ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO 2001 ASSEMBLY BILL 601
January 3, 2002 - Offered by
Committee on State and Local Finance (Select).
AB601-ASA1,2,7
1An Act to renumber 66.0617 (2) (am);
to renumber and amend 79.03 (3) (b)
24. a.;
to amend 5.02 (21), 5.58 (3), 5.68 (2), 5.68 (3), 7.51 (3) (b), 7.51 (3) (d), 7.51
3(4) (b), 7.51 (5), 9.10 (1) (a), 9.10 (1) (b), 9.10 (2) (d), 9.10 (3) (a), 9.10 (4) (a), 9.10
4(4) (d), 9.10 (7), 10.05, 10.07 (1), 11.31 (1) (h) (intro.), 17.13 (intro.), 17.13 (3),
523.09 (19) (a) 2., 23.09 (20) (ab) 1., 23.09 (20m) (a) 1., 23.0917 (4m) (a) 3., 23.094
6(1), 25.50 (1) (d), 27.01 (3), 27.075 (1), 27.075 (2), 27.075 (3), 27.075 (4), 27.08
7(1), 27.08 (3), 30.277 (1b) (a), 66.0301 (1) (a), 66.0617 (1) (a), 66.0617 (1) (c),
866.0617 (1) (d), 66.0617 (1) (g), 66.0617 (1) (h), 66.0617 (2) (a), 66.0617 (3),
966.0617 (4) (a) (intro.), 66.0617 (4) (b), 66.0617 (5), 66.0617 (6) (intro.), 66.0617
10(6) (b), 66.0617 (7), 66.0617 (8), 66.0617 (9), 66.0617 (10), 67.01 (5), 71.26 (1)
11(bm) and 79.03 (3) (b) 4. (intro.); and
to create 5.58 (1u), 5.60 (6u), 7.53 (3m),
128.10 (6) (e), 8.11 (2f), 11.02 (8), 17.01 (11m), 17.27 (1f), 66.0617 (1) (dg), 66.0617
13(2) (am) 2., 66.0617 (6) (h), 66.0617 (11), 70.11 (37m), 77.25 (18m), 77.54 (9a) (i),
179.03 (3) (b) 4. ad. and subchapter VI of chapter 229 [precedes 229.86] of the
2statutes;
relating to: authorizing the creation of a local park and recreation
3district, authorizing a local park and recreation district to levy a property tax,
4authorizing a local park and recreation district to apply for funding from
5certain programs that receive funding from the stewardship 2000 program, and
6authorizing a local park and recreation district to impose impact fees and issue
7debt.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB601-ASA1,2,139
5.02
(21) "Spring election" means the election held on the first Tuesday in April
10to elect judicial, educational
, and municipal officers, nonpartisan county officers,
11sewerage commissioners
, and members of the board of directors of local park and
12recreation districts and to express preferences for the person to be the presidential
13candidate for each party.
AB601-ASA1,2,2115
5.58
(1u) Board of directors of local park and recreation districts. Except
16as authorized in s. 5.655, there shall be a separate ballot for members of the board
17of directors of any local park and recreation district. Arrangement of the names on
18the ballot shall be determined by the local park and recreation district clerk in the
19manner provided under s. 5.60 (1) (b). The ballot shall be entitled "Official Primary
20Ballot for Member of the Board of Directors of the Local Park and Recreation
21District."
AB601-ASA1,3,20
15.58
(3) Names on spring ballot. Only 2 candidates for state superintendent,
2for any judicial office,
or for any elected seat on a metropolitan sewerage commission
3or town sanitary district commission
,; in counties having a population of 500,000 or
4more only 2 candidates for member of the board of supervisors within each district
,; 5in counties having a population of less than 500,000 only 2 candidates for each
6member of the county board of supervisors from each district or numbered seat or
7only 4 candidates for each 2 members of the county board of supervisors from each
8district whenever 2 supervisors are elected to unnumbered seats from the same
9district
,; in 1st class cities only 2 candidates for any at-large seat and only 2
10candidates from any election district to be elected to the board of school directors
,; 11in school districts electing school board members to numbered seats, or pursuant to
12an apportionment plan or district representation plan, only 2 school board
13candidates for each numbered seat or within each district
,
; in a local park and
14recreation district, twice as many candidates as are to be elected members of the
15board of directors, or, if the district elects board members from apportioned areas,
16twice as many candidates as are to be elected members of the board of directors from
17each apportioned area; and twice as many candidates as are to be elected members
18of other school boards or other elective officers receiving the highest number of votes
19at the primary shall be nominees for the office at the spring election. Only their
20names shall appear on the official spring ballot.
AB601-ASA1,4,322
5.60
(6u) Board of directors of certain local park and recreation districts.
23 Except as authorized in s. 5.655, a separate ballot shall list the names of all
24candidates for member of the board of directors of any local park and recreation
25district. Arrangement of the names on the ballot shall be determined by the local
1park and recreation district clerk in the manner provided under sub. (1) (b). The
2ballot shall be entitled "Official Ballot for Member of the Board of Directors of the
3Local Park and Recreation District."
AB601-ASA1,4,165
5.68
(2) Except as otherwise expressly provided, all costs for ballots, supplies,
6notices
, and any other materials necessary in preparing or conducting any election
7shall be paid for by the county or municipality whose clerk or board of election
8commissioners is responsible for providing them. If a ballot is prepared for a school,
9technical college, sewerage
or, sanitary
, or local park and recreation district, the
10district shall pay for the cost of the ballot. If no other level of government is involved
11in a school, technical college, sewerage
or, sanitary
, or local park and recreation 12district election, the district shall pay for all costs of the ballots, supplies, notices
, and
13other materials. If ballots, supplies, notices
, or other materials are used for elections
14within more than one unit of local government, the costs shall be proportionately
15divided between the units of local government involved in the election. In a 1st class
16city, all costs otherwise attributable to a school district shall be paid by the city.
AB601-ASA1,4,2518
5.68
(3) If voting machines are used or if an electronic voting system is used
19in which all candidates and referenda appear on the same ballot card, the ballots for
20all national, state
, and county offices and for county and state referenda shall be
21prepared and paid for by the county wherein they are used. If the voting machine
22or electronic voting system ballot includes a municipal or school, technical college,
23sewerage
or, sanitary
, or local park and recreation district ballot, the cost of that
24portion of the ballot shall be reimbursed to the county or paid for by the municipality
25or district, except as provided in a 1st class city school district under sub. (2).
AB601-ASA1,5,72
7.51
(3) (b) For ballots which relate only to municipal
or, school district
, or local
3park and recreation district offices or referenda, the inspectors, in lieu of par. (a),
4after counting the ballots shall return them to the proper ballot boxes, lock the boxes,
5paste paper over the slots, sign their names to the paper
, and deliver them and the
6keys therefor to the municipal
or, school district
, or local park and recreation district 7clerk. The clerk shall retain the ballots until destruction is authorized under s. 7.23.
AB601-ASA1,5,159
7.51
(3) (d) All absentee certificate envelopes which have been opened shall be
10returned by the inspectors to the municipal clerk in a securely sealed carrier
11envelope which is clearly marked "used absentee certificate envelopes". The
12envelopes shall be signed by the chief inspector and 2 other inspectors. Except when
13the ballots are used in a municipal
or, school district
, or local park and recreation
14district election only, the municipal clerk shall transmit the used envelopes to the
15county clerk.
AB601-ASA1,5,2217
7.51
(4) (b) The chief inspector, or one of the inspectors appointed by him or her,
18immediately after the votes are tabulated or counted at each election, shall report
19the returns of the election to the municipal clerk
or
, to the school district clerk for
20school district elections, except in 1st class cities
, or to the local park and recreation
21district clerk for local park and recreation district elections. The clerk shall then
22make the returns public.
AB601-ASA1,6,2524
7.51
(5) Returns. The inspectors shall make full and accurate return of the
25votes cast for each candidate and proposition on tally sheet blanks provided by the
1municipal clerk for the purpose. Each tally sheet shall record the returns for each
2office or referendum by ward, unless combined returns are authorized in accordance
3with s. 5.15 (6) (b) in which case the tally sheet shall record the returns for each group
4of combined wards. After recording the votes, the inspectors shall seal in a carrier
5envelope outside the ballot bag or container one inspectors' statement under sub. (4)
6(a), one tally sheet
, and one poll or registration list for delivery to the county clerk,
7unless the election relates only to municipal or school district offices or referenda
or
8local park and recreation district offices. The inspectors shall also similarly seal one
9inspectors' statement, one tally sheet
, and one poll or registration list for delivery to
10the municipal clerk. For school district elections, except in 1st class cities, the
11inspectors shall similarly seal one inspectors' statement, one tally sheet
, and one poll
12or registration list for delivery to the school district clerk.
For local park and
13recreation district elections, the inspectors shall similarly seal one inspectors'
14statement, one tally sheet, and one poll or registration list for delivery to the local
15park and recreation district clerk. The inspectors shall immediately deliver all
16ballots, statements, tally sheets, lists
, and envelopes to the municipal clerk. The
17municipal clerk shall arrange for delivery of all ballots, statements, tally sheets,
18lists
, and envelopes relating to a school district
or local park and recreation district 19election to the school district
or local park and recreation district clerk
, respectively.
20The municipal clerk shall deliver the ballots, statements, tally sheets, lists
, and
21envelopes for his or her municipality relating to any county, technical college district,
22state
, or national election to the county clerk by 2 p.m. on the day following each such
23election. The person delivering the returns shall be paid out of the municipal
24treasury. Each clerk receiving ballots, statements, tally sheets
, or envelopes shall
25retain them until destruction is authorized under s. 7.23 (1).
AB601-ASA1,7,172
7.53
(3m) Local park and recreation district elections. The local park and
3recreation district clerk shall appoint 2 qualified electors of the district prior to the
4date of the election being canvassed, who shall, with the clerk, constitute the local
5park and recreation district board of canvassers. The clerk shall appoint a member
6to fill any temporary vacancy on the board of canvassers. The canvass shall begin
7as soon as possible after receipt of the returns and shall continue, without
8adjournment, until completed. The board of canvassers may return defective returns
9to the municipal board of canvassers in the manner provided in s. 7.60 (3). The board
10of canvassers shall prepare a written statement showing the numbers of votes cast
11for each person for each office and shall prepare a determination showing the names
12of the persons who are elected to the board of directors. Following each primary
13election, the board of canvassers shall prepare a statement certifying the names of
14the persons who have won nomination to the board of directors. Each statement and
15determination shall be attested by each of the canvassers. The board of canvassers
16shall file each statement and determination in the local park and recreation district
17office.
AB601-ASA1,7,2019
8.10
(6) (e) For members of the board of directors of a local park and recreation
20district, with the local park and recreation district clerk.
AB601-ASA1,8,222
8.11
(2f) Board of directors of certain local park and recreation districts. 23A primary shall be held in a local park and recreation district whenever there are
24more than twice the number of candidates to be elected members of the board of
25directors of the local park and recreation district, or, if the district elects board
1members from apportioned areas, more than twice as many candidates as are to be
2elected members of the board of directors from any apportioned area.
AB601-ASA1,8,94
9.10
(1) (a) The qualified electors of the state
,; of any county, city, village,
or 5town
,; of any congressional, legislative, judicial
, or school district
,; of any local park
6and recreation district; or of any prosecutorial unit may petition for the recall of any
7incumbent elective official by filing a petition with the same official or agency with
8whom nomination papers or declarations of candidacy for the office are filed
9demanding the recall of the officeholder.
AB601-ASA1,8,1811
9.10
(1) (b) Except as provided in par. (c), a petition for recall of a state,
12congressional, legislative, judicial
, or county officer shall be signed by electors equal
13to at least 25% of the vote cast for the office of governor at the last election within the
14same district or territory as that of the officeholder being recalled. Except as
15provided in par. (c), a petition for the recall of a city, village, town
, local park and
16recreation district, or school district officer shall be signed by electors equal to at
17least 25% of the vote cast for the office of president at the last election within the same
18district or territory as that of the officeholder being recalled.
AB601-ASA1,9,1020
9.10
(2) (d) No petition may be offered for filing for the recall of an officer unless
21the petitioner first files a registration statement under s. 11.05 (1) or (2) with the
22filing officer with whom the petition is filed. The petitioner shall append to the
23registration a statement indicating his or her intent to circulate a recall petition, the
24name of the officer for whom recall is sought and, in the case of a petition for the recall
25of a city, village, town
, local park and recreation district, or school district officer, a
1statement of a reason for the recall which is related to the official responsibilities of
2the official for whom removal is sought. No petitioner may circulate a petition for
3the recall of an officer prior to completing registration. The last date
that on which 4a petition for the recall of a state, congressional, legislative, judicial
, or county officer
5may be offered for filing is 5 p.m. on the 60th day commencing after registration. The
6last date
that on which a petition for the recall of a city, village, town
, local park and
7recreation district, or school district officer may be offered for filing is 5 p.m. on the
830th day commencing after registration. After the recall petition has been offered
9for filing, no name may be added or removed. No signature may be counted unless
10the date of the signature is within the period provided in this paragraph.
AB601-ASA1,9,1512
9.10
(3) (a) This subsection applies to the recall of all elective officials other
13than city, village, town
, local park and recreation district, and school district officials.
14City, village, town
, local park and recreation district, and school district officials are
15recalled under sub. (4).
AB601-ASA1,9,2517
9.10
(4) (a) Within 10 days after a petition for the recall of a city, village, town
,
18local park and recreation district, or school district official
, is offered for filing, the
19officer against whom the petition is filed may file a written challenge with the
20municipal clerk or board of election commissioners or school district clerk official or
21agency with whom
it the petition is filed, specifying any alleged insufficiency. If a
22challenge is filed, the petitioner may file a written rebuttal to the challenge with the
23clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency within 5 days after the
24challenge is filed. If a rebuttal is filed, the officer against whom the petition is filed
25may file a reply to any new matter raised in the rebuttal within 2 days after the
1rebuttal is filed. Within 14 days after the expiration of the time allowed for filing a
2reply to a rebuttal, the
clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency 3shall file the certificate or an amended certificate. Within 31 days after the petition
4is offered for filing, the
clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency 5shall determine by careful examination of the face of the petition whether the
6petition is sufficient and shall so state in a certificate
issued by the official or agency
7and attached to the petition. If the petition is found to be insufficient, the certificate
8shall state the particulars creating the insufficiency. The petition may be amended
9to correct any insufficiency within 5 days following the affixing of the original
10certificate. Within 2 days after the offering of the amended petition for filing, the
11clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency shall again carefully
12examine the face of the petition to determine sufficiency and shall attach to the
13petition a certificate stating the findings. Immediately upon finding an original or
14amended petition sufficient, except in cities over 500,000 population
, the municipal
15clerk or school district clerk and except with regard to a member of the board of
16directors of a local park and recreation district, the official shall transmit the petition
17to the governing body or to the school board.
Immediately Except with regard to a
18member of the board of directors of a local park and recreation district, immediately
19upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, in cities over 500,000
20population, the board of election commissioners shall file the petition in its office.
21Immediately upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, with regard to
22a member of the board of directors of a local park and recreation district, the local
23park and recreation district clerk shall file the petition in his or her office and shall
24transmit a copy of the petition to the governing body of each city, village, and town
25that has territory within the jurisdiction of the local park and recreation district.
AB601-ASA1,11,62
9.10
(4) (d) The governing body, school board
, or board of election
3commissioners
, upon receiving the certificate
or copy of the certificate issued under
4par. (a), shall call an election on the Tuesday of the 6th week commencing after the
5date of the certificate. If Tuesday is a legal holiday, the recall election shall be held
6on the first day after Tuesday which is not a legal holiday.
AB601-ASA1,11,108
9.10
(7) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the operation of
9article XIII, section 12, of the constitution and to extend the same rights to electors
10of cities, villages, towns
, local park and recreation districts, and school districts.
AB601-ASA1,11,25
1210.05 Posting of notice. Unless specifically designated elsewhere, this
13section applies to villages, towns
and, school districts
, and local park and recreation
14districts. Whenever a notice is required to be published, a village, town
or, school
15district
, or local park and recreation district may post 3 notices in lieu of publication
16under ch. 985 whenever there is not a newspaper published within the village, town
17or, school district
, or local park and recreation district or whenever the governing
18body of the village, town
or, school district
, or local park and recreation district 19chooses to post in order to supplement notice provided in a newspaper. Whenever
20the manner of giving notice is changed by the governing body, the body shall give
21notice of the change in the manner used before the change. Whenever posting is
22used, the notices shall be posted no later than the day prescribed by law for
23publication
, or
, if that day falls within the week preceding the election to be noticed,
24at least one week before the election. All notices given for the same election shall be
25given in the same manner.
AB601-ASA1,12,112
10.07
(1) Except as provided in sub. (2) in the case of voting machine ballots,
3whenever any county clerk
or and one or more municipal
or, school district
, or local
4park and recreation district clerks within the same county are directed to publish
,
5or whenever 2 or more municipal, school district or local park and recreation district
6clerks within the same county are directed to publish any notice or portion of a notice
7under this chapter on the same date in the same newspaper, the text of which is
8identical, the clerks may publish one notice only. The cost of publication of such
9notice or the portion of the notice required shall be apportioned equally between the
10county and each municipality
or, school district
, or local park and recreation district 11sharing in its publication.
AB601-ASA1,12,1413
11.02
(8) If the jurisdiction under sub. (3) is a local park and recreation district,
14the appropriate clerk is the local park and recreation district clerk.
AB601-ASA1, s. 24
15Section
24. 11.31 (1) (h) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,12,2016
11.31
(1) (h) (intro.) Candidates for any local office
, who are elected from a
17jurisdiction or district with less than 500,000 inhabitants according to the latest
18federal census or census information on which the district is based, as certified by
19the appropriate filing officer,
and candidates for member of the board of directors of
20a local park and recreation district, an amount equal to the greater of the following:
AB601-ASA1,13,222
17.01
(11m) By a member of the board of directors of a local park and recreation
23district, to the board of directors. The board of directors shall immediately give a copy
24of each resignation under this subsection to the elections board and to the chief
1executive officer of each municipality that has territory within the jurisdiction of the
2district.
AB601-ASA1,13,8
417.13 Removal of village, town, town sanitary district, school district,
5technical college and family care district, and local park and recreation
6district officers. (intro.) Officers of towns, town sanitary districts, villages, school
7districts, technical college districts
and, family care districts
, and local park and
8recreation districts may be removed as follows:
AB601-ASA1,13,1510
17.13
(3) All officers. Any village, town, town sanitary district, school district
11or, technical college district
, or local park and recreation district officer, elective or
12appointive, including those embraced within subs. (1) and (2), by
the a judge of the
13circuit court of
the a circuit wherein the village, town, town sanitary district, school
14district
or, technical college district
, or local park and recreation district is situated,
15for cause.
AB601-ASA1,14,217
17.27
(1f) Board of directors of local park and recreation districts. Except
18as provided in s. 9.10, a vacancy in the office of any member of the board of directors
19of a local park and recreation district may be filled by temporary appointment of the
20remaining members of the board of directors. The temporary appointee shall serve
21until a successor is elected and qualified. If the vacancy occurs in any year after the
22first Tuesday in April and on or before December 1, the vacancy shall be filled for the
23residue of the unexpired term, if any, at on the date of the next spring election. If the
24vacancy occurs in any year after December 1 or on or before the first Tuesday in April,
1the vacancy shall be filled for the residue of the unexpired term, if any, at the 2nd
2succeeding spring election.
AB601-ASA1,14,74
23.09
(19) (a) 2. "Governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, lake
5sanitary district, as defined in s. 30.50 (4q), public inland lake protection and
6rehabilitation district
, or local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, 7or the Kickapoo reserve management board.
AB601-ASA1, s. 30
8Section
30. 23.09 (20) (ab) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,14,119
23.09
(20) (ab) 1. "Governmental unit" means a municipality
, a local park and
10recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, or the Kickapoo reserve management
11board.
AB601-ASA1, s. 31
12Section
31. 23.09 (20m) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,14,1513
23.09
(20m) (a) 1. "Governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county
, or
14local park and creation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, or the Kickapoo reserve
15management board.
AB601-ASA1, s. 32
16Section
32. 23.0917 (4m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,14,2017
23.0917
(4m) (a) 3. "Local governmental unit" means a city, village, town,
18county, lake sanitary district, as defined in s. 30.50 (4q),
or a public inland lake
19protection and rehabilitation district
, or local park and recreation district under
20subch. VI of ch. 229.
AB601-ASA1,14,2522
23.094
(1) Definition. In this section, "political subdivision" means
a city,
23village, town, county, lake sanitary district, as defined in s. 30.50 (4q),
or public
24inland lake protection and rehabilitation district
, or local park and recreation
25district under subch. VI of ch. 229.
AB601-ASA1,15,122
25.50
(1) (d) "Local government" means any county, town, village, city, power
3district, sewerage district, drainage district, town sanitary district, public inland
4lake protection and rehabilitation district, local professional baseball park district
5created under subch. III of ch. 229, family care district under s. 46.2895, local
6professional football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229, local
7cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229,
local park and recreation
8district created under subch. VI of ch. 229, public library system, school district or
9technical college district in this state, any commission, committee, board
, or officer
10of any governmental subdivision of this state, any court of this state, other than the
11court of appeals or the supreme court, or any authority created under s. 231.02,
12233.02
, or 234.02.
AB601-ASA1,15,2014
27.01
(3) Transfer of state park land to municipalities. The department may
15not transfer the ownership of any state park or land within any state park to any
16county, city, village
or, town
, county, or local park and recreation district created
17under subch. VI of ch. 229 unless
it the department receives the approval of the joint
18committee on finance regarding the appropriate level of reimbursement to be
19received by the state to reflect the state's cost in acquiring and developing the state
20park or land within the state park.
AB601-ASA1,16,1922
27.075
(1) The county board of any county with a population of less than
23500,000 is
hereby vested with all powers of a local, legislative
, and administrative
24character for the purpose of governing, managing, controlling, improving
, and caring
25for public parks, parkways, boulevards
, and pleasure drives; and to carry out these
1powers in districts which it may create for different purposes, or throughout the
2county, and for such purposes to levy county taxes, to issue bonds, assessment
3certificates
, and improvement bonds, or any other evidence of indebtedness. The
4powers
hereby conferred
under this section may be exercised by the county board in
5any
town, city or village city, village, or town, or part thereof located in
such the 6county upon the request of any such
town, city or village city, village, or town,
7evidenced by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the members-elect of its
8governing body, designating the particular park function, duty
, or act, and the terms,
9if any, upon which the same shall be exercised by the county board.
Such The 10resolution shall state whether the authority or function is to be exercised exclusively
11by the county or jointly by the county and the
town, city or village city, village, or
12town, and shall also state that the exercise of
such the power by the county is in the
13public interest. Upon the receipt of the resolution, the county board may, by a
14resolution adopted by a majority vote of its membership, elect to assume the exercise
15of
such the authority or function, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the
16resolution presented by the
town, city or village
city, village, or town. A city, village,
17or town that wishes to create or participate in a local park and recreation district
18under subch. VI of ch. 229 may negotiate the termination of any agreement entered
19into with a county under this subsection.
AB601-ASA1,17,1021
27.075
(2) The county board of any
such county may, by a resolution adopted
22by a majority of its membership, propose to the
towns, cities and villages cities,
23villages, and towns located in
such the county, or any of them, that it offers to exercise
24such the powers and functions
therein in order that are necessary to consolidate
25municipal park services and functions in
said the county.
Such The resolution shall
1designate the particular function, duty
, or act and the terms and conditions, if any,
2upon which the county board will perform the same. The powers conferred in sub.
3(1) and designated in
such the resolution may
thereafter be exercised by the county
4board in each
such town, city or village which shall accept such city, village, or town
5which accepts the proposal by the adoption of a resolution by a majority vote of the
6members-elect of its governing body
, except that no governing body may accept any
7proposal described under this subsection unless it contains a provision under which
8the city, village, or town may terminate its agreement with the county so that the city,
9village, or town may create or participate in a local park and recreation district under
10subch. VI of ch. 229.
AB601-ASA1,17,1712
27.075
(3) After the adoption of resolutions by the county board,
the county
13board shall have full power to it may legislate upon and administer the entire subject
14matter committed to it
, and among other things, to
and may determine, where not
15otherwise provided by law, the manner of exercising the power thus assumed.
No
16county may exercise any power in a local park and recreation district under subch.
17VI of ch. 229.
AB601-ASA1,18,1419
27.075
(4) The town, city or village concerned A city, village, or town may enter
20into
necessary contracts with the county, and appropriate money to pay the county
, 21for the reasonable expenses incurred in rendering the park services assumed.
Such
22The contract shall also provide a procedure for the termination of the contract by any
23city, village, or town that wishes to create or participate in a local park and recreation
24district under subch. VI of ch. 229. The expenses may be certified, returned
, and paid
25as are other county charges, and
, in the case of services performed
pursuant to under
1a proposal for the consolidation
thereof
of municipal park services initiated by the
2county board and made available to each
town, city and village city, village, and town 3in the county on the same terms, the expenses
thereof shall be certified, returned
, 4and paid as county charges; but
in the event that each and every town, city and
5village if every city, village, and town in the county
shall accept such accepts the 6proposal of the county board the expenses
thereof shall be paid by county taxes to be
7levied and collected as are other taxes for county purposes.
Said towns, cities and
8villages are vested with all necessary power to do the things
herein required and to
9do all things and to exercise or relinquish any of the powers herein provided or
10contemplated. The procedure
herein provided
in this section for the request or
11acceptance of the exercise of the powers conferred on the county board in cities and
12villages is
hereby prescribed as a special method of determining the local affairs and
13government of such cities and villages pursuant to article XI, section 3, of the
14constitution.
AB601-ASA1,18,2216
27.08
(1) Every city
that is not part of a local park and recreation district under
17subch. VI of ch. 229 may by ordinance create a board of park commissioners subject
18to this section, or otherwise as provided by ordinance
. Such, and if the city has a
19board of park commissioners the city shall terminate that board and end the board's
20authority under this section upon the city's creation of or participation in a local park
21and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229. The board shall be organized as
22directed by the common council
shall provide.
AB601-ASA1,19,824
27.08
(3) In any city having no If a city does not have a board of park
25commissioners
its and is not part of a local park and recreation district under subch.
1VI of ch. 229, the city's public parks, parkways, boulevards
, and pleasure drives shall
2be under the charge of its board of public works
, if it has such last named board;
3otherwise or, if it does not have such a board, under the charge of its common council.
4When so in charge, the board of public works or the common council may exercise all
5of the powers of a board of park commissioners.
Upon a city's creation of or
6participation in a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, the
7city's board of public works or common council may not exercise any authority under
8this section.