Wis. Stat. § 35.81
This is the official text of Wis. Stat. § 35.81, part of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Statutes — the complete compiled statutory law of Wisconsin, organized into numbered chapters by subject.
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Definitions.
Official statutory text
In ss. 35.81 to 35.91 :
(1) “Division” means the division for libraries and technology in the department of public instruction.
(1m) “Legislative service agency” has the meaning given under s. 16.70 (6) .
(2) “State agency” has the meaning given for “agency” in s. 13.172 (1) , and for purposes of ss. 35.81 to 35.835 includes a committee, as defined in s. 15.01 (3) , and a committee established by executive order under s. 14.019 , except that “state agency” does not include the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System or an institution, as defined in s. 36.05 (9) .
(3) “State document” includes every publication produced by a state agency in multiple copies or prepared for a state agency in multiple copies by a private individual or organization that is supported wholly or partly by any funds appropriated by this state, regardless of the format or process by which produced and regardless of the source of funds provided to the publisher, which is intended by the publisher to be disseminated or made accessible to the public or is required by law to be published, but does not include any publication of a state agency intended by the state agency to be used solely for internal purposes within the state agency or between that state agency and other state agencies and does not include the Wisconsin administrative code or the Wisconsin administrative register.
(4) “State document depository library” means a library designated under s. 35.82 .
History: 1991 a. 285 ; 1993 a. 335 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2001 a. 48 ; 2011 a. 158 ; 2013 a. 20 ; 2015 a. 55 .
(1) “Division” means the division for libraries and technology in the department of public instruction.
(1m) “Legislative service agency” has the meaning given under s. 16.70 (6) .
(2) “State agency” has the meaning given for “agency” in s. 13.172 (1) , and for purposes of ss. 35.81 to 35.835 includes a committee, as defined in s. 15.01 (3) , and a committee established by executive order under s. 14.019 , except that “state agency” does not include the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System or an institution, as defined in s. 36.05 (9) .
(3) “State document” includes every publication produced by a state agency in multiple copies or prepared for a state agency in multiple copies by a private individual or organization that is supported wholly or partly by any funds appropriated by this state, regardless of the format or process by which produced and regardless of the source of funds provided to the publisher, which is intended by the publisher to be disseminated or made accessible to the public or is required by law to be published, but does not include any publication of a state agency intended by the state agency to be used solely for internal purposes within the state agency or between that state agency and other state agencies and does not include the Wisconsin administrative code or the Wisconsin administrative register.
(4) “State document depository library” means a library designated under s. 35.82 .
History: 1991 a. 285 ; 1993 a. 335 ; 1995 a. 27 s. 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 ; 2001 a. 48 ; 2011 a. 158 ; 2013 a. 20 ; 2015 a. 55 .
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