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Wis. Stat. § 102.06 — WI Code / Chapter 102 / Section 102.06
Joint liability of employer and contractor.
Status: in_force

An employer shall be liable for compensation to an employee of a contractor or subcontractor under the employer who is not subject to this chapter, or who has not complied with the conditions of s. 102.28 (2) in any case where such employer would have been liable for compensation if such employee had been working directly for the employer, including also work in the erection, alteration, repair or demolition of improvements or of fixtures upon premises of such employer which are used or to be used in the operations of such employer. The contractor or subcontractor, if subject to this chapter, shall also be liable for such compensation, but the employee shall not recover compensation for the same injury from more than one party. The employer who becomes liable for and pays such compensation may recover the same from such contractor, subcontractor or other employer for whom the employee was working at the time of the injury if such contractor, subcontractor or other employer was an employer as defined in s. 102.04 . This section does not apply to injuries occurring on or after the first day of the first July beginning after the day that the secretary files the certificate under s. 102.80 (3) (a) , except that if the secretary files the certificate under s. 102.80 (3) (ag) this section does apply to claims for compensation filed on or after the date specified in that certificate.

History: 1975 c. 147 s. 54 ; 1975 c. 199 ; 1989 a. 64 ; 1995 a. 117 .
Wis. Stat. § 84.1054 — WI Code / Chapter 84 / Section 84.1054
Tom Diehl Memorial Highway.
Status: in_force

The department shall designate and mark the entire portion of USH 12 located in the village of Lake Delton in Sauk County as the “Tom Diehl Memorial Highway.”

History: 2025 a. 157 .
Wis. Stat. § 707.48 — WI Code / Chapter 707 / Section 707.48
Resales of time shares.
Status: in_force

(1) Required disclosures. Except as provided in s. 707.40 or except where delivery of a time-share disclosure statement is required under s. 707.41 (2) , a seller of a time share shall furnish to the purchaser before execution of any contract for the purchase of a time share, or otherwise before the transfer of title, a copy of the time-share instrument, other than any plats or plans, and a certificate containing statements disclosing all of the following information:

(a) The effect on the proposed transfer of any right of first refusal or other restraint on transfer of all or any portion of the time share.

(b) The amount of the periodic time-share liability and any unpaid time-share expense or special assessment or other sums currently due and payable from the seller.

(c) Any other fees payable by time-share owners.

(d) Any judgments or other matters that are or may become liens against the time share or the time-share unit and the status of any pending suits that may result in those liens.

(2) Managing entity; preparation of certificate.

(a) Except as provided in par. (b) , the managing entity, within 10 days after a request by a time-share owner, shall furnish a certificate containing the information necessary to enable the time-share owner to comply with sub. (1) .

(b) If there is no managing entity, the time-share owner shall furnish the information specified in sub. (1) .

(3) Liability; voiding contract.

(a) A purchaser is not liable for any unpaid time-share liability or fee greater than the amount set forth in a certificate prepared under sub. (2) .

(b) A time-share owner is not liable to a purchaser for the failure or delay of the managing entity to provide the certificate in a timely manner or for any erroneous information provided by the managing entity and included in the certificate, except for information on judgment liens against the time share or the time-share unit.

(c) A purchaser may void a purchase contract until the certificate, whether prepared by the managing entity or time-share owner, is provided and for 5 business days after the certificate is provided or until transfer of the time share, whichever occurs first.

History: 1987 a. 399 .
Wis. Stat. § 345.40 — WI Code / Chapter 345 / Section 345.40
Pleading.
Status: in_force

A citation which complies with s. 345.11 or a complaint which complies with the appropriate provisions of ch. 968 may be used as the initial pleading, or the municipal judge, clerk or a deputy of the clerk may enter upon the records of the court a statement of the offense charged, which shall stand as a complaint, unless the court directs that formal complaint be made. Several counts may be joined in one complaint or a separate complaint may be prepared for each separate violation. The defendant’s plea shall be guilty, no contest or not guilty and shall be entered as not guilty upon failure to plead. A plea of not guilty shall put all matters in such case at issue.

History: 1971 c. 278 ; 1985 a. 332 .
Wis. Stat. § 231.22 — WI Code / Chapter 231 / Section 231.22
Effect of chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized hereby and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws. The issuance of bonds and refunding bonds under this chapter need not comply with the requirements of any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds.

History: 1973 c. 304 .
Wis. Stat. § 782.18 — WI Code / Chapter 782 / Section 782.18
Attachment may issue.
Status: in_force

In case of attachment an order may be issued to the officer or other person to whom such attachment is directed, commanding the officer or person to bring, forthwith, before the court or judge, the party for whose benefit such writ was allowed, who shall thereafter remain in the custody of such officer or other person, until discharged, bailed or remanded. In the execution of such attachment or order, the person executing it may call to the person’s aid the power of the county.

History: 1979 c. 32 s. 59 ; 1979 c. 176 ; Stats. 1979 s. 782.18.
Wis. Stat. § 94.32 — WI Code / Chapter 94 / Section 94.32
Pay of arbitrators.
Status: in_force

The arbitrators appointed under s. 94.28 shall each receive $3 per day for their services, to be paid in whole or in part by either party as the arbitrators determine.

History: 1997 a. 253 .
Wis. Stat. § 822.05 — WI Code / Chapter 822 / Section 822.05
International application.
Status: in_force

(1) A court of this state shall treat a foreign country as if it were a state for the purpose of applying this subchapter and subch. II .

(2) Except as provided in sub. (3) , a child custody determination made in a foreign country under factual circumstances in substantial conformity with the jurisdictional standards of this chapter shall be recognized and enforced under subch. III .

(3) A court of this state need not apply this chapter if the child custody law of a foreign country violates fundamental principles of human rights.

History: 2005 a. 130 .
Wis. Stat. § 111.375 — WI Code / Chapter 111 / Section 111.375
Department to administer.
Status: in_force

(1) This subchapter shall be administered by the department. The department may make, amend and rescind such rules as are necessary to carry out this subchapter. The department or the commission may, by such agents or agencies as it designates, conduct in any part of this state any proceeding, hearing, investigation or inquiry necessary to the performance of its functions. The department shall preserve the anonymity of any employee who is the aggrieved party in a complaint of discrimination in promotion, compensation or terms and conditions of employment, of unfair honesty testing or of unfair genetic testing against his or her present employer until a determination as to probable cause has been made, unless the department determines that the anonymity will substantially impede the investigation.

(2) This subchapter applies to each agency of the state.

History: 1975 c. 94 ; 1977 c. 29 , 196 ; 1979 c. 221 , 319 , 355 ; 1981 c. 334 s. 13 ; Stats. 1981 s. 111.375; 1991 a. 117 ; 2003 a. 33 .
Wis. Stat. § 68.14 — WI Code / Chapter 68 / Section 68.14
Legislative review.
Status: in_force

(1) The seeking of a review pursuant to s. 68.10 or 68.13 does not preclude a person aggrieved from seeking relief from the governing body of the municipality or any of its boards, commissions, committees, or agencies which may have jurisdiction.

(2) If in the course of legislative review under this section, a determination is modified, such modification and any evidence adduced before the governing body, board, commission, committee or agency shall be made part of the record on review under s. 68.13 .

(3) The governing body, board, commission, committee or agency conducting a legislative review under this section need not conduct the type of hearing required under s. 68.11 .

History: 1975 c. 295 .
Wis. Stat. § 101.955 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.955
Jurisdiction and venue over out-of-state manufacturers.
Status: in_force

(1) The importation of a manufactured home for sale in this state by an out-of-state manufacturer is considered an irrevocable appointment by that manufacturer of the department of financial institutions to be that manufacturer’s true and lawful attorney upon whom may be served all legal processes in any action or proceeding against such manufacturer arising out of the importation of such manufactured home into this state.

(2) The department of financial institutions upon whom processes and notices may be served under this section shall, upon being served with such process or notice, mail a copy by registered mail to the out-of-state manufacturer at the nonresident address given in the papers so served. The original shall be returned with proper certificate of service attached for filing in court as proof of service. The service fee shall be $4 for each defendant so served. The department of financial institutions shall keep a record of all such processes and notices, which record shall show the day and hour of service.

History: 1999 a. 9 , 53 .
Wis. Stat. § 84.076 — WI Code / Chapter 84 / Section 84.076
Section 84.076
Status: in_force

(5) Sunset. This section does not apply after the later of the following:

(a) September 30, 1997.

(b) The date on which federal law does not require, as a condition of using federal funds, that this state establish goals for the participation of disadvantaged businesses or the employment of disadvantaged individuals in projects using federal funds.

History: 1987 a. 399 ; 1989 a. 31 ; 1991 a. 39 ; 1993 a. 112 ; 1995 a. 113 ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2001 a. 16 ; 2011 a. 32 ; 2021 a. 239 s. 73 .
Wis. Stat. § 242.02 — WI Code / Chapter 242 / Section 242.02
Insolvency.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(a) “Assets” do not include property that has been transferred, concealed or removed with intent to hinder, delay or defraud creditors or that has been transferred in a manner making the transfer voidable under this chapter.

(b) “Debts” do not include an obligation to the extent it is secured by a valid lien on property of the debtor not included as an asset.

(2) A debtor is insolvent if, at a fair valuation, the sum of the debtor’s debts is greater than the sum of the debtor’s assets.

(3) A debtor who is generally not paying the debtor’s debts as they become due other than as a result of a bona fide dispute is presumed to be insolvent. The presumption imposes on the party against which the presumption is directed the burden of proving that the nonexistence of insolvency is more probable than its existence.

History: 1987 a. 192 ; 2023 a. 246 .
Wis. Stat. § 134.91 — WI Code / Chapter 134 / Section 134.91
Sale of dextromethorphan to a minor without prescription prohibited.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Drug” has the meaning given in s. 450.01 (10) .

(b) “Prescription order” has the meaning given in s. 450.01 (21) .

(2) Prohibitions.

(a) No person may sell at retail a drug containing dextromethorphan to a person who is under 18 years of age, unless the sale is pursuant to a prescription order.

(b) No person may sell at retail a drug containing dextromethorphan unless the person making the sale receives from the purchaser, at the time of purchase, a form of identification from which the age of the purchaser can be determined, or unless based upon the outward appearance of the purchaser the person making the sale reasonably presumes that the purchaser is 25 years of age or older.

(c) A person who is under 18 years of age may not purchase a drug containing dextromethorphan unless pursuant to a prescription order.

(3) Penalties.

(a) A person who violates sub. (2) (a) or (b) is subject to a civil forfeiture of not more than $250 for each violation.

(b) A person who violates sub. (2) (c) is subject to a civil forfeiture of $50 for each violation.

History: 2017 a. 160 ; 2021 a. 238 s. 45 .
Wis. Stat. § 322.052 — WI Code / Chapter 322 / Section 322.052
Article 52 — Number of votes required.
Status: in_force

(1) No person may be convicted of an offense except as provided in s. 322.045 (2) or s. 322.051 (4) or by the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at the time the vote is taken.

(2) All other questions to be decided by the members of a general or special court-martial shall be determined by a majority vote, but a determination to reconsider a sentence, with a view toward decreasing it, may be made by any lesser vote which indicates that the reconsideration is not opposed by the number of votes required for that finding or sentence. A tie vote on a challenge disqualifies the member challenged. A tie vote on a motion relating to the question of the accused’s mental disease or defect is a determination against the accused. A tie vote on any other question is a determination in favor of the accused.

History: 2007 a. 200 .
Wis. Stat. § 281.92 — WI Code / Chapter 281 / Section 281.92
Limitation.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter affects ss. 196.01 to 196.79 or ch. 31 .

History: 1979 c. 221 s. 624 ; Stats. 1979 s. 144.27; 1995 a. 227 s. 435 ; Stats. 1995 s. 281.92.
Wis. Stat. § 177.0504 — WI Code / Chapter 177 / Section 177.0504
Cooperation among state officers and agencies to locate apparent owners.
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise prohibited by law, at the request of the administrator, each officer, agency, board, commission, division, or department of this state, any body politic or corporate created by this state for a public purpose, and each political subdivision of this state shall make its books and records available to the administrator and cooperate with the administrator to determine the current address of an apparent owner of property held by the administrator under this chapter.

History: 2021 a. 87 .
Wis. Stat. § 179.1005 — WI Code / Chapter 179 / Section 179.1005
Activities not constituting doing business.
Status: in_force

(1) Activities of a foreign limited partnership which do not constitute doing business in this state under this subchapter include all of the following:

(a) Maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating, or settling an action or proceeding.

(b) Carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings of its partners.

(c) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions.

(d) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of securities of the partnership or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities.

(e) Selling through independent contractors.

(f) Soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts.

(g) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in property.

(h) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts and holding, protecting, or maintaining property.

(i) Conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions.

(j) Owning, without more, property.

(k) Doing business in interstate commerce.

(2) A person does not do business in this state solely by being a partner of a foreign limited partnership that does business in this state.

(3) This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign limited partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under law of this state other than this chapter.

History: 2021 a. 258 .
Wis. Stat. § 101.61 — WI Code / Chapter 101 / Section 101.61
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) “Dwelling” means any building that contains one or 2 dwelling units. “Dwelling unit” means a structure or that part of a structure which is used or intended to be used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one person or by 2 or more persons maintaining a common household, to the exclusion of all others. “Dwelling” and “dwelling unit” do not include a primitive rural hunting cabin.

(2) “Owner” means any person having a legal or equitable interest in the dwelling. “Owner” does not include any person whose legal or equitable interest in the dwelling is a security interest derived solely from the extension of credit to permit construction or remodeling of the dwelling or purchase of the dwelling by a 3rd party.

(3) “Primitive rural hunting cabin” means a structure that satisfies all of the following:

(a) The structure is not used as a home or residence.

(b) The structure is used principally for recreational hunting activity.

(c) The structure does not exceed 2 stories in height.

(d) The structure satisfies any of the following:

1. The structure was constructed before December 31, 1997.

2. The structure results from alterations made to a structure described in subd. 1.

3. The structure replaces a structure described in subd. 1.

History: 1975 c. 404 ; 1979 c. 89 , 148 ; 1989 a. 109 ; 2017 a. 59 .
Wis. Stat. § 150.95 — WI Code / Chapter 150 / Section 150.95
Moratorium.
Status: in_force

(1) Before July 1, 1996, no person may obligate for a capital expenditure by or on behalf of a hospital, to add to the number of the licensed psychiatric or chemical dependency beds of the hospital that the department determines exist on May 12, 1992, or to establish a new hospital with psychiatric or chemical dependency beds. Before July 1, 1996, no person may convert existing hospital beds approved for occupancy to licensed psychiatric or chemical dependency beds of the hospital.

(2) This section does not apply to a hospital operated by the state department of veterans affairs under s. 45.50 (10) .

History: 1991 a. 250 ; 1995 a. 20 , 27 ; 2005 a. 22 .
Wis. Stat. § 223.055 — WI Code / Chapter 223 / Section 223.055
Uniform common trust fund act.
Status: in_force

(1) Establishment of common trust funds. Any bank or trust company qualified to act as fiduciary in this state may establish common trust funds for the purpose of furnishing investments to itself as fiduciary, or to itself and others, as cofiduciaries; and may, as such fiduciary or cofiduciary, invest funds which it lawfully holds for investment in interests in such common trust funds, if such investment is not prohibited by the instrument, judgment, decree or order creating such fiduciary relationship, and if, in the case of cofiduciaries, the bank or trust company procures the consent of its cofiduciaries to such investment; and the provisions of this section shall apply to trusts now in existence or hereafter created.

(2) Court accountings. Unless ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction the bank or trust company operating such common trust funds is not required to render a court accounting with regard to such funds; but it may, by application to the circuit court of the county in which it has its principal office, secure approval of such an accounting on such conditions as the court may establish. When an accounting of a common trust fund is presented to a court for approval, the court shall assign a time and place for hearing and order notice thereof by:

(a) Publication of a class 3 notice, under ch. 985 , in the county in which the bank or trust company or branch thereof operating the common trust fund is located; and

(b) Mailing not less than 14 days prior to the date of the hearing a copy of the notice to all beneficiaries of the trusts participating in the common trust fund whose names are known to the bank or trust company from the records kept by it in the regular course of business in the administration of said trusts, directed to them at the addresses shown by such records; and

(c) Such further notice if any as the court may order.

(3) Investments. The bank or trust company operating such common trust fund may buy, sell, hold, invest and reinvest the funds and assets thereof in its discretion and shall not be limited or restricted by ch. 881 or any amendment thereof, but the bank or trust company shall not invest the funds of any fiduciary account in any common trust fund unless every investment in such fund is one that would then be a permissible investment for such fiduciary account.

(4) Uniformity of interpretation. This section shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

(5) Short title. This section may be cited as the “Uniform Common Trust Fund Act”.

History: 1971 c. 41 s. 12 ; 1979 c. 89 .
Wis. Stat. § 178.1152 — WI Code / Chapter 178 / Section 178.1152
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: 2015 a. 295 .
Wis. Stat. § 613.63 — WI Code / Chapter 613 / Section 613.63
Executive compensation.
Status: in_force

(1) Establishment of compensation. Section 181.0302 (11) to (14) applies to service insurance corporations, except as modified by ss. 613.60 and sub. (2) .

(2) Restrictions. Subchapter XIII of ch. 181 and s. 611.63 (3) to (6) apply to service insurance corporations.

History: 1975 c. 223 ; 1979 c. 102 s. 237 ; 1997 a. 79 .
Wis. Stat. § 753.23 — WI Code / Chapter 753 / Section 753.23
Night and Saturday sessions.
Status: in_force

In each circuit having 4 or more branches, at least one branch shall schedule and hold sessions at least one Saturday and 2 evenings after 6 p.m. per month. In each circuit having 2 or 3 branches, at least one branch shall hold one session per month on Saturday or in the evening after 6 p.m. In single branch circuits, Saturday and evening sessions may be held as the convenience of the litigants requires.

History: 1977 c. 449 .