Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 178.0108

  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
   (1)    A record delivered to the department for filing pursuant to this chapter must be signed as follows:
      (a)    Except as otherwise provided in pars. (b) and (c), a record signed by a partnership must be signed by a person authorized by the partnership.
      (b)    A record filed on behalf of a dissolved partnership that has no partner must be signed by the person winding up the partnership’s business under s. 178.0802 (4) or a person appointed under s. 178.0802 (5) to wind up the business.
      (c)    A statement of denial by a person under s. 178.0304 must be signed by that person.
      (d)    Any record not identified in pars. (a) to (c) that is delivered on behalf of a person to the department for filing must be signed by that person.
   (2)   A record filed under this chapter may be signed by an attorney-in-fact. Whenever this chapter requires a particular individual to sign a record and the individual is deceased or incompetent, the record may be signed by a legal representative of the individual.
   (3)   A person that signs a record as an attorney-in-fact or legal representative affirms as a fact that the person is authorized to sign the record.