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WI Stat § 160.15 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.15 - Establishment of preventive action limits.

160.15  Establishment of preventive action limits. (1) The department shall establish by rule a preventive action limit for each substance for which an enforcement standard is established, as follows:(a) For any substance of public welfare concern, the preventive action limit shall be 50 percent of the concentration established as the enforcement standard.(b) For any substance of public health concern, the preventive action limit shall be 20 percent of the concentration established as the enforcement standard.(c) Notwithstanding par. (b), for any substance that has carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic properties or interactive effects, the preventive action limit shall be 10 percent of the concentration established as the enforcement standard. (2) The department may establish a preventive action limit for a substance which is lower than the level specified under sub. (1) if the department concludes, to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, based on significant technical information which is scientifically valid, that a more stringent level is necessary to protect public health or welfare from the interactive effects of the substance. In evaluating whether the evidence provides a sufficient basis for a more stringent level, the department shall consider the extent to which the evidence was developed in accordance with generally accepted analytical protocols and may consider whether the evidence was subjected to peer review, resulted from more than one study and is consistent with other credible medical or toxicological evidence. (3) Notwithstanding sub. (1), the department may establish by rule preventive action limits for indicator parameters used in monitoring waste storage, treatment or disposal facilities regulated by the department such as biochemical or chemical oxygen demand, alkalinity, hardness, conductivity and pH, if enforcement standards are not established under s. 160.07 or 160.09 for the indicator parameters. In establishing preventive action limits for indicator parameters, the department shall consider the background water quality and the potential for the indicator parameters to show that preventive action limits under sub. (1) may be exceeded.History:  1983 a. 410.
WI Stat § 160.17 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.17 - Collection of information.

160.17  Collection of information. Concurrently with the identification of substances under s. 160.05 (1), the regulatory agency shall conduct a literature search and shall request, where appropriate, the manufacturer of each substance and other knowledgeable sources to provide relevant data, information on the environmental fate of the substance and recommendations on measures which may be implemented to minimize the concentration of the substance in the groundwater.History:  1983 a. 410.
WI Stat § 160.255 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.255 - Exceptions for private on-site wastewater treatment systems.

160.255  Exceptions for private on-site wastewater treatment systems. (1) In this section, “private on-site wastewater treatment system" has the meaning given in s. 145.01 (12). (2) Notwithstanding s. 160.19 (1), (2) and (4) (b), a regulatory agency is not required to promulgate or amend rules that define design or management criteria for private on-site wastewater treatment systems to minimize the amount of nitrate in groundwater or to maintain compliance with the preventive action limit for nitrate.  (3) Notwithstanding s. 160.19 (3), a regulatory agency may promulgate rules that define design or management criteria for private on-site wastewater treatment systems that permit the enforcement standard for nitrate to be attained or exceeded at the point of standards application.  (4) Notwithstanding s. 160.21, a regulatory agency is not required to promulgate rules that set forth responses that the agency may take, or require to be taken, when the preventive action limit or enforcement standard for nitrate is attained or exceeded at the point of standards application if the source of the nitrate is a private on-site wastewater treatment system.  (5) Notwithstanding ss. 160.23 and 160.25, a regulatory agency is not required to take any responses for a specific site at which the preventive action limit or enforcement standard for nitrate is attained or exceeded at the point of standards application if the source of the nitrate is a private on-site wastewater treatment system. History:  1995 a. 27; 2011 a. 146.
WI Stat § 160.257 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.257 - Exceptions for aquifer storage and recovery systems.

160.257  Exceptions for aquifer storage and recovery systems. (1) In this section:(a) “Aquifer storage and recovery system" means all of the aquifer storage and recovery wells and related appurtenances that are part of a municipal water system.(b) “Aquifer storage and recovery well" means a well through which treated drinking water is placed underground for the purpose of storing and later recovering the water through the same well for use as drinking water.(c) “Municipal water system" means a community water system, as defined in s. 281.62 (1) (a), that is owned by a city, village, town, county, town sanitary district, utility district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or municipal water district, or by a privately owned water utility serving any of the foregoing.(d) “Specified substance" means one of the following:1. Chloroform.2. Bromodichloromethane.3. Dibromochloromethane.4. Bromoform.(e) “Treated drinking water" means potable water that has been treated so that it complies with the primary drinking water standards promulgated under ss. 280.11 and 281.17 (8). (2) Notwithstanding s. 160.19 (1) and (2), the department is not required to promulgate or amend rules that define design or management criteria for aquifer storage and recovery systems to minimize the amount of a specified substance in groundwater or to maintain compliance with the preventive action limit for a specified substance, however, the department shall promulgate rules that define design or management criteria for aquifer storage and recovery systems to maintain compliance with drinking water standards promulgated under ss. 280.11 and 281.17 (8). (3) Notwithstanding s. 160.21 (2), the point of standards application for an aquifer storage and recovery well with respect to a specified substance is 1,200 feet from the aquifer storage and recovery well and at any other well that is within 1,200 feet from the aquifer storage and recovery well. History:  2001 a. 109.
WI Stat § 160.26 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.26 - Enforcement.

160.26  Enforcement. Regulatory agencies shall enforce the provisions of this chapter in accordance with enforcement procedures and subject to the penalties established by statute for activities and practices regulated by the regulatory agency.History:  1983 a. 410.
WI Stat § 160.29 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.29 - Petitioning for rule making.

160.29  Petitioning for rule making. (1) Where the department finds that a preventive action limit or an enforcement standard for a substance is, or will be, attained or exceeded at points of standards application at numerous locations, and that adoption or revision of rules under s. 160.19 or 160.21 by the regulatory agency is an appropriate response, the department may submit a petition for rule making to the regulatory agency. The petition shall include all of the following:(a) The reason for the request for rule making by the department.(b) The research or monitoring data supporting the finding by the department that the preventive action limit or the enforcement standard for a substance is, or will be, attained or exceeded at the points of standards application.(c) A recitation of the authority of the regulatory agency to regulate the substance. (2) Within 120 days after receipt of a petition under this section, the regulatory agency either shall deny the petition in writing or shall submit to the department a proposed timetable for the revision or promulgation of the requested rules and proceed with rule making under subch. II of ch. 227. Failure of the agency to respond to the petition within 120 days constitutes denial of the petition. (3) Section 227.12 does not apply to petitions under this section.History:  1983 a. 410; 1985 a. 182 s. 57.
WI Stat § 160.31 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.31 - Legislative review.

160.31  Legislative review. Nothing in this chapter affects the legislative review of any proposed rule relating to animal waste treatment, under s. 13.565.History:  1983 a. 410.
WI Stat § 160.32 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.32 - Common law and liability.

160.32  Common law and liability. (1) Common law unaffected. Nothing in this chapter restricts or abrogates any remedy which any person or class of persons may have under other statutory or common law. (2)  No admission of liability. A response at a specific site taken by any person under s. 160.23 or 160.25 is not evidence of liability or an admission of liability for any potential or actual environmental pollution, as defined under s. 299.01 (4).History:  1983 a. 410; 1995 a. 227.
WI Stat § 160.33 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.33 - Public participation.

160.33  Public participation. Each regulatory agency shall promulgate rules which provide for public participation in the issuance and administrative enforcement by the regulatory agency of any special order adopted pursuant to the requirements of this chapter.History:  1983 a. 410.
WI Stat § 160.34 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.34 - No mandatory well repair as a condition for testing.

160.34  No mandatory well repair as a condition for testing. No regulatory agency may require as a condition for the testing of a private water system at the request of the owner that the owner agree to institute changes necessary to bring the construction or design of the water system into compliance with administrative rules in effect at the time of testing but not in effect prior to 1954.History:  1983 a. 410; 1995 a. 378.
WI Stat § 160.36 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.36 - Cooperation with American Indian tribes and bands.

160.36  Cooperation with American Indian tribes and bands. (1) Requirement to cooperate. The department shall cooperate with American Indian tribes and bands with the approval of the tribal governing body, for the purposes specified in this section. (2)  Agreements regarding monitoring. The department may negotiate and enter into cooperative agreements with American Indian tribes and bands for the purposes of:(a) Providing advice and assistance to American Indians who wish to establish a groundwater monitoring program on the lands of any American Indian tribe or band.(b) Obtaining for state use any information on groundwater quality which results from a monitoring program conducted by American Indians.(c) Using state resources to conduct groundwater monitoring on the lands of any American Indian tribe or band.(d) Sharing with an American Indian tribe or band the results of groundwater monitoring conducted by the department, by a regulatory agency or by the geological and natural history survey which relate to the potential contamination of groundwater under the lands of an American Indian tribe or band. (3)  Agreements regarding enforcement. The department may negotiate and enter into cooperative agreements with American Indian tribes and bands for the following purposes:(a) Providing advice and assistance to American Indians who wish to establish groundwater regulatory programs on the lands of any American Indian tribe or band.(b) Using state resources to conduct regulatory activities on the lands of an American Indian tribe or band.History:  1983 a. 410.
WI Stat § 160.50 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 160 - Groundwater protection standards.|160.50 - Groundwater coordinating council.

160.50  Groundwater coordinating council. (1) General functions. The groundwater coordinating council shall serve as a means of increasing the efficiency and facilitating the effective functioning of state agencies in activities related to groundwater management. The groundwater coordinating council shall advise and assist state agencies in the coordination of nonregulatory programs and the exchange of information related to groundwater, including, but not limited to, agency budgets for groundwater programs, groundwater monitoring, data management, public information and education, laboratory analysis and facilities, research activities and the appropriation and allocation of state funds for research. (1m)  Funding for groundwater research. The groundwater coordinating council shall advise the secretary of administration on the allocation of funds appropriated to the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System under s. 20.285 (1) (a) for groundwater research. (2)  Subcommittees. The groundwater coordinating council may create subcommittees to assist in its work. The subcommittee members may include members of the council, employees of the agencies with members on the council, employees of other state agencies, representatives of counties and municipalities and public members. The council shall consider the need for subcommittees on the subjects within the scope of its general duties under sub. (1) and other subjects deemed appropriate by the council. (3)  Report. The groundwater coordinating council shall review the provisions of 1983 Wisconsin Act 410 and report to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2), concerning the implementation of the act by January 1, 1989.History:  1983 a. 410; 1987 a. 186; 1989 a. 31.
WI Stat § 164.01 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 164 - Law enforcement officers' bill of rights.|164.01 - Definition.

164.01  Definition. In this chapter, except in s. 164.06, “law enforcement officer" means any person employed by the state or by a city, village, town or county for the purpose of detecting and preventing crime and enforcing laws or ordinances, who is authorized to make arrests for violations of the laws or ordinances which he or she is employed to enforce.History:  1979 c. 351; Stats. 1979 s. 166.01; 1979 c. 361 s. 71; Stats. 1979 s. 164.01; 1987 a. 350; 1993 a. 53.
WI Stat § 164.015 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 164 - Law enforcement officers' bill of rights.|164.015 - Engaging in political activity.

164.015  Engaging in political activity. No law enforcement officer may be prohibited from engaging in political activity when not on duty or not otherwise acting in an official capacity, or be denied the right to refrain from engaging in political activity.History:  1979 c. 351; Stats. 1979 s. 166.015; 1979 c. 361 s. 71; Stats. 1979 s. 164.015.
WI Stat § 164.02 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 164 - Law enforcement officers' bill of rights.|164.02 - Interrogation.

164.02  Interrogation. (1) If a law enforcement officer is under investigation and is subjected to interrogation for any reason which could lead to disciplinary action, demotion, dismissal or criminal charges, the interrogation shall comply with the following requirements:(a) The law enforcement officer under investigation shall be informed of the nature of the investigation prior to any interrogation.(b) At the request of any law enforcement officer under interrogation, he or she may be represented by a representative of his or her choice who, at the discretion of the officer, may be present at all times during the interrogation. (2) Evidence obtained during the course of any interrogation not conducted in accordance with sub. (1) may not be utilized in any subsequent disciplinary proceeding against the law enforcement officer.History:  1979 c. 351; Stats. 1979 s. 166.02; 1979 c. 361 s. 71; Stats. 1979 s. 164.02.
WI Stat § 164.03 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 164 - Law enforcement officers' bill of rights.|164.03 - Recrimination.

164.03  Recrimination. No law enforcement officer may be discharged, disciplined, demoted or denied promotion, transfer or reassignment, or otherwise discriminated against in regard to employment, or threatened with any such treatment, by reason of the exercise of the rights under this chapter.History:  1979 c. 351; Stats. 1979 s. 166.03; 1979 c. 361 s. 71; Stats. 1979 s. 164.03.
WI Stat § 164.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 164 - Law enforcement officers' bill of rights.|164.04 - Rights not to be diminished.

164.04  Rights not to be diminished. The rights under this chapter shall not be diminished or abridged by any ordinance or provision of any collective bargaining agreement. These rights may be supplemented and expanded by ordinance or collective bargaining agreement in any manner not inconsistent with this chapter.History:  1979 c. 351; Stats. 1979 s. 166.04; 1979 c. 361 s. 71; Stats. 1979 s. 164.04.
WI Stat § 164.05 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 164 - Law enforcement officers' bill of rights.|164.05 - Applicability.

164.05  Applicability. Sections 164.01 to 164.04 apply only to law enforcement officers employed by a city, village, town or county.History:  1979 c. 351; Stats. 1979 s. 166.05; 1979 c. 361 s. 71; Stats. 1979 s. 164.05; 1985 a. 148; 1987 a. 350; 1993 a. 53.
WI Stat § 164.06 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 164 - Law enforcement officers' bill of rights.|164.06 - Officers may be candidates.

164.06  Officers may be candidates. (1) In this section, “law enforcement officer" means any person employed by a city, village, town or county, other than a 1st class city or a county having a population of 750,000 or more, for the purpose of detecting and preventing crime and enforcing laws or ordinances, who is authorized to make arrests for violations of the laws or ordinances which he or she is employed to enforce. (2) No city, village, town or county may prohibit a law enforcement officer from being a candidate for any elective public office, if that law enforcement officer is otherwise qualified to be a candidate. No law enforcement officer may be required, as a condition of being a candidate for any elective public office, to take a leave of absence during his or her candidacy. This section does not affect the authority of a city, village, town or county to regulate the conduct of a law enforcement officer while the law enforcement officer is on duty or otherwise acting in an official capacity.History:  1987 a. 350; 2017 a. 207 s. 5.
WI Stat § 165.015 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 165 - Department of justice.|165.015 - Duties.

165.015  Duties. The attorney general shall: (1)  Give opinion to officers. Give his or her opinion in writing, when required, without fee, upon all questions of law submitted to him or her by the legislature, either house thereof or the senate or assembly committee on organization, or by the head of any department of state government. (2)  Protect trust funds. Examine all applications for loans from any of the trust funds, and furnish to the commissioners of public lands his or her opinion in writing as to the regularity of each such application, and also of the validity of any bonds or other securities purchased for the benefit of such funds. (3)  Certify bonds. Examine a certified copy of all proceedings preliminary to any issue of state bonds or notes, and, if found regular and valid, endorse on each bond or note his or her certificate of such examination and validity. The attorney general shall also make similar examinations and certificates respecting municipal bonds in the cases specified in s. 67.025. (4)  Keep statement of fees. Keep a detailed statement of all fees, including his or her fees as commissioner of public lands, received by him or her during the preceding year, and file such statement with the department of administration on or before June 30 in each year. (5)  Report to legislature. Upon request of the legislature or either house thereof, submit a report upon any matters pertaining to the duties of his or her office to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2). (6)  Perform other duties. Perform all other duties imposed upon the attorney general by law.History:  1971 c. 40 s. 93; 1971 c. 125; 1983 a. 36 s. 96 (2); 1987 a. 186; 1993 a. 482.The attorney general, absent a specific legislative grant of power, is devoid of the inherent power to initiate and prosecute litigation intended to protect or promote the interests of the state or its citizens and cannot act for the state as parens patriae. Estate of Sharp, 63 Wis. 2d 254, 217 N.W.2d 258 (1974).The attorney general does not have authority to challenge the constitutionality of statutes. Any authority the attorney general has is found in the statutes. The attorney general's constitutional powers and statutory powers are one and the same. State v. City of Oak Creek, 2000 WI 9, 232 Wis. 2d 612, 605 N.W.2d 526, 97-2188.The powers of the attorney general in Wisconsin. Van Alstyne & Roberts. 1974 WLR 721.
WI Stat § 165.017 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 165 - Department of justice.|165.017 - Review of certain detentions or petitions for commitment.

165.017  Review of certain detentions or petitions for commitment. (2) The attorney general or his or her designee shall review and approve or disapprove all proposed petitions for commitment of individuals as specified under s. 51.20 (1) (ad) 1. (4) Subsection (2) does not apply if the attorney general makes a finding that a court of competent jurisdiction in this state, in a case in which the constitutionality of s. 51.20 (1) (a) 2. e. has been challenged, has upheld the constitutionality of s. 51.20 (1) (a) 2. e.History:  1995 a. 292; 2001 a. 16.