Note: Form MV 3128-Installment Agreement to Pay Damages.
Note: See s. 344.14(2) (h), Stats.
Note: Sections 807.10, 344.14(2) (h), and 344.18(1) (b), Stats.; Form MV 3128- Installment Agreement to Pay Damages.
Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation § Trans 100.13
Section 344.27(3), Stats., provides that "[i]f the judgment debtor fails to pay any installment as specified by such order, the secretary, upon notice of such default, shall immediately suspend the operating privilege and registrations of the judgment debtor until such judgment is satisfied as provided in s. 344.26." Section 344.26 provides that a person whose operating privilege is suspended for a damage judgment may be reinstated if the judgment is stayed, satisfied or discharged. But, s. 344.26(3) makes clear that "satisfaction," as used in the statute, does not have its ordinary and generally understood meaning of paying a judgment in full (see, for example, s. 806.20, Stats.). Rather, "satisfaction" under the damage judgment law means to pay a creditor the same amount the creditor would have received if the judgment debtor had held insurance in the minimum mandatory amounts required to avoid responsibility under the safety responsibility laws. Trans 100.18 deals with the process of resolving a damage judgment suspension, including paying off the amount required to "satisfy" a judgment under s. 344.26(3), Stats.