250.05
250.05
Sanitarians; qualifications, duties, registration. 250.05(1)(a)
(a) "Municipality" means a county, city or village.
250.05(1)(b)
(b) "Sanitarian" means an individual who, through education, training or experience in the natural sciences and their application and through technical knowledge of prevention and control of preventable diseases, is capable of applying environmental control measures so as to protect human health, safety and welfare.
250.05(2)
(2) Registration qualifications. In order to safeguard life, health and property, to promote public welfare and to establish the status of those persons whose duties in environmental sanitation call for knowledge of the natural sciences, the department may establish minimum standards and qualifications for the registration of sanitarians.
250.05(3)
(3) Sanitarians; employment or contractual services. Any agency of the state may employ or contract for the services of sanitarians, registered under this section, who shall enforce the public health statutes or rules.
250.05(5)
(5) Registration. The department, upon application on forms prescribed by it and payment of the prescribed fee, shall register as a sanitarian any person who has presented evidence satisfactory to the department that standards and qualifications of the department, as established by rule, have been met.
250.05(6)
(6) Fees: renewal of registration; delinquency and reinstatement. A fee fixed by rule of the department shall accompany the application under
sub. (5) and, beginning January 1, 1988, a biennial fee of $25 shall be paid by every registered sanitarian who desires to continue registration. The amounts of the fees may be adjusted by the department by rule. All certificates of registration shall expire on December 31 in each odd-numbered year. The department may renew registrations upon application made after January 1 of each even-numbered year if it is satisfied that the applicant has good cause for not making application in December of the immediately preceding year and upon payment of the biennial fee and any additional fees prescribed by the department.
250.05(7)
(7) Reciprocity. The department may by rule set standards for sanitarians registered in other states to practice as registered sanitarians in this state.
250.05(8)
(8) Revocation of registration. The department may, after a hearing held in conformance with
ch. 227, revoke or suspend the registration of any sanitarian for practice of fraud or deceit in obtaining the registration or any gross professional negligence, incompetence or misconduct.
250.05(9)
(9) Penalty. No person not registered under this section may claim to be a registered sanitarian nor append to his or her name the initials "R.S.". Any person violating this subsection may be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 6 months.
250.06
250.06
Public health nurses. 250.06(1)
(1) The qualifications of all public health nurses shall be prescribed by rules promulgated by the department. All public health nurses shall be registered nurses. Licensed practical nurses licensed under
ch. 441 may be employed by local health departments under the supervision of a public health nurse to perform services for which licensed. Public health nurses shall work under the direction of the local board of health and the local health officer and shall conduct a generalized public health nursing program in cooperation with the department.
250.06(3)
(3) The department shall examine the practice of public health nurses and make recommendations for the improvement and the development of public health nursing.
250.06(6)
(6) This section shall not apply to school nurses, as defined in
s. 115.001 (11), while acting in the employ of a public school.
250.07
250.07
Public health planning. The department shall:
250.07(1)
(1) At least once every 10 years, develop a successor document to healthier people in Wisconsin, a public health agenda for the year 2000, published by the department in February 1990.
250.07(2)
(2) Initiate, conduct and periodically evaluate a process for planning to use the resources of the state to meet the health needs of residents and, in conjunction with other state agencies, to implement the objectives that relate to state government in statutes or in public health rules promulgated by the department. The process shall involve representatives from public health organizations, governmental agencies and the general public.
250.07(3)
(3) Provide technical assistance to local units of government for the development of local public health plans.
250.07(4)
(4) Serve as the state lead agency in coordinating the activities within state government involving the collection, retrieval, analysis, reporting and publication of statistical information and other information related to health and health care.
250.07 History
History: 1993 a. 27.
250.08
250.08
State public health funding program. 250.08(1)
(1)
Definition. In this section, "primary health care services" means all of the following:
250.08(1)(b)
(b) Diagnostic laboratory and radiologic services, if the local health department provides laboratory and radiologic services.
250.08(1)(c)
(c) Preventive health services, including eye and ear examinations for children to determine the need for vision or hearing correction, perinatal services, well-child services and family planning services.
250.08(3)
(3) Primary health care services grants. From the appropriation under
s. 20.435 (1) (cp), the department shall award up to $500,000 in fiscal year 1995-96 and up to $250,000 in fiscal year 1996-97 as grants to applying local health departments. Grants under this subsection shall be awarded, under procedures and criteria developed by the department, for the provision, primarily by nurse practitioners who meet the qualifications for certification as medical assistance providers by the department and by public health nurses, of primary health care services in, among other places, maternal and child health clinics and community health settings. Award of a grant to a local health department under this subsection is conditioned upon receipt by the department of an agreement by the county, city or village that has established the local health department to provide funds or in-kind services to match 25% of the amount of a grant awarded.
250.08(5)
(5) Maintenance-of-effort requirements. Funds awarded under
sub. (3) may not be used to provide payment for administration of a local health department and may not be used to supplant any of the following, as of May 11, 1990:
250.08(5)(a)
(a) Any funds otherwise available to a local health department.
250.08(5)(b)
(b) Any services provided by a local health department under otherwise available funds.
250.08(5)(c)
(c) Any services provided by a local health department on behalf of another local health department.
250.08(6)(a)(a) The department shall distribute state and federal funds under its control under this section in a manner that will promote the development and maintenance of integrated community health services.
250.08(6)(b)
(b) The department shall require the coordination of services at the local level when distributing state and federal funds under this section that are under the department's control.
250.08 History
History: 1989 a. 336;
1991 a. 39;
1993 a. 27 ss.
164 to
167,
169,
458; Stats. 1993 s. 250.08;
1993 a. 105 s.
9;
1993 a. 490 s.
139;
1995 a. 27.
250.09
250.09
Pesticide review board. 250.09(1)
(1) The pesticide review board created by
s. 15.195 (1) shall collect, analyze and interpret information, and make recommendations to and coordinate the regulatory and informational responsibilities of the state agencies, on matters relating to the use of pesticides, particularly recommendations for limiting pesticide use to those materials and amounts of pesticides found necessary and effective in the control of pests and which are not unduly hazardous to persons, animals or plants. Pesticide rules authorized by
ss. 29.29 (4) and
94.69, except pesticide rules issued under
s. 94.705 (2) and pesticide rules to protect groundwater promulgated to comply with
ch. 160, are not effective until approved by the review board.
250.09(2)
(2) The pesticide review board shall appoint a council not to exceed 6 members of technical or professional experts composed of one representative each from the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection, department of health and family services, department of natural resources, college of agricultural and life sciences of the university of Wisconsin, water resources center of the university of Wisconsin, school of natural resources of the university of Wisconsin, and in addition 3 public members appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate for staggered 3-year terms who shall be technical or professional experts in the use of pesticides, one of whom shall be a representative of the pesticide industry, one of whom shall be a representative of the agricultural industry and one of whom shall be a person of broad knowledge and experience in the conservation and wise use of natural resources. The council shall generally assist the review board and shall assist particularly in obtaining scientific data and coordinating pesticide regulatory, enforcement, research and educational functions of the state.
250.09(3)
(3) The pesticide review board shall submit to the legislature in the manner provided under
s. 13.172 (2) and to the governor a report on any pesticide matters the pesticide review board finds are of vital concern for the protection of the health and well-being of people or for the protection of fish, wildlife, plants, soil, air and water from pesticide pollution. The report may include the pesticide review board's recommendations for legislative or other governmental action.
250.09 Cross-reference
Cross Reference: See s.
134.67 for prohibition of use of DDT and exceptions to the prohibition.
250.10
250.10
Grant for dental services. From the appropriation under
s. 20.435 (1) (de), the department shall provide funding in each fiscal year to the Marquette University School of Dentistry for the provision of dental services by the Marquette University School of Dentistry in correctional centers in Milwaukee County and clinics in the city of Milwaukee.
250.10 History
History: 1989 a. 336;
1991 a. 39;
1993 a. 16;
1993 a. 27 s.
258; Stats. 1993 s. 250.10;
1995 a. 27.
