AB128: Bill Text

AB128,75,23 133.05 (3) Any person knowingly violating this section may be fined not more than $25,000 or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year or both is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

AB128,271 Section 271. 134.01 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,76,8 134.01 Injury to business; restraint of will. Any 2 or more persons person who shall combine, associate, agree, mutually undertake or concert together with one or more other person for the purpose of willfully or maliciously injuring another in his or her reputation, trade, business or profession by any means whatever, or for the purpose of maliciously compelling another to do or perform any act against his or her will, or preventing or hindering another from doing or performing any lawful act shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year or by fine not exceeding $500 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

AB128,272 Section 272. 134.02 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,76,14 134.02 (1) (intro.) Any 2 or more persons, whether members of a partnership or company or stockholders in a corporation, who are employers of labor and who shall combine or agree to combine for any of the following purposes shall be fined forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $500, which fine amount shall be paid into the state treasury for the benefit of the school fund:

AB128,273 Section 273. 134.03 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,76,25 134.03 Preventing pursuit of work. Any person who by threats, intimidation, force or coercion of any kind shall hinder or prevent any other person from engaging in or continuing in any lawful work or employment, either for himself or herself or as a wage worker, or who shall attempt to so hinder or prevent shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than 6 months, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit any person or persons off of the premises of such lawful work or employment from recommending, advising or persuading others by peaceful means to refrain from working at a place where a strike or lockout is in progress.

AB128,274 Section 274. 134.04 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,77,7 134.04 (2) Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished, for the first offense by a fine of, forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $500 and for second or subsequent offense by a fine of , shall forfeit not less than $500 nor more than $1,000. Each act prohibited by this section shall constitute a separate violation and offense hereunder.

AB128,275 Section 275. 134.05 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,77,11 134.05 (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 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

AB128,276 Section 276. 134.06 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,77,24 134.06 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 forfeit not more than $25.

AB128,277 Section 277. 134.10 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,78,12 134.10 (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 is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,278 Section 278. 134.11 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,78,21 134.11 (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 is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,279 Section 279. 134.15 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,79,10 134.15 (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, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor 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.

AB128,280 Section 280. 134.17 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,79,19 134.17 (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 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

AB128,281 Section 281. 134.19 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,80,11 134.19 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 forfeit not more than $50 nor less than $10 for each offense.

AB128,282 Section 282. 134.21 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,80,21 134.21 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 Class C misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100, or by imprisonment not exceeding 60 days.

AB128,283 Section 283. 134.25 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,81,2 134.25 (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 Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,284 Section 284. 134.26 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,81,9 134.26 (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 Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,285 Section 285. 134.27 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,81,16 134.27 (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 Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,286 Section 286. 134.28 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,81,25 134.28 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 Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,287 Section 287. 134.30 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,82,15 134.30 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 Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,288 Section 288. 134.31 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,82,23 134.31 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 Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,289 Section 289. 134.32 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,83,7 134.32 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 a person who violates 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 is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor if he or she directly participates in or consents to the person's violation.

AB128,290 Section 290. 134.33 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,83,25 134.33 (8) Penalties. Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association or any officer, director, employee or agent thereof who makes, or sells, or offers to sell, or disposes of, or has in his or her or its possession, with intent to sell or dispose of, any article as herein defined to which is applied any quality mark which does not conform to all the provisions of this section, or from which is omitted any mark required by this section, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, provided, however, that it shall be . It is a defense to any prosecution under this section for the defendant to prove that the said article was manufactured and marked with the intention of and for purposes of exportation from the United States, and that the said article was either actually exported from the United States to a foreign country within 6 months after date of manufacture thereof with the bona fide intention of being sold in the said country and of not being reimported, or that it was delivered within 6 months after date of manufacture thereof, to a person, firm or corporation whose exclusive customary business is the exportation of such articles from the United States.

AB128,291 Section 291. 134.35 of the statutes is repealed.

AB128,292 Section 292. 134.36 of the statutes is repealed.

AB128,293 Section 293. 134.37 of the statutes is repealed.

AB128,294 Section 294. 134.38 of the statutes is repealed.

AB128,295 Section 295. 134.39 of the statutes is repealed.

AB128,296 Section 296. 134.405 (5) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,84,10 134.405 (5) (a) 1. A scrap dealer who knowingly violates this section and who has not knowingly committed a previous violation of this section is subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or both guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,297 Section 297. 134.405 (5) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,84,15 134.405 (5) (a) 2. A scrap dealer who knowingly violates this section and who has knowingly committed one previous violation of this section is subject to a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 9 months, or both guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

AB128,298 Section 298. 134.41 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,85,3 134.41 (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 forfeit not more than $25.

AB128,299 Section 299. 134.45 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,85,8 134.45 (3) (a) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined forfeit not less than $25 nor more than $300 for the first offense, and shall be fined forfeit not less than $300 nor more than $500 for each separate subsequent offense.

AB128,300 Section 300. 134.50 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,85,16 134.50 (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 violation, forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $100. Upon a 2nd or subsequent conviction violation, 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 forfeit not less than $25 nor more than $500.

AB128,301 Section 301. 134.50 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,85,21 134.50 (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 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

AB128,302 Section 302. 134.52 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,86,2 134.52 (4) Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed is guilty of a Class C 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.

AB128,303 Section 303. 134.53 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,86,8 134.53 (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 is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,304 Section 304. 134.57 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,86,21 134.57 Detectives, settlement with employees. Any employer and any person employed to detect dishonesty on the part of employees, or fiduciary agents, on a commission basis or under a contract for a percentage of the amount recovered through or by reason of the detective work done by such person, shall submit the facts of the case and the settlement made with such employee or fiduciary agent to the circuit judge of the county wherein the dishonest act was committed, for approval or further proceedings, and the employee shall be notified of such hearing and shall have a right to be heard. Any such person or employer who shall not so submit the facts and settlement as made to such circuit judge for approval or further proceedings, shall be deemed is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than 3 months nor more than one year.

AB128,305 Section 305. 134.60 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,88,4 134.60 Cutting or transportation of evergreens. No person may cut for sale in its natural condition and untrimmed, with or without roots, any evergreen or coniferous tree, branch, bough, bush, sapling or shrub, from the lands of another without the written consent of the owner, whether such land is publicly or privately owned. The written consent shall contain the legal description of the land where the tree, branch, bough, bush, sapling or shrub was cut, as well as the name of the legal owner. The written consent or a certified copy of the consent shall be carried by every person in charge of the cutting or removing of the trees, branches, boughs, bushes, saplings or shrubs, and shall be exhibited to any officer of the law, forest ranger, forest patrol officer, conservation warden, or other officer of the department of natural resources at the officer's request at any time. The officer may inspect the trees, branches, boughs, bushes, saplings or shrubs when being transported in any vehicle or other means of conveyance and may investigate to determine whether or not this section has been complied with. The officer may stop any vehicle or means of conveyance found carrying any trees, branches, boughs, bushes, saplings or shrubs upon any public highway of this state for the purpose of making such inspection and investigation, and may seize and hold, subject to the order of the court, any such trees, bushes, saplings or shrubs found being cut, removed or transported in violation of this section. No person may ship or transport any such trees, bushes, saplings or shrubs outside the county where they were cut unless the person attaches to the outside of each package, box, bale, truckload or carload shipped a tag or label on which appears the person's name and address. No common carrier or truck hauler may receive for shipment or transportation any such trees, bushes, saplings or shrubs unless the tag or label is attached. Any person who violates this section shall be fined forfeit not less than $10 nor more than $100. Any person who signs any such written consent or certified copy under this section who is not authorized to do so, and any person who lends or transfers or offers to lend or transfer any such written consent or certified copy to another person who is not entitled to use it, and any person not entitled to use any such written consent or certified copy, or who borrows, receives or solicits from another any such written consent or certified copy thereof shall be fined forfeit not less than $100 nor more than $500.

AB128,306 Section 306. 134.65 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,88,17 134.65 (5) Any person violating this section shall be fined forfeit not more than $100 nor less than $25 for the first offense and not more than $200 nor less than $25 for the 2nd or subsequent offense. If upon such 2nd or subsequent violation, the person so violating this section was personally guilty of a failure to exercise due care to prevent violation thereof, the person shall be fined not more than $300 nor less than $25 or imprisoned not exceeding 60 days or both. Conviction is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. A violation shall immediately terminate result in termination of the license of the person convicted of being who is personally guilty of such failure to exercise due care and the person shall not be entitled to another license hereunder for a period of 5 years thereafter, nor shall the person in that period act as the servant or agent of a person licensed hereunder for the performance of the acts authorized by such license.

AB128,307 Section 307. 134.69 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,89,4 134.69 Peddling finger alphabet cards prohibited. No person in this state may engage in the business of peddling finger alphabet cards or printed matter stating that the person is deaf, or use finger alphabet cards or such printed matter or masquerade as a deaf person in any way as a means of inducement in the sale of merchandise. No state or local license may be issued to any person for the purpose of peddling finger alphabet cards or printed matter stating that the person is deaf or masquerading as a deaf person. Any person who peddles or uses finger alphabet cards or such printed matter, or masquerades as a deaf person in any way as a means of inducement in the sale of merchandise in this state and any person who issues any state or local license for that purpose may be imprisoned not more than 90 days or fined not less than $25 nor more than $100 or both is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,308 Section 308. 134.715 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,89,8 134.715 (3) Penalty. A person who violates this section may be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.

AB128,309 Section 309. 134.97 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,89,16 134.97 (4) (b) Any person who possesses a record that was disposed of by a financial institution, medical business or tax preparation business and who intends to use, for any purpose, personal information contained in the record may be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 90 days or both is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. This paragraph does not apply to a person who possesses a record with the authorization or consent of the individual whose personal information is contained in the record.

AB128,310 Section 310. 137.01 (1) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,89,21 137.01 (1) (k) A person who violates par. (i) may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. A person who commits a 2nd or subsequent violation of par. (i) may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 6 years or both.

AB128,311 Section 311. 138.06 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,89,25 138.06 (2) Any lender or agent of a lender who violates s. 138.05, 138.051 or 138.052 may be fined not less than $25 nor more than $500, or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

AB128,312 Section 312. 138.09 (10) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,90,5 138.09 (10) Any person, partnership or corporation and the several officers and employees thereof who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 6 months or both.

AB128,313 Section 313. 138.10 (14) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,90,9 138.10 (14) Penalty. Any pawnbroker who refuses to comply with sub. (13) shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year or fined not more than $500 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

AB128,314 Section 314. 138.12 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,90,15 138.12 (3) (a) No person except those listed in sub. (2) (a) shall engage in the business of financing insurance premiums in this state without first having obtained a license. Any person who engages in the business of financing insurance premiums in this state without obtaining a license may be fined required to forfeit not more than $200.

AB128,315 Section 315. 138.14 (15) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,90,19 138.14 (15) (a) Any person, partnership, or corporation, or the officers or employees thereof, who violates this section is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 6 months or both.

AB128,316 Section 316. 138.20 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB128,90,23 138.20 (2) Penalty. Any person violating this section may be fined required to forfeit not more than $1,000. Each individual who is discriminated against under this section constitutes a separate violation.

AB128,317 Section 317. 139.03 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read: