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c. Subdivision
1. 5. a. applies only in a county whose board requires the use of
9a parcel identifier number.
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(b)
(intro.) Except as provided in
subs. (4) and (5) pars. (d) and (e), no document
11may be recorded in the office of a register of deeds unless it substantially complies
12with all of the following:
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6. The top margin of each page is 0.5 inch, except that company logos may
14appear within this margin if they do not interfere with any of the other requirements
15of this
section subsection.
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(c) The register of deeds shall provide, upon request, a blank form which a
17person may complete and use as the first page of an instrument that the person seeks
18to record. The blank form shall be provided without charge and shall conform to the
19provisions of
subs. (1) and (2) pars. (a) and (b).
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(d) (intro.)
Subsections (1) and (2) Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply to any
21of the following instruments:
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(e) Every instrument that the register of deeds accepts for recordation under
23this
section subsection shall be considered recorded despite its failure to conform to
24one or more of the requirements of this
section subsection, if the instrument is
25properly indexed in a public index maintained in the office of the register of deeds.
Note: 1995 Wis. Act 201 renumbered s. 59.43 (2m) to a subsection from a section
without adjusting the cross-references accordingly.
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59.43
(12m) (d) 1. (intro.) The
county board
of any county may at any meeting,
5by resolution, authorize a plan for a new and corrected set of tract indices and order
6new tract indices arranged and compiled according to the plan whenever, in the
7judgment of the board, any existing tract index or indices become unfit for use,
8because of any of the following:
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2. The board may purchase suitable books for the new tract indices and may
10receive bids and contract with any competent person to
the prepare the new tract
11indices, at a price not exceeding 5 cents per folio, which shall be paid out of the county
12treasury on acceptance of the new tract indices by the board.
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3. The person contracting to
the prepare the new tract indices, and the person's
14assistants, shall have access to and be entitled to the use of the old tract indices and
15other records in the register of deeds' office and other county records
the.
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4. When the new tract indices are completed and
the approved and adopted by
17the board, the old tract indices shall be preserved as provided in s. 59.52 (3) (b). The
18resolutions of the board ordering, approving and adopting the new tract indices, duly
19certified by the clerk, shall be recorded in each volume of the new tract indices; and
20thereupon
the the new tract indices shall become and be the only lawful tract indices
21in the register of deeds' office.
Note: Reconciles the treatment of this provision by
1995 Wis. Acts 201 and
225.
Deletes surplus language. "Board" is defined as the county board by s. 59.001 (1).
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59.44
(1) (a) Except as provided under par. (b), whenever any county adopts a
4tract index system or any recognized chain of title system, the board may create a
5department to be known as an abstract department, either in connection with or
6independent of the office of the register of deeds, as the board considers advisable.
7The
county board may appoint a competent person for a term of 2 years, who shall
8be known as the county abstractor, and shall have charge of and operate the abstract
9department. The board shall furnish a seal for the abstractor, who shall place the
10seal on every abstract issued by the abstractor.
Note: Section 59.001 defines "board" as the county board.
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59.45
(1) (a) 2. Make, personally or by a deputy, a record, in books or on
14drawings and plats that are kept for that purpose, of all corners that are set and the
15manner of fixing the corners and of all bearings and the distances of all courses run,
16of each survey made personally, by deputies or by other land surveyors and arrange
17or index the record so it is an easy to use reference and file and preserve in the office
18the original field notes and calculation thereof. Within 60 days after completing any
19survey, the county surveyor shall make a true and correct copy of the foregoing
20record, in record books or on reproducible papers to be furnished by the county and
21kept in
file files in the office of the county surveyor to be provided by the county. In
22a county with a population of 500,000 or more where there is no county surveyor, a
23copy of the record shall also be filed in the office of the regional planning commission
24which acts in the capacity of county surveyor for the county.
Note: Inserts correct word as indicated by drafting records for Chapter 499, Laws
of 1969.
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59.52
(3) (b) When any book, public record or the record of any city, village or
4town plat in any county office shall, from any cause, become unfit for use in whole
5or in part, the board shall order that the book, record or plat be rebound or
6transcribed. If the order is to rebind such book, record or plat, the rebinding must
7be done under the direction of the officer in charge of the book, record or plat, and in
8that officer's office. If the order is to transcribe such book, record or plat, the officer
9having charge of the same shall provide a suitable book for that purpose; and
10thereupon such officer shall transcribe the same in the book so provided and
11carefully compare the transcript with the originals, and make the same a correct copy
12thereof, and shall attach to the transcript a certificate over that officer's official
13signature that that officer has carefully compared the matter therein contained with,
14and that the same is a correct and literal copy of the book, record or plat from which
15the same was transcribed, naming such book.
Such
The certified copy of
the book,
16record or plat
, so certified, shall have the same effect in all respects as the original,
17and
such the original book, record or plat shall be deposited with the treasurer and
18carefully preserved
, except
that in counties having a population of 500,000 or more
19where a book containing a tract index is rewritten or transcribed
, the original book
20may be destroyed. The order of the board directing the transcribing of any book,
21record or plat duly certified by the clerk shall, with such certificate, be recorded in
22each copy of
the book, record or plat transcribed. The fee of the officer for such service
23shall be fixed by the board, not exceeding 10 cents per folio, or if such books or any
1part thereof consist of printed forms, not to exceed 5 cents per folio for such books or
2records, to be paid by the county.
Note: Reorders, inserts and replaces language for improved readability and
conformity with current style.
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59.52
(6) (d) 1. Construct, purchase, acquire, lease, develop, improve, extend,
6equip, operate and maintain all county buildings, structures and facilities
7hereinafter in this subsection referred to as "projects", including without limitation
8because of enumeration swimming pools, stadiums, golf courses, tennis courts,
9parks, playgrounds, bathing beaches, bathhouses and other recreational facilities,
10exhibition halls, convention facilities, convention complexes, including indoor
11recreational facilities, dams in county lands, garbage incinerators, courthouses,
12jails, schools, hospitals and facilities for medical education use in conjunction with
13such hospitals,
home homes for the aged or indigent, regional projects, sewage
14disposal plants and systems, and including all property, real and personal, pertinent
15or necessary for such purposes.
Note: Corrects word form.
Note: There is no conflict of substance. This provision was renumbered to s. 59.52
(16) (a) by
1995 Wis. Act 201.
Note: There is no conflict of substance. This provision was renumbered to s. 59.53
(6) (b) by
1995 Wis. Act 201.
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59.53
(16) (b) All isolation hospitals and other places, when erected or
4established in counties having a county board of administration, shall be conducted
5under the control and management of the board
of administration in the same
6manner and to the same extent as other institutions under the control of the board
7of administration, and in other counties the isolation hospitals and other places shall
8be conducted under the control and management of the county board. Any resident
9of this state who is not indigent may be received into, treated and cared for in an
10isolation hospital or other place upon the terms and conditions and at the rate or pay
11established and fixed by the board having charge of the isolation hospital or other
12place; provided, however, that indigent and destitute sick persons shall be cared for
13and have preference of admission to such hospitals and places.
Note: Clarifies reference.
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59.54
(15) Annual inspection. At least once each year the board of each county,
17or a committee thereof, shall visit, inspect and examine each jail maintained by the
18county, as to health, cleanliness and discipline, and the keeper of the jail shall lay
19before the board or the committee a calendar setting forth the name, age and cause
20of committal of each prisoner. If it appears to the board or committee that any
of the 21provisions of law have been violated or neglected the board or the committee shall
22immediately give notice of the violation to the district attorney of the county.
Note: Deletes unnecessary language.
Note: There is no conflict of substance. This provision was renumbered to s. 59.54
(25) by
1995 Wis. Act 201.
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59.56
(13) Celebrations and conventions. The board may appropriate money
9to defray the expense of national air shows or similar aeronautics activities held in
10the county, of municipal commemorative or patriotic celebrations or
observance 11observances, of state or national conventions of war veterans, of national
12conventions of fraternal associations, of group entertainment for children on
13Halloween by county or municipal agencies within the county or of state or national
14conventions of county officers or employes or associations thereof or of bringing any
15of such conventions to the county.
Note: Corrects word form.
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59.58
(3) (g) 3. Delegate responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the
19system to an appropriate administrative officer, board or commission of the county
20notwithstanding s.
59.83 59.84 or any other statute.
Note: 1995 Wis. Act 201 changed this cross-reference to s. 59.83 from s. 59.965.
Act 201 renumbered s. 59.965 to s. 59.84. There is no s. 59.83.
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59.58
(6) (b) 1.
Except as provided in par. (f), 7 Seven members nominated by
4the governor, and with the advice and consent of the senate appointed, for 3-year
5terms, with each member designated to represent one of the counties in the region.
Note: Section 59.58 (6) (f) is repealed by this bill. See the note to the following
section of this bill.
Note: By its terms, this provision does not apply after December 31, 1993.
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59.60
(6) (a) The county executive or county administrator shall review the
12estimates of expenditures and revenues and hold public hearings on such estimates
13at which the head or a representative of every county department shall appear and
14give information with regard to the appropriations requested, including work
15programs, other justification of expenditures, and other data that the county
16executive or county administrator requests. The county executive or county
17administrator shall make changes in the proposed budget that in the executive's or
18administrator's discretion are considered desirable or proper.
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(b) On or before October 1, and after the hearings required under par. (a), the
20county executive or county administrator shall submit the amended proposed budget
21to the board. The amended proposed budget shall be the executive's or
22administrator's budget and shall include all of the following:
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1. A simple, clear, general summary of the detailed contents of the budget.
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12. A comparative statement by organization unit and principal object of
2expenditure showing the actual expenditures of the preceding fiscal year, the
3appropriations and estimated expenditures for the fiscal year currently ending, and
4the recommended appropriations for the fiscal year next succeeding.
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3. A comparative statement of the actual revenues from all sources including
6property taxes during the preceding fiscal year, the anticipated revenues and the
7estimated revenues for the fiscal year currently ending, and the anticipated
8revenues for the fiscal year next succeeding including any surplus from the
9preceding fiscal year not otherwise appropriated under sub. (9).
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(c) The anticipated revenues for the fiscal year next succeeding shall be equal
11in amount to the recommended appropriations.
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(d) The executive's or administrator's budget shall be accompanied by a
13message prepared by the county executive or county administrator which shall
14outline the important features of the budget plan and indicate any major changes in
15policy or in recommended appropriations or revenues as compared with the fiscal
16year currently ending, and shall set forth the reasons for such changes.
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59.60
(9) (b) An appropriation under par. (a) may be made only by resolution
20adopted by a vote of two-thirds of the members-elect of the board. To the extent that
21unappropriated funds or realized revenues in excess of anticipated revenues are
22unavailable to meet the emergency, the board may, by resolution adopted by
23three-fourths of the members-elect, issue tax anticipation notes under s. 67.12.
24Notice of intent to make supplemental appropriations from revenues or surplus or
1to issue tax anticipation notes shall be published as a class 1 notice, under ch. 985,
2in the 2 daily newspapers having the largest circulation in the county, not less than
36 days prior to the hearings before the finance committee of the
county board in
4regard to these matters.
Note: Deletes unnecessary word. Section 59.001 (1) defines "board" as the county
board.
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59.64
(1) (a)
In general. Every person, except jurors, witnesses and
8interpreters, and except physicians or other persons who are entitled to receive from
9the county fees for reporting to the register of deeds births or deaths, which have
10occurred under their care, having any claim against any county shall comply with
11s. 893.80. This
subsection paragraph does not apply to actions commenced under s.
1219.37 or 19.97.
Note: The renumbering of this provision from s. 59.77 (1) to s. 59.64 (1) (a) by
1995
Wis. Act 201 requires the correction of the cross-reference here which was added to s.
59.77 (1) by
1995 Wis. Act 158.
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59.64
(1) (d) 2. a. The clerk shall deliver the statement filed under
par. (a) subd.
161. to the district attorney, who shall examine the statement and make a report in
17writing thereon to the board, specifying the items in each for which the county is or
18is not liable, and the extent of its liability if it is liable for a part only of any item.
19The statement and report shall be laid before the board by the
county clerk and
20insofar as the items charged in the statement are approved by the district attorney
21the statement shall be prima facie evidence of the claims of the persons named in the
22statement.
Note: Inserts correct cross-reference. Deletes unnecessary word.
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59.64
(1) (d) 2. b. The
county board shall examine the statement, allow the fees
4that are legal, and direct that orders be drawn for the amount allowed to each person
5named therein. If any person in whose favor any order is drawn under this
6paragraph subdivision shall not call for the fees within 2 years from the time the
7claim is allowed, the person's right to any compensation for services shall be
8considered waived and the board shall cancel the order.
Note: Section 59.001 defines "board" as the county board. Corrects
cross-reference.
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59.66
(1) (b) One year after the filing of the report the clerk of any circuit court
12holding or having in his or her possession any such moneys, securities or funds shall
13turn them over to the treasurer, unless sooner demanded by and turned over to the
14legal owners thereof under order of the court in which
the case, action or proceeding
15was pending.
Note: Inserts missing word.
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59.66
(1) (c) On or before March 1 of the same year the treasurer shall publish
19in the county, as a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, the fact that he or she has unclaimed
20moneys, securities or funds in his or her possession for disposition. If no legal claim
21is made for the moneys, securities
, or funds within 90 days after the last publication
22above provided for, then the treasurer shall
turn
deposit the moneys, securities
, or
1funds, together with all interest and profits thereon,
into in the general fund of the
2county treasury, and no action may thereafter be maintained by any person, firm
, or
3corporation against the county or the treasurer for the moneys, securities or funds.
Note: Deletes unnecessary commas and replaces language for greater clarity and
readability.
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59.66
(3) (title)
Disposition of unclaimed personal property other than
7money or securities held by: county institutions, coroner coroners, medical
8examiner, sheriff examiners or sheriffs. All personal property other than money
9or securities of
a deceased
persons
person who at the time of
their his or her death
10are patients is a patient at any county institution or whose body is taken in charge
11by the coroner or medical examiner shall be preserved by the superintendent of the
12institution, the coroner or the medical examiner for one year unless the property is
13claimed sooner by a person having the legal right to the property. Annually on July
141 the superintendent, coroner or medical examiner shall make a verified written
15report listing all personal property which has remained in that person's custody for
16one year without being claimed and giving all facts as to ownership of the property
17as that person's records contain. The superintendent, coroner or medical examiner
18shall file the report with the sheriff of the county and deliver the property to the
19sheriff, who shall issue a receipt for the property. Thereupon the superintendent,
20coroner or medical examiner shall be discharged from further liability for the
21property, title to which shall then vest in the county. Any property which is left at
22the county jail for a period of one year after the prisoner has been discharged,
23transferred or committed and any property, found or stolen, which comes into the
1hands of the sheriff and in any case remains unclaimed for a period of one year, shall
2be sold as prescribed in this subsection. The sheriff shall, on or before August 1
3annually, post a notice in 3 public places in the county, briefly describing the property
4and stating that the sheriff will sell the property at public auction on a certain date
5and at a named place, which auction shall be held accordingly. Any of the property
6which is not disposed of at the auction shall be sold for the best price obtainable, and
7if the property cannot be disposed of by sale, shall be destroyed in the presence of the
8sheriff. The sheriff shall, on or before September 1 annually, remit the proceeds of
9the auction or general sale to the treasurer and shall file a verified report of the
10sheriff's action in connection therewith. The proceeds shall become a part of the
11general fund of the county.
Note: Changes plural word forms to the singular for proper sentence agreement.
Note: There is no conflict of substance. This provision was renumbered to s. 59.69
(9) (b) by
1995 Wis. Act 201.
Note: There is no conflict of substance. This provision is renumbered to s. 59.692
(1m) by
1995 Wis. Act 201.
Note: There is no conflict of substance. This provision is renumbered. to s. 59.692
(4) (a) by
1995 Wis. Act 201.
Note: There is no conflict of substance. This provision is renumbered to s. 59.692
(7) (ag) by
1995 Wis. Act 201.