Wisconsin § 46.035 - Department, additional powers to provide structures, facilities and permanent improvements.

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§ 46.035. Department, additional powers to provide structures, facilities and permanent improvements.

46.035(1) (1) As used in this section unless the context requires otherwise: 46.035(1)(a) (a) The term “existing building” in relation to any conveyance, lease or sublease made under sub. (2) (a) , (b) , and (c) means all detention, treatment, administrative, recreational, infirmary, hospital, vocational and academic buildings; all dormitories and cottages; all storage facilities, heating plants, sewage disposal plants, and such other buildings, structures, facilities and permanent improvements as in the judgment of the secretary are needed or useful for the purposes of the department, and all equipment therefor and all improvements and additions thereto which were erected, constructed or installed prior to the making of such conveyance, lease or sublease. 46.035(1)(b) (b) The term “new building” in relation to any conveyance, lease or sublease made under sub. (2) (a) , (b) , and (c) means all detention, treatment, administrative, recreational, infirmary, hospital, vocational and academic buildings; all dormitories and cottages; all storage facilities, heating plants, sewage disposal plants, and such other buildings, structures, facilities and permanent improvements as in the judgment of the secretary are needed or useful for the purposes of the department, and all equipment therefor and all improvements and additions thereto which are erected, constructed or installed after the making of such conveyance, lease or sublease. 46.035(1)(c) (c) The term “nonprofit corporation” means a nonstock corporation that is organized under ch. 181 and that is a nonprofit corporation, as defined in s. 181.0103 (17) . 46.035(2) (2) In order to provide new buildings and to enable the construction and financing thereof, to refinance indebtedness hereafter created by a nonprofit corporation for the purpose of providing a new building or buildings or additions or improvements thereto which are located on land owned by, or owned by the state and held for, the department or on lands of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the department or by the nonprofit corporation, or for any one or more of said purposes, but for no other purpose unless authorized by law, the department has, subject to s.

Source: official Wisconsin text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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