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2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1111 - Historic properties.

66.1111
Historic properties.
(1)
Definitions. In this section:
(a)
“Historic property" has the meaning given under s. 44.31 (3).
(b)
“Political subdivision" means a city, village, town or county.
(2)
Acquisition of property. A political subdivision may acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation any property right in historic property, whether the property is real or personal.
(3)
Ownership, use and disposition of property.
(a)
A political subdivision may preserve or rehabilitate any historic property which it owns, construct buildings on that property, own and maintain that property for public purposes or lease or convey that property.
(b)
If a political subdivision leases to another person historic property, the political subdivision shall include provisions in the lease which protect the historic character and qualities of that property. If the political subdivision conveys historic property, the political subdivision shall obtain a conservation easement under s. 700.40 to protect the historic character and qualities of the property.
(4)
Consideration of effects on historic properties.
(a)
In the earliest stage of planning any action related to the following, a political subdivision shall determine if its proposed action will affect any historic property which is a listed property, as defined under s. 44.31 (4), or which is on the list of locally designated historic places under s. 44.45:
1.
Long-range planning for facilities development.
2.
Any action under sub. (3).
3.
Razing any historic property which it owns.
(b)
A political subdivision shall notify the state historic preservation officer of any proposed action which it determines under par. (a) would affect any historic property.
(5)
Grants. A political subdivision may make grants of funds to any public or private entity for the purpose of preserving or rehabilitating historic property.
History:  1987 a. 395; 1989 a. 31; 1999 a. 150 s. 88; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1111.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1203 - Housing authorities; operation not for profit.

66.1203
Housing authorities; operation not for profit.
(1)
It is declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations, and that no housing authority shall construct or operate any project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the city.
(2)
An authority shall fix the rentals for dwellings in its projects at no higher rates than it finds necessary in order to produce revenues which, together with all other available moneys, revenues, income and receipts of the authority from whatever sources derived, will be sufficient to accomplish all of the following:
(a)
Pay, as the rentals become due, the principal and interest on the bonds of the authority.
(b)
Meet the cost of, and provide for, maintaining and operating the projects, including the cost of any insurance, the administrative expenses of the authority, and, for projects located on properties wholly or partially owned before October 1, 2021, by a housing authority created by a 1st class city, tenant support services.
(c)
Create, during not less than the 6 years immediately succeeding its issuance of any bonds, a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments which will be due on the bonds in any one year after the creation of the reserve and maintain the reserve.
History:  1999 a. 150 s. 389; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1203; 2021 a. 196.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1205 - Housing authorities; rentals and tenant selection.

66.1205
Housing authorities; rentals and tenant selection.
(1)
In the operation or management of housing projects and mixed developments, an authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant selection:
(a)
It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations in a housing project only to persons of low income and at rentals within the financial reach of persons of low income, except that, for mixed-income dwelling accommodations that are part of a mixed development, an authority may rent a portion of the dwelling accommodations at rentals that are not within the financial reach of persons of low income.
(b)
It may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations consisting of the number of rooms, but no greater number, that it considers necessary to provide safe and sanitary accommodations to the proposed occupants, without overcrowding.
(c)
It shall not accept any person as a tenant in any housing project if the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations have an aggregate annual income in excess of 5 times the annual rental of the quarters to be furnished the person or persons, except that in the case of families with minor dependents the aggregate annual income of the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations may exceed 5 times the annual rental of the quarters to be furnished by $100 for each minor dependent or by an amount equal to the annual income of the minor dependents. In computing the rental for the purpose of selecting tenants, the authority shall determine and include in the rental the average annual cost to the occupants, of heat, water, electricity, gas, cooking range and other necessary services or facilities, whether or not the charge for such services and facilities is in fact included in the rental. This paragraph does not apply to a property wholly or partially owned before October 1, 2021, by a housing authority created by a 1st class city.
(2)
Sections 66.1201 to 66.1211 do not limit the power of an authority to do any of the following:
(a)
Invest in an obligee the right, if the authority defaults, to take possession of a housing project or cause the appointment of a receiver of the housing project, free from all the restrictions imposed under ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211, with respect to rentals, tenant selection, manner of operation, or otherwise.
(b)
Pursuant to s. 66.1201 (16) vest in obligees the right, if the authority defaults, to acquire title to a housing project or the property mortgaged by the housing authority, free from all of the restrictions imposed by s. 66.1203 and this section.
(3)
Subsection (1) (a) and (c) does not apply in the case of housing projects to the financing of which the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority is a party, as to which ch. 234 shall be controlling.
History:  1971 c. 213 s. 5; 1975 c. 221; 1983 a. 81 s. 11; 1983 a. 83 s. 20; 1995 a. 225; 1999 a. 150 s. 390; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1205; 2001 a. 103, 104; 2021 a. 196.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1207 - Penalties; evidence.

66.1207
Penalties; evidence.
(1)
(a)
Any person who secures or assists in securing dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205 by intentionally making false representations in order to receive more than $1,000 but less than $2,500 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.
(b)
Any person who secures or assists in securing dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205 by intentionally making false representations in order to receive at least $2,500 but not more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled is guilty of a Class I felony.
(c)
Any person who secures or assists in securing dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205 by intentionally making false representations in order to receive more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled is guilty of a Class H felony.
(2)
Any administrator or employee of an authority under s. 66.1205 who receives or solicits any commission or derives or seeks to obtain any personal financial gain through any contract for the rental or lease of dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205 shall be punished under s. 946.13.
(3)
Any person who receives assistance for dwelling accommodations under s. 66.1205, who has been notified by the authority of the obligation to report an increase in income or assets that would reduce the amount of that assistance and who intentionally fails to notify the authority of the receipt of income or assets is subject to one of the following:
(a)
The penalty under sub. (1) (a) if the failure to report results in the receipt of more than $1,000 and less than $2,500 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled.
(b)
The penalty under sub. (1) (b) if the failure to report results in the receipt of at least $2,500 but not more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled.
(c)
The penalty under sub. (1) (c) if the failure to report results in the receipt of more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled.
History:  1987 a. 173, 403; 1995 a. 225; 1997 a. 283; 1999 a. 150 ss. 391 to 393; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1207; 2001 a. 109.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1209 - Housing authorities; cooperation in housing projects.

66.1209
Housing authorities; cooperation in housing projects.
(1)
For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects located within the area in which it may act, any state public body may do any of the following:
(a)
Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its property to a housing authority or the federal government.
(b)
Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it may undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects.
(c)
Cause services to be furnished to the authority of the character which it otherwise may furnish.
(d)
Subject to the approval of the council, furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it may undertake.
(e)
Enter into agreements with a housing authority or the federal government respecting action to be taken by the state public body pursuant to any of the powers granted by ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211. The agreements may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary.
(f)
Any and all things, necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects.
(g)
Purchase or legally invest in any of the bonds of a housing authority and exercise all of the rights of any holder of the bonds.
(2)
With respect to any housing project which a housing authority has acquired or taken over from the federal government and which the housing authority by resolution has found and declared to have been constructed in a manner that will promote the public interest and afford necessary safety, sanitation and other protection, no state public body may require any changes to be made in the housing project or the manner of its construction or take any other action relating to the construction.
(3)
In connection with any public improvements made by a state public body in exercising the powers granted in ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211, the state public body may incur the entire expense of the public improvements. Any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding, any sale, conveyance, lease or agreement provided for in ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211 may be made by a state public body without appraisal, public notice, advertisement or public bidding.
History:  1995 a. 225; 1999 a. 150 ss. 394 to 396; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1209.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1307 - Urban redevelopment; regulation of corporations.

66.1307
Urban redevelopment; regulation of corporations.
(1)
Application of other corporation laws to redevelopment corporations. The provisions of the general corporation law apply to redevelopment corporations, unless the provisions are in conflict with the provisions of ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329.
(2)
Consideration for issuance of stock, bonds or income debentures.
(a)
No redevelopment corporation may issue stocks, bonds or income debentures, except for money or property actually received for the use and lawful purposes of the corporation or services actually performed for the corporation.
(b)
A redevelopment corporation may pay interest on its income debentures or dividends on its stock during any dividend year, unless, at the time of an intended payment, a default exists under any amortization requirements with respect to its indebtedness.
(3)
Determination of development cost.
(a)
Upon the completion of a development a redevelopment corporation shall, or upon the completion of a principal part of a development a redevelopment corporation may, file with the planning commission an audited statement of the development cost. Within a reasonable time after the filing of the statement, the planning commission shall determine the development cost applicable to the development or portion of the development and shall issue to the redevelopment corporation a certificate stating the amount of the development cost so determined.
(b)
A redevelopment corporation may, whether prior or subsequent to the undertaking of any contract or expense, apply to the planning commission for a ruling as to whether any particular item and amount of cost may be included in development cost when finally determined by the planning commission. The planning commission shall, within a reasonable time after the application, render a ruling, and if it is ruled that any item of cost may be included in development cost, the amount of the cost shall be included in development cost when finally determined.
(4)
Regulation of redevelopment corporations. A redevelopment corporation shall do all of the following:
(a)
Furnish to the planning commission financial information, statements, audited reports or other material that the commission requires, each of which shall conform to such standards of accounting and financial procedure that the planning commission by general regulation prescribes, except that the planning commission may not require a regular report more often than once every 6 months.
(b)
Establish and maintain depreciation and other reserves, surplus and other accounts that the planning commission reasonably requires.
History:  1999 a. 150 ss. 409, 410, 412.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1309 - Urban redevelopment; transfer of land.

66.1309
Urban redevelopment; transfer of land.
(1)
In this section:
(a)
“Bank" means a corporation organized under or subject to the provisions of the banking law.
(b)
“Conservator" means any of the following:
1.
The division of banking as conservator, liquidator, or rehabilitator of any person, partnership, or corporation, and persons, partnerships, and corporations organized under or subject to the provisions of the banking law.
2.
The commissioner of insurance as conservator, liquidator, or rehabilitator of any person, partnership, or corporation.
(c)
“Fiduciary" means a personal representative, trustee, guardian, or other person holding trust funds or acting in a fiduciary capacity.
(d)
“Governmental unit" means the state, its subdivisions, cities, all other public bodies, and all public officers.
(2)
Notwithstanding any other law or the absence of direct provision for transfer of land in the instrument under which a fiduciary is acting, every fiduciary, unless the instrument under which the fiduciary is acting expressly forbids, and every governmental unit, bank, or conservator that owns or holds any real property within a development area may do all of the following:
(a)
Grant, sell, lease or otherwise transfer any real property to a redevelopment corporation.
(b)
Receive and hold any cash, stocks, income debentures, mortgages, or other securities or obligations, secured or unsecured, exchanged for the transfer by the redevelopment corporation.
(c)
Execute instruments and do acts that are considered necessary or desirable by them or it and by the redevelopment corporation in connection with the development and the development plan.
History:  1995 a. 27; 1999 a. 150 s. 414; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1309; 2001 a. 102.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1311 - Urban redevelopment; acquisition of land.

66.1311
Urban redevelopment; acquisition of land.
(1)
A redevelopment corporation may acquire real property or secure options in its own name or in the name of nominees to acquire real property, by gift, grant, lease, purchase or otherwise.
(2)
A city may, upon request by a redevelopment corporation, acquire, or obligate itself to acquire, for the redevelopment corporation real property included in a certificate of approval of condemnation, by gift, grant, lease, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, according to the provisions of any law applicable to the acquisition of real property by the city. Real property acquired by a city for a redevelopment corporation shall be conveyed by the city to the redevelopment corporation upon payment to the city of all sums expended or required to be expended by the city in the acquisition of the real property, or leased by the city to the redevelopment corporation, upon terms agreed upon between the city and the redevelopment corporation to carry out the purposes of ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329.
(3)
The provisions of ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329 with respect to the condemnation of real property by a city for a redevelopment corporation prevail over the provisions of any other law.
History:  1999 a. 150 s. 415; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1311.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1315 - Urban redevelopment; continued use of land by prior owner.

66.1315
Urban redevelopment; continued use of land by prior owner.
(1)
When title to real property has vested in a redevelopment corporation or city, the redevelopment corporation or city may agree with the previous owners of the property, any tenants continuing to occupy or use it, or any other persons who may occupy or use or seek to occupy or use the property, that the former owner, tenant or other persons may occupy or use the property upon the payment of a fixed sum of money for a definite term or upon the payment periodically of an agreed sum of money. The occupation or use may not be construed as a tenancy from month to month, nor require the giving of notice by the redevelopment corporation or the city for the termination of occupation or use or the right to occupation or use. Immediately upon the expiration of the term for which payment has been made the redevelopment corporation or city is entitled to possession of the real property and may maintain summary proceedings or obtain a writ of assistance, and is entitled to any other remedy provided by law for obtaining immediate possession. A former owner, tenant or other person occupying or using real property may not be required to give notice to the redevelopment corporation or city at the expiration of the term for which that person has made payment for occupation or use, as a condition to that person's cessation of occupation or use and termination of liability.
(2)
If a city has acquired real property for a redevelopment corporation, the city shall, in transferring title to the redevelopment corporation, deduct from the consideration or other moneys which the redevelopment corporation has become obligated to pay to the city for this purpose, and credit the redevelopment corporation with, the amounts received by the city as payment for temporary occupation and use of the real property by a former owner, tenant, or other person, less the cost and expense incurred by the city for the maintenance and operation of the real property.
History:  1991 a. 316; 1999 a. 150 s. 417; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1315.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1317 - Urban redevelopment; borrowing; mortgages.

66.1317
Urban redevelopment; borrowing; mortgages.
(1)
A redevelopment corporation may borrow funds and secure the repayment of the funds by mortgage. Every mortgage shall contain reasonable amortization provisions and may be a lien upon no other real property except that forming the whole or a part of a single development area.
(2)
(a)
Certificates, bonds and notes, or part interests in, or any part of an issue of, these instruments, which are issued by a redevelopment corporation and secured by a first mortgage on all or part of the real property of the redevelopment corporation are securities in which all of the following persons, partnerships or corporations and public bodies or public officers may legally invest the funds within their control:
1.
Every personal representative, trustee, guardian, committee, or other person or corporation holding trust funds or acting in a fiduciary capacity.
2.
The state, its subdivisions, cities, all other public bodies and all public officers.
3.
Persons, partnerships and corporations organized under or subject to the provisions of the banking law, including savings banks, savings and loan associations, trust companies, bankers and private banking corporations.
4.
The division of banking as conservator, liquidator or rehabilitator of any person, partnership or corporation and persons, partnerships or corporations organized under or subject to chs. 600 to 646.
5.
The commissioner of insurance as conservator, liquidator or rehabilitator of any person, partnership or corporation.
(b)
The principal amount of the securities described in par. (a) may not exceed the limits, if any, imposed by law for investments by the person, partnership, corporation, public body or public officer making the investment.
(3)
A mortgage on the real property in a development area may create a first lien, or a 2nd or other junior lien, upon the real property.
(4)
The limits as to principal amount secured by mortgage referred to in sub. (2) do not apply to certificates, bonds and notes, or part interests in, or any part of an issue of, these instruments, which are secured by first mortgage on real property in a development area, which the federal housing administrator has insured or has made a commitment to insure under the national housing act. A person, partnership, corporation, public body or public officer described in sub. (2) may receive and hold any debentures, certificates or other instruments issued or delivered by the federal housing administrator, pursuant to the national housing act, in compliance with the contract of insurance of a mortgage on all or part of real property in the development area.
History:  1977 c. 339 s. 43; 1979 c. 89; 1995 a. 27, 225; 1999 a. 150 ss. 418, 419; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1317; 2001 a. 102.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1319 - Urban redevelopment; sale or lease of land.

66.1319
Urban redevelopment; sale or lease of land.
(1)
A local governing body may by resolution determine that real property, title to which is held by the city, specified and described in the resolution, is not required for use by the city and may authorize the city to sell or lease the real property to a redevelopment corporation, if the title of the city to the real property is not inalienable.
(2)
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or ordinance, a sale or lease authorized under sub. (1) may be made without appraisal, public notice or public bidding for a price or rental amount and upon terms agreed upon between the city and the redevelopment corporation to carry out the purposes of ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329. The term of the lease may not exceed 60 years with a right of renewal upon the same terms.
(3)
Before any sale or lease to a redevelopment corporation is authorized, a public hearing shall be held by the local governing body to consider the proposed sale or lease.
(4)
Notice of such hearing shall be published as a class 2 notice, under ch. 985.
(5)
The deed or lease of real property shall be executed in the same manner as a deed or lease by the city of other real property owned by it and may contain appropriate conditions and provisions to enable the city to reenter the real property if the redevelopment corporation violates of any of the provisions of ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329 relating to the redevelopment corporation or violates the conditions or provisions of the deed or lease.
(6)
A redevelopment corporation purchasing or leasing real property from a city may not, without the written approval of the city, use the real property for any purpose except in connection with its development. The deed shall contain a condition that the redevelopment corporation will devote the real property only for the purposes of its development subject to the restrictions of ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329, for breach of which the city may reenter and repossess itself of the real property.
History:  1995 a. 225; 1999 a. 150 ss. 420, 421; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1319.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1321 - Urban redevelopment; city lease to, terms.

66.1321
Urban redevelopment; city lease to, terms.
If real property of a city is leased to a redevelopment corporation:
(1)
The lease may provide that all improvements shall be the property of the lessor.
(2)
The lessor may grant to the redevelopment corporation the right to mortgage the fee of the real property and enable the redevelopment corporation to give as security for its notes or bonds a first lien upon the land and improvements.
(3)
The execution of a lease does not impose upon the lessor any liability or obligation in connection with or arising out of the financing, construction, management or operation of a development involving the leased land. The lessor may not, by executing the lease, incur any obligation or liability with respect to the leased premises other than may devolve upon the lessor with respect to premises not owned by it. The lessor, by consenting to the execution by a redevelopment corporation of a mortgage upon the leased land, does not assume, and the consent may not be construed as imposing upon the lessor, any liability upon the note or bond secured by the mortgage.
(4)
The lease may reserve any easements or other rights in connection with the real property that are considered necessary or desirable for the future planning and development of the city and the extension of public facilities in the city, including the construction of subways and conduits and the widening and changing of grade of streets. The lease may contain any other provisions for the protection of the parties that are not inconsistent with the provisions of ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329.
History:  1995 a. 225; 1999 a. 150 s. 422; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1321.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1323 - Urban redevelopment; aids and appropriations.

66.1323
Urban redevelopment; aids and appropriations.
(1)
A local governing body may appropriate moneys for the purpose of, and may borrow or accept grants from the federal or state governments or any of their agencies, for the acquisition of lands required to carry out the plan or the purposes mentioned in s. 66.1325. The local governing body may enter into contracts, mortgages, trust indentures or other agreements as the federal government requires.
(2)
A city may appropriate moneys for the purpose of making plans and surveys to carry out redevelopment and for any purpose required to carry out the intention of ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329.
History:  1999 a. 150 ss. 423, 424, 427.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1325 - Urban redevelopment; city improvements.

66.1325
Urban redevelopment; city improvements.
For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of any redevelopment plan located within the area in which it is authorized to act, a local governing body may, upon terms, with or without consideration, that it determines, do all of the following:
(1)
Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects.
(2)
Furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it is otherwise empowered to undertake.
History:  1999 a. 150 s. 425; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1325.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1327 - Urban redevelopment; construction of statute; conflict of laws; supplemental powers.

66.1327
Urban redevelopment; construction of statute; conflict of laws; supplemental powers.
(1)
Sections 66.1301 to 66.1329 shall be construed liberally to effectuate the purposes of urban redevelopment, and the enumeration of specific powers does not operate to restrict the meaning of any general grant of power contained in ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329 or to exclude other powers comprehended in the general grant.
(2)
If ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329 are inconsistent with any other law, the provisions of these sections are controlling.
(3)
The powers conferred by ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329 are in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.
History:  1999 a. 150 ss. 428, 429, 431, 433.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1329 - Urban redevelopment; enforcement of duties.

66.1329
Urban redevelopment; enforcement of duties.
If a redevelopment corporation fails to substantially comply with the development plan within the time limits for the completion of each stage, reasonable delays caused by unforeseen difficulties excepted, or violates or is about to violate ss. 66.1301 to 66.1329, the failure to comply or actual or possible violation may be certified by the planning commission to the city attorney of the city. The city attorney may commence a proceeding in the circuit court of the county in which the city is in whole or in part situated in the name of the city for the purpose of seeking appropriate relief. The court shall, immediately after a default in answering or after answer, inquire into the facts and circumstances in the manner that the court directs without other or formal proceedings, and without respect to any technical requirements. The court may join as parties any other persons it deems necessary or proper in order to make its order or judgment effective. The final judgment or order in the action or proceeding shall dismiss the action or proceeding or grant appropriate relief.
History:  1997 a. 187; 1999 a. 150 s. 413; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1329.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1339 - Villages to have certain city powers.

66.1339
Villages to have certain city powers.
Villages have all of the powers of cities under ss. 66.1105, 66.1201 to 66.1329 and 66.1331 to 66.1337.
History:  1975 c. 105, 311; 1993 a. 300; 1999 a. 150 s. 453; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1339.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 66 - General municipality law. › 66.1341 - Towns to have certain city powers.

66.1341
Towns to have certain city powers.
Towns have all of the powers of cities under ss. 66.0923, 66.0925, 66.1201 to 66.1329 and 66.1331 to 66.1335, except the powers under s. 66.1201 (10) and any other powers that conflict with statutes relating to towns and town boards.
History:  1993 a. 246; 1999 a. 150 s. 454; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1341.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.015 - Housing authorities exempted.

67.015
Housing authorities exempted.
This chapter shall not be applicable to borrowing by housing authorities or county veterans housing authorities under ss. 66.1201 to 66.1213.
History:  1999 a. 150 s. 672; 2005 a. 22.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.02 - Validation of debt.

67.02
Validation of debt.
(1)
Validations before January 1, 1922, effected by legislative enactments of defective or irregular procedure in the creation, execution or issue of municipal obligations continue unaffected by the repeal of the enactments or by the consolidation and revision of them in chapter 576, laws of 1921.
(2)
Defects and irregularities in any proceeding on or after January 1, 1922, which is for a lawful purpose, is unaffected by fraud, and does not exceed any statutory or constitutional limitation of amount, does not invalidate the bonds issued or the indebtedness incurred after the bonds have been sold or hypothecated and the proceeds received and appropriated by the municipality to a lawful purpose, nor after the performance of a contract has been entered upon by a party whose performance of the contract is the consideration for the bonds or other obligations.
(3)
A legislative, judicial or administrative determination, for any reason, that a municipality may not spend the proceeds of contracted debt, or that it has spent the proceeds for a purpose other than the stated purpose for which the debt was contracted or for a purpose for which a municipality may not spend money, shall not affect the enforceability of the debt nor the evidence of indebtedness for it.
History:  1971 c. 40; 1983 a. 207, 538.
The sub. (2) validation provision does not apply to promissory notes securing unauthorized municipal debt. Schmidt v. Town of Alvin, 145 Wis. 2d 806, 429 N.W.2d 541 (Ct. App. 1988).
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.025 - Certification of municipal obligations.

67.025
Certification of municipal obligations.
In any municipality, the officers charged with the negotiation and sale of its municipal obligations may, in their discretion, prior to the issuance thereof, submit to the attorney general or to an attorney employed under s. 67.10 (7) a certified copy of all its proceedings preliminary to such issue, and also a printer's proof or sample of or the unsigned obligations, for examination and certification. Such attorney shall examine the proceedings and, if found regular and valid, shall execute a certificate of such examination and validity. As soon as such certificate is returned, the clerk of the municipality shall cause such certificate to be recorded. This section applies to obligations issued under ss. 59.57 (2), 59.82 (2) (c), 66.0621, 66.0713, 66.1103 and 66.1105 (9) (b).
History:  1971 c. 40; 1975 c. 221; 1977 c. 418; 1987 a. 197; 1989 a. 265; 1995 a. 201; 1999 a. 150 s. 672.
Cross-reference:  See s. 893.77 for 30-day statute of limitations on municipal obligations which have been certified by an attorney.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.035 - Tax limitations not applicable to debt levies.

67.035
Tax limitations not applicable to debt levies.
All taxes levied or to be levied by any municipality proceeding under this chapter for the purpose of paying principal and interest on valid bonds or notes, other than noncapital notes, as defined in s. 38.16 (3) (a) 2r., now or hereafter outstanding shall be without limitation notwithstanding any legislative limitation now or heretofore existing, and all such limitations are repealed insofar as they apply to taxes levied or to be levied to pay principal and interest upon such bonds or notes.
History:  1975 c. 80; 1977 c. 29; 1983 a. 27; 1993 a. 16; 2013 a. 20.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.045 - Debt issuance conditions.

67.045
Debt issuance conditions.
(1)
The governing body of a county may not issue bonds under s. 67.05 or promissory notes under s. 67.12 (12) unless one or more of the following apply:
(a)
A referendum is held, following the procedures in s. 67.05 (3), that approves the debt issuance.
(b)
The governing body of the county adopts a resolution that sets forth its reasonable expectations that issuance of the debt will not cause the county to increase the debt levy rate, as defined in s. 59.605 (1) (b).
(c)
Issuance of the debt was authorized by an initial resolution adopted by the governing body of the county prior to August 12, 1993.
(d)
The debt is issued for the purposes under s. 67.05 (7) (c), (cc), (f), (h) or (i).
(e)
The debt is issued to fund or refund outstanding municipal obligations, interest on outstanding municipal obligations, or the payment of related issuance costs or redemption premiums.
(f)
The governing body adopts a resolution to issue the debt by a vote of at least three-fourths of the members-elect, as defined in s. 59.001 (2m).
(g)
The debt is issued by a county having a population of 750,000 or more to pay unfunded prior service liability with respect to an employee retirement system.
(h)
The debt is issued for the purpose of acquiring or installing energy efficient equipment.
(2)
(a)
The department of revenue shall promulgate rules that set forth the standards to be used by the governing body of a county in adopting a resolution under sub. (1) (b). The rules shall permit the reasonable exercise of local self-determination and debt management and prohibit the consideration of unreasonable assumptions that may cause an increase in the debt levy rate, as defined in s. 59.605 (1) (b).
(b)
The standards in the rules under par. (a) shall address issues including all of the following:
1.
The equalized value of taxable property in the county.
2.
The annual debt service on the debt being issued.
3.
The treatment of anticipated refunding of balloon payments.
4.
Variable rate obligations.
5.
Past and anticipated revenues that may abate a debt levy.
6.
The amount of state aid that may be received in future years.
History:  1993 a. 16; 1999 a. 150 s. 672; 2007 a. 115; 2009 a. 2; 2017 a. 207 s. 5.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.06 - Form and contents of bonds.

67.06
Form and contents of bonds.
Every municipal bond shall be a negotiable instrument payable to bearer, or, in case of registered bonds, to the registered owner; shall bear interest; shall specify the times and the place or places of payment of principal and interest; shall be numbered consecutively with the other bonds of the same issue which shall begin with number one and continue upward, or, if so directed by the governing body, shall begin with any other number and continue upward; shall bear on its face a name indicative of the purpose specified for it in the resolution of the governing body authorizing its issuance or in a resolution pursuant to s. 67.05 (13); shall contain a statement that a direct annual irrepealable tax has been levied by the municipality sufficient to pay the interest when it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal at maturity; may contain a statement that the bond is callable with or without premium on conditions prescribed on it; and may contain any other statement of fact not in conflict with the resolution. The entire issue may be composed of bonds of a single denomination or 2 or more denominations.
History:  1973 c. 172; 1983 a. 207.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.07 - Maturity and place of payment.

67.07
Maturity and place of payment.
The principal of every sum borrowed and secured by an issue of municipal bonds may be made payable at one time in a single payment or at several times in 2 or more installments; but every installment, whether of principal or interest, shall be made payable not later than 20 years after the original date of the bonds, except that when the bonds are issued for the acquisition of lands by a county having a population of 150,000 or over, for public, municipal purposes or for the permanent improvement thereof, by a sewerage district or county having a population of 150,000 or over for sewerage purposes and by any city for sewerage purposes, all installments of principal and interest shall be made payable within a period not exceeding 50 years from the original date of the bonds. The terms of the bonds shall comply with the initial resolution.
History:  1971 c. 154; 1981 c. 282; 1983 a. 207.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.08 - Execution and negotiation.

67.08
Execution and negotiation.
(1)
Municipal obligations shall be executed in the name of and for the municipality issuing them by their qualified officers who shall, for that purpose, sign the same in their official capacities, as follows: for a county, the chairperson of the county board and the county clerk; for a city, the mayor or the city manager and the city clerk; for a village, the president and the village clerk; for a town, the chairperson and the town clerk; for a technical college district, the chairperson and secretary; for a metropolitan sewerage district established under ss. 200.21 to 200.65, the chairperson and secretary; for any other municipality, the president and clerk or secretary of the governing body. The facsimile signature of any of the officers executing a municipal obligation may be imprinted on the municipal obligation in lieu of the manual signature of the officer but, unless a municipality has contracted with a fiscal agent under s. 67.10 (2) to authenticate the municipal obligation, at least one of the signatures appearing on each municipal obligation shall be a manual signature. Municipal obligations bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the execution of the municipal obligations remain valid and binding even if before the delivery of the municipal obligations any or all of the persons whose signatures appear on the municipal obligations have ceased to be officers of the municipality issuing them. Each municipal obligation issued by a municipality having an official or corporate seal shall be sealed with such seal or a printed facsimile of such seal.
(2)
The sale of bonds shall be public and noticed as provided by resolution, except that refunding bonds and bonds issued by a municipality and to be purchased by itself for any of the debt service accounts for any of its bond issues or any trust or reserve fund of the municipality may be sold at public or private sale. Bonds may be sold at such price or prices as shall be determined by the municipality.
(3)
Any or all bids received may be rejected and the sale canceled, or the sale of all or any part of the bonds negotiated, after bids at public sale have been rejected or if no bids are received.
(5)
Such negotiation and sale, or other disposition, may be effected by a disposition from time to time of portions only of the entire issue when the purpose for which the bonds have been authorized does not require an immediate realization upon all of them.
History:  1977 c. 182; 1979 c. 297; 1981 c. 282; 1983 a. 24, 27, 192 ss. 158, 303 (2); 1983 a. 207 ss. 55, 56, 93 (4); 1987 a. 197; 1989 a. 56 s. 258; 1993 a. 399; 1999 a. 150 s. 672.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.09 - Registration of municipal obligations.

67.09
Registration of municipal obligations.
(1)
All municipal obligations may be payable to bearer or may be registered as to the principal or principal and interest by the clerk or treasurer of the municipality issuing them or such other officers or agents, including fiscal agents under s. 67.10 (2), as the governing body of the municipality determines. Registrations shall be recorded.
(2)
The holder of any registrable bearer municipal obligation may have the ownership thereof registered under sub. (1), and such registration noted on the municipal obligation by or on behalf of the municipality. After such registration, no transfer thereof shall be valid unless made on the records of the municipality by the registered owner in person or by the registered owner's duly authorized attorney and similarly noted on the municipal obligation, but the same may be discharged from registration by being in like manner transferred to bearer, and thereafter transferability by delivery shall be restored; but such bond may again be registered as to principal or as to principal and interest or transferred to bearer, as before. Registration only as to principal under this section shall not affect the negotiability of the appurtenant coupons, but every such coupon shall continue to be transferable upon delivery and shall remain payable to bearer.
(3)
Any municipality may establish a book entry system as a means of identifying the persons entitled to receive principal and interest payments on any of its municipal obligations, maintaining such a system itself or contracting for its maintenance.
History:  1983 a. 24; 1987 a. 197; 1991 a. 316.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.17 - Diversion of funds, liability of officers for.

67.17
Diversion of funds, liability of officers for.
Every public officer, and the sureties on the officer's official bond, and every other person participating directly or indirectly in any impairment of a borrowed money fund or of a debt service fund of any municipality, shall be liable in an action brought by such municipality or by one or more of its taxpayers, or by any party owning a warrant, note, order, or other obligation payable in whole or in part out of such fund, to restore to such fund all such diversions therefrom.
History:  1983 a. 207 s. 93 (8); 1991 a. 316.
2023 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations › Chapter 67 - Municipal borrowing and municipal bonds. › 67.22 - Issuance stayed by protest.

67.22
Issuance stayed by protest.
No bonds, other than refunding bonds, may be issued in any cases where, within 30 days after the adoption of the initial resolution under s. 67.05 (1), a petition is filed with the clerk of the municipality contemplating the issuance of bonds, signed by a majority of the municipality's electors as defined in s. 6.02 (1) requesting in the petition that issue not be made.
History:  1983 a. 207; 1987 a. 197.