American Legion for a period of 10 years commencing June 1, 1944, shall continue in full force for an additional 10 years, and may be renewed for additional 10-year periods, notwithstanding the expiration of the term expressed in the lease, so long as the Wisconsin state department of the American Legion or any of the American Legion posts organized under s. 188.08 maintains on the property structures which were constructed prior to May 31, 1956, at the expense of the Wisconsin state department of the American Legion or any post, for the purpose of the rehabilitation, restoration, or recreation of veterans and their dependents of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Mexican border service, World Wars I and II, the Korean conflict, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, and service in a crisis zone, as defined in s. 45.01 (11) .

(b) The ownership of all of the buildings and equipment of the camp shall revert to the state upon the discontinuance of the use thereof for such purposes. On or before January 15 of each year the department of the American Legion shall file with the governor, the department of veterans affairs and the department of natural resources a written report of the operations and the financial status of the camp.

History: 1971 c. 164 ; 1977 c. 29 s. 537 ; 1977 c. 224 ; 1979 c. 34 ; 1983 a. 430 ; 1987 a. 399 ; 1991 a. 2 , 165 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 2003 a. 83 ; 2005 a. 22 ; 2015 a. 196 .
Wis. Stat. § 350.103 — WI Code / Chapter 350 / Section 350.103
Implied consent.
Status: in_force

Any person who engages in the operation of a snowmobile upon the public highways of this state, or in those areas enumerated in s. 350.1025 , is deemed to have given consent to provide one or more samples of his or her breath, blood or urine for the purpose of authorized analysis as required under s. 350.104 . Any person who engages in the operation of a snowmobile within this state is deemed to have given consent to submit to one or more chemical tests of his or her breath, blood or urine for the purpose of authorized analysis as required under s. 350.104 .

History: 1987 a. 399 .
Wis. Stat. § 195.31 — WI Code / Chapter 195 / Section 195.31
Bridges made safe.
Status: in_force

Whenever a complaint is lodged with the office by the common council of any city, the village board of any village, a member of a town board, or a supervisor of highways, or by 5 or more electors and taxpayers in any town, or 5 or more electors of the county in which such bridge is located, and who are users of such bridge or railway, to the effect that a bridge erected over a stream intersecting a public highway or highways upon which a railway is constructed and operated, is unsafe and dangerous to travelers over such highway or highways or bridge or railroad, and that public safety requires the alteration, the repair or reconstruction of such bridge, or the substitution of another bridge therefor, it shall be the duty of the office to give notice to the party or parties in interest, other than the petitioners, of the filing of such complaint, and to furnish a copy of the complaint to the party or parties in interest other than the petitioners, and to order a hearing thereon, in the manner provided for hearings in ss. 195.04 to 195.043 . The office may proceed in a similar manner in the absence of a petition when, in the opinion of the office, public safety requires the alteration, repair or reconstruction of a bridge or the substitution of another bridge for the bridge in question. After the hearing, the office shall determine what alteration or repair or reconstruction of such bridge, and the approaches thereto, shall be made, or if it shall determine that public safety requires the substitution of a new bridge, it shall determine the character, manner of construction and location of such bridge and the approaches thereto. The office shall fix the proportion of the cost and expense of such alteration, repair, reconstruction or substitution of a new bridge, including the damage to any person whose land is taken, and the special damage which the owner of any land adjoining the approaches to said bridge shall sustain by reason of the alteration, repair, reconstruction or substitution of a new bridge, to be paid by the railroad company and the city, village or town in interest.

History: 1977 c. 29 ss. 1654 (9) (e) , 1656 (43) ; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1) ; 1993 a. 16 , 123 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.503 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.503
Manner of seller’s tender of delivery.
Status: in_force

(1) Tender of delivery requires that the seller put and hold conforming goods at the buyer’s disposition and give the buyer any notification reasonably necessary to enable the buyer to take delivery. The manner, time and place for tender are determined by the agreement and this chapter, and in particular:

(a) Tender must be at a reasonable hour, and if it is of goods they must be kept available for the period reasonably necessary to enable the buyer to take possession; but

(b) Unless otherwise agreed the buyer must furnish facilities reasonably suited to the receipt of the goods.

(2) Where the case is within s. 402.504 respecting shipment tender requires that the seller comply with its provisions.

(3) Where the seller is required to deliver at a particular destination tender requires that the seller comply with sub. (1) and also in any appropriate case tender documents as described in subs. (4) and (5) .

(4) Where goods are in the possession of a bailee and are to be delivered without being moved:

(a) Tender requires that the seller either tender a negotiable document of title covering such goods or procure acknowledgment by the bailee of the buyer’s right to possession of the goods; but

(b) Tender to the buyer of a nonnegotiable document of title or of a record directing the bailee to deliver is sufficient tender unless the buyer seasonably objects, and except as otherwise provided in ch. 409 receipt by the bailee of notification of the buyer’s rights fixes those rights as against the bailee and all 3rd persons; but risk of loss of the goods and of any failure by the bailee to honor the nonnegotiable document of title or to obey the direction remains on the seller until the buyer has had a reasonable time to present the document or direction, and a refusal by the bailee to honor the document or to obey the direction defeats the tender.

(5) Where the contract requires the seller to deliver documents:

(a) The seller must tender all such documents in correct form, except as provided in s. 402.323 (2) with respect to bills of lading in a set; and

(b) Tender through customary banking channels is sufficient and dishonor of a draft accompanying or associated with the documents constitutes nonacceptance or rejection.

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 2005 a. 253 ; 2009 a. 322 .
Wis. Stat. § 631.27 — WI Code / Chapter 631 / Section 631.27
Rules of law as provisions of contracts.
Status: in_force

By rule, the commissioner may require an insurer to insert in a policy any rule of law stated in chs. 600 to 646 and 655 that is applicable to the contents or interpretation of an insurance contract.

History: 1975 c. 375 ; 1979 c. 89 ; 1989 a. 187 s. 29 .
Wis. Stat. § 411.208 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.208
Modification, rescission and waiver.
Status: in_force

(1) An agreement modifying a lease contract needs no consideration to be binding.

(2) A signed lease agreement that excludes modification or rescission except by a signed writing may not be otherwise modified or rescinded, but, except as between merchants, such a requirement on a form supplied by a merchant must be signed separately by the other party.

(3) Although an attempt at modification or rescission does not satisfy the requirements of sub. (2) , it may operate as a waiver.

(4) A party who has made a waiver affecting an executory portion of a lease contract may retract the waiver by reasonable notification received by the other party that strict performance shall be required of any term waived, unless the retraction would be unjust in view of a material change of position in reliance on the waiver.

History: 1991 a. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 121.095 — WI Code / Chapter 121 / Section 121.095
State aid adjustment; Challenge Academy program.
Status: in_force

(1) Annually the department shall reduce each school district’s state aid payment under s. 121.08 , or other state aid payments, if necessary, by an amount calculated as follows:

(a) Determine the number of pupils counted in the school district’s membership who are attending the Challenge Academy program under s. 321.03 (1) (c) .

(b) Multiply the result under par. (a) by the lesser of the following:

1. The amount determined by the department of military affairs under s. 321.03 (1) (c) 1.

2. The amount determined for the school district under s. 121.91 (2m) (e) 3. for the current school year.

(2) From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) , annually the department of public instruction shall pay to the department of military affairs an amount equal to the sum of the reductions under sub. (1) . The department of public instruction shall ensure that the aid adjustment under sub. (1) does not affect the amount determined to be received by a school district as state aid under s. 121.08 or for any other purpose.

History: 2001 a. 109 ; 2007 a. 200 .
Wis. Stat. § 109.015 — WI Code / Chapter 109 / Section 109.015
Franchisors excluded.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter, a franchisor, as defined in 16 CFR 436.1 (k) , is not considered to be an employer of a franchisee, as defined in 16 CFR 436.1 (i) , or of an employee of a franchisee, unless any of the following applies:

(1) The franchisor has agreed in writing to assume that role.

(2) The franchisor has been found by the department to have exercised a type or degree of control over the franchisee or the franchisee’s employees that is not customarily exercised by a franchisor for the purpose of protecting the franchisor’s trademarks and brand.

History: 2015 a. 203 .
Wis. Stat. § 898.17 — WI Code / Chapter 898 / Section 898.17
Bond to be given.
Status: in_force

Such bond shall be executed by the prisoner and one or more sureties, to be approved by the sheriff, in a sum not less than double the amount of the sum in which the sheriff was required to hold the defendant to bail, or double the amount directed to be collected by the execution, or double the amount of the costs or sum of money ordered to be paid, as the case may be, and shall be conditioned that such defendant shall remain a true and faithful prisoner and shall not escape or go without the limits of such jail liberties until discharged by due course of law. Every such bond shall be held for the indemnity of the sheriff taking the same and of the party at whose suit or for whose benefit such prisoner is confined.