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2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 63 - County and city civil service. › 63.52 - Violations, city civil service; vacates office; disqualification; prosecution.

63.52
Violations, city civil service; vacates office; disqualification; prosecution.
(1)
Any person who willfully, or through culpable negligence, violates any provision of ss. 63.18 to 63.51, or any rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than $50, and not exceeding $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 6 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
(2)
If any person is convicted under this section, any public office which such person holds shall, by force of such conviction, be rendered vacant, and such person shall be incapable of holding office for the period of 5 years from the date of such conviction.
(3)
Prosecution for violations of ss. 63.18 to 63.51 may be instituted either by the attorney general, the district attorney for the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed, or by the board of city service commissioners acting through special counsel. Such prosecutions shall be conducted and controlled by the prosecuting officers who institute them, unless they request the aid of other prosecuting officers.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 63 - County and city civil service. › 63.53 - Board of school directors employees.

63.53
Board of school directors employees.
(1)
Except as provided under sub. (2), all officers and employees of the board of school directors of any 1st class city are members of the classified service and shall be selected and have their tenure and employment status determined in accordance with ss. 63.18 to 63.51, the rules adopted under ss. 63.18 to 63.51 and the charter ordinances applying to the board of city service commissioners of the city.
(2)
The following employees are not members of the classified service: the superintendent of schools, deputy superintendent of schools, associate superintendent of schools, executive assistant to the superintendent of schools, assistant to the superintendent of schools, assistant superintendent, division director, department director, principals, teachers and substitute teachers actually engaged in teaching, staff of the board of school directors if the board so decides under s. 119.18 (10) (c), and, in any department of the school board devoted wholly or principally to the subjects of municipal recreation and adult education, all employees of those departments whose duties are peculiar to municipal recreation and adult education but not including employees whose duties are clerical or custodial.
History:  1971 c. 152 s. 38; 1973 c. 16; 1981 c. 96; 1989 a. 4; 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 58.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.01 - How to organize under ss. 64.01 to 64.15.

64.01
How to organize under ss. 64.01 to 64.15.
(1)
Any city of the second, third or fourth class may reorganize under the provisions of ss. 64.01 to 64.15, either by enactment of a charter ordinance or by a petition and referendum election as provided by s. 66.0101. Such petition and election shall be governed by s. 9.20 (1) to (6).
(2)
When adopted in the manner hereinbefore provided, the provisions of ss. 64.01 to 64.15 shall take effect and become operative on the third Tuesday in April.
(3)
Any village qualified under s. 61.189 to become a city may organize under ss. 64.01 to 64.15 by the adoption of a charter ordinance or by a petition and referendum election as provided by s. 66.0101. Such petition and election shall be governed by s. 9.20 (1) to (6).
History:  1999 a. 150 s. 672; 2015 a. 197 s. 51.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.02 - Other laws, bylaws and ordinances in force.

64.02
Other laws, bylaws and ordinances in force.
(1)
Any law applicable to any city before its reorganization and not inconsistent with the provisions of ss. 64.01 to 64.15 shall apply to and govern such reorganized city.
(2)
Any bylaw, ordinance, or resolution lawfully passed and in force in any such city at the time of its reorganization shall remain in force until altered or repealed by the council elected under the provisions of ss. 64.01 to 64.15.
(3)
The territorial limits of such city shall remain the same as under its former organization.
(4)
All rights and property of every description which were vested in such city under its former organization shall remain the same under the reorganization here contemplated.
(5)
No right or liability either in favor of or against such reorganized city, and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be affected by such change of government unless otherwise provided.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.03 - Petition for adoption; contents; question to be voted upon.

64.03
Petition for adoption; contents; question to be voted upon.
(1)
Every ordinance or resolution for the adoption of ss. 64.01 to 64.15, and every petition for a special election on the same, shall state the number of members of which the council herein provided for shall be composed, the term of office of its members, which term shall not exceed 2 years, whether they shall be nominated and elected from aldermanic districts or from the city at large, and the compensation, if any, which they shall receive.
(2)
At every election for the adoption of ss. 64.01 to 64.15, the question to be submitted shall be substantially as follows: “Shall the city of (name) be reorganized under ss. 64.01 to 64.15 of the statutes, providing for the city manager plan, with a council composed of (number stated in petition) members, to be elected from the city (at large), or (by aldermanic districts) as provided in petition for terms of (number) year(s)?"
(3)
Nothing herein shall be construed to impugn the authority of a city to exercise its home rule power to provide a different method of electing members of the council by districts or otherwise, or by a combination of methods, or the number or terms thereof.
History:  1971 c. 304 s. 29 (1).
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.04 - Council, when elected; qualification of electors; nominations.

64.04
Council, when elected; qualification of electors; nominations.
(1)
At the election held as provided by law upon the first Tuesday in April next succeeding the adoption of the provisions of ss. 64.01 to 64.15, there shall be elected a council composed as provided in the ordinance or resolution adopted by the council or in the petition and election as provided by s. 64.03. Any person possessing the qualifications of an elector in such city shall be eligible to election as council member. If the provisions of ss. 64.01 to 64.15 are adopted at the regular spring election, the council elected at that election shall have all of the powers and duties of the council elected on the first Tuesday in April next succeeding the adoption of ss. 64.01 to 64.15.
(2)
Except as herein otherwise provided, candidates for council member shall be nominated and elected after the manner provided by law for the nomination and election of other municipal officers and all provisions of the statutes relating to city primary and general elections not inconsistent with the provisions of ss. 64.01 to 64.15 shall apply to such elections for cities reorganized under ss. 64.01 to 64.15 the same as to cities organized under general law.
History:  1981 c. 390; 1985 a. 135 s. 83 (1); 1995 a. 16 s. 2.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.05 - Term of council members.

64.05
Term of council members.
(1)
The term of office of such council member shall begin on the third Tuesday in April. If the term of council member as determined by the election is 2 years, the term of a bare majority of the members elected at the first election after the adoption of ss. 64.01 to 64.15, consisting of those members receiving the highest number of votes, shall be 2 years and that of the remaining members shall be one year. At the expiration of the terms of office of the council members, successors shall be elected for the full term.
(2)
A vacancy in the office of council member shall be filled as provided in s. 17.23 (1) (am).
History:  1985 a. 135 s. 83 (1), (2); 2019 a. 164; 2021 a. 240 s. 29.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.07 - Powers of council; its organization; quorum; meetings.

64.07
Powers of council; its organization; quorum; meetings.
(1)
The council shall possess and exercise all legislative and general ordinance powers imposed and conferred by general law or special charter upon the mayor and common council and the various boards and commissions not inconsistent with ss. 64.01 to 64.15, and in force in such city at the time of its reorganization and such additional powers as are hereinafter imposed and conferred, but such council shall not have the power to enact special executive or administrative orders, it being the intent of ss. 64.01 to 64.15 to separate the legislative and executive powers of city government.
(2)
At its first meeting the city council shall select by majority vote one of its members to act as president. The president shall be the presiding officer of the council and shall have a vote but shall have no veto power.
(3)
A majority of the members of the council shall constitute a quorum, and a majority vote of all the members of the council shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance or resolution.
(4)
The ayes and noes shall be called and recorded on the vote upon every ordinance and resolution.
(5)
The council shall provide by ordinance for the time of holding regular meetings and special meetings shall be called by the president or by any 2 council members or by the city manager.
(6)
All meetings of the council or of any committee thereof, whether regular or special, shall be open to the public.
History:  1985 a. 135 s. 83 (2).
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.08 - Council members, their duties and compensation.

64.08
Council members, their duties and compensation.
The council members shall devote such time to the duties of their office as the interests and general welfare of the city demand and shall receive such compensation as determined in the petition, ordinance or resolution provided for in s. 64.03. The council shall have power by ordinance to fix the salary of their successors in office.
History:  1985 a. 135 s. 83 (2).
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.10 - City departments, boards and commissions.

64.10
City departments, boards and commissions.
(1)
The council shall upon the report and recommendation of the city manager have the power to create general departments of city administration. The report and recommendations of the city manager showing the necessity or desirability of creating such departments shall be placed on file and shall be matters of public record, open to the examination and inspection of the public at all reasonable times.
(2)
All administrative boards and commissions existing in the city prior to its reorganization shall continue to exist after its reorganization under this subchapter until abolished, altered or reorganized by ordinance of the council. The council may, upon receipt of the report and recommendation of the city manager, alter, reorganize or abolish by ordinance any administrative board or commission except the board of police and fire commissioners.
History:  1985 a. 225.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.11 - Powers of city manager, appointments.

64.11
Powers of city manager, appointments.
(1)
The city manager shall be the chief executive officer of the city and head of the city administration and shall possess and exercise all the executive and general administrative powers imposed and conferred by general law or special charter upon the mayor and common council and upon the various boards, commissions and officers and in force in such city at the time of its reorganization under ss. 64.01 to 64.15, and such additional powers as are herein imposed and conferred.
(2)
The city manager shall have the power to create minor administrative offices and positions and to discontinue such offices and positions according to the city manager's judgment of the needs of the city.
(3)
The city manager shall have the power to appoint all heads of departments, all subordinate city officials and all city employees and to remove such appointees at any time their services or the conduct of their offices becomes unsatisfactory to the city manager. This subsection shall not be construed as depriving the board of fire and police commissioners or the chiefs of fire or police departments of any city of all the powers conferred by s. 62.13.
(4)
No head of a department, city official, or city employee shall be appointed for a fixed term, but during good behavior and satisfactory service.
(5)
All appointments shall be purely on merit and with a view to securing the best available appointee for the place. Due consideration shall be given to training, experience, ability, and general qualifications and fitness for performing the duties of the office and no weight or consideration shall be given to residence, nationality, or to political or religious affiliations.
(6)
Residence in the city or state shall not be a qualification for any such appointment.
(7)
Except as provided in s. 19.36 (7), the applications, records, recommendations and qualifications of all applicants shall be immediately placed and thereafter kept on file and shall be matters of public record subject to the examination and inspection of the public at all reasonable times.
(8)
In the event that such a city has established under the provisions of s. 66.0509 a civil service system, then the powers and duties of the city manager as provided in this section shall be limited and governed by such rules and regulations as may be promulgated under such civil service system.
History:  1991 a. 269, 316; 1999 a. 150 s. 672.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.12 - City manager to present monthly reports and accounts.

64.12
City manager to present monthly reports and accounts.
(1)
The city manager shall each month prepare and present to the council a summarized statement of the income and expenditures of the city for the preceding month arranged in standard form and detailed as to appropriations, funds, and character of expenditures.
(2)
Such summaries shall be accompanied by a general account balance sheet, a capital account balance sheet, a statement of current assets and liabilities, a statement of funded assets and liabilities, and a consolidated financial statement showing the exact financial condition of the city at the end of such month. The city manager shall also prepare and present to the council such other detailed schedules and statements of account as the council may by ordinance require.
(3)
All such summaries, schedules, and statements, together with a summary of the acts and proceedings of the common council for such month, shall be published in pamphlet form and copies thereof shall be furnished to all the newspapers and libraries of the city and to all persons who shall apply therefor.
(4)
At the end of each fiscal year the council shall cause a full and complete examination of all the books and accounts of the city to be made by competent certified public accountants licensed or certified under ch. 442 who shall report in full to the council. The summaries of such audits shall be presented and furnished to all newspapers and libraries of the city and to such other persons as shall apply therefor.
History:  2001 a. 16.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.13 - First council may revise appropriations already made; state commission work continued.

64.13
First council may revise appropriations already made; state commission work continued.
(1)
If at the beginning of the term of office of the first council elected under ss. 64.01 to 64.15 the appropriations for the expenditures of the city government for the current fiscal year have been made, the council shall have power by ordinance to revise, repeal, or change such appropriations and to make additional appropriations.
(2)
Any city work done under the direction of commissions appointed by the state shall continue to be done in the manner prescribed by law prior to the reorganization of such city under ss. 64.01 to 64.15.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.14 - City may return to its former government.

64.14
City may return to its former government.
Any city which shall have adopted the provisions of ss. 64.01 to 64.15 may abandon the same and reorganize under the provisions of ch. 62 or ss. 64.25 to 64.40, or under a home rule charter by proceeding in accordance with the provisions of s. 64.01.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.15 - Village manager plan.

64.15
Village manager plan.
The provisions of ss. 64.01 to 64.14 shall also apply to villages, and such plan shall be known in villages as the village manager plan. Provided, however, that in villages adopting such plan, the council shall be composed of the board of trustees.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.25 - City commission plan; adoption; cities applicable to.

64.25
City commission plan; adoption; cities applicable to.
Any city of the second, third or fourth class may reorganize under the provisions of ss. 64.25 to 64.40, either by enactment of a charter ordinance or by a petition and referendum election as provided by s. 66.0101. Such petition and election shall be governed by s. 9.20 (1) to (6).
History:  1999 a. 150 s. 672.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.26 - Terms of officers in commission cities.

64.26
Terms of officers in commission cities.
The term of office of the mayor and alderpersons of any city so adopting the commission form of government shall end on the third Tuesday in April next succeeding the first municipal election held after such adoption.
History:  1993 a. 184; 2011 a. 257.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.27 - Law applicable; existing ordinances, etc.; territorial limits; vested rights; liabilities.

64.27
Law applicable; existing ordinances, etc.; territorial limits; vested rights; liabilities.
(1)
Any law applicable to any city before its reorganization and not inconsistent with the provisions of ss. 64.25 to 64.40, shall apply to and govern such reorganized city.
(2)
Any bylaw, ordinance or resolution lawfully passed and in force in any such city at the time of its reorganization shall remain in force until altered or repealed by the council elected under the provisions of ss. 64.25 to 64.40.
(3)
The territorial limits of such city shall remain the same as under its former organization.
(4)
All rights and property of every description which were vested in such city under its former organization shall remain the same under the reorganization herein contemplated.
(5)
No right or liability either in favor of or against such reorganized city, and no suit or prosecution of any kind, shall be affected by such change of government unless otherwise provided in ss. 64.25 to 64.40.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.28 - Election of mayor and council members; terms; eligibility.

64.28
Election of mayor and council members; terms; eligibility.
(1)
At the election held, as provided by law, upon the first Tuesday in April next succeeding the adoption of the provisions of ss. 64.25 to 64.40, there shall be elected a council consisting of a mayor and 2 other members. Any person possessing all the qualifications of an elector in such city other than the qualification of residence therein shall be eligible to election as mayor or other member of the council, but no person who holds a license for the sale of intoxicating liquors shall be eligible to any such office. Both the mayor and the council members shall be nominated and elected by the voters of the city at large.
(2)
The term of mayor shall be 6 years, and the terms of the other members of the council elected at the first election after the adoption of ss. 64.25 to 64.40, shall be 2 and 4 years, respectively, and each term shall begin on the third Tuesday of April next succeeding the election. At the first meeting of the council after such election, the other 2 members of the council shall by lot determine who shall hold the long and who the short term. At the expiration of their respective terms, successors shall be elected whose terms of office shall be 6 years.
(3)
In all cities of 15,000 or more population, the mayor and other members of the council, except council members elected pursuant to s. 64.39, shall devote their entire time to the performance of their official duties.
History:  1985 a. 135 s. 83 (2); 1995 a. 16 s. 2.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.29 - Council; powers; duties; president; quorum; vote.

64.29
Council; powers; duties; president; quorum; vote.
(1)
If any city shall adopt the provisions of ss. 64.25 to 64.40, all duties, liabilities, authority, powers and privileges theretofore imposed or conferred by general law or special charter upon the mayor and council of such city shall be deemed to be conferred and imposed upon the mayor and the council members provided for by ss. 64.25 to 64.40, and all laws relating or referring to such mayor and council members in force at the time of the adoption of the provisions of ss. 64.25 to 64.40 shall apply to and be deemed to relate and refer to the mayor and council.
(2)
The mayor shall be president of the council, and have a vote therein, but shall have no power of veto. On the first Tuesday in May following the reorganization of any city under ss. 64.25 to 64.40, and biennially thereafter, or whenever there shall be a vacancy in the office, the council shall elect one of its members vice mayor, who in the absence or disability of the mayor for any cause, shall perform all the duties thereof.
(3)
A majority of the members of the council shall constitute a quorum, and a majority vote of the members of the council shall be necessary, and no more than a majority shall be required, to adopt any ordinance, resolution or motion, including all ordinances, resolutions and motions which under the aldermanic or any other system of city government requires a three-fourths vote for the adoption thereof.
(4)
The ayes and nays shall be called and recorded upon every vote, and no vote shall be taken except upon a motion, a resolution or ordinance reduced to writing.
(5)
All boards and commissions created and existing under laws heretofore in force in any such city shall continue to exist, and all powers, authority, jurisdiction and duties conferred and imposed upon such boards and commissions shall remain unaffected by ss. 64.25 to 64.40, except that the mayor may not be a member of any such board or commission because of holding office as mayor.
(6)
On the first Tuesday in May following the reorganization of any city as provided under this subchapter, and annually thereafter, the council shall select from among its members a person to act as a member of each of the city's boards and commissions. Each member selected shall have all the power and authority vested by law in any other member of the board or commission, and shall serve as a member thereof so long as he or she remains in office or until the council selects a successor.
History:  1979 c. 110; 1985 a. 135 s. 83 (2); 1985 a. 225.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.30 - Organization of city government.

64.30
Organization of city government.
(1)
The council may create any general department of city affairs, such as:
(a)
Public finance and accounts.
(b)
Public health, safety and sanitation.
(c)
Streets and public improvements.
(d)
Public property.
(e)
Public charities and corrections.
(1m)
The council may designate one of its members as the head of a general department created under sub. (1). A department head may be changed whenever it appears that the public service would be benefited thereby.
(2)
At its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as possible, the council shall appoint, by a majority vote, a city clerk, a corporation counsel, a comptroller, a treasurer, a superintendent of streets, an assessor and such other officers and assistants as are necessary to the efficient conduct of the affairs of the city, and shall fix the terms of service and salaries of all such officers. Any member of the council in cities of the third and fourth classes may hold any office included within this subsection in addition to the office as a member of the council. The council in any such city may, by majority vote, appoint the mayor or any council member to any of such offices. The mayor or council member, serving under any such appointment, shall receive no compensation therefor and, as such appointee, shall be subject to all provisions of law applicable to any person holding such office.
History:  1985 a. 135; 1995 a. 225.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.31 - Salaries.

64.31
Salaries.
(2)
Cities which have not by ordinance established such salaries shall fix the salaries of council members and mayor at the earliest date legally possible.
(4)
The council may at any regular meeting increase or decrease the salary of the members of the council, including the mayor, by an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the salary established prior to the commencement of the term to which such increase or decrease is applicable.
History:  1985 a. 135 s. 83 (2); 2009 a. 177.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.32 - Offices; council may create or abolish.

64.32
Offices; council may create or abolish.
The council may from time to time create and fill offices and fix the term of service and salaries other than those described in s. 64.31 and discontinue any office so created or any office included within s. 64.30 according to their judgment of the needs of the city.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.33 - Meetings.

64.33
Meetings.
(1)
The council shall provide by ordinance for the time of holding regular meetings, and special meetings may be called by the mayor or by the 2 council members.
(2)
The meetings of the council or of any committee thereof whether regular or special, to which any person not a city officer is admitted shall be open to the public.
History:  1985 a. 135 s. 83 (2).
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.34 - City comptroller; financial statement; publication; annual examination.

64.34
City comptroller; financial statement; publication; annual examination.
(1)
The city comptroller shall each month prepare and present to the council a summary statement of the revenues and expenses of the city for the preceding month, detailed as to appropriations and funds, and arranged in standard form, together with a balance sheet statement of the current assets and current liabilities of such city at the close of such month. These summaries shall be accompanied by such detailed schedules as the council may by ordinance require. The full detailed acts and proceedings of the council at every general or special meeting thereof, including the full text of all reports filed and presented at such meeting, shall be published as a class 1 notice, under ch. 985, subsequent to the day of each such council meeting; and in the months of January, April, July and October the council shall cause to be published as a class 1 notice, under ch. 985, detailed schedules of the receipts and disbursements of moneys for the 3 calendar months next preceding the month of such publication. The compensation to be paid for such publications shall not exceed the rate provided by law for the publication of legal notices.
(2)
At the end of each year the council shall cause a full and complete examination of all of the books and accounts of the city to be made by competent certified public accountants licensed or certified under ch. 442, who shall report in full thereon to the council. Copies of such reports shall be furnished by the council to all newspapers of the city and to all persons who shall apply therefor.
History:  2001 a. 16.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.35 - Existing appropriations; powers concerning.

64.35
Existing appropriations; powers concerning.
If, at the beginning of the term of office of the first council elected under ss. 64.25 to 64.40, the appropriation for the expenditures of the city government for the current fiscal year have been made, the council shall have power by ordinance to revise, repeal or change such appropriations and to make additional appropriations.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.36 - Boards and commissions.

64.36
Boards and commissions.
(1)
The board of public works shall continue as constituted, or it shall be composed of such city officers as the council shall designate, or the council may act as a board of public works, or the board may be dispensed with and the functions thereof exercised by the council, as may be provided by ordinance.
(2)
Any other board or commission, except the board of police and fire commissioners, may be dispensed with or the number of members thereof be changed by a vote of the people held in the manner provided by s. 9.20, and in case of discontinuance the powers and duties of any such board or commission, shall be exercised and performed by the council. Unless the board of public works shall be dispensed with or changed by ordinance, or other boards or commissions shall be dispensed with by such vote of the people, they shall continue to have and perform the same powers and functions that they possessed and exercised at the time when the city adopted the commission form of government, and shall continue to be elected or appointed as then provided by law, except that members then appointed by the mayor shall be elected by a majority vote of the council like other city officers under s. 64.30.
(3)
Any city work done under the direction of commissions appointed by the state shall continue to be done in the manner prescribed by law immediately prior to the adoption by the city of the commission form of government.
(4)
All boards and commissions in any 2nd class city under the commission form of government shall continue to be elected or appointed as provided by law at the time when the city adopted the commission form and shall continue to have and exercise all the authority they then possessed. Any board or commission, except the board of police and fire commissioners, may be dispensed with or changed in membership by a vote of the people held in the manner provided by s. 9.20.
History:  1979 c. 110; 1985 a. 225.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.37 - Abandonment of commission plan.

64.37
Abandonment of commission plan.
(1)
Any city which has adopted the provisions of ss. 64.25 to 64.36 may abandon the same and reorganize under ch. 62 or ss. 64.01 to 64.14, or under a home rule charter by proceeding in accordance with s. 64.25.
(2)
The common council of any city which is first elected after such city abandons the commission plan of government shall fix the salaries of all city officers therein in the same manner as when a city is first incorporated.
(3)
The common council of any such city that has abandoned the commission form of government and before effective reorganization under ch. 62, may by an ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote of all its members, provide that the membership of the common council to be first elected upon such reorganization shall consist of one alderperson from each aldermanic district. Thereafter the membership of the council shall not be increased or decreased except as provided in s. 62.09 (1) (b).
History:  1971 c. 304 s. 29 (1); 1993 a. 184.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 64 - Other forms of city government. › 64.40 - Increasing membership of council in commission cities.

64.40
Increasing membership of council in commission cities.
(1)
Any city described in s. 64.39 may, in the manner therein provided, vote on the question of changing from a mayor and 2 council members to a mayor and one alderperson for each 4,000 or major fraction thereof of population to be elected at large, the mayor to receive a salary of not to exceed $3,600 per year and each alderperson to receive a salary of not to exceed $100 per month. The question to be submitted shall be substantially as follows: “Shall the council of the city of .... be increased from a mayor and 2 council members to a mayor and one alderperson for each 4,000 or major fraction thereof of population in accordance with the provisions of s. 64.40 of the statutes?".
(2)
If a majority of the votes cast upon the question described in sub. (1) are in favor thereof there shall be elected at the election held as provided by law upon the first Tuesday of April next succeeding a mayor and one alderperson for each 4,000 or major fraction thereof of population, all elected at large. The mayor and alderpersons shall be nominated and elected in the manner provided by law for the nomination and election of candidates in cities other than those operating under this chapter. The alderpersons first elected shall be divided as nearly as may be into 2 equal classes, one class to serve for one year and the other class to serve for 2 years from the 3rd Tuesday of April following their election. Thereafter the term of each alderperson elected for a full term shall be 2 years. The term of office of the mayor shall be 2 years. The mayor and alderpersons shall hold office until the election and qualification of their respective successors.
History:  1979 c. 110 s. 60 (13); 1985 a. 135 s. 83 (2); 1993 a. 184; 1995 a. 16 s. 2; 1995 a. 225.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 65 - Municipal budget systems. › 65.01 - Application of this chapter.

65.01
Application of this chapter.
The common council of any city of the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th class may by ordinance adopted by three-fourths of all its members accept the provisions of ss. 65.02, 65.025, 65.03 and 65.04 which when so accepted shall be in full force and effect as to any such city. Except as above provided ss. 65.01 to 65.20 shall apply only to cities of the 1st class.
History:  1977 c. 109; 2019 a. 42.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 65 - Municipal budget systems. › 65.025 - Biennial budget procedures.

65.025
Biennial budget procedures.
(1)
A city may adopt a biennial budget by implementing the procedures under this section and using the procedures under ss. 65.02 to 65.20. If a city chooses to adopt a biennial budget, it shall adopt such a budget in an odd-numbered year for the next 2 fiscal years that follow immediately the year in which the budget is adopted.
(2)
For a city to proceed under this section, the common council shall adopt a resolution or enact an ordinance stating its intent to adopt a biennial budget. Once a resolution is adopted or an ordinance is enacted, such an action takes effect and may not be reconsidered or repealed, except as provided in sub. (3).
(3)
A common council that has adopted a biennial budget procedure as provided in this section may return to the use of an annual budget procedure if the common council, by a two-thirds majority vote, adopts a resolution or enacts an ordinance stating its intent to adopt an annual budget.
(4)
A common council or a committee authorized by the common council may, at any time, decrease appropriation amounts in a biennial budget.
(5)
In October or November of an even-numbered year, the common council may change any appropriation or revenue amount in relation to the 2nd year of the biennial budget by a simple majority vote of the members-elect, as defined in s. 59.001 (2m).
History:  2019 a. 42; 2021 a. 239 s. 74.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 65 - Municipal budget systems. › 65.03 - Departmental estimates.

65.03
Departmental estimates.
(1)
It shall be the duty of each department to file with the secretary of the board of estimates not later than August 1 of each year on forms approved by the board of estimates an estimate in detail of the department's needs for the ensuing fiscal year, including a statement of any permanent improvements to be made and an estimate of expenditures therefor, and including such information supplied in such form as the board of estimates may direct. If the city is using biennial budgeting, the forms described in this subsection shall also detail the changes between the first and 2nd year of the biennium.
(2)
Any department whose funds are not subject to the control of the common council may include in its estimate such sum as it may deem reasonably necessary for a contingent fund for emergency purposes or other purposes which may arise during the year requiring the expenditure of money in addition to the sums provided for the several purposes or for purposes for which no express provision is made in the budget.
History: 2019 a. 42.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 65 - Municipal budget systems. › 65.10 - City officers to pay receipts monthly.

65.10
City officers to pay receipts monthly.
Each city officer shall keep an itemized and accurate account of all moneys received by the officer in the officer's official capacity for fees, commissions and otherwise, and shall at the end of each month, during that officer's term of office, pay into the city treasury all such money in that officer's hands and file a duly verified copy of that officer's account with the city comptroller, together with a receipt of the city treasurer showing that such money has been paid into the city treasury. Until such account and receipt are so filed, it shall not be lawful for the common council or city officer, to order, draw, countersign or deliver any warrant for the payment of the salary or allowance of any such delinquent officer.
History:  1991 a. 316.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.0103 - Code of ordinances.

66.0103
Code of ordinances.
(1)
The governing body of a city, village, town or county may authorize the preparation of a code of some or all of its general ordinances. The code may be enacted by an ordinance that incorporates the code by reference. A copy of the code shall be available for public inspection not less than 2 weeks before it is enacted. After the code is enacted, a copy shall be maintained and available for public inspection in the office of the city, village, town or county clerk.
(2)
Publication of a code enacted under sub. (1), in book or pamphlet form, meets the publication requirements of ss. 59.14, 60.80, 61.50 (1) and 62.11 (4) (a).
History:  1999 a. 150.
There is a four-part test in evaluating whether a municipality may regulate a matter of state-wide concern: 1) whether the legislature has expressly withdrawn the power of municipalities to act; 2) whether the ordinance logically conflicts with the state legislation; 3) whether the ordinance defeats the purpose of the state legislation; or 4) whether the ordinance goes against the spirit of the state legislation. Anchor Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Equal Opportunities Commission, 120 Wis. 2d 391, 355 N.W.2d 234 (1984).
The scope of legislative activity covered by “ordinances” and “resolutions” extends to formal and informal enactments that address matters both general and specific in a manner meant to be either temporary or permanent and that can be characterized as administrative or otherwise, regardless of how they may be denominated. There is no legislative action a municipality could take that would not come within the ambit of ordinance or resolution. If a statute removes the authority of a municipality's governing body to adopt an ordinance or resolution on a particular subject, the governing body loses all legislative authority on that subject. Wisconsin Carry, Inc. v. City of Madison, 2017 WI 19, 373 Wis. 2d 543, 892 N.W.2d 233, 15-0146.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.0105 - Jurisdiction of overlapping extraterritorial powers.

66.0105
Jurisdiction of overlapping extraterritorial powers.
The extraterritorial powers granted to cities and villages by statute, including ss. 30.745, 62.23 (2) and (7a), 66.0415, 236.10 and 254.57, may not be exercised within the corporate limits of another city or village. Wherever these statutory extraterritorial powers overlap, the jurisdiction over the overlapping area shall be divided on a line all points of which are equidistant from the boundaries of each municipality concerned so that not more than one municipality shall exercise power over any area.
History:  1981 c. 222 s. 2; 1993 a. 27; 1999 a. 150 s. 368; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0105.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.0107 - Power of municipalities to prohibit criminal conduct.

66.0107
Power of municipalities to prohibit criminal conduct.
(1)
The board or council of any town, village or city may:
(a)
Prohibit all forms of gambling and fraudulent devices and practices.
(b)
Seize anything devised solely for gambling or found in actual use for gambling and destroy the device after a judicial determination that it was used solely for gambling or found in actual use for gambling.
(bm)
Enact and enforce an ordinance to prohibit the possession of marijuana, as defined in s. 961.01 (14), subject to the exceptions in s. 961.41 (3g) (intro.), and provide a forfeiture for a violation of the ordinance; except that if a complaint is issued regarding an allegation of possession of more than 25 grams of marijuana, or possession of any amount of marijuana following a conviction in this state for possession of marijuana, the subject of the complaint may not be prosecuted under this paragraph for the same action that is the subject of the complaint unless the charges are dismissed or the district attorney declines to prosecute the case.
(bn)
Enact and enforce an ordinance to prohibit the possession of a controlled substance specified in s. 961.14 (4) (tb) and provide a forfeiture for a violation of the ordinance, except that if a complaint is issued regarding an allegation of possession of a controlled substance specified in s. 961.14 (4) (tb) following a conviction in this state for possession of a controlled substance, the subject of the complaint may not be prosecuted under this paragraph for the same action that is the subject of the complaint unless the charges are dismissed or the district attorney declines to prosecute the case.
(bp)
Enact and enforce an ordinance to prohibit conduct that is the same as that prohibited by s. 961.573 (1) or (2), 961.574 (1) or (2), or 961.575 (1) or (2) and provide a forfeiture for violation of the ordinance.
(2)
Except as provided in sub. (3), nothing in this section may be construed to preclude cities, villages and towns from prohibiting conduct which is the same as or similar to that prohibited by chs. 941 to 948.
(3)
The board or council of a city, village or town may not, by ordinance, prohibit conduct which is the same as or similar to conduct prohibited by s. 944.21.
History:  1973 c. 198; 1979 c. 131 s. 4; 1987 a. 332 s. 64; 1987 a. 416; 1989 a. 121, 276; 1993 a. 246; 1995 a. 353, 448; 1999 a. 150 ss. 151, 153; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0107; 2005 a. 116, ss. 2 to 4; 2011 a. 31; 2013 a. 293, 351; 2015 a. 195.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.0109 - Penalties under county and municipal ordinances.

66.0109
Penalties under county and municipal ordinances.
If a statute requires that the penalty under any county or municipal ordinance conform to the penalty provided by statute the ordinance may impose only a forfeiture and may provide for imprisonment if the forfeiture is not paid.
History:  1971 c. 278; 1999 a. 150 s. 272; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0109.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.0111 - Bond or cash deposit under municipal ordinances.

66.0111
Bond or cash deposit under municipal ordinances.
(1)
If a person is arrested for the violation of a city, village or town ordinance and the action is to be in circuit court, the chief of police or police officer designated by the chief, marshal or clerk of court may accept from the person a bond, in an amount not to exceed the maximum penalty for the violation, with sufficient sureties, or a cash deposit, for appearance in the court having jurisdiction of the offense. A receipt shall be issued for the bond or cash deposit.
(2)
(a)
If the person released fails to appear, personally or by an authorized attorney or agent, before the court at the time fixed for hearing the case, the bond and money deposited, or an amount that the court determines to be an adequate penalty, plus costs, including any applicable fees prescribed in ch. 814, may be declared forfeited by the court or may be ordered applied to the payment of any penalty which is imposed after an ex parte hearing, together with the costs. In either event, any surplus shall be refunded to the person who made the deposit.
(b)
This subsection does not apply to violations of parking ordinances. Bond or cash deposit given for appearance to answer a charge under any parking ordinance may be forfeited in the manner determined by the governing body.
(3)
This section shall not be construed as a limitation upon the general power of cities, villages and towns in all cases of alleged violations of city, village or town ordinances to authorize the acceptance of bonds or cash deposits or upon the general power to accept stipulations for forfeiture of bonds or deposits or pleas where arrest was had without warrant or where action has not been started in court.
(4)
This section does not apply to ordinances enacted under ch. 349.
History:  1971 c. 278; 1977 c. 305; 1977 c. 449 s. 497; 1981 c. 317; 1987 a. 27, 399; 1993 a. 246; 1999 a. 150 s. 271; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0111.
A defendant arrested for an ordinance violation has the option to post either the required bond or the permitted cash bail. City of Madison v. Two Crow, 88 Wis. 2d 156, 276 N.W.2d 359 (Ct. App. 1979).
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.0115 - Outstanding unpaid forfeitures.

66.0115
Outstanding unpaid forfeitures.
(1)
In this section, “municipality" means a county, city, village or town. Except as provided under sub. (2), any municipality may refuse to issue any license or permit to a person who has not paid an overdue forfeiture resulting from a violation of an ordinance of the municipality. Any municipality, by written agreement between itself and any other city, village or town within the county in which the municipality is located, may refuse to issue any license or permit to a person who has not paid an overdue forfeiture resulting from a violation of an ordinance of any municipality which is a party to the agreement. No municipality may refuse to issue a license or permit to a person who is appealing the imposition of a forfeiture.
(2)
A municipality may not refuse to issue any of the following licenses under sub. (1):
(a)
A marriage license issued under s. 765.12.
(b)
A hunting or fishing license issued under ch. 29.
(c)
A dog license issued under s. 174.07.
History:  1981 c. 198; 1999 a. 150 s. 273; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0115.