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Wis. Stat. § 424.202 — WI Code / Chapter 424 / Section 424.202
Charge for insurance.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter and subject to the provisions on additional charges (s. 422.202 ), and maximum charges (s. 422.201 ) a creditor may agree to provide insurance, and may contract for and receive a charge for insurance separate from and in addition to other charges. A creditor need not make a separate charge for insurance provided or required by the creditor.

(2) This chapter does not authorize the issuance of any insurance prohibited under any statute, or rule thereunder, governing the business of insurance.

History: 1971 c. 239 ; 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 938.237 — WI Code / Chapter 938 / Section 938.237
Civil law and ordinance proceedings initiated by citation in the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this chapter and ch. 48.
Status: in_force

(1) Citation form. The citation forms under s. 23.54 , 66.0113 , 778.25 , 778.26 or 800.02 may be used to commence an action for a violation of civil laws and ordinances in the court.

(2) Procedures. The procedures for issuance and filing of a citation, and for forfeitures, stipulations, and deposits in ss. 23.50 to 23.67 , 23.75 (3) and (4) , 66.0113 , 778.25 , 778.26 , and 800.01 to 800.035 except s. 800.035 (7) (b) , when the citation is issued by a law enforcement officer, shall be used as appropriate, except that this chapter shall govern taking and holding a juvenile in custody, s. 938.37 shall govern costs, fees, and surcharges imposed under ch. 814 , and a capias shall be substituted for an arrest warrant. Sections 66.0113 (3) (c) and (d) , 66.0114 (1) , and 778.10 as they relate to collection of forfeitures do not apply.

(3) Disposition. If a juvenile to whom a citation has been issued does not submit a deposit or a stipulation and deposit, the juvenile shall appear in the court for a plea hearing under s. 938.30 at the date, time and place for the court appearance specified on the citation. If the juvenile does not submit a stipulation and deposit or if the court refuses to accept a deposit unaccompanied by a stipulation, the juvenile may be summoned to appear and the procedures that govern petitions for civil law or ordinance violations under s. 938.125 shall govern all proceedings initiated by a citation, except that the citation shall not be referred to the court intake worker for an intake inquiry. If the court finds that a juvenile violated a municipal ordinance or a civil law punishable by a forfeiture under this section, the court shall enter a dispositional order under s. 938.344 , if applicable, or if s. 938.344 does not apply, the court may enter any of the dispositional orders under s. 938.343 .

History: 1995 a. 77 ; 1999 a. 150 s. 672 ; 2001 a. 30 s. 108 ; 2003 a. 139 ; 2005 a. 344 ; 2009 a. 402 .
Wis. Stat. § 51.81 — WI Code / Chapter 51 / Section 51.81
Uniform extradition of persons of unsound mind act; definitions.
Status: in_force

The terms “flight” and “fled” as used in ss. 51.81 to 51.85 shall be construed to mean any voluntary or involuntary departure from the jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings hereinafter mentioned may have been instituted and are still pending with the effect of avoiding, impeding or delaying the action of the court in which such proceedings may have been instituted or be pending, or any such departure from the state where the person demanded then was, if the person then was under detention by law as a person of unsound mind and subject to detention. The word “state” wherever used in ss. 51.81 to 51.85 shall include states, territories, districts and insular and other possessions of the United States. As applied to a request to return any person within the purview of ss. 51.81 to 51.85 to or from the District of Columbia, the words, “executive authority,” “governor” and “chief magistrate,” respectively, shall include a justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and other authority.

History: 1971 c. 40 s. 93 ; 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 947.011 — WI Code / Chapter 947 / Section 947.011
Disrupting a funeral or memorial service.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Facility” includes a cemetery in which a funeral or memorial service takes place.

(b) “Funeral or memorial service” includes a wake or a burial, as defined in s. 157.061 (1) , but does not include a service that is not intended to honor or commemorate one or more specific decedents.

(2)

(a) No person may do any of the following during a funeral or memorial service, during the 60 minutes immediately preceding the scheduled starting time of a funeral or memorial service if a starting time has been scheduled, or during the 60 minutes immediately following a funeral or memorial service:

1. Engage in conduct that is prohibited under s. 947.01 (1) within 500 feet of any entrance to a facility being used for the service with the intent to disrupt the service.

2. Intentionally block access to a facility being used for the service.

(b) No person, with the intent to disrupt a funeral procession, may impede vehicles that he or she knows are part of the procession.

(c) No person may do any of the following during a funeral or memorial service, during the 60 minutes immediately preceding the scheduled starting time of a funeral or memorial service if a starting time has been scheduled, or during the 60 minutes immediately following a funeral or memorial service:

1. Engage in conduct that is prohibited under s. 947.01 (1) within 500 feet of any entrance to a facility being used for the service.

2. Block access to a facility being used for the service.

(d) No person may impede vehicles that are part of a funeral procession if the person’s conduct violates s. 947.01 (1) .

(3)

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) , any person who violates this section is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(b) Any person who violates sub. (2) (a) or (b) after having been convicted of a violation of this section is guilty of a Class I felony.

History: 2005 a. 114 ; 2011 a. 35 .
Wis. Stat. § 823.13 — WI Code / Chapter 823 / Section 823.13
Judgment and execution; sale of fixtures.
Status: in_force

If the existence of the nuisance be established in an action under s. 823.09 , or in a criminal proceeding, an order of abatement shall be entered as a part of the judgment in the case, which order shall direct the removal from the building or place of all fixtures, furniture, musical instruments, or movable property used in conducting the nuisance, and shall direct the sale thereof in the manner provided for the sale of chattels under execution, and the effectual closing of the building or place against its use for any purpose, and so keeping it closed for a period of one year, unless sooner released. If any person shall break and enter or use a building, erection, or place so directed to be closed the person shall be punished as for contempt, as provided in s. 823.12 .

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 762, 782 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 823.13; 1993 a. 486 .
Wis. Stat. § 408.203 — WI Code / Chapter 408 / Section 408.203
Staleness as notice of defect or defense.
Status: in_force

After an act or event, other than a call that has been revoked, creating a right to immediate performance of the principal obligation represented by a certificated security or setting a date on or after which the security is to be presented or surrendered for redemption or exchange, a purchaser is charged with notice of any defect in its issue or defense of the issuer, if the act or event:

(1) Requires the payment of money, the delivery of a certificated security, the registration of transfer of an uncertificated security, or any of them on presentation or surrender of the security certificate, the money or security is available on the date set for payment or exchange, and the purchaser takes the security more than one year after that date; or

(2) Is not covered by sub. (1) and the purchaser takes the security more than 2 years after the date set for surrender or presentation or the date on which performance became due.

History: 1997 a. 297 .
Wis. Stat. § 179.0209 — WI Code / Chapter 179 / Section 179.0209
Correcting filed record.
Status: in_force

(1) A person on whose behalf a filed record was delivered to the department for filing may correct the record if any of the following applies:

(a) The record at the time of filing was inaccurate.

(b) The record was defectively signed.

(c) The electronic transmission of the record to the department was defective.

(2) To correct a filed record, a person on whose behalf the record was delivered to the department must deliver to the department for filing a statement of correction.

(3)

(a) A statement of correction may not state a delayed effective date.

(b) A statement of correction must satisfy all of the following:

1. It must be signed by the person correcting the filed record.

2. It must identify the filed record to be corrected.

3. It must specify the inaccuracy or defect to be corrected.

4. It must correct the inaccuracy or defect.

(4) A statement of correction is effective as of the effective date of the filed record that it corrects except for purposes of s. 179.0103 (4) and as to persons relying on the uncorrected filed record and adversely affected by the correction. For those purposes and as to those persons, the statement of correction is effective when filed.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 408.111 — WI Code / Chapter 408 / Section 408.111
Clearing corporation rules.
Status: in_force

A rule adopted by a clearing corporation governing rights and obligations among the clearing corporation and its participants in the clearing corporation is effective even if the rule conflicts with chs. 401 to 411 and affects another party who does not consent to the rule.

History: 1997 a. 297 .
Wis. Stat. § 63.36 — WI Code / Chapter 63 / Section 63.36
Appointment of examiners; compensation.
Status: in_force

(1) The board shall control all examinations, and may, whenever an examination is to take place, designate a suitable number of persons, either in or not in the official service of the city, to be examiners, and the examiners shall make return or report of the examination to the board. The board may, at any time, substitute any other person, whether or not in the official service of the city, in the place of anyone so selected. The board may themselves, at any time, act as examiners under this section without appointing examiners. The examiners, at any examination, shall not all be members of the same political party. No person shall serve in an examination of a candidate for office under ss. 63.18 to 63.53 who is a relative or connected by marriage within the degree of first cousin.

(2) Persons in the service of the city shall not be compensated for acting as examiners if they are public officers or if their service as examiners is rendered during their paid working schedule, but the board may compensate employees of the board of school directors for serving as city service examiners beyond their regular working hours and beyond their regular duties as such employees.

History: 1971 c. 154 ; 1979 c. 89 ; 1997 a. 253 .
Wis. Stat. § 74.59 — WI Code / Chapter 74 / Section 74.59
Notice of issuance of tax certificate.
Status: in_force

(1) Notice of issuance of tax certificate.

(a) Within 90 days after issuance of the tax certificate under s. 74.57 , the county treasurer shall mail a notice to each owner of record, as shown in the tax roll, of property included in the certificate for which real property taxes, special assessments, special charges or special taxes remain unpaid as of the date the notice is mailed. Unless it is issued by a city authorized to act under s. 74.87 , the notice shall state all of the following:

1. That real property taxes, special assessments, special charges or special taxes remain unpaid as of the date of mailing on property which the tax roll shows is owned by the addressee.

2. That the records showing the delinquency under subd. 1. are available for inspection in the treasurer’s office.

3. That, on the previous September 1, a tax certificate was issued to the county for all property for which real property taxes, special assessments, special charges or special taxes remained unpaid at the close of business on August 31.

4. That failure to pay the delinquent real property taxes, special charges, special taxes or special assessments will result in eventual transfer, no earlier than 2 years after issuance of the tax certificate, of the ownership of the property to the county.

(b) The format of the notice under this subsection shall be prescribed by the department of revenue under s. 70.09 (3) .

(2) Notice not timely mailed. If a treasurer fails to mail the notice required under sub. (1) , the notice may be mailed later and the 2-year period of redemption commences on the date of the mailing.

(3) Affidavit of mailing. After completing the mailing under sub. (1) or (2) , the treasurer, except the treasurer of a city authorized to proceed under s. 74.87 , shall sign an affidavit attesting that the treasurer has complied with the mailing requirements under this section. The affidavit shall do all of the following:

(a) Identify the property owners and the addresses to which the notice was mailed.

(b) Contain a description of each parcel of property, as shown on the tax certificate, for which a notice was mailed.

(c) State the amount of unpaid real property taxes, special assessments, special charges or special taxes for each description of property included under par. (b) .

(4) Effect of not receiving notice. Failure of a person to receive a notice under this section does not affect the ability of a county or city to acquire ownership of property for which a tax certificate has been issued.

History: 1987 a. 378 ; 1991 a. 39 .
Wis. Stat. § 46.81 — WI Code / Chapter 46 / Section 46.81
Benefit specialist program.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Aging unit” means an aging unit director and necessary personnel, directed by a county commission on aging and organized as one of the following:

1. An agency of county government with the primary purpose of administering programs of services for older individuals of the county.

2. A unit, within a county department under s. 46.215 , 46.22 or 46.23 , with the primary purpose of administering programs of services for older individuals of the county.

3. A private corporation that is organized under ch. 181 and that is a nonprofit corporation, as defined in s. 181.0103 (17) .

(b) “Area agency on aging” means the agency designated under 42 USC 3025 (a) (2) (A).

(c) “Older individual” means an individual who is 60 years of age or older.

(2) From the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (1) (dh) , the department shall allocate $2,298,400 in each fiscal year to aging units to provide benefit specialist services for older individuals. The department shall ensure that each aging unit receives funds and shall take into account the proportion of the state’s population of low-income older individuals who reside in a county.

(3) An aging unit shall use the funds allocated under sub. (2) and federal funds designated for the purpose to provide benefit specialist services to older individuals. Aging units may also use other funds to provide benefit specialist services.

(4) Benefit specialists shall offer information, advice and assistance to older individuals related to individual eligibility for, and problems with, public benefits and services and to health care financing, insurance, housing and other financial and consumer concerns. Benefit specialists shall refer older individuals in need of legal representation to the private bar or other available legal resources.

(5) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (dh) the department shall allocate $182,500 in each fiscal year to area agencies on aging. Each area agency on aging shall use the funds for training, supervision and legal back-up services for benefit specialists within its area.

History: 1987 a. 27 , 399 ; 1989 a. 31 ; 1991 a. 39 , 235 , 269 , 315 ; 1993 a. 16 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 41 , 79 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2005 a. 25 ; 2017 a. 59 .
Wis. Stat. § 63.11 — WI Code / Chapter 63 / Section 63.11
Standard scale of compensation.
Status: in_force

The director of personnel, under the direction of the commission and in cooperation with the county clerk, or county auditor, if any, and with the heads of the various departments, shall devise and recommend to the board of supervisors a standardized scale of wages and salaries for all county offices and positions in the classified service. The wage scale shall be graduated according to the duties performed, the length of service and efficiency records of the officers or employees, and the time of day or night those services are performed by the establishment of shifts. The supervisors shall consider and act in some way upon this scale at the last meeting of the board of supervisors in the month of October next following its recommendation, and if adopted it shall go into effect on the first day of January following its adoption, or at such other date as may be provided by law.

History: 1983 a. 148 s. 8 ; 1995 a. 225 .
Wis. Stat. § 563.17 — WI Code / Chapter 563 / Section 563.17
Denial of application; hearing.
Status: in_force

If the department denies a license to conduct bingo, within 30 days after receiving written notification of such denial, an applicant may demand in writing a hearing before the department upon the applicant’s qualifications and the merit of the application. At the hearing, the burden of proof shall be on the applicant to establish his or her eligibility for a license. If, after the hearing, the department enters an order denying the application, the order shall set forth in detail the reasons for the denial. Upon entry of such an order or upon the expiration of the 30-day period during which a hearing may be demanded, the applicant’s license fee shall be refunded less reasonable administrative costs. If the department approves the application, the department shall issue the license within 14 days after approval.

History: 1973 c. 156 ; 1979 c. 34 ; 1989 a. 147 ; 1991 a. 269 s. 782ed ; Stats. 1991 s. 563.17; 1995 a. 27 s. 9123 (6pp) ; 1997 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 631.45 — WI Code / Chapter 631 / Section 631.45
Limitations on loss to be borne by insurer.
Status: in_force

(1) General. An insurance policy indemnifying an insured against loss may by clear language limit the part of the loss to be borne by the insurer to a specified or determinable maximum amount, to loss in excess of a specified or determinable amount, to a specified percentage of the loss, which may vary with the amount of the loss, or by a combination of these methods. If the policy covers various risks, different limitations may be provided separately for each risk if the policy clearly so states.

(2) Property coinsurance. A policy indemnifying an insured against loss of or damage to property may limit the part of the loss to be borne by the insurer to a percentage of the total loss that corresponds to the ratio of the insured sum to a specified percentage of the value of the insured property.

History: 1975 c. 375 .
Wis. Stat. § 179.1001 — WI Code / Chapter 179 / Section 179.1001
Governing law.
Status: in_force

(1) The governing law of a foreign limited partnership governs all of the following:

(a) The internal affairs of the partnership.

(b) The liability of a partner as partner for a debt, obligation, or other liability of the foreign partnership.

(2) A foreign limited partnership is not precluded from registering to do business in this state because of any difference between its governing law and the law of this state.

(3) Registration of a foreign limited partnership to do business in this state does not authorize the foreign partnership to engage in any activities and affairs or exercise any power that a limited partnership may not engage in or exercise in this state.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 84.065 — WI Code / Chapter 84 / Section 84.065
Railroad and utility alteration and relocation loan program.
Status: in_force

(1) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to promote the state’s interest in preserving and improving state trunk and connecting highways by means of a program to provide loans for railroad and public utility alterations and relocations associated with highway improvement projects.

(2) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Improvement” has the meaning given in s. 84.06 (1) .

(b) “Public utility” has the meaning given in s. 196.01 (5) and includes a telecommunications carrier, as defined in s. 196.01 (8m) .

(c) “Railroad” has the meaning given in s. 195.02 (1) .

(3) Administration. The department shall administer a loan program to assist public utilities and railroads with the costs of utility and railroad alterations and relocations that are associated with state trunk and connecting highway improvement projects and that are not subject to reimbursement by the department. The department shall have all powers necessary and convenient to implement this section, including the following powers:

(a) To specify conditions of eligibility for loans under this section. Such conditions shall include the requirement that the utility or railroad alteration or relocation must be part of a planned state trunk or connecting highway improvement project.

(b) To receive applications for loans under this section and to prescribe the form, nature and extent of the information which shall be contained in applications.

(c) To establish standards for the approval of loans under this section.

(d) To enter into loan agreements with applicants to ensure the proper use and prompt repayment of loans under this section. The loan agreement shall permit the loan to be repaid without interest before the date on which the contract for the improvement project with which the utility or railroad alteration is associated is awarded. The loan agreement shall require the payment of interest on the outstanding balance of any loan that is not repaid by the date on which that contract is awarded, accruing from the date on which that contract is awarded. Interest shall be charged at a rate equal to the weekly prime rate for the week prior to the date on which the contract is awarded, as reported by the federal reserve board in federal reserve statistical release H. 15, plus 1 percent. The loan agreement shall require repayment of the principal and payment of any accrued interest within one year of the date on which the contract is awarded.

(e) To audit and inspect the records of loan recipients.

(4) Funds. Subject to s. 86.255 , the department may make loans under this section from the appropriations under s. 20.395 (3) (bv) and (cv) . The total outstanding balance of loans under this section may not exceed $500,000.

(5) Rules. The department may promulgate rules as necessary to implement this section.

History: 1989 a. 31 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1993 a. 496 ; 1999 a. 9 .
Wis. Stat. § 879.69 — WI Code / Chapter 879 / Section 879.69
Court must rule on petition.
Status: in_force

When the personal representative petitions for a ruling or order in regard to any matter connected with the administration of the estate, the court, after hearing on notice under s. 879.03 shall make a ruling or grant or deny the petition by order.