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Wis. Stat. § 895.506 — WI Code / Chapter 895 / Section 895.506
Civil liability exemption; weight gain and obesity claims.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who manufactures, markets, packs, distributes, advertises, or sells food, as defined in 21 USC 321 (f), is immune from civil liability for a person’s weight gain or obesity caused by the consumption of the food, or for a health condition related to weight gain or obesity.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:

(a) A claim that a defendant under sub. (1) knowingly violated a federal or state law concerning the manufacturing, marketing, distribution, advertisement, labeling, or sale of the food, and the violation was the proximate cause of the weight gain, obesity, or related health condition.

(b) A claim for breach of contract or express warranty in connection with the purchase of the food.

(c) A claim regarding the sale of food that is adulterated under 21 USC 342 .

(3) In addition to the costs allowed under s. 814.04 , a defendant that prevails on a motion under s. 802.08 filed in an action under sub. (2) may recover reasonable attorney fees and the costs of the investigation and litigation.

History: 2005 a. 325 ; 2007 a. 97 .
Wis. Stat. § 183.0704 — WI Code / Chapter 183 / Section 183.0704
Known claims against dissolved limited liability company.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as otherwise provided in sub. (4) , a dissolved limited liability company may give notice of a known claim under sub. (2) , which has the effect provided in sub. (3) .

(2) A dissolved limited liability company may in a record notify its known claimants of the dissolution. The notice must do all of the following:

(a) Specify the information required to be included in a claim.

(b) State that a claim must be in writing and provide a mailing address to which the claim is to be sent.

(c) State the deadline for receipt of a claim, which may not be less than 120 days after the date the notice is effective under s. 183.0103 (5) .

(d) State that the claim will be barred if not received by the deadline.

(3) A claim against a dissolved limited liability company is barred if the requirements of sub. (2) are met and any of the following applies:

(a) The claim is not received by the specified deadline.

(b) If the claim is timely received but rejected by the company, all of the following apply:

1. The company causes the claimant to receive a notice in a record stating that the claim is rejected and will be barred unless the claimant commences an action against the company to enforce the claim within 90 days after the notice is effective under s. 183.0103 (5) .

2. The claimant does not commence the required action within 90 days after the notice of rejection is effective under s. 183.0103 (5) .

(4) This section does not apply to a claim based on an event occurring after the date of dissolution, a liability that on that date is contingent, or a liability for an additional assessment under s. 71.74 or for sales and use taxes determined as owing under s. 77.59 .

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 86.11 — WI Code / Chapter 86 / Section 86.11
Highways; railroad crossings; grade separation.
Status: in_force

Whenever any highway crosses a railroad at grade and the town, village or county board or the city council or city commissioners other than in a city of the first class, as the case may be, shall deem it for the best interest of the public that said highway and railroad shall cross at separate grades, and when an agreement can be made between such board and the railroad company as to the manner of constructing of such separated grade crossing and doing the necessary work they may contract therefor; and such board shall after entering into such contract levy a tax sufficient to raise the money required to carry out such contract on its part, which tax shall be collected at the time and in the manner as other taxes are, and when collected shall be set aside as a special fund and used for said purpose. The plans for such grade separation shall have the approval of the department before the contract shall be binding or the change shall be made.

History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (10) (e) .
Wis. Stat. § 293.53 — WI Code / Chapter 293 / Section 293.53
Review of permits; periodic reports.
Status: in_force

(1)

(a) Eighteen months after the issuance of a prospecting permit, and annually thereafter until prospecting ceases, the department shall review the permit, reclamation plan and bond to ascertain adequacy, compliance with state or federal laws enacted after the issuance of the permit and technological currency. If the department after review determines that the plan should be modified or the bond amount changed, it shall notify the permit holder of the necessary modifications or changes. If the permit holder does not request a hearing within 30 days, the modifications or changes shall be deemed accepted.

(b) If the permit holder desires to modify the permit, an amended application shall be submitted to the department, which shall process the amendment as if it were an original application if the proposed modification substantially broadens or changes the scope of the original prospecting proposal.

(c) To the extent that testimony and evidence submitted at the original prospecting permit proceedings or from previous modification hearings is relevant to the issues of modification or granting or denial of the amendment, it may be adopted in the subsequent proceedings, subject to the opportunity for cross-examination and rebuttal, if not unduly repetitious.

(2)

(a) The operator shall furnish the department with a report for each mining site every 12 months after issuance of the permit, within 30 days after completion of all mining at the mining site and within 30 days after completion of the mining plan and of the reclamation plan. The reports shall include, in addition to such other information as the department requires, such information and maps as the department deems necessary to evaluate the extent of mining and the reclamation accomplished during the previous calendar year.

(b) Annually, the department shall review the mining and reclamation plans and bonds, using the procedure specified under sub. (1) .

(c) The department shall cancel the mining permit held by any operator who fails and refuses to submit reports required under this subsection.

History: 1995 a. 227 s. 767 ; 1995 a. 227 ss. 791 , 994 .
Wis. Stat. § 113.11 — WI Code / Chapter 113 / Section 113.11
Release of joint debtor; effect.
Status: in_force

(1) If any creditor to whom persons are jointly indebted, either upon contract or the judgment of a court of record, shall release any of them such release shall operate as a satisfaction or discharge of such joint debt to the amount of the proportion which the person so released ought in equity, as between the person and the other joint debtors, to pay; and the balance of such joint debt shall remain in force as to joint debtors not released and may be enforced against them. If the amount paid by a debtor to procure the release shall exceed the proportion of such joint debt which the debtor, as between the debtor and co-debtors ought to pay then such joint debt shall thereby be satisfied to the extent of the sum so paid. If the person released is only a surety the person’s release shall operate as payment of such joint debt to the extent of the money paid by the person and no further.

(2) This section does not permit the discharge of a principal debtor without also discharging the principal debtor’s sureties.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 760 (1975); 1975 c. 218 .
Wis. Stat. § 181.0206 — WI Code / Chapter 181 / Section 181.0206
Bylaws.
Status: in_force

(1) Initial bylaws. The incorporators, members or board of a corporation shall adopt the initial bylaws for the corporation.

(2) Subsequent adoption, amendment and repeal. After the adoption of the initial bylaws under sub. (1) , bylaws may be adopted either by the members or the board, but no bylaw adopted by the members shall be amended or repealed by the directors, unless the bylaws adopted by the members shall have conferred such authority upon the directors. Any bylaw adopted by the board is subject to amendment or repeal by the members as well as by the directors.

(3) Content of bylaws. The bylaws of a corporation may contain any provision for regulating and managing the affairs of the corporation that is not inconsistent with its articles of incorporation or with the laws of this state.

History: 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 70.30 — WI Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70.30
Aggregate values.
Status: in_force

For assessments made before January 1, 2024, every assessor shall ascertain and set down in separate columns prepared for that purpose on the assessment roll and opposite to the names of all persons assessed for personal property the number and value of the following named items of personal property assessed to such person, which shall constitute the assessed valuation of the several items of property therein described, to wit:

(9) The number and value of steam and other vessels.

(11) The value of machinery, tools and patterns.

(12) The value of furniture, fixture and equipment.

(13) The value of all other personal property except such as is exempt from taxation.

History: 1981 c. 20 ; 1983 a. 27 s. 2202 (45) ; 1983 a. 405 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 2023 a. 12 .
Wis. Stat. § 767.813 — WI Code / Chapter 767 / Section 767.813
Section 767.813
Status: in_force

(5g) Notice. The notice to parties shall be attached to the summons. The notice shall be in boldface type and in substantially the following form:

(6) Document. The summons served on the respondent shall be accompanied by a document, provided without charge by the clerk of court, setting forth the percentage standard established by the department under s. 49.22 (9) and listing the factors that a court may consider under s. 767.511 (1m) .

History: 1979 c. 352 ; 1981 c. 314 ; 1983 a. 447 ; 1985 a. 29 ; 1987 a. 27 , 413 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 171 Wis. 2d xix (1992); 1993 a. 16 , 481 ; 1995 a. 27 ss. 7112 , 7113b , 9126 (19) ; 1995 a. 100 , 404 , 417 ; 1997 a. 35 , 191 , 250 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2001 a. 61 , 105 ; 2005 a. 443 ss. 185 , 186 , 190 , 243 , 244 ; Stats. 2005 s. 767.813; 2013 a. 170 .
Wis. Stat. § 54.66 — WI Code / Chapter 54 / Section 54.66
Final accounts.
Status: in_force

(1) Render final account. If a court terminates a guardianship, or a guardian resigns, is removed, or dies, the guardian or the guardian’s personal representative or special administrator shall promptly render a final account to the court and to the ward or former ward, the successor guardian, or the deceased ward’s personal representative or special administrator, as appropriate. If the ward dies and the guardian and the deceased ward’s personal representative or special administrator are the same person, the deceased ward’s personal representative or special administrator shall give notice of the termination and rendering of the final account to all interested persons of the ward’s estate.

(2) Small estates. The guardian of a ward with a small estate, as specified in s. 54.62 (3) (a) , need not file a final account, unless otherwise ordered by the court. The guardian shall instead provide the court with a list of the ward’s assets that remain at the time the guardianship terminates, including at the death of the ward.

(3) Discharge. After approving the final account and after the guardian has filed proper receipts, the court shall discharge the guardian and release the guardian’s bond.

(4) Summary settlement of small estates. If a ward dies leaving an estate that can be settled summarily under s. 867.01 , the court may approve the settlement and distribution by the guardian under the procedures of s. 867.01 without appointing a personal representative.

History: 2005 a. 387 ss. 100 , 430 , 447 , 448 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.0409 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.0409
Noncharitable trust without ascertainable beneficiary.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in s. 701.0408 or by another statute, the following rules apply:

(1) A trust may be created for a noncharitable purpose without a definite or definitely ascertainable beneficiary or for a noncharitable but otherwise valid purpose to be selected by the trustee.

(2) A trust may be created for maintaining, keeping in repair, and preserving any grave, tomb, monument, gravestone, or any cemetery. Any cemetery authority under s. 157.061 (2) may receive property in trust for any of the purposes specified in this subsection and apply the income from the trust to the purpose stated in the trust instrument.

(3) A trust authorized by this section may be enforced by a trust protector with the power to enforce the trust. If there is not a trust protector with the power to enforce the trust, a court may appoint a trust protector with the power to enforce the trust under s. 701.0818 .

(4) Property of a trust authorized by this section may be applied only to its intended use, except to the extent the court determines that the value of the trust property exceeds the amount required for the intended use. Property not required for the intended use must be distributed to the settlor, if then living, otherwise to the settlor’s successors in interest.

History: 2013 a. 92 .
Wis. Stat. § 18.02 — WI Code / Chapter 18 / Section 18.02
Scope of subchapter .
Status: in_force

Public debt may be contracted and evidences of indebtedness issued therefor only to the amounts, for the purposes, by the procedures and with the kinds of evidence of indebtedness specified in this subchapter, except that this subchapter is not applicable:

(1) To public debt, not exceeding in the aggregate $100,000, incurred for the purpose of defraying extraordinary expenditures of the state.

(2) To public debt incurred to repel invasion, suppress insurrection or defend the state in time of war.

History: 1977 c. 29 s. 1652 .
Wis. Stat. § 121.01 — WI Code / Chapter 121 / Section 121.01
Purpose.
Status: in_force

It is declared to be the policy of this state that education is a state function and that some relief should be afforded from the local general property tax as a source of public school revenue where such tax is excessive, and that other sources of revenue should contribute a larger percentage of the total funds needed. It is further declared that in order to provide reasonable equality of educational opportunity for all the children of this state, the state must guarantee that a basic educational opportunity be available to each pupil, but that the state should be obligated to contribute to the educational program only if the school district provides a program which meets state standards. It is the purpose of the state aid formula set forth in this subchapter to cause the state to assume a greater proportion of the costs of public education and to relieve the general property of some of its tax burden.
Wis. Stat. § 101.9202 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.9202
Excepted liens and security interests.
Status: in_force

Sections 101.9203 to 101.9218 do not apply to or affect:

(1) A lien given by statute or rule of law to a supplier of services or materials for the manufactured home.

(2) A lien given by statute to the United States, this state or any political subdivision of this state.

(3) A security interest in a manufactured home created by a manufactured home dealer or manufacturer who holds the manufactured home for sale, which shall be governed by the applicable provisions of ch. 409 .

History: 1999 a. 9 , 53 .
Wis. Stat. § 29.195 — WI Code / Chapter 29 / Section 29.195
Disabled veterans, Great Lakes Naval Hospital.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other statute, any disabled veteran who is a patient at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois, may hunt pheasant in this state in Columbia County on any one day in November in each year, the day to be specified by the administrator of the hospital to the department, without obtaining a resident or nonresident hunting license under this chapter.

History: 1971 c. 127 ; 1973 c. 243 s. 81 ; 1997 a. 248 s. 281 ; Stats. 1997 s. 29.195.
Wis. Stat. § 407.506 — WI Code / Chapter 407 / Section 407.506
Delivery without endorsement; right to compel endorsement.
Status: in_force

The transferee of a negotiable tangible document of title has a specifically enforceable right to have its transferor supply any necessary endorsement, but the transfer becomes a negotiation only as of the time the endorsement is supplied.

History: 2009 a. 322 .
Wis. Stat. § 180.0801 — WI Code / Chapter 180 / Section 180.0801
Requirement for and duties of board of directors.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in s. 180.1821 , a corporation shall have a board of directors.

(2) All corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the authority of, and the business and affairs of the corporation managed under the direction of, its board of directors, subject to any limitation set forth in the articles of incorporation.

History: 1989 a. 303 .
Wis. Stat. § 408.106 — WI Code / Chapter 408 / Section 408.106
Control.
Status: in_force

(1) A purchaser has “control” of a certificated security in bearer form if the certificated security is delivered to the purchaser.

(2) A purchaser has “control” of a certificated security in registered form if the certificated security is delivered to the purchaser and:

(a) The certificate is endorsed to the purchaser or in blank by an effective endorsement; or

(b) The certificate is registered in the name of the purchaser, upon original issue or registration of transfer by the issuer.

(3) A purchaser has “control” of an uncertificated security if:

(a) The uncertificated security is delivered to the purchaser; or

(b) The issuer has agreed that it will comply with instructions originated by the purchaser without further consent by the registered owner.

(4) A purchaser has “control” of a security entitlement if:

(a) The purchaser becomes the entitlement holder;

(b) The securities intermediary has agreed that it will comply with entitlement orders originated by the purchaser without further consent by the entitlement holder; or

(c) Another person has control of the security entitlement on behalf of the purchaser or, having previously acquired control of the security entitlement, acknowledges that it has control on behalf of the purchaser.

(5) If an interest in a security entitlement is granted by the entitlement holder to the entitlement holder’s own securities intermediary, the securities intermediary has control.

(6) A purchaser who has satisfied the requirements of sub. (3) or (4) has control even if the registered owner in the case of sub. (3) or the entitlement holder in the case of sub. (4) retains the right to make substitutions for the uncertificated security or security entitlement, to originate instructions or entitlement orders to the issuer or securities intermediary, or otherwise to deal with the uncertificated security or security entitlement.

(7) An issuer or a securities intermediary may not enter into an agreement of the kind described in sub. (3) (b) or (4) (b) without the consent of the registered owner or entitlement holder, but an issuer or a securities intermediary is not required to enter into such an agreement even though the registered owner or entitlement holder so directs. An issuer or securities intermediary that has entered into such an agreement is not required to confirm the existence of the agreement to another party unless requested to do so by the registered owner or entitlement holder.

History: 1997 a. 297 ; 2001 a. 10 .
Wis. Stat. § 939.66 — WI Code / Chapter 939 / Section 939.66
Conviction of included crime permitted.
Status: in_force

Upon prosecution for a crime, the actor may be convicted of either the crime charged or an included crime, but not both. An included crime may be any of the following:

(1) A crime which does not require proof of any fact in addition to those which must be proved for the crime charged.

(2) A crime which is a less serious type of criminal homicide under subch. I of ch. 940 than the one charged.

(2m) A crime which is a less serious or equally serious type of battery than the one charged.

(2p) A crime which is a less serious or equally serious type of violation under s. 948.02 than the one charged.

(2r) A crime which is a less serious type of violation under s. 943.23 than the one charged.

(3) A crime which is the same as the crime charged except that it requires recklessness or negligence while the crime charged requires a criminal intent.

(4) An attempt in violation of s. 939.32 to commit the crime charged.

(4m) A crime of failure to timely pay child support under s. 948.22 (3) when the crime charged is failure to pay child support for more than 120 days under s. 948.22 (2) .

(5) The crime of attempted battery when the crime charged is sexual assault, sexual assault of a child, robbery, mayhem or aggravated battery or an attempt to commit any of them.

(6) A crime specified in s. 940.285 (2) (b) 4. or 5. when the crime charged is specified in s. 940.225 (1) , (2) or (3) , 940.30 , or 940.60 (2) or (3) or s. 940.19 (2) , 2023 stats., s. 940.19 (4) , 2023 stats., s. 940.19 (5) , 2023 stats., or s. 940.19 (6) , 2023 stats.

(6c) A crime that is a less serious type of violation under s. 940.285 than the one charged.

(6e) A crime that is a less serious type of violation under s. 940.295 than the one charged.

(7) The crime specified in s. 940.11 (2) when the crime charged is specified in s. 940.11 (1) .

History: 1985 a. 29 , 144 , 306 , 332 ; 1987 a. 332 s. 64 ; 1987 a. 349 , 403 ; 1989 a. 31 s. 2909b ; 1989 a. 250 ; 1991 a. 205 ; 1993 a. 441 , 445 , 491 ; 2005 a. 430 ; 2015 a. 81 ; 2025 a. 24 s. 93 .
Wis. Stat. § 215.524 — WI Code / Chapter 215 / Section 215.524
Consideration of interests in addition to members’ interests.
Status: in_force

In discharging his or her duties to a mutual association organized under this subchapter and in determining what he or she believes to be in the best interests of the mutual association, a director or officer may, in addition to considering the effects of any action on members, consider the following:

(1) The effects of the action on employees, suppliers and customers of the mutual association.

(2) The effects of the action on communities in which the mutual association operates.

(3) Any other factors the director or officer considers pertinent.

History: 1987 a. 13 .
Wis. Stat. § 75.145 — WI Code / Chapter 75 / Section 75.145
Correction of description by action.
Status: in_force

Any tax deed issued by a county containing an incomplete, indefinite or incorrect real estate description, and which description follows that set forth in the tax certificate upon which such tax deed issued, may be corrected in an action brought in the circuit court in the same manner as actions for the reformation of instruments. Such deed so corrected shall be valid as of the date of the first issue.

History: 1987 a. 378 .
Wis. Stat. § 115.48 — WI Code / Chapter 115 / Section 115.48
Contracts under agreement.
Status: in_force

True copies of all contracts made on behalf of this state pursuant to the agreement shall be kept on file in the department and in the office of the secretary of state. The department shall publish all such contracts in convenient form.

History: 1995 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 769.103 — WI Code / Chapter 769 / Section 769.103
Remedies cumulative.
Status: in_force

(1) Remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity.

(2) This chapter does not do any of the following:

(a) Provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order under the law of this state.

(b) Grant a tribunal of this state jurisdiction to render judgment or issue an order relating to legal custody or physical placement of a child in a proceeding under this chapter.

History: 1993 a. 326 ; 2009 a. 321 ; 2015 a. 82 ss. 3 , 12 .