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Wis. Stat. § 85.103 — WI Code / Chapter 85 / Section 85.103
Section 85.103
Status: in_force

(7)

(a) The department shall establish by rule a reasonable period for complying with designations made under subs. (2) and (3) .

(b) If an unanticipated number of designations result in the department not being able to comply with a reasonable effort with designations made under subs. (2) and (3) within the period established by the department under par. (a) , the department may establish the temporary extension by rule, using the procedure under s. 227.24 .

History: 1999 a. 88 ; 2001 a. 93 ; 2005 a. 25 , 59 ; 2009 a. 326 .
Wis. Stat. § 68.03 — WI Code / Chapter 68 / Section 68.03
Determinations not subject to review.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in s. 68.02 , the following determinations are not reviewable under this chapter:

(1) A legislative enactment. A legislative enactment is an ordinance, resolution or adopted motion of the governing body of a municipality.

(2) Any action subject to administrative or judicial review procedures under other statutes.

(3) The denial of a tort or contract claim for money, required to be filed with the municipality pursuant to statutory procedures for the filing of such claims.

(4) The suspension, removal or disciplining or nonrenewal of a contract of a municipal employee or officer.

(5) The grant, denial, suspension or revocation of an alcohol beverage license under s. 125.12 (1) .

(6) Judgments and orders of a court.

(7) Determinations made during municipal labor negotiations.

(8) Any action which is subject to administrative review procedures under an ordinance providing such procedures as defined in s. 68.16 .

(9) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any action or determination of a municipal authority which does not involve the constitutionally protected right of a specific person or persons to due process in connection with the action or determination.

History: 1975 c. 295 ; 1981 c. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 11.0503 — WI Code / Chapter 11 / Section 11.0503
Registration; required information.
Status: in_force

(1) Required information. The political action committee shall indicate on the registration statement that it is registering as a political action committee and shall include all of the following, where applicable, on the registration statement:

(a) The name and mailing address of the political action committee.

(b) The name and mailing address of the treasurer and any other custodian of books and accounts. Unless otherwise directed by the treasurer on the registration form and except as otherwise provided in this chapter or any rule of the commission, all mailings that are required by law or by rule of the commission shall be sent to the treasurer at the treasurer’s address indicated upon the form.

(bd) The email address and personal telephone number of the treasurer and any other custodian of books and accounts. Telephone numbers provided under this paragraph shall be kept confidential and are not subject to the right of inspection and copying under s. 19.35 (1) .

(d) The name and address of the depository account of the political action committee and of any other institution where funds of the committee are kept.

(e) The name and address of the political action committee’s sponsoring organization, if any.

(2) Certification. The individual responsible for filing or amending a political action committee’s registration statement and any form or report required of the committee under this chapter shall certify that all information contained in the statement, form, or report is true, correct, and complete.

(3) Change of information.

(a) The political action committee shall report any change in information previously submitted in a registration statement within 10 days following the change. Except as provided in par. (b) , any such change may be reported only by the individual or by the officer who has succeeded to the position of an individual who signed the original statement.

(b) The administrator or treasurer of a political action committee may report a change in the committee’s registration statement.

History: 2015 a. 117 ss. 24 , 74 (1m) ; 2023 a. 120 .
Wis. Stat. § 853.59 — WI Code / Chapter 853 / Section 853.59
Residuary estate; basic will with trust.
Status: in_force

The following is the full text of the property disposition clause referred to in paragraph 2.3 of the Wisconsin basic will with trust, except that if a different age is specified by the testator in the Wisconsin basic will with trust, that specified age is substituted for 21 years in this section:

History: 1983 a. 376 ; 1993 a. 304 ; 1995 a. 225 ; 1997 a. 188 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.205 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.205
Firm offers.
Status: in_force

An offer by a merchant to buy or sell goods in a signed writing which by its terms gives assurance that it will be held open is not revocable, for lack of consideration, during the time stated or if no time is stated for a reasonable time, but in no event may such period of irrevocability exceed 3 months; but any such term of assurance on a form supplied by the offeree must be separately signed by the offeror.
Wis. Stat. § 193.475 — WI Code / Chapter 193 / Section 193.475
Officers.
Status: in_force

(1) Required officers.

(a) The board shall elect a chairperson and one or more vice-chairpersons.

(b) Except as provided in sub. (3) , the board shall elect or appoint a records officer and a financial officer.

(2) Chief executive and additional officers. The board may employ a chief executive officer to manage the day-to-day affairs and business of the cooperative. The board may elect additional officers as the articles or bylaws authorize or require.

(3) Records officer and financial officer may be combined. The offices of records officer and financial officer may be combined.

(4) Officers that shall be directors and members. The chairperson and first vice-chairperson shall each be a director and member. The financial officer, records officer, and additional officers need not be directors or members.

History: 2005 a. 441 .
Wis. Stat. § 101.9209 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.9209
Transfer of interest in a manufactured home.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) If an owner transfers an interest in a manufactured home, other than by the creation of a security interest, the owner shall, at the time of the delivery of the manufactured home, execute an assignment and warranty of title to the transferee in the space provided therefor on the certificate, and cause the certificate to be mailed or delivered to the transferee. This paragraph does not apply if the owner has no certificate of title as a result of the exemption under s. 101.9203 (4) .

(b) Any person who holds legal title of a manufactured home with one or more other persons may transfer ownership of the manufactured home under this subsection if legal title to the manufactured home is held in the names of such persons in the alternative, including a manufactured home held in a form designating the holder by the words “(name of one person) or (name of other person)”.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, promptly after delivery to him or her of the manufactured home, the transferee shall execute the application for a new certificate of title in the space provided therefor on the certificate or as the department prescribes, and cause the certificate and application to be mailed or delivered to the department. This subsection does not apply to a transferee who is exempt from making application for a certificate of title under s. 101.9203 (4) .

(3) A transfer by an owner is not effective until the applicable provisions of this section have been complied with. An owner who has delivered possession of the manufactured home to the transferee and has complied with the provisions of this section requiring action by him or her is not liable as owner for any damages thereafter resulting from use of the mobile home.

(4) Any owner of a manufactured home for which a certificate of title has been issued, who upon transfer of the manufactured home fails to execute and deliver the assignment and warranty of title required by sub. (1) , may be required to forfeit not more than $500.

(5)

(a) Any transferee of a manufactured home who fails to make application for a new certificate of title immediately upon transfer to him or her of a manufactured home as required under sub. (2) may be required to forfeit not more than $200.

(b) Any transferee of a manufactured home who, with intent to defraud, fails to make application for a new certificate of title immediately upon transfer to him or her of a manufactured home as required under sub. (2) may be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both.

(c) A certificate is considered under this subsection to have been applied for when the application accompanied by the required fee has been delivered to the department or deposited in the mail properly addressed with postage prepaid.

History: 1999 a. 9 , 53 ; 2001 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 94.675 — WI Code / Chapter 94 / Section 94.675
Section 94.675
Status: in_force

(2) If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the articles.

(3) If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.

(4) If it does not bear an identifying label or it does not conform to the name or description of ingredients given on the label.

History: 1999 a. 83 .
Wis. Stat. § 885.335 — WI Code / Chapter 885 / Section 885.335
Actions concerning real estate abutting Great Lakes water.
Status: in_force

(1) No claim or counterclaim may be made in an action relating to the possession or title of any real estate if the claim or counterclaim is based on an assertion that the property includes portions of land that may have at one time been submerged beneath a Great Lakes water if any of the following apply:

(a) The property is upland, as defined in s. 30.2039 (1) (f) , and the use of the property has not materially changed, as defined in s. 30.2039 (4) .

(b) The property was designated as land held in fee title ownership by a determination made under s. 30.2039 (2) (d) that establishes the boundary between land held in trust by the state and land held in fee title ownership.

(c) The property is held in fee title ownership as determined under s. 30.2039 (3) .

(d) The use of the property is approved under s. 30.2034 .

(2) This section does not apply to administrative and judicial review of decisions of the department of natural resources under s. 30.2034 or 30.2039 or ch. 227 .

History: 2023 a. 247 .
Wis. Stat. § 20.507 — WI Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20.507
Board of commissioners of public lands.
Status: in_force

There is appropriated to the board of commissioners of public lands for the following program:

(1) Trust lands and investments.

(a) General program operations. The amounts in the schedule for the general program operations of the board.

(c) Payments in lieu of taxes. The amounts in the schedule for payments in lieu of property taxes under s. 24.62 (3) .

(h) Trust lands and investments — general program operations. The amounts in the schedule for the general program operations of the board. All amounts deducted from the gross receipts of the appropriate funds as provided under ss. 24.04 , 24.09 (1) (bm) , 24.53 , and 24.62 (1) shall be credited to this appropriation account. Notwithstanding s. 20.001 (3) (a) , the unencumbered balance at the end of each fiscal year shall be transferred to the trust funds, as defined under s. 24.60 (5) . The amount transferred to each trust fund, as defined under s. 24.60 (5) , shall bear the same proportion to the total amount transferred to the trust funds that the gross receipts of that trust fund bears to the total gross receipts credited to this appropriation account during that fiscal year.

(i) Gifts and grants. All moneys received from gifts and grants to carry out the purposes for which made.

(j) Payments to American Indian tribes or bands for raised sunken logs. All moneys received under s. 170.12 (9m) for making payments to American Indian tribes or bands under s. 170.12 (9m) .

(k) Trust lands and investments — interagency and intra-agency assistance. The amounts in the schedule to provide services to state agencies relating to trust lands and investments. All moneys received from the department of administration or any other state agency for services relating to trust lands and investments shall be credited to this appropriation account.

(mg) Federal aid — flood control. All moneys received from the federal government, on account of leasing land under the U.S. flood control act of 1954 and subsequent amendments thereto, to be paid out as provided under s. 24.39 (3) .

(q) Forest land and timber management. From the conservation fund, the amounts in the schedule for forest land and timber management.

History: 1997 a. 27 ss. 693 , 693m , 708 to 711 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2019 a. 9 , 110 ; 2021 a. 58 , 240 ; 2023 a. 19 .
Wis. Stat. § 118.58 — WI Code / Chapter 118 / Section 118.58
Class rankings.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “virtual private school” means a private school in which all or a portion of the instruction is provided through means of the Internet, and the pupils enrolled in and instructional staff employed by the school are geographically remote from each other.

(2) If a school board, operator of a charter school, or governing body of a private school or tribal school operates a high school that includes grades 11 and 12, the school board, charter school operator, or governing body shall, for each high school that includes grades 11 and 12, prepare a class ranking of pupils enrolled in the high school as of the class’s completion of grade 11 if there are at least 15 pupils in the class. Pupils shall be ranked on the basis of academic achievement and the sole criterion for ranking pupils shall be the pupil’s grade point average.

(3)

(a) Subject to par. (b) , each class ranking under sub. (2) shall identify those pupils who rank in the top 5 percent of their high school class and those pupils who rank in the top 10 percent of their high school class. The class ranking may also identify the class rank of pupils who do not rank in the top 10 percent of their high school class.

(b) If a high school’s class enrollment is at least 15 but less than 20 pupils, the school board, operator of the charter school, or governing body of the private school or tribal school shall identify the highest ranked and 2nd highest ranked pupils in the class using the ranking method under sub. (2) . For purposes of par. (a) and sub. (4) and s. 36.11 (3m) , the highest ranked pupil shall be considered to be in the top 5 percent of the pupil’s high school class and the 2nd highest ranked pupil shall be considered to be in the top 10 percent of the pupil’s high school class.

(4) After completing the class ranking required under sub. (2) , a school board, operator of a charter school, or governing body of a private school or tribal school shall do all of the following:

(a) Notify each pupil ranked in the top 10 percent of the pupil’s high school class that the pupil is ranked, as applicable, in the top 5 percent or in the top 10 percent of the pupil’s high school class.

(b) For each pupil notified under par. (a) , include that the pupil is ranked, as applicable, in the top 5 percent or in the top 10 percent of the pupil’s high school class on the pupil’s high school transcript as of the pupil’s completion of grade 11.

(5) This section does not apply to a virtual private school.

History: 2023 a. 95 .
Wis. Stat. § 422.404 — WI Code / Chapter 422 / Section 422.404
Assignment of earnings.
Status: in_force

(1) No merchant shall take or arrange for an assignment of earnings of the customer for payment or as security for payment of an obligation arising out of a consumer transaction unless such assignment is revocable at will by the customer.

(2) A revocable assignment of earnings made as payment or as security for payment of an obligation arising out of a consumer credit transaction, which would otherwise expire under s. 241.09 , shall be deemed to be renewed for a term not to exceed 6 months if:

(a) The original authorization contained a conspicuous notice of the customer’s right to revoke;

(b) Prior to expiration, the merchant mails a notice to the customer which conspicuously states that the assignment of earnings is revocable, and that it shall continue to run for not more than 6 additional months, unless the merchant receives notice of revocation; and

(c) The customer does not revoke the assignment.

(3) A violation of this section is subject to s. 425.304 .

History: 1971 c. 239 ; 1973 c. 3 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.702 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.702
Seller’s remedies on discovery of buyer’s insolvency.
Status: in_force

(1) Where the seller discovers the buyer to be insolvent the seller may refuse delivery except for cash including payment for all goods theretofore delivered under the contract, and stop delivery under s. 402.705 .

(2) Where the seller discovers that the buyer has received goods on credit while insolvent the seller may reclaim the goods upon demand made within 10 days after the receipt, but if misrepresentation of solvency has been made to the particular seller in writing within 3 months before delivery the 10-day limitation does not apply. Except as provided in this subsection the seller may not base a right to reclaim goods on the buyer’s fraudulent or innocent misrepresentation of solvency or of intent to pay.

(3) The seller’s right to reclaim under sub. (2) is subject to the rights of a buyer in ordinary course or other good faith purchaser under s. 402.403 . Successful reclamation of goods excludes all other remedies with respect to them.

History: 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.1318 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.1318
Removal or replacement of authorized fiduciary.
Status: in_force

(1) An authorized fiduciary may not exercise the decanting power to modify a provision in a first-trust instrument granting another person power to remove or replace the fiduciary unless any of the following applies:

(a) The person holding the power consents to the modification in a signed record and the modification applies only to the person.

(b) The person holding the power and the qualified beneficiaries of the 2nd trust consent to the modification in a signed record and the modification grants a substantially similar power to another person.

(c) The court approves the modification and the modification grants a substantially similar power to another person.

(2) This section does not apply to a decanting from a first trust that is a pooled trust described in 42 USC 1396p (d) (4) (C), or to a decanting to a 2nd trust that is a pooled trust described in 42 USC 1396p (d) (4) (C).

History: 2023 a. 127 .
Wis. Stat. § 70.67 — WI Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70.67
Municipal treasurer’s bond; substitute for.
Status: in_force

(1) The treasurer of each town, city, or village shall, unless exempted under sub. (2) , execute and deliver to the county treasurer a bond, with sureties, to be approved, in case of a town treasurer, by the chairperson of the town, and in case of a city or village treasurer by the county treasurer, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of the office and that the treasurer will account for and pay over according to law all taxes of any kind which are received and which are required to be paid to the county treasurer. If such bond is executed the amount of the bond shall be no less than the amount of state and county taxes apportioned to the town, village, or city. The county treasurer shall give to the town, city, or village treasurer a receipt for the bond, and shall file and safely keep the bond in the county treasurer’s office.

(2) The treasurer of any municipality shall not be required to give such bond if the governing body thereof shall by ordinance obligate such municipality to pay, in case the treasurer thereof shall fail so to do, all taxes of any kind required by law to be paid by such treasurer to the county treasurer. Such governing body is authorized to so obligate such municipality. If the governing body of the municipality has adopted an ordinance as specified in this subsection, it may demand from its treasurer, in addition to the official bond required of all municipal treasurers, a fidelity or surety bond in an amount and upon such terms as may be determined by the governing body. Such bond shall run to the town or village board or the city council, as the case may be, and shall be delivered to the clerk of the municipality. A certified copy of such ordinance filed with the county treasurer shall be accepted by the county treasurer in lieu of the bond required by sub. (1) . Such ordinance shall remain in effect until a certified copy of its repeal shall be filed with the county clerk and the county treasurer. The official bond executed pursuant to s. 19.01 , required of municipal treasurers, shall extend to and include the liability incurred by any town, city or village whose governing board shall adopt and certify to the county treasurer an ordinance in accordance with this subsection.

History: 1975 c. 375 s. 44 ; 1975 c. 421 ; 1989 a. 56 s. 258 ; 1991 a. 316 ; 2017 a. 52 .
Wis. Stat. § 39.395 — WI Code / Chapter 39 / Section 39.395
Nurse educators.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “institution of higher education” means an institution or college campus within the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college within the technical college system, or a private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in this state.

(2) Subject to sub. (3) , the board shall establish a program that provides all of the following:

(a) Fellowships for students who enroll in doctor of nursing practice, doctor of philosophy in nursing, or master of science in nursing degree programs in an institution of higher education.

(b) Postdoctoral fellowships to recruit faculty for nursing programs in an institution of higher education.

(c) Educational loan repayment assistance to recruit and retain faculty for nursing programs in an institution of higher education.

(3) The program established under sub. (2) shall require individuals who receive fellowships under sub. (2) (a) or (b) or assistance under sub. (2) (c) to make a commitment to teach for at least 3 consecutive years in a nursing program at an institution of higher education.

(4) Costs associated with the program established under sub. (2) shall be funded from the appropriation under s. 20.235 (1) (co) .

History: 2021 a. 58 .
Wis. Stat. § 631.21 — WI Code / Chapter 631 / Section 631.21
Explicit approval required.
Status: in_force

(1) Required approval. Despite filing or general approval of a form under s. 631.20 , the following clauses may not be used even if contained in the form unless the commissioner gives explicit approval to them:

(a) Expeditious notice. Clauses requiring more expeditious notice than 1st class mail, as provided in s. 631.81 (2) .

(c) Reinstatement fees. A schedule of reinstatement fees under s. 632.74 , if made a part of the policy. Such a schedule need not be included in the contract but may be given approval as a separate document specifically made applicable to particular classes of policies.

(2) Effect of failure to obtain explicit approval. If an insurer fails to obtain explicit approval from the commissioner for the clauses under sub. (1) , the clauses shall be null and void.

History: 1975 c. 375 ; 1985 a. 280 ; 2007 a. 168 .