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Wis. Stat. § 60.14 — WI Code / Chapter 60 / Section 60.14
Procedure.
Status: in_force

(1) Qualified voters. Any qualified elector of the town, as defined under ch. 6 , may vote at a town meeting.

(2) Method of action; necessary votes. All actions of a town meeting shall be by vote. All questions shall be decided by a majority of the electors voting.

(3) Order of business. At the beginning of the town meeting, the town meeting chairperson shall state the business to be transacted and the order in which the business will be considered. No proposal to levy a tax, except a tax for defraying necessary town expenses, may be acted on out of the order stated by the town meeting chairperson.

(4) Reconsideration of actions.

(a) A vote of the town meeting may be reconsidered at the same meeting at which the vote was taken if the town meeting votes to reconsider within one hour after the initial vote was taken.

(b) No action of a town meeting may be reconsidered at a subsequent town meeting held prior to the next annual town meeting unless a special town meeting is convened under s. 60.12 (1) (b) or (c) and the written request or the call for the meeting states that a purpose of the meeting is reconsideration of the action.

History: 1983 a. 532 .
Wis. Stat. § 700.15 — WI Code / Chapter 700 / Section 700.15
Nominal conditions not enforced.
Status: in_force

A condition imposed by the transferor is not enforceable if it is or becomes merely nominal and of no actual or substantial benefit to the transferor or other person in whose favor it is to be performed.
Wis. Stat. § 49.146 — WI Code / Chapter 49 / Section 49.146
Employer criteria.
Status: in_force

The department shall establish by rule criteria that an employer providing a Wisconsin works employment position must meet in order to employ a participant under s. 49.147 (3) to (5) . An employer that does not meet the criteria established under this section is ineligible to receive any subsidy for any position provided to a participant.

History: 1995 a. 289 .
Wis. Stat. § 30.90 — WI Code / Chapter 30 / Section 30.90
Public access to Lake Lions.
Status: in_force

(1) As long as Lake Lions in the town of Alban, Portage County, continues to be used as a recreational area for the physically handicapped, all of the following shall apply:

(a) Neither the county or town may provide, nor shall any subdivider be required or permitted to provide, public access to Lake Lions, if the public access will in any way interfere with the use of the lake as a recreational area for the physically handicapped.

(b) The department may stock Lake Lions with fish, any provision in ch. 29 to the contrary notwithstanding.

(2) The town board of the town of Alban shall have jurisdiction over Lake Lions and may enact and enforce any ordinances necessary to prevent any deterioration of the waters of Lake Lions or any nuisances that would adversely affect the health or safety of the people.

History: 2001 a. 103 .
Wis. Stat. § 221.0706 — WI Code / Chapter 221 / Section 221.0706
Right to dissent.
Status: in_force

(1) Mandatory dissenters’ rights. A shareholder or beneficial shareholder may dissent from, and obtain payment of the fair value of his or her shares in the event of, any of the following corporate actions:

(a) Consummation of a plan of merger to which the issuer bank is a party.

(b) Consummation of a plan of share exchange if the issuer bank’s shares will be acquired, and the shareholder or the shareholder holding shares on behalf of the beneficial shareholder is entitled to vote on the plan.

(c) Except as provided in sub. (2) , any other corporate action taken pursuant to a shareholder vote to the extent that the articles of incorporation, the bylaws or a resolution of the board of directors provides that the voting or nonvoting shareholder or beneficial shareholder may dissent and obtain payment for his or her shares.

(2) Permissive dissenters’ rights. The articles of incorporation may allow a shareholder or beneficial shareholder to dissent from an amendment of the articles of incorporation and obtain payment of the fair value of his or her shares if the amendment materially and adversely affects rights in respect of a dissenter’s shares because it does any of the following:

(a) Alters or abolishes a preferential right of the shares.

(b) Creates, alters or abolishes a right in respect of redemption, including a provision respecting a sinking fund for the redemption or repurchase, of the shares.

(c) Alters or abolishes a preemptive right of the holder of shares to acquire shares or other securities.

(d) Excludes or limits the right of the shares to vote on any matter or to cumulate votes, other than a limitation by dilution through issuance of shares or other securities with similar voting rights.

(e) Reduces the number of shares owned by the shareholder or beneficial shareholder to a fraction of a share if the fractional share so created is to be acquired for cash under s. 221.0506 .

(3) Rights of dissenter. A shareholder or beneficial shareholder entitled to dissent and obtain payment for his or her shares under ss. 221.0701 to 221.0718 may not challenge the corporate action creating his or her entitlement unless the action is unlawful or fraudulent with respect to the shareholder, beneficial shareholder or issuer bank.

History: 1995 a. 336 .
Wis. Stat. § 179.1201 — WI Code / Chapter 179 / Section 179.1201
Uniformity of application and construction.
Status: in_force

In applying and construing this chapter, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact the uniform law.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 822.47 — WI Code / Chapter 822 / Section 822.47
Costs and expenses.
Status: in_force

If the respondent is not the prevailing party, the court may assess against the respondent all direct expenses and costs incurred by the prosecutor and law enforcement officers under s. 822.45 or 822.46 .

History: 2005 a. 130 .
Wis. Stat. § 86.135 — WI Code / Chapter 86 / Section 86.135
Railroad highway crossings; traffic control.
Status: in_force

All railroad companies, and their officers, agents, and employees, constructing, maintaining, or repairing railroad highway crossings shall comply with the traffic control provisions directed to the safe and expeditious movement of traffic through construction and maintenance zones and to the safety of the work force performing these operations contained in the manual establishing a uniform system of traffic control as adopted by the department under s. 84.02 (4) (e) .

History: 1983 a. 27 ; 1987 a. 137 s. 6 .
Wis. Stat. § 54.72 — WI Code / Chapter 54 / Section 54.72
Guardian compensation and reimbursement.
Status: in_force

A guardian of the person or a guardian of the estate is entitled to compensation and to reimbursement for expenses as follows:

(1) Compensation.

(a) Subject to the court’s approval, as determined under par. (b) , a guardian shall receive reasonable compensation for the guardian’s services.

(b) The court shall use all of the following factors in deciding whether compensation for a guardian is just and reasonable:

1. The reasonableness of the services rendered.

2. The fair market value of the services rendered.

3. Any conflict of interest of the guardian.

4. The availability of another to provide the services.

5. The value and nature of the ward’s assets and income, including the sources of the ward’s income.

6. Whether the ward’s basic needs are being met.

7. The hourly or other rate proposed by the guardian for the services.

(c) The amount of the compensation may be determined on an hourly basis, as a monthly stipend, or on any other basis that the court determines is reasonable under the circumstances. The court may establish the amount or basis for computing the guardian’s compensation at the time of the guardian’s initial appointment.

(2) Reimbursement of expenses. The guardian shall be reimbursed for the amount of the guardian’s reasonable expenses incurred in the execution of the guardian’s duties, including necessary compensation paid to an attorney, an accountant, a broker, and other agents or service providers.

(3) When court approval required. A court must approve compensation and reimbursement of expenses before payment to the guardian is made, but court approval need not be obtained before charges are incurred.

History: 2005 a. 387 .
Wis. Stat. § 644.05 — WI Code / Chapter 644 / Section 644.05
General corporate powers and procedures.
Status: in_force

(1) Powers. Subject to s. 644.19 (2) and (3) , s. 181.0302 (intro.) , (1) to (15) , (18) and (19) applies to mutual holding companies.

(2) Effect of unauthorized corporate acts. Section 181.0304 applies to mutual holding companies, except that, for purposes of this subsection, “attorney general” used in s. 181.0304 (3) means “commissioner”.

(4) Waiver of notice and informal action by members or directors. Sections 181.0704 , 181.0706 , 181.0821 and 181.0823 apply to mutual holding companies. For purposes of this subsection, “board” used in s. 181.0821 includes “committee of the board of a mutual holding company”.

History: 1997 a. 227 ; 1999 a. 30 .
Wis. Stat. § 893.50 — WI Code / Chapter 893 / Section 893.50
Other actions.
Status: in_force

All personal actions on any contract not limited by this chapter or any other law of this state shall be brought within 10 years after the accruing of the cause of action.

History: 1979 c. 323 .
Wis. Stat. § 188.21 — WI Code / Chapter 188 / Section 188.21
Corporate powers of the Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., Inc.
Status: in_force

(1) The department of Wisconsin and any post, unit, barracks, department or auxiliary of the American Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., Inc. organized in this state pursuant to the acts of congress passed July 18, 1958 (P.L. 85-530 ) ( 72 Stats. at Large pp. 370-375) and the acts amendatory thereto, shall have full corporate power to transact business in this state and to take over the assets and liabilities of the existing department of Wisconsin, posts, barracks, units, departments or auxiliaries of the Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., Inc. upon filing with the department of financial institutions a statement of its intent so to do, and a full and complete list of its duly elected officers, and shall by so doing become a body corporate. No filing fee shall be charged by the department of financial institutions.

(2) All acts done by the department of Wisconsin or by any post, barracks, unit, department or auxiliary so incorporated, or its constituted authorities, shall be considered acts of said department of Wisconsin, post, unit, department or auxiliary, as a body corporate, and no personal liability shall be attached to any member therefor.

(3) Sections 180.0203 and 181.0203 shall not apply to corporations organized under this section. In the execution of any conveyance or encumbrance by such corporations, the department of Wisconsin, post, barracks, unit, department or auxiliary commander, and adjutant or like or similar officers, shall have the powers and duties granted to presidents and secretaries respectively under s. 706.03 (2) and (3) .

(4) Section 188.20 , so far as applicable, shall apply to corporations formed under this section.

History: 1989 a. 303 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 79 ; 2025 a. 129 .
Wis. Stat. § 409.104 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.104
Control of deposit account.
Status: in_force

(1) Requirements for control. A secured party has control of a deposit account if:

(a) The secured party is the bank with which the deposit account is maintained;

(b) The debtor, secured party, and bank have agreed in an authenticated record that the bank will comply with instructions originated by the secured party directing disposition of the funds in the deposit account without further consent by the debtor; or

(c) The secured party becomes the bank’s customer with respect to the deposit account.

(2) Debtor’s right to direct disposition. A secured party that has satisfied sub. (1) has control, even if the debtor retains the right to direct the disposition of funds from the deposit account.

History: 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 440.495 — WI Code / Chapter 440 / Section 440.495
Penalties.
Status: in_force

Any person who violates this subchapter or any rule promulgated under this subchapter may be fined not more than $1,000.

History: 2015 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 48.55 — WI Code / Chapter 48 / Section 48.55
State adoption information exchange and state adoption center.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall establish a state adoption information exchange for the purpose of finding adoptive homes for children with special needs who do not have permanent homes and a state adoption center for the purposes of increasing public knowledge of adoption and promoting to adolescents and pregnant women the availability of adoption services. From the appropriation under s. 20.437 (1) (dg) , the department may provide not more than $171,300 in each fiscal year as grants to individuals and private agencies to provide adoption information exchange services and to operate the state adoption center.

(2) The department shall promulgate rules governing the adoption information exchange and rules specifying the functions of the state adoption center. The rules specifying the functions of the state adoption center shall include all of the following:

(a) Training persons who provide counseling to adolescents including school counselors, county or department employees providing child welfare services under s. 48.56 or 48.561 and employees of a clinic providing family planning services, as defined in s. 253.07 (1) (b) .

(b) Seeking persons to undergo training.

(c) Operating a toll-free telephone number to provide information and referral services.

(d) Distributing pamphlets which provide information on the availability of adoption services.

(e) Promoting adoption through the communications media.

History: 1983 a. 27 ; 1995 a. 266 ; 1997 a. 35 ; 1999 a. 9 ss. 1135 to 1139 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2007 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 893.49 — WI Code / Chapter 893 / Section 893.49
Payment by one not to affect others.
Status: in_force

If there are 2 or more joint contractors or joint personal representatives of any contractor, no one of them shall lose the benefit of this chapter so as to be chargeable by reason only of any payment made by any other of them.

History: 1979 c. 323 ; 2001 a. 102 .
Wis. Stat. § 889.29 — WI Code / Chapter 889 / Section 889.29
Photographic copies of business records as evidence.
Status: in_force

(1) If any business, institution, or member of a profession or calling in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation, or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied, or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, or other process that accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, or to be recorded on an optical disc or in electronic format, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business, unless its preservation is required by law. Such reproduction or optical disc record, when reduced to comprehensible format and when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction of a record or an enlarged copy of a record generated from an original record stored in optical disc or electronic format is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of court. The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement, or facsimile, does not preclude admission of the original. No such record is inadmissible solely because it is in electronic format.

(2) This section does not apply to public records.

(3) This section shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose of making uniform the law of those states which enact it.

History: 1985 a. 180 ; 1993 a. 172 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2003 a. 294 ; 2015 a. 196 .
Wis. Stat. § 227.21 — WI Code / Chapter 227 / Section 227.21
Publication of rules; incorporation by reference.
Status: in_force

(1) The legislative reference bureau shall publish all rules that agencies are directed by this chapter to file with the legislative reference bureau under s. 227.20 in the register and shall publish all permanent rules that agencies are directed by this chapter to file with the legislative reference bureau under s. 227.20 in the code, as provided in s. 35.93 .

(2)

(a) Except as provided in s. 601.41 (3) (b) , to avoid unnecessary expense an agency may, with the consent of the attorney general, adopt standards established by technical societies and organizations of recognized national standing by incorporating the standards in its rules by reference to the specific issue or issues of the publication in which they appear, without reproducing the standards in full.

(b) The attorney general shall consent to incorporation by reference only in a rule of limited public interest and in a case where the incorporated standards are readily available in published form or are available on optical disc or in another electronic format. Each rule containing an incorporation by reference shall state how the material incorporated may be obtained and, except as provided in s. 601.41 (3) (b) , that the standards are on file at the legislative reference bureau.

(c) An agency that adopts standards under par. (a) may provide the legislative reference bureau with one or more Web addresses to provide electronic access to the standards for publication in conjunction with the publication of the Wisconsin administrative code and register under s. 35.93 .

(3) A rule promulgated jointly by 2 or more agencies need not be published in more than one place in the code.

(4) Agency materials that are exempt from the requirements of this chapter under s. 227.01 (13) may be published, either verbatim or in summary form, if the promulgating agency and the legislative reference bureau determine that the public interest would be served by publication.

History: 1985 a. 182 ; 1987 a. 403 ; 2001 a. 65 ; 2005 a. 249 ; 2007 a. 20 , 96 , 180 ; 2013 a. 20 ; 2015 a. 196 ; 2021 a. 246 .
Wis. Stat. § 287.185 — WI Code / Chapter 287 / Section 287.185
Disposal of mercuric oxide batteries.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Mercuric oxide battery” has the meaning given in s. 100.27 (1) (c) .

(b) “Mercuric oxide button cell battery” has the meaning given in s. 100.27 (1) (d) .

(c) “Waste mercuric oxide battery” means a mercuric oxide battery that is no longer suitable for its original purpose due to use, wear, damage or defect.

(2) Beginning on July 1, 1994, no person, except for a person operating a collection site identified under s. 100.27 (5) (a) , may treat, store or dispose of a waste mercuric oxide battery, other than a mercuric oxide button cell battery, except by sending it to a collection site identified under s. 100.27 (5) (a) .

(3) A person operating a collection site identified under s. 100.27 (5) (a) shall recycle or have recycled all collected waste mercuric oxide batteries unless no reasonable alternative exists.

History: 1993 a. 74 ; 1995 a. 227 s. 900 ; Stats. 1995 s. 287.185.
Wis. Stat. § 961.575 — WI Code / Chapter 961 / Section 961.575
Delivery of drug paraphernalia to a minor.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person 17 years of age or over who violates s. 961.574 (1) by delivering drug paraphernalia to a person 17 years of age or under who is at least 3 years younger than the violator may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.

(2) Any person who violates this section who is under 17 years of age is subject to a disposition under s. 938.344 (2e) .

(3) Any person 17 years of age or over who violates s. 961.574 (3) by delivering drug paraphernalia to a person 17 years of age or under is guilty of a Class G felony.

History: 1989 a. 121 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1995 a. 27 , 77 ; 1995 a. 448 ss. 318 , 494 ; Stats. 1995 s. 961.575; 1999 a. 129 ; 2001 a. 109 .
Wis. Stat. § 887.25 — WI Code / Chapter 887 / Section 887.25
Witnesses sent to other states.
Status: in_force

(1) Upon presentation to any judge of a court of record in Wisconsin of the certificate of the judge or the clerk of any foreign court of record, under seal, stating that any person being or residing in Wisconsin is believed to be a necessary witness in any civil action pending in that court, the judge, if satisfied by such proof as the judge shall require that the testimony of the witness is necessary to the trial of the action, shall issue and attach to the certificate a subpoena commanding the witness to appear in the court where the action is pending, at the time and place stated therein, or show cause, before the judge, at a time and place fixed in the subpoena, why the witness should not appear as therein commanded. The judge may refuse to issue a subpoena or may vacate the subpoena after it is issued, if it appear that compliance will cause undue hardship to the witness.

(2) If any person on whom the subpoena has been served, and to whom has been tendered the sum of 10 cents for each mile to be traveled to and from the court, together with the sum of $5 for each day that his or her attendance is required, neglects to attend and testify at the trial, the person shall be punished as for contempt of court unless the subpoena is vacated.

(3) This section shall not apply to any action pending in any state, territory or country whose laws do not contain provisions similar to this section, requiring persons within their borders to attend for the purpose of testifying in any civil or criminal action pending in this state.

History: 1979 c. 257 ; 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.78 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.78
Voluntary dissolution.
Status: in_force

No corporation or limited liability company owning or operating a public utility may be dissolved unless the commission consents. The commission may consent only after hearing. The commission shall give at least 30 days’ notice to each municipality in which the public utility is operated and an opportunity to be heard to each municipality and to the stockholders in the corporation or members of a limited liability company.

History: 1983 a. 53 ; 1993 a. 112 .