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Wis. Stat. § 229.831 — WI Code / Chapter 229 / Section 229.831
Bonds not public debt.
Status: in_force

(1) The state and the county and municipalities located wholly or partly within the district’s jurisdiction are not liable on bonds and the bonds are not a debt of the state or the county or any municipality located wholly or partly within the district. All bonds shall contain a statement to this effect on the face of the bond. A bond issue does not, directly or indirectly or contingently, obligate the state or a political subdivision of the state to levy any tax or make any appropriation for payment of the bonds.

(2) Nothing in this subchapter authorizes a district to create a debt of the state or the county or any municipality located wholly or partly within the district’s jurisdiction, and all bonds issued by a district are payable, and shall state that they are payable, solely from the funds pledged for their payment in accordance with the bond resolution authorizing their issuance or in any trust indenture or mortgage or deed of trust executed as security for the bonds. Neither the state nor the county or any such municipality is liable for the payment of the principal of or interest on a bond or for the performance of any pledge, mortgage, obligation or agreement that may be undertaken by a district. The breach of any pledge, mortgage, obligation or agreement undertaken by a district does not impose pecuniary liability upon the state or the county or any such municipality in the district’s jurisdiction or a charge upon its general credit or against its taxing power.

(3) Bonds issued by the district may be secured only by the district’s interest in any football stadium facilities, by income from these facilities, by proceeds of bonds issued by the district and by other amounts placed in a special redemption fund and investment earnings on such amounts, including any taxes imposed by the district under subch. V of ch. 77 . The district may not pledge its full faith and credit on the bonds and the bonds are not a general obligation liability of the district.

History: 1999 a. 167 .
Wis. Stat. § 101.141 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.141
Record keeping of fires.
Status: in_force

(1) Each city, village, and town fire department shall file a report for each fire that involves a building and that occurs within the boundaries of the city, village, or town with the U.S. fire administration for placement in the fire incident reporting system maintained by the U.S. fire administration. The report shall be filed within 60 days after the fire occurs.

(2) Each report filed under sub. (1) shall include all of the following information:

(a) The age of the building.

(b) The purpose for which the building was used at the time of the fire.

(c) If the building was used as a home, whether the building was a multifamily dwelling complex, a single-family dwelling, or a mixed-use building with one or more dwelling units.

(d) The number of dwelling units in the building, if the building was a multifamily dwelling complex or a mixed-use building.

(e) Whether the building had an automatic fire sprinkler system at the time of the fire and, if so, whether the system was operational.

(f) Whether the building had a fire alarm system at the time of the fire and, if so, whether the system was operational.

(g) The cause of the fire.

(gg) An estimate of the amount of damages to the building as a result of the fire.

(gm) The number of human deaths due to the fire, if any.

(gr) The number of human injuries due to the fire, if any.

(h) Any other relevant information concerning the building, as determined by the fire department.

(3) The department may review, correct, and update any report filed by a fire department under this section.

History: 1975 c. 224 ; 2007 a. 75 .
Wis. Stat. § 27.15 — WI Code / Chapter 27 / Section 27.15
Moneys for cities of the 1st class, how disbursed.
Status: in_force

All moneys received or raised in any city of the 1st class, however incorporated, for parks and boulevards, under the control of a board of park commissioners, shall be paid over to the city treasurer and shall be disbursed according to resolutions of the board of park commissioners authorizing the payment of bills and accounts after same have been audited and orders directed to be issued therefor, which shall be signed by the president and secretary of the board, except that said funds may by resolution of said board of park commissioners be disbursed upon orders signed by the president and secretary of the board of park commissioners, and countersigned by the comptroller after bills or accounts have been presented to and audited by the comptroller. All bills or accounts thus paid shall be reported by said secretary to the next regular meeting of the board of park commissioners. Such orders shall be made payable to the order of the persons in whose favor they shall have been issued, and shall be the only vouchers of the treasurer for payment from the park fund. It shall not be lawful for the board of park commissioners to expend or contract a liability for any sum in excess of the amount levied in any one year for the park fund on account of such fund.

History: 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 409.301 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.301
Law governing perfection and priority of security interests.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in ss. 409.303 to 409.306 , the following rules determine the law governing perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in collateral:

(1) Location of debtor. Except as otherwise provided in this section, while a debtor is located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in collateral.

(2) Location of collateral. While collateral is located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a possessory security interest in that collateral.

(3) Location of property. Except as otherwise provided in sub. (4) , while tangible negotiable documents, goods, instruments, money, or tangible chattel paper is located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs:

(a) Perfection of a security interest in the goods by filing a fixture filing;

(b) Perfection of a security interest in timber to be cut; and

(c) The effect of perfection or nonperfection and the priority of a nonpossessory security interest in the collateral.

(4) Location of wellhead or minehead. The local law of the jurisdiction in which the wellhead or minehead is located governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in as-extracted collateral.

History: 2001 a. 10 ; 2009 a. 322 .
Wis. Stat. § 943.47 — WI Code / Chapter 943 / Section 943.47
Theft of satellite cable programming.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Encrypt,” when used with respect to satellite cable programming, means to transmit that programming in a form whereby the aural or visual characteristics or both are altered to prevent the unauthorized reception of that programming by persons without authorized equipment which is designed to eliminate the effects of that alteration.

(b) “Satellite cable programming” means encrypted video programming which is transmitted via satellite for direct reception by satellite dish owners for a fee.

(2) Prohibitions. No person may decode encrypted satellite cable programming without authority.

(3) Criminal penalties. The following penalties apply for violations of this section:

(a) Except as provided in pars. (b) to (d) , any person who intentionally violates sub. (2) is subject to a Class C forfeiture.

(b) Except as provided in pars. (c) and (d) , any person who violates sub. (2) as a 2nd or subsequent offense is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

(c) Except as provided in par. (d) , any person who violates sub. (2) for direct or indirect commercial advantage or private financial gain is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) Any person who violates sub. (2) for direct or indirect commercial advantage or private financial gain as a 2nd or subsequent offense is guilty of a Class I felony.

(5) Exception. This section does not affect the use by a person of satellite cable programming if the programming has been paid for and the use is exclusive to the person’s dwelling unit.

History: 1987 a. 345 ; 1993 a. 496 ; 2001 a. 109 ; 2015 a. 196 .
Wis. Stat. § 322.082 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.082
Article 82 — Solicitation.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who solicits or advises another or others to desert in violation of s. 322.085 or mutiny in violation of s. 322.094 shall, if the offense solicited or advised is attempted or committed, be punished with the punishment provided for the commission of the offense, but, if the offense solicited or advised is not committed or attempted, the person shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(2) Any person who solicits or advises another or others to commit an act of misbehavior before the enemy in violation of s. 322.099 or sedition in violation of s. 322.094 shall, if the offense solicited or advised is committed, be punished with the punishment provided for the commission of the offense, but, if the offense solicited or advised is not committed, the person shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

History: 2007 a. 200 .
Wis. Stat. § 707.33 — WI Code / Chapter 707 / Section 707.33
Upkeep of units.
Status: in_force

(1) Responsibility of managing entity and required access.

(a) Unless otherwise provided in the time-share instrument, the managing entity shall be responsible for maintenance, repair and replacement of the time-share units and any personal property available for use by time-share owners in conjunction with the time-share units, other than personal property separately owned by a time-share owner.

(b) Each time-share owner shall afford access through the time-share unit reasonably necessary for the purposes described in par. (a) , but the managing entity shall promptly repair any damage to the time-share unit or personal property in the time-share unit which results from the access required under this paragraph.

(2) Alteration of unit. Subject to the time-share instrument, a time-share owner may not change the appearance of a time-share unit without the consent of the managing entity.

History: 1987 a. 399 .
Wis. Stat. § 861.018 — WI Code / Chapter 861 / Section 861.018
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) “Augmented deferred marital property estate” means the property under s. 861.02 (2) .

(2) “Deferred individual property” means any property that satisfies all of the following:

(a) Is not classified by ch. 766 .

(b) Was brought to the marriage or acquired while the spouses were married.

(c) Would have been classified as individual property under ch. 766 if the property had been acquired when ch. 766 applied.

(3) “Nonadverse party” means a person who has a power relating to a trust or other property arrangement but who does not have a substantial beneficial interest that would be adversely affected by exercise or nonexercise of that power, except that “nonadverse party” does not include a person who has a general power of appointment over property, with respect to that property.

(4) “Power” includes a power to designate the beneficiary of a beneficiary designation.

(5) “Power of appointment” includes a power to designate the beneficiary of a beneficiary designation.

(6) “Presently exercisable general power of appointment” means a power of appointment under which, at the time in question, the decedent held a power to create a present or future interest in himself or herself, his or her creditors, his or her estate or creditors of his or her estate and a power to revoke or invade the principal of a trust or other property arrangement, whether or not the decedent had the capacity to exercise the power at the time.

(7) “Property” has the meaning given in s. 851.27 and includes values subject to a beneficiary designation.

(8) “Right to income” includes a right to payments under a commercial or private annuity, an annuity trust, a unitrust or a similar arrangement.

(9) “Transfer” includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(a) An exercise or release of a presently exercisable general power of appointment held by the decedent.

(b) A lapse at death of a presently exercisable general power of appointment held by the decedent.

(c) An exercise, release or lapse of either of the following:

1. A general power of appointment that the decedent created in himself or herself.

2. A power under s. 861.03 (3) that the decedent conferred on a nonadverse party.

History: 1997 a. 188 .
Wis. Stat. § 702.504 — WI Code / Chapter 702 / Section 702.504
Creditor claim: nongeneral power of appointment.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subs. (2) and (3) , appointive property subject to a nongeneral power of appointment is exempt from a claim of a creditor of the powerholder or the powerholder’s estate.

(2) Appointive property subject to a nongeneral power of appointment is subject to a claim of a creditor of the powerholder or the powerholder’s estate to the extent that the powerholder owned the property and, reserving the nongeneral power, transferred the property in violation of the law relating to fraudulent conveyances.

(3) For purposes of this subchapter, if the initial gift in default of appointment is to the powerholder or the powerholder’s estate, a nongeneral power of appointment is treated as a general power of appointment.

History: 2023 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 49.227 — WI Code / Chapter 49 / Section 49.227
Program for publication of delinquent child support obligors.
Status: in_force

The department shall establish a program to increase public awareness about the importance of the payment of child support. The program shall include publication of information, such as names and photographs, that identifies child support obligors who are significantly delinquent in the payment of child support. The department may use posters, media presentations or other means that the department determines are appropriate for publication of the information. The publications shall include information about the child support owed by each obligor identified and, if appropriate, shall solicit information from the public to assist the department in locating a delinquent obligor.

History: 1995 a. 12 ; 1997 a. 191 s. 39 ; Stats. 1997 s. 49.227; 1999 a. 32 s. 131 .
Wis. Stat. § 429.201 — WI Code / Chapter 429 / Section 429.201
Prelease availability of consumer lease form.
Status: in_force

A lessor shall, upon request of a prospective lessee, make readily available a blank sample of its current consumer lease form for examination by the prospective lessee before execution of the consumer lease.

History: 1995 a. 329 .
Wis. Stat. § 16.835 — WI Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16.835
Offices and rooms in capitol.
Status: in_force

The office of the governor shall be located in the capitol. The attorney general, lieutenant governor and supreme court shall each keep a room in the capitol. The circular room on the 2nd floor of the capitol located between the assembly and senate chambers shall be made available for the use of the capitol press corps.

History: 1977 c. 3 , 447 ; 1983 a. 27 ; 1989 a. 31 ; 1997 a. 237 .
Wis. Stat. § 854.06 — WI Code / Chapter 854 / Section 854.06
Predeceased transferee.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Provision in a governing instrument” includes all of the following:

1. A gift to an individual whether or not the individual is alive at the time of the execution of the instrument.

2. A share in a class gift only if a member of the class dies after the execution of the instrument.

3. An appointment by the decedent under any power of appointment, unless the issue who would take under this section could not have been appointees under the terms of the power.

(c) “Stepchild” means a child of the decedent’s surviving, deceased or former spouse, and not of the decedent.

(2) Scope of coverage. This section applies to revocable provisions in a governing instrument executed by the decedent that provide for an outright transfer upon the death of the decedent to any of the following persons:

(a) A grandparent of the decedent, or issue of a grandparent, subject to s. 854.21 .

(b) A stepchild of the decedent, subject to s. 854.15 .

(3) Substitute gift to issue of covered transferee. Subject to sub. (4) , if a transferee under a provision described in sub. (2) does not survive the decedent but has issue who do survive, the issue of the transferee take the transfer per stirpes, as provided in s. 854.04 (1) .

(4) Contrary intent.

(a) Subsection (3) does not apply if any of the following applies:

1. The governing instrument provides that a transfer to a predeceased beneficiary lapses.

2. The governing instrument designates one or more persons, classes, or groups of people as contingent transferees, in which case those transferees take in preference to those under sub. (3) . But if none of the contingent transferees survives, sub. (3) applies to the first group in the sequence of contingent transferees that has one or more transferees specified in sub. (2) who left surviving issue.

(bm) If the person who executed the governing instrument had an intent contrary to any provision in this section, then that provision is not applicable to the transfer. Extrinsic evidence may be used to construe the intent.

History: 1997 a. 188 ; 2005 a. 216 .
Wis. Stat. § 611.74 — WI Code / Chapter 611 / Section 611.74
Voluntary dissolution of domestic insurance corporations.
Status: in_force

(1) Plan of dissolution. At least 60 days prior to the submission to shareholders or policyholders of any proposed voluntary dissolution of an insurance corporation under s. 180.1402 or 181.1401 the plan shall be filed with the commissioner. The commissioner may require the submission of additional information to establish the financial condition of the corporation or other facts relevant to the proposed dissolution. If the shareholders or policyholders adopt the resolution to dissolve, the commissioner shall, within 30 days after the adoption of the resolution, begin to examine the corporation. The commissioner shall approve the dissolution unless, after a hearing, the commissioner finds that it is insolvent or may become insolvent in the process of dissolution. Subject to chs. 600 to 645 , upon approval, the corporation may dissolve under ss. 180.1402 to 180.1408 and 180.1706 , or ss. 181.1401 to 181.1407 , except that papers required by those sections to be filed with the department of financial institutions shall instead be filed with the commissioner. Upon disapproval, the commissioner shall petition the court for liquidation or for rehabilitation under ch. 645 .

(2) Conversion to involuntary liquidation. The corporation may at any time during the liquidation under ss. 180.1402 to 180.1408 or under ss. 181.1401 to 181.1407 apply to the commissioner to have the liquidation continued under the commissioner’s supervision; thereupon the commissioner shall apply to the court for liquidation under s. 645.41 (10) .

(3) Revocation of voluntary dissolution. If the corporation revokes the voluntary dissolution proceedings under ss. 180.1404 and 180.1706 or under s. 181.1404 , a copy of the articles of revocation of dissolution prepared under s. 180.1404 or 181.1404 shall be filed with the commissioner.

(4) Distribution of assets of a mutual. No distribution may be made to policyholders in excess of the amounts to which they are entitled under s. 645.72 (4) . Any excess over such amounts shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the common school fund.

History: 1971 c. 260 ; 1973 c. 184 ; 1977 c. 203 ; 1979 c. 102 ; 1979 c. 109 s. 16 ; 1989 a. 303 ; 1991 a. 32 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 941.33 — WI Code / Chapter 941 / Section 941.33
Intentional destruction of vaccine or drug.
Status: in_force

(1) Whoever destroys, handles, stores, or treats a vaccine, drug, or any other biologic product used as a therapeutic treatment with intent to render the vaccine, drug, or product unsafe, tainted, spoiled, ineffective, or otherwise unusable is guilty of a Class I felony.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the disposal of expired or recalled vaccines, drugs, or other products.

History: 2021 a. 120 .
Wis. Stat. § 224.26 — WI Code / Chapter 224 / Section 224.26
Customer access to credit reports.
Status: in_force

If requested by an individual who is a customer, loan applicant or credit applicant, a financial institution, as defined in s. 705.01 (3) , shall provide that individual, at no additional charge, with a copy of any written credit report which is held by the financial institution, which relates to that individual and for which a fee is imposed.

History: 1993 a. 425 ; 1997 a. 191 s. 237 ; Stats. 1997 s. 224.26.
Wis. Stat. § 198.167 — WI Code / Chapter 198 / Section 198.167
Certified public accountant; annual report.
Status: in_force

The directors of the district shall employ annually the commission or a certified public accountant licensed or certified under ch. 442 approved by said commission who shall be qualified to, and who shall with all due diligence, examine and report upon the system of accounts kept by the district, all the contracts of whatsoever kind made and entered into by the board of directors within the year immediately preceding, and the properties and investments of the district. The certified public accountant shall in the report make such recommendations and suggestions as to the certified public accountant shall seem proper and required for the good of the district, and the efficient and economical or advantageous management and operation of the public utility or utilities of the district; and the certified public accountant shall in the report make such recommendations and suggestions as to the system of accounts kept, or in the certified public accountant’s judgment to be kept, by the district, in connection with each public utility, the classification of the public utilities of the district and the establishment of a system of accounts for each class, the manner in which such accounts shall be kept, the form of accounts, records, and memoranda kept or to be kept, including accounts, records, and memoranda of receipts and expenditures of money, and depreciation and sinking fund accounts, as in the certified public accountant’s judgment may be proper and necessary, and shall not conflict with the requirements of the commission.

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 2001 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 39.31 — WI Code / Chapter 39 / Section 39.31
Determination of student costs.
Status: in_force

In determining a student’s total cost of attending a postsecondary institution for the purpose of calculating the amount of a grant under s. 39.30 , 39.38 , 39.435 or 39.44 , the board shall include the following:

(1) The cost of tuition, fees, books and educational supplies.

(2) Miscellaneous expenses, as determined by the board.

(3) The cost of child care, as determined by the board.

History: 1987 a. 27 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 27 .