46.17 County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection.
(1) The department shall fix reasonable standards and regulations for the design, construction, repair, and maintenance of county homes, county infirmaries, county hospitals, and mental health facilities, with respect to their adequacy and fitness for the needs which they are to serve.
(2) The selection and purchase of the site, and the plans, specifications and erection of buildings for such institutions shall be subject to the review and approval of the department. Department review shall include review of the proposed program to be carried out by the institution and the program's ability to meet the mental health service requirements of the county and the area it serves.
(3) Before any such building is occupied, and annually or oftener thereafter, the department shall inspect it with respect to safety, sanitation, adequacy and fitness, and report to the authorities conducting the institution any deficiency found, and order the necessary work to correct it or a new building. If within 6 months thereafter such work is not commenced, or not completed within a reasonable period thereafter, to the satisfaction of the department, it shall suspend the allowance of state aid for, and prohibit the use of such building until said order is complied with.
History: 1971 c. 125, 215; 1983 a. 254; 1989 a. 31; 2007 a. 20.
This section relates to construction and maintenance of buildings and provides no authority to the department applicable to the management of inmates under s. 46.16. 63 Atty. Gen. 267.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
46.014 - Secretary, powers and duties.
46.016 - Cooperation with federal government.
46.018 - Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures.
46.02 - Agency powers and duties.
46.028 - Electronic benefit transfer.
46.03 - Department, powers and duties.
46.031 - County social service and mental hygiene budget and contract.
46.034 - Authority to establish services integration and coordination pilot programs.
46.035 - Department, additional powers to provide structures, facilities and permanent improvements.
46.036 - Purchase of care and services.
46.041 - Children's consultation service; establishment; purposes.
46.042 - Treatment program for emotionally disturbed children.
46.043 - Additional services of mental health institutes.
46.044 - State psychiatric institute.
46.047 - State-operated residential facilities and support services.
46.048 - Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled.
46.055 - Secure mental health facility for sexually violent persons.
46.056 - Wisconsin Resource Center.
46.057 - Mendota juvenile treatment center.
46.058 - Bonds of employees; police powers; investigation of complaints.
46.06 - Lands; condemnation, easements, leases, sales, purchases.
46.064 - Client wages, allowances and release payments.
46.066 - Freedom of worship; religious ministration.
46.07 - Property of patients or residents.
46.09 - Purchases, bills, audits, payments.
46.14 - Reports of state institutions.
46.15 - Institutions subject to chapter 150.
46.16 - General supervision and inspection by department.
46.17 - County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection.
46.175 - County institutions: minimum standards.
46.18 - Trustees of county institutions.
46.19 - Officers and employees of county institutions.
46.20 - Joint county institutions.
46.205 - County home in adjoining county.
46.206 - Welfare services; supervisory functions of state department.
46.208 - Relief block grants; functions of state department.
46.21 - Institutions and department of human services in populous counties.
46.215 - County department of social services in populous counties.
46.22 - County social services.
46.225 - Indigency determinations.
46.23 - County department of human services.
46.234 - Recovery residences; registration.
46.245 - Information for certain pregnant women.
46.248 - Reach Out and Read Wisconsin grants.
46.269 - Determining financial eligibility for long-term care programs.
46.271 - Long-term support pilot projects.
46.272 - Children's community options program.
46.275 - Community integration program for residents of state centers.
46.277 - Community integration program for persons relocated or meeting reimbursable levels of care.
46.2785 - Community Opportunities and Recovery Program.
46.279 - Restrictions on placements and admissions to intermediate and nursing facilities.
46.28 - Revenue bonding for residential facilities.
46.2804 - Client management of managed care long-term care benefit.
46.2805 - Definitions; long-term care.
46.281 - Powers and duties of the department, secretary, and counties; long-term care.
46.284 - Care management organizations.
46.285 - Operation of resource center and care management organization.
46.2895 - Long-term care district.
46.2896 - Counting promissory notes as assets.
46.2897 - Self-directed services option.
46.2898 - Employment of individuals with disabilities; long-term care programs.
46.2899 - Services for the developmentally disabled who receive post-secondary education.
46.29 - Council on physical disabilities.
46.293 - Specialized programs for the blind and visually impaired.
46.295 - Interpreters for the hearing-impaired.
46.297 - Telecommunication aid for the hearing impaired.
46.298 - Vehicle sticker for the hearing impaired.
46.33 - Employee counseling referral programs.
46.34 - Emission standards for hazardous air contaminants.
46.37 - Certain water and sewerage service in Winnebago County.
46.40 - Community aids funding.
46.45 - Carry-over of community aids funds.
46.47 - Grants for nonnarcotic drug treatment in county jails.
46.48 - Grants for community programs.
46.482 - Coordination of care in substance use overdose.
46.485 - Mental health services for severely emotionally disturbed children.
46.49 - Allocation of federal funds for community aids.
46.495 - Distribution of community aids funds to counties.
46.50 - State mental health authority.
46.52 - Systems change grants.
46.53 - Mental health treatment provider training.
46.535 - Crisis intervention training grants.
46.536 - Crisis program enhancement grants.
46.54 - Consumer and family self-help and peer-support programs.
46.545 - Individual placement and support.
46.55 - Grants for services to persons in treatment.
46.56 - Initiatives to provide coordinated services for children and families.
46.57 - Grants for services to persons with epilepsy.
46.65 - Treatment alternative program.
46.70 - Delivery of services to American Indians.
46.71 - American Indian drug abuse prevention, treatment and education.
46.75 - Food distribution grants.
46.77 - Food distribution administration.
46.81 - Benefit specialist program.
46.85 - Programs for older individuals.
46.856 - Alzheimer's disease; training and information grants.
46.87 - Alzheimer's family and caregiver support program.
46.90 - Elder abuse reporting system.
46.94 - Referral system for community-based services.
46.96 - Independent living center grants; independent living services.
46.972 - Primary health for homeless individuals.
46.973 - Drug dependence program.
46.975 - Grant and funding program; services related to alcohol and other drug abuse.
46.986 - Respite care program.
46.99 - Medical assistance waiver for Birth to 3 participants.
46.995 - Disabled children's long-term support program; local funding.