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Wis. Stat. § 765.11 — WI Code / Chapter 765 / Section 765.11
Objections to marriage.
Status: in_force

(1) If any parent, grandparent, child, or natural guardian of a minor applicant for a marriage license, any brother, sister, or guardian of either of the applicants for a marriage license, either of the applicants, the district attorney, or a circuit court commissioner believes that the statements of the application are false or insufficient, or that an applicant is adjudicated incompetent without the right to marry, that person may file with the court having probate jurisdiction in the county in which the marriage license is applied for, a petition under oath, setting forth the grounds of objection to the marriage, and asking for an order requiring the parties making the application to show cause why the marriage license should not be refused. Whereupon, the court, if satisfied that the grounds of objection are prima facie valid, shall issue an order to show cause as aforesaid, returnable as the court directs, but not more than 14 days after the date of the order, which shall be served forthwith upon the applicants for the marriage license residing in the state, and upon the clerk before whom the application has been made, and shall operate as a stay upon the issuance of the marriage license until further ordered; if either or both of the applicants are nonresidents of the state the order shall be served immediately upon the nonresident by publication of a class 1 notice, under ch. 985 , in the county in which the application is pending, and by mailing a copy thereof to the nonresident at the address contained in the application.

(2) If, upon hearing, the court finds that the statements in the application are willfully false or insufficient, or that either or both of said parties are not competent in law to marry, the court shall make an order refusing the marriage license, and shall immediately report such matter to the district attorney. If said falseness or insufficiency is due merely to inadvertence, then the court shall permit the parties to amend the application so as to make the statements therein true and sufficient, and upon application being so amended, the marriage license shall be issued. If any party is unable to supply any of the information required in the application, the court may, if satisfied that such inability is not due to willfulness or negligence, order the marriage license to be issued notwithstanding such insufficiency. The costs and disbursements of the proceedings under this section shall rest in the discretion of the court, but none shall be taxed against any district attorney or circuit court commissioner acting in good faith.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 48 ; 1979 c. 176 ; Stats. 1979 s. 765.11; 1981 c. 20 ss. 1777v , 2200 ; 2001 a. 61 ; 2005 a. 387 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.0203 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.0203
Subject matter jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

(1) The circuit court assigned to exercise probate jurisdiction has exclusive jurisdiction of proceedings in this state brought by a trustee, trust protector, directing party, or beneficiary concerning the administration of a trust.

(2) This section does not preclude judicial or nonjudicial alternative dispute resolution, including nonjudicial settlement agreements described in s. 701.0111 .

History: 2013 a. 92 ; 2023 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 293.47 — WI Code / Chapter 293 / Section 293.47
Prospecting data.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Economic information” means financial and economic projections for any potential mining of an ore body including estimates of capital costs, predicted expenses, price forecasts and metallurgical recovery estimates.

(b) “Geologic information” means information concerning descriptions of a nonferrous ore body, descriptions of reserves, tonnages and grades of nonferrous ore, descriptions of a drill core or bulk sample including analysis, descriptions of drill hole depths, distances and similar information related to the nonferrous ore body.

(c) “Prospecting data” means data, records and other information furnished to or obtained by the department in connection with the application for a prospecting permit.

(2) Prospecting data in general. Except as provided under sub. (3) , prospecting data are public records subject to subch. II of ch. 19 .

(3) Confidential prospecting data.

(a) Request for confidential status. An applicant for a prospecting permit may request confidential status for any prospecting data.

(b) Confidential status. The department shall grant confidential status to prospecting data if the applicant makes a request and if the prospecting data relates to economic information or geologic information or is entitled to confidential status under rules promulgated by the department.

History: 1973 c. 318 ; 1979 c. 221 ; 1981 c. 86 ; 1981 c. 335 s. 26 ; 1995 a. 227 s. 795 ; Stats. 1995 s. 293.47; 2013 a. 1 .
Wis. Stat. § 229.24 — WI Code / Chapter 229 / Section 229.24
Operation.
Status: in_force

(1) The auditorium board shall regulate and control the use of said institution, and fix the terms and conditions of its use; and shall do all things necessary for the maintenance and operation thereof.

(2) Said institution shall be used primarily for public meetings, conventions, expositions, and other purposes of a public nature, which are hereby declared to be public purposes; but not for exhibits or trade shows if a charge is made for space occupied by any exhibitor or when an admission fee is exacted.

(3) When not in use for any of said primary purposes, the board may rent said institution, or any part thereof, on such terms and for such purposes as may be deemed advisable and not inconsistent with said primary purposes.

(4)

(a) In this subsection:

1. “Convention” means a county, state, or national assembly of authorized, chosen, or elected delegates or representatives meeting to accomplish some specific commercial, industrial, labor, civil, social, scientific, or educational object.

2. “Patriotic affairs” means affairs given for the encouragement and support of the government in time of war, or for the benefit and support of soldiers, sailors, or marines who have been, or are in the service of the United States, including memorial exercises, exhibitions, fairs, reunions, entertainments, or barracks for such persons, and to all of which affairs the public is admitted without charge.

(c) When not in use for any of its primary purposes, the common council of said city may authorize the gratuitous use of said institution, or any part thereof, for the purposes of conventions, or for offices, class rooms, studios, gymnasiums, lodge rooms, or accommodations for any industrial, commercial, scientific, educational, fraternal, musical, or labor organization which in its opinion will prove a public benefit to the city and promote the welfare and public interests of its citizens and to which said citizens are admitted without charge; and said purposes are hereby declared to be public purposes.

(d) Whenever the common council shall approve the gratuitous use of the institution for the particular conventions and purposes specified in this subsection, said common council shall appropriate to the auditorium fund the usual and customary rentals charged therefor. The aggregate amount to be so expended may be made a part of the annual budget, as provided by ch. 65 , 1943 stats.

History: 1971 c. 152 s. 29 ; Stats. 1971 s. 229.24; 1975 c. 94 s. 91 (9) ; 2015 a. 196 .
Wis. Stat. § 18.82 — WI Code / Chapter 18 / Section 18.82
Bond designation.
Status: in_force

The commission may designate any obligation authorized and issued under subch. I or II as a higher education bond.

History: 1989 a. 46 .
Wis. Stat. § 942.06 — WI Code / Chapter 942 / Section 942.06
Use of polygraphs and similar tests.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (2m) , no person may require or administer a polygraph, voice stress analysis, psychological stress evaluator or any other similar test purporting to test honesty without the prior written and informed consent of the subject.

(2) Except as provided in sub. (2q) , no person may disclose that another person has taken a polygraph, voice stress analysis, psychological stress evaluator or any other similar test purporting to test honesty and no person may disclose the results of such a test to any person except the person tested, without the prior written and informed consent of the subject.

(2m) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:

(a) An employee or agent of the department of corrections who conducts a lie detector test of a sex offender under s. 301.132 .

(b) An employee or agent of the department of health services who conducts a lie detector test of a person under s. 51.375 .

(2q) Subsection (2) does not apply to any of the following:

(a) An employee or agent of the department of corrections who discloses, to any of the following, the fact that a sex offender has had a lie detector test under s. 301.132 or the results of such a lie detector test:

1. Another employee or agent of the department of corrections.

2. Another agency or person, if the information disclosed will be used for purposes related to correctional programming or care and treatment.

(b) An employee or agent of the department of health services who discloses, to any of the following, the fact that a person has had a lie detector test under s. 51.375 or the results of such a lie detector test:

1. Another employee or agent of the department of health services or another person to whom disclosure is permitted under s. 51.375 (2) (b) .

2. Another agency or person, if the information disclosed will be used for purposes related to programming or care and treatment for the person.

(3) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

History: 1979 c. 319 ; 1995 a. 440 ; 1997 a. 283 ; 1999 a. 89 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2007 a. 20 s. 9121 (6) (a) .
Wis. Stat. § 618.42 — WI Code / Chapter 618 / Section 618.42
Direct procurement of insurance.
Status: in_force

(1) Permitted direct procurement. Subject to the restrictions of this section, any person seeking insurance may obtain it if no agent or broker resident or doing business in this state is involved and if negotiations occur primarily outside this state. Negotiations by mail occur within this state if a letter is sent from or to an address in this state.

(2) Reports and taxation. Every policyholder who procures or renews insurance otherwise subject to chs. 600 to 646 and 655 from any insurer not authorized to do business in this state, other than insurance procured under s. 618.41 and the renewal of guaranteed renewable insurance lawfully issued outside this state, shall within 60 days after the insurance procured or renewed report to the commissioner in such form as he or she requires and pay the taxes specified by s. 618.43 .

(3) Prohibited placement with unauthorized insurers.

(a) Sales of personal property. Any insurance on personal property sold on the installment plan or under a conditional sales contract or equivalent security agreement under chs. 401 to 411 for which a charge is made to the buyer as a part of the consideration in the agreement of sale shall be placed with an insurer authorized to do business in this state.

(c) Compulsory insurance. Whenever the law of this state requires a person to purchase insurance on risks in this state, the person shall obtain it from an insurer authorized to do business in this state, or under s. 618.41 .

History: 1971 c. 260 ; 1979 c. 89 ; 1979 c. 102 s. 236 (5) , (8); 1981 c. 314 ; 1989 a. 187 s. 29 ; 1991 a. 148 , 304 , 315 ; 1993 a. 213 .
Wis. Stat. § 24.75 — WI Code / Chapter 24 / Section 24.75
Interest, how accounted for.
Status: in_force

All money collected as interest upon any state trust fund loan shall be paid into the state treasury. All moneys collected as interest upon any trust fund loan are considered gross receipts and shall be credited to the income of the fund from which the loan was made except that expenses may be deducted as provided under s. 24.62 (1) .

History: 1979 c. 221 ; 1981 c. 169 ; Stats. 1981 s. 24.75; 1989 a. 31 .
Wis. Stat. § 134.17 — WI Code / Chapter 134 / Section 134.17
Corporate name, recording, amendment, discontinuance, unlawful use.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who engages in or advertises any mercantile or commission business under a name purporting or appearing to be a corporate name, with the intent to obtain credit, and which name does not disclose the real name of one or more of the persons engaged in the business, without first recording in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which his or her principal place of business is located, a verified statement disclosing and showing the name of all persons using the name, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year.

(2) Any use of corporate name may be amended by recording a verified statement clearly setting forth all changes and signed by all parties concerned with the register of deeds where the original declaration was filed or recorded.

(3) A discontinuance of use of corporate name signed by all interested parties and verified may be recorded with the register of deeds where the original declaration was filed or recorded.

(4) For each recording, the register of deeds shall receive the fee specified for recording under s. 59.43 (2) (ag) .

History: 1981 c. 245 ; 1993 a. 301 ; 1995 a. 201 ; 2003 a. 206 .
Wis. Stat. § 59.05 — WI Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59.05
County seat; change.
Status: in_force

(1) The county seat shall be fixed and designated by the board at the first regular meeting after the organization of any county; and no county seat shall be changed except as provided in this section.

(2) If a petition conforming to the requirements of s. 8.40 is filed with the board by at least two-fifths of the legal voters of any county, to be determined by the registration list for the last previous general election held in the county at the time of filing, the names of which voters shall appear on the registration list for such election, asking for a change of the county seat to some other place designated in the petition, the board shall submit the question of removal of the county seat to a vote of the qualified voters of the county. The board shall file the question as provided in s. 8.37 . The election shall be held only on the day of the general election, notice of the election shall be given and the election shall be conducted as in the case of the election of officers on that day, and the votes shall be canvassed, certified and returned in the same manner as other votes at that election. The question to be submitted shall be “Shall the county seat of .... county be removed to ....?”.

(3) If a majority of the votes cast at the election are in favor of the proposed change, the chairperson of the board shall certify the same, with the attestation of the county clerk, to the governor, who shall issue a proclamation to that effect and publish it in the official state paper. From the date of publication the place designated shall be the county seat. The board may not again submit the question of removal within 5 years.

(4) Notwithstanding subs. (2) and (3) , no election to change a county seat may be held for a period of 5 years after the year in which a courthouse or other county building costing $3,000 or more was built at the county seat and occupied for county purposes.

History: 1977 c. 427 ; 1983 a. 192 , 484 ; 1989 a. 192 ; 1995 a. 201 s. 247 ; Stats. 1995 s. 59.05; 1997 a. 35 ; 1999 a. 182 ; 2003 a. 265 .
Wis. Stat. § 992.02 — WI Code / Chapter 992 / Section 992.02
§ 992.02. Notarial acts validated.
Status: repealed

Chapter 579, laws of 1911 , entitled “An act to create section 175m of the statutes, validating instruments made to or by corporations acknowledged before notaries public who were stockholders, directors, officers or employees of the corporation, and validating other acts done by said notary,” approved July 6, 1911, and published July 7, 1911, and s. 137.03 , 1931 stats. (formerly numbered 175m) are repealed.
Wis. Stat. § 811.03 — WI Code / Chapter 811 / Section 811.03
Basis for attachment.
Status: in_force

(1) On contract or judgment. Before any writ of attachment shall be executed the plaintiff or someone in the plaintiff’s behalf shall make and annex thereto an affidavit setting forth specific factual allegations to show that the defendant is indebted, or that property of the defendant is available, to the plaintiff in a sum exceeding $50 specifying the amount above all setoffs, and that the same is due upon contract or upon a judgment and that the affiant knows or has good reason to believe either:

(a) That the defendant is absent from this state, or is concealed therein so that summons cannot be served on the defendant; or

(b) That the defendant has disposed of or concealed or is about to dispose of or conceal the defendant’s property or some part thereof with intent to defraud the defendant’s creditors; or

(c) That the defendant has removed or is about to remove property out of this state with intent to defraud the defendant’s creditors; or

(d) That the defendant fraudulently incurred the obligation respecting which the action is brought; or

(e) That the defendant is not a resident of this state; or

(f) That the defendant is a foreign corporation; or if domestic that no officer or agent thereof on whom to serve the summons exists or resides in this state or can be found; or

(g) That the action is against a defendant as principal on an official bond to recover money due the state or to some county or other municipality therein, or that the action is against the defendant as principal upon a bond or other instrument given as evidence of debt for or to secure the payment of money embezzled or misappropriated by such defendant as an officer of the state or of a county or municipality therein.

(2) Tort action. Except as provided in ss. 806.30 to 806.44 , in tort actions the affidavit shall state that a cause of action in tort exists in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant, that the damages sustained exceed $50, specifying the amount claimed and either:

(a) That the defendant is not a resident of this state; or that the defendant’s residence is unknown and cannot with due diligence be ascertained; or

(b) That the defendant is a foreign corporation.

(3) On demands not yet due. An action may be maintained and a writ of attachment issued on a demand not yet due in any case mentioned in this section, except the cases mentioned in sub. (1) (e) , (f) and (g) and the same proceedings in the action shall be had and the same affidavit shall be required as in actions upon matured demands except that the affidavit shall state that the debt is to become due; but the bond specified in s. 811.06 shall be conditioned in 3 times the amount claimed in the affidavit. In case an attachment is issued before the maturity of the debt and a traverse to such attachment is sustained the court shall render a judgment for damages and costs against the plaintiff.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 758, 778 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 811.03; 1977 c. 412 ; 1985 a. 37 ; 1987 a. 256 ; 1991 a. 236 ; 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 100.31 — WI Code / Chapter 100 / Section 100.31
Unfair discrimination in drug pricing.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Drug” means any substance subject to 21 USC 353 (b).

(b) “Purchaser” means any person who engages primarily in selling drugs directly to consumers.

(c) “Seller” means any person who trades in drugs for resale to purchasers in this state.

(2) Price discrimination prohibited. Every seller shall offer drugs from the list of therapeutically equivalent drugs published by the federal food and drug administration to every purchaser in this state, with all rights and privileges offered or accorded by the seller to the most favored purchaser, including purchase prices for similar volume purchases, rebates, free merchandise, samples and similar trade concessions. Nothing in this subsection prohibits the giving of a discount for volume purchases.

(3) Treble damages. Any purchaser damaged by violation of this section may bring an action against the seller to recover treble damages sustained by reason of such violation.

(4) Penalties. For any violation of this section, the department or a district attorney may commence an action on behalf of the state to recover a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than $10,000 for each offense. Each delivery of a drug sold to a purchaser at a price in violation of this section and each separate day in violation of an injunction issued under this section is a separate offense.

(5) Special remedies. The department or a district attorney may bring an action to enjoin a violation of this section without being compelled to allege or prove that an adequate remedy at law does not exist. An action under this subsection may be commenced and prosecuted by the department or a district attorney, in the name of the state, in a circuit court in the county where the offense occurred or in Dane County, notwithstanding s. 801.50 .

History: 1975 c. 168 , 421 , 422 ; 1983 a. 188 , 189 ; 1993 a. 352 .
Wis. Stat. § 192.55 — WI Code / Chapter 192 / Section 192.55
Special penalties for this chapter.
Status: in_force

(5) Any corporation or person operating a railroad that shall fail to erect the telltales required by s. 192.31 for the space of 60 days after notice from the office requiring such erection shall forfeit not less than $50 nor more than $100, and each 20 days’ delay thereafter in erecting such telltales shall be a separate offense.

(6) Any person violating s. 192.32 shall forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $200.

(7) Any railroad which violates s. 192.15 shall forfeit to the state $100 for each violation and each day that the violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.

History: 1971 c. 306 ; 1973 c. 154 ; 1977 c. 155 ; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1) ; 1983 a. 501 ; 1993 a. 16 , 123 ; 2005 a. 179 .
Wis. Stat. § 103.17 — WI Code / Chapter 103 / Section 103.17
Mutual forfeit.
Status: in_force

Any employer engaged in manufacturing that requires its employees, under penalty of forfeiture of a part of the wages earned by those employees, to provide a notice of intention to leave the employer’s employ shall be liable for the payment of a like forfeiture if the employer discharges, without similar notice, an employee, other than for incapacity or misconduct, except in case of a general suspension of labor in the employer’s shop or factory or in the department of the employer’s shop or factory in which the employee is employed.

History: 1993 a. 492 ; 1997 a. 253 .
Wis. Stat. § 13.25 — WI Code / Chapter 13 / Section 13.25
Expenses of election contest; limitation.
Status: in_force

Not more than $300 shall be allowed by the legislature to any contestant or contestee for any fees or expenses of any kind incurred in a contest over a seat in either house of the legislature.

History: 1983 a. 36 s. 96 (2) .