SB424,12,1222 9.10 (2) (d) No petition may be offered for filing for the recall of an officer unless
23the petitioner first files a registration statement under s. 11.05 (1) or (2) with the
24filing officer with whom the petition is filed. The petitioner shall append to the
25registration a statement indicating his or her intent to circulate a recall petition, the

1name of the officer for whom recall is sought and, in the case of a petition for the recall
2of a city, village, town, local park and recreation district, or school district officer, a
3statement of a reason for the recall which is related to the official responsibilities of
4the official for whom removal is sought. No petitioner may circulate a petition for
5the recall of an officer prior to completing registration. The last date that on which
6a petition for the recall of a state, congressional, legislative, judicial, or county officer
7may be offered for filing is 5 p.m. on the 60th day commencing after registration. The
8last date that on which a petition for the recall of a city, village, town, local park and
9recreation district,
or school district officer may be offered for filing is 5 p.m. on the
1030th day commencing after registration. After the recall petition has been offered
11for filing, no name may be added or removed. No signature may be counted unless
12the date of the signature is within the period provided in this paragraph.
SB424, s. 17 13Section 17. 9.10 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,12,1714 9.10 (3) (a) This subsection applies to the recall of all elective officials other
15than city, village, town, local park and recreation district, and school district officials.
16City, village, town, local park and recreation district, and school district officials are
17recalled under sub. (4).
SB424, s. 18 18Section 18. 9.10 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,14,219 9.10 (4) (a) Within 10 days after a petition for the recall of a city, village, town,
20local park and recreation district,
or school district official , is offered for filing, the
21officer against whom the petition is filed may file a written challenge with the
22municipal clerk or board of election commissioners or school district clerk official or
23agency
with whom it the petition is filed, specifying any alleged insufficiency. If a
24challenge is filed, the petitioner may file a written rebuttal to the challenge with the
25clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency within 5 days after the

1challenge is filed. If a rebuttal is filed, the officer against whom the petition is filed
2may file a reply to any new matter raised in the rebuttal within 2 days after the
3rebuttal is filed. Within 14 days after the expiration of the time allowed for filing a
4reply to a rebuttal, the clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency
5shall file the certificate or an amended certificate. Within 31 days after the petition
6is offered for filing, the clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency
7shall determine by careful examination of the face of the petition whether the
8petition is sufficient and shall so state in a certificate issued by the official or agency
9and
attached to the petition. If the petition is found to be insufficient, the certificate
10shall state the particulars creating the insufficiency. The petition may be amended
11to correct any insufficiency within 5 days following the affixing of the original
12certificate. Within 2 days after the offering of the amended petition for filing, the
13clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency shall again carefully
14examine the face of the petition to determine sufficiency and shall attach to the
15petition a certificate stating the findings. Immediately upon finding an original or
16amended petition sufficient, except in cities over 500,000 population , the municipal
17clerk or school district clerk
and except with regard to a member of the board of
18directors of a local park and recreation district, the official
shall transmit the petition
19to the governing body or to the school board. Immediately Except with regard to a
20member of the board of directors of a local park and recreation district, immediately
21upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, in cities over 500,000
22population, the board of election commissioners shall file the petition in its office.
23Immediately upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, with regard to
24a member of the board of directors of a local park and recreation district, the local
25park and recreation district clerk shall file the petition in his or her office and shall

1transmit a copy of the petition to the governing body of each city, village, and town
2that has territory within the jurisdiction of the local park and recreation district.
SB424, s. 19 3Section 19. 9.10 (4) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,14,84 9.10 (4) (d) The governing body, school board, or board of election
5commissioners, upon receiving the certificate or copy of the certificate issued under
6par. (a),
shall call an election on the Tuesday of the 6th week commencing after the
7date of the certificate. If Tuesday is a legal holiday, the recall election shall be held
8on the first day after Tuesday which is not a legal holiday.
SB424, s. 20 9Section 20. 9.10 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,14,1210 9.10 (7) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the operation of
11article XIII, section 12, of the constitution and to extend the same rights to electors
12of cities, villages, towns, local park and recreation districts, and school districts.
SB424, s. 21 13Section 21. 10.05 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,15,2 1410.05 Posting of notice. Unless specifically designated elsewhere, this
15section applies to villages, towns and, school districts, and local park and recreation
16districts
. Whenever a notice is required to be published, a village, town or, school
17district, or local park and recreation district may post 3 notices in lieu of publication
18under ch. 985 whenever there is not a newspaper published within the village, town
19or, school district, or local park and recreation district or whenever the governing
20body of the village, town or, school district, or local park and recreation district
21chooses to post in order to supplement notice provided in a newspaper. Whenever
22the manner of giving notice is changed by the governing body, the body shall give
23notice of the change in the manner used before the change. Whenever posting is
24used, the notices shall be posted no later than the day prescribed by law for
25publication, or, if that day falls within the week preceding the election to be noticed,

1at least one week before the election. All notices given for the same election shall be
2given in the same manner.
SB424, s. 22 3Section 22. 10.07 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,15,134 10.07 (1) Except as provided in sub. (2) in the case of voting machine ballots,
5whenever any county clerk or and one or more municipal or, school district , or local
6park and recreation district
clerks within the same county are directed to publish,
7or whenever 2 or more municipal, school district or local park and recreation district
8clerks within the same county are directed to publish
any notice or portion of a notice
9under this chapter on the same date in the same newspaper, the text of which is
10identical, the clerks may publish one notice only. The cost of publication of such
11notice or the portion of the notice required shall be apportioned equally between the
12county and each municipality or, school district, or local park and recreation district
13sharing in its publication.
SB424, s. 23 14Section 23. 11.02 (8) of the statutes is created to read:
SB424,15,1615 11.02 (8) If the jurisdiction under sub. (3) is a local park and recreation district,
16the appropriate clerk is the local park and recreation district clerk.
SB424, s. 24 17Section 24. 11.31 (1) (h) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,15,2218 11.31 (1) (h) (intro.) Candidates for any local office , who are elected from a
19jurisdiction or district with less than 500,000 inhabitants according to the latest
20federal census or census information on which the district is based, as certified by
21the appropriate filing officer, and candidates for member of the board of directors of
22a local park and recreation district,
an amount equal to the greater of the following:
SB424, s. 25 23Section 25. 17.01 (11m) of the statutes is created to read:
SB424,16,324 17.01 (11m) By a member of the board of directors of a local park and recreation
25district, to the board of directors. The board of directors shall immediately give a copy

1of each resignation under this subsection to the elections board and to the chief
2executive officer of each municipality that has territory within the jurisdiction of the
3district.
SB424, s. 26 4Section 26. 17.13 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,16,9 517.13 Removal of village, town, town sanitary district, school district,
6technical college and family care district
, and local park and recreation
7district
officers. (intro.) Officers of towns, town sanitary districts, villages, school
8districts, technical college districts and, family care districts, and local park and
9recreation districts
may be removed as follows:
SB424, s. 27 10Section 27. 17.13 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,16,1611 17.13 (3) All officers. Any village, town, town sanitary district, school district
12or, technical college district, or local park and recreation district officer, elective or
13appointive, including those embraced within subs. (1) and (2), by the a judge of the
14circuit court of the a circuit wherein the village, town, town sanitary district, school
15district or, technical college district , or local park and recreation district is situated,
16for cause.
SB424, s. 28 17Section 28. 17.27 (1f) of the statutes is created to read:
SB424,17,218 17.27 (1f) Board of directors of local park and recreation districts. Except
19as provided in s. 9.10, a vacancy in the office of any member of the board of directors
20of a local park and recreation district may be filled by temporary appointment of the
21remaining members of the board of directors. The temporary appointee shall serve
22until a successor is elected and qualified. If the vacancy occurs in any year after the
23first Tuesday in April and on or before December 1, the vacancy shall be filled for the
24residue of the unexpired term, if any, at on the date of the next spring election. If the
25vacancy 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.
SB424, s. 29 3Section 29. 23.09 (19) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,17,74 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.
SB424, s. 30 8Section 30. 23.09 (20) (ab) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,17,119 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.
SB424, s. 31 12Section 31. 23.09 (20m) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,17,1513 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.
SB424, s. 32 16Section 32. 23.0917 (4m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,17,2017 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
.
SB424, s. 33 21Section 33. 23.094 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,17,2522 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
.
SB424, s. 34
1Section 34. 25.50 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,18,122 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.
SB424, s. 35 13Section 35. 27.01 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,18,2014 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.
SB424, s. 36 21Section 36. 27.075 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,19,1922 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
.
SB424, s. 37 20Section 37. 27.075 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,20,1021 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
.
SB424, s. 38 11Section 38. 27.075 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,20,1712 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.
SB424, s. 39 18Section 39. 27.075 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,21,1419 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.
SB424, s. 40 15Section 40. 27.08 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,21,2216 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.
SB424, s. 41 23Section 41. 27.08 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,22,824 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.
SB424, s. 42 9Section 42. 30.277 (1b) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,22,1210 30.277 (1b) (a) "Governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, or local
11park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229,
or the Kickapoo reserve
12management board.
SB424, s. 43 13Section 43. 66.0301 (1) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 2001 Wisconsin Act
1416
, is amended to read:
SB424,23,215 66.0301 (1) (a) In this section "municipality" means the state or any
16department or agency thereof, or any city, village, town, county, school district, public
17library system, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, sanitary
18district, farm drainage district, metropolitan sewerage district, sewer utility district,
19solid waste management system created under s. 59.70 (2), local exposition district
20created under subch. II of ch. 229, local professional baseball park district created
21under subch. III of ch. 229, local professional football stadium district created under
22subch. IV of ch. 229, a local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229,
23local park and recreation district created under subch. VI of ch. 229, family care
24district under s. 46.2895, water utility district, mosquito control district, municipal
25electric company, county or city transit commission, commission created by contract

1under this section, taxation district, regional planning commission, or city-county
2health department.
SB424, s. 44 3Section 44. 66.0617 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,23,134 66.0617 (1) (a) "Capital costs" means the capital costs to construct, expand, or
5improve public facilities, including the cost of land, and including legal, engineering,
6and design costs to construct, expand, or improve public facilities, except that not
7more than 10% of capital costs may consist of legal, engineering, and design costs
8unless the political subdivision or local park and recreation district can demonstrate
9that its legal, engineering, and design costs which relate directly to the public
10improvement for which the impact fees were imposed exceed 10% of capital costs.
11"Capital costs" does not include other noncapital costs to construct, expand, or
12improve public facilities or the costs of equipment to construct, expand, or improve
13public facilities.
SB424, s. 45 14Section 45. 66.0617 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,23,1715 66.0617 (1) (c) "Impact fees" means cash contributions, contributions of land
16or interests in land, or any other items of value that are imposed on a developer by
17a political subdivision or a local park and recreation district under this section.
SB424, s. 46 18Section 46. 66.0617 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,23,2319 66.0617 (1) (d) "Land development" means the construction or modification of
20improvements to real property that creates additional residential dwelling units
21within a political subdivision or local park and recreation district or that results in
22nonresidential uses that create a need for new, expanded, or improved public
23facilities within a political subdivision or local park and recreation district.
SB424, s. 47 24Section 47. 66.0617 (1) (dg) of the statutes is created to read:
SB424,24,2
166.0617 (1) (dg) "Local park and recreation district" has the meaning given for
2district in s. 229.86 (3).
SB424, s. 48 3Section 48. 66.0617 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,24,64 66.0617 (1) (g) "Service area" means a geographic area delineated by a political
5subdivision or local park and recreation district within which there are public
6facilities.
SB424, s. 49 7Section 49. 66.0617 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,24,118 66.0617 (1) (h) "Service standard" means a certain quantity or quality of public
9facilities relative to a certain number of persons, parcels of land , or other appropriate
10measure, as specified by the political subdivision or local park and recreation
11district
.
SB424, s. 50 12Section 50. 66.0617 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,24,1613 66.0617 (2) (a) Subject to par. (am), a political subdivision may enact an
14ordinance under this section, and a local park and recreation district may adopt a
15resolution under this section,
that imposes impact fees on developers to pay for the
16capital costs that are necessary to accommodate land development.
SB424, s. 51 17Section 51. 66.0617 (2) (am) of the statutes is renumbered 66.0617 (2) (am)
181.
SB424, s. 52 19Section 52. 66.0617 (2) (am) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
SB424,24,2220 66.0617 (2) (am) 2. No local park and recreation district may impose an impact
21fee under this section for any purpose other than park facilities, as defined in s.
22229.86 (7).
SB424, s. 53 23Section 53. 66.0617 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,25,624 66.0617 (3) Public hearing; notice. Before enacting a political subdivision
25enacts
an ordinance or a local park and recreation district adopts a resolution that

1imposes impact fees, or amending amends an existing ordinance or resolution that
2imposes impact fees, a political subdivision or a local park and recreation district
3shall hold a public hearing on the proposed ordinance or amendment. Notice of the
4public hearing shall be published as a class 1 notice under ch. 985, and shall specify
5where a copy of the proposed ordinance or amendment and the public facilities needs
6assessment may be obtained.
SB424, s. 54 7Section 54. 66.0617 (4) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,25,148 66.0617 (4) (a) (intro.) Before enacting an ordinance or adopting a resolution
9that imposes impact fees or amending an ordinance or resolution that imposes
10impact fees by revising the amount of the fee or altering the public facilities for which
11impact fees may be imposed, a political subdivision or a local park and recreation
12district
shall prepare a needs assessment for the public facilities for which it is
13anticipated that impact fees may be imposed. The public facilities needs assessment
14shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
SB424, s. 55 15Section 55. 66.0617 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,25,2016 66.0617 (4) (b) A public facilities needs assessment or revised public facilities
17needs assessment that is prepared under this subsection shall be available for public
18inspection and copying in the office of the clerk of the political subdivision or in the
19office of the secretary of the board of the local park and recreation district
at least 20
20days before the hearing under sub. (3).
SB424, s. 56 21Section 56. 66.0617 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,25,2422 66.0617 (5) Differential fees, impact fee zones. (a) An ordinance enacted or
23resolution adopted
under this section may impose different impact fees on different
24types of land development.
SB424,26,8
1(b) An ordinance enacted or resolution adopted under this section may
2delineate geographically defined zones within the political subdivision or local park
3and recreation district
and may impose impact fees on land development in a zone
4that differ from impact fees imposed on land development in other zones within the
5political subdivision or local park and recreation district. The public facilities needs
6assessment that is required under sub. (4) shall explicitly identify the differences,
7such as land development or the need for those public facilities, which justify the
8differences between zones in the amount of impact fees imposed.
SB424, s. 57 9Section 57. 66.0617 (6) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,26,1110 66.0617 (6) Standards for impact fees. (intro.) Impact fees imposed by an
11ordinance enacted or resolution adopted under this section:
SB424, s. 58 12Section 58. 66.0617 (6) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,26,1513 66.0617 (6) (b) May not exceed the proportionate share of the capital costs that
14are required to serve land development, as compared to existing uses of land within
15the political subdivision or local park and recreation district.
SB424, s. 59 16Section 59. 66.0617 (6) (h) of the statutes is created to read:
SB424,26,1917 66.0617 (6) (h) Shall be payable, no sooner than 90 days after final plat
18approval, by the developer to the local park and recreation district either in full or
19in installment payments that are approved by the park and recreation district.
SB424, s. 60 20Section 60. 66.0617 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB424,27,221 66.0617 (7) Low-cost housing. An ordinance enacted or resolution adopted
22under this section may provide for an exemption from, or a reduction in the amount
23of, impact fees on land development that provides low-cost housing, except that no
24amount of an impact fee for which an exemption or reduction is provided under this
25subsection may be shifted to any other development in the land development in

1which the low-cost housing is located or to any other land development in the
2political subdivision or local park and recreation district.
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