Chapter 69, COLLECTION OF STATISTICS
37 sections in this chapter.
Wis. Stat. § 69.01 Definitions
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69.01 Definitions. In this subchapter: (1g) “Advanced practice nurse prescriber” means an advanced practice nurse who is certified under s. 441.16 (2) to issue prescription orders. (1r) “Certificate of termination of domestic partnership” means a certificate issued by a county cl…
Wis. Stat. § 69.02 Department powers and duties
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69.02 Department powers and duties. (1) The department shall: (a) Establish a unit called the office of vital records. (b) Appoint a state registrar. (c) Prescribe the form of an affidavit of death for releasing burial agreement trust funds to a beneficiary under s. 445.125 (1) (…
Wis. Stat. § 69.03 Powers and duties of state registrar
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69.03 Powers and duties of state registrar. The state registrar shall: (1) Administer and enforce this subchapter. (2) Direct the system of vital records. (3) Supervise the office of vital records. (4) Act as custodian of all records in the office of vital records and preserve, i…
Wis. Stat. § 69.035 Treatment by state registrar of tribal vital records and tribal court orders
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69.035 Treatment by state registrar of tribal vital records and tribal court orders. (1) The state registrar shall accept and register valid vital records submitted by tribal courts, consistent with the manner in which vital records submitted by local registrars or city registrar…
Wis. Stat. § 69.04 Local registration district
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69.04 Local registration district. (1) (a) The state registrar may approve a city as a registration district for registration of deaths occurring in the city if the state registrar determines that the city has staff, office space, and other resources for the proper administration…
Wis. Stat. § 69.05 Duties of local registrar
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69.05 Duties of local registrar. A local registrar shall: (1) Be subject to the direction of the state registrar. (4) Preserve, amend and certify vital records under this subchapter by photographic, electronic or other means as directed by the state registrar, except that a local…
Wis. Stat. § 69.06 Duties of city registrars
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69.06 Duties of city registrars. A city registrar shall: (1) Accept for filing, electronically sign and assign a date of acceptance to records of death which he or she has been approved to register under s. 69.04 and which are properly presented in his or her office. (4) Designat…
Wis. Stat. § 69.07 Duties of register of deeds
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69.07 Duties of register of deeds. The county register of deeds shall: (1) Accept for filing, electronically sign and assign a date of acceptance to vital records presented in his or her office under this chapter. (3) Designate a chief deputy appointed under s. 59.43 (3) to perfo…
Wis. Stat. § 69.08 Requirements for registration
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69.08 Requirements for registration. The state registrar may not register a vital record unless the record: (1) Is prepared in the method prescribed by the state registrar. (2) Is prepared in the method prescribed or is printed legibly in permanent ink applied directly to the pap…
Wis. Stat. § 69.09 Corrections prior to filing
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69.09 Corrections prior to filing. If prior to filing a vital record a local registrar determines that the record has an omission or error in information, the local registrar shall return the record to the filing party for correction or replacement, except as provided under s. 69…
Wis. Stat. § 69.10 Correction of obvious errors
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69.10 Correction of obvious errors. (1) Until 365 days after the occurrence of an event which is the subject of a vital record, the state registrar or a local registrar may correct an error in the record if he or she determines that the error is obviously inadvertent. (2) A perso…
Wis. Stat. § 69.11 Amendments without court order
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69.11 Amendments without court order. (1) In this section, “amend” means to change information in an item on a vital record that was incorrect when the vital record was filed or to insert information omitted from an item on a vital record when the vital record was filed. (2) If a…
Wis. Stat. § 69.12 Entry of true facts by court order
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69.12 Entry of true facts by court order. (1) If the state registrar cannot make an amendment to a vital record under s. 69.11 and a person with a direct and tangible interest in the vital record alleges that information on the vital record does not represent the actual facts in …
Wis. Stat. § 69.13 Correction of facts misrepresented by informant for record of birth
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69.13 Correction of facts misrepresented by informant for record of birth. The state registrar may, under an order issued by the circuit court of the county in which a birth occurred, correct information about the parent or the marital status of the mother on a record of birth th…
Wis. Stat. § 69.14 Registration of births
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69.14 Registration of births. (1) FILING REQUIREMENTS. (a) Filing deadline. A record of birth for every birth that occurs in this state shall be filed within 5 days after the birth with the state registrar, who shall register the birth under this subchapter. (b) Accuracy. Either …
Wis. Stat. § 69.145 Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
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69.145 Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. (1) INFORMATION ABOUT PREPARATION. If a birth that occurs in this state on or after August 1, 2004, results in a stillbirth for which a fetal death report is required under s. 69.18 (1) (e) 1., the party responsible for filing …
Wis. Stat. § 69.15 Changes of fact on birth records
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69.15 Changes of fact on birth records. (1) BIRTH RECORD INFORMATION CHANGES. The state registrar may change information on a birth record registered in this state which was correct at the time the birth record was filed under a court or administrative order issued in this state,…
Wis. Stat. § 69.16 Marriage documents
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69.16 Marriage documents. (1) The form, content, application for and registration of marriage documents shall be under ch. 765. (2) If a person has married in this state, at least 365 days have elapsed since the marriage and no marriage document is on file, a person with a direct…
Wis. Stat. § 69.17 Divorce report
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69.17 Divorce report. At the end of every biweekly period, the clerk of any court which conducts divorce proceedings under ch. 767 shall forward to the state registrar, in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, a report of every divorce or annulment of marriage granted dur…
Wis. Stat. § 69.18 Death records
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69.18 Death records. (1) REGISTRATION OF DEATHS. (a) Any one of the following may move a corpse for the purpose of final disposition: 1. A funeral director licensed under ch. 445 acting in person or through the agency of another funeral director licensed under ch. 445. 2. A membe…
Wis. Stat. § 69.186 Induced abortion reporting
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69.186 Induced abortion reporting. (1) On or before January 15 annually, each hospital, clinic or other facility in which an induced abortion is performed shall file with the department a report for each induced abortion performed in the hospital, clinic or other facility in the …
Wis. Stat. § 69.19 Court-ordered death records
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69.19 Court-ordered death records. If a person has died in this state and final disposition of the person’s corpse has been effected but no death record is on file one year after a death, a person with a direct and tangible interest in having a death record registered may petitio…
Wis. Stat. § 69.20 Disclosure of information from vital records
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69.20 Disclosure of information from vital records. (1) A person with a direct and tangible interest in a vital record is any of the following: (a) The registrant of the vital record. (b) A member of the registrant’s immediate family. (c) The parent of a registrant, unless the pa…
Wis. Stat. § 69.21 Copies of vital records
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69.21 Copies of vital records. (1) CERTIFIED COPIES. (a) 1. Except as provided under subd. 2., the state registrar and any local registrar shall issue a certified copy of a vital record to any person if the person submits a request for a certified copy of a vital record of a spec…
Wis. Stat. § 69.22 Fees
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69.22 Fees. (1) Except as provided in sub. (6), the state registrar and any local registrar acting under this subchapter shall collect the following fees: (a) Except as provided under par. (c), $20 for issuing one certified copy of a vital record and $3 for any additional certifi…
Wis. Stat. § 69.24 Penalties
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69.24 Penalties. (1) Any person who does any of the following is guilty of a Class I felony: (a) Other than as authorized under ss. 69.21 (2) (d) and 69.30 (3), prepares or issues any paper or film which purports to be, or carries the appearance of, an original or a copy of a vit…
Wis. Stat. § 69.30 Authorized copying of vital records
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69.30 Authorized copying of vital records. (1) In this section: (a) “County department” means a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22, 46.23, 51.42 or 51.437. (b) “Financial institution” means any bank, savings bank, savings and loan association or credit union that is authori…
Wis. Stat. § 69.60 Taxes and bonds
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69.60 Taxes and bonds. The clerk of each town, city, and village shall annually, at the time required by law to deliver the tax roll to the town, city, or village treasurer, make and transmit to the county treasurer, on forms furnished by the department of revenue, a statement sh…
Wis. Stat. § 69.61 Annual statement of taxes
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69.61 Annual statement of taxes. (1) Annually, on or before the 3rd Monday of December, each city, village, and town clerk shall make and file with the department of revenue a statement in detail of all taxes levied in the clerk’s city, village, or town during the year. Any clerk…
Wis. Stat. § 69.62 Returns to department of revenue
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69.62 Returns to department of revenue. (1) Annually, on or before November 30, each county clerk shall make and transmit to the department of revenue a statement in detail of all county taxes levied on taxable property in the county during the preceding year, and the purposes fo…
Wis. Stat. § 69.63 Department of revenue, duties
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69.63 Department of revenue, duties. It shall be the duty of the department of revenue to collect from time to time statistics of recorded sales of real estate in each county and of the assessed valuation of the lands included in such sales. In collecting such statistics, sales a…
Wis. Stat. § 69.64 Realty statistics; items
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69.64 Realty statistics; items. The data to be collected as provided by s. 69.63 shall include: (1) The date of each instrument of conveyance or sale. (2) The date, the document number, and, if given, the volume and page number of the record of the instrument of conveyance or sal…
Wis. Stat. § 69.65 Statistics compiled, use of; county clerk’s duties
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69.65 Statistics compiled, use of; county clerk’s duties. The statistics for each calendar year shall be compiled by assessment districts and by counties in tabular form, and the compilations shall be filed and carefully preserved in the department of revenue for use in the perfo…
Wis. Stat. § 69.66 Agricultural statistics
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69.66 Agricultural statistics. The department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection may collect statistics in relation to principal farm products and agricultural resources as may be necessary through the use of mail surveys and other appropriate means. History: 1975 c. 2…
Wis. Stat. § 69.67 Returns may be sent for; expense
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69.67 Returns may be sent for; expense. If any town, city or village clerk fails or neglects to transmit to the county treasurer the statement required by s. 69.60 for 10 days after the time required by law to transmit or make the same, the county treasurer shall in either case s…
Wis. Stat. § 69.68 Statement of indebtedness to secretary of state
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69.68 Statement of indebtedness to secretary of state. Each county, city, village, town, technical college district and school district clerk shall, whenever required by the secretary of state, furnish a full and complete statement showing the bonded and all other indebtedness of…
Wis. Stat. § 69.69 Neglect of duty
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69.69 Neglect of duty. Every clerk of any town, city, village or school district, every technical college district board secretary and every assessor who fails or neglects to perform any duty required by this subchapter shall, for every such neglect or failure, forfeit not less t…