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WI Stat § 66.0723 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0723 - Utilities, special assessments.

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 city, village or town may assess all or some of the cost to the property benefited, whether abutting or not, in the same manner as is provided for the assessment of benefits under s. 66.0703. (2) Special assessments under this section may be made payable and certificates or bonds issued under s. 66.0713. In a city, village or town where no official paper is published, notice may be given by posting the notice in 3 public places in the city, village or town.History:  1993 a. 246; 1999 a. 150 s. 233; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0723.
WI Stat § 66.0727 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0727 - Special assessments against railroad for street improvement.

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 against abutting property, and if the street, alley or public highway is crossed by the track of a railroad engaged as a common carrier, the common council or board of public works of the city, or the village or town board, shall, at any time after the completion and acceptance of the improvement by the municipality, file with the local agent of the railroad corporation operating the railroad a statement showing the amount chargeable to the railroad corporation for the improvement.(b) The amount chargeable to the railroad corporation is the amount equal to the cost of constructing the improvement along the street, alley or public highway immediately in front of and abutting its right-of-way on each side of the street, alley or public highway at the point where the track crosses the street, alley or public highway, based upon the price per square yard, lineal foot or other unit of value used in determining the total cost of the improvement. (2) The amount charged against a railroad corporation for improving the street, alley or public highway, fronting or abutting its right-of-way, may not exceed the average amount per front foot assessed against the remainder of the property fronting or abutting on the improved street, alley or public highway. The amount calculated under sub. (1) and contained in the statement is due and payable by the railroad corporation to the municipality filing the statement within 30 days of the date when the statement is presented to the local representative of the railroad corporation. (3) If a railroad corporation fails or refuses to pay a city, village or town the amount set forth in any statement or claim for street, alley or public highway improvements under this section within the time specified in the statement, the city, village or town has a claim for that amount against the railroad corporation and may maintain an action in any circuit court within this state to recover the amount in the statement. (4) This section does not preclude a city, village or town from using any other lawful method to compel a railroad corporation to pay its proportionate share of a street, alley or public highway improvement.History:  1977 c. 72; 1993 a. 246, 490; 1995 a. 225; 1999 a. 150 ss. 209, 552, 554; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0727.
WI Stat § 66.0731 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0731 - Reassessment of invalid condemnation and public improvement assessments.

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 court determines that the assessment is invalid for any cause, it shall stay all proceedings, frame an issue and summarily try the issue and determine the amount that the plaintiff justly ought to pay or which should be justly assessed against the property in question. That amount shall be ordered to be paid into court for the benefit of the parties entitled to the amount within a fixed time. Upon compliance with the order judgment shall be entered for the plaintiff with costs. If the plaintiff fails to comply with the order the action shall be dismissed with costs. (2) If the common council, village board or town board determines that any special assessment is invalid for any reason, it may reopen and reconsider the assessment as provided in s. 66.0703 (10).History:  1983 a. 532; 1987 a. 378; 1999 a. 150 s. 547; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0731.
WI Stat § 66.0733 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0733 - Repayment of assessments in certain cases.

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 of any assessment levied against the abutting property owners because of the improvement may be reimbursed the amount of the assessment, paid from the fund, that the governing body determines. This section applies to contracts for improvements that are void for any of the following reasons: (1) There was insufficient authority to make the contract. (2) The contract was made contrary to a prohibition against contracting in other than a specified way. (3) The contract was prohibited by statute.History:  1993 a. 246; 1999 a. 150 s. 501; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0733.
WI Stat § 66.0801 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0801 - Definitions; effect on other authority.

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 the office of the commissioner of railroads, department of transportation or public service commission of any power under ss. 195.05 and 197.01 to 197.10 and ch. 196.History:  1999 a. 150.
WI Stat § 66.0807 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0807 - Joint operation of public utility or public transportation system.

66.0807  Joint operation of public utility or public transportation system. (1) In this section, “privately owned public utility" includes a cooperative association organized under ch. 185 or 193 for the purpose of producing or furnishing utility service to its members only. (2) A city, village or town served by a privately owned public utility, motor bus or other systems of public transportation rendering local service may contract with the owner of the utility or system for the leasing, public operation, joint operation, extension and improvement of the utility or system by the municipality; or, with funds loaned by the municipality, may contract for the stabilization by municipal guaranty of the return upon or for the purchase by installments out of earnings or otherwise of that portion of the public utility or system which is operated within the municipality and any territory immediately adjacent and tributary to the municipality; or may contract for the accomplishment of any object agreed upon between the parties relating to the use, operation, management, value, earnings, purchase, extension, improvement, sale, lease or control of the utility or system property. The provisions of s. 66.0817 relating to preliminary agreement and approval by the department of transportation or public service commission apply to the contracts authorized by this section. The department of transportation or public service commission shall, when a contract under this section is approved by it and consummated, cooperate with the parties in respect to making valuations, appraisals, estimates and other determinations specified in the contract to be made by it.History:  1977 c. 29 s. 1654 (9) (g); 1981 c. 347 s. 80 (2); 1985 a. 187; 1993 a. 16, 246; 1999 a. 150 ss. 171, 237; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0807; 2005 a. 441.
WI Stat § 66.0811 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0811 - Municipal public utility revenues.

66.0811  Municipal public utility revenues. (1) A city, village or town owning a public utility is entitled to the same rate of return as permitted for privately owned utilities. (2) The income of a municipal public utility shall first be used to make payments to meet operation, maintenance, depreciation, interest, and debt service fund requirements, local and school tax equivalents, additions and improvements, and other necessary disbursements or indebtedness. Beginning with taxes levied in 1995, payable in 1996, payments for local and school tax equivalents shall at least be equal to the payment made on the property for taxes levied in 1994, payable in 1995, unless a lower payment is authorized by the governing body of the municipality. Income in excess of these requirements may be used to purchase and hold interest bearing bonds, issued for the acquisition of the utility; bonds issued by the United States or any municipal corporation of this state; insurance upon the life of an officer or manager of the utility; or may be paid into the general fund. (3) A city, town or village may use funds derived from its water plant to meet operation, maintenance, depreciation, interest and debt service funds; new construction or equipment or other indebtedness for sewerage construction work other than that which is chargeable against abutting property; or the funds may be placed into the general fund to be used for general city purposes or in a special fund to be used for special municipal purposes.History:  1999 a. 150 ss. 187, 188, 239.
WI Stat § 66.0819 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0819 - Combining water and sewer utilities.

66.0819  Combining water and sewer utilities. (1) A town, village, or city may construct, acquire, or lease, or extend and improve, a plant and equipment within or without its corporate limits for the furnishing of water to the municipality or to its inhabitants, and for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage, including the lateral, main and intercepting sewers, and all necessary equipment. The plant and equipment, whether the structures and equipment for the furnishing of water and for the disposal of sewage are combined or separate, may by ordinance be constituted a single public utility. (2) The provisions of this chapter and chs. 196 and 197 relating to a water system, including those provisions relating to the regulation of a water system by the public service commission, apply to a consolidated water and sewage disposal system as a single public utility. In prescribing rates, accounting and engineering practices, extension rules, service standards or other regulations for a consolidated water and sewage disposal system, the public service commission shall treat the water system and the sewage disposal system separately, unless the commission finds that the public interest requires otherwise. (3) A town, village or city which owns or acquires a water system and a plant or system for the treatment or disposal of sewage may by ordinance consolidate the systems into a single public utility. After the effective date of the ordinance the consolidated utility is subject to this section as though originally acquired as a single public utility.History:  1981 c. 390; 1995 a. 378; 1999 a. 150 s. 230; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0819.
WI Stat § 66.0827 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0827 - Utility districts.

66.0827  Utility districts. (1) Towns, villages and 3rd and 4th class cities may establish utility districts.(a) In villages and 3rd and 4th class cities, the village board or common council may direct that the cost of utility district highways, sewers, sidewalks, street lighting and water for fire protection not paid for by special assessment be paid out of the district fund under sub. (2). The cost of bridges in the district may not be paid out of the district fund.(b) In towns, the town board may direct that the cost of any convenience or public improvement provided in the district and not paid for by special assessment be paid from the district fund under sub. (2). (2) The fund of each utility district shall be provided by taxation of the property in the district, upon an annual estimate by the department in charge of public works in cities and villages, and by the town chairperson in towns, filed by October 1. Separate account shall be kept of each district fund. (3) In towns a majority vote and in villages and cities a three-fourths vote of all the members of the governing body is required to establish, vacate, alter or consolidate a utility district. (4) Before the vote is effective to establish, vacate, alter or consolidate a utility district, a hearing shall be held as provided in s. 66.0703 (7) (a). In towns the notice may be given by posting in 3 public places in the town, one of which shall be in the proposed district, at least 2 weeks prior to the hearing. (5) (a) If a town board establishes a utility district under this section the board may, if a town sanitary district is in existence for the town, dissolve the sanitary district. If the sanitary district is dissolved, all assets, liabilities and functions of the sanitary district shall be taken over by the utility district.(b) All functions performed by a sanitary district and assumed by a utility district under this subsection remain subject to regulation by the public service commission as if no transfer had occurred.(c) If a sanitary district is located in more than one municipality, action under this section may be taken only upon approval of a majority of the members of the governing body of each municipality in which the sanitary district is located. (6) If a municipality within which a utility district is located is consolidated with another municipality which provides the same or similar services for which the district was established, but on a municipality-wide basis rather than on a utility district basis as provided in this section, the fund of the utility district becomes part of the general fund of the consolidated municipality and the utility district terminates. This section applies to consolidations completed prior to, on and after June 30, 1965.History:  1983 a. 207 s. 93 (1); 1983 a. 532; 1989 a. 56 s. 258; 1999 a. 150 s. 207; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0827.
WI Stat § 66.0829 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0829 - Parking systems.

66.0829  Parking systems. (1) A city, village or town may purchase, acquire, rent from a lessor, construct, extend, add to, improve, conduct, operate or rent to a lessee a municipal parking system for the parking of vehicles, including parking lots and other parking facilities, upon its public streets or roads or public grounds and issue revenue bonds to acquire funds for any one or more of these purposes. The parking lots and other parking facilities may include space designed for leasing to private persons for purposes other than parking. The provisions of s. 66.0621 governing the issuance of revenue bonds apply, to the extent applicable, to revenue bonds issued under this subsection. The municipal parking systems are public utilities under article XI, section 3, of the constitution. Principal and interest of revenue bonds issued under this subsection are payable solely from the revenues to be derived from the parking system, including without limitation revenues from parking meters or other parking facilities. Any revenue derived from a facility financed by a revenue bond issued under this subsection may be used only to pay the principal and interest of that revenue bond, except that after the principal and interest of that revenue bond have been paid in full the revenue derived from the facility may be used for any purpose. (2) Any part of a parking system under sub. (1) may be financed and operated in the following manner:(a) The cost of constructing any parking system or facility, including the cost of the land, may be assessed against a benefited area, the benefited area and assessments to be determined in the manner prescribed by either subch. II of ch. 32 or s. 66.0703, except that the number of annual installments in which the assessment is payable may not exceed 20.(b) The cost of operating and maintaining any parking system or facility may be assessed not more than once in each calendar year against all property in a benefited area, the area and assessments to be determined in the manner prescribed by either subch. II of ch. 32 or by s. 66.0703. The costs may include a payment in lieu of taxes, operating, maintenance and replacement costs, and interest on any unpaid capital cost.(c) The governing body may, in determining the amount of the assessment under par. (a) or (b), credit any portion of the revenues from the parking system or facility.(d) No assessment authorized in par. (a) or (b) may be made against any property used wholly for residential purposes.History:  1973 c. 172; 1983 a. 192; 1983 a. 207 s. 93 (3); 1983 a. 236 ss. 7, 13; 1985 a. 231; 1987 a. 152; 1993 a. 246; 1997 a. 56; 1999 a. 150 s. 232; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0829.
WI Stat § 66.0831 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0831 - Interference with public service structure.

66.0831  Interference with public service structure. A contractor with a contract for work upon, over, along or under a public street or highway may not interfere with, destroy or disturb the structures of a public utility, including a telecommunications carrier as defined in s. 196.01 (8m), encountered in the performance of the work in a manner that interrupts, impairs or affects the public service for which the structures may be used, without first obtaining written authority from the commissioner of public works or other appropriate authority. A public utility, if given reasonable notice by the contractor of the need for temporary protection of, or a temporary change in, the utility's structures, determined by the commissioner of public works or other appropriate authority to be reasonably necessary to enable the work, shall temporarily protect or change its structures located upon, over, along or under the surface of a public street or highway. The contractor shall pay or assure to the public utility the reasonable cost of the temporary structure or change, unless the public utility is otherwise liable. If work is done by or for the state or by or for any county, city, village, town sanitary district, metropolitan sewerage district created under ss. 200.01 to 200.15 or 200.21 to 200.65 or town, the cost of the temporary protection or temporary change shall be borne by the public utility.History:  1973 c. 277; 1983 a. 296, 538; 1993 a. 496; 1999 a. 150 s. 116; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0831.Interference without written authority is prohibited only if the parties cannot agree that requested changes are reasonably necessary. A town sanitary district is not a town under the cost provision of this section. Wisconsin Gas Co. v. Lawrenz & Associates, 72 Wis. 2d 389, 241 N.W.2d 384 (1976).
WI Stat § 66.0905 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0905 - Pedestrian malls.

66.0905  Pedestrian malls. After referring the matter to the plan commission for report under s. 62.23 (5), or the town zoning committee under s. 60.61 (4), and after holding a public hearing on the matter with publication of a Class 1 notice of the hearing, the governing body of any city or village, or any town board acting under s. 60.61 or 60.62, may by ordinance designate any street, road or public way or any part of a street, road or public way wholly within its jurisdiction as a pedestrian mall and prohibit or limit vehicular traffic in the pedestrian mall. Creation of a pedestrian mall under this section does not constitute a discontinuance or vacation of the street, road or public way under s. 66.1003 or 236.43.History:  1993 a. 246; 1999 a. 150 s. 345; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0905.
WI Stat § 66.0911 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 66 - General municipality law.|66.0911 - Laterals and service pipes.

66.0911  Laterals and service pipes. If the governing body by resolution requires water, heat, sewer and gas laterals or service pipes to be constructed from the lot line or near the lot line to the main or from the lot line to the building to be serviced, or both, it may provide that when the work is done by the city, village or town or under a city, village or town contract, a record of the cost of constructing the laterals or service pipes shall be kept and the cost, or the average current cost of laying the laterals or service pipes, shall be charged and be a lien against the lot or parcel served.History:  1983 a. 532; 1999 a. 150 s. 545; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0911.