State Board of Control

46.01 Organization. (1) To secure the just, humane and economical administration of the laws concerning the charitable, curative, reformatory, and penal institutions of this state, there is hereby constituted a board of three members, one of whom shall be a woman, which shall be known as the "State Board of Control of Wisconsin." The board shall be a body corporate, and, in addition to the functions expressly authorized by law, shall have all powers necessary to the full and complete performance thereof. Such board shall have a seal, with the words "State Board of Control of Wisconsin," and such other design as the board may prescribe, engraved thereon, by which it shall authenticate its proceedings, and of which the courts shall take judicial notice.

(2) Immediately after the passage and publication of this act, the governor shall, by and with the consent of the senate, appoint such members, but no member so appointed shall be qualified to act until so confirmed. The term of the first appointee shall terminate on the first Monday of February, 1921; the term of the second such appointee shall terminate on the first Monday of February, 1923; and the term of the third such appointee shall terminate on the first Monday in February, 1925. In January, 1921, and biennially thereafter, there shall be appointed and confirmed in the same manner, one member for the term of six years from the first Monday in February of such year. Such member so appointed shall hold his office until his successor is elected

and qualified. Any vacancies shall be filled by appointment by the governor for the unexpired term, subject to confirmation by the senate, but any such appointment shall be in full force until acted upon by the senate. Each member shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars, and his actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duties.

(3) Each person who accepts such appointment shall take and file the official oath.

(4) Each member of said board shall devote his entire time and attention to the duties of his office.

(5) The governor may at any time remove any member for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. Before such removal, he shall give such member a copy of the charges against him, and shall fix a time and place when he can be heard in his own defense, which shall be not less than ten days thereafter, and such hearing shall be open to the public. If he shall be removed, the governor shall file in the office of the secretary of state a complete statement of all charges made against him, with a record of all proceedings, and his findings thereon.

(6) The members first appointed under this section shall, within ten days after their appointment and confirmation, meet at the capitol and organize by electing one of their members president, who shall serve until the second Monday in February, 1921. On the second Monday of February in each odd numbered year the members shall meet at the office of the board and elect one of their members president, who shall serve for two years, and until his successor is elected. A majority of said members shall constitute a quorum to transact business, and any vacancy shall not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the board.

(7) The board shall, at their first meeting, and at each biennial meeting thereafter, appoint a secretary, fix his compensation, and prescribe his duties. [Stats. 1917 s. 561, 561a subs. 1, 2, 3; 1919 c. 328 s. 5; 1919 c. 403.]

46.02 Supplies. Said board shall be provided with a room or rooms in the capitol as its office. The board shall be supplied with all necessary furniture, blanks, blank books and printing. It may subscribe for not more than two hundred copies, in any one year, of the proceedings of the national conference of charities and corrections, and may purchase books or periodicals for its library at a cost not to exceed one hundred dollars per annum. [Stats. 1917 s. 561b; 1919 c. 328 s. 6; 1919 c. 403.]

46.03 General functions of the board; religious ministration; occupational therapy. The said board shall: (1) Maintain and govern the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, the Northern Hospital for the Insane, the Central State Hospital for the Insane, the State Prison, and the State Prison farms, the Wisconsin State Reformatory, the Wisconsin Industrial Home for Women, the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls, the Wisconsin School for the Blind, the Wisconsin Institute for Blind Artisans, the Wisconsin School for the Deaf, the State Public School, the Wisconsin Home for the FeebleMinded, the Southern Wisconsin Home for the Feeble-Minded, the Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, the Northern State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, the State Tuberculosis Camp, and all other charitable, curative, reformatory, and penal institutions that may be established or maintained by the state.

(2) Supervise and direct the management and affairs and preserve and care for the buildings, grounds, and all other property pertaining to said institutions, and promote the objects for which they are established.

(3) Take and hold in trust, whenever the board may deem the acceptance thereof advantageous, all property, real or personal, transferred in any manner to the state to be applied to any specified purpose, use or benefit pertaining to any of said institutions or the inmates thereof, and apply the same in accordance with the trust.

(4) On or before July first in each year, make full and

complete inventories and appraisals of all the property of each such institution, which shall be recorded and so classified as to show separately the amount, kind, and value of such property.

(5) Make and cause to be printed regulations for its own government, the management of said institutions, and the accomplishment of the purposes for which they are established.

(6) Visit and inspect each of said institutions at least once in each month, either as a body or by some member or members, and ascertain whether the officers, teachers and employes therein are competent and faithful in the discharge of their duties, all inmates properly cared for and governed, all accounts, books and vouchers properly kept, and all the business affairs properly conducted.

(7) Establish and maintain a system and prescribe forms for keeping the books, accounts, and records, and for rendering reports of all said institutions, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable.

(8) At the close of each fiscal year, cause all the financial transactions and accounts of or relating to said several institutions to be thoroughly examined by an accountant, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 15 of the statutes; and said accountant shall submit a full and detailed report of such examination to the governor as soon as practicable.

(9) All persons committed to any reform school, prison, parental school, industrial school, home for dependent children or other place of confinement or commitment, shall be allowed spiritual advice and ministration from any recognized clergyman of the denomination or church to which they may respectively belong or did belong prior to their commitment or confinement, which advice and ministration shall be given within the place of confinement in such manner as will secure to such persons the free exercise of their religious belief and under such reasonable rules and regulations as the officers in charge of such place shall prescribe.

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