Ethics Board
The Ethics Board cannot extend the date by which a candidate for state public office must file a statement of economic interests and cannot waive the filing requirement. 81-85
Independent candidates
Under certain specified conditions, Wisconsin constitutionally cannot prevent the substitution of persons as independent candidates for the office of Vice President of the United States. (Unpub.). 55-1980
Interim appointment
A county which is self-organized pursuant to sec. 59.03, Stats., is empowered by sec. 59.03(1)(d), Stats., to adopt an ordinance providing a procedure for filling a vacancy in the office of County Supervisor allowing for an interim appointment subject to the holding of a subsequent special election in which a person other than the appointee may be selected for the balance of the original term. 65-16
Judge
Under Wis. Const. art. VII, sec. 24(1), as amended April, 1977, a person must have been licensed to practice law in Wisconsin for five years immediately prior to the date of the election, rather than the date the term begins, to be eligible to the office of Circuit Judge. (Unpub.). 1-1979
Legislators
1979 AB 353, requiring candidates for the Legislature to declare whether they will receive a lower salary, conflicts with election bribery laws, sec. 12.11, Stats. Further, if enacted, it would violate the constitutional principle that the Legislature cannot impose additional qualifications to office. Finally, its constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is subject to question. 68-214
Mandatory filing requirements
The Ethics Board cannot extend the date by which a candidate for state public office must file a statement of economic interests and cannot waive the filing requirement. 81-85
Notices
Failure to publish notices of an election on the last Tuesday in May, the first Tuesday in June, and the second Monday preceding an election on the question of removal of a county seat and failure by the County Clerk to distribute the ballots will not invalidate the election where it appears that the voters were well informed of the time, place, and manner of the election and the issue involved, and a majority of the qualified voters who went to the polls, excluding those who had an opportunity to vote on the question of removal but chose not to, voted in favor of removal. 66-219
Political activity for state employer
Statutes and rules which restrict the partisan activities of some employes and officeholders do not offend the First Amendment even if they result in the employes or officeholders being prohibited from participating in the party caucuses which choose delegates to the National Convention. 73-51
Political fund
Wisconsin Administrative Code section E1Bd 1.06, and the forms developed to effectuate that rule, EB-11 and EB-12, which require corporations and associations to register and twice yearly report their expenditures for the establishment and administration of a political fund and for solicitation of political contributions to such fund, improperly impose substantive requirements in addition to those reasonably within the intendment of sec. 11.38(1)(a)2., Stats., and are therefore unenforceable. 67-193
Public funds for political purposes
1981 Assembly Bill 176, which would create a congressional campaign fund to provide public funding for qualified candidates from Wisconsin for the United States House of Representatives, is preempted by the Federal Election Campaign Act. 70-185
Section 11.33, Stats., applies to persons elected to state office who are seeking reelection or election to a different office and to the use of public funds for political purposes. 69-259
Reapportionment
The federal district court apportioned both members and senatorial districts in its order of June 17, 1982. The effective date of new district lines for purposes of nominations, regular, recall and special elections, mass mailings and in-district travel is June 17, 1982, as to both holdover Senators and incumbents in districts where elections are scheduled in the Fall of 1982. 71-157
Recall election
If the Elections Board is presented with a valid petition for the recall of a member of Congress pursuant to Wis. Const. art. VIII, sec. 12, and sec. 9.10, Stats., it must initiate the recall election unless otherwise ordered by a court. 68-140
Residences
A candidate for the Legislature need not be a resident of the district which he seeks to represent at the time he files his nomination papers. That portion of 61 OAG 368 (1972) inconsistent herewith is repudiated. 65-159
Salaries and wages
Article IV, sec. 12, Wis. Const., prohibiting a Legislator from being appointed or elected to a civil office created or the emoluments of which were increased during the Legislator's term, discussed. Constitutionality of sec. 13.04(1), Stats., lifting the constitutional prohibition by allowing the former Legislator to assume the other office at the pre-increase salary, discussed. 63-127
Schools and school districts
A school board which informs the electorate of the school district of the facts which are pertinent to an issue which will be the subject of a school district referendum need not register or file campaign financing reports under ch. 11, Stats. 68-167
Secret ballot
Common Council may not vote to fill vacancy of alderman by secret ballot. Sec. 19.88(1), Stats. 65-131
Utilization of a secret ballot by County Board to appoint zoning administrator constitutes violation of sec. 66.77(6), Stats., and is voidable. 64-73
Senator
A state Senator need not resign his or her present seat before filing and running for a newly numbered senate seat, merely because he or she is presently an incumbent Senator. 71-162
Town sanitary district
Where town sanitary district consists of territory wholly within one town and town board has not designated its members as commissioners but has appointed commissioners, town board is not required to call special election to elect commissioners if petition signed by at least twenty percent of the qualified electors of the district is filed. 69-245
University
Campuses of the University of Wisconsin System have no present authority to regulate political canvassing in University-owned dormitories which does not involve the solicitation of monetary contributions. 65-251
EMERGENCY DETENTION
Law enforcement
It remains the obligation of the law enforcement officer who has placed an individual under emergency detention under section 51.15, Stats., to transport that individual to one of the four categories of facilities listed in section 51.15(2) until custody of the individual is transferred to such a facility. 81-110
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ACT
Policies and procedures
The coordinating physician, as defined in Wis. Admin. Code ch. H 21, is the person authorized to establish policies and procedures in providing emergency medical services under the Emergency Medical Services Act. 76-159
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN
Corpses
Wisconsin statutes do not prohibit the transportation of dead human bodies from an accident scene to a hospital by ambulance or rescue personnel. 79-120
Liability
Incidental benefits received by volunteer members of National Ski Patrol in exchange for rendering emergency care to disabled skiers may result in loss of civil liability immunity under Good Samaritan Law. 79-194
Interpretation of new law rendering "good Samaritans" immune from civil liability for good faith acts or omissions in giving emergency care at the scene of an emergency or accident. Statute excludes from protection health care practitioners who make their living or who specifically are paid for providing emergency care at the scene of an emergency or accident. 67-218
Nurse
A registered nurse functioning as an emergency medical technician may perform any service he or she is authorized to perform as a nurse. (Unpub.). 38-1981
Services performed
The Department of Health and Social Services by rule may authorize the ambulance attendants to perform emergency care services which the statutes specify also are performable by paramedics, but only to the extent the Department finds that the attendants can perform those services safely by reason of their training. Attendants can perform those services under proper supervision of a physician unless the Department provides otherwise by rule, but the physician's decision to delegate a service to an attendant is reviewable by the Medical Examining Board and the attendant's decision to accept the delegation is reviewable by the Department. 68-299
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT
