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WI Stat § 188.23 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 188 - Fraternal societies.|188.23 - Corporate powers of the Polish Legion of American Veterans.

188.23  Corporate powers of the Polish Legion of American Veterans. (1) Any post, county or district council or department of the Polish Legion of American Veterans (P.L.A.V.) organized in this state pursuant to the constitution, bylaws and rules and regulations of said organization, and any unit, county or district council or department of the auxiliary of the Polish Legion of American Veterans, shall have full corporate powers to transact business in this state and to take over the assets and liabilities of the existing posts, units, county or district councils or departments upon filing with the department of financial institutions a statement of its intent to do so and a full and complete list of its duly elected officers. By so doing such organization shall become a body corporate. No filing fee shall be charged by the department of financial institutions. (2) All acts done by any post, unit, county or district council or department so incorporated or its constituted authorities shall be considered acts of said post, unit, county or district council or department as a body corporate and no personal liability shall attach to any member thereof. (3) Sections 180.0203 and 181.0203 shall not apply to corporations organized under this section. In the execution of any conveyance or encumbrance by such corporation the post, county or district or department commander and the post, county or district council or department adjutant, or like or similar officers, shall have the powers and duties granted to presidents and secretaries respectively under s. 706.03 (2) and (3). This section shall apply to all corporations incorporated hereunder whether incorporated before or after May 14, 1937.History:  1989 a. 303; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 79.
WI Stat § 188.235 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 188 - Fraternal societies.|188.235 - Corporate powers of the Army and Navy Union of the U.S.A.

188.235  Corporate powers of the Army and Navy Union of the U.S.A. (1) Any post, county or district council or department of the Army and Navy Union of the U.S.A. organized in this state pursuant to the constitution, bylaws and rules and regulations of said organization shall have full corporate powers to transact business in this state and to take over the assets and liabilities of the existing posts, units, county or district councils or departments upon filing with the department of financial institutions a statement of its intent to do so and a full and complete list of its duly elected officers. By so doing such organization shall become a body corporate. No filing fee shall be charged by the department of financial institutions. (2) All acts done by any post, unit, county or district council or department so incorporated or its constituted authorities shall be considered acts of said post, unit, county or district council or department as a body corporate and no personal liability shall attach to any member thereof. (3) Sections 180.0203 and 181.0203 shall not apply to corporations organized under this section. In the execution of any conveyance or encumbrance by such corporation the post, county or district or department commander and the post, county or district council or department adjutant, or like or similar officers, shall have the powers and duties granted to presidents and secretaries respectively under s. 706.03 (2) and (3).History:  1989 a. 303; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 79.
WI Stat § 188.24 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 188 - Fraternal societies.|188.24 - Corporate powers of the Catholic War Veterans.

188.24  Corporate powers of the Catholic War Veterans. (1) Any post, county or district council or department of the Catholic War Veterans organized in this state pursuant to the constitution, bylaws and rules and regulations of said organization shall have full corporate powers to transact business in this state and to take over the assets and liabilities of the existing posts, units, county or district councils or departments upon filing with the department of financial institutions a statement of its intent to do so and a full and complete list of its duly elected officers. By so doing such organization shall become a body corporate. No filing fee shall be charged by the department of financial institutions. (2) All acts done by any post, unit, county or district council or department so incorporated or its constituted authorities shall be considered acts of said post, unit, county or district council or department as a body corporate and no personal liability shall attach to any member thereof. (3) Sections 180.0203 and 181.0203 shall not apply to corporations organized under this section. In the execution of any conveyance or encumbrance by such corporation the post, county or district or department commander and the post, county or district council or department adjutant, or like or similar officers, shall have the powers and duties granted to presidents and secretaries respectively under s. 706.03 (2) and (3). This section shall apply to all corporations incorporated hereunder whether incorporated before or after May 14, 1937.History:  1989 a. 303; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 79.
WI Stat § 188.25 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 188 - Fraternal societies.|188.25 - Annual reports of veterans' organizations.

188.25  Annual reports of veterans' organizations. Subject to s. 188.15 (5), the state organization of any veterans' society or society affiliate which has a unit incorporated under this chapter shall file with the department of financial institutions on or before January 1 an annual report showing the elected officers of the state organization. No filing fee shall be charged. The secretary of any such state organization shall on request furnish the department of financial institutions information about subordinate units. Subject to s. 188.15 (5), if any veterans' society or society affiliate has no state organization each unit incorporated under this chapter shall file an annual report of the elected officers with the department of financial institutions on or before January 1. History:  1995 a. 27; 2013 a. 102.
WI Stat § 188.26 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 188 - Fraternal societies.|188.26 - Veterans; corporations.

188.26  Veterans; corporations. Whenever any corporation is formed under ch. 180 or 181 or this chapter for the purpose of assisting any veteran, as defined in s. 45.01 (12), or a person under s. 45.51 (2) (a) 2., or operating social clubs in which the name “veteran" appears, the department of financial institutions shall investigate the same to ascertain the character thereof, and whether or not the same has been procured by fraudulent representation or concealment of any material fact relating to such veteran's name, purpose, membership, organization, management or control or other material fact. If the department of financial institutions so finds, such findings, misrepresentation or concealment shall be reported to the attorney general, and the attorney general shall bring an action to vacate or annul the corporate charter.History:  1979 c. 32 s. 92 (6); 1983 a. 430; 1995 a. 27, 400; 2005 a. 22.
WI Stat § 189.01 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 189 - Office of the commissioner of railroads.|189.01 - Definitions.

189.01  Definitions. In this chapter: (1) “Department" means the department of transportation. (2) “Office" means the office of the commissioner of railroads. (3) “Secretary" means the secretary of transportation.History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347; 1983 a. 189; 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 189.02 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 189 - Office of the commissioner of railroads.|189.02 - Office of the commissioner of railroads; powers and duties.

189.02  Office of the commissioner of railroads; powers and duties. (1) The office may adopt rules to govern its proceedings and to regulate the mode and manner of hearings. (2) The office may employ staff, including hearing examiners. (3) The office may administer oaths, subpoena witnesses and documents or other physical evidence, take testimony and cause the taking of depositions. (3m) (a) Except as provided in s. 15.03, the public service commission shall have no control or jurisdiction over the office in matters relating to railroad regulation.(b) Notwithstanding par. (a), the commissioner of railroads shall seek the input of, and give considerable weight to the advice given by, the chairperson of the public service commission on matters relating to the employment of persons by the office. (4) Decisions of the office are not appealable to the public service commission. Decisions of the office are subject to judicial review under ch. 227. (7) At least 14 days before submitting to the public service commission any personnel or budget request that affects any appropriation to the department of transportation, the office shall notify the secretary of the request.History:  1977 c. 29; 1979 c. 32 s. 92 (1); 1981 c. 347 ss. 22, 80 (1), (2); 1983 a. 27; 1985 a. 182 s. 57; 1993 a. 16, 123; 1999 a. 9; 2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 189.03 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 189 - Office of the commissioner of railroads.|189.03 - Transportation plans.

189.03  Transportation plans. In performing its duties and making its decisions the office may consider transportation plans, policies, or other documents if they are admitted into evidence. A party may conduct cross-examinations reasonably required for a full and true disclosure of the facts.History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 190.001 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.001 - Definitions.

190.001  Definitions. In this chapter: (1) “Office" means the office of the commissioner of railroads.History:  1977 c. 29; 1981 c. 347; 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 190.005 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.005 - Scope of chapter.

190.005  Scope of chapter. Each provision of this chapter applies only to the extent that it is not contrary to or inconsistent with federal law or the constitution of the United States.History:  2005 a. 179.
WI Stat § 190.015 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.015 - Directors, election, eligibility, classes, term, powers.

190.015  Directors, election, eligibility, classes, term, powers. (1) The stock, property, affairs and business of every railroad corporation shall be managed by directors who shall be chosen by the stockholders from among their number, at the time and place provided by the articles of organization or the bylaws. (2) The trustees shall hold office for the term provided by the articles or bylaws and until their respective successors are chosen. The directors may be divided into 3 classes, each of which shall be composed, as nearly as may be possible, of one-third of the directors. The term of office of the first class shall expire in one year, the 2nd in 2 years, and the 3rd in 3 years. At each annual election thereafter, a number of directors shall be elected for 3 years equal to the number whose term of office shall then expire. All other vacancies shall be filled in accordance with the bylaws. (3) The directors shall choose one of their number president and such other officers as the corporate articles and bylaws require, for the term prescribed by the articles or bylaws. The directors may fill any vacancy in their board, happening after any regular annual election, until the next succeeding election.History:  1997 a. 254.
WI Stat § 190.016 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.016 - Stockholders' meetings.

190.016  Stockholders' meetings. (1) Time and place. The time and place of annual meetings of the stockholders of every railroad corporation shall be fixed by its articles or bylaws. If not so fixed, the annual meetings shall be on the anniversaries of the first corporate meeting. (2)  Notice. Meetings of railroad corporations shall be called and noticed as prescribed by the articles or bylaws, but if no provision therefor is made, meetings of any railroad corporation may be called by the board of directors or trustees at any time, and shall be called by the secretary when requested by the owners of one-fifth of the outstanding shares of voting stock on 10 days' notice; and such notice to stockholders may be served by publishing the same as a class 2 notice, under ch. 985, at or nearest to the location of the corporation, or by personal service or by mailing a copy thereof to each stockholder directed to the stockholder's last post-office address as it appears in the records of the corporation.History:  1993 a. 482.
WI Stat § 190.03 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.03 - Office in state; books produced.

190.03  Office in state; books produced. Any railroad corporation existing under the laws of this state shall produce before the office of the commissioner of railroads, the legislature, or any committee of either house, or any court of record, its books of account and stock books, or so many and such parts thereof as may be required by them, or in the discretion of the office of the commissioner of railroads, legislature, committee or court, transcripts from such books, or such parts thereof as may be called for, duly authenticated; and each such railroad corporation shall designate some office within this state as its principal office and inform the office of the commissioner of railroads of such designation, and shall keep there or at the office of its transfer agents or registrars a list of its stockholders, giving the names and addresses of its stockholders, together with a statement of the number and class of shares of its stock held by each of them, as shown by its books. A failure or refusal to comply with any of the foregoing provisions shall be cause of forfeiture of its franchises.History:  1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (9) (e); 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (1); 1993 a. 16, 123.
WI Stat § 190.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.04 - Special charter rights.

190.04  Special charter rights. All railroad corporations shall have all peculiar rights and privileges granted to them respectively by their charters or any special law, not inconsistent with these statutes.
WI Stat § 190.05 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.05 - Railroads; powers in other states.

190.05  Railroads; powers in other states. Any domestic railroad corporation may exercise all its rights, franchises and privileges in any other state and may accept from any other state and use any additional or other powers or privileges applicable to the doings of said corporation in said state.
WI Stat § 190.051 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.051 - Branches and extensions.

190.051  Branches and extensions. (1) (a) Any railroad corporation may extend its road from any point named in its charter or articles of organization, or may build branch roads from any point on its line or from any point on the line of any other road connected or to be connected with its road, the use of which other road between such points and the connection with its own road the railroad corporation has secured for a term of not less than 10 years.(b) Before making an extension or building a branch road under par. (a), the railroad corporation shall, by resolution of its directors, to be entered in the record of its proceedings, designate the route of the proposed extension or branch, and file, for record, a copy of the record, certified by the president and secretary, with the department of financial institutions. Upon filing the record with the department of financial institutions, the railroad corporation shall have all of the rights and privileges to make the extension or build the branch and receive aid thereto that the railroad corporation would have had if it had been authorized in its charter or articles of organization. (2) The requirements of this section shall not apply to permanent branches or extensions not exceeding 5 miles in length nor to temporary branches or extensions not exceeding 10 miles in length.History:  1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 254; 1999 a. 32 s. 218.
WI Stat § 190.07 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.07 - Railroad ferries on Lake Michigan.

190.07  Railroad ferries on Lake Michigan. Any railroad corporation in this state may contract with the owner or operator of any railroad terminating on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, within the state of Michigan, for the joint operation of their roads; and may build or buy, and operate vessels to facilitate transportation.
WI Stat § 190.08 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.08 - Streams, highways, restored.

190.08  Streams, highways, restored. Every corporation constructing, owning or operating a railroad shall restore every watercourse, street, highway, road or canal across, along or upon which such railroad may be constructed to its former state or to such condition that its usefulness shall not be materially impaired and thereafter maintain the same in such condition against any effects in any manner produced by such railroad. And may acquire any lands required to change or restore any highway, street, canal or watercourse, and lands so taken shall become a part of such highway or street. This section shall not apply to sloughs or bayous closed by the government prior to April 14, 1893, to aid the navigation of rivers; but in case such sloughs or bayous are thereafter closed by any railroad company such company shall be liable in damages to any person owning lands thereon injured thereby. The statutes for acquiring land by right of eminent domain shall apply in assessing damages for such closing.Under this section, a railroad was under no responsibility to pay for the construction of a new railroad bridge necessitated by the channel alteration of a river as part of an improvement project as the statute imposes only a duty to “restore" against effects “produced by such railroad," and the conditions necessitating the alteration were in no way produced by the railroad. Metropolitan Sewerage District of County of Milwaukee v. Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co. 69 Wis. 2d 387, 230 N.W.2d 651 (1975).Under this section and the common law, a railroad was liable for the cost of replacing a bridge that impeded a creek's flow and hindered its drainage function as under the statute the railroad had a duty to restore the stream “to such condition that its usefulness shall not be materially impaired," and under the common law its duty was to continually maintain the bridge so as not to materially interfere with the water's natural flow. Metropolitan Sewerage District of County of Milwaukee v. Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co. 69 Wis. 2d 387, 230 N.W.2d 651 (1975).In the absence of sufficient proof that the old bridge was inadequate to carry increased water flow, the railroad was not liable for the cost of a new bridge. Metropolitan Sewerage District of Milwaukee v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. 78 Wis. 2d 119, 254 N.W.2d 190 (1977).This section did not apply to abandoned railroad property acquired by the DNR for development into hiking and biking trails. 77 Atty. Gen. 106.
WI Stat § 190.085 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.085 - Clearance of wrecks or derailments; restoration of damaged property.

190.085  Clearance of wrecks or derailments; restoration of damaged property. Every corporation constructing, owning or operating a railroad shall clear any railroad wreck or derailment from the right-of-way and adjoining property and restore or repair the right-of-way and adjoining property damaged by the wreck or derailment within 180 days after its occurrence. Any such corporation which violates this section shall forfeit to the state $100 for each violation and each day that the violation continues constitutes a separate offense.History:  1979 c. 186.
WI Stat § 190.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.09 - Railroad cattle pass, abandonment.

190.09  Railroad cattle pass, abandonment. No railroad corporation shall close or obstruct any cattle pass or opening that has been used as a passageway for livestock across its right-of-way for a period of 5 years without having first secured the consent in writing of the abutting landowners.History:  1993 a. 213, 490; 1997 a. 254.
WI Stat § 190.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.10 - Railroad fixtures, after-acquired property, lien on.

190.10  Railroad fixtures, after-acquired property, lien on. All rolling stock, locomotives, cars, automotive and motor vehicles, machinery, tools, equipment, fuel, supplies, materials, and other personal property of any railroad corporation used and employed in connection with the maintenance or operation of its railroad, for all purposes of this section and s. 190.11, are hereby defined and declared to be appurtenant to such railroad as real property; and all such property and all additional rights-of-way, depot grounds and other real property acquired subsequently to the execution of any trust deed or mortgage which shall have been described or provided for therein shall be subject to the lien thereof to the same extent as the real property therein described which the corporation owned at the time of its execution.History:  1993 a. 490.
WI Stat § 190.11 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 190 - Railroads; organization and management.|190.11 - Railroad conveyances, how executed and filed.

190.11  Railroad conveyances, how executed and filed. (1) Every conveyance or lease, deed of trust, mortgage or satisfaction thereof made by any railroad corporation shall be executed and acknowledged in the manner in which conveyances of real estate by corporations are required to be to entitle the same to be recorded, and shall be filed with and maintained by the office of the commissioner of railroads, which shall endorse thereon “filed" and the date of filing. (2) A record of filing under sub. (1) shall from the time of reception of the instrument have the same effect as to any property in this state described therein as the record of any similar instrument in the office of a register of deeds has as to property in his or her county, and shall be notice of the rights and interest of the grantee, lessee or mortgagee by such instrument to the same extent as if it were recorded in all of the counties in which any property therein described may be situated. (3) The office of the commissioner of railroads shall collect a fee of $1 per page filed under sub. (1). All fees received under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.155 (2) (g). (4) The office of the commissioner of railroads shall collect a fee at the rate under s. 77.22 and, on or before the 15th day of the month after the fee is collected, shall remit that fee to the department of administration for deposit in the general fund. Sections 77.21, 77.22 and 77.25 to 77.27 apply to the fee under this subsection. History:  1981 c. 20; 1985 a. 29; 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 412; 1995 a. 27; 2015 a. 55.