The requirements of section 121.555(2)(a), (c)l., 2., 3. and 5. and (d), Stats., apply to all drivers transporting pupils other than only their own children to and from curricular and extracurricular activities, if such transportation has been provided by the school board. The requirements of section 121.555(2)(b) and (c)4. only apply if the vehicle used is owned or leased by a school or a school bus contractor or is operated by a school district employe. 75-146
Truancy
Parents who unilaterally remove a child from an exceptional educational needs placement violate the compulsory education statute. 79-105
Common Council of City of Milwaukee is without power under home rule provision of the Wisconsin Constitution or under its special charter and sec. 62.11(5), Stats., to adopt an anti-truancy ordinance. State has provided special procedures in secs. 118.15 and 118.16, Stats., and has designated the school district board as its agent to deal with matters of local concern in this area. 72-156
Tuition
Neither art. X, sec. 3, Wis. Const., nor any other constitutional provisions prohibits the charging of tuition for any course of instruction offered at a school in the system of vocational, technical and adult education operated pursuant to ch. 38, Stats. The charging of tuition at such schools, and the manner and extent whereby such charges are to be made, is a matter of policy which the Legislature is free to determine in the exercise of its legislative power under art. IV, sec. 1, Wis. Const. 64-24
Students who attend state vocational, technical and adult institutions are eligible for tuition grants under sec. 39.30, Stats. 66-182
Vocational school teachers
Discussion of the power of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to license vocational school teachers to teach public school students. 68-248
Vocational, technical and adult education
Neither art. X, sec. 3, Wis. Const., nor any other constitutional provisions prohibits the charging of tuition for any course of instruction offered at a school in the system of vocational, technical and adult education operated pursuant to ch. 38, Stats. The charging of tuition at such schools, and the manner and extent whereby such charges are to be made, is a matter of policy which the Legislature is free to determine in the exercise of its legislative power under art. IV, sec. 1, Wis. Const. 64-24
Section 38.08(1)(a), Stats., requires that a "school district administrator of a school district" appointed to a district board of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education have the qualifications specified in sec. 115.01(11), Stats. 70-256
Section 38.24(3)(b), Stats., making the district board of a student's district of residence liable for payment of nonresident fees when attending another district VTAE school is not a denial of equal protection. VTAE districts cannot enter into agreements with each other to waive the nonresident tuition provided for in sec. 38.24(3)(b), Stats. 69-139
Votes and voting
Decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court upholding weighted voting on school district fiscal boards remains in full force and effect notwithstanding subsequent developments in the law of one person, one vote. 69-14
SEARCH AND SEIZURE
See CRIMINAL LAW
SECRECY
See CONFIDENTIAL REPORTS; OPEN MEETING; PUBLIC RECORDS
SECRETARY OF STATE
Election campaign reports
Those provisions of state law relating to campaign financing which conflict with the federal Election Campaign Act are invalid. The Secretary of State must retain and make available for public inspection, not later than the end of the day of receipt, the federal election campaign reports and statements required to be filed with him. The Elections Board cannot be designated as the agent of the Secretary of State for purposes of compliance by this State with the federal law. (Unpub.). 24-1977
Lobbying Law
The Secretary of State may promulgate rules and forms to aid in the administration of the Lobbying Law. However, a substantial portion of the rules proposed on April 30, 1975, would be invalid if adopted since they exceed bounds of correct interpretation of the relevant statutes and impose substantive requirements in excess of statutory authority. 64-49
Uniform Commercial Code
Changes in the Uniform Commercial Code filing procedures brought about by the amendments to secs. 409.401(1)(c) and 409.403(1), Stats., by ch. 215, Laws of 1973, discussed. 63-439
SECURITY GUARDS
See POLICE
SECURITIES LAW
Investment Board, Wisconsin
Section 25.18(1)(i) and (j), Stats., which permits the State of Wisconsin In vestment Board to lend securities to dealers, is constitutional. (Unpub.). 120-1979
Margin account agreement
Section 138.05(1), Stats., operates to limit the interest rate which a securities broker-dealer may charge to a noncorporate customer under a margin account agreement; a choice-of-law provisions in margin account agreement will have the effect of avoiding the applicability of sec. 138.05(1)(a), Stats., to interest charges made under the agreement if and only if the agreement bears a "reasonable relation" to the state of the chosen law. 64-11
SENATE
Elections
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
Vacancy
A vacancy in the office of a state Senator is created under the provisions of art. XIII, sec. 3 and art. XIII, sec. 10, Wis. Const., as implemented by sec. 17.03(5), Stats., upon his conviction of and sentence for any felony punishable by imprisonment in state prison, and no further specific action is required by the state Senate to implement those provisions. 65-264
SENTENCES
See COURTS; CRIMINAL LAW; PRISONS AND PRISONERS
SEWAGE
See WASTE MANAGEMENT
SHARECROPPING
See LABOR
SHARED REVENUE
See APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES
SHELTER HOMES
See FOSTER HOMES
SHERIFFS
See also PUBLIC OFFICIALS; LAW ENFORCEMENT
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
County collective bargaining agreement providing for payment of employe contribution to Wisconsin Retirement System only for those deputy sheriffs under age fifty-five violates the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act. 72-91
Blood or breathalyzer tests for employes
A Sheriff's department may require an officer to take a breathalyzer or blood test if the officer appears to be under the influence of intoxicants or drugs when the officer reports for duty or is on duty. 73-104
Booking arrestees
A sheriff may not refuse to book a person lawfully arrested and brought to the county jail by any state law enforcement agency, regardless of the medical condition of the arrestee, although he may require immediate medical screening pursuant to section 53.38, Stats. A sentencing court that imposes county jail time as a condition of probation may suspend that jail time while the probationer receives hospital care, and a sheriff and county department of human services may cooperate in the billing of medical care provided to county jail prisoners. 77-249
Citizenship
Previous opinion at 65 OAG 273 (1976), to the effect that sec. 66.11 (1), Stats., is unconstitutional to the extent that it requires U.S. citizenship of police officers and deputy sheriffs is withdrawn in light of a United States Supreme Court decision with respect to a similar requirement in New York. 68-61
