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WI Stat § 155.50 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 155 - Power of attorney for health care.|155.50 - Duties and immunities.

155.50  Duties and immunities. (1) No health care facility or health care provider may be charged with a crime, held civilly liable or charged with unprofessional conduct for any of the following:(a) Certifying incapacity under s. 155.05 (2), if the certification is made in good faith based on a thorough examination of the principal.(b) Failing to comply with a power of attorney for health care instrument or the decision of a health care agent, except that failure of a health care professional, as defined in s. 154.01 (3), to comply constitutes unprofessional conduct if the health care professional refuses or fails to make a good faith attempt to transfer the principal to another health care professional who will comply.(c) Complying, in the absence of actual knowledge of a revocation, with the terms of a power of attorney for health care instrument that is in compliance with this chapter or the decision of a health care agent that is made under a power of attorney for health care that is in compliance with this chapter.(d) Acting contrary to or failing to act on a revocation of a power of attorney for health care, unless the health care facility or health care provider has actual knowledge of the revocation.(e) Failing to obtain the health care decision for a principal from the principal's health care agent, if the health care facility or health care provider has made a reasonable attempt to contact the health care agent and obtain the decision but has been unable to do so. (2) In the absence of actual notice to the contrary, a health care facility or health care provider may presume that a principal was authorized to execute the principal's power of attorney for health care under the requirements of this chapter and that the power of attorney for health care instrument is valid. (3) No health care agent may be charged with a crime or held civilly liable for making a decision in good faith under a power of attorney for health care instrument that is in compliance with this chapter. No health care agent who is not the spouse of the principal may be held personally liable for any goods or services purchased or contracted for under a power of attorney for health care instrument. (4) Subsections (1), (2), and (3) apply to acts or omissions in connection with a provision of a power of attorney for health care that is executed in another jurisdiction if the provision is valid and enforceable under s. 155.70 (10).History:  1989 a. 200; 2003 a. 290; 2019 a. 90.
WI Stat § 155.60 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 155 - Power of attorney for health care.|155.60 - Safeguards.

155.60  Safeguards. (1) Nothing in this chapter prohibits an individual from petitioning a court in this state for a determination of incompetency and for appointment of a guardian for an individual who is a principal under this chapter. (2) If an individual who is a principal is adjudicated incompetent in this state and a guardian is appointed for him or her, the power of attorney for health care executed under this chapter by the principal remains in effect, except that the court may under s. 54.46 (2) (b), for good cause shown, revoke the power of attorney for health care and invalidate the power of attorney for health care instrument, or limit the authority of the agent under the terms of the power of the power of attorney for health care instrument. Unless the court makes this revocation or limitation, the guardian for the individual may not make health care decisions for the ward that may be made by the health care agent, unless the guardian is the health care agent. (3) Upon receipt of a power of attorney for health care instrument or a statement of incapacity under s. 155.05 (2), a health care facility or health care provider shall acknowledge this receipt in writing and, if the principal is a patient of the health care provider, the health care provider shall include the instrument or the statement in the medical record of the principal. (4) (a) Any interested party may petition the court assigned to exercise probate jurisdiction for the county where a principal is present or the county of the principal's legal residence to review whether the health care agent is performing his or her duties in accordance with the terms of the power of attorney for health care instrument executed by the principal. If the court finds after a hearing that the health care agent has not been performing in accordance with the terms of the instrument, the court may do any of the following:1. Direct the health care agent to act in accordance with the terms of the principal's power of attorney for health care instrument.2. Require the health care agent to report to the court concerning performance of the health care agent's duties at periods of time established by the court.3. Rescind all powers of the health care agent to act under the power of attorney for health care and the power of attorney for health care instrument.(b) If the principal has designated an alternate health care agent and if the powers of the first-designated health care agent are rescinded under par. (a) 3., the alternate health care agent is the health care agent and par. (a), except par. (a) 3., applies.History:  1989 a. 200; 2005 a. 387.
WI Stat § 155.65 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 155 - Power of attorney for health care.|155.65 - Filing power of attorney instrument.

155.65  Filing power of attorney instrument. (1) A principal or a principal's health care agent may, for a fee, file the principal's power of attorney for health care instrument, for safekeeping, with the register in probate of the county in which the principal resides. (2) If a principal or health care agent has filed the principal's power of attorney for health care instrument as specified in sub. (1), the following persons may have access to the instrument without first obtaining consent from the principal:(a) The health care agent for the principal.(b) A health care provider who is providing care to the principal.(c) The court and all parties involved in proceedings in this state for adjudication of incompetency and appointment of a guardian for the principal, for emergency detention under s. 51.15, for involuntary commitment under s. 51.20, or for protective placement or protective services under ch. 55.(d) Any person under the order of a court for good cause shown. (3) Failure to file a power of attorney for health care instrument under sub. (1) creates no presumption about the intent of an individual with regard to his or her health care decisions.History:  1991 a. 281; 2005 a. 387.
WI Stat § 155.80 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 155 - Power of attorney for health care.|155.80 - Penalties.

155.80  Penalties. (1) Whoever directly or indirectly coerces, threatens or intimidates an individual so as to cause the individual to execute a power of attorney for health care instrument shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both. (2) Whoever intentionally conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, damages or destroys a power of attorney for health care instrument without the consent of the principal for that instrument may be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both. (3) Whoever knowingly conceals, falsifies or forges a power of attorney for health care instrument with intent to create the false impression that a person other than the health care agent has been so designated shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both. (4) Whoever intentionally withholds actual knowledge of the revocation of a power of attorney for health care or of the falsification or forgery of a power of attorney for health care instrument shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both. (5) Whoever acts or attempts to act as a health care agent based on a power of attorney for health care that the individual knows has been executed without the voluntary consent of the principal, that the individual knows has been forged or substantially altered without the authorization of the principal, or that the individual knows has been revoked, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.History:  1989 a. 200.
WI Stat § 157.01 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.01 - Rules for preparation, transportation and disposition.

157.01  Rules for preparation, transportation and disposition. The department of health services shall make, and delegate to the funeral directors examining board the enforcement of, rules not inconsistent with ch. 445 covering the control of communicable diseases and sanitary and health regulations in the preparation, transportation and disposition of dead human bodies.History:  1975 c. 39; 1979 c. 175 s. 53; 1979 c. 221 ss. 658, 2202 (45); 1983 a. 485; 1985 a. 315; 1985 a. 316 s. 14; Stats. 1985 s. 157.01; 1995 a. 27 s. 9126 (19); 2007 a. 20 s. 9121 (6) (a).
WI Stat § 157.03 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.03 - Restrictions on use of bodies for anatomical purposes; embalming such bodies; delivery of bodies to relatives.

157.03  Restrictions on use of bodies for anatomical purposes; embalming such bodies; delivery of bodies to relatives. (1) The corpse of a person who died with smallpox, diphtheria or scarlet fever, or who in his or her last sickness shall request to be buried or cremated, and of a stranger or traveler who suddenly died, shall not be disposed of under s. 157.02 (3), and no person having charge of a corpse authorized to be so disposed of shall sell or deliver it to be used outside the state. (2) Upon receipt of the corpse by a university or school pursuant to s. 157.02 (3) it shall be properly embalmed and retained for 3 months before being used or dismembered and shall be delivered to any relative claiming it upon satisfactory proof of relationship.History:  1985 a. 316 ss. 14, 25; Stats. 1985 s. 157.03; 1993 a. 482.
WI Stat § 157.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.04 - Penalty.

157.04  Penalty. Any officer or person having a corpse in charge, and refusing to report and deliver it, when required by this subchapter, or violating the provisions forbidding sale or delivery thereof, to be used outside the state, shall be liable to the person, university or medical school aggrieved, in the sum of $50.History:  1985 a. 316 s. 14; Stats. 1985 s. 157.04.
WI Stat § 157.05 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.05 - Autopsy.

157.05  Autopsy. Consent for a licensed physician to conduct an autopsy on the body of a deceased person shall be deemed sufficient when given by whichever one of the following assumes custody of the body for purposes of burial: Father, mother, husband, wife, child, guardian, next of kin, domestic partner under ch. 770, or in the absence of any of the foregoing, a friend, or a person charged by law with the responsibility for burial. If 2 or more such persons assume custody of the body, the consent of one of them shall be deemed sufficient. History:  1979 c. 110; 1985 a. 316 s. 14; Stats. 1985 s. 157.05; 2009 a. 28.
WI Stat § 157.067 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.067 - Connection with funeral establishment prohibited.

157.067  Connection with funeral establishment prohibited. (1) In this section, “funeral establishment" has the meaning given in s. 445.01 (6), except that “funeral establishment" does not include a building or part of a building that is erected under s. 157.11 (1) for holding or conducting funeral services if dead human bodies are not embalmed, cared for, or prepared for burial or transportation, in the building. (2) No cemetery authority may permit a funeral establishment to be located in the cemetery. No cemetery authority may have or permit an employee or agent of the cemetery to have any ownership, operation or other financial interest in a funeral establishment. Except as provided in sub. (2m), no cemetery authority or employee or agent of a cemetery may, directly or indirectly, receive or accept any commission, fee, remuneration or benefit of any kind from a funeral establishment or from an owner, employee or agent of a funeral establishment. (2m) A cemetery authority may accept a fee or remuneration from a funeral establishment or from an owner, employee or agent of a funeral establishment if all of the following requirements are satisfied:(a) The fee or remuneration is a payment to the cemetery authority for a burial in the cemetery authority's cemetery.(b) The fee or remuneration payment is made on behalf of the person who is responsible for paying for the funeral establishment's services.(c) The funeral establishment will be reimbursed for the fee or remuneration by charging the person who is responsible for paying the funeral expenses an amount that is identical to the amount of the fee or remuneration paid by the funeral establishment to the cemetery authority.History:  1993 a. 100, 386; 2005 a. 266.If subsidiary corporations have prohibited financial connections, their corporate structure will not save them from the prohibitions of ss. 157.067 (2) and 445.12 (6). Those statutes are not unconstitutionally vague. Cemetery Services, Inc. v. Department of Regulation and Licensing, 221 Wis. 2d 817, 586 N.W.2d 191 (Ct. App. 1998), 97-2115.Sub. (2) and s. 445.12 (6), which prohibit the joint ownership or operation of a cemetery and a funeral home, do not violate the equal protection or due process clauses of the Wisconsin and U.S. constitutions. Porter v. State, 2018 WI 79, 382 Wis. 2d 697, 913 N.W.2d 842, 16-1599.
WI Stat § 157.08 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.08 - Conveyances.

157.08  Conveyances. (1) After the plat or map is recorded under s. 157.07, the cemetery authority may sell and convey cemetery lots. Conveyances shall be signed by the chief officer of the cemetery authority, and by the secretary or clerk of the cemetery authority, if any. Before delivering the conveyance to the grantee, the cemetery authority shall enter on records kept for that purpose, the date and consideration and the name and residence of the grantee. The conveyances may be recorded with the register of deeds. (2) (a) If a cemetery lot or mausoleum space is sold by a cemetery authority and used or intended to be used for the burial of the human remains of the purchaser or the purchaser's family members, the purchaser's interests in the ownership of, title to or right to use the cemetery lot or mausoleum space are not affected or limited by any claims or liens of other persons against the cemetery authority.(b) Before a cemetery authority sells or encumbers any cemetery land, except for a sale described in par. (a), the cemetery authority shall notify the cemetery board in writing of the proposed sale or encumbrance. If within 90 days after the cemetery board is notified of the proposed sale or encumbrance the cemetery board notifies the cemetery authority in writing that the cemetery board objects to the sale or encumbrance the cemetery authority may not sell or encumber the cemetery land unless the cemetery board subsequently notifies the cemetery authority in writing that the objection is withdrawn. The cemetery board may object to a sale or encumbrance only if it determines that the cemetery authority will not be financially solvent or that the rights and interests of owners of cemetery lots and mausoleum spaces will not be adequately protected if the sale or encumbrance occurs. The cemetery board may, before the expiration of the 90-day period, notify the cemetery authority in writing that the cemetery board approves of the sale or encumbrance. Upon receipt of the cemetery board's written approval, the cemetery authority may sell or encumber the cemetery land and is released of any liability under this paragraph. The cemetery board shall make every effort to make determinations under this paragraph in an expeditious manner.(c) A preneed sales contract is enforceable against the successor in interest of the cemetery authority that made the sale. (3) A cemetery authority may sell its personal property at its discretion. (5) Subsections (1) and (2) (b) do not apply to a religious association or a cemetery authority of a cemetery that is affiliated with a religious association, and sub. (2) (b) does not apply to a cemetery authority that is not required to be licensed under s. 440.91 (1) or registered under s. 440.91 (1m).History:  1977 c. 449 s. 497; 1989 a. 307; 1991 a. 269; 2005 a. 25; 2007 a. 174; 2015 a. 237.
WI Stat § 157.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.10 - Alienation, disposition, and use of cemetery lots and mausoleum spaces.

157.10  Alienation, disposition, and use of cemetery lots and mausoleum spaces. (1) In this section, “owner" means a person named in the records of the cemetery authority who has an ownership interest in a cemetery lot or mausoleum space and a right to bury human remains in the cemetery lot or mausoleum space. (2) (a) While any person is buried in a cemetery lot or mausoleum space, the cemetery lot or mausoleum space shall be inalienable, without the consent of the cemetery authority, and on the death of the last owner, full ownership of the cemetery lot or mausoleum space shall descend as follows:1. To the owner's surviving spouse or domestic partner under ch. 770.2. If there is no living member of the class designated in subd. 1., to that owner's children, including by adoption.3. If there is no living member of the class designated in subd. 1. or 2., to the owner's grandchildren, including by adoption.4. If there is no living member of the class designated in subd. 1., 2., or 3., to the cemetery authority for the cemetery in which the cemetery lot or mausoleum space is located.(b) A cemetery lot or mausoleum space is not part of a decedent's net estate for purposes of s. 852.01. (3) If ownership of a cemetery lot or mausoleum space descends to the cemetery authority under sub. (2) (a), the cemetery authority shall comply with s. 157.115 (2) (c) to (h) for any grave in the cemetery lot or mausoleum space in which human remains are not buried. (4) Any one or more persons under sub. (2) (a) 1. to 3. may, only with the consent of the cemetery authority, convey to any other person under sub. (2) (a) 1. to 3. his or her interest in the cemetery lot or mausoleum space. (5) No human remains may be buried in a cemetery lot or mausoleum space except the human remains of an owner of the cemetery lot or mausoleum space, or a relative, or the spouse of an owner, or his or her relative, except by the consent of a majority of the owners of the cemetery lot or mausoleum space. (6) The cemetery authority shall be held harmless for any decision made by a majority of the owners of a cemetery lot or mausoleum space. (7) A cemetery authority that is a religious association or that is the cemetery authority of a cemetery affiliated with a religious association may adopt a written policy for the disposition of cemetery lots and mausoleum spaces in a cemetery organized and operated by, or affiliated with, the religious association that is different from sub. (2) (a).History:  1989 a. 307; 2015 a. 237.
WI Stat § 157.111 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.111 - Opening and closing of burial places.

157.111  Opening and closing of burial places. If a grave, mausoleum space or other place used or intended to be used for the burial of human remains is located in a cemetery owned or operated by a cemetery authority, only the cemetery authority or a person designated by the cemetery authority may open or close the grave, mausoleum space or other place used or intended to be used for the burial of human remains.History:  1993 a. 386.
WI Stat § 157.112 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.112 - Reburial of human remains by a cemetery authority.

157.112  Reburial of human remains by a cemetery authority. (1) In this section, “rebury" means to disentomb, disinurn or disinter human remains that are buried in a cemetery and reentomb, reinurn or reinter the human remains in another grave, mausoleum space or other place used or intended to be used for the burial of human remains that is located in the same cemetery. (2) A cemetery authority may rebury human remains that are buried in a cemetery owned or operated by the cemetery authority for the purpose of correcting an error made by the cemetery authority in the burial of those human remains. (3) A cemetery authority may rebury human remains under sub. (2) without first obtaining an authorization under s. 69.18 (4), but the cemetery authority shall do all of the following:(a) No later than 30 days after reburying human remains under sub. (2), provide written notice of the reburial to the coroner or medical examiner of the county in which the reburial occurs.(b) Notify one of the following by registered mail of the reburial:1. The decedent's spouse.2. If the person specified in subd. 1. is not available, an adult son or daughter of the decedent.3. If the persons specified in subds. 1. and 2. are not available, either parent of the decedent.4. If the persons specified in subds. 1., 2. and 3. are not available, an adult brother or sister of the decedent. (3m) If none of the persons specified in sub. (3) (b) 1. to 4. are available for notification under sub. (3) (b), the cemetery authority shall maintain a record of its attempt to provide notification under sub. (3) (b) as a part of the cemetery authority's permanent records. (4) (a) A cemetery authority is immune from civil liability for an error that is corrected by a reburial of human remains under sub. (2).(b) The immunity under par. (a) does not apply if the error was the result of reckless, wanton or intentional misconduct.History:  1995 a. 357; 2015 a. 237.
WI Stat § 157.113 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.113 - Permission to place cremated human remains in a cemetery.

157.113  Permission to place cremated human remains in a cemetery. No person may deposit any cremated human remains in a cemetery, including in the casket of another person, without the permission of the cemetery authority. History:  2015 a. 237 s. 125; 2015 Stats. s. 157.113.
WI Stat § 157.114 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.|157.114 - Duty to provide for burials.

157.114  Duty to provide for burials. (1) In this section, “cemetery authority" does not include a municipality that takes control of a cemetery under s. 157.115 (1) (b). (2) A cemetery authority shall, insofar as practicable, provide for burials during each season, including winter. Nothing in this subsection may be construed to prohibit a cemetery authority from charging a reasonable fee to recover the costs related to providing for a burial during difficult weather conditions.History:  2001 a. 16.