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Wis. Stat. § 409.303 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.303
Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in goods covered by a certificate of title.
Status: in_force

(1) Applicability of section. This section applies to goods covered by a certificate of title, even if there is no other relationship between the jurisdiction under whose certificate of title the goods are covered and the goods or the debtor.

(2) When goods covered by certificate of title. Goods become covered by a certificate of title when a valid application for the certificate of title and the applicable fee are delivered to the appropriate authority. Goods cease to be covered by a certificate of title at the earlier of the time the certificate of title ceases to be effective under the law of the issuing jurisdiction or the time the goods become covered subsequently by a certificate of title issued by another jurisdiction.

(3) Applicable law. The local law of the jurisdiction under whose certificate of title the goods are covered governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in goods covered by a certificate of title from the time the goods become covered by the certificate of title until the goods cease to be covered by the certificate of title.

History: 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 114.04 — WI Code / Chapter 114 / Section 114.04
Flying and landing, limitations.
Status: in_force

Subject to ss. 114.105 (3) and 175.55 , and except as provided in ss. 114.045 and 942.10 , flight of or in aircraft or spacecraft over the lands and waters of this state is lawful, unless at such a low altitude as to intentionally interfere with the then existing use to which the land or water, or the space over the land or water, is put by the owner, or unless so conducted as to be imminently dangerous or damaging to persons or property lawfully on the land or water beneath. The landing of an aircraft or spacecraft on the lands or waters of another, without the person’s consent, is unlawful, except in the case of a forced landing. For damages caused by a forced landing, however, the owner or lessee of the aircraft or spacecraft or the aeronaut or astronaut shall be liable, as provided in s. 114.05 .

History: 1993 a. 492 ; 2005 a. 335 ; 2013 a. 213 ; 2015 a. 318 ; 2017 a. 322 .
Wis. Stat. § 72.36 — WI Code / Chapter 72 / Section 72.36
Sunset.
Status: in_force

The tax imposed under this chapter does not apply to deaths occurring after December 31, 2012, unless the federal estate tax law is modified to provide a federal estate tax credit for state death taxes.

History: 2013 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 13.06 — WI Code / Chapter 13 / Section 13.06
Executive favor.
Status: in_force

Any member of the legislature who gives, offers or promises to give his or her vote or influence in favor of or against any measure or proposition pending or proposed to be introduced in the legislature, or that has already been passed by either house of the legislature, in consideration of or on condition that the governor approve, disapprove, veto or sign, or agree to approve, disapprove, veto or sign, any other measure or proposition pending or proposed to be introduced in the legislature or that has already been passed by the legislature, or either house thereof, or in consideration or upon condition that the governor nominate for appointment or appoint or remove any person to or from any office or position under the laws of this state, is guilty of a Class I felony.

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 1997 a. 35 , 283 ; 2001 a. 109 .
Wis. Stat. § 861.20 — WI Code / Chapter 861 / Section 861.20
Surviving spouse’s right in nondomiciliary decedent’s real property in this state.
Status: in_force

(1) If a married person who does not have a domicile in this state dies and leaves a valid will disposing of real property in this state which is not the community property or marital property of the decedent and the surviving spouse, the surviving spouse has the same right to elect to take a portion of or interest in that property against the will of the decedent as if the property were located in the decedent’s domicile at the decedent’s death. The procedure of the decedent’s domicile for electing against the will applies to such an election.

(2) If a married person who does not have a domicile in this state dies and has an interest in real property in this state that is subject to administration but not disposed of by will, the surviving spouse has the same right to the property under intestate succession as if the property were located in the decedent’s domicile at decedent’s death.

History: 1985 a. 37 ; 1987 a. 393 ; 2005 a. 216 .
Wis. Stat. § 255.065 — WI Code / Chapter 255 / Section 255.065
Breast density notification.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Dense breast tissue” means heterogeneously dense breasts or extremely dense breasts based on the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System established by the American College of Radiology.

(b) “Facility” has the meaning given in 42 USC 263b (a) (3).

(c) “Mammography” has the meaning given in s. 255.06 (1) (b) .

(2) A facility that performs mammography examinations shall, in delivering, as required under 42 USC 263b (f) (1) (G) (ii) (IV), a summary of the results of any mammography examination, provide to patients with dense breast tissue a notice regarding breast density in substantially the following form:

(3) Nothing in this section may be construed to create a duty of care or other legal obligation beyond the duty to provide notice as set forth in this section.

History: 2017 a. 201 .
Wis. Stat. § 877.21 — WI Code / Chapter 877 / Section 877.21
Recovery against legatee; contribution.
Status: in_force

(1) If an action is brought against all the legatees and devisees, the plaintiff shall not recover unless the plaintiff shows, in addition to the facts required to be shown in an action against the heirs, any of the following:

(a) That no assets were delivered by the personal representative to the heirs.

(b) That the value of the assets delivered to the heirs has been recovered by some other creditor.

(c) That the assets delivered by the personal representative to the heirs are not sufficient to satisfy the demands of the plaintiff and that the plaintiff is entitled to recover the deficiency.

(2) If an action is brought against a preferred legatee or devisee or a preferred class, the plaintiff must also show the same matters as to the legatee or devisee or class to whom the defendants are preferred as is required to be shown under sub. (1) as to the heirs.

(2m) Any legatee or devisee against whom recovery is made may maintain an action for contribution against others of the same class as heirs may among themselves.

(3) Specific legacies and devises are preferred to residuary legacies and devises.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 55 ; 1979 c. 176 ; Stats. 1979 s. 777.21; 2001 a. 102 s. 112 to 115 ; Stats. 2001 s. 877.21.
Wis. Stat. § 788.11 — WI Code / Chapter 788 / Section 788.11
Modification of award.
Status: in_force

(1) In either of the following cases the court in and for the county wherein the award was made must make an order modifying or correcting the award upon the application of any party to the arbitration:

(a) Where there was an evident material miscalculation of figures or an evident material mistake in the description of any person, thing or property referred to in the award;

(b) Where the arbitrators have awarded upon a matter not submitted to them unless it is a matter not affecting the merits of the decision upon the matters submitted;

(c) Where the award is imperfect in matter of form not affecting the merits of the controversy.

(2) The order must modify and correct the award, so as to effect the intent thereof and promote justice between the parties.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 64 ; Stats. 1979 s. 788.11.
Wis. Stat. § 752.02 — WI Code / Chapter 752 / Section 752.02
Supervisory authority.
Status: in_force

The court of appeals has supervisory authority over all actions and proceedings in all courts except the supreme court.

History: 1977 c. 187 .
Wis. Stat. § 705.26 — WI Code / Chapter 705 / Section 705.26
Effect of registration in beneficiary form.
Status: in_force

The designation of a TOD beneficiary on a registration in beneficiary form does not affect ownership until the owner’s death. A registration of a security in beneficiary form may be canceled or changed at any time by the sole owner or all then surviving owners, without the consent of the beneficiary.

History: 1989 a. 331 .
Wis. Stat. § 321.67 — WI Code / Chapter 321 / Section 321.67
Death gratuity; national guard and state defense force.
Status: in_force

If a national guard member or state defense force member dies from an accidental injury while performing services growing out of and incidental to the member’s employment while the member is on state active duty, the department shall voucher and pay from the appropriation under s. 20.465 (1) (dm) an amount equal to $100,000 to the member’s designated beneficiary.

History: 2017 a. 274 ; 2021 a. 238 s. 45 .
Wis. Stat. § 36.56 — WI Code / Chapter 36 / Section 36.56
Grants for forestry cooperatives.
Status: in_force

(1) From the appropriation under s. 20.285 (1) (qm) , the center for cooperatives under s. 36.11 (40) may award grants to persons to form forestry cooperatives under ch. 185 or 193 that consist primarily of private, nonindustrial owners of woodland. A grant recipient shall provide matching funds equal to 50 percent of the grant amount awarded. The match may be in the form of money or in-kind services or both, but may not include money received from the state.

(2) In each fiscal year, the center for cooperatives may not encumber funds from the appropriation under s. 20.285 (1) (qm) for administrative expenses if the amounts encumbered in that fiscal year for administrative expenses exceed 5 percent of the total expenditures from the appropriation for the fiscal year.

History: 1999 a. 9 ; 2005 a. 441 .
Wis. Stat. § 782.19 — WI Code / Chapter 782 / Section 782.19
Return may be traversed.
Status: in_force

The prisoner may move to strike the return or may deny any of the material facts set forth in the return to the writ or allege any fact to show either that the imprisonment is unlawful or that the prisoner is entitled to a discharge, which allegations and denials shall be verified by oath; and the court or judge shall proceed in a summary way to examine into the facts contained in the return and to hear the allegations and proofs of the parties in support of such imprisonment or against the same.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 762 (1975); 1975 c. 218 ; 1979 c. 32 s. 59 ; Stats. 1979 s. 782.19.
Wis. Stat. § 185.11 — WI Code / Chapter 185 / Section 185.11
Membership.
Status: in_force

(1) All cooperatives shall be organized on a membership basis with no capital stock, or shall be organized on a membership basis with capital stock.

(2) A cooperative may have one or more classes of members. The designation, qualifications, requirements, method of acceptance, and incidents of membership of each class shall be set forth in the bylaws. Any person, including a partnership, incorporated or unincorporated association, limited liability company, corporation, or body politic, may become a member in accordance with the bylaws.

(3) No member may transfer his or her membership except as permitted in the bylaws.

(4) The bylaws may provide for termination of membership and the conditions and terms thereof.

History: 1985 a. 30 ss. 12 , 42 ; 1993 a. 112 , 482 .
Wis. Stat. § 704.09 — WI Code / Chapter 704 / Section 704.09
Transferability; effect of assignment or transfer; remedies.
Status: in_force

(1) Transferability of interest of tenant or landlord. A tenant under a tenancy at will or any periodic tenancy less than year-to-year may not assign or sublease except with the agreement or consent of the landlord. The interest of any other tenant or the interest of any landlord may be transferred except as the lease expressly restricts power to transfer. A lease restriction on transfer is construed to apply only to voluntary transfer unless there is an express restriction on transfer by operation of law.

(2) Effect of transfer on liability of transferor. In the absence of an express release or a contrary provision in the lease, transfer or consent to transfer does not relieve the transferring party of any contractual obligations under the lease, except in the special situation governed by s. 704.25 (5) .

(3) Covenants which apply to transferee. All covenants and provisions in a lease which are not either expressly or by necessary implication personal to the original parties are enforceable by or against the successors in interest of any party to the lease. However, a successor in interest is liable in damages, or entitled to recover damages, only for a breach which occurs during the period when the successor holds his or her interest, unless the successor has by contract assumed greater liability; a personal representative may also recover damages for a breach for which the personal representative’s decedent could have recovered.

(4) Same procedural remedies. The remedies available between the original landlord and tenant are also available to or against any successor in interest to either party.

(5) Consent as affecting subsequent transfers. If a lease restricts transfer, consent to a transfer or waiver of a breach of the restriction is not a consent or waiver as to any subsequent transfers.

History: 1971 c. 211 s. 126 ; 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 889.241 — WI Code / Chapter 889 / Section 889.241
How made when grantor refuses.
Status: in_force

If any grantor residing in this state refuses to acknowledge his or her conveyance, the grantee or any person claiming under the grantee may apply to the circuit judge in the county where the land lies or where the grantor or any subscribing witness to the conveyance resides. The judge shall then issue a summons to the grantor to appear at a certain time and place before the judge to hear the testimony of the subscribing witnesses to the conveyance. The summons, with a copy of the conveyance annexed, shall be served at least 7 days before the time therein assigned for proving the conveyance. At the time mentioned in the summons or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned the due execution of the conveyance may be proved by the testimony of one or more of the subscribing witnesses. If the conveyance is proved to the satisfaction of the judge, he or she shall certify the conveyance, and in such certificate the judge shall note the presence or absence of the grantor as the fact may be.

History: 1977 c. 449 ; 1979 c. 32 .
Wis. Stat. § 283.62 — WI Code / Chapter 283 / Section 283.62
Exemption for certain fruit and vegetable washing facilities.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. As used in this section:

(b) “Washing station” means a facility where fruits or vegetables are washed or cleaned after harvesting and before further processing.

(c) “Wash water” means water that has been used at a washing station to wash or clean fruits or vegetables and that may contain dirt or other substances removed from the fruits or vegetables during the washing process or biodegradable additives used during the washing process.

(d) “Wash water storage facility” means a facility, including a settling pond or lagoon, that is used to store wash water.

(2) Exemption. The owner of a washing station may discharge or dispose of wash water, and may land spread or compost plant parts separated from the wash water, without a permit under this chapter if all of the following requirements are met:

(a) The washing station is not adjacent to or operated as part of a food processing plant, as defined in s. 97.29 (1) (h) .

(b) All wash water is either stored in a sealed wash water storage facility or is dispersed on land owned or leased by the owner of the washing station in a manner which avoids ponding, runoff and nuisance conditions and in accordance with acceptable agricultural practices or acceptable practices for the land spreading of waste.

(c) All plant parts that are separated from the wash water are either composted or stored in a plant parts storage facility and disposed of using an environmentally safe land spreading technique. The disposal or composting must be confined to property owned or leased by the owner of the washing station.

(d) For a washing station that anticipates operating at least 100 days per year or that operated at least 100 days during the immediately preceding year, do all of the following:

1. Register annually with the department as a washing station.

2. Submit annually an operating plan that implements best management practices and that is approved by the department.

3. Operate only in accordance with the approved operating plan.

History: 1995 a. 99 ; 1995 a. 227 s. 849 ; Stats. 1995 s. 283.62.
Wis. Stat. § 450.125 — WI Code / Chapter 450 / Section 450.125
Drugs for animal use.
Status: in_force

In addition to complying with the other requirements in this chapter for distributing and dispensing, a pharmacist who distributes or dispenses a drug for animal use shall comply with s. 89.068 .

History: 1991 a. 306 ; 2015 a. 55 .
Wis. Stat. § 5.52 — WI Code / Chapter 5 / Section 5.52
Multi-candidate elections.
Status: in_force

If more than one individual is to be elected to the same office from the same jurisdiction or district, the ballot shall provide at the top of the column or to the right of the row for that office: “Vote for not more than .... candidates.”.

History: 1985 a. 304 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0831 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0831
Director conflict of interest.
Status: in_force

(1) When contract or transaction is not void or voidable. No contract or other transaction between a corporation and a director, or any entity in which a director is a director or officer or has a material financial interest, is void or voidable because of the relationship or interest or because the director is present at the meeting of the board or a committee that authorizes, approves or ratifies the contract or transaction or because the director’s vote is counted for that purpose, if any of the following applies:

(a) The relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the board or committee that authorizes, approves or ratifies the contract or transaction and the contract or transaction was authorized, approved or ratified by a vote or consent sufficient for the purpose without counting the votes or consents of interested directors.

(b) The fact of such relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the members entitled to vote and they authorize, approve or ratify that contract or transaction by vote or written consent.

(c) The contract or transaction is fair and reasonable to the corporation.

(2) Quorum requirements. Common and interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the board or a committee that authorizes, approves or ratifies a contract or transaction under sub. (1) .

(3) Additional requirements. The articles of incorporation, the bylaws or a resolution of the board may impose additional requirements on conflict of interest transactions.

History: 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 193.435 — WI Code / Chapter 193 / Section 193.435
Actions of the board.
Status: in_force

(1) Generally. Unless this chapter or the articles or bylaws provide otherwise and except as provided in sub. (2) , the board shall take action by the affirmative vote of the greater of the following:

(a) A majority of directors present at a meeting at the time the action is taken.

(b) A majority of the minimum number of directors that would constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the meeting.

(2) Exception for objecting director. Any director who objects at the beginning of a board meeting to the transaction of business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened and who fails to participate in the meeting after the objection may not be considered as present at the meeting for purposes of sub. (1) .

History: 2005 a. 441 .
Wis. Stat. § 411.214 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.214
Exclusion or modification of warranties.
Status: in_force

(1) Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an express warranty and words or conduct tending to negate or limit a warranty shall be construed wherever reasonable as consistent with each other; but, subject to s. 411.202 , negation or limitation is inoperative to the extent that the construction is unreasonable.

(2) Subject to sub. (3) , to exclude or modify the implied warranty of merchantability or a part of it the language shall mention “merchantability”, be by a writing and be conspicuous. Subject to sub. (3) , to exclude or modify an implied warranty of fitness the exclusion shall be by a writing and be conspicuous. Language to exclude all implied warranties of fitness is sufficient if it is in writing, is conspicuous and states, for example, “There is no warranty that the goods will be fit for a particular purpose.”

(3) Notwithstanding sub. (2) , but subject to sub. (4) , all of the following apply:

(a) Unless the circumstances indicate otherwise, all implied warranties are excluded by expressions such as “as is”, or “with all faults”, or by other language that in common understanding calls the lessee’s attention to the exclusion of warranties and makes plain that there is no implied warranty, if in writing and conspicuous.

(b) If the lessee before entering into the lease contract examines the goods or the sample or model as fully as desired or refuses to examine the goods, there is no implied warranty with regard to defects that an examination ought in the circumstances to have revealed.

(c) An implied warranty may also be excluded or modified by course of dealing, course of performance, or usage of trade.

(4) To exclude or modify a warranty against interference or against infringement or any part of that warranty, the language shall be specific, be by a writing, and be conspicuous, unless the circumstances, including course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade, give the lessee reason to know that the goods are being leased subject to a claim or interest of any person.

History: 1991 a. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 93.48 — WI Code / Chapter 93 / Section 93.48
Buy local grant program.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may award grants from the appropriation under s. 20.115 (4) (am) to individuals or organizations to fund projects that are designed to increase the sale of agricultural products grown in this state that are purchased in close proximity to where they are produced. The department may not award a grant under this section unless the applicant contributes matching funds equal to at least 50 percent of the costs of the project. The department shall promulgate rules for the program under this section.

(2) The department may make grants under this section for any of the following purposes:

(a) To create, promote, and support regional food and cultural tourism trails.

(b) To promote the development of regional food systems through activities such as creating or expanding facilities for the processing and distribution of food for local consumption; creating or supporting networks of producers; and strengthening connections between producers, retailers, institutions, and consumers and nearby producers.

History: 2007 a. 20 ; 2013 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 454.285 — WI Code / Chapter 454 / Section 454.285
Disclosure of temporary permit status.
Status: in_force

A person practicing under a temporary permit to practice barbering granted under s. 454.23 (7) shall, before performing any barbering services, inform the person receiving the barbering service that he or she is practicing under a temporary permit and that he or she has satisfied all requirements except passage of an examination for a barbering license.

History: 2011 a. 190 .