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Wis. Stat. § 51.08 (2026)
Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex
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51.0851.08 Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex. Any county having a population of 750,000 or more may, pursuant to s. 46.17, establish and maintain a county mental health complex. The county mental health complex shall be a hospital devoted to the detention and care of drug addicts, alcoholics, chronic patients, and mentally ill persons whose mental illness is acute. Such hospital shall be governed pursuant to s. 46.21. Treatment of alcoholics and persons who are drug dependent at the county mental health complex is subject to approval by the department under s. 51.45 (8). The county mental health complex established pursuant to this section is subject to rules promulgated by the department concerning hospital standards. The county board may not sell the county mental health complex under this section without approval of the Milwaukee County mental health board.
51.08 HistoryHistory: 1971 c. 108 ss. 5, 6; 1971 c. 125 ss. 350 to 352, 523; 1971 c. 211; 1973 c. 90, 198; 1975 c. 41; 1975 c. 430 s. 15; Stats. 1975 s. 51.08; 1985 a. 332 s. 251 (1); 1987 a. 307; 2013 a. 203; 2017 a. 34; 2017 a. 207 s. 5.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1935–1998 · leading case: Milwaukee Cnty. v. LOUISE M., 555 N.W.2d 814 (Wis. 1996).
Milwaukee Cnty. v. LOUISE M., 555 N.W.2d 814 (Wis. 1996). “Wis. Stat. § 51.08 . 2 On January 11, 1995, the case was heard by a court commissioner who found probable cause to believe the allegations in the Emergency Detention statement.”
State Ex Rel. Racine Cnty. v. Schmidt, 97 N.W.2d 493 (Wis. 1959). “It is true that in the present situation complications may arise as noted by the trial court, because of the necessary continuity of the- accounting and taxing procedure, because of the inevitable lapse of time be *537 fore final determination, and because other counties would…”
Milwaukee Cnty. v. DELORES M., 577 N.W.2d 371 (Wis. Ct. App. 1998). “, permits it to "establish and maintain a county mental health complex," which "shall be a hospital devoted to the detention and care of drug addicts, alcoholics, chronic patients and mentally ill persons whose mental illness is acute," the facility created pursuant to this…”
Sprain v. State Bd. of Control, 263 N.W. 648 (Wis. 1935). “As to these the board seeks to recover only one half of the statutory expense rate as provided by sec. 51.08, Stats., and prior statutes, which statutory rate was $4.”
Milwaukee Cnty. v. State Dep't of Pub. Welfare, 45 N.W.2d 82 (Wis. 1950). “Milwaukee county contends that for the purpose of charging or apportioning the expense of maintenance of a patient under the provisions of sec. 51.08, Stats., the status or legal settlement of the patient must be determined under the statutes as they existed at the time of…”
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