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Wis. Stat. § 612.34 — WI Code / Chapter 612 / Section 612.34
Rates.
Status: in_force

(1) Regulation of assessments. Town mutuals need not file information under ch. 625 about special assessments unless ordered to do so by rule or order of the commissioner.

(2) Classifications. No classification plan for the purpose of determining premiums or assessment shares may be used unless it has been approved by the commissioner. The commissioner shall approve the plan unless he or she finds that it would be contrary to the law, including the standards of s. 625.11 , or contrary to the interests of insureds or of the public.

(3) Mandatory advance premiums. Notwithstanding members’ liability for subsequent assessments under s. 612.54 , town mutuals shall charge advance premiums expected to be adequate for any insurance for which they must obtain reinsurance under s. 612.33 (2) (b) .

History: 1973 c. 22 ; 1979 c. 102 s. 236 (5) .
Wis. Stat. § 221.0327 — WI Code / Chapter 221 / Section 221.0327
Surplus fund.
Status: in_force

(1) Charges to surplus account. A loss sustained by a bank in excess of its undivided profits may be charged to its surplus account, if its surplus fund is thereafter reimbursed from its earnings. Cash dividends on capital stock may not be declared or paid by the bank in excess of 50 percent of its net earnings until its surplus fund is fully restored to the amount that was in the surplus account immediately preceding the charge of the loss.

(2) Reimbursement of surplus and restricted dividends. If the surplus fund of a bank is in excess of 100 percent of its capital stock and if losses charged against it do not reduce the surplus account to an amount less than 100 percent of its capital stock, the bank is not subject to sub. (1) with respect to reimbursement of the surplus account and with respect to restricted dividends on capital stock.

History: 1995 a. 336 .
Wis. Stat. § 991.12 — WI Code / Chapter 991 / Section 991.12
Citation of statutes.
Status: in_force

The statutes designated since 1898 as “the statutes of 1898” and all additions thereto may be styled in any act of the legislature or proceeding in a court of justice, or wherever otherwise referred to, as “Wisconsin Statutes”; former statutes of this state may be referred to as the annotated statutes or as the revised statutes of 1878, 1858, or 1849.

History: 1981 c. 372 s. 15 ; Stats. 1981 s. 991.12.
Wis. Stat. § 13.61 — WI Code / Chapter 13 / Section 13.61
Lobbying regulated; legislative purpose.
Status: in_force

The legislature declares that the operation of an open and responsible government requires that the fullest opportunity be afforded to the people to petition their government for the redress of grievances and to express freely to any officials of the executive or legislative branch their opinions on legislation, on pending administrative rules and other policy decisions by administrative agencies, and on current issues. Essential to the continued functioning of an open government is the preservation of the integrity of the governmental decision-making process. In order to preserve and maintain the integrity of the process, the legislature determines that it is necessary to regulate and publicly disclose the identity, expenditures and activities of persons who hire others or are hired to engage in efforts to influence actions of the legislative and executive branches.

History: 1977 c. 278 ; 1989 a. 338 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.204 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.204
Local government telecommunications utilities.
Status: in_force

(1m) In this section:

(a) “Local government telecommunications utility” means a municipality that owns, operates, manages, or controls any plant or equipment, or that wholly owns, operates, manages, or controls any entity that owns, operates, manages, or controls any plant or equipment, used to furnish telecommunications services within the state directly or indirectly to the public.

(b) “Nongovernmental telecommunications utility” means a telecommunications utility that is not a local government telecommunications utility.

(2m)

(a) Each telecommunications service, relevant group of services, and basic network function offered or used by a local government telecommunications utility shall be priced to exceed its total service long-run incremental cost.

(b) For purposes of par. (a) , the total service long-run incremental cost of a local government telecommunications utility shall take into account, by imputation or allocation, equivalent charges for all taxes, pole rentals, rights-of-way, licenses, and similar costs that are incurred by nongovernmental telecommunications utilities. This paragraph does not apply to a local government telecommunications utility that is subject to the exemption under s. 66.0422 (3n) . This paragraph also does not apply to a telecommunications service, relevant group of services, or basic network function if all of the following conditions apply:

1. On November 1, 2003, the commission has determined that the local government telecommunications utility is an alternative telecommunications utility under s. 196.203 .

2. A majority of the governing board of the local government telecommunications utility votes to submit the question of supporting the operation of the local government telecommunications utility to the electors in an advisory referendum and a majority of the voters in the local government telecommunications utility voting at the advisory referendum vote to support operation of the local government telecommunications utility.

(c) Paragraph (b) does not apply to a telecommunications service, relevant group of services, or basic network function that is used to provide broadband service and that is offered by a municipal telecommunications utility, if all of the following apply:

1. The municipal telecommunications utility offers the telecommunications service, relevant group of services, or basic network function on a nondiscriminatory basis to persons who provide broadband service to end users.

2. The municipality does not provide to end users the telecommunications service, relevant group of services, or broadband service provided by the basic network function.

3. The municipal utility determines that, at the time that the municipal utility authorizes the provision of the telecommunications service, relevant group of services, or basic network function, the municipal utility’s provision of the service, group of services, or function does not compete with more than one provider of broadband service.

History: 2003 a. 278 , 327 ; 2011 a. 22 .
Wis. Stat. § 24.19 — WI Code / Chapter 24 / Section 24.19
Certificate of sale.
Status: in_force

All original and duplicate certificates of sale issued under s. 24.17 shall be properly numbered, and the original shall be filed in the office of the board. As many distinct lots or tracts of land purchased by one person in one section at the same time as that person requests shall be included in one certificate or one patent, as the case may be. Certificates of sale may be acknowledged and recorded in the same manner as deeds. Certificates of sale may be assigned in writing. The assignment may be acknowledged and recorded in the same manner as deeds, and the assignee shall have the same rights and remedies under the certificate as the original purchaser would have had.

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 2005 a. 149 .
Wis. Stat. § 455.51 — WI Code / Chapter 455 / Section 455.51
Implementation of the psychology interjurisdictional compact.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology” has the meaning given in s. 455.50 (2) (b) .

(b) “Temporary authorization to practice” has the meaning given in s. 455.50 (2) (o) .

(2)

(a)

1. An individual who is exercising the temporary authorization to practice in this state shall comply with s. 440.03 (13) (am) .

2. An individual who is practicing under the authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology shall comply with s. 440.03 (13) (am) .

(b)

1. Subject to s. 455.50 and any rules promulgated thereunder, ss. 440.20 to 440.22 and the rules promulgated under s. 440.03 (1) shall apply to an individual who is exercising the temporary authorization to practice in this state in the same manner that they apply to holders of licenses issued under subch. I .

2. Subject to s. 455.50 and any rules promulgated thereunder, ss. 440.20 to 440.22 and the rules promulgated under s. 440.03 (1) shall apply to an individual who is practicing under the authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology in the same manner that they apply to holders of licenses issued under subch. I .

History: 2021 a. 131 .
Wis. Stat. § 859.09 — WI Code / Chapter 859 / Section 859.09
Transfer of claims when administration fails.
Status: in_force

Claims filed against the estate of a decedent following an order and notice to creditors shall, if the administration proceeding fails, be deemed filed upon notice to creditors in a subsequent administration proceeding. If the subsequent proceeding is in a different county, such claims shall be transmitted to and filed in the proper court.
Wis. Stat. § 106.277 — WI Code / Chapter 106 / Section 106.277
Grants for teacher training and recruitment.
Status: in_force

(1) From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (bt) , the department shall award a grant to a nonprofit organization that applies on a form prepared by the department to receive a grant under this section if all of the following apply:

(a) The organization is described under section 501 (c) (3) or (4) of the Internal Revenue Code and exempt from taxation under section 501 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

(b) The organization operates a program to recruit and prepare individuals to teach in public or private schools located in low-income or urban school districts in this state.

(c) The organization submits an application no later than January 15 in the year for which the organization seeks a grant under this section and includes with its application a description of the organization and its program and the manner in which grant funding will benefit the organization or has benefited the organization in the past.

(2) The department shall establish a process for evaluating and assigning a score to each organization eligible to receive a grant under sub. (1) . If the amount appropriated under s. 20.445 (1) (bt) is insufficient to make the payments required under sub. (1) , the department shall give preference in evaluating grants under this section to a nonprofit organization for each of the following:

(a) The program trains future teachers who are enrolled in an accredited college or university in this state concurrent with the training.

(b) The program focuses on future teachers who plan to teach in public or private schools in this state as a profession.

(c) The program provides continuing education and professional development.

(d) The program attempts to place a majority of its total participants in public or private schools located in low-income or urban school districts in this state.

(3) When awarding a grant under this section, the department may not consider the religious affiliation, if any, of the nonprofit organization or whether the organization has received funding from the state in the past.

(4) By February 15 of each year, the department shall make its determination regarding successful applicants and shall notify those applicants that will receive a grant under this section.

History: 2017 a. 59 .
Wis. Stat. § 942.10 — WI Code / Chapter 942 / Section 942.10
Use of a drone.
Status: in_force

Whoever uses a drone, as defined in s. 175.55 (1) (a) , with the intent to photograph, record, or otherwise observe another individual in a place or location where the individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy is guilty of Class A misdemeanor. This section does not apply to a law enforcement officer authorized to use a drone pursuant to s. 175.55 (2) .

History: 2013 a. 213 .
Wis. Stat. § 125.13 — WI Code / Chapter 125 / Section 125.13
Report of suspension, revocation, or imposition of penalty.
Status: in_force

Whenever a municipal governing body or court revokes or suspends a license or permit or imposes a penalty on a licensee or permittee for the violation of this chapter, the clerk of the municipality or court revoking or suspending the license or imposing the penalty shall, within 10 days after the revocation, suspension, or imposition of penalty, mail a report to the division at Madison, Wisconsin, giving the name of the licensee, the address of the licensed premises, and a full description of the penalty imposed.

History: 1981 c. 79 ; 2023 a. 73 .
Wis. Stat. § 76.06 — WI Code / Chapter 76 / Section 76.06
General powers of investigation.
Status: in_force

In any matter material to the valuation, assessment or taxation of property under this subchapter, the department may, in its discretion, exercise any and all of the powers conferred upon it by ss. 73.03 and 73.04 (1) ; and every state, county, city, village, town and other public officer shall make return to the department in such form as it shall prescribe, of all information it shall call for. Persons serving the process of the department shall receive the same compensation allowed by law to sheriffs for similar service; and persons appearing before the department in obedience to its summons shall, in the discretion of the department, receive the same compensation as a witness in the circuit court; such fees and compensation to be audited by the department of administration on the certificate of the department, and charged to the proper appropriation for the department of revenue. The records, books, accounts and papers of any company defined in s. 76.02 to be assessed under this subchapter, except as otherwise provided, shall be subject to the visitation, inspection and examination by said department or by such person as it may designate for that purpose.

History: 1979 c. 102 s. 236 (1) .
Wis. Stat. § 404.303 — WI Code / Chapter 404 / Section 404.303
When items subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process or setoff; order in which items may be charged or certified.
Status: in_force

(1) Any knowledge, notice or stop-payment order received by, legal process served upon or setoff exercised by a payer bank comes too late to terminate, suspend or modify the bank’s right or duty to pay an item or to charge its customer’s account for the item if the knowledge, notice, stop-payment order or legal process is received or served and a reasonable time for the bank to act thereon expires or the setoff is exercised after the earliest of the following:

(a) The bank accepts or certifies the item.

(b) The bank pays the item in cash.

(c) The bank settles for the item without having a right to revoke the settlement under statute, clearinghouse rule or agreement.

(d) The bank becomes accountable for the amount of the item under s. 404.302 dealing with the payer bank’s responsibility for late return of items.

(e) With respect to checks, a cutoff hour no earlier than one hour after the opening of the next banking day after the banking day on which the bank received the check and no later than the close of that next banking day or, if no cutoff hour is fixed, the close of the next banking day after the banking day on which the bank received the check.

(2) Subject to sub. (1) , items may be accepted, paid, certified or charged to the indicated account of its customer in any order.

History: 1991 a. 304 s. 51 ; 1995 a. 449 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.941 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.941
Assistance of law enforcement officers.
Status: in_force

All sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and other law enforcement officers are deputy conservation wardens, and shall assist the department and its wardens in the enforcement of this chapter whenever notice of a violation is given to them by the department or its wardens.

History: 1979 c. 110 ; 1997 a. 248 s. 116 ; Stats. 1997 s. 29.941.
Wis. Stat. § 30.47 — WI Code / Chapter 30 / Section 30.47
Restrictions on recreational use.
Status: in_force

(1) No natural person may operate a boat on public waters in the riverway without having an adequately sized waterproof container in the boat in which to place refuse.

(2) No person may leave refuse on land in the riverway owned, managed, supervised or controlled by the department or on public waters in the riverway.

(3)

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) , no person may have a glass container on land in the riverway owned, managed, supervised or controlled by the department or on islands or public waters in the riverway.

(b)

1. Paragraph (a) does not apply to a natural person or his or her guest having a glass container on land in the riverway that the natural person owns or occupies as a tenant.

2. Paragraph (a) does not apply to a natural person having a glass container on land in the riverway that is also in a state park.

History: 1989 a. 31 ; 1993 a. 73 .
Wis. Stat. § 805.16 — WI Code / Chapter 805 / Section 805.16
Time for motions after verdict.
Status: in_force

(1) Motions after verdict shall be filed and served within 20 days after the verdict is rendered, unless the court, within 20 days after the verdict is rendered, sets a longer time by an order specifying the dates for filing motions, briefs or other documents.

(2) The time for hearing arguments on motions after verdict shall be not less than 10 nor more than 60 days after the verdict is rendered, unless enlarged pursuant to motion under s. 801.15 (2) (a) .

(3) If within 90 days after the verdict is rendered the court does not decide a motion after verdict on the record or the judge, or the clerk at the judge’s written direction, does not sign an order deciding the motion, the motion is considered denied and judgment shall be entered on the verdict.

(4) Notwithstanding sub. (1) , a motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence may be made at any time within one year after verdict. Unless an order granting or denying the motion is entered within 90 days after the motion is made, it shall be deemed denied.

(5) The time limits in this section for filing motions do not apply to a motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence that is brought under s. 974.06 .

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 711 (1975); Sup. Ct. Order, 118 Wis. 2d xiii (1984); Sup. Ct. Order, 136 Wis. 2d xxv (1987); Sup. Ct. Order 160 Wis. 2d xiii (1991); 2001 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 6.325 — WI Code / Chapter 6 / Section 6.325
Disqualification of electors.
Status: in_force

No person may be disqualified as an elector unless the municipal clerk, board of election commissioners or a challenging elector under s. 6.48 demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that the person does not qualify as an elector or is not properly registered. If it appears that the challenged elector is registered at a residence in this state other than the one where the elector now resides, the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners shall, before permitting the elector to vote, require the elector to properly register and shall notify the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners at the former residence. The municipal clerk or board of election commissioners may require naturalized applicants to show their naturalization certificates.

History: 1983 a. 484 s. 37 ; 1985 a. 304 ; 2003 a. 265 ; 2015 a. 261 .
Wis. Stat. § 470.03 — WI Code / Chapter 470 / Section 470.03
Duties of the examining board.
Status: in_force

(1) The examining board shall do all of the following:

(a) Upon the advice of the professional geologist section, promulgate rules establishing requirements and standards for the practice of professional geology by a person who is licensed as a professional geologist under this chapter, including a code of ethics that governs the practice of professional geology.

(b) Upon the advice of the professional hydrologist section, promulgate rules establishing requirements and standards for the practice of professional hydrology by a person who is licensed as a professional hydrologist under this chapter, including a code of ethics that governs the practice of professional hydrology.

(c) Upon the advice of the professional soil scientist section, promulgate rules establishing requirements and standards for the practice of professional soil science by a person who is licensed as a professional soil scientist under this chapter, including a code of ethics that governs the practice of professional soil science.

(2) Upon the advice of the appropriate section of the examining board, the examining board may promulgate rules that establish continuing education requirements that a person must satisfy to be eligible to renew a license that is issued under this chapter.

(3) Upon the advice of the appropriate section of the examining board, the examining board may promulgate rules that exempt a person who is engaged in a profession related to those listed in s. 470.025 (12) (intro.) from the requirement to obtain a license under this chapter if the practice of the profession by the person involves only the incidental practice of geology, hydrology, or soil science, as defined in s. 470.025 (12) (a) , and the person does not designate himself or herself as a professional geologist, hydrologist, or soil scientist or use any other title, letters, or designation that represents or tends to represent that the person is a professional geologist, hydrologist, or soil scientist.

History: 1997 a. 300 ; 2001 a. 53 .
Wis. Stat. § 821.01 — WI Code / Chapter 821 / Section 821.01
Power to answer.
Status: in_force

The supreme court may answer questions of law certified to it by the supreme court of the United States, a court of appeals of the United States or the highest appellate court of any other state when requested by the certifying court if there are involved in any proceeding before it questions of law of this state which may be determinative of the cause then pending in the certifying court and as to which it appears to the certifying court there is no controlling precedent in the decisions of the supreme court and the court of appeals of this state.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 107 Wis. 2d xiii (1982).
Wis. Stat. § 644.12 — WI Code / Chapter 644 / Section 644.12
Transfers of a mutual holding company’s place of domicile to this state.
Status: in_force

(1) A mutual holding company that is domiciled in another state and that desires to become a domestic mutual holding company may submit to the commissioner an application for a certificate of incorporation. The application shall comply with rules promulgated under sub. (2) and shall include or have attached any other relevant documents or information that the commissioner reasonably requires. Upon review of the application, the commissioner may issue a certificate of incorporation if the commissioner determines that all the following are satisfied:

(a) The applicant is in compliance with the provisions of this chapter that apply to domestic mutual holding companies.

(b) The directors and officers of the applicant are trustworthy and competent and collectively have the competence and experience to engage in the business proposed.

(c) The applicant’s insurance company subsidiary that converted from a mutual has become a domestic insurer under s. 611.223 .

(2) The commissioner shall by rule specify the required contents and form of an application under sub. (1) . In determining the required contents, the commissioner shall consider the information and documents that will permit the commissioner to determine whether the requirements of sub. (1) (a) to (c) are satisfied.

History: 1997 a. 227 .