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Wis. Stat. § 46.2805 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.2805
Definitions; long-term care.
Status: in_force

In ss. 46.2805 to 46.2895 :

(1) “Care management organization” means an entity that is certified as meeting the requirements for a care management organization under s. 46.284 (3) and that has a contract under s. 46.284 (2) . “Care management organization” does not mean an entity that contracts with the department to operate one of the following:

(a) A program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under 42 USC 1395eee or 1396u-4 .

(b) A demonstration program known as the Family Care Partnership program under a federal waiver authorized under 42 USC 1396n .

(2) “Eligible person” means a person who meets all eligibility criteria under s. 46.286 (1) .

(3) “Enrollee” means a person who is enrolled in a care management organization.

(4) “Family care benefit” means financial assistance for long-term care and support items for an enrollee.

(6m) “Family member” means a spouse or an individual related by blood, marriage, or adoption within the 3rd degree of kinship as computed under s. 990.001 (16) .

(6r) “Financial and cost-sharing screening” means a screening to determine financial eligibility under s. 46.286 (1) (b) or the self-directed services option and cost-sharing under s. 46.286 (2) using a uniform tool prescribed by the department.

(6v) “Frail elder” means an individual who is 65 years of age or older and has a physical disability or irreversible dementia that restricts the individual’s ability to perform normal daily tasks or that threatens the capacity of the individual to live independently.

(7) “Functional screening” means a screening to determine functional eligibility under s. 46.286 (1) (a) or the self-directed services option using a uniform tool prescribed by the department.

(7r) “Long-term care district” means a special purpose district created under s. 46.2895 (1) .

(7u) “Long-term care district board” means the governing board of a long-term care district.

(8) “Nonprofit organization” has the meaning given in s. 108.02 (19) .

(9) “Older person” means a person who is at least 65 years of age.

(10) “Resource center” means an entity that meets the standards for operation under s. 46.283 (3) or, if under contract to provide a portion of the services specified under s. 46.283 (3) , meets the standards for operation with respect to those services.

(10m) “Self-directed services option” means the program that is operated under a waiver from the secretary of the federal department of health and human services under 42 USC 1396n (c) in which an enrolled individual selects his or her own services and service providers.

(11) “Tribe or band” means a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band.

History: 1999 a. 9 , 185 ; 2003 a. 33 ; 2007 a. 20 , 141 ; 2009 a. 247 ; 2019 a. 9 .
Wis. Stat. § 611.79 — WI Code / Chapter 611 / Section 611.79
Conversion of a domestic mutual life insurance company into a fraternal.
Status: in_force

A domestic mutual life insurance company may be converted into a fraternal under ch. 614 , as follows:

(1) Conversion plan. The board of directors of the company shall adopt a plan of conversion stating:

(a) The reasons for and the purposes of the proposed action;

(b) The proposed articles and bylaws for the new fraternal; and

(c) The proposed procedure and estimated expenses for implementing the conversion.

(2) Approval by commissioner. The plan shall be filed with the commissioner for approval, together with so much of the information under s. 614.13 (2) as the commissioner reasonably requires. The commissioner shall approve the plan unless finding, after a hearing, that it would be contrary to the law, that the new fraternal would not satisfy the requirements for a certificate of authority under s. 611.20 as incorporated by s. 614.20 , or that the plan would be contrary to the interests of policyholders or the public.

(3) Approval by members. After being approved by the commissioner, the plan shall be submitted to the policyholders for their approval.

(4) Report to commissioner. A copy of the resolution adopted by the members shall be filed with the commissioner, indicating the number of policyholders voting, the method of voting and the number of votes cast in favor of the plan.

(5) Certificate of authority. If all requirements of the law are met, the commissioner shall issue a certificate of authority for the new fraternal. Thereupon the mutual shall cease its legal existence and the corporate existence of the new fraternal shall begin, but it shall be deemed to have been incorporated as of the date the converted mutual was incorporated. The new fraternal shall have all the assets and be liable for all of the obligations of the converted mutual. The commissioner may grant a period not exceeding one year for adjustment to the requirements of ch. 614 , specifying the extent to which particular provisions of ch. 614 do not apply.

History: 1975 c. 373 , 421 .
Wis. Stat. § 460.10 — WI Code / Chapter 460 / Section 460.10
Continuing education.
Status: in_force

(1) The affiliated credentialing board may promulgate rules establishing all of the following:

(a) Requirements and procedures for a license holder to complete continuing education programs or courses of study to qualify for renewal of his or her license. The rules promulgated under this paragraph may not require a license holder to complete more than 24 hours of continuing education programs or courses of study in order to qualify for renewal of his or her license.

(b) Qualifications applicable to providers of continuing education programs and courses required under par. (a) .

(2) The affiliated credentialing board may waive all or part of any requirement established in rules promulgated under sub. (1) (a) if it determines that prolonged illness, disability, or other exceptional circumstances have prevented a license holder from completing the requirement.

History: 2001 a. 74 ; 2009 a. 355 ; 2011 a. 260 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.0308 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.0308
Liability of representative.
Status: in_force

No representative or guardian ad litem is liable to the beneficiary whose interests are represented, or to anyone claiming through that beneficiary, for any actions or omissions to act made in good faith.

History: 2023 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 302.117 — WI Code / Chapter 302 / Section 302.117
Notice regarding ineligibility to vote.
Status: in_force

When an inmate who is disqualified from voting under s. 6.03 (1) (b) is released to parole or extended supervision, the department shall inform the person in writing that he or she may not vote in any election until his or her civil rights are restored. The department shall use the form designed under s. 301.03 (3a) to inform the person, and the person and a witness shall sign the form.

History: 2003 a. 121 ; 2005 a. 451 .
Wis. Stat. § 645.75 — WI Code / Chapter 645 / Section 645.75
Reopening liquidation.
Status: in_force

After the liquidation proceeding has been terminated and the liquidator discharged, the commissioner or other interested party may at any time petition the court to reopen the proceedings for good cause, including the discovery of additional assets. If the court is satisfied that there is justification for reopening, it shall so order.
Wis. Stat. § 59.80 — WI Code / Chapter 59 / Section 59.80
Milwaukee County; city-county crime commission.
Status: in_force

The board of any county with a population of 750,000 or more or the common council of any 1st class city however organized in such county may appropriate money to defray in whole or in part the expenses of a city-county crime commission organized and functioning to determine methods of crime prevention in such county. All items of expense paid out of such appropriation shall be presented and paid on board vouchers as are claims against counties.

History: 1995 a. 201 s. 167 ; 2017 a. 207 s. 5 .
Wis. Stat. § 133.13 — WI Code / Chapter 133 / Section 133.13
Interrogatories.
Status: in_force

(1) If the department of justice has reason to believe that any corporation or limited liability company has violated any provision of this chapter, the department of justice may address to any such corporation or limited liability company or to any director, officer or manager interrogatories deemed necessary to determine whether or not the entity has violated any provision of this chapter. The corporation, limited liability company, director, officer or manager so addressed shall promptly and fully answer in writing under oath the interrogatories; the failure or neglect by any such corporation, limited liability company, director, officer or manager to do so within 60 days from receipt of the interrogatories, unless the time is extended in writing by the department of justice, shall constitute grounds for suspension, cancellation or annulment of its corporate charter or authority to transact business in this state under s. 133.12 .

(2) Any person providing information under this section may designate the information as confidential business information or a trade secret as defined in s. 134.90 (1) (c) . The department of justice shall notify the person providing the information 15 days before any information designated as confidential or trade secret is disclosed to the legislature, a state agency, a local unit of government or any other person. The person furnishing the information may seek a court order limiting or prohibiting the disclosure. In such cases the court shall weigh the need for confidentiality of the information against the public interest in the disclosure. Confidentiality is waived if the person providing the information consents to disclosure or if disclosure is authorized by a court.

History: 1979 c. 209 ; 1985 a. 236 ; 1993 a. 112 .
Wis. Stat. § 646.16 — WI Code / Chapter 646 / Section 646.16
Payment of deposits made for benefit of creditors.
Status: in_force

(1) The commissioner shall promptly pay to the fund any deposit held in this state that was paid, as required by law or the commissioner, by the insolvent insurer for the benefit of creditors, including policyholders, and not turned over to the domiciliary liquidator upon the entry of a final order of liquidation of an insurer domiciled in this state or in a reciprocal state, as defined in s. 645.03 (1) (i) . Of the amount paid to the fund under this subsection, the fund may retain the percentage determined by dividing the aggregate amount of policyholders’ claims that are related to the insolvency and for which the fund has provided benefits under this chapter by the aggregate amount of all policyholders’ claims in this state that are related to the insolvency. The fund shall remit the balance to the domiciliary liquidator.

(2) Any amount retained by the fund under sub. (1) shall be treated as a distribution of estate assets under s. 645.72 or a similar provision of the state of domicile of the insolvent insurer. Deposits subject to this section shall not be treated as deposits as security, escrow, or other security under s. 645.03 (1) (j) .

History: 2003 a. 261 .
Wis. Stat. § 322.099 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.099
Article 99 — Misbehavior before the enemy.
Status: in_force

Any person who before or in the presence of the enemy does any of the following shall be punished as a court-martial may direct:

(1) Runs away.

(2) Shamefully abandons, surrenders, or delivers up any command, unit, place, or military property which it is his or her duty to defend.

(3) Through disobedience, neglect, or intentional misconduct endangers the safety of any command, unit, place, or military property.

(4) Casts away his or her arms or ammunition.

(5) Is guilty of cowardly conduct.

(6) Quits his or her place of duty to plunder or pillage.

(7) Causes false alarms in any command, unit, or place under control of the armed forces of the United States or the state military forces.

(8) Willfully fails to do his or her utmost to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy any enemy troops, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any other thing, which it is his or her duty so to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy.

(9) Does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to any troops, combatants, vessels, or aircraft of the armed forces belonging to the United States or their allies, to the state, or to any other state, when engaged in battle.

History: 2007 a. 200 .
Wis. Stat. § 614.66 — WI Code / Chapter 614 / Section 614.66
Exclusive agency contracts and management contracts.
Status: in_force

Sections 611.66 and 611.67 apply to fraternals, except that the reference to s. 611.26 (1) contained in s. 611.66 is to that section as incorporated by s. 614.24 .

History: 1975 c. 373 ; 1997 a. 252 .
Wis. Stat. § 182.029 — WI Code / Chapter 182 / Section 182.029
Universities and colleges may unite.
Status: in_force

(1) Any university or college may receive any other university or college, upon resolution of the board of trustees of both institutions, as a branch of the former, and shall be subject to such rules, regulations, agreements and liabilities as may be agreed upon. The receiving university or college may grant such diplomas and confer such degrees as shall be appropriate to courses of instruction prescribed and pursued in such received university or college, and any such university or college so received may upon such terms as shall be agreed to by its corporate members and trustees sell, or give an option to purchase, all its property, business and effects to such receiving college or university.

(2) Any privately supported school, academy or seminary may receive any other privately supported school, academy or seminary upon resolution of the board of trustees of both institutions, as a branch of the former, and shall be subject to such rules, regulations, agreements and liabilities as may be agreed upon. Any such privately supported school, academy or seminary so received may, upon such terms as shall be agreed to by two-thirds of its corporate members and trustees, convey all its property, business and effects to such receiving school, academy or seminary.
Wis. Stat. § 71.38 — WI Code / Chapter 71 / Section 71.38
Definition.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter, “urban mass transportation of passengers” means the transportation of passengers by means of vehicles having a passenger-carrying capacity of 10 or more persons including the operator, such capacity to be determined by dividing by 20 the total seating space measured in inches, when such transportation takes place entirely within contiguous cities, villages or towns and in cities, villages or towns contiguous to that in which the carrier has its principal place of business, or within or between cities, villages or towns located within a radius of 10 miles of the city, village or town in which the carrier has its principal place of business, or entirely within one city, village or town contiguous thereto, or within a county having a population of 750,000 or more or within such county and the counties contiguous thereto, or suburban operations classified as such by the department of transportation.

History: 1987 a. 312 ; 1993 a. 16 , 246 ; 2017 a. 207 s. 5 .
Wis. Stat. § 973.0455 — WI Code / Chapter 973 / Section 973.0455
Crime prevention funding board surcharge.
Status: in_force

(1) If a court in a county that has established a crime prevention funding board under s. 59.54 (28) imposes a sentence or places a person on probation, the court shall impose a crime prevention funding board surcharge. The surcharge is the total amount calculated by adding up, for each misdemeanor or felony count on which a conviction occurred, $20.

(2) After the clerk determines the amount due, the clerk of court shall collect and transmit the amount to the county treasurer under s. 59.40 (2) (n) . The county treasurer shall then distribute the moneys under s. 59.25 (3) (gm) .

History: 2015 a. 55 .
Wis. Stat. § 199.16 — WI Code / Chapter 199 / Section 199.16
Expenses.
Status: in_force

All expenses of the corporation incurred in carrying out this chapter shall be payable solely from the funding as provided under this chapter, and no liability may be incurred by the corporation beyond the extent to which moneys have been provided under this chapter except that, for the purposes of meeting the necessary expenses of initial organization and operation of the corporation for the period commencing on November 29, 1979 and continuing until the first election of the board of directors under s. 199.12 , the corporation may borrow such moneys as it requires. Such moneys borrowed by the corporation shall subsequently be repaid with appropriate interest over a reasonable period of time.

History: 1979 c. 72 .
Wis. Stat. § 424.502 — WI Code / Chapter 424 / Section 424.502
Insurance commissions; limitations.
Status: in_force

A creditor or insurer may not pay to an employee of the creditor who participates in the processing of consumer credit transactions any commission or bonus that exceeds an amount equal to 25 percent of the employee’s annual earnings for the sale of insurance in connection with those consumer credit transactions. Insurance does not include a warranty plan for which the commissioner of insurance has issued a limited certificate of authority pursuant to rule promulgated under s. 600.01 (1) (b) 5.

History: 1985 a. 256 .
Wis. Stat. § 444.11 — WI Code / Chapter 444 / Section 444.11
Licenses to matchmakers, referees, contestants, etc.
Status: in_force

The department may grant licenses upon application and the payment of the prescribed fees to matchmakers, managers, referees, boxers, unarmed combat sports contestants, seconds, and timekeepers in professional contests and amateur unarmed combat sports contests. The fees to be paid per year shall be: Matchmakers and managers, $10; referees and judges, $15; examining physicians, $10; boxers and unarmed combat sports contestants, $40; seconds, $40; and timekeepers, $10. The department may limit, suspend, or revoke any license granted under this section or reprimand the licensee upon such cause as it deems sufficient.

History: 1977 c. 418 ; 1979 c. 110 s. 60 (13) ; 1979 c. 221 s. 2200 (45) ; 2003 a. 285 ; 2009 a. 111 ; 2011 a. 258 ; 2015 a. 277 .
Wis. Stat. § 187.24 — WI Code / Chapter 187 / Section 187.24
Authority to limit indemnification.
Status: in_force

(1) The obligation of an incorporated Roman Catholic church to indemnify under s. 187.21 (1) and its authority to indemnify under s. 187.21 (2) may be limited as follows:

(a) If the incorporated Roman Catholic church is incorporated on or after May 8, 1990, by the articles of incorporation, including any amendments or restatements of the articles of incorporation.

(b) If the incorporated Roman Catholic church was incorporated before May 8, 1990, by an amendment to, or restatement of, the articles of incorporation which becomes effective on or after May 8, 1990.

(2) A limitation under sub. (1) applies if the first alleged act of a director or officer for which indemnification is sought occurred while the limitation was in effect.

History: 1989 a. 306 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.40 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.40
Orders and determinations; time of taking effect.
Status: in_force

Every order or determination of the commission shall take effect the day after the order or determination has been filed and served by personal delivery, mail, electronic mail, or any other method that the commission determines is likely to reach the parties or their attorneys, to all parties to the proceeding in which the order or determination was made or to their attorneys, unless the commission specifies a different date upon which the order or determination shall be effective. After the effective date every order or determination shall be on its face lawful and reasonable unless a court determines otherwise under s. 227.57 .

History: 1983 a. 53 ; 1985 a. 182 s. 57 ; 2011 a. 155 .
Wis. Stat. § 107.04 — WI Code / Chapter 107 / Section 107.04
Lessee’s fraud; failure to work mine.
Status: in_force

Any miner who conceals or disposes of any nonferrous metallic minerals or mines or diggings for the purpose of defrauding the lessor of rent or who neglects to pay any rent on nonferrous metallic minerals raised by the miner for 3 days after the notice thereof and claim of the rent, shall forfeit all right to his or her mines, diggings or range; and the landlord after the concealment or after 3 days have expired from the time of demanding rent, may proceed against the miner to recover possession of the mines or diggings in circuit court as in the case of a tenant holding over after the termination of the lease. If a miner neglects to work his or her mines or diggings according to the usages of miners, without reasonable excuse, he or she shall likewise forfeit the mines or diggings and the landlord may proceed against the miner in like manner to recover possession of the mines or diggings.

History: 1977 c. 449 ; 2013 a. 1 .
Wis. Stat. § 403.310 — WI Code / Chapter 403 / Section 403.310
Effect of instrument on obligation for which taken.
Status: in_force

(1) Unless otherwise agreed, if a certified check, cashier’s check or teller’s check is taken for an obligation, the obligation is discharged to the same extent that discharge would result if an amount of money equal to the amount of the instrument were taken in payment of the obligation. Discharge of the obligation does not affect any liability that the obligor may have as an endorser of the instrument.

(2) Unless otherwise agreed and except as provided in sub. (1) , if a note or an uncertified check is taken for an obligation, the obligation is suspended to the same extent that the obligation would be discharged if an amount of money equal to the amount of the instrument were taken, and the following rules apply:

(a) In the case of an uncertified check, suspension of the obligation continues until dishonor of the check or until it is paid or certified. Payment or certification of the check results in discharge of the obligation to the extent of the amount of the check.

(b) In the case of a note, suspension of the obligation continues until dishonor of the note or until it is paid. Payment of the note results in discharge of the obligation to the extent of the payment.

(c) Except as provided in par. (d) , if the check or note is dishonored and the obligee of the obligation for which the instrument was taken is the person entitled to enforce the instrument, the obligee may enforce either the instrument or the obligation. In the case of an instrument of a 3rd person which is negotiated to the obligee by the obligor, discharge of the obligor on the instrument also discharges the obligation.

(d) If the person entitled to enforce the instrument taken for an obligation is a person other than the obligee, the obligee may not enforce the obligation to the extent that the obligation is suspended. If the obligee is the person entitled to enforce the instrument but no longer has possession of it because it was lost, stolen or destroyed, the obligation may not be enforced to the extent of the amount payable on the instrument, and to that extent the obligee’s rights against the obligor are limited to enforcement of the instrument.

(3) If an instrument other than one described in sub. (1) or (2) is taken for an obligation, the effect is one of the following:

(a) That stated in sub. (1) if the instrument is one on which a bank is liable as maker or acceptor.

(b) That stated in sub. (2) in any other case.

History: 1995 a. 449 .