Chapter 991 — ACTS AND STATUTES — EFFECTIVE DATE, NUMBERING, CITATION AND REPEAL

991.01 When statutes in effect; laws repealed. These statutes shall take effect and go into operation on the first day of September, in the year 1898, and on and after said day the revised statutes of the year 1878 and Sanborn and Berryman’s annotated statutes, except ch. 115, re…

991.02 Effect of section 991.01. The repeal of acts mentioned in s. 991.01 shall not revive any act heretofore repealed or superseded nor any office heretofore abolished, nor shall such repeal be construed as a declaration that any act or part of an act heretofore expressly or im…

991.03 Same. The repeal of said acts shall not affect any act done or right accrued or established, or any proceeding, suit or prosecution had or commenced in any civil case previous to the time when such repeal shall take effect; but every such act, right or proceeding shall rem…

991.07 Statutes of limitation. In any case when a limitation or period of time prescribed in any act which is hereby repealed for the acquiring of any right or the barring of any remedy or for any other purpose shall have begun to run and a limitation or period of time for such p…

991.08 Statutes reenacted, how regarded. The provisions of these revised statutes, so far as they are the same in substance as those of existing laws, shall be construed as a continua- 991.09 991.10 991.11 991.12 991.13 In force in cities and villages. Special acts, how affected.…

991.09 In force in cities and villages. All the laws contained in these revised statutes shall apply to and be in force in each and every city and village in the state as far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the charter of any such city or village; but when th…

991.10 Special acts, how affected. None of the general provisions of these revised statutes shall be construed so as to affect or repeal the provisions of any special acts relating to particular counties, towns, cities or villages or the officers or offices thereof unless such sp…

991.11 Effective date of acts. Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as prescribed in s. 35.095 …

991.12 Citation of statutes. The statutes designated since 1898 as “the statutes of 1898” and all additions thereto may be styled in any act of the legislature or proceeding in a court of justice, or wherever otherwise referred to, as “Wisconsin Statutes”; former statutes of this…

991.13 Acts: denomination; citation. (1) Acts enacted during the 1983 biennial session of the legislature and thereafter are denominated “Wisconsin act” and identified by the year in which the biennial session began. (2) Acts enacted prior to the 1983 legislative session may be r…