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Wis. Stat. § 183.0408 — WI Code / Chapter 183 / Section 183.0408
Reimbursement; indemnification; advancement; and insurance.
Status: in_force

(1) A limited liability company shall reimburse a member of a member-managed company or the manager of a manager-managed company for any payment made by the member or manager in the course of the member’s or manager’s activities on behalf of the company, if the member or manager complied with ss. 183.0405 , 183.0407 , and 183.0409 in making the payment.

(2) A limited liability company shall indemnify and hold harmless a person with respect to any claim or demand against the person and any debt, obligation, or other liability incurred by the person by reason of the person’s former or present capacity as a member or manager, if the claim, demand, debt, obligation, or other liability does not arise from the person’s breach of s. 183.0405 , 183.0407 , or 183.0409 .

(3) In the ordinary course of its activities and affairs, a limited liability company may advance reasonable expenses, including attorney fees and costs, incurred by a person in connection with a claim or demand against the person by reason of the person’s former or present capacity as a member or manager, if the person promises to repay the company if the person ultimately is determined not to be entitled to be indemnified under sub. (2) .

(4) A limited liability company may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of a member or manager against liability asserted against or incurred by the member or manager in that capacity or arising from that status even if, under s. 183.0105 (3) (g) , the operating agreement could not eliminate or limit the person’s liability to the company for the conduct giving rise to the liability.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 32.29 — WI Code / Chapter 32 / Section 32.29
False statements prohibited.
Status: in_force

Any officer, agent, or employee of a governmental body or business entity granted condemnation power under s. 32.02 (1) or (3) to (16) who intentionally makes or causes to be made a statement which he or she knows to be false to any owner of property concerning the condemnation of such property or to any displaced person concerning his or her relocation benefits under s. 32.19 , 32.20 , 32.25 , or 32.26 or who fails to provide the information required under s. 32.26 (6) shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $1,000, or imprisoned for not more than one year in the county jail or both.

History: 1977 c. 158 ; 1983 a. 27 s. 879 ; Stats. 1983 s. 32.29; 2015 a. 55 .
Wis. Stat. § 854.25 — WI Code / Chapter 854 / Section 854.25
Personal liability of recipients not for value.
Status: in_force

(1) Original recipients. A person who, not for value, receives property to which the person is not entitled under this chapter shall return the property. If the property is not returned, the recipient shall be personally liable for the value of the property to the person who is entitled to it under this chapter, regardless of whether the recipient has the property, its proceeds or property acquired with the property or its proceeds.

(2) Subsequent recipients.

(a) If a recipient described in sub. (1) gives all or part of the property described in sub. (1) to a subsequent recipient, not for value, the subsequent recipient shall return the property. If the property is not returned, the subsequent recipient shall be personally liable to the person who is entitled to it under this chapter for the value received, if the subsequent recipient has the property, its proceeds or property acquired with the property or its proceeds.

(b) If the subsequent recipient described in par. (a) does not have the transfer described, its proceeds or the property acquired with the property or its proceeds, but knew or should have known of his or her liability under this section, the subsequent recipient remains personally liable to the person who is entitled to it under this chapter for the value received.

(3) Mode of satisfaction. On petition of the person entitled to the property under this chapter showing that the mode of satisfaction chosen by the recipient in sub. (1) or (2) will create a hardship for the entitled person, the court may order that a different mode of satisfaction be used.

History: 1997 a. 188 .
Wis. Stat. § 75.03 — WI Code / Chapter 75 / Section 75.03
Redeeming lands of minors or individuals adjudicated incompetent.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) The lands of minors or any interest they may have acquired in lands prior to or after the date the lands became subject to a tax certificate may be redeemed at any time before such minors come of age and during one year thereafter if such lands did not accrue delinquent taxes for 5 or more consecutive years prior to or after such acquisition, but no such redemption shall be construed as redeeming the interest of any other person in such lands. The lands of persons adjudged mentally incompetent or any interest they may have acquired in lands prior to the date the lands became subject to a tax certificate and which did not accrue delinquent taxes for 5 or more consecutive years prior to or after such acquisition, may be redeemed at any time during disability and during one year thereafter. Redemption shall be made under s. 75.01 .

(b) The heirs of any such minor who dies after the minor’s title to the lands shall accrue and before the expiration of the time when, if the minor had lived, the minor might have redeemed the lands, may also, if minors, redeem the interest of the minor in the lands within the time in which the minor could, if living, have redeemed the same; and if not minors they may redeem within one year from the time their title so accrues and within the time in which the minor could, if living, have redeemed the same.

(2) The period of redemption of lands or any interest in the lands of minors or persons adjudged mentally incompetent, which they acquired prior or subsequent to the date the lands became subject to a tax certificate and which lands accrued delinquent taxes for 5 or more consecutive years, prior to or after such acquisition, shall not be extended under sub. (1) .

(3) If a tax certificate includes lands or any interest in lands which are held by a minor or a person adjudged mentally incompetent, and those lands have accrued delinquent taxes for 5 or more years, and the time for issuance of a deed upon the certificate has not expired, the county may either foreclose by action under s. 75.19 or take title under s. 75.14 or 75.521 and foreclose any right of redemption or interest of any minor or person adjudged mentally incompetent by separate action under s. 75.19 . In such action the minor or person adjudged mentally incompetent must appear by guardian ad litem as provided by law, and the guardian, if the person has one, shall be joined as a party defendant.

History: 1977 c. 83 ; 1987 a. 378 ; 2005 a. 387 .
Wis. Stat. § 148.015 — WI Code / Chapter 148 / Section 148.015
State society.
Status: in_force

(1) The State Medical Society of Wisconsin is continued with the general powers of a corporation. It may from time to time adopt, alter, and enforce constitution, bylaws, and regulations for admission and expulsion of members, election of officers, and management.

(2) A member expelled from a county medical society may appeal to the state society, whose decision shall be final.

History: 1987 a. 13 ; Stats. 1987 s. 148.015; 2001 a. 103 .
Wis. Stat. § 551.503 — WI Code / Chapter 551 / Section 551.503
Evidentiary burden.
Status: in_force

(1) Civil. In a civil action or administrative proceeding under this chapter, a person claiming an exemption, exception, preemption, or exclusion has the burden to prove the applicability of the claim.

(2) Criminal. In a criminal proceeding under this chapter, a person claiming an exemption, exception, preemption, or exclusion has the burden of going forward with evidence of the claim.

History: 2007 a. 196 .
Wis. Stat. § 945.04 — WI Code / Chapter 945 / Section 945.04
Permitting premises to be used for commercial gambling.
Status: in_force

(1m) Except as provided in sub. (2m) , whoever intentionally does any of the following is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor:

(a) Permits any real estate owned or occupied by him or her or under his or her control to be used as a gambling place; or

(b) Permits a gambling machine to be set up for use for the purpose of gambling in a place under his or her control.

(2m) If the violation of sub. (1m) involves the setup or use of not more than 5 video gambling machines on premises for which a Class “B” or “Class B” license or permit has been issued under ch. 125 , the person may be penalized as follows:

(a) If the violation involves one video gambling machine, the person may be required to forfeit not more than $500.

(b) If the violation involves 2 video gambling machines, the person may be required to forfeit not more than $1,000.

(c) If the violation involves 3 video gambling machines, the person may be required to forfeit not more than $1,500.

(d) If the violation involves 4 video gambling machines, the person may be required to forfeit not more than $2,000.

(e) If the violation involves 5 video gambling machines, the person may be required to forfeit not more than $2,500.

History: 1977 c. 173 ; 1993 a. 486 ; 1999 a. 9 , 185 .
Wis. Stat. § 77.85 — WI Code / Chapter 77 / Section 77.85
State contribution.
Status: in_force

The department shall pay before June 30 annually the municipal treasurer, from the appropriation under s. 20.370 (5) (bv) , 20 cents for each acre of land in the municipality that is designated as managed forest land under this subchapter and for each acre of land in the municipality that has been withdrawn under s. 77.885 but for which payments under s. 77.84 (2) are being made.

History: 1985 a. 29 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2009 a. 28 .
Wis. Stat. § 50.025 — WI Code / Chapter 50 / Section 50.025
Plan reviews.
Status: in_force

The department may conduct plan reviews of all capital construction and remodeling of community-based residential facilities. The department shall promulgate rules that establish a fee schedule for its services in conducting the plan reviews.

History: 1977 c. 29 ; 1977 c. 170 ss. 7 , 9 ; 1993 a. 16 .
Wis. Stat. § 944.06 — WI Code / Chapter 944 / Section 944.06
Incest.
Status: in_force

Whoever marries or has nonmarital sexual intercourse, as defined in s. 948.01 (6) , with a person he or she knows is a blood relative and such relative is in fact related in a degree within which the marriage of the parties is prohibited by the law of this state is guilty of a Class F felony.

History: 1977 c. 173 ; 2001 a. 109 ; 2009 a. 13 .
Wis. Stat. § 349.215 — WI Code / Chapter 349 / Section 349.215
Authority to appoint school crossing guards.
Status: in_force

The governing body of any city, village, town or county may by ordinance provide for the appointment of adult school crossing guards for the protection of persons who are crossing a highway in the vicinity of a school. The school crossing guards shall wear insignia or uniforms which designate them as school crossing guards and shall be equipped with signals or signs to direct traffic to stop at school crossings.

History: 1979 c. 344 .
Wis. Stat. § 121.007 — WI Code / Chapter 121 / Section 121.007
Use of state aid; exemption from execution.
Status: in_force

All moneys paid to a school district under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) , (bc) , (cg) , and (cr) , shall be used by the school district solely for the purposes for which paid. Such moneys are exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, or other process in favor of creditors, except as to claims for salaries or wages of teachers and other school employees and as to claims for school materials, supplies, fuel, and current repairs.

History: 1971 c. 125 s. 522 (1) ; 1973 c. 90 ; 1975 c. 39 , 220 ; 1977 c. 29 s. 1099 ; Stats. 1977 s. 121.007; 1979 c. 34 s. 2102 (43) (a) ; 1979 c. 221 ; 1981 c. 20 ; 1983 a. 27 s. 2202 (42) ; 1983 a. 538 ; 1989 a. 31 , 336 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 1997 a. 27 , 113 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2003 a. 33 ; 2005 a. 25 .
Wis. Stat. § 60.76 — WI Code / Chapter 60 / Section 60.76
Organization of the commission.
Status: in_force

(1) Election of officers.

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) , the commission shall organize by electing one of its members president and appointing a secretary and treasurer.

(b) When the town board constitutes the commission, the town chairperson shall be the commission president, the town clerk shall be the commission secretary and the town treasurer shall be the commission treasurer.

(2) Secretary; duties. The secretary shall keep a separate record of all proceedings and minutes of meetings and hearings. At the end of each fiscal year, the secretary shall submit to the town board of each town in which the district is located a report showing a complete audit of the financial transactions of the commission during the fiscal year. The report shall be incorporated in the annual financial statement of the town containing the largest portion of the equalized full value of all taxable property in the district.

(3) Treasurer. The commission may require the treasurer to execute an indemnity bond, provided by the district, in an amount which the commission finds appropriate for the proper performance of the treasurer’s duties.

(4) Fiscal year. The town sanitary district fiscal year is the calendar year.

History: 1983 a. 532 .
Wis. Stat. § 83.013 — WI Code / Chapter 83 / Section 83.013
County traffic safety commissions.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) For each county, the county highway commissioner or a designated representative, the chief county traffic law enforcement officer or a designated representative, the county highway safety coordinator, and a representative designated by the county board from each of the disciplines of education, medicine and law and 3 representatives involved in law enforcement, highways and highway safety designated by the secretary of transportation shall comprise a traffic safety commission that shall meet at least quarterly to review traffic accident data from the county and other traffic safety related matters. The county board chairperson, or the county executive or county administrator in a county having such offices, may appoint additional persons to serve as a member of the county traffic safety commission. The commissions shall designate a person to prepare and maintain a spot map showing the locations of traffic accidents on county and town roads and on city and village streets if the population of the city or village is less than 5,000 and to maintain traffic accident data received from cities, villages and towns with a population of 5,000 or more under s. 66.0141 . Upon each review, the commission shall make written recommendations for any corrective actions it deems appropriate to the department, the county board, the county highway committee or any other appropriate branch of local government.

(b) Counties may combine for the purposes of par. (a) , if desired.

(c) The commissions shall file a report on each meeting with the department.

(2) The department shall furnish each commission with traffic accident data and uniform traffic citation data for the rural, federal, state, and county highways in the jurisdictions represented in each commission, which shall identify the accident rates and arrest rates on their highways, and shall also furnish a suitable map for use in spotting accidents.

History: 1971 c. 125 , 279 ; 1975 c. 381 , 421 ; 1977 c. 29 ; 1981 c. 314 ; 1983 a. 291 ; 1985 a. 223 s. 5 ; 1993 a. 246 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 1999 a. 150 s. 672 .
Wis. Stat. § 180.1532 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.1532
Appeal from revocation.
Status: in_force

(1) A foreign corporation may appeal the department’s revocation of its certificate of authority under s. 180.1530 (1) to the circuit court for the county where the foreign corporation’s principal office or, if none in this state, its registered office is located, within 30 days after the notice of revocation takes effect under s. 180.0141 (5) (a) . To appeal, the foreign corporation shall petition the court to set aside the revocation and attach to the petition copies of its certificate of authority and the department’s notice of revocation.

(2) The court may order the department to reinstate the certificate of authority or may take any other action that the court considers appropriate.

(3) The court’s final decision may be appealed as in other civil proceedings.

History: 1989 a. 303 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 2001 a. 44 ; 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.1172 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.1172
Plan of domestication.
Status: in_force

(1) A plan of domestication must be in a record and contain all of the following:

(a) The name, type of entity, and governing law of the domesticating entity.

(b) The name, type of entity, and governing law of the domesticated entity.

(c) The terms and conditions of the domestication.

(d) The organizational documents of the domesticated entity that are to be in a record immediately after the domestication becomes effective, including any proposed amendments to the organizational documents of the domesticating entity that are to be in a record immediately after the domestication becomes effective.

(2) In addition to the requirements of sub. (1) , a plan of domestication may contain any other provision relating to the domestication and not prohibited by law.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 11.1109 — WI Code / Chapter 11 / Section 11.1109
In-kind contributions.
Status: in_force

Before making a contribution, as defined under s. 11.0101 (8) (a) 2. , to a committee, the prospective contributor shall notify the candidate or candidate’s agent or the administrator or treasurer of the committee and obtain that individuals oral or written consent to the contribution.

History: 2015 a. 117 .
Wis. Stat. § 632.83 — WI Code / Chapter 632 / Section 632.83
Internal grievance procedure.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “health benefit plan” has the meaning given in s. 632.745 (11) , except that “health benefit plan” includes the coverage specified in s. 632.745 (11) (b) 10. and includes a policy, certificate or contract under s. 632.745 (11) (b) 9. that provides only limited-scope dental or vision benefits.

(2) Every insurer that issues a health benefit plan shall do all of the following:

(a) Establish and use an internal grievance procedure that is approved by the commissioner and that complies with sub. (3) for the resolution of insureds’ grievances with the health benefit plan.

(b) Provide insureds with complete and understandable information describing the internal grievance procedure under par. (a) .

(c) Submit an annual report to the commissioner describing the internal grievance procedure under par. (a) and summarizing the experience under the procedure for the year.

(3) The internal grievance procedure established under sub. (2) (a) shall include all of the following elements:

(a) The opportunity for an insured to submit a written grievance in any form.

(b) Establishment of a grievance panel for the investigation of each grievance submitted under par. (a) , consisting of at least one individual authorized to take corrective action on the grievance and at least one insured other than the grievant, if an insured is available to serve on the grievance panel.

(c) Prompt investigation of each grievance submitted under par. (a) .

(d) Notification to each grievant of the disposition of his or her grievance and of any corrective action taken on the grievance.

(e) Retention of records pertaining to each grievance for at least 3 years after the date of notification under par. (d) .

History: 1999 a. 155 ss. 8 to 17 ; Stats. 1999 s. 632.83.
Wis. Stat. § 168.17 — WI Code / Chapter 168 / Section 168.17
Attorney general and district attorney to prosecute.
Status: in_force

Upon request of the department, the attorney general or proper district attorney shall prosecute any action to enforce this subchapter except the fee that is imposed under s. 168.12 (1) .

History: 1995 a. 27 ; 2013 a. 20 .
Wis. Stat. § 187.43 — WI Code / Chapter 187 / Section 187.43
Limited liability of volunteers.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “volunteer” means an individual, other than an employee of the religious organization, who provides services to or on behalf of the religious organization without compensation.

(2) Except as provided in sub. (3) , a volunteer is not liable to any person for damages, settlements, fees, fines, penalties or other monetary liabilities arising from any act or omission as a volunteer, unless the person asserting liability proves that the act or omission constitutes any of the following:

(a) A violation of the criminal law, unless the volunteer had reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was lawful or no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.

(b) Willful misconduct.

(c) If the volunteer is a director or officer of the religious organization, an act or omission within the scope of the volunteer’s duties as a director or officer.

(d) An act or omission for which the volunteer received compensation or any thing of substantial value in lieu of compensation.

(3)

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) , this section does not apply to any of the following:

1. A civil or criminal proceeding brought by or on behalf of any governmental unit, authority or agency.

2. A proceeding brought by any person for a violation of state or federal law where the proceeding is brought pursuant to an express private right of action created by state or federal statute.

3. Claims arising from the negligent operation of an automobile, truck, train, airplane or other vehicle by a volunteer.

4. A proceeding against a volunteer who is licensed, certified, permitted or registered under state law and which is based upon an act or omission within the scope of practice under the volunteer’s license, certificate, permit or registration.

5. Proceedings based upon a cause of action for which the volunteer is immune from liability under s. 146.31 (2) and (3) , 146.37 , 895.475 , 895.48 , 895.4802 , 895.4803 , 895.482 , 895.51 , or 895.52 .

(b) Paragraph (a) 1. and 2. does not apply to a proceeding brought by or on behalf of a governmental unit, authority or agency in its capacity as a contractor.

History: 1995 a. 260 ; 2005 a. 155 .
Wis. Stat. § 961.12 — WI Code / Chapter 961 / Section 961.12
Nomenclature.
Status: in_force

The controlled substances listed in or added to the schedules in ss. 961.14 , 961.16 , 961.18 , 961.20 and 961.22 may be listed or added by any official, common, usual, chemical or trade name used for the substance.

History: 1971 c. 219 ; 1995 a. 448 s. 154 ; Stats. 1995 s. 961.12.