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Wis. Stat. § 101.178 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.178
Installation and servicing of heating, ventilating and air conditioning equipment.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “political subdivision” means a city, village, town or county.

(2) No person may engage in the business of installing or servicing heating, ventilating or air conditioning equipment unless the person registers with the department.

(3)

(a) The department shall promulgate rules for a voluntary program under which a person who engages in the business of installing or servicing heating, ventilating or air conditioning equipment may obtain certification by passing an examination developed or selected by the department.

(b) A political subdivision may not require a person to obtain certification under par. (a) in order to engage in the business of installing or servicing heating, ventilating or air conditioning equipment in that political subdivision unless all of the following apply:

1. On April 23, 1994, the political subdivision requires certification, licensure or other approval by the political subdivision in order to engage in that business in the political subdivision.

2. The political subdivision allows a person who has the approval under subd. 1. on April 23, 1994, to continue to engage in that business in the political subdivision without obtaining certification under par. (a) .

(c) A political subdivision may not require a person who is certified under par. (a) to obtain certification, licensure or other approval by the political subdivision in order to engage in the business of installing or servicing heating, ventilating or air conditioning equipment in that political subdivision.

(d) A political subdivision may not require a person to obtain certification, licensure or other approval by the political subdivision in order to engage in the business of installing or servicing heating, ventilating or air conditioning equipment in the political subdivision unless the political subdivision requires that approval before November 1, 1993.

(4) The department may establish fees to cover the costs of administering this section.

(5) Any person who violates sub. (2) shall be required to forfeit not less than $50 nor more than $1,000. Each installation or servicing in violation of sub. (2) constitutes a separate violation.

History: 1993 a. 243 .
Wis. Stat. § 88.14 — WI Code / Chapter 88 / Section 88.14
Controversies between districts.
Status: in_force

(1) If a controversy arises out of the relationship of 2 or more drainage districts that are subject to the jurisdiction of a single drainage board, the board may hold hearings and take whatever other action it considers necessary toward settling the controversy, including the issuance of orders.

(2) If a controversy arises out of the relationship of 2 or more drainage districts that are subject to the jurisdiction of 2 or more drainage boards, the boards shall attempt to settle the controversy and may hold hearings and take whatever other action they consider necessary to accomplish that objective. If the drainage boards are unable to settle the controversy, the matter shall be submitted to arbitration under ch. 788 .

History: 1977 c. 449 ; 1993 a. 456 .
Wis. Stat. § 616.82 — WI Code / Chapter 616 / Section 616.82
Person exempted.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this subchapter applies to an authorized attorney at law acting in the usual course of the profession, nor to any insurance company, bonding company, or surety company now or hereafter duly and regularly licensed and doing business as such under the laws of this state.

History: 1977 c. 339 ss. 8 , 44 ; Stats. 1977 s. 616.82; 1979 c. 89 , 176 ; 1979 c. 355 s. 236 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.53 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.53
Franchise, foreign corporation not to have.
Status: in_force

No license, permit or franchise to own, operate, manage or control any plant or equipment for the production, transmission, delivery or furnishing of heat, light, water or power may be granted or transferred to a foreign corporation. This section does not apply to an independent system operator, as defined in s. 196.485 (1) (d) , or an independent transmission owner, as defined in s. 196.485 (1) (dm) , that is approved by the applicable federal agency, as defined in s. 196.485 (1) (c) , and that controls transmission facilities, as defined in s. 196.485 (1) (h) , in this and another state.

History: 1985 a. 297 ; 1993 a. 496 ; 1997 a. 204 .
Wis. Stat. § 303.063 — WI Code / Chapter 303 / Section 303.063
Secure work program.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may establish a secure work program for inmates in which the inmates are assigned to work away from the grounds of the institution while appropriately restrained for security purposes.

(2) If the department establishes a secure work program under sub. (1) , the department shall, before implementing the program, promulgate rules specifying the procedures and regulations relating to the program. The rules shall require inmates who are on work assignments under the program to wear distinctively colored outer garments.

History: 1995 a. 416 .
Wis. Stat. § 859.25 — WI Code / Chapter 859 / Section 859.25
Priority of payment of claims and allowances.
Status: in_force

(1) Classes and priority. At the time of their allowance, all claims and allowances shall be classified in one of the following classes. If the applicable assets of the estate are insufficient to pay all claims and allowances in full, the personal representative shall make payment in the following order:

(a) Costs and expenses of administration.

(b) Reasonable funeral and burial expenses.

(c) Provisions for the family of the decedent under ss. 861.31 , 861.33 and 861.35 .

(d) Reasonable and necessary expenses of the last sickness of the decedent, including compensation of persons attending the decedent.

(e) All debts, charges or taxes owing to the United States, this state or a governmental subdivision or municipality of this state.

(f) Wages, including pension, welfare and vacation benefits, due to employees which have been earned within 3 months before the date of the death of the decedent, not to exceed $300 in value to each employee.

(g) Property assigned to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner under s. 861.41 .

(h) All other claims allowed.

(2) No preference within classes. Preference shall not be given in the payment of any claim over any other claim of the same class, nor shall a claim due and payable be entitled to a preference over claims not due.

History: 1971 c. 63 ; 1983 a. 186 ; 1985 a. 37 ; 1993 a. 486 ; 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 115.447 — WI Code / Chapter 115 / Section 115.447
Summer school programs; grants.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “eligible school district” means a 1st class city school district.

(2) Beginning in the 2018-19 school year and in each year thereafter, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (dj) , the department shall award grants to eligible school districts to do any of the following:

(a) Develop a summer school program.

(b) Redesign a summer school program.

(c) Implement a summer school program.

(3) The department shall promulgate rules to implement this section.

History: 2017 a. 59 .
Wis. Stat. § 195.048 — WI Code / Chapter 195 / Section 195.048
Incriminating evidence.
Status: in_force

(1) No person may be excused from testifying or from producing books, accounts and papers in any proceeding based upon or growing out of any violation of this chapter on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence may tend to incriminate or subject the person to penalty or forfeiture, but no person having so testified may be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any such testimony. No person so testifying may be exempted from prosecution or punishment for perjury in testifying.

(2) The immunity provided under sub. (1) is subject to the restrictions under s. 972.085 .

History: 1977 c. 29 , 273 ; 1989 a. 122 .
Wis. Stat. § 343.75 — WI Code / Chapter 343 / Section 343.75
Control group testing by department.
Status: in_force

The department may exempt certain persons from one or more of the mandatory requirements of this chapter to establish a test group in order to compare this group with a group of persons not exempted from any of the mandatory requirements of this chapter. After comparing these 2 groups, the department shall determine what effect, if any, that a particular mandatory requirement may have on highway safety in this state. The department shall submit any findings in this regard to the secretary who shall include them in the report required under s. 15.04 (1) (d) .

History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (7) (e) ; 1977 c. 196 s. 131 ; 1977 c. 273 ; 1981 c. 390 s. 252 .
Wis. Stat. § 218.0143 — WI Code / Chapter 218 / Section 218.0143
Notice of insurance to buyer under installment sales contract.
Status: in_force

Whenever a person sells or agrees to sell any motor vehicle at retail under a retail installment contract that provides for insurance coverage, or a charge is made for insurance coverage, the seller shall do one of the following:

(1m) Ensure that the policy so issued or provided for includes public liability coverage protecting the driver of the motor vehicle against damages resulting from the negligent use of the vehicle.

(2) Notify, in writing, the buyer at the time of making the retail installment contract that the motor vehicle is not covered by public liability insurance protecting the driver against damages resulting from the negligent use of the vehicle and obtain, on a form separate from the retail installment contract, the signed acknowledgment of the buyer that he or she has been notified that the contract does not include public liability insurance protecting the driver against damages resulting from the negligent use of the vehicle.

History: 1999 a. 31 s. 268 ; 2005 a. 133 .
Wis. Stat. § 26.98 — WI Code / Chapter 26 / Section 26.98
General penalty.
Status: in_force

Any person who violates a provision of this chapter for which no penalty is provided shall forfeit not more than $50.

History: 1975 c. 365 ; 1983 a. 27 s. 643m ; Stats. 1983 s. 26.98.
Wis. Stat. § 409.506 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.506
Effect of errors or omissions.
Status: in_force

(1) Minor errors and omissions. A financing statement substantially satisfying the requirements of this subchapter is effective, even if it has minor errors or omissions, unless the errors or omissions make the financing statement seriously misleading.

(2) Financing statement seriously misleading. Except as otherwise provided in sub. (3) , a financing statement that fails sufficiently to provide the name of the debtor in accordance with s. 409.503 (1) is seriously misleading.

(3) Financing statement not seriously misleading. If a search of the records of the filing office under the debtor’s correct name, using the filing office’s standard search logic, if any, would disclose a financing statement that fails sufficiently to provide the name of the debtor in accordance with s. 409.503 (1) , the name provided does not make the financing statement seriously misleading.

(4) Debtor’s correct name. For purposes of s. 409.508 (2) , the “debtor’s correct name” in sub. (3) means the correct name of the new debtor.

History: 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 346.40 — WI Code / Chapter 346 / Section 346.40
Whistle signals.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever traffic is alternately being directed to stop and to proceed by a traffic officer using a whistle, such officer shall use the following whistle signals which shall signify as follows:

(a) One blast of the whistle means that all traffic not within the intersection shall stop.

(b) Two blasts of the whistle means that traffic which had been stopped prior to the one blast shall proceed through the intersection and that the traffic which was stopped by the one blast shall remain stopped.

(2) The traffic officer shall regulate the interval between the one and the 2 blasts so as to permit traffic that is legally within the intersection to clear the intersection.
Wis. Stat. § 93.17 — WI Code / Chapter 93 / Section 93.17
Immunity; perjury.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as to a hearing or proceeding under s. 93.06 (3) or as to an investigation preliminary thereto, no person may be excused from testifying or rendering a report or answer or producing or submitting a document, in response to a demand made under s. 93.14 or 93.15 , upon the ground or for the reason that the testimony or report or answer or document required of him or her may tend to incriminate him or her or subject him or her to a penalty or forfeiture; but no natural person may be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of testifying or rendering a report or answer or producing or submitting a document, in response to a demand made under s. 93.14 or 93.15 , and no testimony so given or report or answer so rendered or document so produced or submitted may be received against him or her in any criminal action, investigation or proceeding; provided, that no natural person so testifying may be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed by him or her in so testifying or for misrepresentation or concealment committed by him or her in so rendering a report or answer or so producing or submitting a document.

(2) The immunity provided under sub. (1) is subject to the restrictions under s. 972.085 .

History: 1989 a. 122 .
Wis. Stat. § 50.34 — WI Code / Chapter 50 / Section 50.34
Purpose.
Status: in_force

The purpose of ss. 50.32 to 50.39 is to provide for the development, establishment and enforcement of rules and standards for the construction, maintenance and operation of hospitals which, in the light of advancing knowledge, will promote safe and adequate care and treatment of patients in such hospitals.

History: 1975 c. 413 ss. 4 , 18 ; Stats. 1975 s. 50.34.
Wis. Stat. § 236.46 — WI Code / Chapter 236 / Section 236.46
County plans.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) The county planning agency may prepare plans, in such units as it may determine, for the future platting of lands within the county, but without the limits of any municipality, or for the future location of streets or highways or parkways, and the extension or widening of existing streets and highways. Before completion of these plans, the county planning agency shall fix the time and place it will hear all persons who desire to be heard upon the proposed plans, and shall give notice of that hearing as required below for the passage of the ordinance by the county board. After these hearings the county planning agency shall certify the plans to the county board, who may, after having submitted the same to the town boards of the several towns in which the lands are located and obtained the approval of the town boards, adopt by ordinance the proposed plans for future platting or for street or highway or parkway location in towns which may have approved the same, and upon approval of those towns may amend the ordinance. Before the ordinance or any amendments to the ordinance are adopted by the county board, notice shall be given by publication of a class 2 notice, under ch. 985 , of a hearing at which all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard at a time and place to be specified in the notice. The ordinance with any amendments as may be made shall govern the platting of all lands within the area to which it applies.

(b) In counties having a population of less than 750,000 any plan adopted under this section does not apply in the extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction of any municipality unless that municipality by ordinance approves the same. This approval may be rescinded by ordinance.

(2) A plan adopted under this section may be any of the following:

(a) A system of arterial thoroughfares complete for each town.

(b) A system of minor streets for the complete area surrounded by any such main arterial thoroughfares and connecting therewith.

(c) The platting of lots for any area surrounded completely by any such arterial thoroughfares or any such minor streets or both.

(3) Such system of arterial thoroughfares and such system of minor streets within such system of arterial thoroughfares and such platting of lots within any such system of minor streets may be adopted by the same proceeding. For the purpose of this section a parkway may be considered either an arterial thoroughfare or a minor street if it performs the function of an arterial thoroughfare or minor street. A natural obstacle like a lake or river or an artificial obstacle like a railroad or town line may, where necessary, be the boundary of a plan adopted under this section instead of a street or highway or parkway.

History: 1979 c. 248 ; 2017 a. 207 s. 5 .
Wis. Stat. § 814.12 — WI Code / Chapter 814 / Section 814.12
Costs may be set off.
Status: in_force

If, in any action, a recovery be had by one party and costs be awarded to the other the court may set off one against the other and render judgment for the balance.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 814.12.
Wis. Stat. § 814.52 — WI Code / Chapter 814 / Section 814.52
Transport costs.
Status: in_force

(1) If a law enforcement agency requests a ferry provider to operate beyond its usual hours of operation to transport an arrested person to a jail or other facility, the law enforcement agency shall be reimbursed for the costs it incurs to pay for the ferry transport pursuant to sub. (2) .

(2) In any civil or criminal action or proceeding, if a circuit court enters a judgment against a defendant who was the subject of a ferry transport described in sub. (1) , the clerk of circuit court shall collect costs in an amount equal to the costs incurred by a law enforcement agency under sub. (1) . When judgment is entered against the defendant, the defendant shall pay the costs and the clerk of circuit court shall pay the law enforcement agency that requested the transport.

History: 2009 a. 72 .
Wis. Stat. § 285.65 — WI Code / Chapter 285 / Section 285.65
Permit conditions.
Status: in_force

The department may prescribe conditions for an air pollution control permit to ensure compliance with this chapter and s. 299.15 and rules promulgated under this chapter and s. 299.15 and to ensure compliance with the federal clean air act if each condition is one of the following and if each condition is applicable to the source:

(1) Final inspection and release of the project for permanent operation upon completion of construction, reconstruction, replacement or modification.

(2) Variances, orders or compliance schedules.

(3) Requirements necessary to assure compliance with s. 285.63 .

(4) Reasonable construction and applicable operating conditions, emission control equipment maintenance requirements and emergency episode plans.

(5) Emission reduction options.

(6) Documentation of the allocation of the available air resource.

(7) The terms of any election by the permit applicant to meet more stringent emission limitations or to limit hourly, daily or annual emissions beyond what is otherwise required or to obtain an emission reduction option.

(8) The terms for use of growth accommodation credits under s. 285.63 (7) or (8) , including the dates that the source expects to use the credits.

(9) Requirements concerning entry and inspection as provided in s. 285.19 .

(10) Monitoring, record-keeping, reporting and compliance certification requirements.

(11) Requirements to submit compliance plans and schedules and progress reports.

(12) Conditions necessary to implement 42 USC 7651 to 7651o and regulations under 42 USC 7651 to 7651o concerning acid deposition control.

(13) Other conditions applicable to the source under the federal clean air act.

(14) Other requirements specified by rule by the department.

History: 1979 c. 34 , 221 ; 1987 a. 27 ; 1991 a. 302 ; 1995 a. 227 s. 490 ; Stats. 1995 s. 285.65.
Wis. Stat. § 280.17 — WI Code / Chapter 280 / Section 280.17
Exceptions.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the construction of wells where the water is used only for stock watering and other similar domestic purposes and is not used for human consumption.

History: 1995 a. 227 s. 941 ; Stats. 1995 s. 280.17.
Wis. Stat. § 404.403 — WI Code / Chapter 404 / Section 404.403
Customer’s right to stop payment; burden of proof of loss.
Status: in_force

(1) A customer or any person authorized to draw on the account if there is more than one person may stop payment of any item drawn on the customer’s account or close the account by an order to the bank describing the item or account with reasonable certainty received at a time and in a manner that affords the bank a reasonable opportunity to act on it before any action by the bank with respect to the item described in s. 404.303 . If the signature of more than one person is required to draw on an account, any of these persons may stop payment or close the account.

(2) A stop-payment order is effective for 6 months, but it lapses after 14 calendar days if the original order was oral and was not confirmed in writing within that period. A stop-payment order may be renewed for additional 6-month periods by a writing given to the bank within a period during which the stop-payment order is effective.

(3) The burden of establishing the fact and amount of loss resulting from the payment of an item contrary to a stop-payment order or order to close an account is on the customer. The loss from payment of an item contrary to a stop-payment order may include damages for dishonor of subsequent items under s. 404.402 .

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 1995 a. 449 .
Wis. Stat. § 291.23 — WI Code / Chapter 291 / Section 291.23
Licenses; transportation.
Status: in_force

(1) No person may transport hazardous waste without a license issued under this section.

(2) Licenses issued under this section shall require compliance with rules of the department promulgated under s. 291.05 (5) (a) .

(3) Licenses issued under this section may be denied, suspended or revoked for grievous and continuous failure to comply with the rules adopted under s. 291.05 (5) (a) .

History: 1995 a. 227 ss. 676 , 678 ; 1997 a. 35 ; 2015 a. 297 s. 51 .
Wis. Stat. § 186.325 — WI Code / Chapter 186 / Section 186.325
National corporate central credit union.
Status: in_force

(1) Criteria. A corporate central credit union is a national corporate central credit union if all of the following conditions are met:

(a) Its membership consists of any of the following:

1. Central or corporate central credit unions that are organized under the laws of this state or another state or under federal law.

2. Officers and directors of the qualifying corporate central credit union.

3. Organizations operated primarily to service and otherwise assist credit union operations.

(b) Its membership does not include any of the following:

1. Credit unions other than those under par. (a) 1.

2. Individuals other than those under par. (a) 2.

(c) At least 75 percent of its savings and deposits are derived from members under par. (a) 1. and the remainder of its savings and deposits are derived from members under par. (a) 2. and 3.

(2) Borrowing limits. The borrowing limits under s. 186.112 do not apply to a national corporate central credit union.

History: 1995 a. 151 .