Wisconsin Code § 215.137

Savings promotion prize programs
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(1) In
this section:
(a) “Nonqualifying account” means a savings account that is
not a qualifying account.
(b) “Qualifying account” means a savings account through
which savers may obtain chances to win prizes in a savings
promotion.
(c) “Savings promotion” means a contest or promotion to encourage savings deposits that is sponsored by one or more savings
and loan associations, or by a banking or thrift trade association
or its subsidiary in conjunction with one or more savings and loan
associations, and in which savers are offered a chance to win designated prizes.
(2) A savings and loan association may sponsor, or participate in, a savings promotion if all of the following requirements
are satisfied:
(a) Savers are not required to pay any fee or otherwise provide
any consideration in order to enter the savings promotion.
(b) All fees charged by a savings and loan association in connection with a qualifying account are comparable with all fees
charged in connection with comparable nonqualifying accounts
offered by the savings and loan association.
(c) Each entry in the savings promotion has an equal chance
of winning.
(d) Participants in the savings promotion are not required to
be present at a prize drawing in order to win.
(3) For purposes of sub. (2) (a), a saver’s deposit of at least a
specified amount of money for at least a specified time in a qualifying account, which is required in order to enter the savings promotion, is not consideration if the interest rate associated with the
qualifying account is not reduced, as compared to comparable
nonqualifying accounts offered by the savings and loan association, to account for the possibility of winning a prize.

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