321.04 Powers and duties of the adjutant general.

(1) The adjutant general or his or her designee shall do all of the following:

(a) Be the military chief of staff to the governor.

(b) Advise the governor on military issues and transmit military correspondence to and from the governor.

(c) Under orders from the governor, draw from the state treasury the money necessary for paying national guard members on state active duty.

(d) Provide necessary medical supplies and services to the national guard during periods of state active duty not otherwise provided under this chapter and ch. 102, to be charged to the appropriation under s. 20.465 (1) (c).

(e) Provide a United States flag or state flag to the next of kin of each deceased member of the national guard who dies during state active duty, to be charged to the appropriation under s. 20.465 (1) (c).

(f) Have control over all military property and military records and carefully preserve, repair, and account for the military property and records.

(g) Audit all military accounts and all accounts or claims payable from the treasury of the state for military purposes before payment.

(h) Keep an account of all moneys received and expended by the department.

(i) Administer, with the approval of the governor, state-federal cooperative funding agreements related to the department.

(j) Prepare the training of national guard members.

(k) Transport or contract for the transportation of national guard members and military property.

(L) Provide or contract for the provision of all necessary military property, lodging, and meals for members and units of the national guard, subject to s. 16.71 (1).

(m) Prepare and issue all necessary accounting books and forms for the national guard. All of the accounting books and forms shall conform as nearly as practicable to those in use in the U.S. army or air force.

(n) Cooperate with the federal government in the operation and maintenance of distance learning centers for the use of current and former members of the national guard and the U.S. armed forces. The adjutant general may charge rent for the use of a center by a nonmilitary or nonfederal person. All moneys received under this paragraph shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.465 (1) (i).

(o) Provide the department of veterans affairs information on all necessary military points of contact and general deployment information for activated and deployed members of the national guard.

(p) Perform the duties under s. 321.51 (2) (e).

(q) Perform the customary duties of his or her office.

(r) Assist national guard members who may have been exposed to depleted uranium in obtaining the best practice health screening test from the federal department of veterans affairs to test for exposure to depleted uranium using a bioassay procedure involving methods sufficiently sensitive to detect depleted uranium at low levels.

(2) The adjutant general or his or her designee may do any of the following:

(a) Make, publish, and have printed policies, regulations, and instructions for the governance of the national guard.

(b) Provide for all books and forms necessary for the proper discharge of the duty of all officers of the national guard.

(c) When any military property is wrongfully held by another person, bring an action in the name of the state to recover possession of the property or the money value of the property.

(d) Upon receipt of a meritorious request for a state flag and within the limits of the appropriation under s. 20.465 (1) (e), furnish a flag without charge to the person who requested it.

(e) Activate members of the national guard to serve on an honors detail of military funeral honors for a person described under s. 45.60 (1).

(f) Perform the duties under s. 321.51 (2) (b).

History: 2007 a. 200 ss. 41, 62 to 63, 67, 71 to 81m, 96, 100, 207 to 213; Stats. 2007 s. 321.04; 2015 a. 197 s. 51.