Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 254 - Environmental health.
254.154 - Local authority.

254.154 Local authority. This subchapter does not prohibit any city, village, town or other political subdivision from enacting and enforcing ordinances establishing a system of lead poisoning or lead exposure control that provides the same or higher standards than those set forth in this subchapter. Nothing in this subchapter may be interpreted or applied in any manner to impair the right of any person, entity, municipality or other political subdivision to sue for damages or equitable relief. Nothing in this subchapter may be interpreted or applied in any manner to impair the right of a municipality or other political subdivision to impose a penalty for or restrain the violation of an ordinance specified in this section.
History: 1979 c. 221; 1989 a. 31; 1993 a. 27 s. 436; Stats. 1993 s. 254.16; 1993 a. 450 s. 48; Stats. 1993 s. 254.154; 1999 a. 113.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 254 - Environmental health.

254.01 - Definitions.

254.015 - Departmental power; designation.

254.02 - Health risk assessments.

254.04 - Authority of department of safety and professional services.

254.05 - Joint employment.

254.11 - Definitions.

254.115 - Denial, nonrenewal and revocation of certification and permit based on delinquent taxes or unemployment insurance contributions.

254.12 - Use or sale of lead-bearing paints.

254.13 - Reporting requirements.

254.15 - Departmental duties.

254.151 - Lead poisoning or lead exposure prevention grants.

254.152 - Delegation to local health departments.

254.154 - Local authority.

254.156 - Definition of lead poisoning or lead exposure.

254.158 - Screening recommendations.

254.162 - Screening requirements.

254.164 - Care for children with lead poisoning or lead exposure.

254.166 - Response to reports of lead poisoning or lead exposure.

254.167 - Conduct of lead investigation.

254.168 - Lead investigations of facilities serving children under 6 years of age.

254.172 - Prevention and control of lead-bearing paint hazards in dwellings and premises.

254.174 - Technical advisory committees.

254.176 - Certification requirements.

254.178 - Accreditation of lead training courses and approval of lead instructors.

254.179 - Rules for dwellings and premises.

254.18 - Lead hazard reduction in dwellings and premises; renovations.

254.181 - Certificate of lead-free status and certificate of lead-safe status; fees and notification.

254.182 - Repayment to general fund.

254.19 - Asbestos testing fees.

254.20 - Asbestos abatement certification.

254.21 - Asbestos management.

254.22 - Indoor air quality.

254.30 - Enforcement; penalties.

254.31 - Definitions.

254.33 - Public policy.

254.335 - Agreements with the U.S. nuclear regulatory commission transition.

254.34 - Powers and duties.

254.35 - Registration of ionizing radiation installations.

254.365 - Licensing of radioactive material.

254.37 - Enforcement.

254.38 - Emergency authority.

254.39 - Exceptions.

254.41 - Radiation monitoring of nuclear power plants.

254.45 - Penalties.

254.46 - Beaches.

254.50 - Definition.

254.51 - Powers and duties.

254.52 - Lyme disease; treatment, information and research.

254.55 - Definitions.

254.56 - Public places.

254.57 - Smoke.

254.58 - Powers of villages, cities and towns.

254.59 - Human health hazards.

254.593 - Authority of the department and local health departments.

254.595 - Property violating codes or health orders.

254.911 - Definitions.

254.916 - Investigations.

254.92 - Purchase or possession of cigarettes or tobacco products by person under 18 prohibited.