The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-02-18
TAX REVISION BILL.

Following is the full text of the bill
drafted by City Attorney Mcintosh
which the state legislature will be asked
to pass during the present session:
"To authorigo cities to take, hold
and transfer tax certificates in certain
cases; also lands acquired hereunder,
and creating new sections to be known
as Sections lila aid ll44b' of the Wis
consln Statutes.
The people of the state Of Wisconsin,
represented IN senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
There are hereby created new sec
tlons to the Wisconsin Statutes to be
known as " Sections 1144a and ll44b,"
which shall read as follows
Section lila. At any time after a
tax sale has taken place in any county,
If any incorporated city within said
county has not collected taxes or re-
celved from the county treasurer the
tull amount of the city levy tor city
taxes and special assessments of every
nature, then the city shall be entitled
to receive from the county treasurer all
monies collected by HIM by sale or
otherwise, payable to the city on said
levy with Interest and charges, i any
and if the county shall have bid in al
Gates upon lands within such city, and
there shall still be unpaid any portion
OF the city levy, then and in that case,
the common council of such city may
by resolution elect to have such certiti-
Gates, or any portion thereof, assigned
TO the city and shall therein authorize
the city treasurer to receive from the
county such tax certificates at their
lace value TO the full amount of the tax
remaining uncollected and unpaid on
the CITY levy, and upon presentation to
the county treasurer and fling with the
county clerk OF copy OF such reSoln-
ton, certified by the city clerk, the
county treasurer shall account to said
city Ill the manner aforesaid, and the
county clerk shall assign to said city in
the same manner as to ether purchas
ers all OF said certificates to the amo"nt
aforesaid. and the city shall thereupon
be entitled to own, hold, sell, assign
and dispose Of the same under the di
rectlon of the common council, in the
same manner and to the same extent
as counties may own and dispose of GER
tiicaies under the direction of the
board OF supervisors, and all laws relat
ing TO the ownership, sale and DISPOSE
ton OF tax certificates and land ACQUIRED
hereunder by cities as far as necessary
10 carry out the provisions of this act
except that the common council shall
control the ownership and disposition
OF SAID certificates instead OF the county
board, and all assignments of certificates
and tax deeds of lands acquired there
on on behalfof the city ball be executed
by the city clerk, and all deeds shall be
under the seal OF such city.
On resolutions Of the common COON
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on any such certificates. and the county
clerk shall, upon prese OF such
certificates With a certified copy of
such resolution. execute TO such city a
tax Ceed or deeds in the same manner
As TO other holders of certificates. and
the city treasurer shall at least once a
month check up and collect from the
county all redemption monies on certii-
Gates held by the city
/ Section ll44b. As soon as possible
after the return of the delinquent roll
/ OF such city, and prior 10 the commence
ment OF the tax sale for any wear, the
! city clerk of any city holding tax certlii-
! Gates on lands under the provisions OF
I the preceding section, shall make and
! file with the equity treasurer a full list OF
! all lands upon which II huiIs tax certn
/ Gates or tax deeds, and the county
treasurer Al such sale shall bid in for Il lie
CItv all lands contained IN such list and
certificates shall be issued thereon to
the city and the sale or ssignment OF
any certificates on lands on which the
: city holds prior certificate or tax deed
under a previous sale shall be invalid
and IN case the certificates SO bid in for
! the city shall with the amount OF money
/ already received by the city from taxes
4 collected Tor such year aggregate 3 sum
larger than the total city levy. then the
city shall account for and pay over to
the county the amount OF such excess,
and the provisions of this act shall au-
ply a. well to past As future sales " her-
ever there exists conditions upon which
the provisions of the act can operate
and TO which it can apply.
This act shall take effect from and
after the date Of its passage and puoIi-
cation.