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Wis. Stat. § 26.05 — WI Code / Chapter 26 / Section 26.05
Timber theft.
Status: in_force

(1) Definition. In this section, “raw forest products” means forest products not altered by a manufacturing process off the land from which they are taken and includes seedlings, saplings, shrubs, whole-tree chips, boughs, logs, pilings, posts, poles, cordwood products, pulpwood, fuel wood and Christmas trees.

(2) Consent of owner required. No person may cut, remove or transport raw forest products or direct the cutting, removal or transportation of raw forest products without the consent of the owner.

(3) Penalties.

(a) A person who violates this section or a rule promulgated under this section is subject to a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than $10,000.

(b) Instead of the forfeiture provided under par. (a) , a person who intentionally violates this section, or a rule promulgated under this section, may be punished under s. 943.20 for theft.

(c) In addition to any other penalty, a person who violates this section, or a rule promulgated under this section, is liable for the reasonable costs incurred to establish the volume and value of the raw forest products cut, removed or transported.

History: 1981 c. 67 ; 1999 a. 190 .
Wis. Stat. § 41.55 — WI Code / Chapter 41 / Section 41.55
Executive secretary.
Status: in_force

The board shall appoint an executive secretary outside the classified service to serve at its pleasure.

History: 1973 c. 90 ; 2011 a. 35 s. 12.05d; Stats. 2011 s. 41.55.
Wis. Stat. § 704.165 — WI Code / Chapter 704 / Section 704.165
Termination of tenancy at death of tenant.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) , if a residential tenant dies, his or her tenancy is terminated on the earlier of the following:

1. Sixty days after the landlord receives notice, is advised, or otherwise becomes aware of the tenant’s death.

2. The expiration of the term of the rental agreement.

(b) Notwithstanding s. 704.19 , in the case of the death of a residential periodic tenant or tenant at will, the tenancy is terminated 60 days after the landlord receives notice, is advised, or otherwise becomes aware of the tenant’s death.

(2) The deceased tenant or his or her estate is not liable for any rent after the termination of his or her tenancy. Any liability of the deceased tenant or his or her estate for rent under this subsection is subject to the landlord’s duty to mitigate damages as provided in s. 704.29 (2) .

(3) Nothing in this section relieves another adult tenant of the deceased tenant’s premises from any obligation under a rental agreement or any other liability to the landlord.

(4) A landlord under this section may not contact or communicate with a member of the deceased tenant’s family for the purpose of obtaining from the family member rent for which the family member has no liability.

History: 2009 a. 323 .
Wis. Stat. § 91.14 — WI Code / Chapter 91 / Section 91.14
Expiration of plan certification.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided under sub. (4) , the certification of a farmland preservation plan that was certified under s. 91.06 , 2007 stats., expires on the date provided in the certification or, if the certification does not provide an expiration date, on the following date:

(a) December 31, 2011, for a county with an increase in population density of more than 9 persons per square mile.

(b) December 31, 2012, for a county with an increase in population density of more than 3.75 but not more than 9 persons per square mile.

(c) December 31, 2013, for a county with an increase in population density of more than 1.75 but not more than 3.75 persons per square mile.

(d) December 31, 2014, for a county with an increase in population density of more than 0.8 but not more than 1.75 persons per square mile.

(e) December 31, 2015, for a county with an increase in population density of not more than 0.8 person per square mile.

(2) The certification of a farmland preservation plan that the department certifies under s. 91.16 expires on the date specified under s. 91.16 (2) .

(3) For the purposes of sub. (1) , a county’s increase in population density is the number by which the county’s population per square mile based on the department of administration’s 2007 population estimate under s. 16.96 exceeds the county’s population per square mile based on the 2000 federal census.

(4) The secretary of agriculture, trade and consumer protection may delay the date for the expiration of a county’s farmland preservation plan for up to 2 years beyond the date under sub. (1) upon a written request from the county demonstrating to the secretary’s satisfaction that a delay would allow the county to concurrently develop a farmland preservation plan and a comprehensive plan or an update to a comprehensive plan.

History: 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 76.03 — WI Code / Chapter 76 / Section 76.03
Unit assessment and situs for taxation.
Status: in_force

(1) The property, both real and personal, including all rights, franchises and privileges used in and necessary to the prosecution of the business of any company enumerated in s. 76.02 shall be valued and assessed together as a unit.

(2) In case any of the property used in the business of a company defined in s. 76.02 is operated in connection with the property used in the same business or any other business therein described, all such property, rights, franchises and privileges shall be valued and assessed together as a unit, unless, in the opinion of the department of revenue, such properties are so segregated that separate assessments thereof should be made.

(3) The place of assessment and taxation of property subject to taxation under the provisions of this subchapter is fixed at the capitol of the state.

(4) Every person, company or companies, as defined in s. 76.02 , shall be the representative of every title and interest in the property so operated or used either as owner, lessee or otherwise, and notice to the operating and using company or companies shall be notice to all interests in the property for the purposes of taxation. The assessment and taxation of the property of any company in the name of the operating or using company or companies shall be deemed and held an assessment and taxation of all the title and interest in such property of any kind or nature. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the assessment and taxation of the interests of the state or of any county, city, village or town in any property used for highways or elevated roads and leased to or used by another.

History: 1977 c. 418 ; 1979 c. 102 s. 236 (1) ; 1983 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 237 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2023 a. 12 .
Wis. Stat. § 16.548 — WI Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16.548
Federal-state relations office; report.
Status: in_force

(1) The department may maintain a federal-state relations office in Washington, D.C., for the purpose of promoting federal-state cooperation, headed by a director. The director and a staff assistant for the office shall be appointed by the governor outside the classified service, subject to the concurrence of the joint committee on legislative organization. The director and staff assistant shall serve at the pleasure of the governor.

(2) If the department maintains a federal-state relations office, it shall submit a report from the office to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2) , within 30 days after the close of each calendar quarter detailing the activities of the office during the quarter and reporting the status of federal legislation of concern to the legislature and other state agencies.

(3) The department may arrange for the federal-state relations office to share office facilities with a similar office serving another state.

History: 1979 c. 34 ; 1983 a. 27 , 192 ; 1987 a. 186 .
Wis. Stat. § 200.63 — WI Code / Chapter 200 / Section 200.63
Construction.
Status: in_force

Nothing in ss. 200.21 to 200.61 in any way limits or takes away any of the powers of any municipality located in the district, relating to the construction, extension or repair of local or sanitary sewers or drains except that all plans and specifications for the construction of any local or sanitary sewers or extensions thereof shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the district before the sewers are constructed.

History: 1981 c. 282 ; 1999 a. 150 s. 599 ; Stats. 1999 s. 200.63.
Wis. Stat. § 322.1345 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.1345
Article 134h - Sexual harassment.
Status: in_force

Any person who knowingly makes an unwelcome sexual advance, demand, or request for a sexual favor or knowingly engages in other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if all of the following apply:

(1) The sexual advance, demand, request, or conduct of a sexual nature satisfies any of the following conditions:

(a) It would, under the circumstances, cause a reasonable person to believe, and at least one person did believe, that submission to or rejection of such an advance, demand, request, or conduct would be made, either explicitly or implicitly, a term or condition of that person’s job, pay, career, benefits, or entitlements or would be used as a basis for decisions affecting that person’s job, pay, career, benefits, or entitlements.

(b) It was so severe, repetitive, or pervasive that a reasonable person would perceive, and at least one person did perceive, an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.

(2) The sexual advance, demand, request, or conduct of a sexual nature was to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the state military forces or of a nature to bring discredit upon the state military forces, or both.

History: 2023 a. 47 .
Wis. Stat. § 806.35 — WI Code / Chapter 806 / Section 806.35
Asserting and defending a foreign-money claim.
Status: in_force

(1) A claimant may assert a claim in a specified foreign money. If a foreign money is not asserted, the claimant makes a claim for a judgment in U.S. dollars.

(2) An opposing party may allege and prove that the claim is, in whole or in part, for a different money than that asserted by the claimant.

(3) Any party may assert a defense, setoff, recoupment or counterclaim in any money without regard to the money of other claims.

(4) The determination of the proper money of the claim is a question of law.

History: 1991 a. 236 .
Wis. Stat. § 62.115 — WI Code / Chapter 62 / Section 62.115
Defense of officers by city attorney.
Status: in_force

(1) The common council of any city, however incorporated, may by ordinance or resolution authorize the city attorney to defend actions brought against any officer or employee of such city or of any board or commission thereof, growing out of any acts done in the course of employment, or out of any alleged breach of duty as such officer or employee, excepting actions brought to determine the right of such officer or employee to hold or retain that person’s office or position, and excepting also actions brought by such city against any officer or employee thereof.

(2) Nothing in this section contained, nor any action taken by any city or by any city attorney pursuant to the provisions of this section, shall be construed to impose any liability, either for costs, damages or otherwise, upon such city or city attorney.

History: 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 287.81 — WI Code / Chapter 287 / Section 287.81
Littering.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Aircraft” means any structure invented, used or designed for navigation or flight in the air.

(am) “Highway” has the meaning given in s. 340.01 (22) .

(as) “Large item” means an appliance, an item of furniture, a tire, a vehicle, a boat, an aircraft, building materials, or demolition waste.

(b) “Vehicle” has the meaning given in s. 340.01 (74) , but includes an electric scooter, as defined in s. 340.01 (15ps) , an electric personal assistive mobility device, as defined in s. 340.01 (15pm) , and an all-terrain vehicle, as defined in s. 340.01 (2g) .

(c) “Waters of the state” has the meaning given in s. 281.01 (18) .

(2) Except as provided in sub. (3) , a person who does any of the following may be required to forfeit not more than $500:

(a) Deposits or discharges any solid waste on or along any highway, in any waters of the state, on the ice of any waters of the state or on any other public or private property.

(b) Permits any solid waste to be thrown from a vehicle operated by the person.

(c) Fails to remove within 30 days or otherwise abandons any automobile, boat or other vehicle in the waters of the state.

(d) Owns an aircraft that has crashed in the waters of the state and fails to remove the aircraft from those waters within 30 days after the crash, within 30 days after June 15, 1991, or within 30 days after the national transportation safety board pursuant to an investigation under 49 CFR Part 831 authorizes its removal, whichever is latest.

(2m) Except as provided in sub. (3) , a person who deposits any large item on or along any highway, in any waters of the state, on the ice of any waters of the state, or on any other public or private property shall forfeit not more than $1,000.

(3)

(a) Subsections (2) (a) and (2m) do not apply to a person who places solid waste in a receptacle designed for solid waste storage that is located along a highway or on other public or private property.

(b) Subsections (2) and (2m) do not apply to a person who deposits or discharges solid waste in conformance with chs. 30 , 31 , 281 to 285 or 289 to 299 or a permit, license or other approval issued by the department under those chapters.

History: 1989 a. 335 ; 1991 a. 19 ; 1995 a. 227 s. 917 ; Stats. 1995 s. 287.81; 2001 a. 90 ; 2009 a. 368 ; 2011 a. 265 ; 2019 a. 11 .
Wis. Stat. § 946.41 — WI Code / Chapter 946 / Section 946.41
Resisting or obstructing officer.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in subs. (2m) and (2r) , whoever knowingly resists or obstructs an officer while such officer is doing any act in an official capacity and with lawful authority is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(2) In this section:

(a) “Obstructs” includes without limitation knowingly giving false information to the officer or knowingly placing physical evidence with intent to mislead the officer in the performance of his or her duty including the service of any summons or civil process.

(b) “Officer” means a peace officer or other public officer or public employee having the authority by virtue of the officer’s or employee’s office or employment to take another into custody.

(c) “Soft tissue injury” means an injury that requires medical attention to a tissue that connects, supports, or surrounds other structures and organs of the body and includes tendons, ligaments, fascia, skin, fibrous tissues, fat, synovial membranes, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels.

(2m) Whoever violates sub. (1) under all of the following circumstances is guilty of a Class H felony:

(a) The violator gives false information or places physical evidence with intent to mislead an officer.

(b) At a criminal trial, the trier of fact considers the false information or physical evidence.

(c) The trial results in the conviction of an innocent person.

(2r) Whoever violates sub. (1) and causes substantial bodily harm or a soft tissue injury to an officer is guilty of a Class H felony.

(2t) Whoever violates sub. (1) and causes great bodily harm to an officer is guilty of a Class G felony.

(3) Whoever by violating this section hinders, delays or prevents an officer from properly serving or executing any summons or civil process, is civilly liable to the person injured for any actual loss caused thereby and to the officer or the officer’s superior for any damages adjudged against either of them by reason thereof.

History: 1977 c. 173 ; 1983 a. 189 ; 1989 a. 121 ; 1993 a. 486 ; 2001 a. 109 ; 2009 a. 251 ; 2011 a. 74 .
Wis. Stat. § 403.204 — WI Code / Chapter 403 / Section 403.204
Endorsement.
Status: in_force

(1) “Endorsement” means a signature, other than that of a signer as maker, drawer or acceptor, that alone or accompanied by other words is made on an instrument for the purpose of negotiating the instrument, restricting payment of the instrument or incurring the endorser’s liability on the instrument, but regardless of the intent of the signer, a signature and its accompanying words is an endorsement unless the accompanying words, terms of the instrument, place of the signature or other circumstances unambiguously indicate that the signature was made for a purpose other than endorsement. For the purpose of determining whether a signature is made on an instrument, a paper affixed to the instrument is a part of the instrument.

(2) “Endorser” means a person who makes an endorsement.

(3) For the purpose of determining whether the transferee of an instrument is a holder, an endorsement that transfers a security interest in the instrument is effective as an unqualified endorsement of the instrument.

(4) If an instrument is payable to a holder under a name that is not the name of the holder, endorsement may be made by the holder in the name stated in the instrument or in the holder’s name or both, but signature in both names may be required by a person paying or taking the instrument for value or collection.

History: 1995 a. 449 .
Wis. Stat. § 49.15 — WI Code / Chapter 49 / Section 49.15
Wisconsin works; 2-parent families.
Status: in_force

(1) Definition. In this section, “other parent” means a parent who is not a participant in a Wisconsin works employment position.

(2) Requirements for nonparticipant parent.

(a) If a participant in a Wisconsin works employment position resides with the other parent of a dependent child with respect to whom the participant is a custodial parent, the other parent shall participate in activities described under sub. (3) if the Wisconsin works group receives federally funded child care assistance on behalf of the dependent child. The other parent shall participate in activities described under sub. (3) for a number of hours per week that is at least equal to the difference between 55 hours and the sum of the number of hours that the participant in the Wisconsin works employment position participates in the Wisconsin works employment position and the number of hours that the participant in the Wisconsin works employment position participates in any activity described in sub. (3) during that week.

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply if the other parent is disabled, as defined by the department, or is caring for a severely disabled child, as defined by the department.

(3) Prescribed work activities. An individual who is subject to the work requirement under sub. (2) may satisfy the requirement only by participating in any of the following activities:

(a) Unsubsidized employment, as defined in s. 49.147 (1) .

(b) Subsidized employment, as defined by the department.

(c) If sufficient private sector employment is not available, work experience, as defined by the department.

(d) On-the-job training, as defined by the department.

(e) A community service program, as defined by the department.

History: 1997 a. 27 ; 1999 a. 32 ; 2011 a. 257 .
Wis. Stat. § 174.06 — WI Code / Chapter 174 / Section 174.06
Listing.
Status: in_force

(1) Responsibility to list. Every town, village and city shall annually, by September 1, ascertain by diligent inquiry the dogs owned or kept within the assessment district.

(2) Listing official; generally. In a city or village the listing official is the municipal clerk, unless the common council or village board provides by ordinance or resolution for the appointment of a different person. In a town, the town board shall designate a person to be the listing official.

(3) Compensation.

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) , a listing official who is not a full-time, salaried municipal employee shall receive as compensation 50 cents for each dog listed, or a greater amount established by the county board by ordinance or resolution, to be audited and allowed by the county board as other claims against the county and to be paid out of the dog license fund. A listing official who is a full-time, salaried municipal employee shall receive this compensation from the county board but shall be required to pay the compensation into the town, village, or city treasury.

(b) In a county in which an agreement under s. 174.10 (2) is in effect, the intergovernmental commission shall pay the compensation required under par. (a) .

(4) Cooperation with listing official. Every person shall answer frankly and fully all questions asked by the listing official relative to the ownership or keeping of dogs within the district.

(5) Records. The listing official shall enter in the records for personal property assessments, or in a separate record, all dogs in the district subject to tax, to whom they are assessed, the name, number, sex, spayed or unspayed, neutered or unneutered, breed and color of each dog. The listing official shall make in triplicate a list of the owners of all dogs assessed.

(6) Multiple dog license records. The listing official shall make in triplicate a list of the names of persons holding multiple dog licenses and the number of dogs kept by each of those persons.

(7) List delivery. The listing official shall, by September 15, deliver one copy of the list under sub. (5) or (6) to the county clerk and one copy to the official to whom license taxes are paid under s. 174.08 , and retain one copy for his or her files.

(8) Assessment or tax roll. Dog licenses need not be entered on any assessment or tax roll other than the lists prepared by the listing official under subs. (5) and (6) . These lists may be deemed property assessment and tax rolls for all tax collection purposes.

History: 1973 c. 90 , 333 ; 1975 c. 290 , 421 ; 1977 c. 29 s. 1650m (4) ; 1979 c. 289 ; 1981 c. 285 , 314 ; 1983 a. 451 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2003 a. 133 .