Chapter 66, GENERAL MUNICIPALITY LAW

66.0503 Combination of municipal offices. (1) The office of county supervisor may be consolidated by charter ordinance under s. 66.0101: (a) With the office of village president in any village which has boundaries coterminous with the boundaries of any supervisory district establ…

66.0504 Address confidentiality program. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Actual address” has the meaning given in s. 165.68 (1) (b). (b) “Local clerk” means an individual, and an individual’s deputy or assistant, who serves as one of the following: 1. A county clerk under …

66.0505 Compensation of governing bodies. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Elective officer” means a member or member-elect of the governing body of a political subdivision. (b) “Political subdivision” means any city, village, town, or county. (2) ESTABLISHMENT OF SALARY. A…

66.0506 Referendum; increase in employee wages. (1) In this section, “local governmental unit” means any city, village, town, county, metropolitan sewerage district, long-term care district, local cultural arts district under subch. V of ch. 229, or any other political subdivisio…

66.0507 Automatic salary schedules. Whenever the governing body of any city, village, or town enacts by ordinance a salary schedule for some or all employees and officers of the city, village or town, other than members of the city council or village or town board, the salary sch…

66.0508 Collective bargaining. (1) In this section, “local governmental unit” has the meaning given in s. 66.0506 (1). (1m) Except as provided under subch. IV of ch. 111, no local governmental unit may collectively bargain with its employees. (2) If a local governmental unit has …

66.0509 Civil service system; veterans preference. (1) Any city or village may proceed under s. 61.34 (1), 62.11 (5) or 66.0101 to establish a civil service system of selection, tenure and status, and the system may be made applicable to all municipal personnel except the chief e…

66.0510 Benefits to officers, employees, agents. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Employee benefit plan” means a plan as defined in 29 USC 1002 (3). (b) “Local governmental unit” has the definition given in s. 66.0131 (1) (a). (2) BENEFITS. If a local governmental unit prov…

66.0511 Law enforcement agencies; certain policies. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Choke hold” means the intentional and prolonged application of force to the throat, windpipe, or carotid arteries that prevents or hinders breathing or blood flow, reduces the intake of air…

66.0512 Whistleblower protection for certain disclosures made by municipal clerks. No municipal clerk, as defined in s. 5.02 (10), county clerk, as defined in s. 5.02 (2), or election official, as defined in s. 5.02 (4e), may be discharged, disciplined, demoted, or otherwise disc…

66.0513 Police, pay when acting outside county or municipality. (1) Any chief of police, sheriff, deputy sheriff, county traffic officer or other peace officer of any city, county, village or town, who is required by command of the governor, sheriff or other superior authority to…

66.0515 Receipts for fees. Every officer or employee upon receiving fees shall, if requested to do so by the person paying the fees, deliver to that person a receipt for the fees, specifying for which account each portion of the fees respectively accrued. History: 1991 a. 316; 19…

66.0517 Weed commissioner. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “noxious weeds” has the meaning given in s. 66.0407 (1) (b). (2) APPOINTMENT. (a) Town, village and city weed commissioner. The chairperson of each town, the president of each village and the mayor of each city may appoi…

66.0518 Defined benefit pension plans. A local governmental unit, as defined in s. 66.0131 (1) (a), may not establish a defined benefit pension plan for its employees unless the plan requires the employees to pay half of all actuarially required contributions for funding benefits…

66.0601 Appropriations. (1) PROHIBITED APPROPRIATIONS. (a) Bonus to state institution. No appropriation or bonus, except a donation, may be made by a town, village, or city, nor municipal liability created nor tax levied, as a consideration or inducement to the state to locate an…

66.0602 Local levy limits. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Debt service” includes debt service on debt issued or reissued to fund or refund outstanding municipal or county obligations, interest on outstanding municipal or county obligations, and related issuance costs and …

66.0603 Investments. (1g) DEFINITION. In this section, “governing board” has the meaning given under s. 34.01 (1) but does not include a local exposition district board created under subch. II of ch. 229 or a local cultural arts district board created under subch. V of ch. 229. (…

66.0605 Local government audits and reports. Notwithstanding any other statute, the governing body of a county, city, village or town may require or authorize a financial audit of a municipal or county officer, department, board, commission, function or activity financed in whole…

66.0607 Withdrawal or disbursement from local treasury. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subs. (2) to (5) and in s. 66.0608 (3m), in a county, city, village, town, or school district, all disbursements from the treasury shall be made by the treasurer upon the written order of …

66.0608 Protective services. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (ak) “Emergency medical responder” has the meaning given in s. 256.01 (4p). MUNICIPAL LAW (am) “Emergency medical responder volunteer funds” means funds of a municipality that are raised by employees of the municipali…

66.0609 Financial procedure; alternative system of approving claims. (1) The governing body of a village or of a city of the 2nd, 3rd or 4th class may by ordinance enact an alternative system of approving financial claims against the municipal treasury other than claims subject t…

66.0611 Political subdivisions prohibited from levying tax on incomes. No county, city, village, town, or other unit of government authorized to levy taxes may assess, levy or collect any tax on income, or measured by income, and any tax so assessed or levied is void. History: 19…

66.0613 Assessment on racing prohibited. Notwithstanding subch. V of ch. 77, no county, town, city or village may levy or collect from any licensee, as defined in s. 562.01 (7), any fee, tax or assessment on any wager in any race, as defined in s. 562.01 (10), or on any admission…

66.0615 Room tax; forfeitures. (1) In this section: (a) “Commission” means an entity created by one municipality or by 2 or more municipalities in a zone, to coordinate tourism promotion and tourism development for the zone. (am) “District” has the meaning given in s. 229.41 (4m)…

66.0617 Impact fees. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Capital costs” means the capital costs to construct, expand or improve public facilities, including the cost of land, and including legal, engineering and design costs to construct, expand or improve public facilities, e…

66.0619 Public improvement bonds: issuance. (1) A municipality, in addition to any other authority to borrow money and issue its municipal obligations, may borrow money and issue its public improvement bonds to finance the cost of construction or acquisition, including site acqui…

66.0621 Revenue obligations. (1) In this section: (a) “Municipality” means a city, village, town, county, commission created by contract under s. 66.0301, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district established under s. 33.23, 33.235 or 33.24, metropolitan sewerage …

66.0623 Refunding village, town, sanitary, and inland lake district bonds. A village, town, town sanitary district established under s. 60.71 (1), or public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district established under ch. 33 that has undertaken to construct a combined sew…

66.0625 Joint issuance of mass transit bonding. (1) In this section: (a) “Political subdivision” means a county, city, village or town. (b) “Public transit body” means any transit or transportation commission or authority and public corporation established by law or by interstate…

66.0626 Special assessments or charges for contaminated well or wastewater system loans. (1) In this section: (a) “Contaminated private water supply” has the meaning provided in s. 281.75 (1) (b). (b) “Failing private on-site wastewater treatment system” has the meaning provided …

66.0627 Special charges for current services and certain loan repayments. (1) In this section: (ad) “Brownfield revitalization project” means any of the following actions when taken upon premises that are located on, or that constitute, brownfields, as defined in s. 238.13 (1) (a…

66.0628 Fees imposed by a political subdivision. (1) In this section: (a) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county. (b) “Reasonable relationship” means that the cost charged by a political subdivision for a service provided to a person may not exceed the pol…

66.0701 Special assessments by local ordinance. (1) Except as provided in s. 66.0721, in addition to other methods provided by law, the governing body of a town, village or 2nd, 3rd or 4th class city may, by ordinance, provide that the cost of installing or constructing any publi…

66.0703 Special assessments, generally. (1) (a) Except as provided in s. 66.0721, as a complete alternative to all other methods provided by law, any city, town or village may, by resolution of its governing body, levy and collect special assessments upon property in a limited an…

66.0705 Property of public and private entities subject to special assessments. (1) (a) The property of this state, except that held for highway right-of-way purposes or acquired and held for purposes under s. 85.08 or 85.09, and the property of every county, city, village, town,…

66.0707 Assessment or special charge against property in adjacent city, village or town. (1) A city, village or town may levy special assessments for municipal work or improvement under s. 66.0703 on property in an adjacent city, village or town, if the property abuts and benefit…

66.0709 Preliminary payment of improvements funded by special assessments. (1) In this section: (a) “Local governmental unit” has the meaning given in s. 66.0713 (1) (c). (b) “Public improvement” has the meaning given in s. 66.0713 (1) (d). (2) If it is determined that the cost o…

66.0711 Discount on cash payments for public improvements. (1) In this section: (a) “Local governmental unit” has the meaning given in s. 66.0713 (1) (c). (b) “Public improvement” has the meaning given in s. 66.0713 (1) (d). (2) Every bid received for any public improvement which…

66.0713 Contractor’s certificates; general obligationlocal improvement bonds; special assessment B bonds. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) “Contractor” means the person, firm or corporation performing the work or f…

66.0715 Deferral of special assessments; payment of special assessments in installments. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Governing body” has the meaning given in s. 66.0713 (1) (b). (b) “Local governmental unit” has the meaning given in s. 66.0713 (1) (c). (c) “Public impr…

66.0717 Lien of special assessment. A special assessment levied under any authority is a lien on the property against which it is levied on behalf of the municipality levying the assessment or the owner of any certificate, bond or other document issued by the municipality, eviden…

66.0719 Disposition of special assessment proceeds where improvement paid for out of general fund or municipal obligations. (1) In this section: (a) “Local governmental unit” has the meaning given in s. 66.0713 (1) (c). (b) “Public improvement” has the meaning given in s. 66.0713…

66.0721 Special assessments on certain farmland or camps for construction of sewerage or water system. (1) In this section: (a) “Agricultural use” has the meaning given in s. 91.01 (2) and includes any additional agricultural uses of land, as determined by the town sanitary distr…

66.0723 Utilities, special assessments. (1) If a city, village or town constructs, extends or acquires by gift, purchase or otherwise a distribution system or a production or generating plant for the furnishing of light, heat or power to any municipality or its inhabitants, the c…

66.0725 Assessment of condemnation benefits. (1) As a complete alternative to any other method provided by law, for the purpose of payment of the expenses, including the excess of damages and all other expenses and costs, incurred for the taking of private property for the purpos…

66.0727 Special assessments against railroad for street improvement. (1) (a) If a city, village or town improves a street, alley or public highway within its corporate limits, including by grading, curbing or paving, if the entire or partial cost of the improvement is assessed ag…

66.0729 Improvement of streets by abutting railroad company. (1) If the track of a railroad is laid upon or along a street, alley or public highway within any city, village or town, the corporation operating the railroad shall maintain and improve the portion of the street, alley…

66.0731 Reassessment of invalid condemnation and public improvement assessments. (1) If in an action, other than an action under s. 66.0703 (12), involving a special assessment, special assessment certificate, bond or note or tax certificate based on the special assessment, the c…

66.0733 Repayment of assessments in certain cases. If a contract for improvements entered into by a governmental unit authorized to levy special assessments is declared void by a court of last resort, the governing body may provide that all persons who have paid all or any part o…

66.0801 Definitions; effect on other authority. (1) In this subchapter: (a) “Municipal public utility” means a public utility owned or operated by a city, village or town. (b) “Public utility” has the meaning given in s. 196.01 (5). (2) Sections 66.0803 to 66.0825 do not deprive …