Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 66.0314

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Fire department: includes a department under…. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Following: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next following that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Municipality: includes cities and villages; it may be construed to include towns. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Town: may be construed to include cities, villages, wards or districts. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Village: means incorporated village. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
   (1)    In this section:
      (a)    “Emergency management program” means the emergency management program of a city, village, town, or county, under s. 323.14 (1).
      (b)    “Emergency medical services program” means a program established under s. 256.12.
      (c)    “Fire department” means any public organization engaged in fire fighting or a private sector employer fire company or fire department organized as a nonstock, nonprofit corporation under ch. 181 or ch. 213 without the input of a municipality.
      (d)    “Incident command system” means a functional management system established to control, direct, and manage the roles, responsibilities, and operations of all of the agencies involved in a multi-jurisdictional or multi-agency emergency response, which may include authorities designated by a participating tribe or band.
      (e)    “Local health department” has the meaning given in s. 250.01 (4), and also includes an entity designated by a participating tribe or band as a local health department.
      (fe)    “Tribe or band” means a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state.
   (2)   
      (a)    If the governor declares a state of emergency under s. 323.10, upon the request of a city, village, town, or county, or a person acting under an incident command system, the personnel of any emergency management program, emergency medical services program, fire department, or local health department may assist the requester within the requester’s jurisdiction, notwithstanding any other jurisdictional provision.
      (b)    If a request for assistance is made under par. (a), the governmental unit that receives the assistance is responsible for the personnel or equipment costs incurred by the responding agency to the extent that federal, state, and other 3rd-party reimbursement is available if all of the following apply:
         1.    The responding agency meets the personnel and equipment requirements in the state plan under s. 323.13 (1) (b).
         2.    The responding agency requests payment of those costs.

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