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Wis. Stat. § 347.07 — WI Code / Chapter 347 / Section 347.07
Special restrictions on lamps and the use thereof.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever a motor vehicle equipped with headlamps also is equipped with any adverse weather lamps, spotlamps or auxiliary lamps, or with any other lamp on the front thereof projecting a beam of intensity greater than 300 candlepower, not more than a total of 4 of any such lamps or combinations thereof on the front of the vehicle shall be lighted at any one time when such vehicle is upon a highway.

(2) Except as provided in sub. (3) , or as otherwise expressly authorized or required by this chapter, no person shall operate any vehicle or equipment on a highway which has displayed thereon:

(a) Any color of light other than white or amber visible from directly in front; or

(b) Any color of light other than red on the rear; or

(c) Any flashing light.

(3) A motorcycle may be equipped with a lighting device that illuminates the ground directly beneath the motorcycle if all of the following apply:

(a) The lighting device is not visible to approaching vehicles.

(b) The lighting device does not display a red, blue, or amber light.

(c) The lighting device does not display a flashing, oscillating, or rotating light.

History: 2015 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 846.14 — WI Code / Chapter 846 / Section 846.14
Redemption of part.
Status: in_force

In case the mortgagor, the mortgagor’s heirs, representatives or assigns shall desire to pay a portion of such judgment, taxes, interest and costs, so as to relieve any distinct lot or parcel of the premises which can be sold separately under such judgment from the lien thereof and of such mortgage thereon, the court, on application of such person and on notice to the parties to the action, may, if the amount to be paid therefor is not agreed upon, ascertain and adjudge the proportion of such judgment, taxes, interest and costs to be paid for the purpose aforesaid; and when the amount so adjudged shall be paid as aforesaid it shall relieve such distinct lot or parcel from such judgment and the lien of such mortgage thereon and shall satisfy such judgment to the amount so paid. Any heir, devisee, grantee or assignee of the mortgagor, owning an undivided interest in the mortgaged premises, subject to the lien of the mortgage, may redeem such undivided interest from such judgment and the lien of the mortgage thereon by paying as aforesaid a sum that will bear the same proportion to the whole of such judgment, taxes, costs and interest as the interest proposed to be redeemed bears to the whole of the mortgaged premises.

History: 1973 c. 189 s. 7 ; Stats. 1973 s. 816.14; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 768 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 846.14; 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 943.60 — WI Code / Chapter 943 / Section 943.60
Criminal slander of title.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who submits for filing, entering or recording any lien, claim of lien, lis pendens, writ of attachment, financing statement or any other instrument relating to a security interest in or title to real or personal property, and who knows or should have known that the contents or any part of the contents of the instrument are false, a sham or frivolous, is guilty of a Class H felony.

(2) This section applies to any person who causes another person to act in the manner specified in sub. (1) .

(3) This section does not apply to a register of deeds or other government employee who acts in the course of his or her official duties and files, enters or records any instrument relating to title on behalf of another person.

History: 1979 c. 221 ; 1995 a. 224 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2001 a. 109 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.951 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.951
Resisting a warden.
Status: in_force

Any person who assaults or otherwise resists or obstructs any warden in the performance of duty shall be subject to the penalty specified in s. 939.51 (3) (a) .

History: 1975 c. 365 , 421 ; 1979 c. 34 ; 1981 c. 20 ; 1993 a. 137 ; 1997 a. 248 s. 683 ; Stats. 1997 s. 29.951.
Wis. Stat. § 103.15 — WI Code / Chapter 103 / Section 103.15
Restrictions on use of an HIV test.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Employer” includes the state, its political subdivisions and any office, department, independent agency, authority, institution, association, society or other body in state or local government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law, including the legislature and the courts.

(am) “HIV” means any strain of human immunodeficiency virus, which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

(b) “HIV infection” means the pathological state produced by a human body in response to the presence of HIV.

(bm) “HIV test” has the meaning given in s. 252.01 (2m) .

(c) “State epidemiologist” means the individual designated by the secretary of health services as the individual in charge of communicable disease control for this state.

(2) Notwithstanding ss. 227.01 (13) and 227.10 (1) , unless the state epidemiologist determines and the secretary of health services declares under s. 250.04 (1) or (2) (a) that individuals who have HIV infections may, through employment, provide a significant risk of transmitting HIV to other individuals, no employer or agent of an employer may directly or indirectly:

(a) Solicit or require an HIV test as a condition of employment of any employee or prospective employee.

(b) Affect the terms, conditions or privileges of employment or terminate the employment of any employee who obtains an HIV test, as defined in s. 252.01 (2m) .

(3) Any agreement by an employer or agent of the employer and an employee or prospective employee offering employment or any pay or benefit to an employee or prospective employee in return for taking an HIV test is prohibited, except as provided under sub. (2) (intro.) .

History: 1985 a. 29 , 73 ; 1987 a. 70 ss. 1 , 36 ; 1987 a. 403 s. 256 ; 1989 a. 201 ss. 6 , 36 ; 1989 a. 225 ; 1993 a. 27 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 9126 (19) ; 2007 a. 20 s. 9121 (6) (a) ; 2009 a. 209 .
Wis. Stat. § 84.093 — WI Code / Chapter 84 / Section 84.093
Cooperative acquisition of rights-of-way.
Status: in_force

(1) The department, acting in the public interest, may contract with a public utility, as defined in s. 196.01 (5) , or with a rural electric cooperative association, as described in s. 32.02 (10) , for the receipt or furnishing of services, or the joint exercise of any power or duty required or authorized by law, relating to the acquisition, development or maintenance of rights-of-way to be used jointly by the department and a public utility or rural electric cooperative association. If parties to a contract under this section have varying powers or duties under the law, each may act under the contract to the extent of its lawful powers and duties. This section shall be interpreted liberally in favor of cooperative action between the department and a public utility or rural electric cooperative association.

(2) Any contract under this section may provide a plan for administration of the function or project, which may include provisions as to proration of the expenses involved, deposit and disbursement of funds appropriated, submission and approval of budgets and formation and letting of contracts.

History: 1997 a. 91 ; 1999 a. 32 s. 166 .
Wis. Stat. § 105.14 — WI Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105.14
Regulations; records; reports.
Status: in_force

The department may fix reasonable rules for the conduct of the business of any employment agent or employment agency as are necessary to carry out this chapter. The department may fix reasonable classifications of employments or positions and fix a reasonable scale of fees to be charged by employment agents to applicants for employment for each classification within the restrictions contained in this chapter, and may fix reasonable classifications of the business of employment agents, and make its rules and orders conform to these classifications. It may prescribe the form of books, registers or records to be kept by the employment agent, the receipts or copies of contracts to be handed to persons referred to employment, the reports to be made to the department, the refunds to be made to applicants who failed to secure employment; and it may order any other measures reasonably necessary to protect the public and persons seeking employment against fraud, misrepresentation or any other unauthorized act of any employment agent.

History: 1973 c. 226 ; 1989 a. 220 .
Wis. Stat. § 153.01 — WI Code / Chapter 153 / Section 153.01
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1d) “Administrator” has the meaning given in s. 633.01 (1) .

(1g) “Ambulatory surgery center” has the meaning given under 42 CFR 416.2 .

(2g) “Calculated variable” means a data element that is computed or derived from an original data item or derived using another data source.

(2m) “Data element” means an item of information from a uniform patient billing form.

(3g) “Data organization” means a nonstock corporation organized under ch. 181 that is described in section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, is exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code, and, in its capacity as a public health authority, does all of the following:

(a) Represents health care consumers, insurers, administrators, and health care providers.

(b) Is formed specifically to do all of the following:

1. Create a centralized claims repository for this state with credible and useful data elements for the purposes of quality improvement, health care provider performance comparisons, ready understandability, and consumer decision making.

2. Use the information it collects to develop and disseminate unified public reports on health care quality, safety, and efficiency.

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

(4h) “Employer coalition” means an organization of employers formed for the purpose of purchasing health care coverage or services as a group.

(4j) “Entity” means a nonstock corporation organized under ch. 181 that is described in section 501 (c) (6) of the Internal Revenue Code and is exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code, and that does all of the following:

(a) Represents at least 70 percent of the hospitals in Wisconsin.

(b) Receives oversight with respect to services performed by the entity under this subchapter from the secretary of health services.

(4p) “Health care plan” means an insured or self-insured plan providing coverage of health care expenses or an employer coalition.

(4t) “Health care provider” has the meaning given in s. 146.81 (1) (a) to (p) and includes an ambulatory surgery center.

(5) “Hospital” has the meaning given under s. 50.33 (2) .

(5m) “Insurer” has the meaning given under s. 632.745 (15) .

(7) “Patient” means a person who receives health care services from a health care provider.

(8) “Payer” means a 3rd-party payer, including an insurer, federal, state or local government or another who is responsible for payment of a hospital charge.

(8m) “Public health authority” means the department or a person acting under this subchapter under a grant of authority from or contract with the department.

History: 1987 a. 399 ; 1993 a. 16 , 185 , 491 ; 1997 a. 27 , 231 ; 1999 a. 9 s. 2280ge ; 1999 a. 32 ; 2003 a. 33 ; 2005 a. 228 , 253 ; 2007 a. 20 s. 9121 (6) (a) ; 2009 a. 28 , 274 .
Wis. Stat. § 63.49 — WI Code / Chapter 63 / Section 63.49
No promotion or demotion for making or refusing political contributions.
Status: in_force

No officer or employee of such city shall discharge, or degrade, or promote, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of any other officer or employee, or promise or threaten to do so for giving or withholding any contribution of money or other valuable thing for any party or political purpose, or for refusal or neglect to render any party or political service.
Wis. Stat. § 885.205 — WI Code / Chapter 885 / Section 885.205
Privileged communications.
Status: in_force

No dean of men, dean of women or dean of students at any institution of higher education in this state, or any school psychologist at any school in this state, shall be allowed to disclose communications made to such dean or psychologist or advice given by such dean or psychologist in the course of counseling a student, or in the course of investigating the conduct of a student enrolled at such university or school, except:

(1) This prohibition may be waived by the student.

(2) This prohibition does not include communications which such dean needs to divulge for the dean’s own protection, or the protection of those with whom the dean deals, or which were made to the dean for the express purpose of being communicated to another, or of being made public.

(3) This prohibition does not extend to a criminal case when such dean has been regularly subpoenaed to testify.

History: 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 801.52 — WI Code / Chapter 801 / Section 801.52
Discretionary change of venue.
Status: in_force

The court may at any time, upon its own motion, the motion of a party or the stipulation of the parties, change the venue to any county in the interest of justice or for the convenience of the parties or witnesses, except that venue in a civil action to impose a forfeiture for a violation of chs. 5 to 12 , subch. III of ch. 13 , or subch. III of ch. 19 or for a violation of any other law arising from or in relation to the official functions of the subject of the investigation or any matter that involves elections, ethics, or lobbying regulation under chs. 5 to 12 , subch. III of ch. 13 , or subch. III of ch. 19 , may be changed only as provided in s. 971.223 (1) and (2) or in the same manner that is authorized for a change in the venue of a criminal trial under s. 971.22 . This section does not apply to proceedings under ch. 980 .

History: 1983 a. 228 ; 2005 a. 434 ; 2007 a. 1 ; 2009 a. 180 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.41 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.41
Court review.
Status: in_force

Any order or determination of the commission may be reviewed under ch. 227 .

History: 1983 a. 53 .
Wis. Stat. § 799.10 — WI Code / Chapter 799 / Section 799.10
Case file, court record.
Status: in_force

(1) Clerk to maintain court record and case file. The clerk of circuit court shall maintain a court record of small claims cases, and a case file for each case in which there are papers other than the ones listed in s. 799.07 to be filed.

(2) Entries; what to contain. Entries in the court record shall include:

(a) The number of the case;

(b) The title of every action including the full names of the parties and their addresses, if known. If service is by mail, the clerk shall also enter the date when the summons is mailed to any defendant, and the name of the person to whom mailed;

(c) The names of attorneys, if any, appearing in the action;

(d) Type of action by reference to s. 799.01 ;

(e) Nature of plea in forfeiture actions;

(f) The judgment or final order entered, date of entering it and the amount of forfeiture or damages, costs and fees due to each person separately;

(g) Satisfaction of forfeiture, or commitment for nonpayment of forfeiture or judgment;

(h) The date of mailing notice of entry of judgment or final order as provided in s. 799.24 ;

(i) Such additional entries as may be necessary to supply essential information not contained in the case file or reporter’s record.

(3) Correcting court record. The judge has power at any time to order the court record corrected or any omission or additional entry supplied if the judge is satisfied that an error or omission exists or that one or more additional entries are needed.

(4) Time of court record entries. Entries in the court record shall be made not later than the time of the entry of the judgment or final order, or as soon thereafter as possible. No court record entries need be made in uncontested cases where the action is for a money forfeiture charging violation of a parking regulation.

History: 1979 c. 32 ss. 66 , 92 (16) ; 1979 c. 176 ; Stats. 1979 s. 799.10; 1995 a. 224 .
Wis. Stat. § 814.51 — WI Code / Chapter 814 / Section 814.51
Jury fees; discretion of court.
Status: in_force

The court shall have discretionary authority in any civil or criminal action or proceeding triable by jury to assess the entire cost of one day’s juror fees for a jury, including all mileage costs, against either the plaintiff or defendant or to divide the cost and assess the cost against both plaintiff and defendant, or additional parties plaintiff or defendant, if a jury demand has been made in any case and if a jury demand is later withdrawn within 2 business days prior to the time set by the court for the commencement of the trial. The party assessed shall be required to make payment to the clerk of circuit court within a prescribed period and the payment thereof shall be enforced by contempt proceedings.

History: 1971 c. 297 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 761 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 814.51; 1977 c. 318 .
Wis. Stat. § 280.98 — WI Code / Chapter 280 / Section 280.98
Citations.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in sub. (5) , the department may follow the procedures for the issuance of a citation under ss. 23.50 to 23.99 to collect a forfeiture as specified in sub. (3) from a person who commits a violation specified under sub. (2) .

(2) The department shall promulgate rules that specify violations of rules under this chapter relating to licensing; registration; disinfection, sampling, and reporting requirements; water systems that were installed before February 1, 1991; and well or drillhole abandonment to which sub. (1) applies.

(3) A person who commits a violation specified under sub. (2) shall, if the department issues a citation under sub. (1) , be required to forfeit $500 for a first violation and $1,000 for a 2nd or subsequent violation of the same provision.

(4) The department shall promulgate rules that specify an enforcement process that the department must follow before issuing a citation under sub. (1) . The department shall include in the enforcement process under this subsection an enforcement conference with the person against whom enforcement is contemplated.

(5) Subsection (1) does not apply to a community water system, as defined in s. 281.62 (1) (a) , that is owned by a city, village, town, county, town sanitary district, utility district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or municipal water district, or by a privately owned water utility serving any of the foregoing.

History: 2005 a. 360 ; 2011 a. 150 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.301 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.301
General restrictions on hunting.
Status: in_force

(1) Hunting restricted areas.

(a) In this subsection, “school” means a public or private elementary or secondary school, including a charter school, a tribal school, as defined in s. 115.001 (15m) , or a technical college.

(b) No person may hunt within 1,700 feet of any hospital, sanatorium or the grounds of any school. The department may designate the form for or furnish signs designating the restricted area. No person may be convicted of a violation of this paragraph unless the restricted area is designated by the signs.

(c) Notwithstanding par. (b) , this subsection does not prohibit hunting in a school forest if the school board allows hunting under s. 120.13 (38) .

(2) Color of clothing. In the areas in which there is a season for the hunting of deer with firearms, no person may hunt any game except waterfowl during that season unless at least 50 percent of each article of the person’s outer clothing above the waist, including a cap, hat or other head covering, is of a highly visible color commonly referred to as hunter orange, blaze orange, fluorescent orange, flame orange or fluorescent blaze orange or commonly referred to as bright pink or fluorescent pink. This requirement does not apply to persons hunting from 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise during a firearm deer hunting season if the person is hunting for other game that the department authorizes to be hunted during that firearm deer hunting season. Any person violating this subsection shall forfeit not more than $10.

History: 1975 c. 360 , 365 , 421 ; 1979 c. 39 ; 1997 a. 151 ; 1997 a. 248 s. 412 ; Stats. 1997 s. 29.301; 1999 a. 32 ; 2005 a. 117 , 290 ; 2009 a. 302 ; 2015 a. 131 , 222 .
Wis. Stat. § 231.13 — WI Code / Chapter 231 / Section 231.13
Project revenues.
Status: in_force

(1) The authority shall collect rents for the use of, or other revenues relating to the financing of, each project. The authority shall contract with a participating health institution, participating educational institution, participating nonprofit institution, or participating research institution for each issuance of bonds. The contract shall provide that the rents or other revenues payable by the health facility, educational facility, nonprofit facility, or research facility shall be sufficient at all times to:

(a) Pay its share of the administrative costs and expenses of the authority;

(b) Pay the principal of, the premium, if any, and the interest on outstanding bonds of the authority issued in respect of such project as they become due and payable; and

(c) Create and maintain reserves which may but need not be required or provided for in the bond resolution relating to such bonds of the authority.

(2) The authority shall pledge the revenues derived and to be derived from a project and other related health facilities, educational facilities, nonprofit facilities, or research facilities for the purposes specified in sub. (1) , and additional bonds may be issued which may rank on a parity with other bonds relating to the project to the extent and on the terms and conditions provided in the bond resolution. Such pledge shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made, the revenues so pledged by the authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. Neither the bond resolution nor any financing statement, continuation statement, or other instrument by which a pledge is created or by which the authority’s interest in revenues is assigned need be filed or recorded in any public records in order to perfect the lien thereof as against 3rd parties, except that a copy thereof shall be filed in the records of the authority and with the department of financial institutions.

History: 1973 c. 304 ; 1977 c. 29 ; 1979 c. 221 ; 1987 a. 27 ; 1993 a. 124 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2009 a. 2 ; 2011 a. 239 ; 2013 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 765.21 — WI Code / Chapter 765 / Section 765.21
Unlawful marriages void; validation.
Status: in_force

All marriages hereafter contracted in violation of ss. 765.02 , 765.03 , 765.04 and 765.16 shall be void, except as provided in ss. 765.22 and 765.23 . The parties to any such marriage may validate the marriage by complying with the requirements of ss. 765.02 to 765.24 as follows:

(1) At any time, if the marriage is declared void under s. 765.02 or 765.16 .

(2) No earlier than 6 months after the divorce judgment is granted, if the marriage is declared void under s. 765.03 (2) .

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 48 ; Stats. 1979 s. 765.21; 1985 a. 103 , 135 .