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Wis. Stat. § 74.65 — WI Code / Chapter 74 / Section 74.65
Lands acquired by state.
Status: in_force

(1) Excluded from tax certificate. A tax certificate may not, at the time of issuance, include real property which was acquired by the state after taxes have become a lien on the property. Within a reasonable time after the tax roll in which the delinquent real property taxes, special charges, special taxes or special assessments charged to such property are included is delivered to the county treasurer under s. 74.43 , or within a reasonable time after a delinquency occurs, if it occurs after delivery of the tax roll to the county treasurer, or, if the roll is retained by a city authorized to act under s. 74.87 , on or before July 1, the treasurer shall certify to the state agency acquiring the property the amount of the delinquency, including interest and penalty, and include the description of the property contained in the tax roll. Within a reasonable time after receipt of the certification from the treasurer, the state agency shall transmit the certification and a voucher to the department of administration, directing that the amount of delinquency, including interest and penalty, be paid.

(2) No tax deeds issued. No tax deed or equivalent evidence of title may be issued for real property which is acquired by the state after a tax certificate which included the property was issued. A state agency which purchases property which is included on an outstanding tax certificate shall pay to the treasurer an amount sufficient to redeem the property. If by mistake a tax deed or equivalent evidence of title is issued contrary to this subsection and the state brings an action to set aside the deed or equivalent evidence of title, the court shall require, as a condition of relief, that the state indemnify the county, city authorized to act under s. 74.87 or persons having an interest in the property which is founded upon the tax deed or equivalent evidence of title.

(3) How liens paid. The amount of unpaid liens against property purchased by the state shall, when paid, be charged to the appropriation to which the purchase price is charged. Liens on property forfeited under s. 24.28 shall be paid out of the appropriation to which payments by the person forfeiting the property were credited.

History: 1987 a. 378 .
Wis. Stat. § 346.635 — WI Code / Chapter 346 / Section 346.635
Report arrest or out-of-service order to department.
Status: in_force

Whenever a law enforcement officer arrests a person for a violation of s. 346.63 (1) , (5) or (7) , or a local ordinance in conformity therewith, or s. 346.63 (2) or (6) or 940.25 , or s. 940.09 where the offense involved the use of a vehicle, the officer shall notify the department of the arrest and of issuance of an out-of-service order under s. 343.305 (7) (b) or (9) (am) as soon as practicable.

History: 1981 c. 20 ; 1989 a. 105 .
Wis. Stat. § 346.01 — WI Code / Chapter 346 / Section 346.01
Words and phrases defined.
Status: in_force

(1) Words and phrases defined in s. 340.01 are used in the same sense in this chapter unless a different definition is specifically provided.

(1m) In this chapter, in addition to the meaning given in s. 340.01 (22) , “highway” includes a private road or driveway that is subject to an agreement for traffic regulation enforcement under s. 349.03 (5) .

(2) In this chapter, notwithstanding s. 340.01 (42) , “owner” means, with respect to a vehicle that is registered, or is required to be registered, by a lessee of the vehicle under ch. 341 , the lessee of the vehicle for purposes of vehicle owner liability under ss. 346.175 , 346.195 , 346.205 , 346.452 , 346.457 , 346.465 , 346.485 , 346.505 (3) , 346.675 , and 346.945 .

History: 1997 a. 27 ; 2003 a. 209 ; 2005 a. 411 ; 2009 a. 129 .
Wis. Stat. § 180.1705 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.1705
Existing preemptive rights preserved.
Status: in_force

Section 180.0630 does not apply to shares of a preexisting class. Except to the extent limited or denied by this section or by the articles of incorporation, shareholders of shares of a preexisting class have a preemptive right to acquire unissued shares or securities convertible into unissued shares or carrying a right to subscribe to or acquire shares. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation, all of the following apply to shareholders of shares of a preexisting class:

(1) No preemptive rights exist to acquire any of the following:

(a) Any shares issued to directors, officers or employees pursuant to approval by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote thereon or when authorized by and consistent with a plan approved by such a vote of shareholders.

(b) Any shares, convertible securities or rights issued for a consideration other than cash.

(c) Treasury shares.

(2) Holders of shares of any class that is preferred or limited as to dividends or assets are not entitled to any preemptive right.

(3) Holders of shares of common stock are not entitled to any preemptive right to shares of any class that is preferred or limited as to dividends or assets or to any obligations, unless convertible into shares of common stock or carrying a right to subscribe to or acquire shares of common stock.

(4) Holders of common stock without voting power shall have no preemptive right to shares of common stock with voting power.

(5) The preemptive right is only an opportunity to acquire shares or other securities under such terms and conditions as the board of directors may fix for the purpose of providing a fair and reasonable opportunity for the exercise of such right.

History: 1989 a. 303 ; 1991 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 101.875 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.875
Inspections.
Status: in_force

(1) All inspections of electrical wiring shall be performed by inspectors certified by the department.

(2) Any rule promulgated under s. 101.82 (2m) may not require the inspection of any of the installation, repair, or maintenance of electrical wiring within an existing industrial facility or an existing manufacturing facility unless the plan for the installation, repair, or maintenance is required to be examined under s. 101.12 (2) by the department or by a municipality that has its examinations accepted by the department under s. 101.12 (3) (a) , (am) , or (b) .

History: 2013 a. 143 ss. 25 to 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 107.32 — WI Code / Chapter 107 / Section 107.32
Liability of mining companies.
Status: in_force

A mining company is liable for damages for mining-related injuries resulting from its prospecting, mining, refining or smelting in this state if, and to the degree that, the elements of liability are established in accordance with law, regardless of any change in the nature of the ownership of the interests in the prospecting or mining site, refinery or smelter held by the mining company and regardless of any reorganization, merger, consolidation or liquidation affecting the mining company.

History: 1979 c. 353 .
Wis. Stat. § 70.51 — WI Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70.51
Assessment review and tax roll in first class cities.
Status: in_force

(1) The board of review in all 1st class cities, after they have examined, corrected and completed the assessment roll of said city and not later than the first Monday in November, shall deliver the same to the commissioner of assessments, who shall thereupon reexamine and perfect the same and make out therefrom a complete tax roll in the manner and form provided by law. All laws applicable to any such city relating to the making of such tax rolls shall apply to the making of the tax roll by said commissioner of assessments, except that the work of making said rolls shall be performed by the assessors and such other employees in the commissioner of assessments’ office as the commissioner of assessments shall designate. After the completion of said tax roll in the manner provided by law, the commissioner of assessments shall deliver the tax roll to the city treasurer of such city on the 3rd Monday of December in each year.

(1a) If the board of review has not completed its work within the time limited by the first Monday in November, it shall nevertheless deliver the assessment roll to the commissioner of assessments as therein required, and the commissioner of assessments shall thereupon perfect the same as though the board of review had fully completed its work thereon. In any case wherein the board of review alters the assessment after the first Monday of November and before the treasurer is required to make the return of delinquent taxes, the assessment roll and the tax roll may be corrected accordingly in the manner provided in s. 74.05 , except that the consent of the treasurer shall not be required.

(2) The county clerk of any county having a population of 750,000 or more and containing a city of the 1st class shall deliver the county clerk’s certificates of apportionment of taxes to the commissioner of assessments instead of the city clerk of such city.

History: 1975 c. 39 , 199 ; 1977 c. 29 s. 1647 (19) ; 1977 c. 273 ; 1983 a. 192 , 220 ; 1987 a. 378 ; 1991 a. 39 , 156 , 189 , 315 , 316 ; 2017 a. 207 s. 5 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.501 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.501
Insurable interest in goods; manner of identification of goods.
Status: in_force

(1) The buyer obtains a special property and an insurable interest in goods by identification of existing goods as goods to which the contract refers even though the goods so identified are nonconforming and the buyer has an option to return or reject them. Such identification can be made at any time and in any manner explicitly agreed to by the parties. In the absence of explicit agreement identification occurs:

(a) When the contract is made if it is for the sale of goods already existing and identified;

(b) If the contract is for the sale of future goods other than those described in par. (c) , when goods are shipped, marked or otherwise designated by the seller as goods to which the contract refers;

(c) When the crops are planted or otherwise become growing crops or the young are conceived if the contract is for the sale of unborn young to be born within 12 months after contracting or for the sale of crops to be harvested within 12 months or the next normal harvest season after contracting whichever is longer.

(2) The seller retains an insurable interest in goods so long as title to or any security interest in the goods remains in the seller and where the identification is by the seller alone the seller may until default or insolvency or notification to the buyer that the identification is final substitute other goods for those identified.

(3) Nothing in this section impairs any insurable interest recognized under any other statute or rule of law.

History: 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 60.83 — WI Code / Chapter 60 / Section 60.83
Destruction of obsolete town records.
Status: in_force

The town board may provide for the destruction of obsolete town records under s. 19.21 (4) .

History: 1983 a. 532 .
Wis. Stat. § 60.54 — WI Code / Chapter 60 / Section 60.54
Solid waste transportation.
Status: in_force

(1) The town board may designate any town highway which provides reasonable access to a solid waste disposal site or facility licensed under s. 289.31 as appropriate for the transportation of solid waste into, within or through the town for the purpose of disposing of the waste at the site or facility and may prohibit the use of other town highways for that purpose.

(2) Any person violating a prohibition enacted under sub. (1) shall forfeit not more than $1,000.

History: 1983 a. 532 ; 1995 a. 227 .
Wis. Stat. § 199.13 — WI Code / Chapter 199 / Section 199.13
Board officers.
Status: in_force

(1) Election. The interim board of directors and the board of directors, at the first regular meeting of each at which a quorum is present, shall elect by a majority vote of the directors present and voting a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. The board may elect such other officers as it deems necessary.

(2) Term of office; removal.

(a) Board officers shall begin serving immediately upon their election and their term of office shall be one year. An officer may resign or may be removed from office by a two-thirds vote of all the directors. After his or her term of office has expired, a board officer shall continue to serve until his or her successor is elected.

(b) If a board office is vacant, the board shall elect a successor to serve out the term of the office.

(3) Powers and duties. Board officers shall exercise powers and perform duties as prescribed by this chapter or as delegated to them by the board.

History: 1979 c. 72 .
Wis. Stat. § 428.102 — WI Code / Chapter 428 / Section 428.102
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) “Amount financed” means that term as defined in the federal consumer credit protection act, as defined in s. 421.301 (19) .

(2) “Creditor” means a person who regularly engages in, arranges for or procures from 3rd persons, loans within the scope of this subchapter.

(3) “Customer” means a person other than an organization who seeks or acquires credit financing secured by a first lien real estate mortgage, or equivalent security interest, for personal, family, household or agricultural purposes.

(4) “Loan” means the creation of debt by the creditor’s payment of or agreement to pay money to the customer or to a 3rd party for the account of the customer, or a forbearance by a lender of a debt arising from a loan.

(5) “Organization” means organization as defined in s. 421.301 (28) .

(6) “Person” means person as defined in s. 421.301 (31) .

History: 1973 c. 18 , 232 ; 2003 a. 257 .
Wis. Stat. § 5.54 — WI Code / Chapter 5 / Section 5.54
Notice to electors.
Status: in_force

Every ballot, except a voting machine ballot, shall bear substantially the following information on the face: “ Notice to electors: This ballot may be invalid unless initialed by 2 election inspectors. If cast as an absentee ballot, the ballot must bear the initials of the municipal clerk or deputy clerk.”

History: 1977 c. 427 ; 1979 c. 260 , 311 ; 1983 a. 484 s. 172 (3) ; 1985 a. 304 ; 1989 a. 192 ; 2001 a. 16 , 104 .
Wis. Stat. § 36.48 — WI Code / Chapter 36 / Section 36.48
Alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and intervention programs.
Status: in_force

The board shall appoint alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and intervention program counselors for the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The counselors shall develop alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and intervention programs and train faculty, academic staff and university staff in the prevention of and early intervention in alcohol and other drug abuse.

History: 1989 a. 31 ; 2015 a. 55 .
Wis. Stat. § 64.36 — WI Code / Chapter 64 / Section 64.36
Boards and commissions.
Status: in_force

(1) The board of public works shall continue as constituted, or it shall be composed of such city officers as the council shall designate, or the council may act as a board of public works, or the board may be dispensed with and the functions thereof exercised by the council, as may be provided by ordinance.

(2) Any other board or commission, except the board of police and fire commissioners, may be dispensed with or the number of members thereof be changed by a vote of the people held in the manner provided by s. 9.20 , and in case of discontinuance the powers and duties of any such board or commission, shall be exercised and performed by the council. Unless the board of public works shall be dispensed with or changed by ordinance, or other boards or commissions shall be dispensed with by such vote of the people, they shall continue to have and perform the same powers and functions that they possessed and exercised at the time when the city adopted the commission form of government, and shall continue to be elected or appointed as then provided by law, except that members then appointed by the mayor shall be elected by a majority vote of the council like other city officers under s. 64.30 .

(3) Any city work done under the direction of commissions appointed by the state shall continue to be done in the manner prescribed by law immediately prior to the adoption by the city of the commission form of government.

(4) All boards and commissions in any 2nd class city under the commission form of government shall continue to be elected or appointed as provided by law at the time when the city adopted the commission form and shall continue to have and exercise all the authority they then possessed. Any board or commission, except the board of police and fire commissioners, may be dispensed with or changed in membership by a vote of the people held in the manner provided by s. 9.20 .

History: 1979 c. 110 ; 1985 a. 225 .
Wis. Stat. § 411.204 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.204
Formation in general.
Status: in_force

(1) A lease contract may be made in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including conduct by both parties that recognizes the existence of a lease contract.

(2) An agreement sufficient to constitute a lease contract may be found although the moment of its making is undetermined.

(3) Although one or more terms are left open, a lease contract does not fail for indefiniteness if the parties intended to make a lease contract and there is a reasonably certain basis for giving an appropriate remedy.

History: 1991 a. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 853.15 — WI Code / Chapter 853 / Section 853.15
Equitable election if will attempts to dispose of property belonging to beneficiary.
Status: in_force

(1) Necessity for election.

(a) Unless the will provides otherwise, this subsection applies if a will gives a devise to one beneficiary and also clearly purports to give to another beneficiary property that does not pass under the will but belongs to the first beneficiary by right of ownership, survivorship, beneficiary designation or otherwise.

(b) If the conditions in par. (a) are fulfilled, the first beneficiary must elect either to take under the will and transfer his or her property in accordance with the will or to retain his or her property and not take under the will. If the first beneficiary elects not to take under the will, unless the will provides otherwise his or her devise under the will shall be assigned to the other beneficiary.

(c) This section does not require an election if the property belongs to the first beneficiary because of transfer or beneficiary designation made by the decedent after the execution of the will.

(2) Procedure for election. If an election is required under sub. (1) , the following provisions apply:

(a) The court may by order set a time within which the beneficiary is required to file with the court a written election either to take under the will and forego, waive or transfer the beneficiary’s property interest in favor of the other person to whom it is given by the will, or to retain such property interest and not take under the will. The time set shall be not earlier than one month after the necessity for such an election and the nature of the interest given to the beneficiary under the will have been determined.

(b) If a written election by the beneficiary to take under the will and transfer the beneficiary’s property interest in accordance with the will has not been filed with the court within the time set by order, or if no order setting a time has been entered, then prior to the final judgment, the beneficiary is deemed to have elected not to take under the will.

(c) Except as provided above, participation in the administration by the beneficiary does not constitute an election to take under the will.

History: 1983 a. 186 ; 1985 a. 37 ; 1987 a. 393 s. 53 ; 1993 a. 486 ; 1997 a. 188 .
Wis. Stat. § 943.013 — WI Code / Chapter 943 / Section 943.013
Criminal damage; threat; property of judge.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Family member” means a parent, spouse, sibling, child, stepchild, or foster child.

(b) “Judge” means a supreme court justice, court of appeals judge, circuit court judge, municipal judge, temporary or permanent reserve judge, or circuit, supplemental, or municipal court commissioner.

(2) Whoever intentionally causes or threatens to cause damage to any physical property that belongs to a judge or his or her family member under all of the following circumstances is guilty of a Class I felony:

(a) At the time of the act or threat, the actor knows or should have known that the person whose property is damaged or threatened is a judge or a member of his or her family.

(b) The judge is acting in an official capacity at the time of the act or threat or the act or threat is in response to any action taken in an official capacity.

(c) There is no consent by the person whose property is damaged or threatened.

History: 1993 a. 50 , 446 ; 2001 a. 61 , 109 ; 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 767.54 — WI Code / Chapter 767 / Section 767.54
Required exchange of financial information.
Status: in_force

(1) In an action in which the court has ordered a party to pay family support under s. 767.225 , 2019 stats., or s. 767.531 , 2019 stats., or child support or maintenance under this chapter, including an action to revise a judgment or order under s. 767.59 , the court shall require the parties annually to exchange financial information. Information required under this section shall be exchanged no later than May 1 of each calendar year, unless otherwise agreed upon in writing by the parties. The information required to be exchanged shall include all of the following:

(a) A complete copy of the party’s federal and state income tax return for the prior calendar year, including all W-2 forms and 1099 forms.

(b) A year-end paycheck stub from all sources of employment for the prior calendar year.

(c) The party’s most recent paycheck stub from all sources of employment showing year-to-date gross and net income.

(d) Any other documentation of the party’s income from all sources for the 12-month period preceding the exchange of information.

(2) A party may redact or remove the following personally identifying information from documents provided under sub. (1) unless otherwise ordered by the court:

(a) The party’s home or work address, if the party is participating in the program under s. 165.68 , or if the party’s address is otherwise protected or sealed.

(b) The name, date of birth, and address of the party’s spouse.

(c) The name, date of birth, and other personally identifying information of a minor child not related to the other party.

(d) Any social security number.

(e) An identification number assigned by an employer.

(f) A taxpayer identification number assigned by the department of revenue or federal internal revenue service.

(g) Any depository account number, investment account number, or other personally identifying number related to any investment tool.

(h) A military identification number.

(i) Any other personally identifying information that is intended to be used to access services, funds, or benefits of any kind to which an individual is entitled.

(j) Any other personally identifying information that is not required to determine the income or financial status of the party.

(3) Information disclosed under this section is subject to s. 767.127 (3) . A party who fails to furnish information required by the court under this section may be proceeded against for contempt of court under ch. 785 . If the court finds that a party has failed to furnish information required under this section, the court may award to the party bringing the action costs and, notwithstanding s. 814.04 (1) , reasonable attorney fees.

History: 2005 a. 443 s. 122 ; 2021 a. 35 , 259 .