229.12 Board of trustees, composition.
229.13 Board of trustees; annual meeting and general functions.
229.14 Director and employes; curators.
229.15 Museum funds; expenditures.
229.16 Donations and miscellaneous receipts.
229.17 Site, buildings and equipment.
229.18 Accountability; reports.
229.19 Applicability of sections 229.11 to 229.18.
229.21 First class city auditoriums and music halls.
229.23 Property and finance.
229.26 Exposition center.
229.27 Municipal theater.
SUBCHAPTER II
LOCAL EXPOSITION DISTRICTS
229.42 Creation and organization.
229.435 Certification of board members.
229.44 Powers of a district.
229.45 Powers granted to sponsoring municipality.
229.46 Certain contracting requirements.
229.47 Transfer agreements.
229.477 Dissolution of a district.
229.48 Issuance of bonds.
229.50 Special debt service reserve funds.
229.52 Bonds not public debt.
229.56 Funding and refunding bonds.
229.57 Budgets; rates and charges; audit.
SUBCHAPTER III
LOCAL PROFESSIONAL
BASEBALL PARK DISTRICTS
229.64 Legislative declaration.
229.66 Creation and organization.
229.68 Powers of a district.
229.682 Special provisions.
229.685 Special fund tax revenues.
229.69 Powers granted to a city or a county in a district.
229.70 Minority contracting goals.
229.71 Dissolution of a district.
229.72 Issuance and negotiability of bonds.
229.74 Special debt service reserve funds.
229.75 Bonds not public debt.
229.79 Budgets; rates and charges; audit.
229.81 Assistance by state agencies.
POPULOUS CITIES
229.11
229.11
First class city museums. Any city of the 1st class however incorporated may establish and maintain, for the free use of the inhabitants thereof, a public museum for the exhibition of objects in natural history, anthropology and history, either the several or any one of these specifically; and may receive, hold and manage any bequest, donation or loan for the establishment, increase or maintenance thereof, under such regulations and conditions as may be prescribed pursuant to law or agreed upon by and between the donors and said city.
229.11 History
History: 1971 c. 152 s.
27; Stats. 1971 s. 229.11;
1983 a. 192;
1985 a. 177.
229.12
229.12
Board of trustees, composition. 229.12(1)
(1) The public museum shall be administered by a board of 10 trustees, consisting of:
229.12(1)(a)
(a) The president of the board of school directors and the city superintendent of schools.
229.12(1)(b)
(b) Seven members who shall be appointed by the mayor on the 3rd Tuesday in April. Three of the 7 members shall be selected from among the alderpersons holding a 4-year term, and shall serve as such trustees during their aldermanic terms; and the other 4 shall be selected from among the residents and taxpayers of the city, for original terms of 1, 2, 3 and 4 years, respectively, commencing on May 1 next after their appointment, and for successive terms of 4 years each.
229.12(1)(c)
(c) One member who shall be a county board member residing in the county outside the city of the 1st class, who shall be appointed by the county executive and confirmed by the county board for a 4-year term commencing on May 1 next after the member's appointment, and for successive terms of 4 years each.
229.12(2)
(2) Said trustees shall take the official oath, and be subject to the restrictions, disabilities, liabilities, punishments and limitations prescribed by law as to alderpersons in such city. They shall not receive any compensation for their services as such trustees; and shall not individually become or cause themselves to become interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job for the purchase of any matter pertaining to the institution in their charge, or of fuel, furniture, stationery or other things necessary for the increase and maintenance thereof.
229.13
229.13
Board of trustees; annual meeting and general functions. 229.13(1)(1) The annual meeting of the board of trustees of the public museum shall be held on the 3rd Tuesday of May in each year, at which meeting a president shall be chosen annually from their number.
229.13(2)
(2) The board shall have general care, control and supervision of the museum, its appurtenances, fixtures and furniture, and of the disbursements of all moneys belonging to the museum funds. The trustees of the public museum shall have charge of the receipt, selection, arrangement and disposition of the specimens and objects pertaining to such museum. The board shall prescribe regulations for the management, care, and use of the public museum, and adopt such measures as shall promote the public utility thereof, and may prescribe and enforce penalties for violations of such regulations.
229.13 History
History: 1971 c. 152 ss.
27,
36m; Stats. 1971 s. 229.13;
1985 a. 177.
229.14
229.14
Director and employes; curators. 229.14(1)
(1) At its first meeting the board of trustees shall elect by ballot a person of suitable learning, scientific attainments, ability and experience for director of the public museum. The director shall be selected in accordance with and shall be subject to the usual laws, rules and regulations of the city civil service commission. The director shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the board of trustees and shall be the secretary of the board.
229.14(2)
(2) The board shall appoint and fix the compensation of such assistants and employes for the institution as they deem necessary and expedient.
229.14(3)
(3) The board of the public museum may appoint an acting director whenever, in their discretion, the service of the museum shall require it, who shall also be acting secretary of the board and whose acts as such shall receive full credit.
229.14(4)
(4) The board of the public museum may appoint as honorary curators persons who have manifested a special interest in the museum or some particular department thereof. Such curators shall perform such duties and have such privileges as may be prescribed in the regulations of the museum, but shall not receive any pecuniary compensation.
229.14 History
History: 1971 c. 152 s.
27; Stats. 1971 s. 229.14;
1979 c. 110;
1985 a. 177.
229.15
229.15
Museum funds; expenditures. 229.15(1)
(1) Public museum funds appropriated to the museum by the common council shall not be used or appropriated, directly or indirectly, for any purpose other than the maintenance and increase, payment of the salaries of the employes, purchase of fuel, supplies, furniture and fixtures, or incidental repairs of the museum.
229.15(2)
(2) All moneys appropriated for the purposes of said institutions shall be paid over to the city treasurer and credited to said funds, respectively. Each board of trustees shall provide for all necessary expenditures from each said fund, and all disbursements shall be made on orders of the president and secretary of the board, countersigned by the city comptroller; but, except as expressly provided otherwise, the board shall not in any one year expend or incur any liability for any sum in excess of the amount allocated to each such fund by the common council.
229.15 History
History: 1971 c. 152 s.
27; Stats. 1971 s. 229.15;
1985 a. 177.
229.16
229.16
Donations and miscellaneous receipts. 229.16(1)
(1) All moneys, books, specimens and other property received by devise, bequest or gift for the purposes of the public museum shall, unless otherwise directed by the donor, be under the management and control of the board of trustees of the public museum.
229.16(2)
(2) All moneys derived from penalties for violations of the regulations of the public museum, or from any other source in the course of the administration thereof, including all moneys paid to the city upon any policy of insurance or other obligation or liability for or on account of loss or damage to property pertaining to the public museum, shall be credited to public museum funds and may be expended in the manner prescribed in
s. 229.15 (2), in addition to the annual tax.
229.16 History
History: 1971 c. 152 ss.
27,
38; Stats. 1971 s. 229.16;
1985 a. 177.
229.17
229.17
Site, buildings and equipment. The board of trustees of the public museum shall erect, purchase, hire or lease buildings, lots, rooms and furniture for the use and accommodation of the public museum, and shall enlarge, improve and repair such buildings, rooms and furniture; but shall not erect, purchase, lease, or enlarge any building or lot without express authority of an ordinance or resolution of the common council. All deeds of conveyance and leases shall run to the city.
229.17 History
History: 1971 c. 152 s.
27; Stats. 1971 s. 229.17;
1985 a. 177.
229.18
229.18
Accountability; reports. 229.18(1)
(1) Within 10 days after the appointment of a director or custodian or other salaried employes, the board of trustees of the museum shall report to and file with the city comptroller a certified list of the persons so appointed, stating the salary allowed to each and the time or times fixed for the payment thereof.
229.18(2)
(2) Immediately after any meeting of the board at which accounts and bills are allowed, the board shall furnish such comptroller with a list of all accounts and bills allowed at said meeting, stating the character of the materials or services for which the same were rendered.
229.18(3)
(3) On or before the first day of March in each year, the board shall make a report to the common council, for the year ending with the December 31 next prior thereto, containing a statement of the condition of the museum, the articles added to the museum, and such other information and suggestions as the board deems important, including also an account of the moneys credited to the museum fund, and the expenditures therefrom during the year.
