The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents' proposed action to raise by one percent the pay range minima and maxima of the academic staff for the 1991-1992 fiscal year requires prior approval by the Secretary of the Department of Employment Relations. 80-138
Prayer before football games
University of Wisconsin athletes may not engage in voluntary prayer led by a coach prior to an athletic event, although silent meditation or prayer organized by athletes may be undertaken within certain guidelines. 75-81
Private interest in public contracts
Section 946.13, Stats., prohibiting private interest in public contracts may impose criminal liability upon the University of Wisconsin employes who in their private capacities deal contractually with the State of Wisconsin to provide services and equipment. (Unpub.). 64-1977
Public records
Where University has obtained ethnic or racial information about its employes under a necessary pledge of confidentiality, it need not divulge such information to a Senate committee where the committee has refused to issue a subpoena requested by the chairman and the needs of the committee can apparently be satisfied without such disclosure. (Unpub.). 79-1977
Religion
University of Wisconsin athletes may not engage in voluntary prayer led by a coach prior to an athletic event, although silent meditation or prayer organized by athletes may be undertaken within certain guidelines. 75-81
Leasing of University buildings to a religious congregation during nonschool days and hours on a temporary basis while the congregation's existing facility is being renovated and leasing convention space to a church conference would not violate separation of church and state provisions of the First Amendment to United States Constitution and art. I, sec. 187 of the Wisconsin Constitution. 63-374
Residence halls
The provisions of section 968.075, Stats., apply to roommates living in university residence halls, whether privately or state owned. If the criteria requiring arrest under section 968.075(2) exist, the law enforcement officer must make a custodial arrest. 79-109
Retirement systems
The University must bear the full cost of the early retirement payment required by ch. 388, Laws of 1981. (Unpub.). 42-1983
Salaries and wages
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents' proposed action to raise by one percent the pay range minima and maxima of the academic staff for the 1991-1992 fiscal year requires prior approval by the Secretary of the Department of Employment Relations. 80-138
Stevens Point
Expenses incurred by city in converting street to mall may be assessed against State as abutter and paid if approved by Board of Commissioners of Public Lands. (Unpub.). 45-1975
Student loan
Student loan funds established by gift under sec. 36.065, Stats., for the benefit of students are trust funds. 62-109
Student records
Section 13.94, Stats., contains authority for the State Auditor to secure certain information from student records for the purpose of auditing full time equivalency reports submitted by the University of Wisconsin. (Unpub.). 84-1978
Taxation
Land owned by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation, Inc., is not owned by the State and is not exempt from taxation under sec. 70.11(1), Stats. (Unpub.). 40-1979
Trust funds
University cannot accept trust funds which are for unlawful purpose and expenditure of trust funds must comply with special and general laws. 62-4
USURY
Commitment fees
Commitment fees which are bona fide in nature are not a part of interest under sec. 138.05, Stats., although across the board fees imposed without regard for the customer's need or desire for a bona fide commitment are unlikely to meet the lender's burden of showing that the fee represents the reasonable value of services rendered. 69-28
UTILlTlES
See PUBLIC UTILITIES
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VACANCIES
See PUBLIC OFFICIALS
VACCINATION
See PUBLIC HEALTH
VENUE
Changing venue to save costs not allowed
Section 48.185, Stats., does not authorize a change of venue, upon motion of a party or upon stipulation of the parties, after adjudication but before the first disposition hearing, in a juvenile delinquency proceeding. 75-100
Juvenile delinquency cases
Section 48.185, Stats., does not authorize a change of venue, upon motion of a party or upon stipulation of the parties, after adjudication but before the first disposition hearing, in a juvenile delinquency proceeding. 75-100
State resident juveniles
Wisconsin courts have jurisdiction under ch. 48, Stats., over state resident juveniles alleged to be delinquent because they violated another state's criminal laws. 70-143
VETERANS
Confidential records
Under current law the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs to release veterans loan status information to lenders and credit reporting agencies is very limited. 77-49
County Veterans Service Commission, appointment to
Persons appointed by County Executive and confirmed by County Board to County Veterans Service Commission, single county 51.42 Board or County institutions Board serve for statutory term as stated in years and until their successors are appointed, confirmed and qualified. Persons appointed to vacancies in such positions also serve until their successors are appointed, confirmed and qualified. Difference between personal term of officer and statutory term which pertains to office discussed. 73-99
Derivative membership
Those provisions of sec. 45.37, Stats., which limit derivative membership in the Wisconsin Veterans Home of otherwise eligible spouses and surviving spouses to spouses of male veterans and which limit the derivative membership of otherwise eligible parents of veterans to mothers are violative of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution because there is no rational relationship between the sex of the otherwise eligible spouse or parent of the veteran and the state objectives sought to be advanced by sec. 45.37, Stats. 64-69
Equal Protection Clause
Those provisions of sec. 45.37, Stats., which limit derivative membership in the Wisconsin Veterans Home of otherwise eligible spouses and surviving spouses to spouses of male veterans and which limit the derivative membership of otherwise eligible parents of veterans to mothers are violative of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution because there is no rational relationship between the sex of the otherwise eligible spouse or parent of the veteran and the state objectives sought to be advanced by sec. 45.37, Stats. 64-69
Home improvement loans
The recent amendment to sec. 45.80(2)(c), Stats., exempts a weatherization improvement loan supplement from the "maximum primary financing" requirement only in the case of a home purchase loan. Home improvement loans made under sec. 45.76(2)(a), Stats., are therefore not exempt from such requirement. (Unpub.). 52-1980
Liability
A county veterans' service officer does not have the duty under ch. 45, Stats., to transport disabled veterans to a veterans' hospital when such transportation is not readily available unless authorized by his county. The county would be liable to the injured veteran in an automobile accident while being transported by the veterans' service officer if the officer were authorized and performing within the scope of his employment. If he were authorized and an accident occurred, sec. 895.43(3), Stats., limits the recovery to $25,000. 67-207
Loans
The Federal Equal Opportunity Act does not apply to the Wisconsin Veterans Loan Program under ch. 45, Stats., since the latter is an assistance program authorized by law for an economically disadvantaged class. 68-101
The interest to be set by the Board of Veterans Affairs on loans funded from prepayments on loans funded with general obligation bonds under sec. 45.79(4)(a), Stats., as amended by ch. 155, Laws of 1979, is the rate charged on loans under the most recent general obligation bond issue. (Unpub.). 26-1980
