AB327,168,169 196.796 (1) (hm) "Public utility" means every corporation, company, individual
10or association and their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court or state
11or federal agency, that may own, operate, manage, or control all or any part of a plant
12or equipment, within the state, for the production, transmission, delivery, or
13furnishing of electricity directly to or for the public, except that "public utility" does
14not include any municipal utility or municipal electric company, as defined in s.
1566.0825 (3) (d), or any cooperative association organized under ch. 185 or 193 for the
16purpose of producing or furnishing heat, light, power, or water to its members only.
AB327, s. 123 17Section 123. 196.807 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,168,2018 196.807 (1) (a) "Affiliate or utility" means a nonutility affiliate, holding
19company system, public utility or cooperative association organized under ch. 185 or
20193
.
AB327, s. 124 21Section 124. 196.857 (1g) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,168,2422 196.857 (1g) (c) The commission shall conduct classroom and on-farm stray
23voltage training sessions for public utilities, cooperatives, unincorporated
24cooperative associations,
electricians or other interested parties.
AB327, s. 125 25Section 125. 196.857 (2m) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,169,8
1196.857 (2m) Additional investigations. If the commission, at the request of
2an electric cooperative organized under ch. 185 or 193 or any public utility which is
3not assessed under sub. (1m), conducts an investigation of the causes of stray voltage
4on any farm receiving electrical service from that electric cooperative or public
5utility, that electric cooperative or public utility shall pay reasonable fees assessed
6by the commission in accordance with a standardized schedule of fees established by
7the commission by rule. The amounts received under this subsection shall be
8credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.155 (1) (L).
AB327, s. 126 9Section 126. 199.03 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,169,1810 199.03 (12) "Public utility" means any person, except a town, village, city or
11sanitary district, who owns, operates, manages or controls any plant or equipment
12or any part of a plant or equipment, within the state for the production, transmission,
13delivery or furnishing of heat, light, water, telecommunications service or power
14either directly or indirectly to or for the public. "Public utility" includes any person
15engaged in the transmission or delivery of natural gas for compensation within this
16state by means of pipes or mains. "Public utility" does not include a cooperative
17association organized under ch. 185 or 193 for the purpose of generating, distributing
18or furnishing telecommunications service or electric energy to its members only.
AB327, s. 127 19Section 127. 201.01 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,169,2120 201.01 (3) (d) Any securities issued by a corporation organized under ch. 185
21or 193 for the purpose of furnishing telecommunications service in rural areas.
AB327, s. 128 22Section 128. 223.105 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,170,323 223.105 (1) (b) "Organization" means any corporation, unincorporated
24cooperative association,
limited liability company, association, partnership or
25business trust, other than a national bank, state or federal savings and loan

1association, state or federal savings bank or federal credit union or other than a
2corporation, limited liability company, association or partnership, all of whose
3shareholders or members are licensed under SCR 40.02.
AB327, s. 129 4Section 129. 231.35 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,170,65 231.35 (2) (b) A cooperative organized under ch. 185 or 193 that consists of one
6or more rural hospitals, each with no more than 100 beds.
AB327, s. 130 7Section 130. 234.59 (1) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,170,108 234.59 (1) (d) 3. A dwelling unit in a condominium or, a cooperative, or an
9unincorporated cooperative association
, together with an interest in common areas,
10if the unit is or will be the principal residence of an applicant.
AB327, s. 131 11Section 131. 234.622 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,170,2112 234.622 (7) "Qualifying dwelling unit" means a dwelling unit, not including a
13mobile home as defined in s. 66.0435, located in this state, habitable as a permanent
14residence and to which property taxes or special assessments are, or may
15conveniently be, allocated and up to one acre of land appertaining to it held in the
16same ownership as the dwelling unit. For purposes of ss. 234.621 to 234.626,
17"qualifying dwelling unit" includes a unit in a condominium or in a cooperative or an
18unincorporated cooperative association
or in a multi-unit dwelling with 4 or fewer
19units, but in all of these 3 cases only the portion of taxes or special assessments
20allocable to the unit lived in by the participant may qualify for loans under ss.
21234.621 to 234.626.
AB327, s. 132 22Section 132. 285.41 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,171,223 285.41 (1) (f) "Major utility" means a Class A utility, as defined under s. 199.03
24(4), which generates electricity or an electrical cooperative association organized
25under ch. 185 or 193, if the total sulfur dioxide emissions from all stationary air

1contaminant sources in this state under the ownership or control of the utility or
2association exceeded 5,000 tons in any year after 1979.
AB327, s. 133 3Section 133. 289.41 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,171,54 289.41 (1) (d) "Public utility" means a public utility as defined in s. 196.01 (5)
5or an electric cooperative organized under ch. 185 or 193.
AB327, s. 134 6Section 134. 346.50 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,171,147 346.50 (1) (c) The vehicle of a public utility, as defined in s. 196.01 (5), a
8telecommunications carrier, as defined in s. 196.01 (8m), or a rural electric
9cooperative or an unincorporated rural electric cooperative association is stopped or
10left standing and is required for maintenance, installation, repair, construction or
11inspection of its facilities by the public utility or a rural electric cooperative or an
12unincorporated rural electric cooperative association
when warning signs, flags,
13traffic cones, or flashing yellow lights or barricades, have been placed to warn
14approaching motorists of any obstruction to the traveled portion of the highway.
AB327, s. 135 15Section 135. 347.26 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,172,416 347.26 (9) Warning lamps on public utility and cooperative vehicles. Any
17vehicle of a public utility as defined in s. 196.01 (5), of a telecommunications carrier,
18as defined in s. 196.01 (8m), or of a cooperative association organized under ch. 185
19or 193 for the purpose of producing or furnishing heat, light, power or water to its
20members, which by reason of its use upon a highway creates a vehicular traffic
21hazard requiring the exercise of unusual care in approaching, overtaking or passing
22may be equipped with a flashing amber lamp of the dome type or with 2 flashing
23amber lamps, one showing to the front and one showing to the rear. Such lamps shall
24be mounted approximately midway between the extremities of the width of the
25vehicle and at the highest practicable point and shall be used only for the purpose

1of warning operators of other vehicles of the presence of the traffic hazard. Should
2such vehicle be of a type so as to make impractical the mounting of such lamps
3midway between the extremities of the width of the vehicle then such mountings
4shall be made at or near the upper left front and rear corners of such vehicle.
AB327, s. 136 5Section 136. 421.202 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,172,116 421.202 (3) Charges for delayed payment and any discount allowed for early
7payment in transactions under public utility or common carrier tariffs if a
8subdivision or agency of this state or of the United States regulates such charges or
9discounts, or if such charges or discounts are made in connection with the furnishing
10of electric service by an electric cooperative organized and operating on a nonprofit
11basis under ch. 185 or 193;
AB327, s. 137 12Section 137. 421.301 (28) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,172,1613 421.301 (28) "Organization" means a corporation, government or
14governmental subdivision or agency, trust, estate, limited liability company,
15partnership, cooperative or association other than a cooperative organized under ch.
16185 or 193 which has gross annual revenues not exceeding $5 million.
AB327, s. 138 17Section 138. 445.01 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,172,1918 445.01 (8) "Person" includes firm, corporation, partnership, cooperative,
19unincorporated cooperative association,
and association of individuals.
AB327, s. 139 20Section 139. 445.12 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,172,2321 445.12 (3) (a) The solicitation of memberships or the sale of stock or
22memberships in any association organized under ch. 185 or 193 by any person who
23is not a licensed funeral director.
AB327, s. 140 24Section 140. 551.22 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,173,2
1551.22 (12) Any securities of a cooperative corporation organized under ch. 185
2or 193.
AB327, s. 141 3Section 141. 560.16 (1) (c) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,173,84 560.16 (1) (c) (intro.) "Employee-owned business" means a business located in
5this state which is organized in a manner determined by the secretary to involve
6substantial employee participation or a cooperative organized under ch. 185 or 193
7or a corporation in which the employees own the stock of the corporation through an
8employee stock ownership plan as defined under 26 USC 4975 (e) (7) and in which:
AB327, s. 142 9Section 142. 560.17 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,173,1010 560.17 (1) (b) "Business" includes cooperatives organized under ch. 185 or 193.
AB327, s. 143 11Section 143. 560.9801 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,173,1212 560.9801 (1) (b) A nonprofit cooperative organized under ch. 185 or 193.
AB327, s. 144 13Section 144. 560.9801 (3) (a) 7. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,173,1614 560.9801 (3) (a) 7. If the housing is owned and occupied by members of a
15cooperative or an unincorporated cooperative association, fees paid to a person for
16managing the housing.
AB327, s. 145 17Section 145. 560.9804 (2) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,173,2018 560.9804 (2) (e) A cooperative organized under ch. 185 or 193, if the articles of
19incorporation, articles of organization, or bylaws of the cooperative limit the rate of
20dividend that may be paid on all classes of stock.
AB327, s. 146 21Section 146. 609.01 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,174,222 609.01 (2) "Health maintenance organization" means a health care plan
23offered by an organization established under ch. 185 or 193, 611, 613 or 614 or issued
24a certificate of authority under ch. 618 that makes available to its enrollees, in

1consideration for predetermined periodic fixed payments, comprehensive health
2care services performed by providers participating in the plan.
AB327, s. 147 3Section 147. 609.01 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,174,104 609.01 (4) "Preferred provider plan" means a health care plan offered by an
5organization established under ch. 185 or 193, 611, 613, or 614 or issued a certificate
6of authority under ch. 618 that makes available to its enrollees, without referral and
7for consideration other than predetermined periodic fixed payments, coverage of
8either comprehensive health care services or a limited range of health care services,
9regardless of whether the health care services are performed by participating or
10nonparticipating providers.
AB327, s. 148 11Section 148. 616.09 (1) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,174,1612 616.09 (1) (c) 1. Plans authorized under s. 616.06 are subject to ch. 185 or 193,
13as applicable
, except that ss. 185.03 (5) and (6), 185.05 (1) (c), 185.55, 185.61, 185.62,
14185.63, 185.64, 185.71 to 185.76 and, 185.81, 193.151, 193.215 (2) (a) 2., 193.225,
15193.301 (9), 193.801, 193.805, 193.905 to 193.971,
and those provisions applicable to
16cooperatives or unincorporated cooperative associations with stock do not apply.
AB327, s. 149 17Section 149. 706.05 (2m) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,174,2118 706.05 (2m) (b) 2. Descriptions of property that is subject to liens granted on
19property thereafter acquired by a rural electric cooperative, or a telephone
20cooperative, organized under ch. 185 or 193, by a pipeline company under s. 76.02
21(5), by a public utility under s. 196.01 (5) or by a railroad under s. 195.02 (1) or (5).
AB327, s. 150 22Section 150. 706.09 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,175,423 706.09 (3) (a) Public service corporations, railroads, electric cooperatives,
24trustees, governmental units.
While owned, occupied or used by any public service
25corporation, any railroad corporation as defined in s. 195.02, any electric cooperative

1organized and operating on a nonprofit basis under ch. 185 or 193, or any trustee or
2receiver of any such corporation or electric cooperative, or any mortgagee or trust
3deed trustee or receiver thereof; nor any such interest while held by the United
4States, the state or any political subdivision or municipal corporation thereof; or
AB327, s. 151 5Section 151. 815.18 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,175,86 815.18 (2) (c) "Debtor" means an individual. "Debtor" does not include an
7association, a corporation, a partnership, a cooperative, an unincorporated
8cooperative association,
or a political body.
AB327, s. 152 9Section 152. 893.28 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,175,1710 893.28 (2) Continuous use of rights in real estate of another for at least 10 years
11by a domestic corporation organized to furnish telegraph or telecommunications
12service or transmit heat, power or electric current to the public or for public purposes,
13or a cooperative association organized under ch. 185 or 193 to furnish telegraph or
14telecommunications service or transmit heat, power or electric current to its
15members, establishes the prescriptive right to continue the use, except as provided
16by s. 893.29. A person who has established a prescriptive right under this subsection
17may commence an action to establish prescriptive rights under ch. 843.
AB327, s. 153 18Section 153. 893.33 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,176,1519 893.33 (5) This section bars all claims to an interest in real property, whether
20rights based on marriage, remainders, reversions and reverter clauses in covenants
21restricting the use of real estate, mortgage liens, old tax deeds, death and income or
22franchise tax liens, rights as heirs or under will, or any claim of any nature, however
23denominated, and whether such claims are asserted by a person sui juris or under
24disability, whether such person is within or without the state, and whether such
25person is natural or corporate, or private or governmental, unless within the 30-year

1period provided by sub. (2) there has been recorded in the office of the register of
2deeds some instrument expressly referring to the existence of the claim, or a notice
3pursuant to this section. This section does not apply to any action commenced or any
4defense or counterclaim asserted, by any person who is in possession of the real
5estate involved as owner at the time the action is commenced. This section does not
6apply to any real estate or interest in real estate while the record title to the real
7estate or interest in real estate remains in a railroad corporation, a public service
8corporation as defined in s. 201.01, an electric cooperative organized and operating
9on a nonprofit basis under ch. 185 or 193, or any trustee or receiver of a railroad
10corporation, a public service corporation or an electric cooperative, or to claims or
11actions founded upon mortgages or trust deeds executed by that cooperative or
12corporation, or trustees or receivers of that cooperative or corporation. This section
13also does not apply to real estate or an interest in real estate while the record title
14to the real estate or interest in real estate remains in the state or a political
15subdivision or municipal corporation of this state.
AB327, s. 154 16Section 154. 946.69 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,176,1817 946.69 (1) (c) A cooperative association organized under ch. 185 or 193 to
18furnish or provide telecommunications service, gas, electricity, power or water.
AB327, s. 155 19Section 155. 990.01 (14) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB327,177,220 990.01 (14) Homestead exemption. "Exempt homestead" means the dwelling,
21including a building, condominium, mobile home, house trailer or cooperative or an
22unincorporated cooperative association
, and so much of the land surrounding it as
23is reasonably necessary for its use as a home, but not less than 0.25 acre, if available,
24and not exceeding 40 acres, within the limitation as to value under s. 815.20, except

1as to liens attaching or rights of devisees or heirs of persons dying before the effective
2date of any increase of that limitation as to value.
AB327, s. 156 3Section 156. Nonstatutory provisions.
AB327,177,84 (1) Notwithstanding section 990.001 (11) of the statutes, if a court finds that
5the amendment of section 11.38 (8) (b) (by Section 7) of the statutes by this act, or
6any part of the laws specified in 2001 Wisconsin Act 109, section 9115 (2y) (b) is
7unconstitutional, the amendment of section 11.38 (8) (b) (by Section 7) of the statutes
8by this act is void.
AB327, s. 157 9Section 157. Effective date.
AB327,177,1110 (1) This act takes effect on September 1, 2005, or on the day after publication,
11whichever is later.
AB327,177,1212 (End)
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