182.028 School corporations. Any corporation formed for the establishment and maintenance of schools, academies, seminaries, colleges or universities or for the cultivation and practice of music shall have power to enact bylaws for the protection of its property, and provide fines as liquidated damages upon its members and patrons for violating the bylaws, and may collect the same in tort actions, and to prescribe and regulate the courses of instruction therein, and to confer such degrees and grant such diplomas as are usually conferred by similar institutions or as shall be appropriate to the courses of instruction prescribed, except that no corporation shall operate or advertise a school that is subject to s. 440.52 (10) without complying with the requirements of s. 440.52. Any stockholder may transfer his or her stock to the corporation for its use; and if the written transfer so provides the stock shall be perpetually held by the board of directors with all the rights of a stockholder, including the right to vote.
History: 1979 c. 170; 1997 a. 27; 1999 a. 9; 2005 a. 22, 25, 254; 2017 a. 59.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 182 - Miscellaneous corporate provisions; turnpike corporations.
182.001 - Corporations and trusts prohibited from owning or carrying on farming operations.
182.004 - Housing corporations.
182.007 - Charitable corporations and community funds, amending articles.
182.01 - Business records; other duties of department of financial institutions.
182.012 - Special power to transfer property of nonstock corporation.
182.016 - River improvement corporations may flow lands.
182.017 - Transmission lines; privileges; damages.
182.0175 - Damage to transmission facilities.
182.018 - Wires over railroads.
182.019 - Damages for nondelivery of message or power.
182.020 - Driving park corporation.
182.027 - Lyceum, libraries and art galleries.
182.028 - School corporations.
182.029 - Universities and colleges may unite.
182.030 - Corporations having church affiliations.
182.031 - Railway equipment companies.
182.104 - Title to property after dissolution.
182.202 - Mutual telecommunications company; quorum; proxies.
182.219 - Mutual telecommunications company; dividends.
182.220 - Examination by attorney general and legislature.
182.23 - Facsimile signatures on corporate obligations.
182.24 - Transfers from joint tenants.
182.25 - Stock transfers on books, how compelled.
182.35 - Acquisition of lands and interests therein.
182.37 - Rights of public utilities.
182.41 - Corporation to be nonprofit.
182.42 - Not to be considered public utilities.
182.43 - Underpass authorized.
182.44 - Limitations on powers.
182.47 - Motor vehicle laws to apply.
182.50 - Establishment of foreign trade zones.