156 Relating to: service on foreign corporations (suggested as remedial legislation by the Office of the Secretary of State).

Date of enactment: March 21, 2008
2007 Assembly Bill 615 Date of publication*: April 4, 2008

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2005-06 : 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 designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2007 WISCONSIN ACT 156

An Act to amend 995.12 (3) (c) of the statutes; relating to: service on foreign corporations (suggested as remedial legislation by the Office of the Secretary of State).

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 995.12 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

995.12 (3) (c) Service on secretary of state department of financial institutions . Any nonparticipating manufacturer whose cigarettes are sold in this state, who has not appointed and engaged an agent as required in this subsection, shall be considered to have appointed the secretary of state department of financial institutions as that agent and may be proceeded against in courts of this state by service of process upon the secretary of state department of financial institutions provided, however, that the appointment of the secretary of state department of financial institutions as that agent does not satisfy the condition precedent for having the brand families of the nonparticipating manufacturer included or retained in the directory under sub. (2) (b).