16.77 Audit of bills; illegal contracts; actions to recover.
(1) No bill or statement for work or labor performed under purchase orders or contracts issued by the secretary or the secretary's designated agents, and no bill or statement for supplies, materials, equipment or contractual services purchased for and delivered to any agency may be paid until the bill or statement is approved through a preaudit or postaudit process determined by the secretary. This subsection does not apply to purchases made directly by the courts, the legislature or a legislative service or judicial branch agency under s. 16.74.
(2) Whenever any officer or any subordinate of an officer contracts for the purchase of supplies, material, equipment or contractual services contrary to ss. 16.705 to 16.82 or the rules promulgated pursuant thereto, the contract is void, and any such officer or subordinate is liable for the cost thereof, and if such supply, material, equipment or contractual services so unlawfully purchased have been paid for out of public moneys, the amount thereof may be recovered in the name of the state in an action filed by the attorney general against the officer or subordinate and his or her bonders. Such cause of action is deemed to have arisen in Dane County, and summons shall be served therein as in civil actions.
History: 1979 c. 221; 1981 c. 20 s. 2202 (1) (c); 1985 a. 29; 1985 a. 332 s. 251 (5); 1987 a. 119; 1991 a. 39.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 16 - Department of administration.
16.001 - Organization of department.
16.003 - Department of administration.
16.004 - Secretary, powers and duties.
16.005 - Bradley Center Sports and Entertainment Corporation.
16.006 - Treatment of classified employees.
16.008 - Payment of special charges for extraordinary police service to state facilities.
16.009 - Board on aging and long-term care.
16.03 - Interagency council on homelessness.
16.04 - Fleet management and maintenance.
16.045 - Gasohol, alternative fuels,
16.047 - Volkswagen settlement funds.
16.05 - Interstate agreements.
16.06 - American Indian assistance.
16.10 - Ratification of the midwest interstate low-level radioactive waste compact.
16.11 - Midwest interstate low-level radioactive waste compact.
16.12 - Violation of midwest interstate low-level radioactive waste compact.
16.15 - Resource recovery and recycling program.
16.18 - Management assistance grants to certain counties.
16.22 - National and community service.
16.25 - Service award program.
16.26 - Weatherization assistance.
16.27 - Low-income energy assistance.
16.28 - Office of business development.
16.283 - Disabled veteran-owned businesses.
16.285 - Woman-owned businesses; certification; database.
16.295 - Fund of funds investment program.
16.297 - Grants for local government expenditures; moral obligation pledge.
16.298 - Pay for success contracting.
16.302 - State housing strategy plan.
16.303 - Housing cost grants and loans.
16.305 - Grants to local housing organizations.
16.307 - Grants to alleviate homelessness.
16.308 - Grants for the provision of shelter for homeless individuals and families.
16.3085 - Homeless case management services grants.
16.309 - Community development block grant programs.
16.310 - Use of surplus state-owned real property.
16.314 - Employability plans for public housing residents.
16.315 - Federal housing assistance programs.
16.40 - Department of administration, duties, powers.
16.405 - Requests for issuance of operating notes.
16.41 - Agency and authority accounting; information; aid.
16.415 - Certification of payrolls.
16.417 - Dual employment or retention.
16.423 - Base budget review reports.
16.425 - Summary of tax exemption devices.
16.45 - Budget message to legislature.
16.46 - Biennial budget, contents.
16.461 - Biennial budget, summary of funds.
16.465 - Budget stabilization fund reallocations.
16.48 - Unemployment reserve financial statement.
16.50 - Departmental estimates.
16.505 - Position authorization.
16.51 - Department of administration; preauditing and accounting; additional duties and powers.
16.513 - Program and segregated revenue sufficiency.
16.515 - Supplementation of program revenue and program revenue-service appropriations.
16.517 - Adjustments of program revenue positions and funding levels.
16.518 - Transfers to the budget stabilization fund.
16.5185 - Transfers to the transportation fund.
16.519 - Fund transfers relating to tobacco settlement agreement.
16.525 - State aid recipients' accounting.
16.527 - Appropriation obligations.
16.528 - Interest on late payments.
16.5285 - Health insurer fee savings.
16.529 - Lapses and fund transfers relating to unfunded retirement liability debt service.
16.531 - Cash flow plan; report.
16.54 - Acceptance of federal funds.
16.544 - Federal aid disallowances.
16.545 - Federal aid management service.
16.548 - Federal-state relations office; report.
16.55 - Frauds and uncollectible shortages.
16.56 - Grain inspection funding.
16.58 - Services to units of local government.
16.60 - Services to nonprofit corporations.
16.61 - Records of state offices and other public records.
16.611 - State public records; optical disc and electronic storage.
16.612 - Local government records; optical disc and electronic storage standards.
16.62 - Records management service.
16.63 - Sale of state's rights to tobacco settlement agreement payments.
16.643 - Support accounts for persons with disabilities.
16.70 - Purchasing; definitions.
16.701 - Subscription service and procurement system.
16.705 - Contractual services.
16.73 - Cooperative purchasing.
16.74 - Legislative and judicial branch purchasing.
16.75 - Buy on low bid, exceptions.
16.751 - Information technology purchases by investment board.
16.752 - Procurement from work centers for severely handicapped individuals.
16.754 - Preference for American-made materials.
16.755 - Council on small business, veteran-owned business and minority business opportunities.
16.76 - Form of contracts; continuing contracts.
16.765 - Nondiscriminatory contracts.
16.77 - Audit of bills; illegal contracts; actions to recover.
16.78 - Purchases from department relating to information technology or telecommunications.
16.79 - Duties of department of administration.
16.82 - Powers of department of administration.
16.83 - State capitol and executive residence board.
16.835 - Offices and rooms in capitol.
16.838 - Historically significant furnishings.
16.839 - State facilities named.
16.84 - Real estate and physical plant management; protection of persons.
16.842 - State capitol view preservation.
16.843 - Capitol and state office buildings parking regulations.
16.844 - Burning bituminous coal near capitol.
16.845 - Use of state facilities.
16.846 - Rules relating to use, care and preservation of property under department control.
16.847 - Energy efficiency program.
16.848 - Sale or lease of state property or facilities.
16.849 - Facility design services for state agencies.
16.85 - Department of administration; powers, duties.
16.851 - Plans for state buildings, structures or facilities.
16.8511 - Secretary of administration; powers, duties.
16.854 - Services provided to professional baseball park districts.
16.855 - Construction project contracts.
16.858 - Energy conservation audits and construction projects.
16.865 - Department of administration; statewide risk management coordination.
16.867 - Selection of architects and engineers.
16.87 - Approval of contracts by secretary and governor; audit.
16.88 - Charges against projects.
16.89 - Construction and services controlled by this chapter.
16.891 - Reports on cost of occupancy of state facilities.
16.895 - State-owned or operated heating, cooling or power plants.
16.897 - Space and water heating systems.
16.90 - Fuel for state heating, cooling or power plants.
16.92 - Purchase of fuel, electricity, heat and chilled water.
16.93 - Sale of fuel or utility service.
16.953 - Energy cost reduction plans.
16.956 - Diesel truck idling reduction grants.
16.957 - Low-income assistance.
16.958 - Air quality improvement program.
16.965 - Planning grants to local governmental units.
16.9651 - Transportation planning grants to local governmental units.
16.966 - Geographic information systems.
16.967 - Land information program.
16.968 - Groundwater survey and analysis.
16.9685 - Clean water clearinghouse.
16.969 - Fees for certain high-voltage transmission lines.
16.971 - Responsibilities of department.
16.972 - Powers of the department.
16.973 - Duties of the department.
16.974 - Powers of the department.
16.975 - Access to information.
16.976 - Strategic plans for executive branch agencies.
16.977 - Information technology portfolio management.
16.979 - Telecommunications operations and planning.
16.98 - Federal resource acquisition.
16.981 - Transfer of appropriations.
16.993 - Technology for educational achievement in Wisconsin; departmental duties.
16.9945 - Information technology block grants.
16.995 - Educational technology infrastructure financial assistance.