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WI Stat § 45.72 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.72 - County and municipal memorials.

45.72  County and municipal memorials. (1) In this section and s. 45.73, “local unit of government" means a city, village, town, or county. (2) Any local unit of government may by gift, purchase, contract, or condemnation acquire property, real or personal, for the purpose of providing, furnishing, constructing, erecting, repairing, maintaining, or conducting a suitable memorial to the memory of former residents thereof who lost their lives in the military or naval service of the state or of the United States, or to commemorate and honor the deeds of persons, residents thereof, or of the state or United States, who served the nation in any war, or other persons who rendered great state or national service, or to the memory of any president of the United States, or for a combination of any those purposes, which are declared to be public purposes. (3) The local unit of government shall determine the character of the memorial, and without limitation because of enumeration, the memorial may comprise a public building, hospital, sanatorium, home for the aged or indigent, park, recreation facility, community forest, or other suitable object having a public purpose. (4) Any local unit of government may appropriate money and may levy a tax to acquire, pay for, construct, erect, furnish, equip, operate, repair, maintain, or reconstruct a suitable memorial for the purpose or purposes provided in this section. (5) Any local unit of government may authorize the use of any public property respectively of such city, village, town, or county as a site for a memorial, and any county may authorize its public property to be so used by any city, village, or town in the county. (6) Any local unit of government may by ordinance or contract provide for the management, control, or operation of any memorial. The local unit of government may enter into a written lease, for a term not exceeding 25 years, with any duly chartered and incorporated veterans organization established in the local unit of government. The lease shall include the provisions for the amount of rental and such conditions of public use as the local unit determines. (7) Any local unit of government may contract with or make an appropriation, or both, to any other local unit of government or to any nonprofit corporation without capital stock organized expressly for any of the purposes of this section or to any duly chartered and incorporated veterans organization established in the local unit of government, and for the purpose of raising funds for memorial purposes or contributions. The local unit of government may levy taxes upon the taxable property located in the local unit of government, or borrow money and issue bonds in the manner and under the regulations provided by ch. 67. The facilities of the memorial shall be available to the residents of the local unit of government making the appropriation to the extent that the governing body of the local unit of government may require.History:  2005 a. 22.
WI Stat § 45.73 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.73 - Sites for veterans memorial halls.

45.73  Sites for veterans memorial halls. (1) Any local unit of government may donate to any organization specified in s. 70.11 (9) land upon which is to be erected a memorial hall to contain the memorial tablet specified in s. 70.11 (9). (2) The action of any local unit of government in granting veterans organizations or any other civic, patriotic, educational, or historical society rooms and space within public buildings for the establishment of memorial halls and museums, and occupancy thereof by its members, is authorized and confirmed. The local unit of government may permit the use and occupancy of the rooms and space for such terms and subject to such conditions and provisions as the local unit of government may impose. Any contract, lien, or agreement between the local unit of government and any organization now in force shall continue in force according to the terms of the contract, lien, or agreement. History:  2005 a. 22.
WI Stat § 45.74 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.74 - Memorial corporations organized under 1919 act.

45.74  Memorial corporations organized under 1919 act. (1) Any commission or board of trustees that governs a corporation organized to construct a memorial under s. 45.057 (5), statutes of 1919 to 1943 (created by chapter 598, laws of 1919, and repealed by chapter 301, laws of 1945), shall have the following powers in addition to those it now has:(a) All powers vested in the members of the corporation by the articles of incorporation or bylaws, including the power to amend the articles of incorporation.(b) The powers set forth in s. 181.0302 and all other applicable provisions of ch. 181.(c) The power to convey any property under its control to any municipality and lease it back under terms agreed upon by the commission or board of trustees and the municipality.(d) The power to dissolve the corporation and dispose of the real and personal property of the corporation in a manner that it deems will best serve the purposes for which it was organized and the interests of the community. (2) The commission or board of trustees shall have a membership composed of 5 residents of the city, village, or town in which the memorial is located, one appointed by the common council, village board, or town board of the city, village, or town, and 4 by the circuit judge of the county in which the memorial is located. The commission or board may appoint 4 additional members who are residents of this state. The terms of all members shall be 5 years. In order that terms of members may expire at different times, not more than 2 members shall be appointed in any one year in addition to appointments made to fill vacancies occurring by resignation or death. Members shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualify. (3) Notwithstanding the repeal of s. 45.057, 1943 stats., by chapter 301, laws of 1945, the continuing existence of all commissions, boards, and corporations organized under s. 45.057 (5), statutes of 1919 to 1943, is affirmed, and the continuing operation of such commissions, boards, and corporations is ratified as to the past and authorized in the future. History:  2005 a. 22.
WI Stat § 45.83 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.83 - Transportation services grants to counties.

45.83  Transportation services grants to counties. (1) Annually, from the appropriation under s. 20.485 (2) (s), the department shall award grants to counties that are not served by transportation services provided by the Wisconsin department of Disabled American Veterans to develop, maintain, and expand transportation services for veterans. The grants may be used to support multicounty cooperative transportation services. (2) The department shall promulgate rules specifying the application procedures and eligibility criteria for grants under this section. (3) A county may not reduce funding to a county veterans service office based upon receipt of a grant.History:  2005 a. 22.
WI Stat § 45.84 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.84 - Burial allowance.

45.84  Burial allowance. (1) Each county veterans service officer shall cause to be interred in a decent and respectable manner in any cemetery in this state, other than those used exclusively for the burial of paupers, the body of any veteran, spouse, or surviving spouse who was living in the county at the time of death and who dies not leaving sufficient means to defray the necessary expenses of a decent burial, or under circumstances that would cause financial distress to the person's family. The cost of this interment shall be the responsibility of the county, but may not be less than $300, and shall be in addition to the burial allowance payable under laws administered by the U.S. department of veterans affairs. (2) Before assuming the burial expense, the county veterans service officer shall exercise due diligence in attempting to determine the financial condition required by sub. (1). The county veterans service officer, in making the inquiry, may use the facilities for investigation that are made available by the county board. The county veterans service officer shall report the results of that determination to the appropriate authorities designated by the county. (3) The chairperson of the county board and the clerk of the county on the receipt of the report under sub. (2) shall draw an order on the county treasurer for the amount of expenses so incurred, payable to the person designated in the report as being entitled to that payment. The county veterans service officer of each county shall, upon the death and burial of a veteran described under sub. (1) who was living in the county at the time of death, make application to the proper authorities for a suitable headstone as provided for by act of congress, and at the expense of the county cause the same to be placed at the head of the deceased's grave.History:  2005 a. 22.
WI Stat § 45.85 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.85 - Care of graves.

45.85  Care of graves. (1) Every town board, village board, or common council of every city shall at all times see that the graves and tombstones of all veterans, including women's auxiliary organizations created by act of Congress, who shall at any time have served in any branch of the armed forces of the United States, and of the spouses or surviving spouses of all those veterans, receive proper and decent care, and may employ all necessary assistance to carry out this section. The expense of the care of the graves and tombstones shall be borne by the county where the graves are located, except where suitable care is otherwise provided. The amount of expense charged the county for the care may not exceed the charge made for the care of other graves in the same cemetery. (2) The governing body specified in sub. (1) shall report to the county clerk of its county, on or before September 1 of each year, the locations of the graves cared for by the governing body under sub. (1), together with the names of the deceased and the amount claimed for care of the graves for the fiscal year from the previous July 1 to June 30. (3) The chairperson of the county board and the county clerk, upon receipt of the report under sub. (2), shall draw an order on the county treasurer for the amount of the expenses incurred in caring for the graves, payable to the person or persons designated in the report as being entitled to the payment.History:  2005 a. 22.
WI Stat § 45.86 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.86 - County tax for needy veterans.

45.86  County tax for needy veterans. (1) Every county board shall annually levy, in addition to all other taxes, a tax sufficient to carry out the purposes of this section. The tax shall be levied and collected as other county taxes for the purpose of providing aid to needy veterans, the needy spouses, surviving spouses, minor and dependent children of the veterans, and the needy parents of veterans entitled to aid under ss. 45.81 to 45.84, and to carry out the purposes of s. 45.85. Aid may not be denied solely on the basis that a person otherwise eligible for aid owns a homestead that the person occupies. (2) The county veterans service commission or county veterans service officer shall estimate the probable amount required under this section and shall file that estimate with the county board.History:  2005 a. 22.
WI Stat § 46.001 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.001 - Purposes of chapter.

46.001  Purposes of chapter. The purposes of this chapter are to conserve human resources in Wisconsin; to prevent dependency, mental illness, developmental disability, mental infirmity, and other forms of social maladjustment by a continuous attack on causes; to provide effective aid and services to all persons in need of that aid and those services and to assist those persons to achieve or regain self-dependence at the earliest possible date; to avoid duplication and waste of effort and money on the part of public and private agencies; and to coordinate and integrate a social welfare program.History:  1977 c. 354; 1983 a. 447; 1989 a. 31; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 292; 2007 a. 20.
WI Stat § 46.011 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.011 - Definitions.

46.011  Definitions. In chs. 46, 50, 51, 54, 55, and 58: (1c) “Community-based juvenile delinquency-related services" means juvenile delinquency-related services provided under ch. 938 other than juvenile correctional services. (1e) “Department" means the department of health services. (1g) “Disabled children's long-term support program" means the programs described under 2001 Wisconsin Act 16, section 9123 (16rs), and 2003 Wisconsin Act 33, section 9124 (8c). (1m) “Institution for mental diseases" has the meaning given in 42 CFR 435.1009. (1p) “Juvenile correctional services" means services provided for a juvenile who is under the supervision of the department of corrections under s. 938.183, 938.34 (4h) or (7g), or 938.357 (3) or (4). (1s) “Milwaukee County mental health board" means the Milwaukee County mental health board created under s. 51.41 (1d). (2) “Prisoner" means any person who is either arrested, incarcerated, imprisoned or otherwise detained in excess of 12 hours by any law enforcement agency of this state, except when detention is pursuant to s. 51.15, 51.20, 51.45 (11) (b) or 55.135 (1) or ch. 980. “Prisoner" does not include any person who is serving a sentence of detention under s. 973.03 (4) unless the person is in the county jail under s. 973.03 (4) (c). (3) “Secretary" means the secretary of health services. (4) “State health planning and development agency" means the department, as designated under s. 250.04 (12).History:  1975 c. 39, 430; 1977 c. 29; 1979 c. 221; 1985 a. 29 s. 3202 (23); 1987 a. 27; 1989 a. 31; 1993 a. 16, 27, 479; 1995 a. 27 ss. 2022, 9126 (19); 2005 a. 264, 387; 2007 a. 20 ss. 794, 795, 9121 (6) (a); 2013 a. 203; 2015 a. 55; 2017 a. 185; 2019 a. 8 ss. 2, 71.
WI Stat § 46.014 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.014 - Secretary, powers and duties.

46.014  Secretary, powers and duties. (1) Inventories. On or before July 1 in each year, the secretary shall cause full and complete inventories and appraisals to be made of all the property of each institution administered by the department, which shall be recorded and so classified as to show separately the amount, kind and value of such property. (2)  Visitation. The secretary shall cause each of said institutions to be visited and inspected at least once a month to ascertain whether the officers and employees therein are competent and faithful in the discharge of their duties, all inmates properly cared for and governed, all accounts, books and vouchers properly kept, and all the business affairs properly conducted. (3)  Powers and duties. The secretary shall plan for and establish within the department a program of research designed to determine the effectiveness of the treatment, curative and rehabilitative programs of the various institutions and divisions of the department. The secretary may inquire into any matter affecting social welfare and hold hearings and subpoena witnesses and make recommendations to the appropriate agencies, public or private, thereon.History:  1975 c. 39; 1983 a. 27; 1987 a. 186; 2007 a. 20.
WI Stat § 46.016 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.016 - Cooperation with federal government.

46.016  Cooperation with federal government. The department may cooperate with the federal government in carrying out federal acts concerning public assistance, social security, mental hygiene, services for the blind, and in other matters of mutual concern pertaining to public welfare.History:  1989 a. 31, 107; 1995 a. 27; 2007 a. 20.
WI Stat § 46.017 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.017 - Legal actions.

46.017  Legal actions. The department may sue and be sued.
WI Stat § 46.018 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.018 - Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures.

46.018  Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures. Withdrawal or disbursement of moneys deposited in a public depository, as defined in s. 34.01 (5), to the credit of the department or any of its divisions or agencies shall be by check, share draft or other draft signed by the secretary or by one or more persons in the department designated by written authorization of the secretary. Such checks, share drafts and other drafts shall be signed personally or by use of a mechanical device adopted by the secretary or his or her designees for affixing a facsimile signature. Any public depository shall be fully warranted and protected in making payment on any check, share draft or other draft bearing such facsimile signature notwithstanding that the facsimile may have been placed thereon without the authority of the secretary or his or her designees.History:  1983 a. 189 s. 329 (21); 1983 a. 368, 538.
WI Stat § 46.02 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.02 - Agency powers and duties.

46.02  Agency powers and duties. Any institution that is subject to chs. 46, 49 to 51, 55, and 58 and to regulation under ch. 150 shall, in cases of conflict between chs. 46, 49 to 51, 55, and 58 and ch. 150, be governed by ch. 150. The department shall promulgate rules and establish procedures for resolving any such a conflict.History:  1977 c. 29; 1979 c. 89; 1985 a. 29 s. 3202 (23); 1989 a. 31, 359; 1995 a. 27; 2007 a. 20.
WI Stat § 46.028 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.028 - Electronic benefit transfer.

46.028  Electronic benefit transfer. The department may deliver benefits that are administered by the department to recipients of the benefits by an electronic benefit transfer system if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) The department obtains any authorization from a federal agency that is required under federal law to deliver the benefits by an electronic benefit transfer system. (2) The department promulgates an administrative rule to deliver the benefits by an electronic benefits transfer system. (3) The department does not require a county or tribal governing body to use the electronic benefit transfer system if the costs to the county or tribal government of delivering the benefits by the electronic benefit transfer system would be greater than the costs to the county or tribal government of delivering the benefits by means other than an electronic benefit transfer system. History:  2009 a. 28.
WI Stat § 46.04 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.04 - Anchorage program.

46.04  Anchorage program. (1) Definitions. In this section:(a) “Adolescent" means an individual who is at least 12 years of age and under 18 years of age.(b) “Drug dependent" has the meaning specified under s. 51.01 (8b).(c) “Mental illness" has the meaning given in s. 51.01 (13). (2)  Program. From the appropriations under s. 20.435 (2) (a) and (gk), the department shall establish at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute a program of inpatient assessment and treatment to be known as the “Anchorage program," which is designed primarily to meet the needs of adolescents who are drug dependent, who evidence drug-related behavior that may be dangerous to the adolescent or to others, and who have a history of drug dependency and resistance to less restrictive forms of treatment, but that also may be used by the department to provide inpatient assessment and treatment of adolescents who have mental illness, who evidence mental illness-related behavior that may be dangerous to the adolescent or to others, and who have a history of mental illness and resistance to less restrictive forms of treatment. A county department under s. 51.42 may refer an adolescent for assessment or treatment under this section and shall approve all admissions to the program under this section of adolescents committed under s. 51.20 or 51.45 or admitted under s. 51.13. Transfers under s. 51.35 (3) or 51.37 (5) may also be made to the program under this section.History:  1987 a. 96; 1993 a. 16; 2001 a. 103; 2017 a. 34.
WI Stat § 46.041 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.041 - Children's consultation service; establishment; purposes.

46.041  Children's consultation service; establishment; purposes. A program to be known as the “children's consultation service" shall be provided. The service shall be established at the Mendota Mental Health Institute or the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, or at both institutions. The service shall: (1m) Provide for the temporary residence and evaluation of children referred from courts assigned to exercise jurisdiction under chs. 48 and 938, the institutions and services under the jurisdiction of the department, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority, county departments under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23, private child welfare agencies, the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and mental health facilities within the state at the discretion of the director of the institution providing services under this section. (2) Promote the development of preventive mental health services to children in communities by participating in the training of mental health personnel, by demonstration of methods of evaluation, care and treatment, by assisting in the assessment of community services and the development of the most effective coordination between the institution and the community, and by offering services when community resources need to be supplemented.NOTE:  Section 46.041 (intro.), (1m), and (2) are shown as renumbered from sub. (1) (intro.), (a), and (b) by the legislative reference bureau under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.History:  1973 c. 90 s. 560 (3); 1977 c. 418 s. 924 (50); 1977 c. 447 s. 206; 1977 c. 449; 1985 a. 29, 176; 1995 a. 27, 77; 1999 a. 9; 2001 a. 57, 103; s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.
WI Stat § 46.042 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.042 - Treatment program for emotionally disturbed children.

46.042  Treatment program for emotionally disturbed children. The department shall establish a program for the intensive treatment of emotionally disturbed children. The program shall be operated by the Mendota Mental Health Institute and be subject to all federal and state laws, rules, and regulations that apply to the institute. Operational planning shall provide close interrelationship between the department and the University of Wisconsin Medical School for conduct of educational and research programs.History:  1975 c. 224; 1977 c. 29; 2001 a. 103.
WI Stat § 46.044 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.044 - State psychiatric institute.

46.044  State psychiatric institute. There is established the state psychiatric institute to be maintained as a department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The statutes relating to admission, commitment, placement, transfer, custody and discharge of mentally ill persons are applicable to the psychiatric institute.History:  1975 c. 430; 1977 c. 26.
WI Stat § 46.047 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 46 - Social services.|46.047 - State-operated residential facilities and support services.

46.047  State-operated residential facilities and support services. The department may establish and operate noninstitutional residential facilities for persons who are relocated from any center for the developmentally disabled, as defined in s. 51.01 (3), and may provide necessary support services for the persons.History:  1993 a. 16.