Statutes applicable to the division and bureau shall be construed liberally in aid of the purposes declared in s. 230.01.
Wis. Stat. § 230.02
Liberal construction of statutes
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Hutson v. State Personnel Commission (2003)
Most recently applied in Bethards v. State Department of Workforce Development (May 2017)
1977 c. 196; 2003 a. 33; 2015 a. 55.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.