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2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.05 - Bribery of agent, etc.

134.05
Bribery of agent, etc.
(1)
Whoever corruptly gives, offers or promises to an agent, employee or servant, any gift or gratuity whatever, with intent to influence the agent's, employee's or servant's action in relation to the business of the agent's, employee's or servant's principal, employer or master shall be penalized as provided in sub. (4).
(2)
An agent, employee or servant who does any of the following shall be penalized as provided in sub. (4):
(a)
Corruptly requests or accepts a gift or gratuity or a promise to make a gift or to do an act beneficial to himself or herself, under an agreement or with an understanding that he or she shall act in any particular manner in relation to the business of the agent's, employee's or servant's principal, employer or master.
(b)
Being authorized to procure materials, supplies or other articles either by purchase or contract for his or her principal, employer or master, or to employ service or labor for his or her principal, employer or master, receives directly or indirectly, for himself or herself or for another, a commission, discount or bonus from the person who makes such sale or contract, or furnishes such materials, supplies or other articles, or from a person who renders such service or labor.
(3)
A person who gives or offers an agent, employee or servant authorized as described in sub. (2) (b) a commission, discount or bonus of the type described in sub. (2) (b), shall be penalized as provided in sub. (4).
(4)
Whoever violates sub. (1), (2) or (3) may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.
History:  1993 a. 482; 1997 a. 283; 2001 a. 109.
Cross-reference:  See s. 885.15 for provision as to granting immunity for testifying as to offenses charged under this section.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.06 - Bonus to chauffeurs for purchases, forbidden.

134.06
Bonus to chauffeurs for purchases, forbidden.
It shall be unlawful for any chauffeur, driver or other person having the care of a motor vehicle for the owner to receive or take directly or indirectly without the written consent of such owner any bonus, discount or other consideration for supplies, or parts furnished or purchased for such motor vehicle or upon any work or labor done thereon by others or on the purchase of any motor vehicle for the chauffeur's, driver's or other person's employer and no person furnishing such supplies or parts, work or labor or selling any motor vehicle shall give or offer any such chauffeur or other person having the care of a motor vehicle for the owner thereof, directly or indirectly without such owner's written consent, any bonus, discount or other consideration thereon. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not exceeding $25.
History:  1993 a. 482.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.10 - Invading right to choose insurance agent or insurer by persons engaged in financing.

134.10
Invading right to choose insurance agent or insurer by persons engaged in financing.
(1)
Any person engaged in the business of financing the purchase of real or personal property or of lending money on the security of real or personal property, and any trustee, director, officer, agent or employee of any such person, who requires, or conspires with another to require, as a condition precedent to financing the purchase of such property or to loaning money upon the security of a mortgage thereon, or as a condition prerequisite for the renewal or extension of any such loan or mortgage or for the performance of any other act in connection therewith, that the person for whom such purchase is to be financed or to whom the money is to be loaned or for whom such extension, renewal or other act is to be granted or performed, negotiate any policy of insurance or renewal thereof covering such property through a particular insurance agent, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 6 months or both.
(2)
It is the duty of every person engaged in such business and of every trustee, director, officer, agent or employee of any such person, when financing the purchase of such property or loaning money upon the security of a mortgage thereon, or renewing or extending any such loan or mortgage, or performing any other act in connection therewith, to advise the person for whom such purchase is to be financed or to or for whom the money is to be loaned or for whom such extension, renewal or other act is to be granted or performed, that the person is free to choose the insurance agent or insurer through which the insurance covering such property is to be negotiated.
(3)
This section shall not be construed to prevent the reasonable exercise of any person so engaged, or his or her trustee, director, officer, agent or employee, of his or her right to approve or disapprove the insurer selected to underwrite the insurance or to determine the adequacy of the insurance offered.
History:  1993 a. 482.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.11 - Invading of right to choose insurance agent or insurer by persons engaged in selling property.

134.11
Invading of right to choose insurance agent or insurer by persons engaged in selling property.
(1)
Any person engaged in the business of selling real or personal property, and any trustee, director, officer, agent or employee of any such person, who requires, as a condition precedent to the selling of such property, or to the performance of any other act in connection therewith, that the person to whom such property is being sold, negotiate any policy of insurance or renewal thereof covering such property through a particular insurance agent, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 6 months or both.
(2)
It is the duty of every person engaged in the business of selling real property or personal property and of every trustee, director, officer, agent or employee of any person so engaged, when negotiating the sale or selling any real or personal property, to advise the person to whom the property is being sold that the person is free to choose the insurance agent or insurer through which the insurance covering the property is to be negotiated.
(3)
This section shall not be construed to prevent the reasonable exercise by any person so engaged, or his or her trustee, director, officer, agent or employee, of his or her right to approve or disapprove, on behalf of himself or herself or his or her principal, the insurer selected to underwrite the insurance or to determine the adequacy of the insurance offered.
History:  1993 a. 482.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.15 - Issuing and using what is not money; contracts void.

134.15
Issuing and using what is not money; contracts void.
(1)
Any person who shall knowingly issue, pay out or pass, and any body corporate, or any officer, stockholder, director or agent thereof who shall issue, pay out or pass, or receive in this state, as money or as an equivalent for money, any promissory note, draft, order, bill of exchange, certificate of deposit or other paper of any form whatever in the similitude of bank paper, circulating as money or banking currency, that is not at the time of such issuing, paying out, passing or receiving expressly authorized by some positive law of the United States or of some state of the United States or of any other country, and redeemable in lawful money of the United States, or current gold or silver coin at the place where it purports to have been issued, such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than 6 months or by fine not exceeding $100, and such body corporate shall forfeit all its rights, privileges and franchises and shall also forfeit to the state and pay for each offense the sum of $500.
(2)
All contracts of any kind whatever the consideration of which, in whole or in part, shall consist of any such paper as is prohibited in sub. (1) and all payments made in such unauthorized paper shall be null and void.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.16 - Fraudulently receiving deposits.

134.16
Fraudulently receiving deposits.
Any officer, director, stockholder, cashier, teller, manager, messenger, clerk or agent of any bank, banking, exchange, brokerage or deposit company, corporation or institution, or of any person, company or corporation engaged in whole or in part in banking, brokerage, exchange or deposit business in any way, or any person engaged in such business in whole or in part, who shall accept or receive, on deposit, or for safekeeping, or to loan, from any person any money, or any bills, notes or other paper circulating as money, or any notes, drafts, bills of exchange, bank checks or other commercial paper for safekeeping or for collection, when he or she knows or has good reason to know that such bank, company or corporation or that such person is unsafe or insolvent is guilty of a Class F felony.
History:  1977 c. 418; 1997 a. 283; 2001 a. 109.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.17 - Corporate name, recording, amendment, discontinuance, unlawful use.

134.17
Corporate name, recording, amendment, discontinuance, unlawful use.
(1)
Any person who engages in or advertises any mercantile or commission business under a name purporting or appearing to be a corporate name, with the intent to obtain credit, and which name does not disclose the real name of one or more of the persons engaged in the business, without first recording in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which his or her principal place of business is located, a verified statement disclosing and showing the name of all persons using the name, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year.
(2)
Any use of corporate name may be amended by recording a verified statement clearly setting forth all changes and signed by all parties concerned with the register of deeds where the original declaration was filed or recorded.
(3)
A discontinuance of use of corporate name signed by all interested parties and verified may be recorded with the register of deeds where the original declaration was filed or recorded.
(4)
For each recording, the register of deeds shall receive the fee specified for recording under s. 59.43 (2) (ag).
History:  1981 c. 245; 1993 a. 301; 1995 a. 201; 2003 a. 206.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.18 - Use of, evidence of obtaining credit.

134.18
Use of, evidence of obtaining credit.
The adoption of and advertising of any business under any name in its form corporate and not disclosing the name of one or more persons connected with said business, shall be legal evidence that such name is or was adopted or used for the purpose of obtaining credit.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.19 - Fraud on exemption laws.

134.19
Fraud on exemption laws.
Any person who shall, whether as principal, agent or attorney, with intent thereby to deprive any bona fide resident of this state of the resident's rights under the statutes thereof relating to the exemption of property or earnings from sale or garnishment, send or cause to be sent out of this state any claim for debt for the purpose of having the same collected by proceedings in attachment, garnishment or other mesne process, when the creditor and debtor and the person or corporation owing the debtor the money intended to be reached by any such proceedings are within the jurisdiction of the courts of this state; or who directly or indirectly assigns or transfers any claim for debt against such a resident for the purpose of having the same collected by such proceedings or any of them out of the wages or personal earnings of the debtor or of the debtor's minor children, whose earnings contribute to the support of the debtor's family, in courts without this state, when the creditor and debtor and person or corporation owing the money intended to be reached by such proceedings are each and all within the jurisdiction of the courts of this state, shall be fined not more than $50 nor less than $10 for each offense.
History:  1993 a. 482.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.20 - Fraudulent issuance or use of warehouse receipts or bills of lading.

134.20
Fraudulent issuance or use of warehouse receipts or bills of lading.
(1)
Whoever, with intent to defraud, does any of the following is guilty of a Class H felony:
(a)
Issues a warehouse receipt or bill of lading covering goods which, at the time of issuance of the receipt or bill, have not been received or shipped in accordance with the purported terms and meaning of such receipt or bill.
(b)
Issues a warehouse receipt or bill of lading which the person knows contains a false statement.
(c)
Issues a duplicate or additional warehouse receipt or bill of lading, knowing that a former receipt or bill for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncanceled.
(d)
Issues a warehouse receipt covering goods owned by the warehouse keeper, either solely or jointly or in common with others, without disclosing such ownership in the receipt.
(e)
Delivers goods out of the possession of such warehouse keeper or carrier to a person who he or she knows is not entitled thereto or with knowledge that the goods are covered by a negotiable warehouse receipt or bill of lading which is outstanding and uncanceled and without obtaining possession of such receipt or bill at or before the time of delivery and either canceling it or conspicuously noting thereon any partial deliveries made.
(f)
In any manner removes beyond the immediate control of a warehouse keeper or carrier any goods covered by a warehouse receipt or bill of lading issued by such warehouse keeper or carrier, contrary to the terms and meaning of such receipt or bill and without the consent of the holder thereof.
(g)
Negotiates or transfers for value a warehouse receipt or bill of lading covering goods which he or she knows are subject to a lien or security interest, other than the warehouse keeper's or carrier's lien, or to which he or she does not have title or which he or she knows have not been received or shipped in accordance with the purported terms and meaning of the warehouse receipt or bill of lading and fails to disclose those facts to the purchaser thereof.
(2)
In this section:
(a)
“Bill of lading" means a document evidencing the receipt of goods for shipment issued by a person engaged in the business of transporting or forwarding goods, and includes an airbill. “Airbill" means a document serving for air transportation as a bill of lading does for marine or rail transportation, and includes an air consignment note or air waybill.
(b)
“Warehouse receipt" means a receipt issued by a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.
History:  1983 a. 500 s. 43; 1993 a. 482; 1995 a. 225; 1997 a. 283; 2001 a. 109.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.205 - Warehouse keepers to keep register; liability for damages; penalty for fraud.

134.205
Warehouse keepers to keep register; liability for damages; penalty for fraud.
(1)
Every warehouse keeper shall keep in the office in which the business of the warehouse is transacted a register in which shall be entered with reference to each receipt issued, the facts specified in s. 407.202 (2). When the warehouse keeper ceases to be responsible for the delivery of the property described in the receipt, the fact and date of the delivery of the property and such other facts as may terminate liability on such receipt shall be entered in such register in connection with the original entry.
(2)
Such register shall be open to the inspection of the owner or holder of any such receipt, or of any person who presents the same at the office of the warehouse keeper.
(3)
The warehouse keeper shall be responsible to any person relying on such entries in good faith for any loss or damage which the person sustains through any failure to make the entries required by this section.
(4)
Whoever, with intent to defraud, issues a warehouse receipt without entering the same in a register as required by this section is guilty of a Class H felony.
History:  1983 a. 500 s. 43; 1993 a. 482; 1997 a. 283; 2001 a. 109.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.21 - Penalty for unauthorized presentation of dramatic plays, etc.

134.21
Penalty for unauthorized presentation of dramatic plays, etc.
Any person who sells a copy or a substantial copy, or who causes to be publicly performed or represented for profit, any unpublished or undedicated dramatic play or musical composition, known as an opera, without the written consent of its owner or proprietor, or, who, knowing that such dramatic play or musical composition is unpublished or undedicated, and, without the written consent of its owner or proprietor, permits, aids, or takes part in such a performance or representation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100, or by imprisonment not exceeding 60 days.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.23 - Motion picture fair practices.

134.23
Motion picture fair practices.
(1)
Definitions. As used in this section:
(a)
“Blind bidding" means offering, bidding for, negotiating for or agreeing to any term for the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture in this state prior to a trade screening of the motion picture.
(b)
“Distributor" means a person who rents, sells, licenses or otherwise distributes to an exhibitor a motion picture for exhibition in this state.
(c)
“License agreement" means a contract, agreement, understanding or condition between a distributor and an exhibitor relating to the exhibition of a motion picture in this state.
(d)
“Trade screening" means the showing of a motion picture by a distributor in one of the 3 largest cities in this state.
(2)
Blind bidding prohibited. A person may not engage in blind bidding.
(3)
Trade screening.
(a)
Every trade screening shall be open to any exhibitor.
(b)
A distributor shall provide reasonable and uniform notice to all exhibitors of all trade screenings.
(4)
Guarantees prohibited. A license agreement created or renewed after May 18, 1984, which provides for a fee or other payment to a distributor based in whole or in part on the attendance at a theater or the box office receipts of a theater may not contain or be conditioned upon a guarantee of a minimum payment by an exhibitor to the distributor.
(5)
Injunctive relief and damages. A person aggrieved by a violation of this section may bring a civil action to enjoin further or continuing violations or to recover actual damages sustained as a result of a violation, together with costs of the action. In an action under this subsection, the court shall award reasonable attorney fees, notwithstanding s. 814.04 (1), to a party who obtains injunctive relief or an award of damages.
History:  1983 a. 454.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.245 - Definitions.

134.245
Definitions.
In ss. 134.25 to 134.32:
(1)
“Marked" means stamped, branded, engraved or imprinted upon, attached to a tag, card or label which is stamped, branded, engraved or imprinted upon, or contained in a box, package, cover or wrapper which is stamped, branded, engraved or imprinted upon.
(2)
“Person" means an individual, firm, corporation or association.
(3)
“Sells" includes making for sale, selling, offering to sell or dispose of, or possessing with intent to sell or dispose of.
History:  1997 a. 254.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.25 - Misbranding of gold articles.

134.25
Misbranding of gold articles.
(1)
(a)
Except as provided in par. (b) and subject to sub. (3), any person who sells any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of gold or any alloy of gold which that is marked in any way indicating, or designed or intended to indicate, that the gold or alloy of gold in the article is of a greater degree of fineness than the actual fineness or quality of the gold or alloy, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b)
Paragraph (a) is not violated if the actual fineness of the gold or alloy in the article meets any of the following conditions:
1.
The actual fineness is not less, by more than three one-thousandths parts in the case of flatware and watch cases, than the fineness actually marked on the article.
2.
The actual fineness is not less, by more than one-half karat, than the fineness actually marked on the article in the case of all articles not specified in subd. 1.
(2)
In any test to determine the fineness of the gold or its alloy in any article, according to the standards set forth in this section, the part of the gold or gold alloy taken for the test shall not contain or have attached to it any solder or alloy of inferior fineness used for brazing or uniting the parts of the article.
(3)
The actual fineness of the entire quantity of gold and gold alloys contained in any article mentioned in this section, except watch cases and flatware, including all solder or alloy of inferior metal used for brazing or uniting the parts of the article, shall not be less, by more than one karat, than the fineness marked on the article. In determining the quality of gold and gold alloys for purposes of this subsection, the gold, alloys and solder being tested shall be tested as one piece.
History:  1997 a. 254.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.26 - Misbranding of sterling silver articles.

134.26
Misbranding of sterling silver articles.
(1)
Except as provided in sub. (2) and s. 134.29, any person who sells any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of silver or of any alloy of silver marked with the words “sterling silver" or “sterling" or any colorable imitation of “sterling silver" or “sterling", unless nine hundred twenty-five one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal appearing or purporting to be silver are pure silver is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(2)
In the case of all articles that are subject to sub. (1), there shall be allowed a divergence in fineness of four one-thousandths parts from the standards under sub. (1).
History:  1997 a. 254.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.27 - Misbranding of coin silver articles.

134.27
Misbranding of coin silver articles.
(1)
Except as provided in sub. (2) and s. 134.29, any person who sells any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of silver or of any alloy of silver marked with the words “coin" or “coin silver", or any colorable imitation of “coin" or “coin silver", unless nine hundred one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal appearing or purporting to be silver are pure silver is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(2)
In the case of all articles that are subject to sub. (1), there shall be allowed a divergence in fineness of four one-thousandths parts from the standards under sub. (1).
History:  1997 a. 254.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.28 - Misbranding of base silver articles.

134.28
Misbranding of base silver articles.
Except as provided in s. 134.29, any person who sells any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of silver or of any alloy of silver marked in way, other than with the word “sterling" or the word “coin", indicating, or designed or intended to indicate, that the silver or alloy of silver in the article is of a greater degree of fineness than the actual fineness or quality of the silver or alloy, unless the actual fineness of the silver or alloy of silver of which the article is composed is not less by more than four one-thousandths parts than the actual fineness, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
History:  1997 a. 254.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.29 - Testing of silver articles.

134.29
Testing of silver articles.
(1)
In any test to determine the fineness of any silver article mentioned in ss. 134.26 to 134.28, according to the standards contained in ss. 134.26 to 134.28, the part of the article taken for the test shall not contain or have attached to it any solder or alloy of inferior metal used for brazing or uniting the parts of the article.
(2)
Notwithstanding sub. (1) and ss. 134.26 to 134.28, the actual fineness of the entire quantity of metal purporting to be silver contained in any article mentioned in ss. 134.26 to 134.28, including all solder or alloy of inferior fineness used for brazing or uniting the parts of the article, shall not be less by more than ten one-thousandths parts than the fineness marked on the article, according to the standards contained in ss. 134.26 to 134.28. In determining the fineness of metal for purposes of this subsection, the silver, alloy or solder being tested shall be tested as one piece.
History:  1997 a. 254.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.30 - Misbranding of gold plated articles.

134.30
Misbranding of gold plated articles.
Any person, firm, corporation or association, who or which makes for sale, or sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his, her or its possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of inferior metal having deposited or plated thereon or brazed or otherwise affixed thereto a plate, plating, covering or sheet of gold or of any alloy of gold, and which article is known in the market as “rolled gold plate," “gold plate," “gold filled" or “gold electroplate," or by any similar designation, and having stamped, branded, engraved or imprinted thereon, or upon any tag, card or label attached thereto, or upon any box, package, cover or wrapper in which said article is encased or enclosed, any word or mark usually employed to indicate the fineness of gold, unless said word be accompanied by other words plainly indicating that such article or some part thereof is made of rolled gold plate, or gold plate, or gold electroplate, or is gold filled, as the case may be, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.31 - Misbranding of silver-plated articles.

134.31
Misbranding of silver-plated articles.
Any person who sells any article of merchandise made in whole or in part of inferior metal, having deposited or plated on the inferior metal or brazed or otherwise affixed to the inferior metal, a plate, plating, covering or sheet of silver or of any alloy of silver known in the market as “silver plate" or “silver electroplate", or any similar designation, which is marked with the word “sterling" or the word “coin", either alone or in conjunction with any other words or marks, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
History:  1997 a. 254.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.32 - Penalty for violations of ss. 134.25 to 134.31.

134.32
Penalty for violations of ss. 134.25 to 134.31.
Every person who violates any of the provisions of ss. 134.25 to 134.31, and every officer, manager, director or managing agent of any such person directly participating in or consenting to a violation of ss. 134.25 to 134.31, shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 3 months or both.
History:  1997 a. 254.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.34 - Duplication of vessel hulls and parts.

134.34
Duplication of vessel hulls and parts.
(1)
In this section:
(a)
“Direct molding process" means any direct molding process in which the original manufactured vessel hull or component part of a vessel is itself used as a plug for the making of the mold, which is then used to manufacture a duplicate item.
(b)
“Mold" means a matrix or form in which a substance or material is shaped.
(c)
“Plug" means a device or model used to make a mold for the purpose of exact duplication.
(2)
No person may use the direct molding process to duplicate for the purpose of sale a manufactured vessel hull or component part of a vessel made by another person without the written permission of that other person.
(3)
No person may knowingly sell a vessel hull or component part of a vessel duplicated in violation of sub. (2).
(4)
This section applies only to vessel hulls or component parts of vessels duplicated using a mold made after June 30, 1983.
(5)
A person who suffers injury or damage as the result of a violation of this section may bring an action in circuit court for an injunction prohibiting the violation. In addition, the person shall be entitled to actual damages incurred as a result of the violation, reasonable attorney fees and costs, notwithstanding s. 814.04 (1).
History:  1983 a. 324.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.345 - Form retention and disposal.

134.345
Form retention and disposal.
(1)
In this section:
(a)
“Customer" means any person who causes a molder to make a form or to use a form to make a product.
(b)
“Form" means an object in or around which material is placed to make a mold for pouring plastic or casting metal, and includes a mold, die or pattern.
(c)
“Molder" means any person who makes a form or who uses a form to make a product.
(2)
Unless a customer and a molder otherwise agree in writing a molder may, as provided in sub. (3), dispose of a form possessed by a customer if the customer does not take from the molder physical custody of the form within 3 years after the molder's last prior use of the form.
(3)
A molder who wishes to dispose of a form shall send written notice by registered mail with return receipt requested to the customer's last-known address and to any address set forth in the agreement under which the molder obtained physical custody of the form. The notice shall state that the molder intends to dispose of the form. The molder may dispose of the form without liability to the customer if, within 120 days after the molder receives the return receipt of the notice or within 120 days after the molder sends notice if no return receipt is received within that period, the customer does not take physical custody of the form or enter into an agreement with the molder for taking possession or physical custody of the form.
History:  1987 a. 399.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.35 - Time of filing endorsed on telegrams delivered.

134.35
Time of filing endorsed on telegrams delivered.
(1)
Every person, firm or corporation operating a telegraph line or lines in this state shall, without extra charge therefor, cause to be written, stamped or printed in a conspicuous place upon the addressee's copy of each telegram originating at and destined to a point within this state, the hour and minute of the day in which the copy of such telegram was filed or left with such person, firm or corporation for transmission and the hour and minute of the day when such telegram was received in the office of such person, firm or corporation at its destination.
(2)
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.36 - Telegraph; divulging message; preference in sending, etc.

134.36
Telegraph; divulging message; preference in sending, etc.
Any officer or other person connected with, or in the business or management of, any telegraph company doing business in this state who shall divulge or communicate any telegraph message or dispatch or the substance or any part thereof, except to the person entitled to receive the same, or who shall give unlawful preference in the sending, transmitting or receiving of telegraph messages or dispatches, or shall willfully fail or neglect to give preference to dispatches or messages in the order of time in which applications are received shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year or by fine not exceeding $500.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.37 - Divulging message or forging receipt.

134.37
Divulging message or forging receipt.
Any person connected with a telegraph or messenger company, incorporated or unincorporated, operating a line of telegraph or engaged in the business of receiving and delivering messages in this state, in any capacity, who willfully divulges the contents, or the nature of the contents of a private communication entrusted to the person for transmission or delivery, or who willfully refuses or neglects to transmit or deliver the same, or who willfully forges the name of the intended receiver to a receipt for any such message or communication or article of value entrusted to the person by said company, shall be imprisoned in the county jail, not exceeding one year, or be fined not to exceed $500, in the discretion of the court.
History:  1993 a. 482.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.38 - Companies to post copies of s. 134.37.

134.38
Companies to post copies of s. 134.37.
All telegraph or messenger companies whose employees are affected by s. 134.37 are hereby required to post, in their offices in this state, a copy of s. 134.37, under a penalty of $10 and costs for each and every offense.
History:  1979 c. 89.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.39 - Fraudulent knowledge of dispatch; injury to wires; interference.

134.39
Fraudulent knowledge of dispatch; injury to wires; interference.
Any person who shall, by any device or means whatever, procure or attempt to procure from any officer or other person connected with or in the business or management of any telegraph company transacting business within this state, any knowledge of the contents or substance of any telegraph message or dispatch not addressed to himself or herself or to which he or she is not entitled, or who shall, without lawful authority, tamper or interfere with, use or in any manner intentionally, carelessly or negligently disturb or interrupt any telegraph wires or lines of any such telegraph company, or who shall intentionally, carelessly or negligently fell any tree or timber so as to break, destroy or injure any such telegraph wires, without first giving 24 hours' notice of his or her intention to do so to some agent of the company at its nearest office or to some agent of a railroad company at its nearest office, in case such wires are constructed along any railroad, or who shall, without the consent of such company, send or attempt to send any message or dispatch over said wire or lines, in any manner whatever, or shall intercept, interrupt or disturb any dispatch passing upon any such wires or lines, or who shall willfully or maliciously interfere with, obstruct, prevent or delay, by any means or contrivance whatsoever, the sending, transmission or receiving of any wireless telegraph message, communication or report by any wireless telegraph company doing business in this state, or who shall aid, agree with, employ or conspire with any person or persons to unlawfully interfere with, obstruct, prevent or delay the sending, transmission or receiving of any such wireless telegraph message, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year or by fine not exceeding $1,000.
History:  1993 a. 482.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.41 - Poles and wires on private property without owner's consent.

134.41
Poles and wires on private property without owner's consent.
(1)
No person nor any officer, agent, servant or employee of any firm or corporation shall erect any pole or poles outside of the limits of any highway, street or alley or attach any wire or cables to any tree, building or structure, or string or suspend any wire, wires or cables over any private property without first obtaining the consent of the owner or agent of the owner, to erect such pole or poles or to string such wire or wires, or the consent of the owner or agent of the owner of any building or structure to which such wire, wires or cables are attached; and any person who shall fail to remove such pole, poles, wire or wires or to detach such wire, wires or cables within 10 days after such person, firm or corporation has been served with a notice to remove, as hereinafter provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $25.
(2)
Such notice to remove shall be in writing and shall be given by the owner or agent of the owner of the land or of the building or structure, and shall contain a description of the land upon which such pole or poles have been erected, or over which such wires have been strung or attached. Such notice to remove shall be served in the manner prescribed for the service of a summons upon such person, firm or corporation in courts of record.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.45 - Contracts restricting days for exhibiting motion picture films; penalty.

134.45
Contracts restricting days for exhibiting motion picture films; penalty.
(1)
As used in this section the following words and terms shall be construed as follows:
(a)
“Person" shall include any natural person, partnership, firm, unincorporated association, limited liability company or corporation doing business within this state.
(b)
“Public exhibition" shall mean any exhibition, performance or display which the public may see, view or attend for an admission price, fee or other valuable consideration.
(2)
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter into a contract, directly or indirectly, to sell, rent, lease, license, lend, distribute or barter a motion picture film for public exhibition within this state upon the condition imposed by the seller, vendor, renter, lessor, licensor or distributor that such public exhibition thereof shall begin, occur or take place on a certain or specified day or days of the week.
(3)
(a)
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than $25 nor more than $300 for the first offense, and shall be fined not less than $300 nor more than $500 for each separate subsequent offense.
(b)
A domestic or foreign corporation, association or limited liability company exercising any of the powers, franchises or functions of a business entity in this state that violates any provision of this section, shall not have the right of, and shall be prohibited from, doing business in this state, and the department of financial institutions shall revoke its certificate to do business in this state.
(4)
When, upon complaint or otherwise, the attorney general or district attorney has good reason to believe that any provision of this section has been violated, he or she shall commence and prosecute the necessary actions in the supreme court, or in the circuit court of the county in which the defendant resides, for enforcement of this section. Such actions may include quo warranto, injunction or any other proceedings.
History:  1993 a. 112, 482, 490; 1995 a. 27.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.46 - Exhibition of explicit sexual material at outdoor theater.

134.46
Exhibition of explicit sexual material at outdoor theater.
(1)
Definitions. In this section:
(a)
“Explicit sexual material" means any pictorial or other visual representation depicting sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse.
(b)
“Harmful to minors" means that quality of any description or representation of sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse, when it:
1.
Predominantly appeals to the prurient, shameful or morbid interest of minors;
2.
Is patently offensive to an average person applying contemporary community standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable material for minors; and
3.
Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.
(c)
“Outdoor theater" means a place where any picture or other visual representation or image is displayed on a screen or other background not completely enclosed by walls and a roof and which screen or background can be seen by individuals not within the confines of the theater.
(d)
“Sadomasochistic abuse" has the meaning set forth in s. 948.01 (4).
(e)
“Sexual conduct" means acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse or physical contact with a person's unclothed genitals or pubic area.
(2)
Exhibition of explicit sexual material prohibited. No person may exhibit explicit sexual material harmful to minors at an outdoor theater with knowledge of the nature of the material, if the material is visible from a public street, sidewalk, thoroughfare or other public place or from private property where it may be observed by minors.
(3)
Penalty. Any person violating this section after receiving proper written notice shall be subject to a forfeiture not to exceed $1,000. Each exhibition constitutes a separate violation of this section.
History:  1977 c. 281; 1983 a. 189 s. 329 (2); 1987 a. 332 ss. 17, 64; 1991 a. 189.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.48 - Contracts for the display of free newspapers.

134.48
Contracts for the display of free newspapers.
(1)
In this section:
(a)
“Newspaper" means a publication that is printed on newsprint and that is published, printed and distributed periodically at daily, weekly or other short intervals for the dissemination of current news and information of a general character and of a general interest to the public.
(b)
“Place of public accommodation" means a business, accommodation, refreshment, entertainment, recreation or transportation facility where goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations are offered, sold or otherwise made available to the public.
(2)
A contract for the display of a newspaper that is distributed free of charge to the public in a place of public accommodation may not prohibit the person displaying the newspaper for distribution from displaying any other newspaper that is distributed free of charge to the public. A provision in a contract that violates this subsection is unenforceable, but does not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions of the contract.
History:  1999 a. 9; 2017 a. 365.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.50 - Poultry dealing regulations.

134.50
Poultry dealing regulations.
(1)
It is unlawful for any poultry dealer to purchase any live or dead poultry without registering annually with the county clerk.
(2)
Every poultry dealer shall keep a record of all purchases of poultry made by the poultry dealer showing in detail the place and date of purchase and the name and address of the person from whom the purchase was made, together with a general description of the kind of poultry purchased. Such record shall be kept in permanent form and be open to inspection at all reasonable times to any district attorney, assistant district attorney, sheriff, deputy sheriff or any police officer.
(3)
Any poultry dealer or his or her servant or agent violating any of the provisions of this section shall, upon the first conviction, be punished by a fine of from $10 to $100. Upon a 2nd or subsequent conviction, a poultry dealer or his or her servant or agent shall be punished by a fine of from $25 to $500 or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(4)
Any person selling poultry to a poultry dealer who gives falsely his name or address to such dealer, his agent or servant, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than one year.
History:  1993 a. 482.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.52 - Shipment of chickens.

134.52
Shipment of chickens.
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person, or the person's agent or servant, to ship, or for any common carrier or the agent or servant of such common carrier to allow, aid, or abet in the shipment of chickens confined in coops unless such coops are at least 13 inches in height on the inside and are covered at the top by wires or slats not more than one inch apart or by wire screening with meshes of not more than one inch.
(2)
It shall be unlawful for any person or the person's agent or servant or for any common carrier or the agent or servant of such common carrier to so crowd or congest or to allow, aid or abet in the crowding or congesting of chickens within any coop in any shipment as to impair or endanger the well-being of such chickens during the course of transportation thereof; and any such crowding or congesting shall be deemed cruelty.
(3)
Whenever any humane officer or any peace officer in this state ascertains or observes any shipment of chickens in a crowded or congested condition, such officer may take or cause to be taken such steps as to give immediate relief.
(4)
Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $50, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days.
History:  1993 a. 482.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 134 - Miscellaneous trade regulations. › 134.53 - Transportation and sale of cattle.

134.53
Transportation and sale of cattle.
(1)
No person shall transport cattle on any highway unless accompanied by shipping documents setting forth the number of cattle being moved, a description of the cattle, including brand, registry or other identification numbers if any, name and address of the owner, and point of origin and destination. The shipping document may consist of a statement signed by the owner setting forth the above information.
(2)
Cattle being transported on highways and all shipping documents and other records pertaining to such animals shall be subject to inspection by any police officer. Such officers may stop or intercept any vehicle used or suspected of being used for the transportation of cattle and may seize or detain any shipment of cattle not accompanied by shipping documents containing information as required under sub. (1), or accompanied by shipping documents which may be false, until such time as satisfactory evidence of ownership of the cattle is obtained.
(3)
No person shall purchase or receive for sale or shipment any cattle not accompanied by shipping documents required under sub. (1). Copies of such documents shall be retained for a period of 6 months following date of purchase or receipt of the cattle and shall be available for inspection at all reasonable times by any police officer.
(4)
Any person who transports cattle without shipping documents containing information required under sub. (1), or executes, furnishes or issues any false document pertaining to the ownership or shipment of cattle, or who violates this section in any other manner shall be fined not more than $500, or be imprisoned not more than 3 months, or both.
(5)
Subsection (1) does not apply to cattle being transported between farms owned, rented or leased by the owner of the cattle when ownership of cattle does not change.
(6)
Subsection (1) does not apply to cattle being transported to market by the owner of the cattle.
History:  1973 c. 239.