66.02165 Limitations on newly created incorporated village or city. For a 5-year period after incorporation under this subchapter, a newly incorporated city or village may not add or contract to add any remaining town territory of the town from
May 22, 2026, are designated by NOTES. (Published 5-22-26)
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which the newly incorporated city or village was created by use of consolidation, a boundary agreement, or annexation other than annexation by unanimous approval under s. 66.0217 (2), except that the city or village and town territory remaining after incorporation may consolidate as permitted under s. 66.0230. History: 2021 a. 198.
66.0217 Annexation initiated by electors and property owners. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) “Assessed value” means the value for general tax purposes as shown on the tax roll for the year next preceding the filing of any petition for annexation. (b) “Department” means the department of administration. (c) “Legal description” means a complete description of land to be annexed without internal references to any other document, and shall be described in one of the following ways: 1. By metes and bounds commencing at a monument at the section or quarter section corner or at the end of a boundary line of a recorded private claim or federal reservation in which the annexed land is located and in one of the following ways: a. By government lot. b. By recorded private claim. c. By quarter section, section, township and range. 2. If the land is located in a recorded and filed subdivision or in an area subject to a certified survey map, by reference as described in s. 236.28 or s. 236.34 (3). (d) “Owner” means the holder of record of an estate in possession in fee simple, or for life, in land or real property, or a vendee of record under a land contract for the sale of an estate in possession in fee simple or for life but does not include the vendor under a land contract. A tenant in common or joint tenant is an owner to the extent of his or her interest. (e) “Petition” includes the original petition and any counterpart of the original petition. (f) “Real property” means land and the improvements to the land. (g) “Scale map” means a map that accurately reflects the legal description of the property to be annexed and the boundary of the annexing city or village, and that includes a graphic scale on the face of the map. (2) DIRECT ANNEXATION BY UNANIMOUS APPROVAL. Except as provided in this subsection and sub. (14), and subject to ss.