CHAPTER 182
MISCELLANEOUS CORPORATE PROVISIONS; TURNPIKE CORPORATIONS
182.001 Corporations and trusts prohibited from owning or carrying on farming operations.
182.004 Housing corporations.
182.005 Water reservoirs.
182.007 Charitable corporations and community funds, amending articles.
182.01 Business formation records.
182.011 Corporate powers.
182.012 Special power to transfer property of nonstock corporation.
182.0135 Public utility corporation directors; not to delegate duty to manage; removal by commission.
182.016 River improvement corporations may flow lands.
182.017 Transmission lines; privileges; damages.
182.0175 Damage to transmission facilities.
182.018 Wires over railroads.
182.019 Damages for nondelivery of message or power.
182.020 Driving park corporation.
182.027 Lyceum, libraries and art galleries.
182.028 School corporations.
182.029 Universities and colleges may unite.
182.030 Corporations having church affiliations.
182.031 Railway equipment companies.
182.104 Title to property after dissolution.
182.202 Mutual telecommunications company; quorum; proxies.
182.219 Mutual telecommunications company; dividends.
182.220 Examination by attorney general and legislature.
182.23 Facsimile signatures on corporate obligations.
182.24 Transfers from joint tenants.
182.25 Stock transfers on books, how compelled.
182.30 Turnpike act; title.
182.33 Additional powers.
182.34 Issuance of bonds.
182.35 Acquisition of lands and interests therein.
182.36 Authority to construct grade separations and relocate public roads, streets, highways, railroads and public utilities.
182.37 Rights of public utilities.
182.39 Use of state lands.
182.41 Corporation to be nonprofit.
182.42 Not to be considered public utilities.
182.43 Underpass authorized.
182.44 Limitations on powers.
182.47 Motor vehicle laws to apply.
182.48 State may acquire.
182.50 Establishment of foreign trade zones.
182.70 Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company.
182.71 The Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company.
182.001
182.001
Corporations and trusts prohibited from owning or carrying on farming operations. 182.001(1)
(1)
Prohibition. No corporation or trust may own land on which to carry on farming operations under
sub. (3) or carry on farming operations under
sub. (3), unless the corporation or trust meets the following standards:
182.001(1)(a)
(a) Its shareholders or beneficiaries do not exceed 15 in number. Lineal ancestors and descendants and aunts, uncles and 1st cousins thereof count collectively as one shareholder or beneficiary for purposes of this paragraph, but this collective authorization shall not be used for more than one family in a single corporation or trust.
182.001(1)(b)
(b) It does not have more than 2 classes of shares.
182.001(1)(c)
(c) All its shareholders or beneficiaries, other than any estate, are natural persons.
