Chapter 66, GENERAL MUNICIPALITY LAW

66.0304 Conduit revenue bonds. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Agreement” means a contract entered into under this section by the political subdivisions which form a commission. The contract may be amended according to the terms of the contract, and the amended contract re…

66.0305 Political subdivision revenue sharing. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county. (2) POLITICAL SUBDIVISION REVENUE SHARING AGREEMENT. Subject to the requirements of this section, any 2 or more political subdivisions m…

66.0307 Boundary change pursuant to approved cooperative plan. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (af) “Comprehensive plan” means an adopted plan that contains the elements under s. 66.1001 (2) or, if a municipality has not adopted a plan that contains those elements, a master pla…

66.0309 Creation, organization, powers and duties of regional planning commissions. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Governing body” means the town, village or county board or the legislative body of a city. (b) “Local governmental units” or “local units” means cities, vill…

66.0311 Intergovernmental cooperation in financing and undertaking housing projects. (1) In this section, “municipality” has the meaning given in s. 66.0301 (1) (a). (2) Any municipality, housing authority, development authority or redevelopment authority authorized under ss. 66.…

66.0312 Local health departments; mutual assistance. (1) In this section “local health department” has the meaning given in s. 66.0314 (1) (e). (2) (a) Subject to sub. (3), upon the request of a local health department, the personnel of any other local health department may assis…

66.03125 Fire departments; mutual assistance. (1) In this section “fire department” has the meaning given in s. 66.0314 (1) (c). (2) (a) Subject to sub. (3), upon the request of a fire department, the personnel of any other fire department may assist the requester within the requ…

66.0313 Law enforcement; mutual assistance. (1) In this section: (a) “Law enforcement agency” has the meaning given in s. 165.83 (1) (b) and includes a tribal law enforcement agency. (b) “Tribal law enforcement agency” has the meaning given in s. 165.83 (1) (e). (2) Except as pro…

66.0314 State of emergency; mutual assistance. (1) In this section: (a) “Emergency management program” means the emergency management program of a city, village, town, or county, under s. 323.14 (1). (b) “Emergency medical services program” means a program established under s. 25…

66.0315 Municipal cooperation; federal rivers, harbors or water resources projects. A county, town, city or village acting under its powers and in conformity with state law may enter into an agreement with an agency of the federal government to cooperate in the construction, oper…

66.0316 Renew Wisconsin performance review. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Analysis” means a performance analysis of the cost and benefit of a political subdivision providing a governmental service compared to a private person providing the same service. (b) “Chief execut…

66.0317 Cooperation region. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Cooperation region” means a federal standard metropolitan statistical area. For purposes of this section, if only a part of a county is located in a federal standard metropolitan statistical area the entire county…

66.0401 Regulation relating to solar and wind energy systems. (1e) DEFINITIONS. In this section: MUNICIPAL LAW (a) “Application for approval” means an application for approval of a wind energy system under rules promulgated by the commission under s. 196.378 (4g) (c) 1. (b) “Comm…

66.0403 Solar and wind access permits. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Agency” means the governing body of a municipality which has provided for granting a permit or the agency which the governing body of a municipality creates or designates under sub. (2). “Agency” includ…

66.0404 Mobile tower siting regulations. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Antenna” means communications equipment that transmits and receives electromagnetic radio signals and is used in the provision of mobile services. (b) “Application” means an application for a permit u…

66.0405 Removal of rubbish. Cities, villages and towns may remove ashes, garbage, and rubbish from such classes of places in the city, village or town as the board or council directs. The removal may be from all of the places or from those whose owners or occupants desire the ser…

66.0406 Radio broadcast service facility regulations. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Political subdivision” means any city, village, town, or county. (b) “Radio broadcast services” means the regular provision of a commercial or noncommercial service involving the transmis…

66.0407 Noxious weeds. (1) In this section: (a) “Destroy” means the complete killing of weeds or the killing of weed plants above the surface of the ground by the use of chemicals, cutting, tillage, cropping system, pasturing livestock, or any or all of these in effective combina…

66.0408 Regulation of occupations. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section, “political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county. (2) LIMITATIONS ON NEW REGULATIONS. (a) Except as provided in sub. (3), beginning on November 13, 2015, a political subdivision may not impose any …

66.0409 Local regulation of weapons. (1) In this section: (a) “Firearm” has the meaning given in s. 167.31 (1) (c) and includes an airgun, as defined in s. 29.001 (7). (b) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town or county. (c) “Sport shooting range” means an area desi…

66.0410 Local regulation of ticket reselling. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county. (b) “Ticket” means a ticket that is sold to an entertainment or sporting event. (2) RESELLING OF TICKETS. (a) A political subdivisio…

66.0411 Sound-producing devices; impoundment; seizure and forfeiture. (1) In this section, “sound-producing device” does not include a piece of equipment or machinery that is designed for agricultural purposes and that is being used in the conduct of agricultural operations. (1m)…

66.0412 Local regulation of real estate brokers, brokerage services. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Broker” means a real estate broker licensed under ch. 452. (b) “Local governmental unit” has the meaning given in s. 66.0131 (1) (a). (c) “Political subdivision” means any …

66.0413 Razing buildings. (1) AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURE. (a) Definitions. In this subsection: 1. “Building” includes any building or structure or any portion of a building or structure. 2. “Raze a building” means to demolish and remove the building and to restore the site to a dust…

66.0414 Small wireless facilities. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Antenna” means communications equipment that transmits and receives electromagnetic radio signals and is used in the provision of wireless services. (b) “Antenna equipment” or “wireless equipment” means equ…

66.0415 Offensive industry. (1) Except as provided under s. 62.23 (7a) (am), the common council of a city or village board may direct the location, management and construction of, and license, regulate or prohibit, any industry, thing or place where any nauseous, offensive or unw…

66.0416 Certain businesses operated by minors. (1) In this section: (a) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county. (b) “Stand operated by a minor” means a stand or other location at which goods other than potentially hazardous food, as defined in s. 97.30 (1)…

66.0417 Local enforcement of certain food and health regulations. (1) An employee or agent of a local health department designated by the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection under s. 97.41 or 97.615 (2) may enter, at reasonable hours, any premises for which t…

66.0418 Prohibition of local regulation of certain foods, beverages. (1) In this section “political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county. (2) (a) No political subdivision may enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution that prohibits or restricts the sale of food or n…

66.0419 Local regulation of auxiliary containers. (1) In this section: (a) “Auxiliary container” means a bag, cup, bottle, can, or other packaging that is designed to be reusable or single-use; that is made of cloth, paper, plastic, cardboard, corrugated material, aluminum, glass…

66.0420 Video service. (1) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. The legislature finds all of the following: (a) Video service brings important daily benefits to state residents by providing news, education, and entertainment. (b) Uniform regulation of all video service providers by this state i…

66.0421 Access to video service. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (c) “Video service” has the meaning given in s. 66.0420 (2) (y). (d) “Video service provider” has the meaning given in s. 66.0420 (2) (zg), and also includes an interim cable operator, as defined in s. 66.0420 (2)…

66.0422 Video service, telecommunications, and broadband facilities. (1) In this section: (b) “Local government” means a city, village, or town. (c) “Telecommunications service” has the meaning given in s. 196.01 (9m). (d) “Video service” has the meaning given in s. 66.0420 (2) (…

66.0423 Transient merchants. (1) In this section: (a) “Sale of merchandise” includes a sale in which the personal services rendered upon or in connection with the merchandise constitutes the greatest part of value for the price received, but does not include a farm auction sale c…

66.0425 Privileges in streets. (1) In this section, “privilege” means the authority to place an obstruction or excavation beyond a lot line, or within a highway in a town, village, or city, other than by general ordinance affecting the whole public. (2) A person may apply to a to…

66.0427 Open excavations in populous counties. In a town, city or village in a county with a population of 750,000 or more no excavation for building purposes, whether or not completed, may be left open for more than 6 months without proceeding with the erection of a building on …

66.0429 Street barriers; neighborhood watch signs. (1) The governing body of a city, village or town may set aside streets or roads that are not a part of any federal, state or county trunk highway system for the safety of children in coasting or other play activities, and may ob…

66.0431 Prohibiting operators from leaving keys in parked motor vehicles. The governing body of a city, village or town may by ordinance require every passenger motor vehicle to be equipped with a lock suitable to lock either the starting lever, throttle, steering apparatus, gear…

66.0433 Licenses for nonintoxicating beverages. (1) A town board, village board or common council may grant licenses to persons it considers proper for the sale of beverages containing less than 0.5 percent of alcohol by volume to be consumed on the premises where sold and to man…

66.0435 Manufactured and mobile home communities. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (am) “Community” means a manufactured and mobile home community. (b) “Licensee” means any person licensed to operate and maintain a manufactured and mobile home community under this section. MUNIC…

66.0436 Certificates of food protection practices for restaurants. (1) In this section, “restaurant” has the meaning given in s. 97.01 (14g). (2) No city, village, town, or county may enact an ordinance requiring a restaurant, a person who holds a license for a restaurant, or a p…

66.0437 Drug disposal programs. (1) In this section, “political subdivision” has the meaning given in s. 165.65 (1) (e). (2) A political subdivision may operate or authorize a person to operate a drug disposal program as provided under s. 165.65 (3). History: 2013 a. 198.

66.0438 Limitations on locally issued identification cards. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “public assistance benefits” means services, benefits, payments, or other assistance provided under a program administered by the department of health services or the department of childr…

66.0439 Environmental, occupational health, and safety credentials. (1) No city, village, town, or county may enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution that restricts the use of a title or a representation described in s. 100.70 (1) (a) to (h). (2) If a city, village, town, or cou…

66.0440 Battery-powered, alarmed electric security fences. (1) In this section: (a) “Battery-powered, alarmed electric security fence” means an electric fence that satisfies all of the following: 1. Is equipped with an energizer that produces direct current and is powered by a co…

66.0441 Quarries extracting certain nonmetallic minerals. (1) CONSTRUCTION. (a) Nothing in this section may be construed to affect the authority of a political subdivision to regulate land use for a purpose other than quarry operations. (b) Subject to pars. (c) and (d), nothing i…

66.0442 Electric vehicle charging stations. (1) In this section: (a) “Level 1 charger” means a device with one or more charging ports and connectors for charging electric vehicles that operates on a circuit up to 120 volts and transfers alternating current electricity to a device…

66.0501 Eligibility for office. (1) DEPUTY SHERIFFS AND MUNICIPAL POLICE. No person may be appointed deputy sheriff of any county or police officer for any city, village or town unless that person is a citizen of the United States. This section does not apply to common carriers o…

66.05015 Background investigation. (1) In this section, “political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county. (2) (a) 1. Notwithstanding ss. 111.321, 111.322, and 111.335 and with the assistance of the department of justice, a political subdivision shall conduct a backg…

66.0502 Employee residency requirements prohibited. (1) The legislature finds that public employee residency requirements are a matter of statewide concern. (2) In this section, “local governmental unit” means any city, village, town, county, or school district. (3) (a) Except as…