For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB281, s. 1 1Section 1. 27.065 (13) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,3,122 27.065 (13) (a) Whenever in any proceeding under this section, whether for
3acquisition of land or improvement thereof, any tract of land which at the time of
4filing of the final assessment of benefits and damages is in one ownership and such
5tract or any portion thereof shall thereafter be divided or subdivided into 2 or more
6lots or parcels, either by filed or recorded plat or by conveyance duly recorded, and
7the special assessment of benefits against the original tract shall be outstanding, in
8instalments or otherwise, the county highway committee, after notice and hearing
9as hereinafter provided, on verified written request of the owner of such original tract
10or the owner of any portion thereof shall apportion said assessment of benefits among
11the several lots or parcels into which the original tract or any portion thereof is
12divided or subdivided.
SB281, s. 2 13Section 2. 59.43 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,4,1714 59.43 (1) (a) Record or cause to be recorded in suitable books to be kept in his
15or her office, correctly and legibly all deeds, mortgages, maps, instruments and
16writings authorized by law to be recorded in his or her office and left with him or her
17for that purpose, provided such documents have plainly printed or typewritten

1thereon the names of the grantors, grantees, witnesses and notary. The register of
2deeds shall file or record or cause to be filed or recorded all plats and certified survey
3maps that are authorized to be accepted for filing or recording in his or her office.

4Any county, by a resolution duly adopted by the board, may combine the separate
5books or volumes for deeds, mortgages, miscellaneous instruments, attachments, lis
6pendens, sales and notices, certificates of organization of corporations, plats or other
7recorded or filed instruments or classes of documents as long as separate indexes are
8maintained
may be produced. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the statutes,
9any county adopting a system of microfilming or like process or a system of recording
10documents by optical imaging or electronic formatting under ch. 228 may substitute
11the headings, reel, disk or electronic file name and microfilm image (frame) for
12volume and page where recorded and different classes of instruments may be
13recorded, reproduced or copied on or transferred to the same reel, disk or electronic
14file or part of a reel or disk. All recordings made prior to June 28, 1961, which would
15have been valid under this paragraph, had this paragraph then been in effect, are
16hereby validated. In this subsection, "book", if automated recording or indexing
17equipment is used, includes the meaning given under sub. (12) (d).
SB281, s. 3 18Section 3. 59.43 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,4,2319 59.43 (1) (c) State upon the record of any instrument the number and
20denomination of all United States internal revenue stamps that are affixed thereto
21and shall also state upon the record
conveyance of real estate the real estate transfer
22fee paid or, if the conveyance is not subject to a fee, the reason for the exemption,
23citing the relevant subsection of s. 77.25.
SB281, s. 4 24Section 4. 59.43 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,5,3
159.43 (1) (d) Keep the books and indexes safely and maintain the documents,
2images of recorded documents and indices
mentioned in this section and in s. 84.095
3in the manner required.
SB281, s. 5 4Section 5. 59.43 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,5,115 59.43 (1) (e) Endorse upon each instrument or writing received by the register
6for record a certificate of recording the name of the county in which the instrument
7is recorded and
the date and time when it the instrument was received recorded,
8specifying the day, hour and minute of reception and the volume and page where the
9same is recorded
, which shall be evidence of such facts. Instruments shall be
10recorded as soon as practicable, in the order in which they are received, and shall be
11recorded on the day they are received, except as provided in s. 59.20 (3) (c).
SB281, s. 6 12Section 6. 59.43 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,5,1813 59.43 (1) (f) Endorse plainly on each instrument received for record, or file as
14soon as received
a number consecutive to the number affixed to the instrument next
15previously received according to the numbering now established, and to enter the
16same in the indexes
assigned to the immediately previously recorded or filed
17instrument, such that all numbers are unique for each instrument within a group of
18public records that are kept together as a unit and relate to a particular subject
.
SB281, s. 7 19Section 7. 59.43 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,5,2320 59.43 (1) (i) Make and deliver to any person, on demand request and upon
21payment of the required fees and proper identification of the record, a certified copy,
22with the register's official seal affixed, of any official record, paper, file, map or plat
23in the register's office.
SB281, s. 8 24Section 8. 59.43 (1) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,6,11
159.43 (1) (k) Keep a book and record in that book all certificates of organization
2of corporations
an index of all organizational documents of corporations, fraternal
3societies, religious organizations, associations and other entities
, and all
4amendments of such certificates documents, that are allowed or required by law to
5be
filed or required to be recorded in the register's office, and an alphabetical index
6of the names of such corporations, with a reference to the number and page of the
7volume where such writings are recorded respectively
. The index shall access the
8documents by the names of the corporations, fraternal societies, religious
9organizations, associations and other entities, and shall contain a reference to the
10document number or volume and page number where the documents are filed or
11recorded in the register's office
.
SB281, s. 9 12Section 9. 59.43 (2) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,6,1413 59.43 (2) (h) For recording or filing a cemetery plat under s. 157.07, a
14subdivision plat under s. 236.25 or a condominium plat under s. 703.07, $50.
SB281, s. 10 15Section 10. 59.43 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,6,2316 59.43 (3) Register of deeds; deputies. Every register of deeds shall appoint
17one or more deputies, who shall hold office at the register's pleasure. The
18appointment shall be in writing and shall be filed and recorded in the register's office.
19The deputy or deputies shall aid the register in the performance of the register's
20duties under the register's direction, and in case of the register's vacancy or the
21register's absence or inability to perform the duties of the register's office the deputy
22or deputies shall perform the duties of register until the vacancy is filled or during
23the continuance of the absence or inability.
SB281, s. 11 24Section 11. 59.43 (5) (b) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
SB281, s. 12 25Section 12. 59.43 (7) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,7,1
159.43 (7) (title) Including tax key or parcel identification number.
SB281, s. 13 2Section 13. 59.43 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,7,83 59.43 (7) (a) In counties with a population of 500,000 or more where tax key
4parcel identification numbers are used in the tax roll for taxes based on the value of
5property in municipalities, any conveyance, as defined in s. 706.01 (4), of any interest
6in real estate located in such a municipality shall contain reference to the key parcel
7identification
number affected. The tax key parcel identification number shall be
8required for the recording of the conveyance.
SB281, s. 14 9Section 14. 59.43 (9) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,7,1110 59.43 (9) (title) General index; electronic data processing Real estate
11records index
.
SB281, s. 15 12Section 15. 59.43 (9) (a) 1. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,7,1613 59.43 (9) (a) 1. (intro.) A register of deeds shall keep a general maintain an
14index, each page of which shall be divided into 9 columns, with heads to the
15respective columns as follows
for the real estate record series that contains at least
16all of the following
:
SB281, s. 16 17Section 16. 59.43 (9) (a) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,7,1918 59.43 (9) (a) 1. a. Number of the instrument that is consecutive and unique
19within the record series
.
SB281, s. 17 20Section 17. 59.43 (9) (a) 1. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,7,2121 59.43 (9) (a) 1. b. Time and date of the instrument's reception acceptance.
SB281, s. 18 22Section 18. 59.43 (9) (a) 1. g. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,7,2323 59.43 (9) (a) 1. g. Volume and page where the instrument is recorded or filed.
SB281, s. 19 24Section 19. 59.43 (9) (a) 1. h. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,8,2
159.43 (9) (a) 1. h. To whom the instrument is delivered, unless the document
2is kept on file
.
SB281, s. 20 3Section 20. 59.43 (9) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
SB281,8,54 59.43 (9) (a) 2. The index shall be accessible and searchable by at least all of
5the following means:
SB281,8,66 a. Name of the grantor.
SB281,8,77 b. Name of the grantee.
SB281,8,98 c. Document number, or volume and page where the instrument is recorded or
9filed.
SB281,8,1010 d. By tract of land parcel if the county has a tract index.
SB281, s. 21 11Section 21. 59.43 (9) (b) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
SB281,8,1512 59.43 (9) (b) In the case of assignments, satisfactions and partial releases of
13mortgages, and subordination of mortgages, the index shall also contain the
14document number or volume and page of the original mortgage instrument
15whenever that original mortgage instrument is referenced on the document.
SB281, s. 22 16Section 22. 59.43 (9) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
SB281,8,1817 59.43 (9) (c) With regard to affidavits of corrections of filed documents, the
18register shall include at least one of the following notations on the filed document:
SB281,8,1919 1. The document number of the affidavit of correction.
SB281,8,2120 2. The volume and page number where the affidavit of correction is filed, and
21the date when the affidavit is filed.
SB281, s. 23 22Section 23. 59.43 (10) of the statutes is repealed.
SB281, s. 24 23Section 24. 59.43 (11) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 59.43 (11) and
24amended to read:
SB281,9,6
159.43 (11) Record of attachments, lis pendens, etc. A register of deeds shall
2file or record, and index in the real estate records index, every writ of attachment or
3certified copy of such a writ and certificate of real estate attached, every certificate
4of sale of real estate, and every notice of the pendency of an action affecting real
5estate, which may be filed or recorded in the register's office. The register of deeds
6shall maintain an index for these documents that provides all of the following:
SB281, s. 25 7Section 25. 59.43 (11) (a), (b) and (c) of the statutes are repealed.
SB281, s. 26 8Section 26. 59.43 (12m) (title) and (a) (intro.) of the statutes are amended to
9read:
SB281,9,1310 59.43 (12m) (title) Tract index system ; power to alter. (a) (intro.) The board
11by ordinance may require the register of deeds to keep a tract index in any one of the
12following forms, as specified by the board
such that records containing valid
13descriptions of land may be searched by all of the following
:
SB281, s. 27 14Section 27. 59.43 (12m) (a) 1. of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
SB281,9,1615 59.43 (12m) (a) 1. Quarter-sections of land within the county, the boundaries
16of which refer to the public land survey system.
SB281, s. 28 17Section 28. 59.43 (12m) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
SB281,9,1818 59.43 (12m) (a) 2. Recorded and filed certified survey map and lot number.
SB281, s. 29 19Section 29. 59.43 (12m) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
SB281,9,2120 59.43 (12m) (a) 3. Recorded and filed plat, by name and lot, block, outlot, unit
21or other valid subunit within the plat, according to the description of the land.
SB281, s. 30 22Section 30. 59.43 (12m) (bm) of the statutes is repealed.
SB281, s. 31 23Section 31. 59.43 (12m) (c) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
SB281,9,2524 59.43 (12m) (c) If the board determines that a tract index system is unfit for
25use, the board may, by resolution, establish a new and corrected tract index. Any

1person who is authorized by the board to compile the new tract index shall have
2access to the old tract index and any other county records that may assist the person
3in compiling the new tract index. Upon completion, and approval by the board, of the
4new tract index system, the old tract index system shall be preserved as provided in
5s. 59.52 (3) (b). The resolutions of the board ordering, approving and adopting the
6new tract index systems, certified by the clerk, shall be recorded in each volume of
7the new tract index system and upon the resolution of the board adopting the new
8system, such a system is the only lawful tract index system in the register of deeds'
9office.
SB281, s. 32 10Section 32. 59.43 (12m) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
SB281, s. 33 11Section 33. 59.73 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,10,1612 59.73 (1) How bearings expressed in surveys. In all surveys the bearings shall
13be expressed with reference to a magnetic, true or other identifiable line of the public
14land survey, recorded or filed subdivision or to the Wisconsin coordinate system. In
15all cases the reference selected shall be so noted as set forth in s. 59.45 (1) (a) 2. and
16if magnetic must be retraceable and identifiable by reference to a monumented line.
SB281, s. 34 17Section 34. 66.021 (1) (am) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,10,2018 66.021 (1) (am) 2. If the land is located in a recorded or filed subdivision or in
19an area subject to a certified survey map, by reference as described in s. 236.28 or s.
20236.34 (3).
SB281, s. 35 21Section 35. 70.23 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,11,322 70.23 (2) When 2 or more lots or tracts owned by the same person are
23considered by the assessor to be so improved or occupied with buildings as to be
24practically incapable of separate valuation, the lots or tracts may be entered as one
25parcel. Whenever any tract, parcel or lot of land has been surveyed and platted and

1a plat of the platted ground filed or recorded according to law, the assessor shall
2designate the several lots and subdivisions of the platted ground as the lots and
3subdivisions are fixed and designated by the plat.
SB281, s. 36 4Section 36. 70.27 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,11,105 70.27 (3) (b) Notwithstanding par. (a), lands within an assessor's plat that are
6divided by a subdivision plat that is prepared, approved and recorded or filed in
7compliance with ch. 236 or a certified survey map that is prepared and recorded or
8filed
in compliance with s. 236.34 shall be described for all purposes with reference
9to the subdivision plat or certified survey map, as provided in ss. 236.28 and 236.34
10(3).
SB281, s. 37 11Section 37. 75.521 (3) (am) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,11,1612 75.521 (3) (am) 1. A brief description sufficient to identify each parcel affected
13by such tax lien. The description shall state the lot, block and section number of any
14parcel upon any tract, the plat or map of which is filed or recorded in the office of the
15register of deeds of such county. If the lands be unplatted an engineer's metes and
16bounds description shall be a sufficient description.
SB281, s. 38 17Section 38. 77.16 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,12,418 77.16 (2) The owner of 10 acres or more may file with the department an
19application setting forth a description of the lands which the owner desires to place
20under the woodland tax law and on which land the owner will practice forestry.
21Applications received prior to May 1 each calendar year shall be processed for entry
22by November 20 of that calendar year. Lands which include an entire
23quarter-quarter section, fractional lot or government lot as determined by U.S.
24government survey plat, excluding public roads and railroad rights-of-way that
25may have been sold, are not eligible for entry. Lands within filed or recorded plats

1or the incorporated limits of cities or villages are not eligible for entry, but lands
2subject to a woodland tax law agreement located in a town which incorporates as a
3city after the agreement was entered into remain in effect. Lands on which an
4improvement is located having an assessed value in itself are not eligible for entry.
SB281, s. 39 5Section 39. 80.38 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,12,116 80.38 (1) The town board of any town within which is situated any village or
7other plat duly certified and filed or recorded and not included within the limits of
8any incorporated village may make an order to be recorded by the town clerk
9declaring such streets and alleys in the village or other plat as they deem necessary
10for the public use to be public highways, without any other survey or description than
11that made in the filed or recorded plat.
SB281, s. 40 12Section 40. 81.11 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,12,2213 81.11 (5) The town board, upon its own authority and without direction from
14the annual town meeting, may levy and collect a tax on property located in a filed or
15recorded plat situated in a town requiring the approval of such town board, and
16adjoining a private road used by the public located therein, and on property
17adjoining, where the owner regularly uses such road which is not a portion of any
18town, county, state or federal highway system, not exceeding 3 mills for each dollar
19of assessed valuation thereof. The proceeds of such tax shall be expended for the
20improvement and maintenance of any private roads used by the public located within
21such filed or recorded plat. The town board shall not expend any of such funds upon
22a private driveway.
SB281, s. 41 23Section 41. 236.02 (9c) of the statutes is created to read:
SB281,12,2524 236.02 (9c) "Record" means, with respect to a final plat or a certified survey
25map, to record or file the document with the register of deeds.
SB281, s. 42
1Section 42. 236.02 (10) of the statutes is repealed.
SB281, s. 43 2Section 43. 236.34 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB281,13,113 236.34 (3) Use in conveyancing. When a certified survey map has been
4recorded in accordance with this section, the parcels of land in the map shall be, for
5all purposes, including assessment, taxation, devise, descent and conveyance, as
6defined in s. 706.01 (4),
described by reference to the number of the survey, lot
7number,
the volume and page where recorded, and the name of the county, for all
8purposes, including assessment, taxation, devise, descent and conveyance as defined
9in s. 706.01 (4)
and identified according to the town, range, section and
10quarter-section, or plat name and lot, block or unit, government lot or private claims
11from which the certified survey map was made
.
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