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. Except as provided in
sub. (8m) and
s. 250.041, 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. Except as provided in
sub. (8m) and
s. 250.041, 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, except as provided in
sub. (8m) (e), revoke or suspend under this section 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(8m)
(8m) Registration denial, nonrenewal and revocation based on tax delinquency. 250.05(8m)(a)(a) Except as provided in
par. (am), the department shall require each applicant for registration under this section to provide the department with the applicant's social security number as a condition of issuing or renewing the registration.
250.05(8m)(am)
(am) If an individual who applies for or to renew a registration under
par. (a) does not have a social security number, the individual, as a condition of obtaining registration, shall submit a statement made or subscribed under oath or affirmation to the department that the applicant does not have a social security number. The form of the statement shall be prescribed by the department of workforce development. A registration issued or renewed in reliance upon a false statement submitted under this paragraph is invalid.
250.05(8m)(b)
(b) The department may not disclose any information received under
par. (a) to any person except to the department of revenue for the purpose of requesting certifications under
s. 73.0301.
250.05(8m)(c)
(c) Except as provided in
par. (am), the department shall deny an application for the issuance or renewal of registration under this section if the applicant does not provide the information specified in
par. (a).
250.05(8m)(d)
(d) The department shall deny an application for the issuance or renewal of registration under this section or shall revoke a registration issued under this section, if the department of revenue certifies under
s. 73.0301 that the applicant or holder of the registration is liable for delinquent taxes.
250.05(8m)(e)
(e) The only hearing rights available for a denial, revocation or nonrenewal of registration under this section based on tax delinquency are those set forth in
s. 73.0301 (5).
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.
250.10
250.10
Grant for dental services. From the appropriation under
s. 20.435 (5) (de), the department shall provide funding in each fiscal year to the Marquette University School of Dentistry for clinical education of Marquette University School of Dentistry students through the provision of dental services by the students and faculty of the Marquette University School of Dentistry in underserved areas and to underserved populations in the state, as determined by the department in conjunction with the Marquette University School of Dentistry; to inmates of correctional centers in Milwaukee County; and in clinics in the city of Milwaukee. Beginning July 1, 2000, the department shall also distribute to qualified applicants grants totaling $25,000 for fluoride supplements, $25,000 for a fluoride mouth-rinse program and $60,000 for a school-based dental sealant program.
250.15
250.15
Grants for community health centers. 250.15(1)
(1)
Definition. In this section, "community health center" means a health care entity that provides primary health care, health education and social services to low-income individuals.
250.15(2)(a)(a) From the appropriation under
s. 20.435 (5) (fh), the department shall award $50,000 in each fiscal year as a grant to a community health center in a 1st class city and shall award $100,000 as a grant to a nurse-managed community health center in a first class city.
250.15(2)(b)
(b) From the appropriation under
s. 20.435 (5) (fh), the department shall award grants in each fiscal year to community health centers that receive federal grants under
42 USC 254b (e), (g) or (h). Each grant shall equal the amount that results from multiplying the total amount available for grants under this paragraph in the fiscal year in which the grants are to be awarded by the quotient obtained by dividing the amount that the community health center received under
42 USC 254b (e), (g) or (h) in the most recently concluded federal fiscal year in which those grants were made by the total amount of federal grants under
42 USC 254b (e), (g) and (h) made in that federal fiscal year to community health centers in this state.
250.15(2)(c)
(c) From the appropriation under
s. 20.435 (5) (fh), the department shall award $25,000 in each fiscal year as a grant to HealthNet of Janesville, Inc.
250.15 History
History: 1999 a. 9.
