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Wis. Stat. § 985.07 — WI Code / Chapter 985 / Section 985.07
Classes and frequency of legal notices.
Status: in_force

There shall be 3 classes of legal notices under this chapter. The designated number of insertions is the minimum required by law, and the frequency may be increased at the discretion of the requisitioning agency.

(1) Class 1 notices. All notices designated as class 1 notices require one insertion.

(2) Class 2 notices. All notices designated as class 2 notices require 2 insertions.

(3) Class 3 notices.

(a) All notices designated as class 3 notices require 3 insertions.

(b) Any legal notice not otherwise designated shall be a class 3 notice unless the time permitted by law necessitates a class 2 or class 1 notice, except that any notice required by law on January 2, 1966, which is not otherwise designated, shall be a class 1 notice.

(4) The classification provided herein does not apply to notices of public election or referenda or to notices governed by s. 815.31 but such notices shall be governed by the specific statutes relating thereto.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 784 (1975).
Wis. Stat. § 234.19 — WI Code / Chapter 234 / Section 234.19
Notes and bonds; pledge and agreement of state.
Status: in_force

The state pledges and agrees with the holders of any notes or bonds issued under this chapter, that the state will not limit or alter the rights vested in the authority to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holders thereof, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of the holders until the notes or bonds, together with the interest thereon, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of such holders, are fully met and discharged. The authority is authorized to include this pledge and agreement of the state in any agreement with the holders of such notes or bonds.

History: 1971 c. 287 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.401 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.401
Possession of fishing equipment.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) No person may possess or control at any time any trammel, gill, or hoop net, or any other kind of net, nets, or fish trap that might take, catch or kill fish in the counties of: Adams, Barron, Burnett, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark, Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Dunn, Eau Claire, Florence, Fond du Lac, Forest, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Juneau, Lafayette, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Marquette, Monroe, Oneida, Outagamie, Polk, Portage, Price, Richland, Rock, Rusk, Sauk, Sawyer, Shawano, Taylor, Vilas, Walworth, Washburn, Washington, Waukesha, Waupaca, Waushara, Winnebago and Wood except minnow nets and minnow traps, whitefish and cisco nets, dip nets, crab traps and turtle traps as provided in this chapter or by department order.

(b) Nothing in this subsection prohibits the department or its agents from having in possession, using, or causing the use of, any kind of nets as provided under other sections in the statutes, or prohibits the possession or use of nets by contract fishers who are operating under the supervision of the department.

(c) This subsection does not apply to any net or trap used to take, catch or kill farm-raised fish.

(2m) The department may not promulgate or enforce a rule that prohibits persons from possessing barbed hooks while fishing for trout in inland trout waters, as defined in s. 29.2285 (1) (a) , during the period beginning on January 1 and ending on the Friday immediately preceding the first Saturday in the following May.

History: 1985 a. 332 ; 1991 a. 316 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 248 ss. 446 , 447 ; Stats. 1997 s. 29.401; 1999 a. 178 ; 2005 a. 25 .
Wis. Stat. § 782.14 — WI Code / Chapter 782 / Section 782.14
Return, what to state.
Status: in_force

The respondent shall state in the return:

(1) Whether the prisoner is in the respondent’s custody or power.

(2) If the prisoner is in the respondent’s custody or power the authority and true cause of such imprisonment, setting forth the same at large.

(3) If the prisoner be detained by virtue of any written authority a copy thereof shall be annexed to the return and the original shall be produced to the court or judge before whom the same is returnable.

(4) If the respondent shall have had the prisoner in the respondent’s power or custody at any time, but has transferred such custody to another, the return shall state particularly to whom, at what time, for what cause and by what authority such transfer took place. The return must be signed by the person making it and shall be verified by oath.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 59 ; 1979 c. 176 ; Stats. 1979 s. 782.14.
Wis. Stat. § 977.04 — WI Code / Chapter 977 / Section 977.04
Board; restrictions.
Status: in_force

The board shall not make any decision regarding the handling of any case nor interfere with the state public defender or any member of his or her staff in carrying out professional duties.

History: 1977 c. 29 .
Wis. Stat. § 145.05 — WI Code / Chapter 145 / Section 145.05
Plumbing supervisors, supervision.
Status: in_force

(1) The common council of a 1st, 2nd or 3rd class city with a water system or sewerage system, or the officer or board in charge, shall appoint one or more plumbing supervisors, who shall be licensed plumbers, and unless under civil service shall serve for a term of 4 years or more subject to removal for just cause except as otherwise provided by ordinance when first appointed, but need not renew their licenses while they continue in office. The common council of a 4th class city, the board of a village, town or county or the commissioner in charge of any metropolitan sewerage district may appoint one or more plumbing supervisors who shall be practical plumbers, skilled sanitarians, or competent persons familiar with plumbing and unless under civil service shall serve for a term of 4 years or more subject to removal for just cause except as otherwise provided by ordinance. They shall supervise all plumbing, new or alterations or repairs, and report to the appointing body violations of regulations, and perform such other appropriate duties as may be required. Their compensation shall be fixed by the council, board or commission.

(2) If a water system or sewerage system is established in any city, village, town or metropolitan sewerage district which has not provided for a board or officer to supervise plumbing, drainage and sewerage, the department shall take immediate and entire control of plumbing, drainage and sewerage intended to be connected with the water system or sewerage system, and exercise all the powers conferred by this section until such municipalities or district provides for such supervision.

History: 1989 a. 56 ; 1995 a. 378 .
Wis. Stat. § 345.22 — WI Code / Chapter 345 / Section 345.22
Authority to arrest without a warrant.
Status: in_force

A person may be arrested without a warrant for the violation of a traffic regulation if the traffic officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person is violating or has violated a traffic regulation.

History: 1971 c. 278 .
Wis. Stat. § 221.0218 — WI Code / Chapter 221 / Section 221.0218
Reorganization of a national bank as a state bank.
Status: in_force

A national bank that is authorized to dissolve and that has taken the necessary steps to effect a dissolution, may reorganize as a state bank under this chapter, with the approval of the division and upon the consent in writing of the shareholders owning a majority of the stock of the bank entitled to vote or such greater percentage required in the articles of incorporation or bylaws. The shareholders shall make, execute and acknowledge articles of incorporation as required by this chapter. A national bank seeking to reorganize under this section shall pay to the division a fee determined by the division, plus the actual costs incurred by the division in investigating the proposed reorganization. Upon the filing of articles of incorporation under this chapter and upon the approval of the division, the bank is reorganized under this chapter, and the assets, real and personal, of the dissolved national bank become the property of the reorganized bank, subject to all liabilities of the national bank not liquidated before the reorganization.

History: 1995 a. 336 .
Wis. Stat. § 992.23 — WI Code / Chapter 992 / Section 992.23
Validation of actions; county zoning.
Status: in_force

Any zoning ordinance enacted by a county under s. 59.69 before March 5, 2020, that applied to some towns in the county but not all towns in the county and that is in effect on March 5, 2020, is declared to be legal, valid, and binding.

History: 2019 a. 145 ; 2021 a. 240 s. 30 .
Wis. Stat. § 31.307 — WI Code / Chapter 31 / Section 31.307
Dam on Milwaukee River.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall conduct, or shall cause to be conducted, an environmental and engineering study concerning the removal of the North Avenue dam in the city of Milwaukee from the Milwaukee River.

(3) Upon completion of the study under sub. (1) , the city of Milwaukee may apply for a permit to abandon the dam under s. 31.185 or the department may proceed under ss. 31.187 and 31.253 to cause the removal of the dam.

(4) For purposes of s. 30.92 (4) (b) 6. , moneys expended from the appropriation under s. 20.370 (5) (cq) for the study under sub. (1) shall be considered as amounts expended for projects considered necessary without regard to location.

History: 1991 a. 39 ; 1995 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 457.22 — WI Code / Chapter 457 / Section 457.22
Continuing education.
Status: in_force

(1) The examining board may do any of the following:

(a) Upon the advice of the social worker section, promulgate rules establishing requirements and procedures for social workers, advanced practice social workers, independent social workers, and clinical social workers to complete continuing education programs or courses of study in order to qualify for renewal.

(b) Upon the advice of the marriage and family therapist section, promulgate rules establishing requirements and procedures for marriage and family therapists to complete continuing education programs or courses of study in order to qualify for renewal.

(c) Upon the advice of the professional counselor section, promulgate rules establishing requirements and procedures for professional counselors to complete continuing education programs or courses of study in order to qualify for renewal.

(2) The rules promulgated under sub. (1) may not require an individual to complete more than 30 hours of continuing education programs or courses of study in order to qualify for renewal. The appropriate section of the examining board may waive all or part of the requirements established in rules promulgated under this section if it determines that prolonged illness, disability, or other exceptional circumstances have prevented the individual from completing the requirements.

History: 1991 a. 160 ; 2001 a. 80 .
Wis. Stat. § 409.306 — WI Code / Chapter 409 / Section 409.306
Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in letter-of-credit rights.
Status: in_force

(1) Governing law: issuer’s or nominated person’s jurisdiction. Subject to sub. (3) , the local law of the issuer’s jurisdiction or a nominated person’s jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a letter-of-credit right if the issuer’s jurisdiction or nominated person’s jurisdiction is a state.

(2) Issuer’s or nominated person’s jurisdiction. For purposes of this subchapter, an issuer’s jurisdiction or nominated person’s jurisdiction is the jurisdiction whose law governs the liability of the issuer or nominated person with respect to the letter-of-credit right as provided in ch. 405 .

(3) When section not applicable. This section does not apply to a security interest that is perfected only under s. 409.308 (4) .

History: 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 411.513 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.513
Cure by lessor of improper tender or delivery; replacement.
Status: in_force

(1) If any tender or delivery by the lessor or the supplier is rejected because the tender or delivery is nonconforming and the time for performance has not yet expired, the lessor or the supplier may seasonably notify the lessee of the lessor’s or the supplier’s intention to cure and may then make a conforming delivery within the time provided in the lease contract.

(2) If the lessee rejects a nonconforming tender that the lessor or the supplier had reasonable grounds to believe would be acceptable with or without money allowance, the lessor or the supplier may have a further reasonable time to substitute a conforming tender if he or she seasonably notifies the lessee.

History: 1991 a. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 153.08 — WI Code / Chapter 153 / Section 153.08
Hospital rate increases or charges in excess of rates.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Consumer price index” has the meaning given in s. 16.004 (8) (e) 1.

(b) Notwithstanding s. 153.01 (5) , “hospital” has the meaning given in s. 50.33 (2) , except that “hospital” does not include a center for the developmentally disabled as defined in s. 51.01 (3) .

(c) “Rates” means individual charges of a hospital for the services that it provides.

(2) No hospital may increase its rates or charge any payer an amount exceeding its rates that are in effect on May 12, 1992, unless the hospital first causes to be published a class 1 notice under ch. 985 in a newspaper likely to give notice in the area where the hospital is located, no sooner than 45 days and no later than 30 days before the proposed rate change is to take effect. The notice shall describe the proposed rate change.

(3) This section does not apply to a hospital that proposes to increase its rates during the course of the hospital’s fiscal year by any amount or amounts that, in the aggregate, do not exceed the percentage amount that is the percentage difference between the consumer price index reported for the 12-month period ending on December 31 of the preceding year and the consumer price index reported for the 12-month period ending on December 31 of the year prior to the preceding year.

(4) A hospital shall publish a class 1 notice under ch. 985 at least 10 days prior to the institution by the hospital of a rate increase.

(5) The entity under contract under s. 153.05 (2m) (a) shall annually publish a hospital rate increase report that contains all of the following information:

(a) For each hospital that publishes a notice under sub. (4) , all of the following:

1. The name of the hospital and the city, village, or town in which the hospital is located.

2. The date the rate increase is to take effect.

3. The annualized percentage rate increase that will result.

4. The geographic area of analysis in which the hospital is located.

(b) A list of hospitals that have closed since 1993.

History: 1993 a. 16 ss. 2644 to 2646 ; 1993 a. 104 ss. 3 , 5m , 7 , 8 , 9 ; 1993 a. 491 ; 1997 a. 27 , 231 ; 2003 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 895.048 — WI Code / Chapter 895 / Section 895.048
Recovery by auto or motorboat owner limited.
Status: in_force

The owner of a motor vehicle or motorboat which, while being operated by the spouse or minor child of such owner, is damaged as the result of an accident involving another vehicle or boat, may not recover from the owner or operator of such other vehicle or boat for such damages, if the negligence of such spouse or minor child exceeds that of the operator of such other vehicle or boat. In the event that it is judicially determined that a spouse or minor operator of the motor vehicle or motorboat is found to be guilty of less than 50 percent of the causal negligence involved in an accident, then in that event the owner of the motor vehicle or motorboat involved shall be entitled to recover in accordance with the contributory negligence principles as laid down in s. 895.045 . For the purposes of recovery of damages by the owner under s. 895.048 , and for this purpose only, the negligence of the spouse or minor operator shall be imputed to the owner.
Wis. Stat. § 401.310 — WI Code / Chapter 401 / Section 401.310
Subordinated obligations.
Status: in_force

An obligation may be issued as subordinated to performance of another obligation of the person obligated, or a creditor may subordinate its right to performance of an obligation by agreement with either the person obligated or another creditor of the person obligated. Subordination does not create a security interest as against either the common debtor or a subordinated creditor.

History: 2009 a. 320 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.327 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.327
Regulation of waterfowl blinds.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Blind” means a permanent structure used in hunting waterfowl which is not removed at the end of hunting hours each day.

(b) “Waterfowl” means wild geese, brant, wild ducks, rails, coots, gallinules, snipe, woodcock, plovers, sandpipers and wild swan.

(2)

(a) A blind situated on state-owned property and used in hunting waterfowl must bear the name of the owner affixed permanently to the blind in lettering one-inch square or larger.

(b) A blind on state-owned property may be erected not more than 7 days prior to the opening of the waterfowl hunting season and must be removed by the owner within 7 days after the close of the season unless the department approves an extension of the deadline for removal due to compelling personal needs of the owner. Any owner who erects a blind more than 7 days prior to the opening of the waterfowl hunting season or who does not remove a blind within 7 days after the close of the waterfowl season, or by a later date approved by the department, shall forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $200.

History: 1977 c. 443 ; 1997 a. 248 ss. 441 , 442 ; Stats. 1997 s. 29.327; 1997 a. 249 s. 36 ; 1999 a. 32 .
Wis. Stat. § 177.0610 — WI Code / Chapter 177 / Section 177.0610
Periods of limitation and repose.
Status: in_force

(1) Expiration, before, on, or after November 7, 2021, of a period of limitation on an owner’s right to receive or recover property, whether specified by contract or court order, and notwithstanding any law to the contrary, does not prevent the property from being presumed abandoned or affect the duty of a holder under this chapter to file a report or pay or deliver property to the administrator.

(2) The administrator may not commence an action or proceeding to enforce this chapter with respect to the reporting, payment, or delivery of property reported to the administrator more than 5 years after the holder filed a nonfraudulent report and reported the property under s. 177.0401 to the administrator.

(3) If a holder is required to file a report under s. 177.0401 and fails to do so, or if a holder files a report but does not report property required to be included with the report under s. 177.0401 , the administrator may not commence an action, proceeding, or examination with respect to the reporting, payment, or delivery of the unreported property more than 7 years after the holder’s duty to report arose.

(4) Subsections (1) to (3) do not apply in the case of the filing of a fraudulent report or to any collection action or proceeding under s. 177.1201 or 177.1206 .

(5) For purposes of this section, the administrator and holder may extend any period of limitation by written agreement.

History: 2021 a. 87 .
Wis. Stat. § 48.91 — WI Code / Chapter 48 / Section 48.91
Hearing; order.
Status: in_force

(1) The hearing may be in chambers unless an interested person objects. The petitioner and the minor to be adopted, if 14 or older, shall attend unless the court orders otherwise.

(2) In an adoption proceeding for a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803 , the court shall establish whether the child’s paternity has been conclusively determined from genetic test results under s. 767.804 , acknowledged under s. 767.805 or a substantially similar law of another state, or adjudicated in this state or in another jurisdiction. If the child’s paternity has not been conclusively determined from genetic test results, acknowledged, or adjudicated, the court shall attempt to ascertain the paternity of the child and shall determine the rights of any person who may be the father of the child as provided under s. 48.423 . The court may not proceed with the hearing on the petition for adoption unless the parental rights of the nonpetitioning parent, whether known or unknown, have been terminated.

(3) If after the hearing and a study of the report required by s. 48.88 and the recommendation required by s. 48.841 or 48.89 , the court is satisfied that the necessary consents or recommendations have been filed and that the adoption is in the best interests of the child, the court shall make an order granting the adoption. In determining whether the adoption is in the best interests of an Indian child, the court shall comply with the order of placement preference under s. 48.028 (7) (a) or, if applicable, s. 48.028 (7) (c) , unless the court finds good cause, as described in s. 48.028 (7) (e) , for departing from that order. The order may change the name of the minor to that requested by petitioners.

History: 1973 c. 263 ; 1979 c. 330 ; 1981 c. 81 ; 1983 a. 447 ; 1987 a. 383 ; 1995 a. 443 ; 1997 a. 191 ; 2005 a. 293 ; 2005 a. 443 s. 265 ; 2009 a. 94 ; 2019 a. 95 .
Wis. Stat. § 96.19 — WI Code / Chapter 96 / Section 96.19
Restraint of trade.
Status: in_force

In any civil or criminal action or proceeding for violation of any rule of statutory or common law against monopolies or combinations in restraint of trade, proof that the act complained of was done in compliance with this chapter or a marketing order or agreement issued under this chapter and in furtherance of the purposes and provisions of this chapter shall be a complete defense to such action or proceeding.

History: 1981 c. 283 s. 42 ; Stats. 1981 s. 96.19.
Wis. Stat. § 11.0902 — WI Code / Chapter 11 / Section 11.0902
Registration; timing.
Status: in_force

(1) Every recall committee that makes or accepts contributions, makes disbursements, or incurs obligations to support or oppose a recall in a calendar year in an aggregate amount in excess of $2,000 shall file a registration statement giving the information required by s. 11.0903 .

(2) A recall committee that triggers the registration requirement under sub. (1) shall file the registration statement no later than the 10th business day commencing after receipt of the first contribution by the recall committee exceeding the amount specified under sub. (1) , before making any disbursement exceeding that amount, and before incurring obligations exceeding that amount.

History: 2015 a. 117 .