Heritage Credit Union v. Office of Credit Unions

VERGERONT, PJ.

¶ 1. This appeal concerns the applications of Heritage Credit Union, chartered by the State of Illinois, to operate four branch offices in Wisconsin. The Office of Credit Unions (OCU) for the State of Wisconsin denied the applications. It applied its general reciprocity policy for credit unions incorporated under the laws of other states (foreign states) and decided that, since Wis. Stat. § 186.113(1) (1999-2000) 1 limits branch offices for Wisconsin credit unions to twenty-five miles outside of Wisconsin, Heritage could not operate branch offices in Wisconsin more than…