Chapter 229 — PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

229.11 First class city museums. Any city of the 1st class however incorporated may establish and maintain, for the free use of the inhabitants thereof, a public museum for the exhibition of objects in natural history, anthropology and history, either the several or any one of th…

229.12 Board of trustees, composition. (1) The public museum shall be administered by a board of 10 trustees, consisting of: (a) The president of the board of school directors and the city superintendent of schools. (b) Seven members who shall be appointed by the mayor on the 3rd…

229.13 Board of trustees; annual meeting and general functions. (1) The annual meeting of the board of trustees of the public museum shall be held on the 3rd Tuesday of May in each year, at which meeting a president shall be chosen annually from their number. (2) The board shall …

229.14 Director and employees; curators. (1) At its first meeting the board of trustees shall elect by ballot a person of suitable learning, scientific attainments, ability and experience for director of the public museum. The director shall be selected in accordance with and sha…

229.15 Museum funds; expenditures. (1) Public museum funds appropriated to the museum by the common council shall not be used or appropriated, directly or indirectly, for any purpose other than the maintenance and increase, payment of the salaries of the employees, purchase of fu…

229.16 Donations and miscellaneous receipts. (1) All moneys, books, specimens and other property received by devise, bequest or gift for the purposes of the public museum shall, unless otherwise directed by the donor, be under the management and control of the board of trustees o…

229.17 Site, buildings and equipment. The board of trustees of the public museum shall erect, purchase, hire or lease buildings, lots, rooms and furniture for the use and accommodation of the public museum, and shall enlarge, improve and repair such buildings, rooms and furniture…

229.18 Accountability; reports. (1) Within 10 days after the appointment of a director or custodian or other salaried employees, the board of trustees of the museum shall report to and file with the city comptroller a certified list of the persons so appointed, stating the salary…

229.19 Applicability of sections 229.11 to 229.18. Sections 229.11 to 229.18 so far as they relate to museums are extended to cities of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th class. History: 1971 c. 152 ss. 17, 38.

229.21 First class city auditoriums and music halls. (1) Any city of the 1st class may establish and maintain public auditoriums and music halls; and may establish, maintain and operate the same jointly, share and share alike, by agreement between the common council of such city …

229.22 Auditorium board. (1) The building, maintenance and operation of the institution shall be under the full and complete control of a board of 13 members, designated as the “Auditorium Board” and constituted as follows: Five of the members shall be elected by the corporation,…

229.23 Property and finance. (1) The title to all property acquired for the purposes of said institution shall be in the name of said city, and shall be held by said city perpetually for such purposes. (2) Before incurring any liability, the auditorium board shall by resolution d…

229.24 Operation. (1) The auditorium board shall regulate and control the use of said institution, and fix the terms and conditions of its use; and shall do all things necessary for the maintenance and operation thereof. (2) Said institution shall be used primarily for public mee…

229.25 Annual report. The auditorium board shall report annually to the common council all receipts into and disbursements from the auditorium fund, and the balance on hand. History: 1971 c. 152 s. 29; Stats. 1971 s. 229.25.

229.26 Exposition center. (1) Any city of the 1st class may in addition to all other powers conferred upon it establish and maintain a convention complex and exposition center, hereinafter termed “convention institution”, for the purpose of holding conventions, public meetings, e…

229.27 Municipal theater. (1) Any city of the 1st class may, in addition to all other powers conferred upon it, establish and maintain a municipal theater hereinafter termed “theater”, for the purpose of providing a community facility to further the advancement of the performing …

229.40 Legislative declaration. (1) The legislature finds and determines that the provision of assistance by state agencies, in conjunction with local units of government, to a district under this subchapter and any expenditure of funds to assist a district under this subchapter …

229.41 Definitions. In this subchapter: (2) “Board of directors” means the board of directors of a district. (3) “Bond” means any bond, note or other obligation of a district issued under this subchapter. (3m) “Bond resolution” means a resolution of the board of directors authori…

229.42 Creation and organization. (1) A sponsoring municipality may create a special purpose district that is a unit of government, that is a body corporate and politic, that is separate and distinct from, and independent of, the state and the sponsoring municipality, and that ha…

229.43 Jurisdiction. A district’s jurisdiction is the sponsoring municipality’s geographical area, except that, if the sponsoring municipality is a 1st class city, the district’s jurisdiction is that city and each city and village that is wholly or partly contained within the mos…

229.435 Certification of board members. Within 30 days following the expiration of terms as described in s. 229.42 Updated 23-24 Wis. Stats. 8 (4e) (a), and upon the secretary of administration issuing the certification described in s. 229.42 (4e) (d), each person who may appoint…

229.44 Powers of a district. A district has all of the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this subchapter. In addition to all other powers granted by this subchapter, a district may do any of the following: (1) Adopt and alter an official s…

229.445 Ticket surcharge. The board of directors shall require the sponsor of an event held at a sports and entertainment arena to impose a $2 surcharge on each ticket that is sold to the event. The event sponsor shall forward to the board of directors any surcharges collected un…

229.45 Powers granted to sponsoring municipality. In addition to any powers that it may otherwise have, a sponsoring municipality may do any of the following: (1) Make grants or loans to a district upon terms that the sponsoring municipality considers appropriate. (2) Expend publ…

229.46 Certain contracting requirements. (1) In this section: (ag) “Disabled veteran-owned business” means a business certified by the department of administration under s. 16.283 (3). PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS 229.46 (am) “Minority business” has the meaning given in s. 200.49 (1) (a).…

229.461 Development agreement, non-relocation agreement, lease. (1) A district shall enter into a development agreement with a professional basketball team or its affiliate to require the professional basketball team or affiliate to develop and construct sports and entertainment …

229.47 (1) with a district that has jurisdiction over the territory in which the convention institution is located. Updated 23-24 Wis. Stats. 4 (5) The common council of such city may appropriate such sums as may be required to supplement revenues of the convention institution in…

229.477 Dissolution of a district. Subject to providing for the payment of its bonds, including interest on the bonds, and the performance of its other contractual obligations, a district may be dissolved by the joint action of the district’s board of directors and sponsoring mun…

229.48 Issuance of bonds. (1) A district may issue bonds for costs and purposes that are related to an exposition center or an exposition center facility or sports and entertainment arena or sports and entertainment arena facilities, including all of the following: (a) Costs of a…

229.49 Bond security. A district may secure bonds by a May 22, 2026, are designated by NOTES. (Published 5-22-26) 13 Updated 23-24 Wis. Stats. trust agreement, trust indenture, indenture of mortgage or deed of trust by and between the district and one or more corporate trustees. …

229.52 Bonds not public debt. (1) The state and a sponsoring municipality are not liable on bonds and the bonds are not a debt of the state or a sponsoring municipality. All bonds shall contain a statement to this effect on the face of the bond. A bond issue does not, directly or…

229.53 State pledge. The state pledges to and agrees with the bondholders, and persons that enter into contracts with a district under this subchapter, that the state will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in a district by this subchapter, including the rights and p…

229.54 Responsibility to sports and entertainment arena facilities. (1) Neither the state, a sponsoring municipality, nor the most populous county in which the sponsoring municipality is located is responsible for equipping, maintaining, operating, improving, and repairing sports…

229.55 Trust funds. All moneys received under this subchapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or from any other source, are trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this subchapter. Any officer with whom, or any bank or trust company with which, those …

229.56 Funding and refunding bonds. (1) A district may issue bonds to fund or refund any outstanding bond, including the payment of any redemption premium on the outstanding bond and any interest accrued or to accrue to the earliest or any subsequent date of redemption, purchase …

229.57 Budgets; rates and charges; audit. A district shall adopt a calendar year as its fiscal year for accounting purposes. The board of directors shall annually prepare a budget for the district. Rates and other charges received by the district shall be used for the general exp…

229.64 Legislative declaration. The legislature determines that the provision of assistance by state agencies to a district under this subchapter and any appropriation or grant of funds to a district serve a statewide public purpose by assisting the development, construction, imp…

229.65 Definitions. In this subchapter: (1) “Baseball park facilities” means property, tangible or intangible, owned in whole or in substantial part, operated or leased by a district that is principally for the support or performance of professional baseball operations including …

229.66 Creation and organization. (1) There is created, for each jurisdiction under s. 229.67, a special district that is a local governmental unit, that is a body corporate and politic, that is separate and distinct from, and independent of, the state, that has the powers under …

229.67 Jurisdiction. A district’s jurisdiction is any county with a population of more than 750,000 that is the site of baseball park facilities that are home to a professional baseball team. A district’s jurisdiction is fixed even if the population of the county decreases below …

229.68 Powers of a district. A district has all of the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this subchapter. The district may not incur costs or any obligations for signage related to a change in naming rights for the baseball park facilities…

229.6802 Lease and nonrelocation agreements required.

229.6805 Facility management. 229.682 Special provisions. 229.685 Special fund tax revenues. 229.687 Baseball park facilities improvement segregated fund. SUBCHAPTER I POPULOUS CITIES

229.682 Special provisions. (1) GIFTS AND DONATIONS. The district board shall explore and consider ways to solicit and encourage gifts and donations for the development, construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of baseball park facilities and, to the extent feasible, im…

229.685 Special fund tax revenues. (1) The district board shall maintain a special fund into which it deposits only the revenue received from the department of revenue, that is derived from the taxes imposed under subch. V of ch. 77, 2021 stats., and may use this revenue only for…

229.687 Baseball park facilities improvement segregated fund. (1) The district shall establish and maintain a baseball park facilities improvement segregated fund. The fund shall consist of all of the following: (a) Moneys borrowed or accepted and deposited under s. 229.68 (8m). …

229.69 Powers granted to a city or a county in a district. In addition to any powers that it may otherwise have, a city or a county within a district’s jurisdiction may do any of the following: (1) Make grants or loans to a district upon terms that the city or county considers ap…

229.695 County obligations. Beginning in 2024, annually, no later than July 1, a county within a district’s jurisdiction shall deposit $2,500,000 into the baseball park facilities improvement segregated fund under s. 229.687. This section does not apply after December 31, 2050, o…

229.70 Minority contracting goals; disabled veteranowned business contracting goals. (1) In this section: (ag) “Disabled veteran-owned business” means a business certified by the department of administration under s. 16.283 (3). (am) “Minority business” has the meaning given in s…