24.56 Not to buy lands. The board, and all persons employed by it or about any of its respective offices, are prohibited from purchasing any of the public lands, directly or indirectly, either in their own name or in the name of any other person in trust for them or either of them; and for every tract or parcel of land purchased in violation hereof each such person offending shall forfeit not more than $250.
History: 1975 c. 365; 1979 c. 34 s. 699g; Stats. 1979 s. 24.56; 1993 a. 16.
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.