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Wis. Stat. § 645.44 — WI Code / Chapter 645 / Section 645.44
Dissolution of insurer.
Status: in_force

The commissioner may petition for an order dissolving the corporate existence of a domestic insurer or the U.S. branch of an alien insurer domiciled in this state at the time of the application for a liquidation order. If the court issues a liquidation order, it also shall order dissolution if the commissioner has petitioned for it. The court shall order dissolution of the corporation upon petition by the commissioner at any time after a liquidation order has been granted. If the dissolution has not previously occurred, it shall be effected by operation of law upon the discharge of the liquidator.

History: 1979 c. 102 .
Wis. Stat. § 805.09 — WI Code / Chapter 805 / Section 805.09
Juries of fewer than 12; five-sixths verdict.
Status: in_force

(1) Jury. The jury shall consist of a number of persons determined under s. 756.06 (2) (b) .

(2) Verdict. A verdict agreed to by five-sixths of the jurors shall be the verdict of the jury. If more than one question must be answered to arrive at a verdict on the same claim, the same five-sixths of the jurors must agree on all the questions.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 700 (1975); 1977 c. 318 ; 1977 c. 447 s. 210 ; Sup. Ct. Order No. 96-08 , 207 Wis. 2d xv (1997).
Wis. Stat. § 111.11 — WI Code / Chapter 111 / Section 111.11
Mediation.
Status: in_force

The commission may appoint any competent, impartial, disinterested person to act as mediator in any labor dispute either upon its own initiative or upon the request of one of the parties to the dispute. It shall be the function of such mediator to bring the parties together voluntarily under such favorable auspices as will tend to effectuate settlement of the dispute, but neither the mediator nor the commission shall have any power of compulsion in mediation proceedings. The commission shall provide necessary expenses for such mediators as it may appoint, order reasonable compensation not exceeding $10 per day for each such mediator, and prescribe reasonable rules of procedure for such mediators.

History: 1995 a. 27 , 225 .
Wis. Stat. § 345.41 — WI Code / Chapter 345 / Section 345.41
Motion to dismiss.
Status: in_force

Defenses which could be taken by pleas in abatement, in bar, demurrers and motions to quash shall be raised by motion to dismiss, which motion shall be made before any trial on the merits, or be waived.

History: 1971 c. 278 .
Wis. Stat. § 629.08 — WI Code / Chapter 629 / Section 629.08
Escrow of funds.
Status: in_force

A public adjuster who, on behalf of an insured, receives, accepts, or holds any funds for the settlement of a first-party claim shall deposit the funds in a noninterest-bearing escrow account in a federally insured financial institution that is located in the state in which the insured resides or the loss occurred.

History: 2019 a. 129 .
Wis. Stat. § 407.505 — WI Code / Chapter 407 / Section 407.505
Endorser not guarantor for other parties.
Status: in_force

The endorsement of a tangible document of title issued by a bailee does not make the endorser liable for any default by the bailee or previous endorsers.

History: 2009 a. 322 .
Wis. Stat. § 424.204 — WI Code / Chapter 424 / Section 424.204
Maximum charge by creditor for insurance.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (2) , if a creditor contracts for or receives a charge for insurance, the amount charged for the insurance may not exceed the premium to be charged by the insurer, as computed at the time the charge to the customer is determined, conforming to any rate filings required by law and made by the insurer with the commissioner of insurance.

(2) A creditor who provides consumer credit insurance in relation to an open-end credit plan may calculate the charge to the customer in each billing cycle by applying the current premium rate to either:

(a) The average daily unpaid balance of the obligation in the cycle;

(b) The unpaid balance of the obligation or a median amount within a specified range of unpaid balances of the obligation on approximately the same day of the cycle. The day of the cycle need not be the day used in calculating the finance charge (s. 422.201 ), but the specified range shall be the range used for that purpose; or

(c) The unpaid balances of principal calculated according to the actuarial method.

(3) A violation of this section is subject to s. 425.304 .

History: 1971 c. 239 .
Wis. Stat. § 180.0301 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.0301
Purposes.
Status: in_force

(1) A corporation incorporated under this chapter has the purpose of engaging in any lawful business unless a more limited purpose is set forth in its articles of incorporation.

(2) A corporation engaging in a business that is subject to regulation under another statute of this state may incorporate under this chapter only if not prohibited by, and subject to all limitations of, the other statute.

History: 1989 a. 303 .
Wis. Stat. § 279.10 — WI Code / Chapter 279 / Section 279.10
Bonds not public debt.
Status: in_force

(1) The state is not liable on bonds of the authority and the bonds are not debt of the state. Each bond of the authority shall contain a statement to this effect on the face of the bond. The issuance of bonds under this chapter does not, directly, indirectly, or contingently, obligate the state or any political subdivision of the state to levy any tax or to make any appropriation for payment of the bonds. The authority may not pledge its full faith and credit to the payment of bonds issued under this chapter.

(2) Nothing in this chapter authorizes the authority to create a debt of the state, and all bonds issued by the authority under this chapter are payable, and shall state that they are payable, solely from the special fund containing the assessments and other moneys pledged for their payment in accordance with the bond resolution authorizing their issuance or in any trust agreement or trust indenture entered into to provide terms and conditions for the bonds. The state is not liable for the payment of the principal of or interest on any bonds of the authority or for the performance of any pledge, obligation, or agreement that is undertaken by the authority. The breach of any pledge, obligation, or agreement undertaken by the authority does not impose any pecuniary liability upon the state or any charge upon its general credit or against its taxing power.

History: 2007 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 973.0335 — WI Code / Chapter 973 / Section 973.0335
Sentencing; restriction on possession of body armor.
Status: in_force

Whenever a court imposes a sentence or places a defendant on probation for a conviction for a violent felony, as defined in s. 941.291 (1) (b) , the court shall inform the defendant of the requirements and penalties under s. 941.291 .

History: 2001 a. 95 .
Wis. Stat. § 48.745 — WI Code / Chapter 48 / Section 48.745
Formal complaints regarding child welfare agencies and group homes.
Status: in_force

(1) If a complaint is received by a child welfare agency operating a residential care center for children and youth or by a group home, the licensee shall attempt to resolve the complaint informally. Failing such resolution, the licensee shall inform the complaining party of the procedure for filing a formal complaint under this section.

(2) Any individual may file a formal complaint under this section regarding the general operation of a residential care center for children and youth or group home and shall not be subject to reprisals for doing so. All formal complaints regarding residential care centers for children and youth and group homes shall be filed with the county department on forms supplied by the county department unless the county department designates the department to receive formal complaints. The county department shall investigate or cause to be investigated each formal complaint. Records of the results of each investigation and the disposition of each formal complaint shall be kept by the county department and filed with the subunit of the department that licenses residential care centers for children and youth and group homes.

(3) Upon receipt of a formal complaint, the county department may investigate the premises and records and question the licensee, staff, and residents of the residential care center for children and youth or group home involved. The county department shall attempt to resolve the situation through negotiation and other appropriate means.

(4) If no resolution is reached, the county department shall forward the formal complaint, results of the investigation and any other pertinent information to the unit within the department which is empowered to take further action under this chapter against the facility. The unit shall review the complaint and may conduct further investigation, take enforcement action under this chapter or dismiss the complaint. The department shall notify the complainant in writing of the final disposition of the complaint and the reasons therefor. If the complaint is dismissed, the complainant is entitled to an administrative hearing conducted by the department to determine the reasonableness of the dismissal.

(5) If the county department designates the department to receive formal complaints, the subunit under s. 48.743 (3) shall receive the complaints and the department shall have all the powers and duties granted to the county department in this section.

History: 1977 c. 205 , 418 ; 1979 c. 175 ; 1985 a. 176 ; 2001 a. 59 ; 2007 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 938.795 — WI Code / Chapter 938 / Section 938.795
Powers of the department.
Status: in_force

The department may do all of the following:

(1) Collect statistics and information. Collect and collaborate with other agencies in collecting statistics and information useful in determining the cause and amount of delinquency and crime in this state or in carrying out the powers and duties of the department relating to delinquency and crime.

(2) Assist communities. Assist communities in their efforts to combat delinquency and social breakdown likely to cause delinquency and crime and assist them in setting up programs for coordinating a total community program relating to delinquency and crime, including the improvement of law enforcement.

(3) Assist schools. Assist schools in extending their particular contribution in identifying and helping juveniles vulnerable to delinquency and crime and in improving school services for all youth.

(4) Enlighten public opinion. Develop and maintain an enlightened public opinion in support of any program to control delinquency and crime.

History: 1995 a. 77 ; 2005 a. 344 .
Wis. Stat. § 195.19 — WI Code / Chapter 195 / Section 195.19
Relocation of facilities.
Status: in_force

(2) Water carrier freight. All water carriers shall keep and maintain adequate and suitable buildings and facilities for the receiving, handling and delivering of freight transported or to be transported by such water carriers.

(4) Relocation of railroad facilities. Any city, village or town may cooperate with a railroad in grade crossing elimination or relocation, elimination or relocation of switchyards, roundhouses or terminals and may appropriate or borrow money therefor.

History: 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1) ; 1993 a. 16 , 123 , 246 ; 1995 a. 225 ; 2005 a. 179 .
Wis. Stat. § 165.066 — WI Code / Chapter 165 / Section 165.066
Assistant attorney general; unemployment insurance law enforcement.
Status: in_force

The attorney general shall assign at least 0.5 assistant attorney general position to assist in the investigation and prosecution of noncompliance with ch. 108 .

History: 2005 a. 86 .
Wis. Stat. § 401.204 — WI Code / Chapter 401 / Section 401.204
Value.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in chs. 403 , 404 , and 405 , a person gives value for rights if the person acquires them under any of the following circumstances:

(1) In return for a binding commitment to extend credit or for the extension of immediately available credit, whether or not drawn upon and whether or not a charge-back is provided for in the event of difficulties in collection.

(2) As security for, or in total or partial satisfaction of, a preexisting claim.

(3) By accepting delivery under a preexisting contract for purchase.

(4) In return for any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract.

History: 2009 a. 320 ; 2011 a. 257 .
Wis. Stat. § 943.012 — WI Code / Chapter 943 / Section 943.012
Criminal damage to or graffiti on religious and other property.
Status: in_force

Whoever intentionally causes damage to, intentionally marks, draws or writes with ink or another substance on or intentionally etches into any physical property of another, without the person’s consent and with knowledge of the character of the property, is guilty of a Class I felony if the property consists of one or more of the following:

(1) Any church, synagogue or other building, structure or place primarily used for religious worship or another religious purpose.

(2) Any cemetery, mortuary or other facility used for burial or memorializing the dead.

(3) Any school, educational facility or community center publicly identified as associated with a group of persons of a particular race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry or by an institution of any such group.

(4) Any personal property contained in any property under subs. (1) to (3) if the personal property has particular significance or value to any group of persons of a particular race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry and the actor knows the personal property has particular significance or value to that group.

History: 1987 a. 348 ; 1995 a. 24 ; 2001 a. 109 .
Wis. Stat. § 165.28 — WI Code / Chapter 165 / Section 165.28
Office of school safety.
Status: in_force

The office of school safety shall do all of the following:

(1) In conjunction with the department of public instruction, create model practices for school safety. The department of public instruction shall provide any resources or staff requested by the office to create the model practices. The office shall also consult the Wisconsin School Safety Coordinators Association and the Wisconsin Safe and Healthy Schools Training and Technical Assistance Center.

(2) Coordinate with schools under s. 118.07 (4) (cf) and the department of administration to compile blueprints or interactive critical mapping data, as defined in s. 165.88 (3m) (ac) , for all schools. The office shall keep all blueprints and data confidential unless a law enforcement agency requests access.

(3) Offer, or contract with another party to offer, training to school staff on school safety. Training subjects may include trauma informed care and how adverse childhood experiences have an impact on a child’s development and increase needs for counseling or support. If a school receives under s. 165.88 (2) (b) a grant for the training under this subsection, the office may charge a fee for the training.

History: 2017 a. 143 ; 2021 a. 109 ; 2023 a. 199 .
Wis. Stat. § 302.315 — WI Code / Chapter 302 / Section 302.315
Use of county house of correction.
Status: in_force

A county house of correction may be used for the detention of any person detained in the county jail but the person shall be separated, if feasible, from the inmates of the house of correction in a manner determined by the department.

History: 1977 c. 126 ; 1989 a. 31 s. 1647 ; Stats. 1989 s. 302.315.
Wis. Stat. § 700.01 — WI Code / Chapter 700 / Section 700.01
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise:

(1) “Bill of sale” means an instrument evidencing a sale of tangible personal property which names the seller and buyer and describes the property sold.

(2) “Document of title” means a document which is evidence of ownership of certain kinds of personal property, tangible or intangible, the ownership of which may be transferred by transfer of the document; it includes but is not limited to an investment security, a negotiable instrument and a certificate of title to tangible personal property; it does not include items excepted in s. 700.22 .

(3) “Instrument of transfer” means an instrument which is effective to transfer an interest in property; it includes but is not limited to a will, a deed, a contract to transfer, a real estate mortgage and an instrument creating a security interest in personal property under ch. 409 .

(4) “Interest” means an interest in property.

(5) “Property” means real or personal property.

(6) “Successors in interest” means persons who obtain a reversionary interest by transfer or operation of law.

(7) “Transfer” means a transfer effective during the lifetime of the transferor or by reason of the transferor’s death.

History: 1983 a. 189 ; 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 846.165 — WI Code / Chapter 846 / Section 846.165
Application for confirmation of sale and for deficiency judgment.
Status: in_force

No sale on a judgment of mortgage foreclosure shall be confirmed unless 5 days’ notice has been given to all parties that have appeared in the action. Such notice shall be given either personally or by registered mail directed to the last-known post-office address, mailed at least 5 days prior to the date when the motion for confirmation is to be heard, if any post-office address is known; if not known, mailing may be dispensed with but an affidavit shall be filed with the court stating that the address is not known, and the notice shall state, in addition to other matter required by law, the amount of the judgment, the amount realized upon the sale, the amount for which personal judgment will be sought against the several parties naming them, and the time and place of hearing.

History: 1973 c. 189 s. 7 ; Stats. 1973 s. 816.165; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 768 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 846.165; 2017 a. 208 .
Wis. Stat. § 879.01 — WI Code / Chapter 879 / Section 879.01
Petitions to court.
Status: in_force

All applications to courts, except motions in matters at issue, shall be made by verified petition. All petitions must show the jurisdiction of the court and the interest of the petitioner. All petitions, except those for statutory certificates or for ex parte orders in proceedings already pending, shall also show the names and post-office addresses of all persons interested, so far as known to the petitioner or ascertainable by him or her with reasonable diligence; and shall indicate who are minors or otherwise under disability, and the names and post-office addresses of their guardians. No defect of form or substance in any petition may invalidate any proceedings.

History: 1977 c. 449 .
Wis. Stat. § 86.23 — WI Code / Chapter 86 / Section 86.23
Maintenance of drawbridges owned jointly.
Status: in_force

(1) Each swing or drawbridge built or purchased by any city and town or by any other 2 municipalities, situated so that a part of the bridge is in one municipality and a part in another, shall be operated and maintained at the joint expense of the municipalities that built or purchased the bridge in proportion to the amount of the cost of the bridge borne by each. If either municipality does not provide for or pay its full share of the expense of operating or maintaining the bridge in any year the other may provide for or pay the expense.

(2) A municipality that pays any portion of another municipality’s share of the expenses of operating and maintaining a bridge under sub. (1) may recover the amount of the payment from the defaulting municipality, with interest from the time of payment and costs of suit. No action under this subsection to recover a payment may be brought until 30 days after demand of payment is made.

History: 1997 a. 253 .
Wis. Stat. § 344.55 — WI Code / Chapter 344 / Section 344.55
Insurance for human service vehicles.
Status: in_force

(1) No motor vehicle may be used as a human service vehicle unless a policy of bodily injury and property damage liability insurance, issued by an insurer authorized to transact business in this state, is maintained thereon. The policy shall provide property damage liability coverage with a limit of not less than $10,000. The policy also shall provide bodily injury liability coverage with limits of not less than $75,000 for each person and, subject to such limit for each person, total limits as follows:

(a) $150,000 for each accident for each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of 7 passengers or less.

(b) $200,000 for each accident for each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of 8 to 15 passengers.

(c) $250,000 for each accident for each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of 16 to 24 passengers.

(d) $375,000 for each accident for each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of 25 to 36 passengers.

(e) $500,000 for each accident for each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of 37 to 49 passengers.

(f) $500,000 plus not less than $10,000 for each accident for each passenger seat accommodation for each motor vehicle having a seating capacity of 50 or more passengers.

(2) The department may not issue registration plates for such a vehicle unless there is on file with the department a certificate of insurance showing that the vehicle is insured in compliance with sub. (1) . No such policy may be terminated prior to its expiration or canceled for any reason unless a notice thereof is filed with the department at least 30 days prior to the date of termination or cancellation. The department shall suspend the registration of a vehicle on which the insurance policy has been terminated or canceled, effective on the date of termination or cancellation.

History: 1983 a. 175 s. 20 ; Stats. 1983 s. 344.55; 1997 a. 84 ; 2009 a. 28 ; 2011 a. 14 .