Wisconsin Code § 18.14

Validation of debt
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(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.

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