ALCOHOLICS
See 51.42/51.437 BOARD; INEBRIATES AND DRUG ADDICTS
ALDERMAN
See CITIES
ALIENS
See CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALIZATION
ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES
See AUTOMOBILES AND MOTOR VEHICLES
AMBULANCES
Confidential reports
Under present law, ambulance records relating to medical history, condition or treatment are confidential while other ambulance call records are subject to disclosure under the public records law. 78-71
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
County services
A county does not possess the statutory authority to designate the level of ambulance services provided by the towns within that county. Absent a cooperative agreement between a county electing to provide ambulance services pursuant to section 59.07(41), Stats., and a town electing to provide ambulance services pursuant to section 60.565, a county dispatcher possesses considerable discretion to request assistance from the most appropriate and readily available statutorily authorized ambulance provider. 77-210
Dead bodies
See Corpses
Privately owned
A private ambulance that is an authorized emergency vehicle usually kept in a given county pursuant to section 340.01(3)(i), Stats., may not avail itself of the special provisions of section 346.03(2) so as to proceed unsolicited to the scene of an accident or medical emergency in an adjacent county. 77-214
Public records
Under present law, ambulance records relating to medical history, condition or treatment are confidential while other ambulance call records are subject to disclosure under the public records law. 78-71
Town services
A county does not possess the statutory authority to designate the level of ambulance services provided by the towns within that county. Absent a cooperative agreement between a county electing to provide ambulance services pursuant to section 59.07(41), Stats., and a town electing to provide ambulance services pursuant to section 60.565, a county dispatcher possesses considerable discretion to request assistance from the most appropriate and readily available statutorily authorized ambulance provider. 77-210
AMENDMENTS
See LEGISLATION
AMUSEMENT TAX
Historical tax
Admission fees collected by Circus World Museum in Baraboo are subject to sales tax under sec. 77.52(2)(a)2., Stats. 57-200
ANIMALS
Diseases
Authorized agents of the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection have the authority to stop and search vehicles transporting livestock in Wisconsin so long as they comply with certain constitutional safeguards. 77-172
Veterinarian
The termination of the life of animal by injection is not the practice of veterinary medicine. 65-231
ANNUITY
Constitutionality
If sec. 356 of 1977 Senate Bill 720 or the amendment to sec. 356 contained in Senate Amendment 3 to Senate Bill 720 were enacted into law, either would be constitutionally invalid. 67-134
Employe Trust Funds Board
Discussion of authority of Board to change form of payment to members of retirement benefits resulting from additional deposits in the Wisconsin Retirement Fund, State Teachers Retirement System and Milwaukee Retirement Fund. (Unpub.). 80-1977
ANTITRUST
See MARKETING AND TRADE PRACTICES
ANTI-SECRECY
See CONFIDENTIAL REPORTS; OPEN MEETING; PUBLIC RECORDS and articles found in Introduction to 49 OAG (1960), 54 OAG (1965), and 65 OAG (1976)
Coroner's inquest
The Open Meeting Law does not apply to a coroner's inquest. 67-250
Public Record Law
Records kept by the Assembly Chief Clerk of telephone credit card numbers and of long-distance telephone calls of representatives are subject to the Public Record Law. Custodian may make determination whether to disclose or divulge records in specific instances. 66-202
APPEALS
See COURTS
APPORTIONMENT
See REAPPORTIONMENT
APPRENTICES
Tuition
Apprentices indentured under ch. 106, Stats., may lawfully be charged tuition at schools in the state vocational, technical and adult education system for related instruction that apprentices must receive as a condition of their apprenticeship. 65-37
A vocational, technical and adult education district which provides apprenticeship training may contract with other districts for payment of the costs of training persons who are residents of the other districts. Such district may not refuse, however, to admit nonresident Wisconsin students to an approved apprenticeship program, because the district of the student's residence fails to reimburse the district providing the instruction, unless the state board of vocational, technical and adult education adopts rules sanctioning such refusal. 69-257
APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
Administration, Department of
Enactment of secs. 58 and 59 of ch. 418, Laws of 1977, placed the responsibility of the purchase of goods and services used by state government with the Department of Administration. The purchase of all goods and services by the Department of Administration is made pursuant to subch. IV of ch. 16, Stats. 64 OAG 4 (1975) is no longer applicable. (Unpub.). 83-1979
