Wisconsin Electrical Licensing Law

Wisconsin Code · 14 sections

The following is the full text of Wisconsin’s electrical licensing law statutes as published in the Wisconsin Code. For the official version, see the Wisconsin Legislature.

Wis. Stat. 145.06

145.06 License or registration required; exemptions. (1) (a) No person may engage in or work at plumbing in the state unless licensed to do so by the department. A master plumber may work as a journeyman. No person may act as a plumbing apprentice or pipe layer unless registered with the department. (b) No public utility shall engage in or perform plumbing unless exempted by sub. (4). (2) No person shall install plumbing unless at all times a licensed master plumber is in charge, who shall be responsible for proper installation. Licenses shall be issued only to individuals and no license shall be issued to or in the name of any firm or corporation. No such license shall be transferable. It is unlawful for any licensed master plumber to allow the use of his or her license, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of obtaining local permits for others or to allow the use of his or her license by others to install plumbing work. (3) Each member or employee of a partnership or limited liability company or each officer or employee of a corporation engaging in the business of superintending plumbing installations shall be required to apply for and obtain a master plumber’s license before engaging in the work of superintending plumbing installations. (3m) No person may test the performance of cross-connection control devices when the test is required by the department unless he or she is registered with the department as a cross-connection control tester. (4) This section shall not apply to: (a) Plumbing work done by a property owner in a one-family building owned and occupied by him or her as his or her home or farm building, except where such license is required by local ordinance. (b) Plumbing from the private water supply pump to and including the initial pressure tank and connection to an existing water distribution system, when installed by persons licensed under ch. 280. (c) Installation of sewer and water service piping from the main to the property lot line, when installed by authorized municipal utility employees or sewer and water utility installers under a contract with a municipality. (d) Making minor repairs to faucets, valves, pipes or appliances, repair or replacement of electrical or gas energy or other automatic valves or control devices or removing of stoppages in waste or drainage pipes. (e) Installation of sewer and water mains, when installed by sewer and water utility contractors and their employees. (f) Installation, repair or replacement of water service piping, from the property line to the meter, including meter installation, to service any building or structure or proposed building or structure when such installation, repair or replacement is accomplished by employees of a public municipal water utility, providing such utility regularly has engaged in such installation, repair or replacement for at least 5 years prior to January 1, 1964. History: 1977 c. 314; 1983 a. 189; 1993 a. 112, 322, 482, 490; 1995 a. 227. Cross-reference: See also ss. SPS 305.90, 305.91, 305.92, 305.93, 305.94, 305.95, 305.96, 305.97, 305.98, and 305.99, Wis. adm. code.

Wis. Stat. § 192.47

192.47 , constables, marshals, deputy marshals, and federal law enforcement officers.

175.05(1)(d)

(d)

“Person” includes a firm, partnership, limited liability company, corporation or association.

175.05(1)(e)

(e)

“Public utility” includes any pipe line, gas, electric, heat, water, oil, sewer, telecommunications, telegraph, radio, railway, railroad, airplane, transportation, communication or other system, by whomsoever owned or operated for public use.

175.05(2)

(2)

 

Unlawful entry on property.

175.05(2)(a)

(a)

Any person or state or any political subdivision thereof engaged in, or preparing to engage in, the manufacture, transportation or storage of any product to be used in the preparation of the United States or of any of the states for defense or for war or in the prosecution of war by the United States or the manufacture, transportation, distribution or storage of gas, oil, coal, electricity or water, or any such person or governmental unit operating any public utility, whose property, except where it fronts on water or where there are entrances for railway cars, vehicles, persons or things, is surrounded by a fence or wall, or a fence or wall and buildings, may post around that person’s, state’s or political subdivision’s property at each gate, entrance, dock or railway entrance and every 100 feet of water front a sign reading “No Entry Without Permission”.

175.05(2)(b)

(b)

Whoever without permission shall willfully enter upon premises so posted shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

175.05(3)

(3)

 

Questioning and detaining suspected persons.

Any peace officer or any person employed as security person, guard, or in a supervisory capacity on premises posted as provided in sub. (2) may stop any person found on any premises to which entry without permission is forbidden by said subsection and may detain that person and demand that person’s name, address and business in such place. If the peace officer or employee has reason to believe from the answers of the person so interrogated that that person has no right to be in that place, the peace officer or employee shall forthwith release or arrest that person without a warrant on a charge of violating the provisions of sub. (2) and an employee in case of arrest shall forthwith turn the arrested person over to a peace officer.

175.05(4)

(4)

 

Closing and restricting use of highway.

175.05(4)(a)

(a)

Any person, municipal corporation, or state or any political subdivision thereof engaged in or preparing to engage in the manufacture, transportation or storage of any product to be used in the preparation of the United States or any of the states for defense or for war or in prosecution of war by the United States, or in the manufacture, transportation, distribution or storage of gas, oil, coal, electricity or water, or any such person or governmental unit operating any public utility, who has property so used which that person or governmental unit believes will be endangered if public use and travel is not restricted or prohibited on one or more highways or parts thereof upon which such property abuts, may petition the highway commissioners of any city, village, town or county to close one or more of said highways or parts thereof to public use and travel or to restrict by order the use and travel upon one or more of said highways or parts thereof.

175.05(4)(b)

(b)

Upon receipt of such petition, the highway commissioners shall set a day for hearing and give notice thereof by publication of a class 1 notice, under ch. 985 , in the city, village, town or county in which the property is located, such notice to be at least 7 days prior to the date set for hearing. If after hearing the highway commissioners determine that the public safety and the safety of the property of the petitioner so require, they shall by suitable order close to public use and travel or reasonably restrict the use of and travel upon one or more of the highways or parts thereof, except that the highway commissioners may issue written permits to travel over the highways so closed or restricted, to responsible and reputable persons for such term, under such conditions and in such form as the commissioners may prescribe. The order of the highway commissioners closing or restricting the use of one or more of the highways shall be effective only so long as the public safety and the safety of the property of the petitioner may require. Such order shall be vacated by the highway commissioners when the necessity which prompted it has ceased to exist. Any person feeling aggrieved by any order of the highway commissioners rendered pursuant to this subsection may, within 7 days after the issuance of the order, petition the division of hearings and appeals in the department of administration for a review thereof. A copy of the petition shall, within the period named, likewise be filed with the clerk of the local highway commissioners. The clerk shall thereupon certify to the division of hearings and appeals a copy of the order in question together with a transcript of any testimony that may have been taken and any documentary evidence received on which the order was based. On the record so certified and on any additional evidence deemed necessary by it, the division of hearings and appeals shall render its decision affirming, vacating or modifying the order in question. Should additional evidence be deemed necessary by the division of hearings and appeals, at least 7 days’ notice of any hearing for that purpose shall be given to the person bringing the petition for review and the clerk of the local highway commissioners.

175.05(4)(c)

(c)

Appropriate notices in letters at least 3 inches high shall be posted conspicuously at each end of any highway so closed or restricted by such order. The highway commissioners may at any time revoke or modify any order so made.

175.05(5)

(5)

 

Penalty for going upon closed or restricted highway.

Whoever violates any order made under sub. (4) shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 10 days, or by a fine of not more than $50, or both.

175.05(6)

(6)

 

Rights of labor.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair, curtail or destroy the rights of employees and their representatives to self-organization, to form, join or assist labor organization, to strike, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, under either the federal labor relations act or subch. I of ch. 111 .

175.05(7)

(7)

 

National railway labor act not affected.

Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to interfere with or abridge or in any manner diminish or affect the rights provided for under the National Railway Labor Act.

Wis. Stat. § 196.485

196.485 (1) (ge) .

201.01(3)

(3)

 

“Securities” means capital stock and evidences of indebtedness of a public service corporation, but do not include any of the following:

201.01(3)(a)

(a)

Any obligation of a public service corporation which is not a public utility as defined in the federal Power Act, falling due one year or less after its date and bearing date not later than the day of sale.

201.01(3)(b)

(b)

Any evidence of indebtedness of a public service corporation which is a public utility as defined in the federal Power Act, the issuance, renewal or assumption of which is exempt from section 204 (a) of the federal Power Act by the provisions of section 204 (e) thereof.

201.01(3)(c)

(c)

Any obligation issued to the United States of America in connection with loans for rural telecommunications facilities made pursuant to the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended.

201.01(3)(d)

(d)

Any securities issued by a corporation organized under ch. 185 or 193 for the purpose of furnishing telecommunications service in rural areas.

201.01(3)(e)

(e)

Any environmental trust bonds issued pursuant to a financing order of the commission under s.

Wis. Stat. § 196.52

196.52 (9) (a) 1. , that, collectively, is sufficient to generate electric power.

79.005(3)

(3)

 

“Production plant” does not include substations and general structures.

79.005(4)

(4)

 

“Repowered” means any of the following:

79.005(4)(a)

(a)

Replacing the boiler on an existing fossil fuel steam unit with a combustion turbine and heat recovery steam generator and reusing the steam turbine and heat rejection system.

79.005(4)(b)

(b)

Adding a heat recovery steam generator to a simple cycle combustion turbine.

79.005(4)(c)

(c)

Demolishing or abandoning an existing power generation unit and replacing it with a new power generation unit at the same site.

79.005(4)(d)

(d)

Replacing steam generating equipment at a combustion-based renewable facility, as defined in s.

Wis. Stat. § 199.10

199.10 . “Periodic customer billing” does not mean any promotional or informational literature, invoice listing charges for any other person or any enclosure which describes current or future service charges.

199.03(11)

(11)

 

“Political committee” means any committee, club, association or other group of persons which makes campaign expenditures or receives campaign contributions during the year before an election of the board.

199.03(12)

(12)

 

“Public utility” means any person, except a town, village, city or sanitary district, who owns, operates, manages or controls any plant or equipment or any part of a plant or equipment, within the state for the production, transmission, delivery or furnishing of heat, light, water, telecommunications service or power either directly or indirectly to or for the public. “Public utility” includes any person engaged in the transmission or delivery of natural gas for compensation within this state by means of pipes or mains. “Public utility” does not include a cooperative organized under ch. 185 for the purpose of generating, distributing, or furnishing electric energy to its members only, or a cooperative organized under ch. 185 or 193 for the purpose of furnishing telecommunications service to its members only.

199.03(14)

(14)

 

“Residential utility consumer” means any individual who lives in a dwelling which is located in this state and which is furnished with a utility service by a public utility. “Residential utility consumer” includes, but is not limited to, an individual engaged in farming as defined under s.

Wis. Stat. § 256.15

256.15 or an ambulance driver or emergency medical responder authorized by the chief of an ambulance service or rescue squad.

340.01(3)(e)

(e)

Emergency vehicles of municipal or county departments or public service corporations that are designated or authorized by the local authorities to be authorized emergency vehicles.

340.01(3)(f)

(f)

Emergency vehicles of state departments that are designated or authorized by the heads of those departments to be authorized emergency vehicles.

340.01(3)(g)

(g)

Publicly owned ambulances that are designated or authorized by local authorities to be authorized emergency vehicles.

340.01(3)(h)

(h)

An emergency vehicle authorized by the county board of supervisors of any county for use by the county coroners or medical examiners for traveling to the scene of a fatal accident or a death and on any other occasions that are authorized under par. (e) .

340.01(3)(i)

(i)

Privately owned ambulances that are operated by their owners or by their owners’ agents and that are authorized in writing by the sheriff or others designated by the county board as emergency vehicles. The authorization is effective throughout the state until rescinded. The sheriff or others designated by the county board may designate any owner of ambulances usually kept in the county to operate those ambulances as authorized emergency vehicles. The written authorization shall at all times be carried on each ambulance used for emergency purposes. The sheriff shall keep a file of authorizations made under this paragraph in the sheriff’s office for public inspection, and all other persons permitted to issue authorizations under this paragraph shall file a copy of all authorizations issued with the sheriff.

340.01(3)(j)

(j)

Vehicles operated by federal, state or local authorities for the purpose of bomb and explosive or incendiary ordnance disposal.

340.01(3m)

(3m)

 

“Autocycle” means a motor vehicle that has 3 wheels in contact with the ground, is designed with seating that does not require operators or any occupants to straddle or sit astride it, has a steering wheel, and is originally manufactured to meet federal motor vehicle safety standards for motorcycles under 49 CFR part 571 .

340.01(4)

(4)

 

“Automobile” means any of the following:

340.01(4)(a)

(a)

Type 1 is a motor vehicle designed and used primarily for carrying persons but which does not come within the definition of a motor bus, motorcycle, moped or motor bicycle.

340.01(4)(b)

(b)

Type 2 is a motor vehicle capable of speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour on a dry, level, hard surface with no wind, designed and built to have at least 3 wheels in contact with the ground, a power source as an integral part of the vehicle, a curb weight of at least 1,500 pounds, and a passenger and operator area with sides permanently enclosed with rigid construction and a top which may be convertible.

340.01(4e)

(4e)

 

“Automobile haulaway” means a combination of 2 vehicles specially designed, constructed and used to transport operational motor vehicles.

340.01(5)

(5)

 

“Bicycle” means every vehicle propelled by feet or hands acting upon pedals or cranks and having wheels any 2 of which are not less than 14 inches in diameter.

340.01(5e)

(5e)

 

“Bicycle lane” means that portion of a roadway set aside by the governing body of any city, town, village, or county for the exclusive use of bicycles, electric scooters, electric personal assistive mobility devices, or other modes of travel where permitted under s.

Wis. Stat. § 289.01

289.01 (9) ; or nonvegetation-based industrial, commercial, or household waste.

79.005(1d)

(1d)

 

“Baseload electric generating facility” means an electric generating facility that has a capacity factor that is greater than 60 percent, as determined by the public service commission.

79.005(1f)

(1f)

 

“Capacity factor” means the anticipated actual annual output of an electric generating facility expressed as a percentage of the facility’s potential output. For purposes of this subchapter, the public service commission may review the capacity factor of an electric generating facility at any time.

79.005(1g)

(1g)

 

“Cogeneration production plant” means an electric generating facility that produces electricity and another form of thermal energy, including heat or steam, that is used for industrial, commercial, heating, or cooling purposes.

79.005(1h)

(1h)

 

“Decommissioned” means, with regard to a production plant, the earliest of the following:

79.005(1h)(a)

(a)

The production plant is no longer recovered through the utility’s or cooperative’s rates or, for a production plant owned by a qualified wholesale electric company, as defined in s.

Wis. Stat. § 348.27

348.27 (12m) (a) 1. The transportation of property in a motor vehicle being used subject to subch. IV of ch. 440 is not transportation by a contract motor carrier.

194.01(3)

(3)

 

“Department” means the department of transportation.

194.01(3m)

(3m)

 

“Division of hearings and appeals” means the division of hearings and appeals in the department of administration.

194.01(4)

(4)

 

“For hire” means for compensation, and includes compensation obtained by a motor carrier indirectly, by subtraction from the purchase price or addition to the selling price of property transported, where the purchase or sale thereof is not a bona fide purchase or sale. Any person who pretends to purchase property to be transported by such person or who purchases property immediately prior to and sells it immediately after the transportation thereof shall be deemed to be transporting the property for hire and not a bona fide purchaser or seller thereof. The rental of a motor vehicle to a person for transportation of the person’s property which rental directly or indirectly includes the services of a driver shall be deemed to be transportation for hire and not private carriage. This subsection does not apply to motor vehicle operations which are conducted merely as an incident to or in furtherance of any business or industrial activity.

194.01(5)

(5)

 

“Gross weight”, when applied to a motor vehicle used for the transportation of passengers, shall mean the actual weight of the motor vehicle unloaded plus 150 pounds for each person capable of being seated in the motor vehicle.

194.01(6)

(6)

 

The term “gross weight” when applied to a motor vehicle used for the transportation of property shall mean the actual weight of such motor vehicle unloaded plus the licensed carrying capacity of such motor vehicle.

194.01(6m)

(6m)

 

“Interstate commerce” includes foreign commerce.

194.01(7)

(7)

 

“Motor vehicle” means any automobile, truck, trailer, semitrailer, tractor, motor bus, or any self-propelled or motor driven vehicle, except a motorcycle, moped, motor bicycle, electric bicycle, electric scooter, electric personal assistive mobility device, personal delivery device, or vehicle operated on rails.

194.01(8)

(8)

 

“Municipality” means a town, village, or city.

194.01(10)

(10)

 

“Person” means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, company, association, including express and forwarding companies or agencies and railroad companies, or their lessees, trustees or receivers.

194.01(11)

(11)

 

“Private motor carrier” means any person who provides transportation of property or passengers by commercial motor vehicle, as defined in 49 CFR 390.5 , and is not a for-hire motor carrier.

194.01(12)

(12)

 

“Public highway” means every public street, alley, road, highway or thoroughfare of any kind, except waterways, in this state while open to public travel and use.

194.01(13)

(13)

 

“Secretary” means the secretary of transportation.

Wis. Stat. § 349.23

349.23 (2) (a) , and so designated by appropriate signs and pavement markings.

340.01(5s)

(5s)

 

“Bicycle way” means any path or sidewalk or portion thereof designated for the use of bicycles, electric scooters, and electric personal assistive mobility devices by the governing body of any city, town, village, or county.

340.01(6)

(6)

 

“Business district” means the territory contiguous to a highway when 50 percent or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of 300 feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for business.

340.01(6m)

(6m)

 

“Camping trailer” means a vehicle with a collapsible or folding structure designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, camping, or travel use and to be towed upon a highway by a motor vehicle.

340.01(6r)

(6r)

 

“Car pool vehicle” means a motor truck having a gross weight of 6,000 pounds or less or an automobile or a motor bus when such vehicles are transporting 2 or more persons, or a motorcycle. “Car pool vehicle” does not include any vehicle which is towing a trailer.

340.01(6u)

(6u)

 

“Carsharing organization” means a business entity, as defined in s.

Wis. Stat. 443.01

443.01 Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context provides otherwise: (1) “Architect” means a person who is legally qualified to practice architecture. (1m) “Construction surveying” means surveying or mapping that is performed in support of infrastructure design, in support of improvements related to private and public boundary lines, or in support of construction layout or historic preservation, and establishing any postconstruction documentation related to that surveying or mapping. (2) “Engineer-in-training” means a person who is a graduate in an engineering curriculum of 4 years or more from a school or college approved by the professional engineer section of the examining board as of satisfactory standing, or a person who has had 4 years or more of experience in engineering work of a character satisfactory to the professional engineer section; and who, in addition, has successfully passed the examination in the fundamental engineering subjects prior to the completion of the requisite years in engineering work, as provided in s. 443.05, and who has been granted a certificate of record by the professional engineer section stating that the person has successfully passed this portion of the professional examinations. (3) “Examining board” means the examining board of architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, designers, professional land surveyors, and registered interior designers. (3b) “Geodetic surveying” means surveying to determine the size and shape of the earth or the precise positions of points on the surface of the earth. (3c) “Interior alteration or interior construction project” means a project for an interior space or area within a proposed or existing building or structure, including construction, modification, renovation, rehabilitation, or historic preservation, that involves changing or altering any of the following: (a) The design function or layout of rooms. (b) The state of permanent fixtures or equipment. (c) The interior space or area if the change or alteration requires verification of the compliance of the interior space or area with a building code, fire code, the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, or state or local regulations. (d) Interior furnishings. (e) Nonstructural elements of the interior space or area. (3e) “Interior technical submission” means a design, drawing, specification, study, or other technical report or calculation that establishes the scope of an interior design project, including a description of standards of quality for materials, skilled labor, equipment, and construction systems, and that may be signed and sealed by a Wisconsin registered interior designer in compliance with this chapter. (3g) “Landscape architect” means a person who practices landscape architecture. (3r) “Landscape architecture” means the performance of a professional service involving conceptual land planning and conceptual design for integrated land development based on the analysis of environmental characteristics, operational requirements, land use or commensurate land values. “Landscape architecture” includes the investigation, selection or allocation of land or water resources for appropriate uses; the formulation of graphic or written criteria for a land planning or land construction program; the preparation, review or analysis of a master plan for land use or development; the production of a graphic land area, grading, drainage, planting or land construction plan; and the planning of a road, bridge or other structure with respect to the aesthetic requirements of the area on which it will be constructed, except that “landscape architecture” does not include any of the following: (a) Professional services performed by a registered architect or by a person who has in effect a permit under s. 443.10 (1) (d). (b) Professional services performed by a professional engineer or by a person who has in effect a permit under s. 443.10 (1) (d). (c) Professional services performed by a professional land surveyor. (d) The practice of planning as is customarily done by a regional, park, or urban planner, or by a person participating on a planning board or commission, within the scope of that practice. (e) The practice of a natural resource professional, including a biologist, professional geologist, as defined in s. 470.01 (5), or professional soil scientist, as defined in s. 470.01 (7). (f) The actions of a person who is under the supervision of a licensed landscape architect or an employee of a licensed landscape architect, unless the person assumes responsible charge, design, or supervision. (g) Work performed on property by an individual who owns or has control over the property, or work performed by a person hired by an individual who owns or has control of the property. (h) Making plans or drawings for the selection, placement, or use of plants or site features. (5) “Practice of architecture” includes any professional service, such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, architectural and structural design, or responsible supervision of construction, in connection with the construction of any private or public buildings, structures, projects, or the equipment thereof, or addition to or alterations thereof, in which the public welfare or the safeguarding of life, health or property is concerned or involved. (5m) (a) “Practice of interior design” means the design of interior spaces as a part of an interior alteration or interior construction project in conformity with public health, safety, and welfare requirements, including the preparation of documents relating to building code descriptions, project egress plans that require no increase in the number of exits in the space affected, space planning, finish materials, furnishings, fixtures, and equipment and the preparation of documents and interior technical submissions relating to interior construction. (b) “Practice of interior design” does not include any of the following: 1. Services that constitute the practice of architecture or the practice of professional engineering. 2. Altering or affecting the structural system of a building, including changing the building’s live or dead load on the structural system. 3. Changes to the building envelope, including exterior walls, exterior wall coverings, exterior wall openings, exterior windows and doors, architectural trim, balconies and similar projections, bay and oriel windows, roof assemblies and rooftop structures, and glass and glazing for exterior use in both vertical and sloped applications in buildings and structures. 4. Altering or affecting the mechanical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, ventilation, electrical, vertical transportation, fire sprinkler, or fire alarm systems. 5. Changes beyond the exit access component of a means of egress system. 6. Construction that materially affects life safety systems pertaining to fire safety or the fire protection of structural elements, or alterations to smoke evacuation and compartmentalization systems or to fire-rated vertical shafts in multistory structures. 7. Changes of use to an occupancy of greater hazard as determined by the International Building Code. 8. Changes to the construction classification of the building or structure according to the International Building Code. (6) “Practice of professional engineering” includes any professional service requiring the application of engineering principles and data, in which the public welfare or the safeguarding of life, health or property is concerned and involved, such as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning, design, or responsible supervision of construction, alteration, or operation, in connection with any public or private utilities, structures, projects, bridges, plants and buildings, machines, equipment, processes and works. A person offers to practice professional engineering if the person by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way represents himself or herself to be a professional engineer; or who through the use of some other title implies that he or she is a professional engineer; or who holds himself or herself out as able to practice professional engineering. (6s) “Practice of professional land surveying” means any of the following: (a) Any service comprising the establishment or reestablishment of the boundaries of one or more tracts of land or the boundaries of any of the following interests in real property: 1. The rights-of-way of roads or streets. 2. Air or subsurface property rights. 3. Public or private easements. (b) Designing or coordinating designs for the purpose of platting or subdividing land into smaller tracts. (c) Placing, replacing, restoring, or perpetuating monuments in or on the ground to evidence the location of a point that is necessary to establish boundaries of one or more tracts of land or the subdivision or consolidation of one or more tracts of land or to describe the boundaries of any interest in real property identified in par. (a). (d) Preparing maps that depict any interest in real property identified in par. (a) for the purpose of establishing the boundaries of any such interest in real property. (e) Preparing any of the following: 1. An official map established or amended under s. 62.23 (6), established or amended under the authority of s. 61.35, or adopted under s. 60.61. 2. An assessor’s plat under s. 70.27. 3. A map or plat of cemetery lands under s. 157.07. 4. A subdivision plat, certified survey map, or correction instrument under ch. 236. 5. A condominium plat or correction instrument under ch. 703. 6. A project and time-share property plat under s. 707.215. (f) Performing construction surveying or geodetic surveying in connection with any of the practices specified in pars. (a) to (e). (7) “Professional engineer” means a person who by reason of his or her knowledge of mathematics, the physical sciences and the principles of engineering, acquired by professional education and practical experience, is qualified to engage in engineering practice as defined in sub. (6). (7m) “Professional land surveyor” means a person who, by reason of his or her knowledge of law, mathematics, physical sciences, and measurement techniques, acquired by education and practical experience, is granted a license under this chapter to engage in the practice of professional land surveying. (8) “Responsible supervision of construction” means a professional service, as distinguished from superintending of construction, and means the performance, or the supervision thereof, of reasonable and ordinary on-site observations to determine that the construction is in substantial compliance with the approved drawings, plans and specifications. (9) “Wisconsin registered interior designer” means a person registered as a Wisconsin registered interior designer under this chapter. History: 1971 c. 42, 215, 307; 1975 c. 9, 39, 199, 200, 334, 421; 1977 c. 29, 125, 418; 1979 c. 34, 98; 1979 c. 162 s. 38 (7); 1979 c. 167; 1979 c. 221 s. 780; 1979 c. 355; 1983 a. 189 ss. 274, 329 (18); 1993 a. 463, 465, 491; 1997 a. 300; 2009 a. 123; 2011 a. 146; 2013 a. 358; 2021 a. 195. Discussing the duties of county surveyors and other land surveyors and minimum standards for property surveys. 69 Atty. Gen. 160.

Wis. Stat. § 454.20

454.20 (2) .

454.01(7)

(7)

 

“Compensation” means direct or indirect payment, including the expectation of payment whether or not actually received.

454.01(7e)

(7e)

 

“Cosmetologist” means a person who practices cosmetology.

454.01(7m)

(7m)

 

“Cosmetology” means, for compensation, performing one or more of the following:

454.01(7m)(a)

(a)

Barbering.

454.01(7m)(b)

(b)

Aesthetics.

454.01(7m)(c)

(c)

Manicuring.

454.01(7m)(d)

(d)

The removal of hair of any person at the root, except by use of an electric needle.

454.01(8)

(8)

 

“Electrologist” means a person who practices electrology.

454.01(9)

(9)

 

“Electrology” means, for compensation, removing hair from the human body by use of an electric needle.

454.01(10)

(10)

 

“Establishment” means any place in which barbering, cosmetology, aesthetics, electrology, or manicuring is performed.

454.01(11)

(11)

 

“Examining board” means the cosmetology examining board.

454.01(11m)

(11m)

 

“Inactive license” means a license issued under s.

Wis. Stat. § 54.76

54.76 to manage the estate of a living individual.

711.03(6)

(6)

 

“Content of an electronic communication” means information concerning the substance or meaning of a communication that satisfies all of the following:

711.03(6)(a)

(a)

The information was sent or received by a user.

711.03(6)(b)

(b)

The information is electronically stored by a custodian that provides an electronic communication service to the public or is carried or maintained by a custodian that provides a remote computing service to the public.

711.03(6)(c)

(c)

The information is not readily accessible to the public.

711.03(7)

(7)

 

“Court” means the circuit court having jurisdiction over a matter related to this chapter.

711.03(8)

(8)

 

“Custodian” means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a user’s digital property.

711.03(9)

(9)

 

“Designated recipient” means a person chosen by the user using an online tool to administer the user’s digital property.

711.03(10)

(10)

 

“Digital property” means an electronic record in which a person has a right or interest. “Digital property” does not include underlying property or an underlying liability unless the property or liability is itself an electronic record.

711.03(11)

(11)

 

“Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.

711.03(12)

(12)

 

“Electronic communication” has the meaning given in 18 USC 2510 (12).

711.03(13)

(13)

 

“Electronic communication service” means a custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication.

711.03(14)

(14)

 

“Fiduciary” means an original, additional, or successor personal representative, conservator, guardian, agent, or trustee.

711.03(15)

(15)

 

“Governing instrument” has the meaning given in s.

Wis. Stat. § 770.01

770.01 (1) .

140.01(4)

(4)

 

“Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.

140.01(5)

(5)

 

“Electronic signature” means an electronic symbol, sound, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by an individual with the intent to sign the record.

140.01(6)

(6)

 

“In a representative capacity” means acting as any of the following:

140.01(6)(a)

(a)

An authorized officer, agent, partner, trustee, or other representative for a person other than an individual.

140.01(6)(b)

(b)

A public officer, personal representative, guardian, or other representative, in the capacity stated in a record.

140.01(6)(c)

(c)

An agent or attorney-in-fact for a principal.

140.01(6)(d)

(d)

An authorized representative of another in any other capacity.

140.01(7)

(7)

 

“Notarial act” means an act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or electronic record, that a notarial officer may perform under the law of this state. The term includes taking an acknowledgment, administering an oath or affirmation, taking a verification on oath or affirmation, witnessing or attesting a signature, certifying or attesting a copy, and noting a protest of a negotiable instrument.

140.01(8)

(8)

 

“Notarial officer” means a notary public or other individual authorized to perform a notarial act.

140.01(9)

(9)

 

“Notary public” means an individual commissioned to perform a notarial act.

140.01(10)

(10)

 

“Official stamp” means a physical image affixed to or embossed on a tangible record or an electronic image attached to or logically associated with an electronic record.

140.01(11)

(11)

 

“Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, statutory trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.

140.01(12)

(12)

 

“Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

140.01(13)

(13)

 

“Sign” means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, any of the following:

140.01(13)(a)

(a)

To execute or adopt a tangible symbol.

140.01(13)(b)

(b)

To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process.

140.01(14)

(14)

 

“Signature” means a tangible symbol or an electronic signature that evidences the signing of a record.

140.01(15)

(15)

 

“Stamping device” means any of the following:

140.01(15)(a)

(a)

A physical device capable of affixing to or embossing on a tangible record an official stamp.

140.01(15)(b)

(b)

An electronic device or process capable of attaching to or logically associating with an electronic record an official stamp.

140.01(16)

(16)

 

“State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

140.01(17)

(17)

 

“Tamper-evident” means that any change to a record generates evidence of the change.

140.01(18)

(18)

 

“Verification on oath or affirmation” means a declaration, made by an individual on oath or affirmation before a notarial officer, that a statement in a record is true.

Wis. Stat. § 815.18

815.18 .

242.01(2)(c)

(c)

An interest in property held in tenancy by the entireties to the extent it is not subject to process by a creditor holding a claim against only one tenant.

242.01(3)

(3)

 

“Claim,” except as used in “claim for relief,” means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured.

242.01(4)

(4)

 

“Creditor” means a person who has a claim.

242.01(5)

(5)

 

“Debt” means liability on a claim.

242.01(6)

(6)

 

“Debtor” means a person who is liable on a claim.

242.01(6m)

(6m)

 

“Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.

242.01(7)

(7)

 

“Insider” includes any of the following:

242.01(7)(a)

(a)

If the debtor is an individual:

242.01(7)(a)1.

1.

A relative of the debtor or of a general partner of the debtor;

242.01(7)(a)2.

2.

A partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;

242.01(7)(a)3.

3.

A general partner in a partnership described in subd. 2. ;

242.01(7)(a)4.

4.

A corporation of which the debtor is a director, officer or person in control; or

242.01(7)(a)5.

5.

A limited liability company of which the debtor is a manager or person in control.

242.01(7)(b)

(b)

If the debtor is a corporation:

242.01(7)(b)1.

1.

A director of the debtor;

242.01(7)(b)2.

2.

An officer of the debtor;

242.01(7)(b)3.

3.

A person in control of the debtor;

242.01(7)(b)4.

4.

A partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;

242.01(7)(b)5.

5.

A general partner in a partnership described in subd. 4. ; or

242.01(7)(b)6.

6.

A relative of a general partner, director, officer or person in control of the debtor.

242.01(7)(bL)

(bL)

If the debtor is a limited liability company, any of the following:

242.01(7)(bL)1.

1.

A manager of the debtor.

242.01(7)(bL)2.

2.

A person in control of the debtor.

242.01(7)(bL)3.

3.

A partnership in which the debtor is a general partner.

242.01(7)(bL)4.

4.

A general partner in a partnership described in subd. 3.

242.01(7)(bL)5.

5.

A relative of a manager or person in control of the debtor.

242.01(7)(c)

(c)

If the debtor is a partnership:

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2023-24 Wisconsin Statutes updated

through 2025 Wis. Act 103 and through all Supreme Court Orders and Controlled Substances Board Orders filed before and in effect on April 3, 2026.

Published and certified under s. 35.18. Changes effective after April 3, 2026, are designated by NOTES.

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