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Wis. Stat. § 440.045 — WI Code / Chapter 440 / Section 440.045
Disputes.
Status: in_force

Any dispute between an examining board or an affiliated credentialing board and the secretary shall be arbitrated by the governor or the governor’s designee after consultation with the disputants.

History: 1977 c. 418 s. 27 ; 1979 c. 34 ; 1993 a. 107 .
Wis. Stat. § 182.42 — WI Code / Chapter 182 / Section 182.42
Not to be considered public utilities.
Status: in_force

Turnpike corporations are not to be subject to regulations under ch. 196 as a public utility.
Wis. Stat. § 84.20 — WI Code / Chapter 84 / Section 84.20
State repair and maintenance of highways and streets.
Status: in_force

Damage to any county trunk or town highway or city or village street caused by reason of its use as a detour designated by the department or for hauling materials incident to the maintenance, repair or construction by the department of any state trunk highway or street over which a state trunk highway is routed, shall be repaired by the department. Such highway or street shall also be maintained by the department during such use. Subject to s. 86.255 , the cost of such repairs and maintenance shall be paid from funds appropriated and available to the department for the maintenance and improvement of state trunk highways and connecting highways under s. 20.395 (3) .

History: 1973 c. 333 s. 201w ; 1977 c. 29 ss. 1654 (3) , (6) (b), (8) (a), 1656 (43) ; 1999 a. 9 .
Wis. Stat. § 182.35 — WI Code / Chapter 182 / Section 182.35
Acquisition of lands and interests therein.
Status: in_force

(1) Turnpike corporations may acquire by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation any lands determined by them to be necessary for establishing, laying out, widening, enlarging, extending, constructing, reconstructing, improving and maintaining its project including lands which may be necessary for toll houses and appropriate concessions and for any other purpose authorized by ss. 182.30 to 182.48 . Title may be acquired in fee simple and any other interest in lands may be acquired as may be deemed expedient or necessary by the corporation. Any lands determined to be unneeded by the corporation may be sold by the corporation at public or private sale with or without restrictions or reservations concerning the future use and occupation of such lands so as to protect the project and improvements and their environs and to preserve the view, appearance, light, air and usefulness of the project.

(2) If the lands or interests therein cannot be purchased expeditiously for a reasonable price, the corporation may acquire the same by condemnation under ch. 32 .
Wis. Stat. § 66.0109 — WI Code / Chapter 66 / Section 66.0109
Penalties under county and municipal ordinances.
Status: in_force

If a statute requires that the penalty under any county or municipal ordinance conform to the penalty provided by statute the ordinance may impose only a forfeiture and may provide for imprisonment if the forfeiture is not paid.

History: 1971 c. 278 ; 1999 a. 150 s. 272 ; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0109.
Wis. Stat. § 440.075 — WI Code / Chapter 440 / Section 440.075
Military service education, training, instruction, or other experience.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “instruction” means any education, training, instruction, or other experience related to an occupation or profession.

(2) The department, if the department issues the credential, or the credentialing board, if a credentialing board issues the credential, shall count any relevant instruction that an applicant for an initial credential has obtained in connection with the applicant’s military service, as defined in s. 111.32 (12g) , toward satisfying any instruction requirements for that credential if the applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the department or credentialing board that the instruction obtained by the applicant is substantially equivalent to the instruction required for the initial credential.

History: 2011 a. 120 .
Wis. Stat. § 786.37 — WI Code / Chapter 786 / Section 786.37
Change of name, notice of petition.
Status: in_force

(1) Before petitioning the court to change or establish a name, the petitioner shall publish a class 3 notice under ch. 985 stating the nature of the petition and when and where the petition will be heard.

(2) If the petition is for the name change of a minor under 14 years of age who has 2 living parents and if the petition is being made by one parent of the minor, the petitioner shall, in addition to publishing the notice under sub. (1) , serve a copy of the notice and petition on the nonpetitioning parent in the same manner as a summons is served under s. 801.11 (1) . This subsection does not apply to a petition for the name change of a minor under 14 years of age made under s. 786.36 (1m) (c) .

(3) This section does not apply to the name change of a minor if the parental rights to the minor of both parents have been terminated, guardianship and legal custody of the minor have been transferred under subch. VIII of ch. 48 , the minor has been placed in a permanent foster home, and the guardian and legal custodian of the minor have petitioned to change the minor’s name to the name or names of the minor’s foster parents.

(4) If a petitioner requests that his or her petition to change or establish a name remain confidential, the clerk of court shall ensure that the name change petition is confidential upon the filing of the petition and sub. (1) does not apply to the petitioner. The court may require the petitioner to comply with sub. (1) if the petitioner is unable to show, by a preponderance of the evidence, that publication of his or her petition could endanger him or her and that he or she is not seeking a name change in order to avoid a debt or conceal a criminal record.

History: 1975 c. 261 ; 1979 c. 32 s. 63 ; 1979 c. 330 s. 13 ; Stats. 1979 s. 786.37; 1987 a. 403 ; 1993 a. 446 ; 2003 a. 65 ; 2009 a. 28 ; 2011 a. 274 ; 2013 a. 322 ; 2021 a. 182 .
Wis. Stat. § 943.231 — WI Code / Chapter 943 / Section 943.231
Carjacking.
Status: in_force

(1) Whoever, while possessing a dangerous weapon and by the use of, or the threat of the use of, force or the weapon against another, intentionally takes any vehicle without the consent of the owner is guilty of a Class B felony.

(2) Whoever, by the use of force against another or by the threat of the use of force against another, intentionally takes any vehicle without the consent of the owner is guilty of a Class E felony.

(3) Whoever knows that the owner does not consent to the driving or operation of a vehicle and intentionally accompanies, as a passenger in the vehicle, a person while he or she violates sub. (1) is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

History: 2023 a. 10 ss. 21 , 22 , 24 .
Wis. Stat. § 96.01 — WI Code / Chapter 96 / Section 96.01
Agricultural marketing act; definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Affected commodity” means any agricultural commodity for which the production, marketing, processing, handling, sale or distribution of is included under the terms of a marketing order or marketing agreement or a proposed marketing order or marketing agreement.

(2) “Affected producer or handler” means any producer or handler of an affected commodity, except that it does not include a producer or handler not assenting to a marketing agreement.

(3) “Agricultural commodity” means any agricultural, horticultural (excepting floricultural), viticultural, vegetable, poultry, and livestock products produced in this state, including for use as a bioenergy feedstock, including milk and milk products, bees and honey, or any class, variety or utilization thereof, either in their natural state or as processed by a producer for the purpose of marketing such product or by a processor, but not including timber and wood products, except timber and wood products used as a bioenergy feedstock.

(4) “Assent” means a signed statement of affected producers or handlers consenting to the terms of a marketing agreement.

(4m) “Bioenergy feedstock” means biomass used to produce energy, including transportation fuel, heat, or electricity.

(5) “Handler” means any person engaged in the business of distributing or placing an agricultural commodity in commercial channels, or any person engaged in the business of processing an agricultural commodity.

(6) “Marketing agreement” means an agreement entered into by the secretary under this chapter.

(7) “Marketing order” means an order issued by the secretary under this chapter.

(8) “Member-patron” means a person who is a member of a cooperative under ch. 185 or 193 and whose products are marketed through that cooperative.

(9) “Producer” means any person engaged in the business of producing or causing to be produced for market in commercial quantities any agricultural commodity.

(10) “Referendum” means any voting procedure under which affected producers or handlers may, by secret ballot, vote for or against the issuance, amendment or termination of a marketing order.

(11) “Vote” means to cast a ballot in a referendum or an election.

History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1650m (2) ; 1981 c. 283 , 314 ; 2005 a. 441 ; 2009 a. 401 ; 2011 a. 32 .
Wis. Stat. § 229.11 — WI Code / Chapter 229 / Section 229.11
First class city museums.
Status: in_force

Any city of the 1st class however incorporated may establish and maintain, for the free use of the inhabitants thereof, a public museum for the exhibition of objects in natural history, anthropology and history, either the several or any one of these specifically; and may receive, hold and manage any bequest, donation or loan for the establishment, increase or maintenance thereof, under such regulations and conditions as may be prescribed pursuant to law or agreed upon by and between the donors and said city.

History: 1971 c. 152 s. 27 ; Stats. 1971 s. 229.11; 1983 a. 192 ; 1985 a. 177 .
Wis. Stat. § 185.51 — WI Code / Chapter 185 / Section 185.51
Amendments to articles.
Status: in_force

(1) At any member meeting a cooperative may adopt any amendment to its articles which is lawful under s. 185.05 , if a statement of the nature of the amendment was contained in the notice of the meeting.

(2) Unless stockholders are entitled by s. 185.52 to vote on an amendment, an amendment is adopted when approved by two-thirds of the member votes cast thereon.

History: 1985 a. 30 ss. 26 , 42 .
Wis. Stat. § 611.41 — WI Code / Chapter 611 / Section 611.41
Communications to shareholders or policyholders and commissioner’s attendance at meetings.
Status: in_force

(1) Copies of communications. The commissioner may by rule prescribe that copies of specified classes of communications circulated generally by a corporation to shareholders or policyholders shall be communicated to the commissioner at the same time.

(2) Attendance at meetings. The commissioner has the right to attend any shareholders’ or policyholders’ meeting.

(3) Exception. Subsection (2) and, so far as it relates to communications to shareholders, sub. (1) do not apply to stock corporations all of whose voting shares are owned by a single person, or all of whose shareholders are either members of the board or are represented on it.

History: 1971 c. 260 ; 1979 c. 102 s. 236 (21) .
Wis. Stat. § 6.78 — WI Code / Chapter 6 / Section 6.78
Poll hours.
Status: in_force

(1m) The polls at every election shall be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.

(4) Any elector waiting to vote, whether within the polling booth or in the line outside the booth at the time the polls officially close, shall be permitted to vote.

History: 1985 a. 304 ; 1991 a. 316 ; 2005 a. 333 .
Wis. Stat. § 822.39 — WI Code / Chapter 822 / Section 822.39
Service of petition and order.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in s. 822.41 , the petition and order must be served, by any method authorized by the laws of this state, upon the respondent and any person who has physical custody of the child.

History: 2005 a. 130 .
Wis. Stat. § 563.935 — WI Code / Chapter 563 / Section 563.935
The conduct of raffles under a Class B license.
Status: in_force

All of the following shall apply to the conduct of a raffle under a Class B license:

(1) All tickets shall be identical in form.

(1m) The organization conducting the raffle shall prominently display, at each place where tickets may be purchased, a notice describing any state or federal law that imposes an age restriction on who may possess a prize that will be awarded in the raffle.

(2) The tickets need not be numbered consecutively.

(4) No person may sell a ticket unless authorized by an organization with a Class B license.

(5) All drawings shall be held in public.

(6)

(a) Except as provided in pars. (b) and (c) , the purchaser of a ticket must be present at the drawing to win a prize.

(b) Any organization conducting a raffle may, according to procedures determined by the organization, allow the purchaser of a ticket not to be present at the drawing to win a prize.

(c) The purchaser of a ticket may give the ticket to another person who may claim the prize on behalf of the purchaser, but only if that other person is present at the drawing.

(7) All prizes shall be awarded.

(8) The date, time, and place of each drawing, the prizes to be awarded, and the prize amount or the methodology used to determine the prize amount shall be posted or announced before each drawing.

(9) If a drawing is canceled, the organization shall refund the receipts to the ticket purchasers.

History: 1995 a. 27 , 301 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2009 a. 317 ; 2013 a. 273 ; 2015 a. 6 ; 2017 a. 361 .
Wis. Stat. § 46.70 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.70
Delivery of services to American Indians.
Status: in_force

To facilitate the delivery of accessible, available and culturally appropriate social services and mental hygiene services to American Indians by county departments under s. 46.215 , 46.22 , 51.42 or 51.437 , the department may fund federally recognized tribal governing bodies in this state from the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (5) (kL) .

History: 1981 c. 20 ; 1983 a. 27 ; 1985 a. 29 , 176 ; 1989 a. 31 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1999 a. 9 , 103 ; 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 863.27 — WI Code / Chapter 863 / Section 863.27
Contents of final judgment.
Status: in_force

In the final judgment the court shall approve the final account, designate the persons to whom assignment and distribution are being made, and assign to each of them the property or proportions or parts of the estate or the amounts to which each is entitled. The findings of fact which support the judgment shall include a determination of the heirs of the decedent; facts showing that all jurisdictional requirements have been met; the date of death of the decedent and the decedent’s testacy or intestacy; facts relating to the payment of state death tax, state income tax, and claims and charges against the estate. If immediately before death the decedent had an estate for life or an interest as a joint tenant in any property in regard to which a certificate of termination has not been issued under s. 867.04 or an interest in marital property for which a certificate has not been issued under s. 865.201 or 867.046 , the findings of fact which support the judgment shall set forth the termination of the life estate, the right of survivorship of any joint tenant, or the decedent’s interest in marital property and, upon the petition of the decedent’s spouse, the confirmation of the one-half interest held by the surviving spouse in marital property immediately before the death of the decedent spouse. In addition, the findings of fact shall, upon petition of a designated person, trust, or other entity under s. 766.58 (3) (f) or of a TOD beneficiary under s. 705.15 or 705.18 , set forth the confirmation of an interest in property passing by nontestamentary disposition under s. 705.15 , 705.18 , or 766.58 (3) (f) . Every tract of real property in which an interest is assigned or terminated shall be specifically described. If a fund is withheld from distribution for the payment of contingent claims, for meeting possible tax liability, or for any other reasonable purpose, the judgment shall provide for the distribution of the fund if all or a part of it is not needed.

History: 1971 c. 40 s. 93 ; 1977 c. 449 ; 1985 a. 37 ; 1987 a. 27 ; 2005 a. 206 ; 2021 a. 201 .
Wis. Stat. § 23.77 — WI Code / Chapter 23 / Section 23.77
Jury trial.
Status: in_force

(1) If in circuit court either party files a written demand for a jury trial within 20 days after the court appearance date and immediately pays the fee prescribed in s. 814.61 (4) , the court shall place the case on the jury calendar. The number of jurors shall be determined under s. 756.06 (2) (b) . If no party demands a trial by jury, the right to trial by jury is permanently waived.

(3) If there is a demand for a trial by jury, the provisions of s. 345.43 (3) (a) and (b) are applicable.

History: 1975 c. 365 ; 1977 c. 305 , 318 , 447 ; 1977 c. 449 s. 497 ; 1979 c. 175 s. 53 ; 1981 c. 317 ; 1995 a. 427 ; Sup. Ct. Order No. 96-08 , 207 Wis. 2d xv (1997).
Wis. Stat. § 180.1921 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.1921
Annual report.
Status: in_force

(1) A service corporation shall deliver to the department for filing a report in each year following the year in which the service corporation’s articles of incorporation were filed by the department, during the calendar year quarter in which the anniversary of the filing occurs.

(2) The report shall show the address of this service corporation’s principal office and the name and post-office address of each shareholder, director, and officer of the service corporation and shall certify that, with the exceptions permitted in ss. 180.1903 (1m) and 180.1913 , each shareholder, director, and officer is licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise legally authorized to render the same professional or other personal service in this state or is a health care professional. The service corporation shall prepare the report on forms prescribed and furnished by the department, and the report shall contain no fiscal or other information except that expressly called for by this section. The department shall forward report forms by 1st class mail to every service corporation in good standing, at least 60 days before the date on which the service corporation is required by this section to file an annual report.

(3) A report under this section is in lieu of an annual report required by s. 180.1622 .

(4) An annual report is effective on the date that it is filed by the department.

History: 1989 a. 303 ; 1991 a. 269 ; 1993 a. 214 , 473 , 491 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2001 a. 16 , 107 .
Wis. Stat. § 121.76 — WI Code / Chapter 121 / Section 121.76
Definitions and general provisions.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this subchapter:

(a) “Agency of service” means a school board, board of control of a cooperative educational service agency, county children with disabilities education board, or governing body of a nonsectarian private school, university model school, or tribal school, which provides services for which tuition may be charged.

(b) “Pupil” includes a child with a disability, as defined in s. 115.76 (5) .

(c) “Specified services” means social work; guidance; health; psychological, speech-language pathology and audiology services; supervision; coordination; and transportation.

(2) General provisions.

(a) All tuition shall be calculated under s. 121.83 unless the state superintendent approves an alternative procedure consistent with s. 121.75 .

(b) A written agreement may provide for the prepayment in installments of up to 75 percent of the estimated tuition during the school year in which services are provided.

(c) The agency of service, other than a tribal school, shall rebate a proportional share of state or federal aid received for pupils for whom it received tuition. The rebate shall be paid to the agency or person who paid the tuition within 30 days of its receipt by the agency of service.

History: 1985 a. 29 ; 1989 a. 316 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 , 164 ; 2009 a. 302 .
Wis. Stat. § 23.0963 — WI Code / Chapter 23 / Section 23.0963
Acquisition of the Canadian Pacific Railway corridor.
Status: in_force

From the appropriation under s. 20.866 (2) (ta) and subject to s. 23.0917 (5g) (d) 2. b. , the department shall use the amount necessary, but not more than $1,000,000, to acquire the railway corridor known as the Canadian Pacific Railway corridor in Racine County, beginning at approximately Vandenboom Road in the town of Dover and extending northeast approximately 13 miles to CTH “H” in the village of Sturtevant.

History: 2017 a. 59 .
Wis. Stat. § 192.34 — WI Code / Chapter 192 / Section 192.34
Fences; complaint of insufficient; hearing; order.
Status: in_force

Upon complaint by the owner or occupant of any land contiguous to the right-of-way of any railroad that the railroad company operating the line has failed to construct or keep in good repair fences along its right-of-way opposite to the complainant’s land as required under s. 192.33 , the office shall proceed on the complaint in the manner provided in s. 195.04 . If it shall appear that the complaint is well founded, the office may order and direct the railroad company to repair the complained of fences so that the fences will be sufficient or to construct legal fences.

History: 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1) ; 1993 a. 16 , 123 ; 1997 a. 254 .
Wis. Stat. § 895.66 — WI Code / Chapter 895 / Section 895.66
Mandatory disclosures.
Status: in_force

Not less than 5 business days before a payee signs a transfer agreement, the transferee shall provide to the payee a separate disclosure statement, in bold type no smaller than 14 points, that contains all of the following:

(1) The amounts and due dates of the structured settlement payments to be transferred.

(2) The aggregate amount of the payments.

(3) The discounted present value of the payments to be transferred and the amount of the applicable federal rate used in calculating the discounted present value.

(4) The gross advance amount.

(5) An itemized listing of all applicable transfer expenses, other than attorney fees and related disbursements payable in connection with the transferee’s petition for approval of the transfer, and the transferee’s best estimate of the amount of any such fees and disbursements.

(6) The net advance amount.

(7) The amount of any penalties or liquidated damages payable by the payee in the event of any breach of the transfer agreement by the payee.

(8) A statement that the payee has the right to cancel the transfer agreement, without penalty or further obligation, not later than the 3rd business day after the date the agreement is signed by the payee.

(9) The effective annualized rate of interest on the net advance amount, calculated by treating the transferred structured settlement payments as if they were installment payments on a loan, with each payment applied first to accrued unpaid interest and then to principal, and written in the following format: “YOU WILL BE PAYING THE EQUIVALENT OF AN INTEREST RATE OF __% PER YEAR.”.

(10) A statement that the transferee’s attorney does not represent the payee in connection with the proposed transfer.

(11) A statement informing the payee that structured settlement transfers have financial consequences and advising the payee to seek independent professional advice regarding the transfer agreement.

History: 2015 a. 94 ; 2017 a. 365 s. 111 .