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Wis. Stat. § 185.045 — WI Code / Chapter 185 / Section 185.045
Reserved or registered name.
Status: in_force

Sections 180.0122 (1m) (c) to (i) , 180.0402 and 180.0403 (2) , (3) , (3m) and (4) (b) apply to cooperatives, with the word “cooperative” substituted for the words “corporate” and “corporation”.

History: 1985 a. 338 ; 1989 a. 303 ; 1993 a. 331 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 292.70 — WI Code / Chapter 292 / Section 292.70
Indemnification for disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls.
Status: in_force

(1) Definition. In this section, “PCBs” has the meaning given in s. 299.45 (1) (a) .

(2) Indemnification agreements concerning disposal of contaminated sediments. Subject to sub. (4) , the department may enter into an agreement with a municipality under which this state agrees to indemnify the municipality and its agencies, officials, employees and agents against liability for damage to persons, property or the environment resulting from the municipality’s acceptance for disposal of sediments that are from the Great Lakes basin and are contaminated with PCBs, if the sediments are disposed of in a manner approved by the department.

(3) Indemnification agreements concerning treatment of contaminated leachate. Subject to sub. (4) , the department may enter into an agreement with a municipality under which this state agrees to indemnify the municipality and its agencies, officials, employees and agents against any liability for damage to persons, property or the environment resulting from the municipality’s conveyance or treatment of leachate that is contaminated with PCBs and that is from a landfill that accepts sediments contaminated with PCBs, if the leachate is treated in a manner approved by the department.

(4) Requirements. The department may enter into an agreement under sub. (2) or (3) only if all of the following apply:

(a) The agreement is approved by the governor and the governing body of the municipality.

(b) The agreement specifies a method for determining whether the municipality is liable for damage described in sub. (2) or (3) .

(c) The agreement requires the municipality to notify the department and the attorney general when a claim or lawsuit to which the agreement may apply is filed against the political subdivision.

(d) The agreement authorizes the attorney general to intervene on behalf of the municipality and this state in any lawsuit to which the agreement may apply.

(e) The agreement requires the operator of the solid waste disposal facility or wastewater treatment facility to minimize risks related to PCBs.

(f) The agreement authorizes the department to require the operator of the solid waste disposal facility or wastewater treatment facility to operate in a manner specified by the department in order to minimize risks related to PCBs.

(6) Immunity. This section and any agreement entered into under sub. (3) or (4) may not be construed as consent to sue this state.

(7) Review and payment. If a claim is filed under an agreement under sub. (2) or (3) , the department shall review the claim to determine whether it is valid. A valid claim shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.370 (4) (fq) .

History: 1999 a. 9 ; 2017 a. 59 .
Wis. Stat. § 769.309 — WI Code / Chapter 769 / Section 769.309
Private counsel.
Status: in_force

An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this chapter.

History: 1993 a. 326 .
Wis. Stat. § 169.11 — WI Code / Chapter 169 / Section 169.11
Harmful wild animals.
Status: in_force

(1) Designation.

(a) The department shall designate by rule cougars, members of the family ursidae, wild swine, and feral swine as harmful wild animals. After consulting with the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection and the department of health services, the department of natural resources may designate by rule other species of wild animals as harmful wild animals if any of the following applies:

1. The wild animal is not a native wild animal and is capable of inflicting harm to the environment.

2. The wild animal is capable of creating a risk to public health or to the health of domestic animals.

3. The wild animal is capable of inflicting severe physical harm to humans or to domestic animals.

(b) No person may possess, take, propagate, sell, purchase, transfer, exhibit, or rehabilitate a live harmful wild animal unless specifically authorized to do so by the department.

(c) No person may introduce, stock, or release, or import into this state to introduce, stock, or release, any harmful wild animal unless specifically authorized to do so by the department under s. 169.06 (1) (c) .

(3) Exemptions.

(a) Public zoos and aquariums are exempt from the prohibition under sub. (1) (b) .

(b)

1. Veterinarians are exempt from the prohibition under sub. (1) (b) for the purpose of providing medical treatment to harmful wild animals.

2. For purposes of subd. 1. , “medical treatment” does not include rehabilitation.

History: 2001 a. 56 ; 2005 a. 253 ; 2007 a. 20 s. 9121 (6) (a) ; 2007 a. 119 .
Wis. Stat. § 45.58 — WI Code / Chapter 45 / Section 45.58
Grants for fire and emergency medical services.
Status: in_force

From the appropriation under s. 20.485 (1) (kj) , the department may make in each fiscal biennium up to $600,000 in grants to fire districts, cities, villages, and towns that provide fire and emergency medical services to veterans homes and other facilities for veterans. A fire district, city, village, or town may not expend grant moneys it receives under this section for any purpose other than providing fire and emergency medical services to veterans homes and other facilities for veterans.

History: 2015 a. 55 ; 2017 a. 59 ss. 739r , 2265m , 9449 ; 2023 a. 19 .
Wis. Stat. § 24.54 — WI Code / Chapter 24 / Section 24.54
Records; copies as evidence.
Status: in_force

(1) The department of administration shall provide an office for the board. The board shall conveniently arrange and preserve in that office all records, books, reports, surveys, maps, field notes, plats and other papers pertaining to the public lands owned by the state, including all public lands that have been or shall be received from the United States or any officer of the United States. The board may perfect the records, books, reports, surveys, maps, field notes, plats and other papers when incomplete, and cause copies of those documents to be made when from injury, loss, use or accident it shall become necessary. Any copy, when certified to be a correct copy by the executive secretary of the board under the executive secretary’s signature and the official seal of the office to have been made for any of the causes specified in this subsection, shall have the same force and effect in all courts and places as the original. Any copy from the original records, books, reports, surveys, maps, field notes, plats or other papers, or from any record or paper required by law to be kept in the office, or any copy from a certified copy of one of those documents, when certified by the executive secretary of the board or any member of the board of commissioners of public lands under the official seal of the board, shall be received in evidence with the same effect as the original.

(2) All records, books and files kept by the board shall at all business hours be open, under proper regulations made by it, to the inspection of any person, free of charge. The board also may in like manner make, perfect, and complete proper records, books, reports and other papers pertaining to the lands of which the state has been or is trustee for the United States.

History: 1979 c. 34 s. 699g ; 1979 c. 176 ; Stats. 1979 s. 24.54; 1989 a. 31 ; 1993 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 941.296 — WI Code / Chapter 941 / Section 941.296
Use or possession of a handgun and an armor-piercing bullet during crime.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Armor-piercing bullet” means a bullet meeting any of the following criteria: any projectile or projectile core that may be fired from any handgun and that is constructed entirely, excluding the presence of traces of other substances, from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper or depleted uranium.

(b) “Handgun” has the meaning given in s. 175.35 (1) (b) .

(2) Whoever uses or possesses a handgun during the commission of a crime under chs. 939 to 948 or 961 is guilty of a Class H felony under any of the following circumstances.

(a) The handgun is loaded with an armor-piercing bullet or a projectile or projectile core that may be fired from the handgun with a muzzle velocity of 1,500 feet per second or greater.

(b) The person possesses an armor-piercing bullet capable of being fired from the handgun.

History: 1993 a. 98 ; 1995 a. 448 ; 2001 a. 109 .
Wis. Stat. § 893.66 — WI Code / Chapter 893 / Section 893.66
Certified public accountants; limitations of actions.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in subs. (1m) to (4) , an action to recover damages, based on tort, contract or other legal theory, against any certified public accountant licensed or certified under ch. 442 for an act or omission in the performance of professional accounting services shall be commenced within 6 years from the date of the act or omission or be barred.

(1m) If a person sustains damages covered under sub. (1) during the period beginning on the first day of the 6th year and ending on the last day of the 6th year after the performance of the professional accounting services, the time for commencing the action for damages is extended one year after the date on which the damages occurred.

(2) If a person sustains damages covered under sub. (1) and the statute of limitations applicable to those damages bars commencement of the cause of action before the end of the period specified in sub. (1) , then that statute of limitations applies.

(3) This section does not apply to actions subject to s. 551.509 (10) or 553.51 (4) .

(4) This section does not apply to any person who commits fraud or concealment in the performance of professional accounting services.

History: 1993 a. 310 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2007 a. 196 .
Wis. Stat. § 301.17 — WI Code / Chapter 301 / Section 301.17
Minimum security corrections institutions.
Status: in_force

The department may, with the approval of the joint committee on finance, increase staffing levels at minimum security institutions sufficiently to allow temporary placement of medium security inmates at existing minimum security institutions as may be necessary to relieve medium security overcrowding. The temporary placement under this section may constitute a partial use of the institution.

History: 1981 c. 20 ; 1989 a. 31 s. 973 ; Stats. 1989 s. 301.17.
Wis. Stat. § 779.86 — WI Code / Chapter 779 / Section 779.86
Records.
Status: in_force

A seller shall retain records for 60 days following completion of the time period for which prepaid maintenance is to be performed under a prepaid maintenance agreement including but not limited to records showing the amount of prepayment, the period for which maintenance is to be performed, all contracts relating to such maintenance and all records pertaining to the escrow account or bond required under s. 779.87 .

History: 1977 c. 296 ; 1979 c. 32 ss. 57 , 92 (9) ; Stats. 1979 s. 779.86.
Wis. Stat. § 234.25 — WI Code / Chapter 234 / Section 234.25
Annual report.
Status: in_force

(1) The authority shall submit to the governor, the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance, the senate committee on housing and urban development, the assembly committee on municipalities, such other committees as the legislature by joint resolution may determine, and the secretary of administration within 6 months after the end of its fiscal year a complete and detailed report setting forth:

(a) Its operations, accomplishments, goals and objectives;

(b) A statement of income and expenses for such fiscal year in accordance with the categories or classifications established by the authority for its operating and capital outlay purposes;

(c) Its assets and liabilities at the end of its fiscal year, including a schedule of its leases and mortgages and the status of reserve, special or other funds;

(d) A schedule of its bonds and notes outstanding at the end of its fiscal year, together with a statement of the amounts redeemed and incurred during such fiscal year; and

(e) An evaluation of its progress in implementing within its own housing programs the goals, policies, and objectives of the state housing strategy plan under s. 16.302 , and recommendations for legislation to improve its ability to carry out its programs consistent with the state housing strategy plan.

(2) The authority, annually on January 15, shall file with the department of administration and the joint legislative council a complete and current listing of all forms, reports and papers required by the authority to be completed by any person, other than a governmental body, as a condition of obtaining the approval of the authority or for any other reason. The authority shall attach a blank copy of each such form, report or paper to the listing.

History: 1971 c. 287 ; 1979 c. 221 ; 1981 c. 349 ; 1983 a. 36 ; 1985 a. 29 s. 3202 (14) ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1993 a. 52 , 184 ; 2003 a. 33 ; 2011 a. 32 .
Wis. Stat. § 70.48 — WI Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70.48
Assessor to attend board of review.
Status: in_force

The assessor or the assessor’s authorized representative shall attend without order or subpoena all hearings before the board of review and under oath submit to examination and fully disclose to the board such information as the assessor may have touching the assessment and any other matters pertinent to the inquiry being made. All part-time assessors shall receive the same compensation for such attendance as is allowed to the members of the board but no county assessor or member of a county assessor’s staff shall receive any compensation other than that person’s regular salary for attendance at a board of review. The clerk shall make all corrections to the assessment roll ordered by the board of review, including all changes in the valuation of real property. When any valuation of real property is changed, the clerk shall enter the valuation fixed by the board in the proper class and enter a note of the valuation of the assessor and the change to that valuation made by the board. The clerk shall also enter upon the assessment roll, in the proper place, the names of all persons found liable to taxation on personal property by the board of review, setting opposite such names respectively the aggregate valuation of such property as determined by the assessor, after deducting exemptions and making such corrections as the board has ordered. All changes in valuation of personal property made by the board of review shall be made in the same manner as changes in real estate.

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 2023 a. 138 .
Wis. Stat. § 97.639 — WI Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97.639
Motel rates.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions.

(a) “Operator” includes a manager or any person in charge of the operation of motels and like establishments. “Operator” or “owner” includes natural persons, firms and corporations.

(b) “Outdoor sign” or “outside sign” means any sign visible to passersby, regardless of whether the sign is located in or outside of buildings.

(c) “Room rates” means the rates at which rooms or other accommodations are rented to occupants.

(2) Rental posted. No owner or operator of any establishment that is held out as a motel, motor court, tourist cabin or like accommodation may post or maintain posted on any outdoor or outside advertising sign for the establishment rates for accommodations in the establishment unless the sign has posted on it both the minimum and maximum room or other rental unit rates for accommodations offered for rental. All posted rates and descriptive data required by this section shall be in type and material of the same size and prominence as the minimum and maximum room or other rental unit rates. Signs that only state the rate per person or bear the legend “and up” do not comply with the requirements of this subsection.

(3) Accommodations must exist. No owner or operator of any motel, motor court, tourist cabin or like accommodation may post or maintain posted on outdoor or outside advertising signs rates for accommodations in the establishment unless there is available, when vacant, accommodations in the establishment for immediate occupancy to meet the posted rates on the advertising signs.

(4) Misrepresentation. No owner or operator of any motel, motor court, tourist cabin or like accommodation may post or maintain outdoor or outside advertising signs in connection with the establishment relating to rates which have any untrue, misleading, false, or fraudulent representations.

(5) Construction. Nothing in this section may be construed to require motels, motor courts, tourist cabins, or like accommodations to have outdoor or outside signs. This section shall be liberally construed so as to prevent untrue, misleading, false, or fraudulent representations relating to rates placed on outdoor or outside signs of the establishments.

History: 1975 c. 413 s. 15 ; Stats. 1975 s. 50.85; 1983 a. 189 ; 1993 a. 27 s. 90 ; Stats. 1993 s. 254.84; 2015 a. 55 ss. 4099 , 4100 ; 2015 Stats. s. 97.639.
Wis. Stat. § 16.5186 — WI Code / Chapter 16 / Section 16.5186
Transfers involving the local government fund.
Status: in_force

(1) On July 1, 2024, the secretary shall transfer from the general fund to the local government fund the amount specified under s. 25.491 (1) (a) .

(2) Beginning in fiscal year 2024-25, on the 2nd Monday in July in each fiscal year, the secretary shall transfer from the general fund to the local government fund 15 percent of the amount specified under s. 25.491 (1) (b) and (c) . On the 2nd Monday in November in each fiscal year, the secretary shall transfer from the general fund to the local government fund 85 percent of the amount specified under s. 25.491 (1) (b) and (c) .

History: 2023 a. 19 .
Wis. Stat. § 183.1051 — WI Code / Chapter 183 / Section 183.1051
Domestication authorized.
Status: in_force

A domestic limited liability company may domesticate as a non-United States entity subject to non-United States governing law while continuing to be a domestic limited liability company, and a non-United States entity may domesticate as a domestic limited liability company subject to this chapter while continuing to be an entity subject to its non-United States governing law pursuant to ss. 183.1051 to 183.1055 and a plan of domestication, if the domestication is permitted under the governing law of the domesticating entity and permitted under the governing law of the domesticated entity.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 940.02 — WI Code / Chapter 940 / Section 940.02
First-degree reckless homicide.
Status: in_force

(1) Whoever recklessly causes the death of another human being under circumstances which show utter disregard for human life is guilty of a Class B felony.

(1m) Whoever recklessly causes the death of an unborn child under circumstances that show utter disregard for the life of that unborn child, the woman who is pregnant with that unborn child or another is guilty of a Class B felony.

(2) Whoever causes the death of another human being under any of the following circumstances is guilty of a Class B felony:

(a) By manufacture, distribution or delivery, in violation of s. 961.41 , of a controlled substance included in schedule I or II under ch. 961 , of a controlled substance analog of a controlled substance included in schedule I or II under ch. 961 or of ketamine or flunitrazepam, if another human being uses the controlled substance or controlled substance analog and dies as a result of that use. This paragraph applies:

1. Whether the human being dies as a result of using the controlled substance or controlled substance analog by itself or with any compound, mixture, diluent or other substance mixed or combined with the controlled substance or controlled substance analog.

2. Whether or not the controlled substance or controlled substance analog is mixed or combined with any compound, mixture, diluent or other substance after the violation of s. 961.41 occurs.

3. To any distribution or delivery described in this paragraph, regardless of whether the distribution or delivery is made directly to the human being who dies. If possession of the controlled substance included in schedule I or II under ch. 961 , of the controlled substance analog of the controlled substance included in schedule I or II under ch. 961 or of the ketamine or flunitrazepam is transferred more than once prior to the death as described in this paragraph, each person who distributes or delivers the controlled substance or controlled substance analog in violation of s. 961.41 is guilty under this paragraph.

(b) By administering or assisting in administering a controlled substance included in schedule I or II under ch. 961 , a controlled substance analog of a controlled substance included in schedule I or II of ch. 961 or ketamine or flunitrazepam, without lawful authority to do so, to another human being and that human being dies as a result of the use of the substance. This paragraph applies whether the human being dies as a result of using the controlled substance or controlled substance analog by itself or with any compound, mixture, diluent or other substance mixed or combined with the controlled substance or controlled substance analog.

History: 1987 a. 339 , 399 ; 1995 a. 448 ; 1997 a. 295 ; 1999 a. 57 ; 2001 a. 109 ; 2023 a. 29 .
Wis. Stat. § 343.025 — WI Code / Chapter 343 / Section 343.025
Medicare acceptance of assignment; information; report.
Status: in_force

(2) Beginning in 1991, the department shall annually submit a report to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2) concerning the numbers of individuals, by counties in this state, to whom the department distributed explanatory materials under ss. 343.20 (2m) and 343.50 (4) .

History: 1989 a. 294 ; 2003 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 97.617 — WI Code / Chapter 97 / Section 97.617
Application; lodging and vending.
Status: in_force

(1) An applicant for a license under this subchapter shall complete the application prepared by the department or the local health department granted agent status under s. 97.615 (2) and provide, in writing, any additional information the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection or local health department issuing the license requires.

(2) Upon receipt of an application for a vending machine operator license, the department may cause an investigation to be made of the applicant’s commissary, servicing and transport facilities, if any, and representative machines and machine locations. The operator shall maintain at his or her place of business within this state a list of all vending machines operated by him or her and their location. This information shall be kept current and shall be made available to the department upon request. The operator shall notify the department of any change in operations involving new types of vending machines or conversion of existing machines to dispense products other than those for which such machine was originally designed and constructed.

History: 1975 c. 413 s. 13 ; Stats. 1975 s. 50.54; 1983 a. 163 , 203 , 538 ; 1987 a. 27 s. 3200 (24) (am) ; 1993 a. 27 s. 73 ; Stats. 1993 s. 254.70; 1995 a. 27 s. 9126 (19) ; 2007 a. 20 s. 9121 (6) (a) ; 2015 a. 55 s. 4086 ; Stats. 2015 s. 97.617.
Wis. Stat. § 199.17 — WI Code / Chapter 199 / Section 199.17
Dissolution.
Status: in_force

The corporation may dissolve under subch. XIV of ch. 181 .

History: 1979 c. 72 ; 1997 a. 79 .