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Wis. Stat. § 45.60

Military funeral honors

2005 a. 22, 25; 2007 a. 200; 2013 a. 20; 2015 a. 55; 2025 a. 138, 206; s. 13.92 (2) (i).

(1) PROGRAM.

(a) The department shall administer a program to coordinate the provision of military funeral honors in this state to all of the following: 1. Military personnel on active duty. 2. Former military members who served on active duty and were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable. 3. Members of the selective service. 4. Former members of the selected reserve and national guard who served at least one term of enlistment or period of initial obligated service and were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable. 5. Former members of the selected reserve or national guard who were discharged due to a service-connected disability or for a disability subsequently adjudicated to have been serviceconnected. 6. A person described under s. 45.01 (12) (k).

(b) Military funeral honors may be provided by local units of member organizations of the council, by local units of veterans organizations certified by the department to provide military funeral honors, by members of the Wisconsin national guard activated under s. 321.04 (2) (e), or by staff of the department.

(2) STIPENDS. From the appropriation under s. 20.485 (2) (sm), the department shall reimburse a local unit of a member organization of the council or a local unit of a veterans organization certified by the department to provide military funeral honors for the costs of providing military funeral honors in this state to a person described in sub. (1). The reimbursement may not exceed $100 for each funeral for which military honors are provided.

Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.