Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 18 - State debt, revenue obligations and operating notes.
18.14 - Validation of debt.

18.14 Validation of debt.
(1) Notwithstanding any defects, irregularities, lack of power or failure to comply with any statute or any act of the commission, all public debt contracted or attempted to be contracted after December 7, 1969 is declared to be valid and entitled to the pledge made by s. 18.12; all instruments given after December 7, 1969 to evidence such debt are declared to be binding, legal, valid, enforceable and incontestable in accordance with their terms; and all proceedings taken and certifications and determinations made after December 7, 1969 to authorize, issue, sell, execute, deliver or enter into such debt or such instruments are validated, ratified, approved and confirmed.
(2) A determination, legislative, judicial or administrative, for any reason, that the state may not spend the proceeds of contracted public debt, or that it has spent such proceeds for a purpose other than the stated purpose for which such public debt was contracted or for a purpose for which the state may not spend money, shall not affect the validity of such public debt nor the evidence of indebtedness therefor.
History: 1973 c. 90 s. 555m (2).

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 18 - State debt, revenue obligations and operating notes.

18.01 - Definitions.

18.02 - Scope of subchapter.

18.03 - Commission.

18.04 - Purposes of public debt and amounts.

18.05 - Limitations on aggregate public debt.

18.06 - Procedures.

18.07 - Form and content of evidence of indebtedness.

18.08 - Capital improvement fund.

18.09 - Bond security and redemption fund.

18.10 - Other fiscal and administrative regulations.

18.12 - Pledge of full faith.

18.13 - Suits against the state.

18.14 - Validation of debt.

18.15 - Diversion of funds, liability of officers for.

18.16 - Minority financial advisers and investment firms; disabled veteran-owned financial advisers and investment firms.

18.17 - Full authority.

18.51 - Provisions applicable.

18.52 - Definitions.

18.53 - Purposes of revenue obligations and amounts.

18.54 - Limitations on revenue obligations.

18.55 - Procedures.

18.56 - Revenue obligations.

18.561 - Enterprise obligations.

18.562 - Special fund obligations.

18.57 - Funds established for revenue obligations.

18.58 - Other fiscal and administrative regulations.

18.59 - Bond anticipation notes.

18.60 - Refunding obligations.

18.61 - Undertakings of state.

18.62 - Revenue obligations as legal investments.

18.63 - Validation of revenue obligations.

18.64 - Minority financial advisers and investment firms; disabled veteran-owned financial advisers and investment firms.

18.70 - Provisions applicable.

18.71 - Definitions.

18.72 - Purposes of operating notes.

18.725 - Limit on amount of operating notes.

18.73 - Procedures.

18.74 - Application of operating note proceeds.

18.75 - Operating note redemption fund.

18.76 - Suits against the state.

18.77 - Minority financial advisers and investment firms; disabled veteran-owned financial advisers and investment firms.

18.81 - Definitions.

18.82 - Bond designation.

18.822 - Debt requirements.

18.83 - Redemption.

18.84 - Schools as bond trustees or fiscal agents; contracts.

18.85 - Facilities.

18.852 - Procedure.