24.03 Escheats. The board of commissioners of public lands shall, whenever it shall have reason to believe that any lands have escheated to the state for defect of heirs, cause due inquiry to be made to ascertain the rights of the state, and the attorney general shall bring any suit or action or take any requisite proceeding necessary to protect and secure the rights of the state. The board may either take possession of, or cause to be sued for and recovered as aforesaid when necessary, any real estate believed to have escheated to the state, or may proceed directly to sell all the right, title and interest of the state therein, without first obtaining possession thereof and without establishing title thereto by action.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 24 - Public domain and the trust funds.
24.01 - Definitions and classification.
24.02 - Addition to the public lands.
24.04 - Administrative receipts and disbursements.
24.07 - Sale of land with water power.
24.09 - Procedure before sale or exchange; withdrawal; resale.
24.12 - Forfeit for failure to pay.
24.14 - Rights of swampland purchasers.
24.145 - State-owned swamplands; proceeds; disposition.
24.16 - Applications for private sale.
24.17 - Receipt and certificate.
24.18 - Entry of sale and patent.
24.20 - Payments and accounts.
24.21 - Accounts with purchasers.
24.22 - Excessive payments to be refunded.
24.24 - Effect of certificate.
24.25 - Issuance and record of patent.
24.251 - Patents, issuance; county may record.
24.27 - Purchase money a loan.
24.30 - Liability of former purchaser.
24.31 - Advertisement and resale of forfeited lands.
24.32 - Resale and redemption.
24.33 - Resale may be canceled.
24.341 - Offset to refund on void sales.
24.35 - Annulment of certificates and patents.
24.355 - Limitation of actions.
24.36 - Lost certificates and patents.
24.39 - Leases of public lands.
24.40 - Easements; annexation.
24.53 - Investigate land claims; deduct expenses.
24.54 - Records; copies as evidence.
24.55 - Executive secretary; deputy; staff; appointments; duties; oath.
24.59 - Sale of public lands to state under Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship 2000 program.
24.605 - Accounts in trust funds for deposit of proceeds from sale of certain lands.
24.61 - Authorized investments and loans.
24.63 - Term, amount, interest rate.
24.64 - Reimbursements for certain administrative services.
24.65 - Date when interest and principal become due.
24.67 - Certificates of indebtedness.
24.68 - Payment of state trust fund loans.
24.69 - Sale of state trust fund loans.
24.70 - Collection from borrowers other than school districts.
24.71 - Collections from school districts.
24.715 - Collections from federated public library systems.
24.716 - Collections from drainage districts.
24.717 - Collections from local professional baseball park districts.
24.718 - Collections from local exposition districts.
24.74 - Duty of attorney general and revenue department.
24.75 - Interest, how accounted for.
24.77 - Common school fund income.