[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Pierce County by
Ord. No. 85-2. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Any person who does any of the following acts shall be subject to the provisions specified in § 158-5 of this chapter:
A.
With intent to secure public assistance for him/herself
or for some other person, willfully makes any false representation.
B.
Willfully does any act designed to interfere with the
proper administration of public assistance.
C.
A dependent person who sells or exchanges supplies or
articles furnished him or her as assistance or who disposes of such supplies
or articles in any other way than as directed, with intent thereby to defraud
the county, and/or any person who purchases any article knowing
it to have been furnished to another person as assistance.
D.
Without legal authority, sends, brings, causes to be
sent or brought or advises any dependent person to go to the county for the
purpose of making him or her a charge upon the county.
E.
A person in charge of public assistance or any of his
assistants who receives or solicits any commission or derives or seeks to
obtain any personal financial gain through any purchase, sale, disbursement
or contract for supplies or other property used in the administration of public
assistance.
F.
A person originally eligible for assistance who receives
any income or assets, or both, thereafter which render that person ineligible
for such assistance and fails to notify the officer or agency granting such
assistance of the receipt of such assets within 10 days after such receipt
and continues to receive aid.
G.
A dependent person who uses money, checks, vouchers or
any other thing of value furnished him/her as relief for purposes other than
as directed by the county.
H.
Who obtains for him/herself, or any other person or dependents
or both, assistance under Chapter 49, Wis. Stats., on the basis of facts stated
to authorities charged with the responsibility of furnishing assistance and
fails to notify said authorities within 10 days of any change in the facts
as originally stated which would affect the eligibility of that person for
assistance and continues to receive assistance based on the original stated
facts.
I.
Who accepts a relief voucher granted as relief and fails
to tender the commodities authorized by the relief authority to the relief
recipient but in lieu thereof refunds to the relief recipient cash or substitutes
any alcohol beverages or cigarettes not authorized by the relief voucher.
Public assistance includes assistance obtained through the food stamp
program.
Any person who makes any statement in a written application for aid
under Chapter 49, Wis. Stats., shall be considered to have made an admission
as to the existence, corrections or validity of any fact stated, which shall
be taken as prima facie evidence against the party making it in any action
brought for the enforcement of any provision of this chapter.
Any future amendments, revisions or modifications of § 49.95,
Wis. Stats., incorporated herein, are intended to be made part of this chapter
as such amendments, revisions or modifications are made to said statute.
Any person who violates any provision of § 158-1 of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to a forfeiture not to exceed $500, together with costs of prosecution and penalty assessment, and in default of payment of such forfeiture and costs shall be subject to imprisonment in the county jail until such forfeiture and costs are paid, but not to exceed 30 days.
