Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 902.03

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
   (1)    The courts of this state, including the court of appeals and the supreme court, shall take judicial notice of:
      (a)    County and municipal ordinances in those counties in which the particular court has jurisdiction; and
      (b)    All rules of state agencies which have been published in the Wisconsin administrative code or register and all orders of such agencies.
   (2)   The courts of this state, including the court of appeals and the supreme court, may take judicial notice, if requested by a party and supplied with the necessary information, of all rules and orders of federal agencies.