Fiscal agent
Neither the Fox Valley Vocational, Technical and Adult Education District nor the East Central Regional Planning Commission has the authority to act as fiscal agent for the Northeast Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. 71-70
FRANCHISES
Automobile dealer
Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law, is a public policy declaration concerning the unwarranted termination of dealership. 66-10
Intoxicating liquors
Intoxicating liquors; wholesale permitees; franchise sales area statements; price discrimination. Section 176.05(1a)(b), Stats., does not prohibit a wholesaler from selling intoxicating liquor to a retailer located outside the area described in the area statement provided the sale takes place within that area. State law does not prohibit nor does it require a separate charge by a wholesaler for delivery of intoxicating liquor to a retailer. 70-25
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Public employe
Section 19.45(12), Stats., is constitutional. 77-184
Soliciting jury duty
Sections 756.03 and 756.031, Stats., prohibiting a person from soliciting jury duty are constitutional enactments. 69-19
FUNDS
See also FEDERAL AID
Condemnation
The question of whether benefits and assistance provided by ch. 409, Laws of 1969, as amended by ch. 103, Laws of 1971, must be afforded an owner of property or his tenant where there is no threat of condemnation, but the property owner, aware that a public agency wants the property, voluntarily sells the property to the public agency requires an exercise of discretion based upon the facts of each transaction, however, the property owner or his tenant to qualify must be displaced by the project and the expenditure of public funds must be for a public purpose. 62-168
Construction of state facilities on leased land
It is constitutional for the Legislature to authorize funds to be borrowed and expended for construction of state patrol training facilities on leased land. (Unpub.). 8-1984
Contingency fund
Under section 65.90(5), Stats., a vote of two-thirds of the entire membership of the county board is needed to transfer funds from the contingency fund to use for a purpose not anticipated in the budget. 76-145
Educational Communications Board, Wisconsin
Under sec. 20.906(1), Stats., it would not be unlawful for Friends to hold funds for the ECB that were solicited through use of ECB facilities and resources. The ECB has statutory authority to contract with Friends to assist in raising funds for educational radio and television in this State. 70-163
Elections
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
General Fund
Pursuant to sec. 20.865, Stats., both segregated revenues and general purpose revenues of the General Fund are available for the payment of judgments arising out of segregated fund activities in the same proportion in which they were, or would have been, used to finance a program appropriation for the payment of such judgments; sec. 20.865(1)(a), Stats., includes authority for payment of settlements made by the Attorney General pursuant to sec. 165.25(6), Stats. (Unpub.). 18-1975
General obligation bonds
The state may use the proceeds from general obligation bonds to fund an expansion of the Petroleum Environmental Cleanup Fund Award Program. 81-114
Investments
Municipalities and other local governmental entities may only invest in certain specifically authorized bonds, securities, deposits, etc., and may not invest in mutual funds, even if the assets of such funds consist solely of statutorily-allowed bonds and securities. 77-274
Library system board
County Board cannot authorize single-county federated library system board to maintain special bank account into which are deposited system revenues and from which are paid system expenses. (Unpub.). 81-1977
Municipalities
Municipalities and other local governmental entities may only invest in certain specifically authorized bonds, securities, deposits, etc., and may not invest in mutual funds, even if the assets of such funds consist solely of statutorily-allowed bonds and securities. 77-274
Political fund
Section E1Bd 1.06 Wis. Adm. Code, 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
Chapter 108, Laws of 1973, contemplates the appropriation of public funds for a valid public purpose, not for works of internal improvement, and is constitutional. 62-212
Revenue bonds
The state may use the proceeds from general obligation bonds to fund an expansion of the Petroleum Environmental Cleanup Fund Award Program. 81-114
State funds"
Only the portion of 1987 Assembly Bill 265 that increases benefits for persons no longer working for a Wisconsin Retirement System participating employer is subject to the three-fourths vote requirement of article IV, section 26 of the Wisconsin Constitution. The Public Employe Trust Fund constitutes "state funds" as used in article IV, section 26 of the Wisconsin Constitution. 76-224
Surplus funds in local unit of government
A local unit of government may not create and accumulate unappropriated surplus funds. However, a local unit of government may maintain reasonable amounts necessary in the exercise of sound business principles to meet the immediate cash flow needs of the municipality during the current budgetary period or to accumulate needed capital in non-lapsing funds to finance specifically identified future capital expenditures. 76-77
Transfer of
Under section 65.90(5), Stats., a vote of two-thirds of the entire membership of the county board is needed to transfer funds from the contingency fund to use for a purpose not anticipated in the budget. 76-145
Unemployment compensation
Borrowing money from the federal government to replenish Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Fund, under the arrangements prescribed by federal law, does not contravene either Wis. Const. art. VIII, sec. 3 or 4. 71-95
FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS
Eye removals
Special training is required of medical personnel as well as morticians before they perform eye enucleation. 77-207
Insurance agent
A plan whereby a funeral service person (a licensed funeral director, operator of a licensed funeral establishment or an employe of the same) also acts as an insurance agent and as such writes a life insurance policy naming as the beneficiary a funeral director or establishment and additionally negotiates a contract wherein the named insured in the policy contracts with a funeral director or establishment for providing burial or funeral services to the insured is illegal. 76-291
Insurance beneficiary
Section 632.41(2), Stats., does not prohibit the naming of a funeral director as beneficiary of a life insurance policy in conjunction with a separate agreement between the insured and the funeral director that the proceeds will be used for funeral and burial expenses. 71-7
Life insurance policy sales
Funeral service persons may be involved in the sale of life insurance if such insurance is not linked in any way to funeral or burial services. 78-182
Personal property, use of
