Subdivision
The application of secs. 236.16(3) and (4), Stats., which concern lake and stream shore plats, discussed in reference to proposed subdivisions which do not immediately abut a lake or stream, but where the subdivider holds an interest in lands lying between the proposed subdivision and the lake or stream. 66-85
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR
Abolition of the Office
Abolition of the Office of Public Administrator, effective January 1, 1974, by ch. 90, Laws of 1973, requires that such officers submit their final reports and claims for fees as soon after 1973 as possible in order to obtain reimbursement without undue delay and complications. 62-245
Reimbursement
Abolition of the Office of Public Administrator, effective January 1, 1974, by ch. 90, Laws of 1973, requires that such officers submit their final reports and claims for fees as soon after 1973 as possible in order to obtain reimbursement without undue delay and complications. 62-245
Retirement
Public administrators are public officials and, therefore, includable as "employes" under the Federal-State Social Security coverage agreement. Public administrators may be properly excluded by act of the Legislature from future coverage under the Wisconsin Retirement Fund and State Group Life Insurance. 62-20
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
See also FOSTER HOMES; INDIGENT; PUBLIC WELFARE
AFDC recipients
Because records concerning AFDC recipients are confidential, only the amounts of monthly payments made to AFDC recipients, together with their names and addresses, may be released to the Department of Revenue by the Department of Health and Social Services. AFDC recipients must be notified when such information is released. 69-95
Promulgation of rules by HSS to recoup improper payments discussed. 65-125
Section 49.19(6), Stats., which provides that an AFDC mother may be required to do renumerative work has not been affected by amendments to the Work Incentive Program, nor does it violate equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, U.S. Const. 62-120
Attorney's fees
Attorney's fees are not chargeable against public assistance recovered in an action under sec. 49.65, Stats. (1979). 70-61
Collection agencies
County is a necessary party to an action on a claim where it has received an assignment under sec. 49.65, Stats. The county may take steps necessary to enforce its claim. Compromise and attorney fees discussed. 65-119
Disabled persons
Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities is an advisory council having additional authority and responsibilities. (Unpub.). 47-1976
Fingerprinting applicants
A county may not require or request that a public assistance applicant or recipient provide a fingerprint for the purposes of identification as a precondition to receiving aid. 74-185
Fraud investigation
Information contained in a county paternity case file may be released for purposes of fraud investigation of the public assistance programs specified in section 49.53, Stats. 80-226
Indigent prisoner
Section 53.38, Stats., is exclusively applicable in providing relief from medical and hospital care costs incurred by an indigent prisoner while receiving emergency medical treatment in a hospital. 69-230
Medical aid
Power of county to provide limited rescue functions in connection with ambulance service and make charges discussed. 65-87
Medical assistance
A county health facility may not charge for non-medical assistance services given to medical assistance patients in excess of medical assistance rates without violating section 49.49, Stats. 73-68
Old age assistance liens
Statute of limitations is no defense to old age assistance liens which survive the repeal of sec. 49.26, Stats. (Unpub.). 75-1976
Statute of limitations
Statute of limitations is no defense to old age assistance liens which survive the repeal of sec. 49.26, Stats. (Unpub.). 75-1976
Tuition
The term "legal settlement" as used in sec. 121.77(1), Stats., is interpreted. 65-301
Welfare checks
The conclusion of 52 OAG 439 (1963), that welfare payment checks must not only be prepared but actually mailed by the County Treasurer, is still valid. 70-201
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Christmas pageant
The described Christmas pageant presented by the Madison Civic Music Association, Inc., in the Capitol does not involve governmental advancement or inhibition of religion or governmental entanglement with religion as contemplated and prohibited by Wis. Const. art. I, sec. 18. 67-180
Physically handicapped
While neither the United States Constitution nor the Wisconsin Constitution compels states to require that public buildings and seats of government be constructed and maintained as to be accessible to the physically handicapped, the Legislature has an affirmative duty to address this problem and assure equal access to all constituted classes of citizens, including the physically handicapped. 63-87
PUBLIC CONTRACT
See CONTRACTS
PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Administrative rules
The state public defender may be denied access to jail inmates who have not requested counsel, and jail authorities need only provide over the telephone that information necessary for the public defender to assess the need to make an indigency determination in person under section 977.07(1), Stats., for an inmate who has requested counsel and claims indigency. 78-133
Budget Bill for 1987
Section 16.49, Stats., does not prohibit or restrict an officer or employe from informing citizens of budget deliberations or suggesting that those citizens inform their elected officials of their opinions. 77-59
Civil forfeiture action
The State Public Defender has the authority to represent indigent material witnesses who are subject to the sec. 969.01(3), Stats., bail provisions so long as this does not create a conflict of interest with another client, but does not have the authority to represent an indigent in a civil forfeiture action unless that action is reasonably related to one for which the indigent is entitled to counsel. 72-61
County board
A county, acting through its county board, has the implied power to create a public defender's office to function as a county agency. 65-168
Implied Consent Law
The State Public Defender, under sec. 977.05(4)(h), Stats., may, if he deems it appropriate to do so, provide legal services to an indigent at a so-called "refusal hearing" conducted pursuant to sec. 343.305(8)(b)1. and 2., Stats., where such indigent, prior to such hearing, has been charged with a criminal offense or offenses based on the same situation as that giving rise to the indigent's refusal to provide a sample of his/her breath, blood or urine pursuant to sec. 343.305(2)(b), Stats. 71-16
Indigent
Power to appoint counsel for indigent defendant vested by sec. 970.02(6), Stats., in judge cannot be transferred without the consent of such judge to a nonstock, nonprofit corporation operating as a public defender's once absent specific legislation or rule promulgated by the Supreme Court. 62-132
The power to appoint counsel for an indigent defendant vested by sec. 970.02(6), Stats., in a judge cannot be transferred to a non-stock, nonprofit corporation operating as a public defender's office. 63-14
