171.01 Duty of consignee or bailee. Whenever any personal property shall be consigned to or deposited with any common carrier, forwarding merchant, wharfinger, warehouse keeper, innkeeper or the keeper of any depot for the storage of baggage, merchandise or other personal property, such consignee or bailee shall immediately cause to be entered in a proper book kept by the consignee or bailee a description of such property with the date of the reception thereof; and if the same shall not have been so consigned or deposited for the purpose of being forwarded or disposed of according to directions received by such consignee or bailee at or before his or her reception thereof the consignee or bailee shall immediately notify the owner by mail thereof, if the owner's name and residence be known or can with reasonable diligence be ascertained.
History: 1983 a. 500 s. 43; 1993 a. 482.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 171 - Unclaimed property.
171.01 - Duty of consignee or bailee.
171.04 - Perishable property, held for carriage or storage, how disposed of.
171.05 - Perishable property, held otherwise, how disposed of.
171.06 - Unclaimed property, how disposed of.
171.065 - Disposition of proceeds.
171.07 - Common carriers, lien for transportation.
171.08 - Restored to donors or applied to charity.
171.31 - Loans of property to a museum or archives.