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Wis. Stat. § 139.81 — WI Code / Chapter 139 / Section 139.81
Salespersons.
Status: in_force

(1) No person may sell or take orders for tobacco products or vapor products for resale in this state for any manufacturer or permittee unless the person has filed an application for and obtained a valid certificate under s. 73.03 (50) and a salesperson’s permit from the department. No manufacturer or permittee shall authorize any person to sell or take orders for tobacco products or vapor products in this state unless the person has filed an application for and obtained a valid certificate under s. 73.03 (50) and a salesperson’s permit. Each application for a permit shall disclose the name and address of the employer and shall remain effective only while the salesperson represents the named employer. If the salesperson is thereafter employed by another manufacturer or permittee the salesperson shall obtain a new salesperson’s permit. Each manufacturer and permittee shall notify the department within 10 days after the resignation or dismissal of any salesperson holding a permit.

(2) Section 139.34 (1) (b) to (e) applies to the permits under this section.

(3) Any person holding a cigarette salesperson’s permit under s. 139.37 may obtain a salesperson’s permit under this section at no charge.

History: 1981 c. 20 ; 1983 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2019 a. 9 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.609 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.609
Right to adequate assurance of performance.
Status: in_force

(1) A contract for sale imposes an obligation on each party that the other’s expectation of receiving due performance will not be impaired. When reasonable grounds for insecurity arise with respect to the performance of either party the other may in writing demand adequate assurance of due performance and until the demanding party receives such assurance may if commercially reasonable suspend any performance for which the demanding party has not already received the agreed return.

(2) Between merchants the reasonableness of grounds for insecurity and the adequacy of any assurance offered shall be determined according to commercial standards.

(3) Acceptance of any improper delivery or payment does not prejudice the aggrieved party’s right to demand adequate assurance of future performance.

(4) After receipt of a justified demand failure to provide within a reasonable time not exceeding 30 days such assurance of due performance as is adequate under the circumstances of the particular case is a repudiation of the contract.

History: 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 411.402 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.402
Anticipatory repudiation.
Status: in_force

If either party repudiates a lease contract with respect to a performance not yet due under the lease contract, the loss of which performance will substantially impair the value of the lease contract to the other, the aggrieved party may do any of the following:

(1) For a commercially reasonable time, await retraction of repudiation and performance by the repudiating party.

(2) Make demand under s. 411.401 and await assurance of future performance adequate under the circumstances of the particular case.

(3) Resort to any right or remedy upon default under the lease contract or this chapter, even though the aggrieved party has notified the repudiating party that the aggrieved party would await the repudiating party’s performance and assurance and has urged retraction. In addition, whether or not the aggrieved party is pursuing one of the foregoing remedies, the aggrieved party may suspend performance or, if the aggrieved party is the lessor, proceed in accordance with s. 411.524 .

History: 1991 a. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 323.2915 — WI Code / Chapter 323 / Section 323.2915
State civil service grievance procedures.
Status: in_force

(1) Notwithstanding s. 230.445 (2) and (3) , an employee does not waive his or her right to appeal an adverse employment decision if the employee does not timely file the complaint or appeal during the public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72. The tolling period under s. 230.445 (3) (a) 1. begins 14 days after the termination of such public health emergency.

(2) Notwithstanding s. 230.445 (3) (a) 2. , an appointing authority or his or her designee is not required to meet with a complainant in person during the public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72, when conducting an investigation under s. 230.445 (3) (a) 2.

History: 2019 a. 185 .
Wis. Stat. § 173.07 — WI Code / Chapter 173 / Section 173.07
Powers and duties of humane officers.
Status: in_force

(1) Enforcement. A humane officer shall enforce ss. 95.21 and 944.18 , this chapter, chs. 174 and 951 and ordinances relating to animals enacted by political subdivisions in which the humane officer has jurisdiction under s. 173.03 (3) .

(2) Investigation. A humane officer shall investigate alleged violations of statutes and ordinances relating to animals and, in the course of the investigations, may execute inspection warrants under s. 66.0119 .

(3) Seek subpoenas. A humane officer may request the district attorney for the county to obtain subpoenas to compel testimony and obtain documents in aid of investigations.

(4) Issue citations. If authorized by the appointing political subdivision, a humane officer shall issue citations under s. 66.0113 for violations of ordinances relating to animals.

(4m) Request prosecutions. A humane officer may request law enforcement officers and district attorneys to enforce and prosecute violations of state law and may cooperate in those prosecutions.

(5) Prohibited actions. Unless also a law enforcement officer, a humane officer may not in the course of his or her duties do any of the following:

(a) Execute a search warrant.

(b) Carry firearms.

(c) Stop or arrest persons.

(d) Stop, search, or detain vehicles, except under an inspection warrant under s. 66.0119 .

(e) Enter any place or vehicle by force or without the consent of the owner, except in an emergency occasioned by fire or other circumstance in which that entry is reasonable and is necessary to save an animal from imminent death or a person from imminent death or injury.

(f) Remove any animal from the custody of another person by force.

(6) Conflict of interest prohibited. No humane officer may sell or otherwise dispose of any animal that came into the humane officer’s custody in the course of his or her duties.

History: 1997 a. 192 ; 2001 a. 30 ; 2019 a. 162 .
Wis. Stat. § 102.175 — WI Code / Chapter 102 / Section 102.175
Apportionment of liability.
Status: in_force

(1) If it is established at the hearing that 2 or more accidental injuries, for each of which a party to the proceedings is liable under this chapter, have each contributed to a physical or mental condition for which benefits would be otherwise due, liability for such benefits shall be apportioned according to the proof of the relative contribution to disability resulting from the injury.

(2) If after a hearing or a prehearing conference the department determines that an injured employee is entitled to compensation but that there remains in dispute only the issue of which of 2 or more parties is liable for that compensation, the department may order one or more parties to pay compensation in an amount, time, and manner as determined by the department. If the department later determines that another party is liable for compensation, the department shall order that other party to reimburse any party that was ordered to pay compensation under this subsection.

(3)

(a) If it is established by the certified report of a physician, podiatrist, surgeon, psychologist, or chiropractor under s. 102.17 (1) (d) 1. , a record of a hospital or sanatorium under s. 102.17 (1) (d) 2. , or other competent evidence that an injured employee has incurred permanent disability, but that a percentage of that disability was caused by an accidental injury sustained in the course of employment with the employer against whom compensation is claimed and a percentage of that disability was caused by other factors, whether occurring before or after the time of the accidental injury, the employer shall be liable only for the percentage of permanent disability that was caused by the accidental injury. If, however, previous permanent disability is attributable to occupational exposure with the same employer, the employer is also liable for that previous permanent disability so established.

(b) A physician, podiatrist, surgeon, psychologist, or chiropractor who prepares a certified report under s. 102.17 (1) (d) 1. relating to a claim for compensation for an accidental injury causing permanent disability that was sustained in the course of employment with the employer against whom compensation is claimed shall address in the report the issue of causation of the disability and shall include in the report an opinion as to the percentage of permanent disability that was caused by the accidental injury and the percentage of permanent disability that was caused by other factors, including occupational exposure with the same employer, whether occurring before or after the time of injury.

(c) Upon request of the department, the employer, or the employer’s worker’s compensation insurer, an injured employee who claims compensation for an injury causing permanent disability shall disclose all previous findings of permanent disability or other impairments that are relevant to that injury.

History: 1979 c. 278 ; 1993 a. 81 ; 2015 a. 55 , 180 ; 2021 a. 238 s. 45 ; 2025 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 157.03 — WI Code / Chapter 157 / Section 157.03
Restrictions on use of bodies for anatomical purposes; embalming such bodies; delivery of bodies to relatives.
Status: in_force

(1) The corpse of a person who died with smallpox, diphtheria or scarlet fever, or who in his or her last sickness shall request to be buried or cremated, and of a stranger or traveler who suddenly died, shall not be disposed of under s. 157.02 (3) , and no person having charge of a corpse authorized to be so disposed of shall sell or deliver it to be used outside the state.

(2) Upon receipt of the corpse by a university or school pursuant to s. 157.02 (3) it shall be properly embalmed and retained for 3 months before being used or dismembered and shall be delivered to any relative claiming it upon satisfactory proof of relationship.

History: 1985 a. 316 ss. 14 , 25 ; Stats. 1985 s. 157.03; 1993 a. 482 .
Wis. Stat. § 178.0204 — WI Code / Chapter 178 / Section 178.0204
When property is partnership property.
Status: in_force

(1) Property is partnership property if acquired in the name of any of the following:

(a) The partnership.

(b) One or more partners with an indication in the instrument transferring title to the property of the person’s capacity as a partner or of the existence of a partnership but without an indication of the name of the partnership.

(2) Property is acquired in the name of the partnership by a transfer to any of the following:

(a) The partnership in its name.

(b) One or more partners in their capacity as partners in the partnership, if the name of the partnership is indicated in the instrument transferring title to the property.

(3) Property is presumed to be partnership property if purchased with partnership assets, even if not acquired in the name of the partnership or of one or more partners with an indication in the instrument transferring title to the property of the person’s capacity as a partner or of the existence of a partnership.

(4) Property acquired in the name of one or more of the partners, without an indication in the instrument transferring title to the property of the person’s capacity as a partner or of the existence of a partnership and without use of partnership assets, is presumed to be separate property, even if used for partnership purposes.

History: 2015 a. 295 .
Wis. Stat. § 96.18 — WI Code / Chapter 96 / Section 96.18
Price fixing.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this chapter shall permit fixing of prices not otherwise permitted by law except as permitted under s. 96.04 .

History: 1973 c. 311 ; 1981 c. 283 s. 43 ; Stats. 1981 s. 96.18.
Wis. Stat. § 43.60 — WI Code / Chapter 43 / Section 43.60
County appointments to municipal and joint public library boards.
Status: in_force

(3)

(a) A county chairperson, with the approval of the county board, may appoint from among the residents of the county additional members to the library board of a public library of a municipality located in whole or in part in the county, for a term of 3 years from the May 1 following the appointment, and thereafter for a term of 3 years, as follows:

1. If the annual sum appropriated by the county to the public library is equal to at least one-sixth, but less than one-third, of the annual sum appropriated to the public library by any municipality in which the public library is located during the preceding fiscal year, one additional member.

2. If the annual sum appropriated by the county to the public library is equal to at least one-third, but less than one-half, of the annual sum appropriated to the public library by any municipality in which the public library is located, 2 additional members.

3. If the annual sum appropriated by the county to the public library is equal to at least one-half, but less than two-thirds, of the annual sum appropriated to the public library by any municipality in which the public library is located, 3 additional members.

4. If the annual sum appropriated by the county to the public library is equal to at least two-thirds, but less than the annual sum appropriated to the public library by any municipality in which the public library is located, 4 additional members.

5. If the annual sum appropriated by the county to the public library is equal to at least the annual sum appropriated to the public library by any municipality in which the public library is located, 5 additional members.

(b) For a joint public library of 2 or more municipalities, the “annual sum appropriated to the public library by any municipality in which the public library is located” under par. (a) is the total sum appropriated by all of the municipalities participating in the joint library.

(c) A county chairperson may appoint a county supervisor to serve as a member of a library board of a public library of a municipality under par. (a) , but no more than one county supervisor so appointed may serve on the library board at the same time.

(4) If an additional member appointed to a library board under sub. (3) (a) loses the status upon which the appointment was based, he or she ceases to be a member of the library board effective on the following May 1.

History: 1971 c. 152 s. 23 ; Stats. 1971 s. 43.60; 1981 c. 197 ; 1985 a. 177 ; 1989 a. 56 ; 1991 a. 269 ; 2005 a. 226 .
Wis. Stat. § 88.32 — WI Code / Chapter 88 / Section 88.32
Report to the court.
Status: in_force

(1) Within 30 days after the final adjournment of the hearing provided for in s. 88.29 , the board shall report in writing to the court:

(a) Whether the petition has the required number of signers;

(b) Whether the lands described in the petition will be improved by drainage;

(c) Whether other lands in the vicinity, draining to, from, or through the proposed drains, require drainage and if so a description of the same;

(d) Whether such drainage is feasible;

(e) Whether the public health or public welfare will be promoted by the proposed work;

(f) Whether the drains proposed in the petition will best accomplish the drainage prayed for and the area that should be drained;

(g) Whether the benefits from such work will exceed the cost of construction by the required amount;

(h) Such other facts as in the opinion of the board will aid the court in its decision upon the report.

(2) The board may recommend to the court an increase or decrease in the area proposed in the petition to be drained. If the proposed drains are not satisfactory the board shall recommend other drains.

(3) In determining whether public health and welfare will be promoted, the board shall include in its consideration whether the cumulative effect of such drainage over a period of time will affect the temperature of the water of lakes or streams, or will lower the water levels of lakes or streams or of the subterranean sources that supply private and public water systems, and whether the general need for the type of land that will be made available for cultivation or other purposes by such drainage is sufficiently great to warrant the possible harmful effects described above.

(3m) If the area of the proposed district exceeds 200 acres, the report shall be submitted to the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection before it is filed with the court. Within 45 days after receipt of the report, the department shall return it with a copy of the report prepared under s. 88.11 (3) with its recommendation for approval or disapproval for the creation of the district.

(4) The board shall attach to its report proof of the service of notice of hearing on the petition together with a copy of its minutes of such hearing.

History: 1993 a. 246 , 456 ; 2007 a. 121 .
Wis. Stat. § 60.15 — WI Code / Chapter 60 / Section 60.15
Clerk.
Status: in_force

The town clerk shall serve as clerk of the town meeting. If the town clerk is absent, the deputy town clerk shall serve as town meeting clerk. If the deputy clerk is absent, the town meeting chairperson shall appoint a clerk for the meeting. The clerk of the town meeting shall keep minutes of the proceedings. The clerk of the town meeting shall keep a poll list if required by the annual town meeting under s. 60.11 (7) . The town meeting minutes shall be signed by the clerk of the town meeting and filed in the office of the town clerk within 5 days after the meeting.

History: 1983 a. 532 .
Wis. Stat. § 631.81 — WI Code / Chapter 631 / Section 631.81
Notice and proof of loss.
Status: in_force

(1) Timeliness of notice. Provided notice or proof of loss is furnished as soon as reasonably possible and within one year after the time it was required by the policy, failure to furnish such notice or proof within the time required by the policy does not invalidate or reduce a claim unless the insurer is prejudiced thereby and it was reasonably possible to meet the time limit.

(2) Method of giving notice. It is a sufficient service of notice or proof of loss if a 1st class postage prepaid envelope addressed to the insurer and containing the proper notice or proof is deposited in any U.S. post office within the time prescribed. The commissioner may expressly approve clauses requiring more expeditious methods of notice where that is reasonable.

(3) Meaning of insurer’s acts. The acknowledgment by the insurer of the receipt of notice, the furnishing of forms for filing proofs of loss, the acceptance of such proofs, or the investigation of any claim are not alone sufficient to waive any of the rights of the insurer in defense of any claim arising under the insurance contract.

History: 1975 c. 375 .
Wis. Stat. § 766.03 — WI Code / Chapter 766 / Section 766.03
Applicability.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (4) and ss. 766.58 (5) , (11) and (12) and 766.585 , this chapter first applies to spouses upon their determination date.

(2) After this chapter first applies to spouses, it continues to apply to spouses during marriage. Section 766.75 applies after a dissolution. If at the time of the death of a spouse both spouses are domiciled in this state, the provisions of this chapter which have application after the death of a spouse apply.

(3) The cessation of the application of this chapter because a spouse is no longer domiciled in this state does not by itself affect any property, right, interest or remedy acquired under this chapter by either spouse or by a 3rd party or the satisfaction of any obligation incurred by a spouse under this chapter.

(4) Section 766.97 applies to a spouse in this state whether or not that person is domiciled in this state.

(5) Any property, right, interest or remedy of a spouse or 3rd party acquired or property that is available to satisfy an obligation incurred on or after January 1, 1986, and before May 3, 1988, shall not be adversely affected by 1987 Wisconsin Act 393 , sections 10 , 11 , 15 , 16 , 27 , 29 and 32 .

(6) This chapter does not affect the property available to satisfy an obligation incurred by a spouse that is attributable to an obligation arising when one or both spouses are not domiciled in this state or to an act or omission occurring when one or both spouses are not domiciled in this state.

History: 1987 a. 393 ; 1991 a. 301 .
Wis. Stat. § 185.14 — WI Code / Chapter 185 / Section 185.14
Quorum.
Status: in_force

(1) A quorum at a member meeting shall be 10 percent of the first 100 members plus 5 percent of additional members.

(2) Unless the bylaws fix a larger number of members to constitute a quorum and except as provided in the bylaws in accordance with s. 185.12 (4) (b) 2. , a quorum shall never be more than 50 members nor less than 5 members or a majority of all members, whichever is smaller. Members represented by signed ballots may be counted in computing a quorum only on those motions for which the signed ballots were submitted.

History: 1985 a. 30 .
Wis. Stat. § 961.572 — WI Code / Chapter 961 / Section 961.572
Section 961.572
Status: in_force

(L) Expert testimony concerning its use.

(2) In determining under this subchapter whether an item is designed for a particular use, a court or other authority shall consider the objective physical characteristics and design features of the item.

(3) In determining under this subchapter whether an item is primarily intended for a particular use, a court or other authority shall consider the subjective intent of the defendant.

History: 1989 a. 121 ; 1991 a. 140 ; 1995 a. 448 s. 311 ; Stats. 1995 s. 961.572.
Wis. Stat. § 201.14 — WI Code / Chapter 201 / Section 201.14
Validation of securities issued without certificate.
Status: in_force

Securities issued by any such corporation, for the issuance of which a certificate should have been, but through excusable neglect or mistake was not, applied for, may be validated by the commission upon application of such corporation, signed and verified by the president and secretary, and setting forth the information required by s. 201.05 (1) , and in addition thereto a concise statement of the reasons why such application was not made at the time such securities were issued. If the commission shall find and determine that such failure to make application was due to excusable neglect or mistake, and was not occasioned by any design to evade compliance with the law, and that such issue was otherwise in accordance with law, the commission shall issue to the corporation a validating certificate.

History: 1997 a. 140 s. 16 ; Stats. 1997 s. 200.14; 1999 a. 150 s. 659 ; Stats. 1999 s. 201.14.
Wis. Stat. § 411.307 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.307
Priority of liens arising by attachment or levy on, security interests in, and other claims to goods.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in s. 411.306 , a creditor of a lessee takes subject to the lease contract.

(2) Except as provided in sub. (3) and ss. 411.306 and 411.308 , a creditor of a lessor takes subject to the lease contract unless the creditor holds a lien that attached to the goods before the lease contract became enforceable.

(3) Except as otherwise provided in ss. 409.317 , 409.321 , and 409.323 , a lessee takes a leasehold interest subject to a security interest held by a creditor of the lessor.

History: 1991 a. 148 ; 2001 a. 10 .