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Wis. Stat. § 779.94 — WI Code / Chapter 779 / Section 779.94
Penalties.
Status: in_force

(1) Generally. A person who violates this subchapter shall forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $10,000 for each violation.

(2) Misuse of escrow funds. The use of the proceeds in an escrow account by a seller for any purpose prior to the discharge of the prepaid maintenance lien is theft by the seller and is punishable under s. 943.20 . If the seller is a corporation, such misuse is also deemed theft by any officer, director or agent of the corporation responsible for the misappropriation. Any of the misappropriated proceeds which have been received as salary, dividend, loan repayment, capital distribution or otherwise by any shareholder of the corporation not responsible for the misappropriation is a civil liability of the shareholder and may be recovered and restored to the escrow account by action brought by any interested party.

History: 1977 c. 296 ; 1979 c. 32 s. 57 ; Stats. 1979 s. 779.94.
Wis. Stat. § 118.001 — WI Code / Chapter 118 / Section 118.001
Duties and powers of school boards; construction of statutes.
Status: in_force

The statutory duties and powers of school boards shall be broadly construed to authorize any school board action that is within the comprehensive meaning of the terms of the duties and powers, if the action is not prohibited by the laws of the federal government or of this state.

History: 1995 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 67.24 — WI Code / Chapter 67 / Section 67.24
Validation of obligations of incorporated municipality.
Status: in_force

(1) Any municipality, however incorporated, exercising functions of government after such incorporation may borrow money, within constitutional limitations, for the purpose of financing any building, improvement, work or other public undertaking for the furnishing, constructing, erecting, installing, or operating any public service, including sewers, water systems for fire protection and for public and industrial use, sewage disposal systems and plants, storm water relief sewers, channels and ditches, public highways and extensions thereof, or such other public necessities which its governing body may deem necessary for the protection of public health and safety and to prevent pollution of streams and water courses, notwithstanding that such incorporated municipality may be involved in or threatened with a civil action testing or questioning the incorporation of such municipality or the validity of any part of such incorporation and all proceedings of the governing body of such municipality authorizing the issuance of bonds, notes and other evidences of debts and all resolutions or ordinances adopted for such purposes and the execution and delivery of such evidences of indebtedness are hereby validated and shall be legal and enforceable obligations of such municipality with like force and effect as the obligations of regularly incorporated municipal corporations; and the determination by any court that such municipality is irregularly incorporated shall not affect the rights of creditors against the territory and assets of such purported incorporated municipality; the legislative intention being that there shall be no lapse of government or power of government to act for the general welfare, public interest and commercial betterment of such incorporated area during the pendency of any civil or threatened civil action. All taxes levied or to be levied in accordance with the provision made by such purported municipality for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds, notes or other evidence of debts and to pay and discharge the principal thereof, shall be valid and be levied and enforced against the territory of such purported municipality by the local governmental unit or units of which the territory may be a part.

History: 1979 c. 110 s. 60 (5) .
Wis. Stat. § 187.07 — WI Code / Chapter 187 / Section 187.07
Title to vest in trustees.
Status: in_force

(1) All lands, tenements and hereditaments that have been or may hereafter be lawfully conveyed by demise, gift, grant, purchase or otherwise to any persons as trustees, in trust for the use of any religious society organized or which may be hereafter organized within this state either for a meeting house, burying ground or for the residence of a preacher, shall, with the improvements, vest in the trustees of such religious society as fully as if originally conveyed to them, and shall be held by them and their successors in trust for such society.

(2) And all conveyances heretofore or hereafter made to any person or persons, intended to be in trust for, or for the benefit of, any such society, shall be deemed to vest the said real estate in such society, whether such person or persons be denominated therein as trustees or not.
Wis. Stat. § 706.14 — WI Code / Chapter 706 / Section 706.14
Transitional and curative provisions.
Status: in_force

The operation or effect of a conveyance made or recorded in accordance with the provisions of any prior law of this state, or thereafter validated, perfected or cured under any such prior law, shall not be impaired by any provision of this chapter.
Wis. Stat. § 321.31 — WI Code / Chapter 321 / Section 321.31
Uniform of national guard.
Status: in_force

The uniform of the national guard shall be as prescribed by regulations for the corresponding branch of the U.S. armed forces.

History: 2007 a. 200 s. 102 ; Stats. 2007 s. 321.31.
Wis. Stat. § 139.325 — WI Code / Chapter 139 / Section 139.325
Agreements with Indian tribes.
Status: in_force

The department may enter into agreements with Indian tribes to provide for the refunding of the cigarette tax imposed under s. 139.31 (1) on cigarettes sold on reservations to enrolled members of the tribe residing on the tribal reservation.

History: 1983 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 84.10416 — WI Code / Chapter 84 / Section 84.10416
Veterans Memorial Bridge in Marinette County.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall designate and, subject to sub. (2) , mark, but not beyond the Wisconsin-Michigan border, the bridge on USH 141 across the Menominee River in the city of Niagara in Marinette County as “Veterans Memorial Bridge” as a living memorial to and in honor of all Wisconsin veterans, living and dead, of all wars in which the United States has engaged.

(2) Upon receipt of sufficient contributions from interested parties, including any county, city, village, or town, to cover the costs of erecting and maintaining markers for the bridge specified in sub. (1) to clearly identify to motorists the designation of the bridge as the “Veterans Memorial Bridge,” the department shall erect and maintain the markers. No state funds, other than from the receipt of contributions under this subsection, may be expended for the erection or maintenance of the markers.

History: 2011 a. 48 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.69 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.69
Interference with commission’s equipment.
Status: in_force

(1) If any person destroys, injures or interferes with any apparatus or appliance owned, in the charge of or operated by the commission or its agent, the person shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both if the person is a public utility or an agent, as defined in s. 196.66 (3) (a) , fined not more than $2,500 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both if the person is a director or officer of a public utility, or fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both if the person is an employee of a public utility.

(2) Any public utility permitting a violation of this section shall forfeit not more than $5,000 for each offense.

History: 1983 a. 53 ; 1989 a. 49 .
Wis. Stat. § 939.42 — WI Code / Chapter 939 / Section 939.42
Intoxication.
Status: in_force

An intoxicated or a drugged condition of the actor is a defense only if such condition is involuntarily produced and does one of the following:

(1) Renders the actor incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong in regard to the alleged criminal act at the time the act is committed.

(2) Negatives the existence of a state of mind essential to the crime.

History: 1987 a. 399 ; 2013 a. 307 .
Wis. Stat. § 7.22 — WI Code / Chapter 7 / Section 7.22
Municipal board of election commissioners.
Status: in_force

(1) The common council shall determine the salaries of the election commissioners and shall include sufficient funds in its budget to allow the municipal board of election commissioners to fulfill its duties.

(2) All expenses shall be paid upon order of the municipal board of election commissioners, signed by the chairperson and executive director and countersigned by the city comptroller. The orders, made payable to persons in whose favor issued, shall be the vouchers for the city treasurer for the payment of the orders.

(3) The municipal board of election commissioners shall prepare and furnish copies of all registrations, books, maps, instructions, and forms pertaining to the rules for registration and conducting elections for the use and guidance of the election officials.

(4) The municipal board of election commissioners shall compile and publish a biennial report, containing election statistics and returns of all primaries and elections held within their city and county. Copies of the same shall be distributed to persons in such quantities as the municipal board of election commissioners deems proper.

(5) The chief of police shall station a police officer at polling places designated by the municipal board of election commissioners for each election.

History: 1973 c. 334 ; 1977 c. 51 ; 1983 a. 484 s. 172 (1) ; 1985 a. 304 s. 155 ; 1993 a. 184 ; 2001 a. 107 .
Wis. Stat. § 118.21 — WI Code / Chapter 118 / Section 118.21
Teacher contracts.
Status: in_force

(1) The school board shall contract in writing with qualified teachers. The contract, with a copy of the teacher’s authority to teach attached, shall be filed with the school district clerk. Such contract, in addition to fixing the teacher’s wage, may provide for compensating the teacher for necessary travel expense. A teaching contract with any person not legally authorized to teach the named subject or at the named school shall be void. All teaching contracts shall terminate if, and when, the authority to teach terminates.

(2) Any person who contracts to teach in any public school shall file in the office of the school district administrator, within 10 days after entering into such contract, a statement showing the date of expiration, if any, and the grade and character of certificate or license held. In any school district not having a school district administrator, the statement shall be filed with the school district clerk. Teachers employed by a cooperative educational service agency shall file the statement in the office of the agency coordinator. No order or warrant may be issued by the school district clerk in payment of the salary of any teacher, unless the teacher has complied with this subsection.

(3) School boards may provide in the contracts of teachers of agricultural and homemaking courses for payment out of school district funds for services performed outside the school district and connected with the performance of their regular teaching duties, and for travel expenses connected with such services.

(4) School boards may give to any teacher, without deduction from the teacher’s wages, the whole or part of any time spent by the teacher in attending a teachers’ educational convention, upon the teacher’s filing with the school district clerk a certificate of attendance at the convention, signed by the person or secretary of the association conducting the convention.

History: 1979 c. 301 ; 1993 a. 492 ; 2017 a. 59 .
Wis. Stat. § 187.04 — WI Code / Chapter 187 / Section 187.04
Episcopal church.
Status: in_force

The rectors, wardens and vestry being the trustees of each Episcopal church may be chosen at such times and in such manner as may be in conformity with the rules and usages thereof. Each such church heretofore or hereafter incorporated may take by purchase, devise, gift or otherwise and may forever hold any lands intended to be used for cemetery grounds or burial purposes, subject to the provisions and restrictions of subch. II of ch. 157 ; and any such church, by its trustees, officers or agents, who shall hold the temporalities thereof, may convey them with or without consideration to the trustees of the funds and property of the Episcopal church, however called, acting within this state, to be held, sold or conveyed according to the direction of the diocesan convention or council of the Episcopal church in this state; provided, however, that the trustees, the rector, wardens and vestry of St. Paul’s Episcopal church of the city of Milwaukee and each and every one of them are hereby forbidden to sell, convey or in any manner transfer Forest Home cemetery in the city of Milwaukee or any part thereof to any person or persons except in the normal course of cemetery operations or in pursuance of an order of some court having jurisdiction thereof, made upon due notice granting leave to convey the same.

History: 1985 a. 316 s. 25 ; 1989 a. 307 .
Wis. Stat. § 851.08 — WI Code / Chapter 851 / Section 851.08
Domestic partner.
Status: in_force

“Domestic partner” has the meaning given in s. 770.01 (1) and “domestic partnership” has the meaning given in s. 770.01 (2) .

History: 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 71.48 — WI Code / Chapter 71 / Section 71.48
Payments of estimated taxes.
Status: in_force

Sections 71.29 and 71.84 (2) shall apply to insurers subject to taxation under this chapter.

History: 1987 a. 312 .
Wis. Stat. § 221.0103 — WI Code / Chapter 221 / Section 221.0103
Notice.
Status: in_force

(1) Applicability. This section applies to a notice that is required under this chapter or that is made subject to this section by express reference to this section.

(2) When oral notice permitted. A person shall give notice in writing, except that notices to or from a bank may be given orally, if permitted by the bank’s articles of incorporation or bylaws and not otherwise prohibited by this chapter.

(3) Method of providing written notice. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation or bylaws, notice may be communicated in person, by telephone, telegraph, teletype, facsimile or other form of wire or wireless communication, or by mail or private carrier. If these forms of personal notice are impracticable, notice may be communicated by a newspaper of general circulation in the area where published or by radio, television or other form of public broadcast communication.

(4) Date notice is effective.

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) and ss. 221.0607 (2) and 221.0622 (1) , written notice is effective on the earliest of the following:

1. On the date received.

2. Five days after deposit of the notice in the U.S. mail, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.

3. On the date shown on the return receipt, if the notice is sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and if the receipt is signed by or on behalf of the addressee.

4. On the effective date specified in the articles of incorporation or bylaws.

(b) Written notice by a bank to a shareholder of the bank is effective when mailed. The notice may be addressed to the shareholder’s address shown in the bank’s current record of shareholders.

(c) Oral notice is effective when communicated.

History: 1995 a. 336 .
Wis. Stat. § 323.28 — WI Code / Chapter 323 / Section 323.28
Penalties.
Status: in_force

Whoever intentionally fails to comply with an order issued by an agent of the state or of a local unit of government who is engaged in emergency management activities under this chapter, including training exercises, is subject to a forfeiture of not more than $200.

History: 2009 a. 42 s. 121 ; Stats. 2009 s. 323.28.
Wis. Stat. § 961.005 — WI Code / Chapter 961 / Section 961.005
Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the “Uniform Controlled Substances Act”.

History: 1971 c. 219 ; 1995 a. 448 s. 323 ; Stats. 1995 s. 961.62; 2005 a. 14 s. 40 ; Stats. 2005 s. 961.005.
Wis. Stat. § 563.71 — WI Code / Chapter 563 / Section 563.71
Duties of the department of justice.
Status: in_force

(1) Investigatory proceeding.

(a) Whenever the attorney general files with a circuit or supplemental court commissioner a statement that the attorney general believes that a violation of this chapter has occurred, the commissioner shall issue a subpoena for any person requested or named by the attorney general. Mileage and witness fees need not be paid in advance, but only verified claims for mileage and fees which are approved by the attorney general shall be paid out of the state treasury and charged to the appropriation under s. 20.455 (1) (d) and shall be the same rates as those paid witnesses in circuit court.

(b) Testimony from persons subpoenaed under par. (a) shall be taken by a stenographic reporter and transcribed and read to or by the witness and subscribed to by the witness, unless the parties represented stipulate upon the record that the reading of the transcript of such testimony to or by the witness and his or her signature thereto are waived and that the transcript may be used with like force and effect as if read and subscribed by the witness. The attendance of the witness for the purpose of reading and subscribing to the transcript may be compelled in the same manner that his or her attendance to be examined may be compelled.

(c) The supplemental court commissioner shall be entitled to the fees under s. 814.68 (1) . All such fees and all other costs and expenses incident to such inquiry shall be paid out of the appropriation under s. 20.455 (1) (d) .

(2) Violations a public nuisance. A violation of this chapter constitutes a public nuisance under ch. 823 , irrespective of any criminal prosecution which may be or is commenced based on the same acts.

(3) Application. This section does not apply to subch. VIII .

History: 1973 c. 156 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 753 (1975); 1977 c. 29 s. 1656 (27) ; 1977 c. 187 s. 135 ; 1977 c. 273 ; 1977 c. 323 s. 16 ; 1977 c. 426 ; 1979 c. 34 ; 1981 c. 317 s. 2202 ; 1991 a. 269 s. 782kd ; Stats. 1991 s. 563.71; 2001 a. 61 .
Wis. Stat. § 180.1507 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.1507
Registered office and registered agent of foreign corporation.
Status: in_force

(1m) Each foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state shall continuously designate and maintain a registered agent and registered office in this state. The designation of a registered agent is an affirmation of the fact by the corporation that the agent has consented to serve. The registered office may, but need not, be the same as any of the corporation’s places of business. The registered office must be an actual physical location with a street address and not solely a post office box, mailbox service, or telephone answering service. The registered agent shall be any of the following:

(a) A natural person who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office.

(b) A domestic corporation, a nonstock corporation, a limited partnership, a limited liability partnership, or a limited liability company, incorporated or organized in this state or that has in effect a statement of qualification under s. 178.0901 , whose business office is identical with the registered office.

(c) A foreign corporation, nonprofit or nonstock corporation, limited partnership, registered limited liability partnership, or limited liability company if that entity is authorized to transact business in this state, and the entity’s business office is identical with the registered office.

(2m) A registered agent for a foreign corporation must have an e-mail address and a place of business in this state.

(3m) The only duties under this chapter of a registered agent that has complied with this chapter are the following:

(a) To forward to the foreign corporation at the address most recently supplied to the agent by the foreign corporation any process, notice, or demand pertaining to the foreign corporation which is served on or received by the agent.

(b) If the registered agent resigns, to provide the notice required by s. 180.1509 to the foreign corporation at the address most recently supplied to the agent by the foreign corporation.

(c) To keep current the information with respect to the agent in the foreign corporation’s certificate of authority.

History: 1989 a. 303 ; 1993 a. 112 ; 2001 a. 44 ; 2015 a. 295 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 940.235 — WI Code / Chapter 940 / Section 940.235
Strangulation and suffocation.
Status: in_force

(1) Whoever intentionally impedes the normal breathing or circulation of blood by applying pressure on the throat or neck or by blocking the nose or mouth of another person is guilty of a Class H felony.

(2) Whoever violates sub. (1) is guilty of a Class G felony if the actor has a previous conviction under this section or a previous conviction for a violent crime, as defined in s. 939.632 (1) (e) 1.

History: 2007 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 70.20 — WI Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70.20
Owner’s liability when personalty assessed to another; action to collect.
Status: in_force

(1) For assessments made before January 1, 2024, when personal property shall be assessed to some person in charge or possession thereof, other than the owner, such owner as well as the person so in charge or possession shall be liable for the taxes levied pursuant to such assessment; and the liability of such owner may be enforced in a personal action as for a debt. Such action may be brought in the name of the town, city or village in which such assessment was made, if commenced before the time fixed by law for the return of delinquent taxes, by direction of the treasurer or tax collector of such town, city or village. If commenced after such a return, it shall be brought in the name of the county or other municipality to the treasurer or other officer of which such return shall be made, by direction of such treasurer or other officer. Such action may be brought in any court of this state having jurisdiction of the amount involved and in which jurisdiction may be obtained of the person of such owner or by attachment of the property of such owner.

(2) For assessments made before January 1, 2024, the remedy of attachment may be allowed in such action upon filing an affidavit of the officer by whose direction such action shall be brought, showing the assessment of such property in the assessment district, the amount of tax levied pursuant thereto, that the defendant was the owner of such property at the time as of which the assessment thereof was made, and that such tax remains unpaid in whole or in part, and the amount remaining unpaid. The proceedings in such actions and for enforcement of the judgment obtained therein shall be the same as in ordinary actions for debt as near as may be, but no property shall be exempt from attachment or execution issued upon a judgment against the defendant in such action.

(3) For assessments made before January 1, 2024, and taxes levied before January 1, 2024, the assessment and tax rolls in which such assessment and tax shall be entered shall be prima facie evidence of such assessment and tax and of the justice and regularity thereof; and the same, with proof of the ownership of such property by the defendant at the time as of which the assessment was made and of the nonpayment of such tax, shall be sufficient to establish the liability of the defendant. Such liability shall not be affected and such action shall not be defeated by any omission or irregularity in the assessment or tax proceedings not affecting the substantial justice and equity of the tax. The provisions of this section shall not impair or affect the remedies given by other provisions of law for the collection or enforcement of such tax against the person to whom the property was assessed.

History: 2023 a. 12 .