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WI Stat § 46.048 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.048 - Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled.

46.048  Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled. There is established a new institution to be located near the city of Madison and to be known as the Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled. The department, with the approval of the governor, is authorized to purchase lands for a suitable site and to erect and equip such buildings as it deems necessary from funds appropriated for the long-range building program. Such institution when constructed shall be maintained and operated by the department and all laws pertaining to the care of mentally deficient patients shall apply.History:  1975 c. 189 s. 99 (2); 1975 c. 430 s. 78.
WI Stat § 46.055 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.055 - Secure mental health facility for sexually violent persons.

46.055  Secure mental health facility for sexually violent persons. The department shall establish and operate a secure mental health facility for the detention, evaluation and institutional care of persons under ch. 980.History:  1999 a. 9.
WI Stat § 46.056 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.056 - Wisconsin Resource Center.

46.056  Wisconsin Resource Center. (1) The department shall establish the Wisconsin Resource Center on the grounds of the Winnebago Mental Health Institute near Oshkosh. Notwithstanding s. 301.03, the department shall have responsibility for administering the center as a correctional institution that provides psychological evaluations, specialized learning programs, training and supervision for inmates whose behavior presents a serious problem to themselves or others in state prisons and whose mental health needs can be met at the center. (2) Notwithstanding sub. (1), the correctional officers providing security at the Wisconsin resource center are employees of the department of corrections.History:  1981 c. 20; 1989 a. 31, 107.The rights and responsibilities of counties in prisoner transfers to the Wisconsin resource center are discussed. 71 Atty. Gen. 170.
WI Stat § 46.057 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.057 - Mendota juvenile treatment center.

46.057  Mendota juvenile treatment center. (1) The department shall establish, maintain, and operate the Mendota juvenile treatment center on the grounds of the Mendota Mental Health Institute. The department may designate staff at the Mendota Mental Health Institute as responsible for administering, and providing services at, the center. Notwithstanding ss. 301.02, 301.03, and 301.36 (1), the department shall operate the Mendota juvenile treatment center as a juvenile correctional facility, as defined in s. 938.02 (10p). The center shall not be considered a hospital, as defined in s. 50.33 (2), an inpatient facility, as defined in s. 51.01 (10), a state treatment facility, as defined in s. 51.01 (15), or a treatment facility, as defined in s. 51.01 (19). The center shall provide psychological and psychiatric evaluations and treatment for juveniles whose behavior presents a serious problem to themselves or others in other juvenile correctional facilities and whose mental health needs can be met at the center. With the approval of the department of health services, the department of corrections may transfer to the center any juvenile who has been placed in a juvenile correctional facility or a secured residential care center for children and youth under the supervision of the department of corrections under s. 938.183, 938.34 (4h), or 938.357 (3), (4), or (5) (e) in the same manner that the department of corrections transfers juveniles between other juvenile correctional facilities. Upon the recommendation of the department of health services, a court may place a juvenile at the center in a proceeding for a change in placement order under s. 938.357 (3). (1m) The director of the Mendota Mental Health Institute, or his or her designee, shall be responsible for decisions regarding admissions, treatment, and the release and return of juvenile offenders from the Mendota juvenile treatment center to county supervision. (2) From the appropriation account under s. 20.410 (3) (ba) or (hm), the department of corrections shall reimburse the department of health services for the cost of providing services for juveniles placed at the Mendota juvenile treatment center at a per person daily cost specified by the department of health services. The department of health services may charge the department of corrections not more than the actual cost of providing those services.History:  1995 a. 216; 1997 a. 27; 1999 a. 9; 2001 a. 16; 2003 a. 33; 2005 a. 25, 344; 2007 a. 20 ss. 832, 9121 (6) (a); 2009 a. 28; 2011 a. 32; 2013 a. 20; 2015 a. 55; 2017 a. 59, 185; 2019 a. 8 ss. 3, 71; 2019 a. 9; 2021 a. 58.
WI Stat § 46.058 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.058 - Bonds of employees; police powers; investigation of complaints.

46.058  Bonds of employees; police powers; investigation of complaints. (1) The steward of each institution under the control of the department shall execute and file an official bond in such sum and with such sureties as the secretary prescribes. The steward shall also require any other officer or other person having the possession or custody of any money or property belonging to the state or any institution under its control or supervision to give an official bond, and from time to time renew the bond. The secretary may require a position bond whenever it appears advisable to him or her. The position bond shall have the same coverage as the official bond. (2) The superintendents of all institutions administered by the department and of all county hospitals and county homes, and the employees under them to whom they delegate police power, may arrest any person within or upon the grounds of such institutions whom they have reason to believe is guilty of any offense against the laws or regulations governing the institutions; and for that purpose they shall possess the powers of constables. (2m) The superintendents of the secure mental health facility established under s. 46.055, the Wisconsin resource center established under s. 46.056 and any secure mental health unit or facility provided by the department of corrections under s. 980.065 (2) shall adopt proper means to prevent escapes of persons detained or committed to the facility, center or unit under ch. 980 and may adopt proper means to pursue and capture persons detained or committed to the facility, center or unit under ch. 980 who have escaped. In adopting means under this subsection to prevent escape and pursue and capture persons who have escaped, a superintendent may delegate to designated staff members of the facility, center or unit the power to use necessary and appropriate force, as defined by the department by rule, to prevent escapes and capture escaped persons. (3) The department shall investigate complaints against any institution under its jurisdiction or against the officers or employees thereof. For that purpose the secretary and such officers and employees as the secretary authorizes may summon and swear witnesses, take testimony and compel the production of books and papers. The department may, on its own initiative, investigate the affairs of any institution. Any written communication or complaint addressed to the secretary by any inmate, employee or subordinate of any such institution shall be forthwith forwarded unopened to the addressee.History:  1975 c. 39; 1975 c. 199 s. 138; 1979 c. 221 s. 352; Stats. 1979 s. 46.058; 1989 a. 31, 107; 1993 a. 209; 1999 a. 9.
WI Stat § 46.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.06 - Lands; condemnation, easements, leases, sales, purchases.

46.06  Lands; condemnation, easements, leases, sales, purchases. Subject to s. 16.848: (1)  Condemnation. When the department is authorized and desires to acquire land and is unable to agree with the owner upon the terms of purchase, or when such agreement cannot be had without unreasonable delay, the department may condemn the land in the manner prescribed in ch. 32. (2)  Easements. The department may grant easements for the extension of municipal and public utilities onto the lands of the institutions under its jurisdiction, for the purpose of connecting railroads, roads, water systems, sewers, electric lines and similar facilities, to serve such institutions. (3)  Leases. The department may rent additional lands for the operation of the institutions under its jurisdiction. (4)  Sales. The department may, with the approval of the building commission, and subject to any prior action under s. 13.48 (14) (am) or 16.848 (1), sell and convey such lands under the jurisdiction of the department as the secretary deems to be in excess of the present or future requirements of the department for either the operation of its facilities or programs, for the maintenance of buffer zones adjacent to its facilities or for other public purposes. The proceeds of such sales are subject to s. 13.48 (14) (c). (5)  Purchases. The department may, with the approval of and release of state building trust fund by the building commission, acquire by purchase such lands, together with such improvements as are situated thereon, as the secretary deems necessary for the department's farm programs, or for the purpose of providing adequate buffer zones to its existing facilities, or for the purpose of eliminating flexuous boundaries in cooperation with owners of lands adjoining lands under the department's jurisdiction.History:  1973 c. 12 s. 10; 1973 c. 90; 1975 c. 39 ss. 346, 732 (2); 1987 a. 5, 27; 1989 a. 31; 1995 a. 378; 2005 a. 25; 2013 a. 20.
WI Stat § 46.064 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.064 - Client wages, allowances and release payments.

46.064  Client wages, allowances and release payments. The department may pay a wage or an allowance and a release payment to clients at its institutions. The department shall prescribe the amounts of pay and such hours, health and other conditions in connection with employment as are reasonable.History:  1971 c. 125, 215; 1973 c. 333.
WI Stat § 46.066 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.066 - Freedom of worship; religious ministration.

46.066  Freedom of worship; religious ministration. (1) Subject to reasonable exercise of the privilege, members of the clergy of all religious faiths shall be given an opportunity, at least once each week, to conduct religious services within the state institutions under the control of the department. Attendance at the services is voluntary. (2) Religious ministration and sacraments according to the inmate's faith shall be allowed to every inmate who requests them. (3) Every inmate who requests it shall have the use of the Bible.History:  1989 a. 31; 1991 a. 316.The state must make copies of the Quran available to prisoners to the same extent that Bibles are made available. Pitts v. Knowles, 339 F. Supp. 1183 (1972).
WI Stat § 46.07 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.07 - Property of patients or residents.

46.07  Property of patients or residents. All money including wages and other property delivered to an officer or employee of any institution for the benefit of a patient or resident shall immediately be delivered to the steward, who shall enter the money upon the steward's books to the credit of the patient or resident. The property shall be used only under the direction and with the approval of the superintendent and for the crime victim and witness assistance surcharge under s. 973.045 (4), the delinquency victim and witness assistance surcharge under s. 938.34 (8d) (c), the deoxyribonucleic acid analysis surcharge under s. 973.046 (1r), the child pornography surcharge under s. 973.042, the drug offender diversion surcharge under s. 973.043, or the benefit of the patient or resident. If the money remains uncalled for for one year after the patient's or resident's death or departure from the institution, the superintendent shall deposit the money in the general fund. If any patient or resident leaves property, other than money, uncalled for at an institution for one year, the superintendent shall sell the property, and the proceeds shall be deposited in the general fund. If any person satisfies the department, within 5 years after the deposit, of his or her right to the deposit, the department shall direct the department of administration to draw its warrant in favor of the claimant and it shall charge the same to the appropriation made by s. 20.913 (3) (c).History:  1979 c. 221 s. 2202 (20); 1983 a. 27; 1989 a. 31, 107; 1993 a. 16; 1997 a. 27; 2005 a. 25, 254, 433; 2013 a. 20.Diversion of 15 percent into a savings account of all money sent to a prisoner, to be given to the prisoner upon release, did not violate due process. Sahagian v. Dickey, 646 F. Supp. 1502 (1986).
WI Stat § 46.09 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.09 - Purchases, bills, audits, payments.

46.09  Purchases, bills, audits, payments. Subject to s. 16.848: (1)  Steward as business manager. The steward of each institution under the control of the department is the local business manager and requisitioning officer, subject to the direction and rules of the department, and within the limits of the approved monthly estimates shall purchase all necessary materials and supplies, as provided in ss. 16.70 to 16.82. The steward shall have the immediate charge of all books, accounts, papers and records relating to the institution's financial management, shall keep detailed accounts of all receipts and expenditures, and shall be responsible for the safekeeping and economical use of all stores and supplies. (2)  Butter and cheese. No butter or cheese not made wholly and directly from pure milk or cream, salt and harmless coloring matter may be used in any of the institutions of the department. (3)  Public welfare institutions preaudit; payments. Unless otherwise provided by law, no bills may be incurred in the management of such institutions nor be paid until they have been audited by the department of health services under the supervision of the department of administration. All payments shall be made on the warrant of the department of administration drawn in accordance with the certificate of the proper designated officer of the department of health services. All claims and accounts before being certified to the department of administration by the department of health services, shall be verified and approved in the same manner as provided in s. 16.53.History:  1973 c. 335 s. 13; 1985 a. 176; 1989 a. 31; 1995 a. 27 s. 9126 (19); 2005 a. 25; 2007 a. 20 s. 9121 (6) (a).
WI Stat § 46.13 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.13 - Wassermann tests.

46.13  Wassermann tests. The department may arrange with the laboratory of hygiene to secure the Wassermann test for any person confined in any state or county institution.
WI Stat § 46.14 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.14 - Reports of state institutions.

46.14  Reports of state institutions. (1) Monthly. The officer in charge of each state institution under the control of the department shall report monthly to the department, an itemized statement of all receipts and disbursements, and of the daily number of inmates, officers, teachers and employees, and of the wages paid to each. (2)  Biennial. On July 1 in each even-numbered year such officer shall report to the department, covering the preceding biennial fiscal term, a summarized statement of the management of every department of the institution and of all receipts and disbursements, and such other information as may be required by the department.
WI Stat § 46.15 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.15 - Institutions subject to chapter 150.

46.15  Institutions subject to chapter 150. Nursing homes or hospitals under ss. 46.16, 46.17, 46.175, 46.20 and 46.205 are subject to ch. 150.History:  1977 c. 29; 1983 a. 27.
WI Stat § 46.17 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.17 - County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection.

46.17  County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection. (1) The department shall fix reasonable standards and regulations for the design, construction, repair, and maintenance of county homes, county infirmaries, county hospitals, and mental health facilities, with respect to their adequacy and fitness for the needs which they are to serve. (2) The selection and purchase of the site, and the plans, specifications and erection of buildings for such institutions shall be subject to the review and approval of the department. Department review shall include review of the proposed program to be carried out by the institution and the program's ability to meet the mental health service requirements of the county and the area it serves. (3) Before any such building is occupied, and annually or oftener thereafter, the department shall inspect it with respect to safety, sanitation, adequacy and fitness, and report to the authorities conducting the institution any deficiency found, and order the necessary work to correct it or a new building. If within 6 months thereafter such work is not commenced, or not completed within a reasonable period thereafter, to the satisfaction of the department, it shall suspend the allowance of state aid for, and prohibit the use of such building until said order is complied with.History:  1971 c. 125, 215; 1983 a. 254; 1989 a. 31; 2007 a. 20.This section relates to construction and maintenance of buildings and provides no authority to the department applicable to the management of inmates under s. 46.16. 63 Atty. Gen. 267.
WI Stat § 46.175 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.175 - County institutions: minimum standards.

46.175  County institutions: minimum standards. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any county currently operating an institution established under s. 49.70, 49.71, 49.72, 51.08, or 51.09 may, by resolution of the county board or, in Milwaukee County for institutions providing mental health treatment, the Milwaukee County mental health board, designate such institution or distinct part of such institution as a facility to be operated under s. 50.02, 50.03 or 50.33. Any county institution or part thereof, where so designated, shall be required to meet those licensure standards established by the department for the type of facility designated by the county. Any designation under this section may be made only if such designation will not result in any additional cost to the state. History:  1971 c. 215; 1975 c. 413 s. 18; 1975 c. 430 s. 80; 1995 a. 27; 2013 a. 203.
WI Stat § 46.19 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.19 - Officers and employees of county institutions.

46.19  Officers and employees of county institutions. (1) The trustees shall appoint a superintendent of each institution and may remove the superintendent for cause, as defined in s. 17.001, on due notice in writing and hearing of the charges against the superintendent. (2) The trustees shall prescribe the duties of the superintendent. The superintendent shall execute and file an official bond with sureties approved by the trustees. (3) Subject to the approval of the trustees, the superintendent shall appoint and prescribe the duties of necessary additional officers and employees of the institution, and may remove them at the superintendent's discretion, subject to the county civil service law. (4) The salaries of the superintendent, visiting physician and all necessary additional officers and employees shall be fixed by the county board. In Milwaukee County, the salaries of any superintendent of a mental health institution and the salaries of any visiting physician and necessary additional officers and employees whose duties are related to mental health shall be fixed by the county executive. History:  1991 a. 316; 2001 a. 103; 2013 a. 203.
WI Stat § 46.205 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.205 - County home in adjoining county.

46.205  County home in adjoining county. The county board of any county may by a majority vote of all of its members provide for a home for the aged and physically disabled in an adjoining county and all bonds heretofore issued for the construction or other acquisition of such a home in any county or an adjoining county are hereby validated and the proceeds from the bonds may be used in the construction or other acquisition of a home in such county or an adjoining county. When any county shall establish such home in an adjoining county it shall be maintained and operated under the same statutes which would be applicable to the maintenance and operation of the home if it were established in such first county.History:  1977 c. 83.
WI Stat § 46.208 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.208 - Relief block grants; functions of state department.

46.208  Relief block grants; functions of state department. (1) All records of the county or tribal governing body relating to the administration of relief funded by a relief block grant, as defined in s. 49.001 (5p), shall be open to inspection at all reasonable hours by authorized representatives of the department. (2m) The department may at any time audit all records of the relief agency relating to the administration of relief funded by a relief block grant, as defined in s. 49.001 (5p), and may at any time conduct administrative reviews of a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22, or 46.23. The department shall furnish a copy of the county audit or administrative review report to the chairperson of the county board of supervisors and the county clerk in a county with a single-county department or to the county boards of supervisors and the county clerks in counties with a multicounty department, and to the county director of the county department under s. 46.215, 46.22, or 46.23.History:  1985 a. 29 ss. 831, 3200 (23); 1985 a. 120, 176; 1989 a. 359; 1995 a. 27; 2009 a. 28.
WI Stat § 46.225 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.225 - Indigency determinations.

46.225  Indigency determinations. If applicable under s. 977.07 (1), a county department under s. 46.21, 46.22 or 46.23 shall make indigency determinations.History:  1979 c. 356; 1985 a. 176.
WI Stat § 46.238 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.238 - Infants and unborn children whose mothers abuse controlled substances, controlled substance analogs, or alcohol.

46.238  Infants and unborn children whose mothers abuse controlled substances, controlled substance analogs, or alcohol. If an agency, as defined in s. 48.981 (1) (ag), receives a report under s. 146.0255 (2) or 146.0257 (2) and that agency is a county department under s. 46.22 or 46.23 or a licensed child welfare agency under contract with that county department, the agency shall offer to provide appropriate services and treatment to the infant and the infant's mother or to the unborn child, as defined in s. 48.02 (19), and the expectant mother of the unborn child or the agency shall make arrangements for the provision of appropriate services and treatment. If an agency receives a report under s. 146.0255 (2) or 146.0257 (2) and that agency is the department or a licensed child welfare agency under contract with the department, the agency shall refer the report to the county department under s. 51.42 or 51.437 and that county department shall offer to provide, or make arrangements for the provision of, those services and that treatment.History:  1989 a. 122; 1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 386, 448; 1997 a. 27, 292; 2009 a. 79; 2013 a. 260.