Wisconsin Statutes
Wis. Stat. § 16.55 (2026)
Frauds and uncollectible shortages
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16.5516.55 Frauds and uncollectible shortages. The head of each agency shall immediately provide to the secretary any information within his or her knowledge or evidence in his or her possession concerning any suspected fraudulent use of appropriations or embezzlement of moneys in the custody of the agency or any officer or employee thereof. The attorney general shall investigate and, on or before March 1 of each odd-numbered year, notify the department of the sums of money embezzled from the several state accounts during the prior 2 years indicating the amounts uncollected and uncollectible. The department shall cause a bill to be prepared appropriating from the several state funds the amounts necessary to liquidate the uncollectible shortages in state accounts caused by such embezzlement, and submit such bill to the joint committee on finance for introduction.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1981–2003 · leading case: Mount Horeb Cmty. Alert v. Vill. Bd. of Mt. Horeb, 2003 WI 100 (Wis. 2003).
Mount Horeb Cmty. Alert v. Vill. Bd. of Mt. Horeb, 2003 WI 100 (Wis. 2003). “McQuillin, The Law of Municipal Corporations § 16.55 (3rd ed.)). ¶ 22. We also noted in Heider that "action relating to subjects of permanent and general character are usually regarded as legislative, and those providing for subjects of temporary and special character are…”
State Ex Rel. Becker v. Common Council of the Milwaukee, 305 N.W.2d 178 (Wis. Ct. App. 1981). “McQuillin, The Law of Municipal Corporations §16.55 (3d ed. 1952). (Subsequent to the Heider case, in 1969, a revised volume 5 of MeQuillin’s treatise was published.”
Save Our Fire Dep't Paramedics Comm. v. City of Appleton, 389 N.W.2d 43 (Wis. Ct. App. 1986). “The legislative-administrative distinction is made because the conduct of government would be seriously hampered if initiative and referendum propositions were used to compel or bar administrative acts by elected officials. See 5 E.”
Wisconsin Term Limits v. League of Wisconsin Municipalities, 880 F. Supp. 1256 (E.D. Wis. 1994). “’ ” (quoting McQuillian, 5 Municipal Corporations § 16.55, at 254-56 (3rd ed.)). The court further defined a legislative proposition as one that makes new law or executes a law already in existence, as opposed to an administrative proposition which merely proposes a plan already…”
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