STATE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Chiropractic services
Chapter 147, Laws of 1973, amended the State Medical Assistance Program to provide for payment for chiropractic services, including necessary x-rays. Such payment is authorized regardless of whether there are matching federal funds. (Unpub.). 2-1975
STATE OFFICE BUILDING
Parking
It is possible for the State to lease one of its parking facilities to an independent contractor upon a finding that an independent contractor can perform the service of operating and maintaining the parking facility more economically or more efficiently than the civil service system. 62-183
Protective services
Department of Administration has authority to provide protective services in leased buildings. (Unpub.). 84-1976
Restaurant
Subject to certain limitations, the lease of state office building space to a restaurant or other commercial enterprise serving both state employes and the general public is constitutionally permissible. Such leases do not require competitive bidding. 69-121
STATE PARKS
Fees
Fees collected by the Department of Natural Resources for admissions to state parks and forests are subject to sales taxation under sec. 77.52(2)(a)2., Stats. 66-205
Prospecting on state park and forest lands
Department of Natural Resources may grant contracts for mining beneath beds of navigable lakes and waters and licenses for prospecting on state park and forest lands, but it may not grant leases for mining purposes on state park and forest lands. (Unpub.). 58-1976
STATE PATROL
Posse comitatus
A state traffic patrol officer should not except in extreme emergencies be impressed for service as part of a posse comitatus pursuant to sec. 59.24(1), Stats. Where duly impressed he is entitled to workmen's compensation, if injured, from the county or municipality but would not be entitled to regular pay from the State and probably would not be entitled to workmen's compensation from the State. 62-38
Prison riot
Upon appropriate call, state traffic patrol officers may act as peace officers during a prison riot or other disturbance even when this occurs during a strike of prison guards; they may not, however, perform other duties of guards. 68-104
STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER
See PUBLIC DEFENDERS
STATE SEAL
Private detectives
Section RL 3.24 Wis. Adm. Code prohibits use of any badge by those engaged in private detective activity. Non-misleading private use by those not engaged in private detective activity not prohibited by statute. 68-169
STATE STREET MALL-CAPITOL CONCOURSE
Assessments
State property is not subject to assessment of special charges under sec. 66.60(16), Stats., for maintenance of State Street Mall-Capitol Concourse project as proposed by the City of Madison. Section 66.64, Stats., is limited to special assessments for improvements. 69-269
STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
See UNIVERSITY
STATISTICS
See also LEGISLATION; VITAL STATISTICS
Prisons and prisoners
Department of Health and Social Services has power to compel cooperation of county and local officers in obtaining jail information. Sec. 46.16, Stats. 67-242
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
Old age assistance lien
Statute of limitations is no defense to old age assistance liens which survive the repeal of sec. 49.26, Stats. (Unpub.). 75-1976
STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE INDIANS
See also INDIANS
Fish and game
The Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Tribe has the exclusive right to hunt and fish on tribal lands and has the right to regulate such activities by both Indian and non-Indian persons upon such lands. Current and former Stockbridge Munsee Reservation boundaries discussed. 69-72
STREAMS
See also NAVIGABLE WATERS
Criminal law
In order to obtain a conviction for violating sec. 30.195, Stats., the State must show that the defendant changed the course of a navigable stream and that no permit to change the stream's course had been granted to the defendant. The State need not show that the changed portion of the stream was navigable, nor a specific intent to change the stream's course. 67-265
STREET IMPROVEMENT
See APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES; HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES; MUNICIPALITIES
STUDENTS
See also EDUCATION
Bus riding privileges
Students may have bus riding privileges suspended without being suspended or expelled from school. However, both public and private school students must be afforded due process as provided by sec. 120.13(1), Stats., before such suspension can take place. 63-526
Confidential reports
A school cannot use confidential information obtained from law enforcement authorities to require students, under threat of expulsion, to participate in group or individual counseling, nor can the school use such information to suspend or expel students. The school can use such confidential information to refer a student to county social welfare agencies or nongovernmental self-help groups, but only if the student consents to such referral. 76-134
Elections
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. 65-261
Higher Educational Aids Board
The Wisconsin Higher Education Corporation may provide administrative services to lenders, charge a reasonable fee, and may transfer any excess funds it receives from such fees to the appropriations of the Higher Educational Aids Board or the State. (Unpub.). 3-1977
