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Wis. Stat. § 100.182 — WI Code / Chapter 100 / Section 100.182
Fraudulent drug advertising.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “drug” has the meaning specified in s. 450.01 (10) .

(2) No person may advertise the availability of any drug or publish or circulate such an advertisement with the intent of selling, increasing the consumption of or generating interest in the drug if the advertisement contains any untrue, deceptive or misleading representations material to the effects of the drug.

(3) No person may expressly or impliedly represent that a substance may be used to obtain physical or psychological effects associated with the use of a drug in order to promote the sale of the substance unless it is lawfully marketed for human consumption under the United States food, drug and cosmetic act under 21 USC 301 to 392 . A representation that the substance is not intended for human consumption is not a defense to prosecution for violating this subsection.

(4) No person may advertise a drug that the person knows is intentionally manufactured substantially to resemble a controlled substance or that the person represents to be of a nature, appearance or effect that will allow the recipient to display, sell, deliver, distribute or use the drug as a controlled substance, unless the drug is controlled under ch. 961 .

(5)

(a) Any district attorney, after informing the department, or the department may seek a temporary or permanent injunction in circuit court to restrain any violation of this section. Prior to entering a final judgment the court may award damages to any person suffering monetary loss because of a violation. The department may subpoena any person or require the production of any document to aid in investigating alleged violations of this section.

(b) In lieu of instituting or continuing an action under this subsection, the department may accept a written assurance from a violator of this section that the violation has ceased. If the terms of the assurance so provide, its acceptance by the department prevents all district attorneys from prosecuting the violation. An assurance is not evidence of a violation of this section but violation of an assurance is subject to the penalties and remedies of violating this section.

History: 1981 c. 90 ; 1985 a. 146 s. 8 ; 1995 a. 27 , 448 .
Wis. Stat. § 563.14 — WI Code / Chapter 563 / Section 563.14
Department determinations.
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of an application for a license to conduct bingo, the department shall investigate the qualifications of the applicant and the merits of the application and before issuing a license shall determine that:

(1) The applicant is eligible to be licensed to conduct bingo under s. 563.11 .

(2) The supervising member and member responsible for the proper utilization of gross receipts are active members of the applicant organization who, subject to ss. 111.321 , 111.322 and 111.335 , have never been convicted of a felony or, if convicted, have received a pardon or have been released from parole, extended supervision or probation for at least 5 years.

(3) The proposed bingo occasions will be conducted in accordance with this chapter and the rules promulgated under it.

(6) The profits from all bingo games conducted by the applicant organization are proposed to be used as provided under s. 563.51 (8) .

History: 1973 c. 156 ; 1975 c. 99 ; 1979 c. 34 s. 2100 (45) (a) ; 1981 c. 122 , 380 ; 1981 c. 391 s. 211 ; 1987 a. 21 ; 1989 a. 147 ; 1991 a. 269 s. 782ct ; Stats. 1991 s. 563.14; 1995 a. 27 s. 9123 (6pp) ; 1997 a. 27 , 283 .
Wis. Stat. § 35.86 — WI Code / Chapter 35 / Section 35.86
Exchanges.
Status: in_force

(1) The director of the historical society may procure the exchange of public documents produced by federal, state, county, local, and other agencies as may be desirable to maintain or enlarge its historical, literary, and statistical collections, and may make such distributions of public documents, with or without exchange, as may accord with interstate or international comity. The state law librarian shall procure so many of such exchanges as the state law librarian is authorized by law to make, and the department of health services, department of children and families, commission of banking, department of public instruction, legislative reference bureau, and the legislative council staff, may procure by exchange such documents from other states and countries as may be needed for use in their respective offices. Any other state agency wishing to initiate a formal exchange program in accordance with this section may do so by submitting a formal application to the department and by otherwise complying with this section.

(2) Exchange lists, containing the number of public documents received and the number of state documents distributed in exchange, shall be filed with the department by the respective state agencies authorized to procure exchanges, and the documents specified therein shall be forwarded by the department with carriage charges prepaid.

(3) The department shall authorize no distribution to be made in exchange until exchange lists have been received by it in compliance with this section.

(5) The department shall charge the cost of exchanges, including the costs specified in s. 35.80 , to the appropriations of the state agencies filing exchange lists with the department.

(6) The department shall inform all state agencies of this section.

History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (9) (g) ; 1979 c. 34 ; 1983 a. 36 ; 1991 a. 39 , 285 , 316 ; 1993 a. 490 ; 1995 a. 27 ss. 1755 , 9126 (19) , 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2007 a. 20 ss. 727 , 9121 (6) (a) .
Wis. Stat. § 192.47 — WI Code / Chapter 192 / Section 192.47
Railroad police; oath; powers.
Status: in_force

Any railway company may, at its own expense, appoint and employ railroad police officers at the stations or other places on the line of its road within this state as it deems necessary for the protection of its property and the preservation of order on its premises and in and about its cars, depots, depot grounds, yards, buildings or other structures. Each police officer shall take an oath to support the constitution of the United States and claiming to be a citizen of the United States and shall file it with the office. Each police officer shall, when on duty, wear a shield furnished by the company bearing the words “Railroad Police” and the name of the company. These police officers may arrest, with or without warrant, any person who in their presence commits upon the premises of the company or in or about its cars, depots, depot grounds, yards, buildings or other structures any offense against the laws of this state or the ordinances of any town, city or village, and shall also have the authority of sheriffs in regard to the arrest or apprehension of these offenders in or about the premises or appurtenances. In case of the arrest, by a railroad police officer, of any person without warrant the officer shall immediately take the offender before a judge having jurisdiction and make complaint against the offender. Every railway company shall be responsible for the acts of its police officers.

History: 1981 c. 347 ; 1985 a. 135 ; 1993 a. 16 , 123 .
Wis. Stat. § 88.63 — WI Code / Chapter 88 / Section 88.63
Maintenance and repair of drains.
Status: in_force

(1g) In this section “maintenance and repair” refers to the restoration of a drain or any part thereof as nearly as practicable to the same condition as when originally constructed or subsequently improved, including resloping of open ditches and leveling of spoil banks or excavated materials, and such routine operations as from time to time may be required to remove obstructions and preserve the efficiency of the drains. The terms do not include any substantial or material alteration, enlargement or extension of the drainage system of the district.

(1m) It is the duty of the drainage board to maintain in good condition the drains in all districts under the board’s jurisdiction and to repair such drains when necessary. The board shall have all drains under its jurisdiction inspected annually to determine the need for maintenance and repair work. The board shall apportion the cost of such inspection to the various districts involved and the cost shall be paid out of any funds of the district available for maintenance and repair. The board may hire an inspector or authorize one or more owners of land in the drainage district to make the inspection or members of the board may themselves make the inspection.

(2) The board may establish and maintain a fund for the payment of the costs of normal operations and maintenance and repair and for emergency expenses. Moneys in a fund under this subsection may not exceed amounts reasonably necessary for the purposes under this subsection.

(4) The drainage board may use the funds assessed for maintenance and repair to pay for the costs of undertaking or defending a lawsuit involving the board, a board member or a drainage district or for representing an owner of land in a drainage district as provided in s. 88.21 (13) . The board shall allocate the costs to individual drainage districts in an equitable manner.

History: 1993 a. 456 ; 2001 a. 103 ; 2017 a. 115 .
Wis. Stat. § 196.05 — WI Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.05
Public utility property; valuation; revaluation.
Status: in_force

If the commission deems it proper or necessary for effective regulation, the commission shall value or revalue all the property of every public utility actually used and useful for the convenience of the public.

History: 1983 a. 53 .
Wis. Stat. § 424.102 — WI Code / Chapter 424 / Section 424.102
Scope.
Status: in_force

This chapter applies to agreements between a creditor and a debtor under which insurance is provided or is to be provided in relation to consumer credit transactions.

History: 1971 c. 239 ; 1973 c. 3 .
Wis. Stat. § 227.10 — WI Code / Chapter 227 / Section 227.10
Statements of policy and interpretations of law; discrimination prohibited.
Status: in_force

(1) Each agency shall promulgate as a rule each statement of general policy and each interpretation of a statute which it specifically adopts to govern its enforcement or administration of that statute. A statement of policy or an interpretation of a statute made in the decision of a contested case, in a private letter ruling under s. 73.035 or in an agency decision upon or disposition of a particular matter as applied to a specific set of facts does not render it a rule or constitute specific adoption of a rule and is not required to be promulgated as a rule.

(2) No agency may promulgate a rule which conflicts with state law.

(2g) No agency may seek deference in any proceeding based on the agency’s interpretation of any law.

(2m) No agency may implement or enforce any standard, requirement, or threshold, including as a term or condition of any license issued by the agency, unless that standard, requirement, or threshold is explicitly required or explicitly permitted by statute or by a rule that has been promulgated in accordance with this subchapter, except as provided in s. 186.118 (2) (c) and (3) (b) 3. The governor, by executive order, may prescribe guidelines to ensure that rules are promulgated in compliance with this subchapter.

(2p) No agency may promulgate a rule or take any other action that requires one or more lots to be merged with another lot, for any purpose, without the consent of the owners of the lots that are to be merged.

(3)

(a) No rule, either by its terms or in its application, may discriminate for or against any person by reason of sex, race, creed, color, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry.

(b) A rule may discriminate for or against a person by reason of physical condition or developmental disability as defined in s. 51.01 (5) only if it is strictly necessary to a function of the agency and is supported by data demonstrating that necessity.

(c) Each person affected by a rule is entitled to the same benefits and is subject to the same obligations as any other person under the same or similar circumstances.

(d) No rule may use any term removed from the statutes by chapter 83, laws of 1977 .

(e) Nothing in this subsection prohibits the director of the bureau of merit recruitment and selection in the department of administration from promulgating rules relating to expanded certification under s. 230.25 (1n) .

History: 1985 a. 182 ; 1987 a. 399 ; 2003 a. 33 ss. 2368 , 9160 ; 2011 a. 21 ; 2013 a. 277 ; 2015 a. 55 ; 2017 a. 67 , 369 .
Wis. Stat. § 856.05 — WI Code / Chapter 856 / Section 856.05
Delivery of will to court.
Status: in_force

(1) Duty and liability of person with custody. Any person, other than a person named in the will to act as personal representative, having the custody of any will shall, within 30 days after he or she has knowledge of the death of the testator, file the will in the proper court or deliver it to the person named in the will to act as personal representative. Any person named in a will to act as personal representative shall, within 30 days after he or she has knowledge that he or she is named to act as personal representative, and has knowledge of the death of the testator, file the will in the proper court, unless the will has been otherwise deposited with the court. Any person who neglects to perform any of the duties required in this subsection, without reasonable cause, is liable in a proceeding in court to every person interested in the will for all damages caused by the neglect.

(2) Duty of person with information. Any person having information which would reasonably lead him or her to believe in the existence of any will of a decedent of which he or she does not have custody and having information that no more recent will of the deceased has been filed with the court and that 30 days have elapsed after the death of the decedent, shall submit this information to the court within 30 days after he or she has the information.

(3) Penalty. Any person who with intent to injure or defraud any person interested in a will suppresses or secretes any will of a person then deceased or any information as to the existence or location of any will or having custody of any will fails to file it in the court or to deliver it to the person named in the will to act as personal representative shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year or both.

(4) Liability for neglect. If any person has custody of any will after the death of the testator and after a petition for administration has been filed, neglects without reasonable cause to deliver the will to the proper court after he or she has been duly notified in writing by the court for that purpose, he or she may be committed to the county jail by warrant issued by the court and there kept in close confinement until he or she delivers the will as required.

(5) Applicability of section. This section applies to wills and information needed for proof of a missing will under s. 856.17 .

History: 1977 c. 449 ; 1997 a. 188 ; 2001 a. 102 ; 2005 a. 216 .
Wis. Stat. § 103.55 — WI Code / Chapter 103 / Section 103.55
Public policy as to labor litigation.
Status: in_force

In the interpretation and application of ss. 103.56 to 103.59 , the public policy of this state is declared to be:

(1) Equity procedure that permits a complaining party to obtain sweeping injunctive relief that is not preceded by or conditioned upon notice to and hearing of the responding party or parties, or that issues after hearing based upon written affidavits alone and not wholly or in part upon examination, confrontation and cross-examination of witnesses in open court, is peculiarly subject to abuse in labor litigation for all of the following reasons:

(a) That the existing state of affairs cannot be maintained but is necessarily altered by the injunction.

(b) That determination of issues of veracity and of probability of fact from affidavits of the opposing parties that are contradictory and, under the circumstances, untrustworthy rather than from oral examination in open court is subject to grave error.

(c) That error in issuing the injunctive relief is usually irreparable to the opposing party.

(d) That delay incident to the normal course of appellate practice frequently makes ultimate correction of error in law or in fact unavailing in the particular case.

History: 1979 c. 110 s. 60 (9) ; 1985 a. 135 ; 1997 a. 253 .
Wis. Stat. § 411.302 — WI Code / Chapter 411 / Section 411.302
Title to and possession of goods.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this chapter applies whether the lessor or a 3rd party has title to the goods, and whether the lessor, the lessee, or a 3rd party has possession of the goods, notwithstanding any statute or rule of law that possession or the absence of possession is fraudulent.

History: 1991 a. 148 .
Wis. Stat. § 167.13 — WI Code / Chapter 167 / Section 167.13
Operation.
Status: in_force

No person, firm or corporation shall use, operate or permit to be used or operated any such machine purchased prior to June 12, 1909, unless during all the time such machine shall be used and operated it shall be in charge of a competent person whose sole duty shall be to oversee and attend to the operation and use of the same; nor use, operate or permit to be used or operated any such machine whatever while the safety devices or guards are detached.
Wis. Stat. § 102.35 — WI Code / Chapter 102 / Section 102.35
Penalties.
Status: in_force

(1) Every employer and every insurance company that fails to keep the records or to make the reports required by this chapter or that knowingly falsifies such records or makes false reports shall pay a work injury supplemental benefit surcharge to the state of not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each offense. The department may waive or reduce a surcharge imposed under this subsection if the employer or insurance company that violated this subsection requests a waiver or reduction of the surcharge within 45 days after the date on which notice of the surcharge is mailed to the employer or insurance company and shows that the violation was due to mistake or an absence of information. A surcharge imposed under this subsection is due within 30 days after the date on which notice of the surcharge is mailed to the employer or insurance company. Interest shall accrue on amounts that are not paid when due at the rate of 1 percent per month. All surcharges and interest payments received under this subsection shall be deposited in the fund established under s. 102.65 .

(2) Any employer, or duly authorized agent thereof, who, without reasonable cause, refuses to rehire an employee injured in the course of employment, or who, because of a claim or attempt to claim compensation benefits from such employer, discriminates or threatens to discriminate against an employee as to the employee’s employment, shall forfeit to the state not less than $50 nor more than $500 for each offense. No action under this subsection may be commenced except upon request of the department.

(3) Any employer who without reasonable cause refuses to rehire an employee who is injured in the course of employment, when suitable employment is available within the employee’s physical and mental limitations, upon order of the department, has exclusive liability to pay to the employee, in addition to other benefits, the wages lost during the period of such refusal, not exceeding one year’s wages. In determining the availability of suitable employment the continuance in business of the employer shall be considered and any written rules promulgated by the employer with respect to seniority or the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement with respect to seniority shall govern.

History: 1975 c. 147 ; 1977 c. 29 , 195 ; 2003 a. 144 ; 2005 a. 172 ; 2011 a. 183 ; 2015 a. 55 ; 2025 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 19.05 — WI Code / Chapter 19 / Section 19.05
Execution; lien of judgment.
Status: in_force

(1) Whenever a judgment is rendered against any officer and the officer’s sureties on the officer’s official bond in any court other than the circuit court of the county in which the officer’s official bond is filed, no execution for the collection of the judgment shall issue from the other court unless the plaintiff, the plaintiff’s agent or the plaintiff’s attorney shall make and file with the court an affidavit showing each of the following:

(a) That no other judgment has been rendered in any court in an action upon the officer’s bond against the sureties of the bond that remains in whole or in part unpaid.

(b) That no other action upon the officer’s bond against the sureties was pending and undetermined in any other court at the time of the entry of the judgment.

(2) A transcript of a judgment described in sub. (1) may be entered in the judgment and lien docket in other counties, shall constitute a lien, and may be enforced, in all respects the same as if it were an ordinary judgment, for the recovery of money, except as provided otherwise in sub. (1) .

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 1995 a. 224 .
Wis. Stat. § 279.09 — WI Code / Chapter 279 / Section 279.09
Refunding bonds.
Status: in_force

(1) The authority may issue bonds to refund any outstanding bond, including the payment of any redemption premium on the outstanding bond and any interest accrued or to accrue to the earliest or any subsequent date of redemption, purchase, or maturity.

(2) The authority may apply the proceeds of any bond issued to refund any outstanding bond to the purchase, retirement at maturity, or redemption of the outstanding bond on the earliest or any subsequent redemption date, upon purchase, or at the maturity of the bond. The authority may, pending application of the proceeds, place the proceeds in escrow to be applied to the purchase, retirement at maturity, or redemption of any outstanding bond at any time.

(3) If the authority determines that it is necessary to amend the prior assessments in connection with the issuance of refunding bonds under this section, it may reconsider and reopen the assessments as provided in s. 279.07 (11) . If the assessments are amended, the refunding bonds shall be secured by, and be payable from, the assessments as amended. If the assessments are amended, all direct and indirect costs reasonably attributable to the refunding of the bonds may be included in the cost of the waterway improvements being financed.

(4) All refunding bonds are subject to this chapter in the same manner and to the same extent as other bonds issued under this chapter.

History: 2007 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0640 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0640
Delegates.
Status: in_force

(1) Role of delegates. A corporation may provide in its articles of incorporation or bylaws that delegates have some or all of the authority of members.

(2) Permissible provisions. The articles of incorporation or bylaws may include provisions relating to all of the following:

(a) Dividing the membership into geographical or other districts or units.

(b) Determining the number of delegates to be elected in each district or unit. This determination may be made from time to time by the board of directors.

(c) The characteristics, qualifications, rights, limitations and obligations of delegates, including their selection and removal.

(d) Calling, noticing, holding and conducting meetings of delegates.

(e) Carrying on corporate activities during and between meetings of delegates.

(f) Providing for the election or appointment of district or unit committees and officers.

History: 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 346.21 — WI Code / Chapter 346 / Section 346.21
Right-of-way of livestock.
Status: in_force

The operator of a motor vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to livestock being driven over or along any highway but any person in charge of such livestock shall use reasonable care and diligence to open the roadway for vehicular traffic.

History: 1993 a. 490 .