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Wis. Stat. § 16.310 — WI Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16.310
Section 16.310
Status: in_force

(3) Transfer of real property. The department may transfer real property obtained under sub. (2) to an applicant under a written agreement that includes a provision that the applicant agrees to pay the department an amount to utilize the real property in conformance with the agreement.

(4) Recording. The department shall record the agreement under sub. (3) in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which the real property subject to the agreement is located.

(5) Nonapplication. This section does not apply to property that is authorized to be sold or leased as provided in s. 16.848 while an offer of sale, sale, or lease agreement is pending or while the property is leased.

History: 1991 a. 39 ; 2001 a. 103 ; 2003 a. 33 s. 161 ; Stats. 2003 s. 560.9810; 2005 a. 25 ; 2011 a. 32 s. 3460m ; Stats. 2011 s. 16.310; 2013 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 655.001 — WI Code / Chapter 655 / Section 655.001
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) “Board of governors” means the board created under s. 619.04 (3) .

(1g) “Advanced practice registered nurse” means an individual who is licensed under s. 441.09 , who has qualified to practice independently in his or her recognized role under s. 441.09 (3m) (b) , and who practices advanced practice registered nursing, as defined under s. 441.001 (1c) , outside of a collaborative relationship with a physician or dentist, as described under s. 441.09 (3m) (a) 1. , or other employment relationship.

(1r) “Board of governors” means the board created under s. 619.04 (3) .

(2) “Claimant” means the person filing a request for mediation under s. 655.44 or 655.445 .

(4) “Department” means the department of health services.

(6) “Fiscal year” means the period beginning on July 1 and ending on the following June 30.
Wis. Stat. § 700.16 — WI Code / Chapter 700 / Section 700.16
Perpetuities and suspension of power of alienation.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) A future interest or trust is void if it suspends the power of alienation for longer than the permissible period. The permissible period is a life or lives in being plus a period of 30 years.

(b) If the settlor of a living trust has an unlimited power to revoke, the permissible period is computed from termination of such power.

(c) If a future interest or trust is created by exercise of a power of appointment, the permissible period is computed from the time the power of appointment is exercised if the power of appointment is a general power of appointment, as defined in s. 702.102 (7) , even if the general power of appointment is exercisable only by will. In the case of other powers of appointment the permissible period is computed from the time the power of appointment is created but facts at the time the power of appointment is exercised are considered in determining whether the power of alienation is suspended beyond a life or lives in being at the time of creation of the power of appointment plus 30 years.

(2) The power of alienation is suspended when there are no persons in being who, alone or in combination with others, can convey an absolute fee in possession of land, or full ownership of personalty.

(3) There is no suspension of the power of alienation by a trust or by equitable interests under a trust if the trustee has power to sell, either expressed or implied, or if there is an unlimited power to terminate in one or more persons in being.

(4) This section does not apply to limit any of the following:

(a) Transfers, outright or in trust, for charitable purposes;

(b) Transfers to literary or charitable corporations;

(bm) Transfers to a veteran’s memorial organization under s. 84.09 (5r) ;

(c) Transfers to any cemetery corporation, society or association;

(d) Transfers, outright or in trust, to the state society of physicians and surgeons incorporated under the law of this state, when the transfer is for the advancement of medical science;

(e) Transfers to any person pursuant to ch. 703 ; or

(f) Employees’ trusts created as part of a plan or contract as described in s. 815.18 (3) (j) .

(5) The common-law rule against perpetuities is not in force in this state.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 777 (1975); 1983 a. 189 s. 329 (26) ; 1989 a. 278 ; 1995 a. 406 ; 2013 a. 92 ; 2023 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 799.27 — WI Code / Chapter 799 / Section 799.27
Adjournments.
Status: in_force

(1) On request. Except in eviction actions, a party who appears on the return date shall be given, on request, an adjournment of at least 7 days, or such longer period as the court grants. In eviction actions, no adjournments shall be granted except for cause shown under sub. (2) and (3) , unless with the consent of the plaintiff.

(2) For cause. For good cause shown to the court by either party, the court may extend the time within which any act may be done, except the time for the taking of an appeal.

(3) Same; terms. No continuance under sub. (2) shall be granted, unless by consent of the parties, except upon such terms as the court deems just.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 66 ; Stats. 1979 s. 799.27.
Wis. Stat. § 940.41 — WI Code / Chapter 940 / Section 940.41
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In ss. 940.42 to 940.49 :

(1g) “Law enforcement agency” has the meaning given in s. 165.83 (1) (b) .

(1r) “Malice” or “maliciously” means an intent to vex, annoy or injure in any way another person or to thwart or interfere in any manner with the orderly administration of justice.

(2) “Victim” means any natural person against whom any crime as defined in s. 939.12 or under the laws of the United States is being or has been perpetrated or attempted in this state.

(3) “Witness” means any natural person who has been or is expected to be summoned to testify; who by reason of having relevant information is subject to call or likely to be called as a witness, whether or not any action or proceeding has as yet been commenced; whose declaration under oath is received as evidence for any purpose; who has provided information concerning any crime to any peace officer or prosecutor; who has provided information concerning a crime to any employee or agent of a law enforcement agency using a crime reporting telephone hotline or other telephone number provided by the law enforcement agency; or who has been served with a subpoena issued under s. 885.01 or under the authority of any court of this state or of the United States.

History: 1981 c. 118 ; 1993 a. 128 .
Wis. Stat. § 707.43 — WI Code / Chapter 707 / Section 707.43
Multilocation developer; additional requirements.
Status: in_force

(1) Definition. As used in this section, “multilocation developer” means a developer creating or selling its own time shares in more than one time-share property under a program permitting time-share owners, by reservation or other similar procedure, to occupy time-share units in more than one time-share property.

(2) Additional requirements. If time-share owners are permitted or required to participate in a multilocation program, the time-share disclosure statement or a supplement delivered with the statement shall contain or fully and accurately disclose, in addition to the information required by s. 707.41 (4) and, if applicable, ss. 707.42 , 707.44 and 707.45 , all of the following information:

(a) A complete and accurate description of the procedure to qualify for and effectuate use rights in time-share units in the multilocation program.

(b) A complete and accurate description of all limitations, restrictions or priorities employed in the operation of the multilocation program, including limitations on reservations, use or entitlement rights based on the season, unit size, levels of occupancy or class of owner, expressed in boldface type, and, if the limitations, restrictions or priorities are not uniformly applied by the multilocation program, a clear description of the manner in which they are applied.

(c) Whether use is arranged on a space-available basis and whether the multilocation developer guarantees fulfilling specific requests for use.

(d) The name and address of the site of each time-share property included in the multilocation program.

(e) The number of time-share units in each time-share property which is available for occupancy and all of the following about each such time-share unit:

1. The interest which the multilocation developer has in the time-share unit and, if less than fee ownership, a statement of all relevant terms of the multilocation developer’s interest in the time-share unit.

2. Whether the time-share unit may be withdrawn from the multilocation program.

(f) All of the following information, which shall be independently audited by an independent, certified public accountant or accounting firm in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles:

1. The number of time-share owners in the multilocation program.

2. For each time-share property in the multilocation program, the number of properly made requests for use of time-share units in the time-share property.

3. For each time-share property, the number of time-share owners who received the right to use a unit in the time-share property, expressed as a percentage of the time-share owners who properly requested such use in the time-share property.

(g) The following statement in boldface type: THE PERCENTAGE OF TIME-SHARE OWNERS WHO RECEIVED THE RIGHT TO USE A UNIT IN THE TIME-SHARE PROPERTY DOES NOT INDICATE A PURCHASER’S PROBABILITIES OF BEING ABLE TO USE ANY TIME-SHARE UNIT, SINCE AVAILABILITY AT INDIVIDUAL LOCATIONS MAY VARY.

History: 1987 a. 399 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.172 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.172
Resident crossbow hunting license.
Status: in_force

(1) A resident crossbow hunting license shall be issued subject to ss. 29.024 and 54.25 (2) (c) 1. d. by the department to any resident applying for this license.

(2) A resident crossbow hunting license authorizes the hunting of all game, except bear, elk, and wild turkey, during the open seasons for hunting that game with a crossbow established by the department. This license authorizes hunting with a crossbow only.

History: 2013 a. 61 ; 2015 a. 89 , 222 ; 2017 a. 59 .
Wis. Stat. § 221.0317 — WI Code / Chapter 221 / Section 221.0317
Securitization of assets.
Status: in_force

A bank may, with the approval of the division, securitize its assets for sale to the public in accordance with the rules which shall be promulgated by the division under this section.

History: 1995 a. 336 .
Wis. Stat. § 904.10 — WI Code / Chapter 904 / Section 904.10
Offer to plead guilty; no contest; withdrawn plea of guilty.
Status: in_force

Evidence of a plea of guilty, later withdrawn, or a plea of no contest, or of an offer to the court or prosecuting attorney to plead guilty or no contest to the crime charged or any other crime, or in civil forfeiture actions, is not admissible in any civil or criminal proceeding against the person who made the plea or offer or one liable for the person’s conduct. Evidence of statements made in court or to the prosecuting attorney in connection with any of the foregoing pleas or offers is not admissible.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 59 Wis. 2d R1, R94 (1973); 1991 a. 32 .
Wis. Stat. § 31.05 — WI Code / Chapter 31 / Section 31.05
Applications for permits to construct.
Status: in_force

Any person, firm, corporation or municipality desiring a permit to construct, operate and maintain a dam shall file with the department a written application therefor, setting forth:

(1) The name of the navigable waters in or across which a dam is proposed to be constructed and a specific description of the site for the proposed dam.

(2) The purpose or purposes for which the proposed dam is to be constructed, operated and maintained.

(3) In case the application is for a permit to construct, operate and maintain a dam for a private purpose, proof satisfactory to the department that the applicant owns or has an enforceable option to purchase the described dam site and at least 65 percent of the land to be flowed, or the flowage rights on at least 65 percent of such land. This subsection shall not apply to a person who has the power of eminent domain.

(4) A general description of the proposed dam, of the material to be used in the construction thereof, and a general description of all booms, piers, and other protection works to be constructed in connection therewith.

(5) The approximate amount of hydraulic power that the proposed dam is capable of developing.

(6) The name of the city, village or town in which the site of the proposed dam will be located and the name of the nearest existing dam above and below the site of the proposed dam.

(7) A map on the scale of not less than one inch per 1,000 feet showing the lands that may be affected by the construction, operation or maintenance of the proposed dam, or by any flowage that may be caused thereby and approximately the outline of such flowage, which map shall indicate the ownership of each tract of land within the flowage.

(8) Such additional information of any nature that may be required by the department.

History: 1975 c. 349 ; 1993 a. 246 .
Wis. Stat. § 46.75 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.75
Food distribution grants.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Agency” means a public agency or private nonprofit organization.

(b) “Food distribution program” means a program that provides food directly to needy individuals or a program that collects and distributes food to persons who provide the food directly to needy individuals.

(2) Purpose; amount.

(a) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (dn) , the department shall award grants to agencies to operate food distribution programs that qualify for participation in the emergency food assistance program under 7 USC ch. 102 .

(b) The department may not award more than $20,000 to any agency for the program under this section.

(3) Criteria for awarding grants. In evaluating applications for grants, the department shall give priority to food distribution programs that do the following:

(a) Serve areas that are not served or are underserved by food distribution services.

(b) Operate a program that routinely provides prepared meals to homeless persons.

(c) Provide information to individuals with low incomes concerning other services available to those individuals.

(e) Use simple methods to determine eligibility.

(f) Appear likely to continue operation after using the grant under this section.

History: 2009 a. 28 s. 1218 ; Stats. 2009 s. 46.75.
Wis. Stat. § 616.80 — WI Code / Chapter 616 / Section 616.80
Misrepresentations forbidden.
Status: in_force

No company, and no officer or agent thereof, shall orally, or in writing, misrepresent the terms, benefits, or privileges of any service contract issued, or to be issued, by it.

History: 1977 c. 339 s. 8 ; Stats. 1977 s. 616.80.
Wis. Stat. § 938.209 — WI Code / Chapter 938 / Section 938.209
Criteria for holding a juvenile in a county jail or a municipal lockup facility.
Status: in_force

(1) County jail. Subject to s. 938.208 , a county jail may be used as a juvenile detention facility if the criteria under either par. (a) or (b) are met:

(a) No other juvenile detention facility approved by the department of corrections or a county is available and all of the following conditions are met:

1. The jail meets the standards for juvenile detention facilities established by the department of corrections.

2. The juvenile is held in a room separated and removed from incarcerated adults.

3. The juvenile is not held in a cell designed for the administrative or disciplinary segregation of adults.

4. Adequate supervision is provided.

5. The court reviews the status of the juvenile every 3 days.

(b) The juvenile presents a substantial risk of physical harm to other persons in the juvenile detention facility, as evidenced by previous acts or attempts, which can only be avoided by transfer to the jail. The conditions of par. (a) 1. to 5. shall be met. The juvenile shall be given a hearing and may be transferred only upon a court order.

(2m) Municipal lockup.

(a) A juvenile who is alleged to have committed a delinquent act may be held in a municipal lockup facility if all of the following criteria are met:

1. The department of corrections has approved the municipal lockup facility as a suitable place for holding juveniles in custody.

2. The juvenile is held in the municipal lockup facility for not more than 6 hours while awaiting his or her hearing under s. 938.21 (1) (a) .

3. There is sight and sound separation between the juvenile and any adult who is being held in the municipal lockup facility.

4. The juvenile is held for investigative purposes only.

(b) The department of corrections shall promulgate rules establishing minimum requirements for the approval of a municipal lockup facility as a suitable place for holding juveniles in custody and for the operation of such a facility. The rules shall be designed to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the juveniles held in those facilities.

(3) Juveniles under adult court jurisdiction. The restrictions of this section do not apply to the use of jail for a juvenile who has been waived to adult court under s. 938.18 or who is under the jurisdiction of an adult court under s. 938.183 , unless the juvenile is under the jurisdiction of an adult court under s. 938.183 (1) and is under 15 years of age.

History: 1995 a. 77 , 352 ; 1997 a. 35 , 296 ; 2005 a. 344 ; 2007 a. 97 ; 2015 a. 55 .
Wis. Stat. § 101.715 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.715
Application.
Status: in_force

This subchapter applies to a dwelling the initial construction of which was commenced on or after December 1, 1978, except that s. 101.745 applies to a modular home the initial manufacture of which was commenced on or after May 23, 1978.

History: 1989 a. 109 ; 2007 a. 11 .
Wis. Stat. § 253.11 — WI Code / Chapter 253 / Section 253.11
Infant blindness.
Status: in_force

(1) For the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum or infant blindness the attending physician or midwife shall use a prophylactic agent approved by the department.

(2) In a confinement not attended by a physician or nurse-midwife, if one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen and red or show an unnatural discharge at any time within 2 weeks after birth, the nurse, parents, or other person in charge shall report the facts in writing within 6 hours to the local health officer who shall immediately warn the person of the danger. The local health officer shall employ at the expense of the local health department a competent physician to examine and treat the case.

(3) Any person who violates this section may be required to forfeit not more than $1,000.

History: 1979 c. 221 ; 1987 a. 332 ; 1993 a. 27 s. 314 ; Stats. 1993 s. 253.11.
Wis. Stat. § 703.30 — WI Code / Chapter 703 / Section 703.30
Rules of construction.
Status: in_force

(1) Certain rules of law not applicable. Neither the rule of law known as the rule against perpetuities nor the rule of law known as the rule restricting unreasonable restraints on alienation may be applied to defeat or invalidate any provision of this chapter or of any condominium instruments, bylaws or other instrument made pursuant to this chapter.

(2) Substantial conformity of condominium instruments and bylaws sufficient. The provisions of any condominium instruments recorded and any bylaws required under this chapter shall be liberally construed to facilitate the creation and operation of the condominium. So long as the condominium instruments and bylaws substantially conform with the requirements of this chapter, no variance from the requirements shall affect the condominium status of the property in question nor the title of any unit owner to his or her unit, votes and percentage interests in the common elements and in common expenses and common surpluses.

(3) Provisions of condominium instruments and bylaws severable. All provisions of condominium instruments and bylaws are severable and the invalidity of one provision does not affect the validity of any other provision.

(4) Conflicts in provisions. If there is any conflict between any provisions of a declaration and provisions of a condominium plat or any provisions of the bylaws, the provisions of the declaration shall control. If there is any conflict between any provisions of any condominium instruments and any provisions of any bylaws, the provisions of the condominium instruments shall control. If there is any conflict between any provisions of any condominium instruments or any provisions of any bylaws and any provisions of this chapter, the provisions of this chapter shall control.

(5) Instruments construed together. Condominium instruments shall be construed together and are determined to incorporate one another to the extent that any requirement of this chapter applying to one instrument is satisfied if the deficiency can be corrected by reference to any of the others.

History: 1977 c. 407 ; 2021 a. 168 .
Wis. Stat. § 95.19 — WI Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95.19
Diseased animals.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this section, “knowingly” means that the actor believes that the specified fact exists.

(2) Prohibitions. No person may do any of the following:

(a) Import, sell, transport or exhibit an animal that is exposed to a contagious or infectious disease, except as provided in sub. (3) (a) .

(b) Import, sell, transport or exhibit an animal that is infected with a contagious or infectious disease, except as provided in sub. (3) (a) .

(c) Knowingly conceal that an animal that is imported, sold, transported or exhibited has been exposed to or infected with a contagious or infectious disease.

(d) Knowingly misrepresent that an animal has not been exposed to or infected with a contagious or infectious disease.

(e) Knowingly permit an animal that has been exposed to or infected with a contagious or infectious disease to commingle with other animals under conditions that may cause the disease to spread to an animal owned by another person.

(3) Rule making. The department may promulgate rules:

(a) Authorizing the transport under a department permit of an animal exposed to or infected with a contagious or infectious disease for slaughter or other purposes prescribed by the department.

(b) Specifying those contagious or infectious diseases to which the prohibitions of sub. (2) , and the rules promulgated under par. (a) , apply.

(4) Damages. A person who violates this section is liable to any person injured for damages sustained as a result of the violation.

History: 1989 a. 277 .
Wis. Stat. § 32.21 — WI Code / Chapter 32 / Section 32.21
Emergency condemnation.
Status: in_force

Whenever any lands or interest therein are urgently needed by any state board, or commission, or other agency of the state, and a contract for the purchase or use of the property cannot be made for a reasonable price, or for any other reason, including the unavailability of the owner or owners, the board, commission or agency may, with the approval of the governor, issue an award of damages and upon tender of the award to the owner or owners, or deposit in a court of record in the county where the lands are situated in cases where an owner is not available or tender is refused, take immediate possession of said property. Deposit in a court of record may be made by registered mail addressed to the clerk of the court. The governor shall determine whether or not such an award shall issue. Appeal from said award of damages will lie as in other similar cases and all provisions of this subchapter shall govern, except as to the provision herein concerning the immediate issuance of the award tender and immediate possession.

History: 1981 c. 390 s. 252 ; 1983 a. 236 s. 12 .