1995 Wisconsin Act 201

201,444 Section 444 . 59.87 (6) (title) of the statutes is renumbered 59.56 (3) (f) (title).

201,445 Section 445 . 59.87 (6) (intro.) and (a) to (e) of the statutes are renumbered 59.56 (3) (f) 1. (intro.) and a. to e., and 59.56 (3) (f) 1. (intro.), d. and e., as renumbered, are amended to read:

59.56 (3) (f) 1. (intro.) Such A university extension program is authorized, under the direction and supervision of the county committee on agriculture and extension education, cooperating with the university extension of the university of Wisconsin, and within the limits of funds provided by the board and cooperating state and federal agencies, to make available the necessary facilities and conduct programs in the following areas:

d. Extension work provided for in an act of congress that was approved on May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 372) and all acts supplementary thereto.

e. Any other extension work that is authorized by local, state or federal legislation.

201,446 Section 446 . 59.87 (6) (em) of the statutes is renumbered 59.56 (3) (f) 2. and amended to read:

59.56 (3) (f) 2. Such a program may consist of, but not be limited to, providing agents to conduct programs on energy conservation and renewable energy resource systems, conduct evaluations and provide planning, analysis and other technical support to community agencies and organizations, small businesses, individuals interested in energy conservation in local communities and primary and secondary school teachers.

201,447 Section 447 . 59.87 (6) (f) of the statutes is renumbered 59.56 (3) (f) 3., and 59.56 (3) (f) 3. (intro.), a., e., f. and g., as renumbered, are amended to read:

59.56 (3) (f) 3. (intro.) Take Such program may take any action that will facilitate the accomplishment of any of the functions listed above under this paragraph, including without limitation because of enumeration, the following:

a. Training The training of group leaders and the directing of group activities.

e. Creation The creation of citizens' advisory committees.

f. Dissemination The dissemination of information by any appropriate means including press, radio and television.

g. Charging The imposition of fees for certain desired educational services when sufficient public funds are not available to cover costs.

201,448 Section 448 . 59.87 (7) and (8) of the statutes are renumbered 59.56 (3) (g) and (h) and amended to read:

59.56 (3) (g) Department of government. For the purposes of s. 59.15 59.22 (2) (d) the university extension program shall be a department of county government and the committee on agriculture and extension education shall be the committee which is hereby delegated the authority to direct and supervise such the department. In cooperation with the university extension of the university of Wisconsin, the committee on agriculture and extension education shall have the responsibility for the formulation and execution of to formulate and execute the university extension program. The university extension shall annually report to the board its activities and accomplishments.

(h) Cooperation. The personnel of the university extension program shall, whenever feasible, cooperate with other educational programs of importance to the citizens residents of the county. Such cooperative agreements may be made under s. 66.30.

201,449 Section 449 . 59.871 of the statutes is renumbered 59.70 (17) and amended to read:

59.70 (17) Worms, insects, weeds, animal diseases, appropriation. (a) The board may appropriate money for the control of insect and worm pests, weeds, or plant or animal diseases within the county, and select from its members a committee which, upon advice from the county agent that an emergency exists because of the destruction which is being or may be wrought to farm lands farmlands, livestock or crops in the county by any such pests, may take steps necessary to suppress and control such pests. The clerk shall within 10 days notify the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection of such appropriation and of the members of such committee. The state entomologist and said department shall cooperate with such committee in the execution of measures necessary for the suppression and control of such pests.

(b) When such an emergency exists the committee may draw on the contingent fund, if available, an amount not to exceed $5,000 which shall be disbursed upon certification of the committee for the purposes specified in sub. (1) par. (a) as they relate to worm or insect pests; the treasurer shall pay the amounts so certified. No disbursement shall be made by the committee unless the owner of the premises affected has requested the committee to take steps to suppress or control the pests or when steps have been undertaken by another authority.

201,450 Section 450 . 59.873 of the statutes is renumbered 59.70 (24) and amended to read:

59.70 (24) Lime to farmers. The board may manufacture agricultural lime and sell and distribute it at cost to farmers and may acquire lands for such purposes.

201,451 Section 451 . 59.874 of the statutes is renumbered 59.70 (18) and amended to read:

59.70 (18) Land clearing and weed control. The board may purchase or accept by gift or grant tractors, bulldozers and other equipment for clearing and draining land and controlling weeds on same, and for such purposes to operate or lease the same for work on private lands;. The board may charge fees for such service and for rental of such equipment on a cost basis.

201,452 Section 452 . 59.875 of the statutes is renumbered 59.55 (2) and amended to read:

59.55 (2) Testing milk and soil. The board may appropriate money and provide office and laboratory space for testing milk and soil and may provide residents of the county with reports of such tests.

201,453 Section 453 . 59.876 of the statutes is renumbered 59.53 (18) and amended to read:

59.53 (18) Immigration board. (a) The county board may create a an immigration board of immigration of from consisting of 3 to 5 members, one of whom shall be the county surveyor. Such The immigration board shall meet, and its members shall receive such compensation and expenses and shall serve for such the terms as that the county board determines.

(b) The immigration board shall aid in promoting settlement of vacant agricultural lands in the county, and shall protect prospective settlers from unfair practices.

(c) The county board may in any year appropriate for the carrying out of the work of such the immigration board a sum not to exceed $5,000.

201,454 Section 454 . 59.877 of the statutes is renumbered 59.79 (12) and amended to read:

59.79 (12) Licenses for cats. A county having a population of 500,000 or more may enact Enact an ordinance requiring licenses for cats. The ordinance may require a person who owns or keeps a cat within the county's boundaries to pay a license fee, obtain a license tag and otherwise control the cat. An ordinance enacted under this section subsection shall require the owner of a cat to present evidence that the cat is currently immunized against rabies before a license may be issued. All proceeds from cat licenses shall be used for licensing, regulating and impounding of cats.

201,455 Section 455 . 59.878 of the statutes is renumbered 59.70 (19).

201,456 Section 456 . 59.879 of the statutes is renumbered 59.70 (20) and amended to read:

59.70 (20) Land conservation. (a) Soil and water conservation. Each board is responsible for developing and implementing a soil and water conservation program, that is specified under ch. 92, through its land conservation committee.

(b) Committee powers and duties. The land conservation committee created by the board has the powers and duties that are specified for that committee under ch. 92.

(c) Appropriation of funds. The board may appropriate funds for soil and water conservation and for other purposes relating that relate to land conservation.

(d) Land use and land management. The board may adopt enact ordinances under s. 92.11 regulating that regulate land use and land management practices to promote soil and water conservation.

201,457 Section 457 . 59.88 of the statutes is renumbered 59.72, and 59.72 (1) (c), (3) (intro.) and (5) (a) and (b) (intro.), as renumbered, are amended to read:

59.72 (1) (c) “Local governmental unit" means a city, village, town municipality, regional planning commission, special purpose district or local governmental association, authority, board, commission, department, independent agency, institution or office.

(3) Land information office. (intro.) The board may establish a county land information office or may direct that the functions and duties of the land information office be performed by an existing department, board, commission, agency, institution, authority or office. The county land information office shall:

(5) (a) Before the 16th day of each month a register of deeds shall submit to the land information board $4 from the fee for recording the first page of each instrument that is recorded under s. 59.57 (1) (a) 2. and (6a) (b) or $6 from the fee for recording the first page of each instrument that is recorded under s. 59.57 (1) (a) 3. and (6a) (c) 59.43 (2) (ag) 1. and (e), less any amount retained by the county under par. (b).

(b) (intro.) A county may retain $2 of the $4 submitted under par. (a) from the fee for recording the first page of each instrument that is recorded under s. 59.57 (1) (a) 2. and (6a) (b) or $4 of the $6 submitted under par. (a) from the fee for recording the first page of each instrument that is recorded under s. 59.57 (1) (a) 3. and (6a) (c) 59.43 (2) (ag) 1. and (e) if all of the following conditions are met:

201,458 Section 458 . 59.89 of the statutes is renumbered 59.66 (1) and amended to read:

59.66 (1) Disposition of unclaimed funds by court clerks. (a) On or before January 10 of every odd-numbered year the circuit court clerk of any circuit court in this state shall file with the county treasurer of his or her county a written report under oath of all moneys, securities or funds in his or her hands or under his or her possession or control where, for a period of 4 years or more, no order was made, or no step or proceeding had or taken in the case, action, or proceeding in, by or through which the moneys, securities or funds may have been deposited or left with the clerk or his or her predecessors in office, and where no valid claim was made upon or for any such moneys, securities or funds for a period of 4 years or more, and where the owner or ownership of the moneys, securities or funds is unknown, or undetermined, and the clerk or his or her successor in office shall hold the moneys, securities or funds, together with all interest or profits, until one year after the making of the report unless sooner demanded by and turned over to the legal owners thereof.

(b) One year after the filing of the report the clerk of any circuit court holding or having in his or her possession any such moneys, securities or funds, shall turn the same them over to the county treasurer, unless sooner demanded by and turned over to the legal owners thereof under order of the court in which case, action or proceeding was pending.

(c) On or before March 1 of the same year the county treasurer shall publish in the county, as a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, the fact that he or she has such unclaimed moneys, securities or funds in his or her possession for disposition. If no legal claim is made for such the moneys, securities, or funds within 90 days after the last publication above provided for, then the county treasurer shall turn such the moneys, securities, or funds, together with all interest and profits had thereon, into the general fund of the county treasury, and no action shall may thereafter be maintained by any person, firm, or corporation against the county or the county treasurer for the same or any part thereof moneys, securities or funds.

201,459 Section 459 . 59.90 (title) of the statutes is renumbered 59.66 (2) (title).

201,460 Section 460 . 59.90 (1) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 59.66 (2) (a) 1. and amended to read:

59.66 (2) (a) 1. On or before January 10 of every odd-numbered year, each city, village, town and county officer of a municipality and county, and each clerk of every court of record, shall file with the treasurer of that person's county a written report under oath giving the names and the last-known addresses of all persons for whom any such officer or clerk holds money or security, and which has not been claimed for at least one year, and showing the amount of the money or the nature of the security in detail. A duplicate report shall also be mailed to the department of financial institutions. Upon receiving the reports the treasurer shall cause to be published a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, on or before February 1 of the same year, which contains the names and last-known addresses of the owners of such the unclaimed money or security, and shall state that unless the owners call for and prove their ownership of the money or security, within 6 months from the time of the completed publication, the treasurer will take possession or control of the money or security.

201,461 Section 461 . 59.90 (1) (b) and (1m) to (3) of the statutes are renumbered 59.66 (2) (a) 2. and (am) to (c) and amended to read:

59.66 (2) (a) 2. In counties with a population of 500,000 or more, the treasurer shall distribute to as many community-based newspapers as possible, that are published in the county, a copy of the notice that is described in par. (a) subd. 1. The treasurer shall distribute these copies of notices at the same time that he or she causes the notices to be published.

(am) Any money or security of which the treasurer has taken possession or control under sub. (1) (a) par. (a) 1. and has had in his or her possession or control for more than 1 one year shall, to the extent possible, be deposited in the county's general revenue fund. Money or security that is deposited under this subsection paragraph may remain in the county's general revenue fund or may be used by the county until the money or security is paid or delivered to its owner, or becomes the property of the county, under sub. (2) par. (b).

(b) If within ten 10 years from the time any such money or security is delivered to the treasurer the owner of the money or security proves to the satisfaction of the treasurer the owner's right to the possession of the money or security, it shall be paid or delivered to the owner. If no such proof is made, then at the end of the ten-year 10-year period the money or property shall become the property of the county. Nothing in this section subsection shall be construed to deprive the owner of any such property of the owner's right to proceed by court action for the recovery of such money or security from the treasurer.

(c) Any person violating the provisions of this section subsection shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of fined not less than fifty dollars $50 nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail $200 or imprisoned for not less than 30 days nor more than 6 months.

201,462 Section 462 . 59.903 of the statutes is renumbered 59.66 (3) and amended to read:

59.66 (3) Disposition of unclaimed personal property other than money or securities held by: county institutions, coroner, medical examiner, sheriff. All personal property other than money or securities of deceased persons who at the time of their death are patients at any county institution or whose body is taken in charge by the coroner or medical examiner, shall be preserved by the superintendent of the institution or, the coroner or the medical examiner for one year unless sooner the property is claimed sooner by a person having the legal right thereto to the property. Annually on July 1 the superintendent or, coroner or medical examiner shall make a verified written report listing all personal property which has remained in that person's custody for one year without being claimed and giving all facts as to ownership thereof of the property as that person's records contain. The superintendent, coroner or medical examiner shall file the report with the sheriff of the county and deliver the property to the sheriff, who shall issue a receipt therefor for the property. Thereupon the superintendent or , coroner or medical examiner shall be discharged from further liability for the property, title to which shall then vest in the county. Any property which is left at the county jail for a period of one year after the prisoner has been discharged, transferred or committed and any property, found or stolen, which comes into the hands of the sheriff and in any case remains unclaimed for a period of one year, shall be sold as prescribed in this section subsection. The sheriff shall, on or before August 1 annually, post a notice in 3 public places in the county, briefly describing the property and stating that the sheriff will sell the same property at public auction on a certain date and at a named place, which auction shall be held accordingly. Any of the property which is not disposed of at the auction shall be sold for the best price obtainable, and if the same property cannot be disposed of by sale, shall be destroyed in the presence of the sheriff. The sheriff shall, on or before September 1 annually, remit the proceeds of the auction or general sale to the county treasurer and shall file a verified report of the sheriff's action in connection therewith. The proceeds shall become a part of the general fund of the county.

201,463 Section 463 . 59.94 of the statutes is renumbered 59.76 and amended to read:

59.76 Registration of farms. (1) The owner of any farm or country estate, or that person's authorized agent, may register the name of the farm or estate in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the farm or estate is situated. The owner or purchaser of the farm or any part of the farm may change or release the name from that person's respective interest in the farm by recording a certificate stating that the original registered name is released. A new name of the farm or any parts of the farm may then be registered. Every register of deeds shall index all registrations of farm documents and make the index available upon request. The index shall contain the name of the owner of the farm or estate and the name for the farm or estate that the owner or agent may designate, if no other farm or estate in the county has been previously registered under the same name. The fee for recording an instrument under this subsection shall be the fee specified under s. 59.57 (1) 59.43 (2) (ag).

(2) Any register of deeds who fails or refuses to register farms under sub. (1), or who charges or collects more than the fee specified under s. 59.57 (1) 59.43 (2) (ag) for recording any such registration, or recording such certificate, or who knowingly registers a farm or estate under a name previously adopted and registered for some other farm or estate in the county, or any person who uses, by way of advertisement or otherwise, the name of any farm or estate registered as provided in this section, to designate or as the name of any farm or estate in the county other than the farm or estate for which the name was registered, unless the name was adopted for and used as the name of the other farm or estate prior to April 6, 1905, shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $25 or imprisoned for not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days, or both.

201,464 Section 464 . 59.965 of the statutes is renumbered 59.84 and amended to read:

59.84 Expressways and mass transit facilities in populous counties. (1) Definitions. As used in In this section, unless the context indicates otherwise:

(a) “Board" means the county board of supervisors in any county having with a population of 500,000 or more.

(b) “Expressway" means a divided arterial highway for through traffic with full or partial control of access and, generally, with grade separations at intersections.

(bm) “Full control of access" means that the authority to control access is exercised to give preference to through traffic by providing access connections with selected public roads only and by prohibiting crossings at grade or direct private driveway connections.

(em) “Partial control of access" means that the authority to control access is exercised to give preference to through traffic to a degree that, in addition to access connections with selected public roads, there may be some crossings at grade and some private driveway connections. The board shall have power to determine whether full or partial control of access shall be exercised.

(c) “Expressway project" means an integral portion of the expressway that may be put to public use independently of other expressway projects.

(d) “Expressway project budget" means the plan of financial operation embodying an estimate of proposed expenditures for the an expressway project and the proposed means of financing them.

(e) “Mass transit" includes, without limitation because of enumeration, exclusive or preferential bus lanes if those lanes are limited to abandoned railroad rights-of-way or existing expressways constructed before May 17, 1978, highway control devices, bus passenger loading areas and terminal facilities, including shelters, and fringe and corridor parking facilities to serve bus and other public mass transportation passengers, together with the acquisition, construction, reconstruction and maintenance of lands and facilities for the development, improvement and use of public mass transportation systems for the transportation of passengers.

(f) “Prior expressway project expenditures" means obligations incurred and expenditures financed from funds obtained from local tax levy sources, or from the proceeds of the sale of bonds, by a municipality in the county for the acquisition and clearing of the right-of-way and construction of expressway projects which are incomplete and have not been substantially put to public use at the time the county expressway commission was created and the transfer of the function to the commission was effectuated under s. 59.965, 1977 stats., together with any funds so financed in the state treasury under control of the department of transportation to the credit of an expressway project, any funds which the municipality, subsequent to the creation of the county expressway commission under s. 59.965, 1977 stats., and prior to May 17, 1980, transmitted to the department of transportation for credit to an expressway project that is authorized by the county expressway commission and any funds which the municipality may, subsequent to May 17, 1980, transmit to the department of transportation for credit to an expressway project authorized by the board.

(2) Powers and duties. In any county having a population of 500,000 or more, the The board is charged with the duty and vested with all powers necessary to plan, acquire the right-of-way for and construct an expressway system and mass transit facilities in the county and to administer each expressway and mass transit project until it is certified as completed; to coordinate planning of expressways and mass transit facilities by other public agencies to the extent required to ensure that an acceptable general plan of expressways and mass transit facilities to serve the entire county will be achieved; to determine whether full control of access or partial control of access shall be exercised; to cooperate with public and private agencies in mass transit and expressway applications; including, without limitation by reason because of enumeration, the power to contract and the following powers and duties:

(a) Plans for expressways. The board shall consider and tentatively adopt a general plan of expressways to serve the entire county. The plan shall be presented to the governing body of each municipality through which a part of the expressway system is routed for its consideration and approval. The board may by formal action modify the general plan to meet objections raised by the governing body of any municipality through which a route of the expressway passes. If the approval of the governing body is not granted within 60 days from the date of submission, the board shall present the general plan to the department of transportation, which shall hold a public hearing on that part of the plan which is located in such municipality. After the hearing, the department of transportation shall make recommendations to the board with reference to the matters objected to by the municipal governing body. Thereafter the board shall incorporate the recommendations in its general plan. When the approval of the necessary local governing bodies has been obtained or the recommendation of the department of transportation has been obtained in lieu thereof, the general plan shall be finally adopted by the board. Thereafter, the board may amend the general plan as it deems considers proper.

(b) Procedure upon adoption of plan. The board shall adopt tentative expressway project budgets for the units of the comprehensive plan adopted under par. (a) and in order of construction as the board deems considers proper. Each budget shall give reasonably detailed estimates of expenditures required to complete the expressway project and shall also give an estimate of the state and federal aid which will become available for the project. The board shall determine the amount of the county's share of the cost of the project and the financing thereof, either from the authorization of county expressway bonds under s. 67.04, or by determining the amounts to be included in the budgets during the construction years, or by transfer from unappropriated surplus under s. 59.84 59.60 (5), or by any combination of the foregoing. When the board determines that county funds for an expressway project shall be financed in whole or in part from current budgets, the county auditor shall include such amounts in the proper proposed budget under s. 59.84 59.60 (5). The county board shall adopt expressway project budgets with such changes as it deems considers proper. When adopted, the county contribution to the expressway project shall constitute a legal appropriation and shall be expendable to the extent that expressway bonds have been authorized or money otherwise provided. The board may amend any expressway project budget and may transfer appropriations from one expressway project to another.

(c) Acceptance of gifts. The board may accept , in the name of the county, grants, conveyances and devises of land, improvements thereon and any and all interests whatsoever therein and bequests and donations of money to be used for expressway purposes.

(d) Acquisition of lands and interests therein. 1. The board may acquire in the name of the county or in the name of the state when so directed by the department of transportation, by donation, purchase, condemnation or otherwise, such lands, including any improvements thereon on the lands, and any interests, easements, franchises, rights and privileges in or pertaining to lands, of whatever nature and by whomsoever owned, as the board deems are considers necessary and required for expressway purposes, and to dispose of the same such lands. The board may use expressway lands for the location or relocation of any facility for mass transportation, including private or public utilities. The board may purchase or accept donation of remnants of tracts or parcels of land remaining at the time or after it has acquired by condemnation or after or coincident with its acquisition by purchase or donation portions of such tracts or parcels for expressway purposes where in the judgment of the board such action would assist in rendering just compensation to a landowner, a part of whose lands are required for expressway purposes, and would serve to minimize the overall cost of such necessary taking by the public. The county may dispose of such remnants. No lands or interest of any kind therein in lands that are acquired as provided in this paragraph shall be disposed of by the county without the consent of the board, and all moneys money that is received for any such lands, improvements thereon or interests of any kind therein in land, so disposed of, shall be credited to the land acquisition account as an abatement of expense. No lands acquired by the board, as provided in this subsection, in the name of or in trust for the state, shall be disposed of by the county without prior approval of the state, and the proceeds of the sale shall be remitted to the state or retained and used for expressway purposes when so directed by the department of transportation.

2. After the general plan of expressways has been adopted, the board may, for specific approved highway projects or otherwise, acquire lands and interests therein of the nature and in the manner specified in this paragraph for the right-of-way of the expressways in advance of the time of the adoption of an expressway project budget including the lands and interests. Such power may be exercised when in the judgment of the board the public interest will be served and economy effected by forestalling development of the lands which will entail greater acquisition costs to if acquired at a later date. Upon such acquisition the board may improve, use, maintain or lease the lands until the same are required for expressway construction. It is recognized that there may necessarily be a period of time between the acquisition of needed lands for right-of-way and the commencement of actual site clearance and construction, but such fact shall not minimize the public purpose of the acquisition. The owners of the lands at the time of the acquisition shall have the first right to enter into lease thereof with the county until the lands are needed for expressway construction. Any lands Lands so leased for more than one year shall be subject to general property taxation during the term of the lease. All rentals shall be credited to the project or to the expressway land acquisition account. The board may provide out of funds acquired by bond issue or otherwise a land acquisition fund not in excess of $5,000,000 of expendable funds at any one time, to be used primarily for the acquisition of lands, improvements thereon and interests therein as specified in this subsection prior to the approval of the specific expressway project for which the lands or interests will be required. The fund shall be adjusted to reflect acquisition costs for lands and interests therein thereafter incorporated in specific approved expressway projects by transferring both the appropriations and the acquisition costs therefor to the proper expressway improvement expenditures account.

3. When an expressways project for which lands, improvements thereon and any or all interests therein have been paid for from any expressway land acquisition fund or account becomes activated by the board, the department of transportation may reimburse the expressway land acquisition fund by allocation of funds which may be made available under any state or federal statute to reimburse prior disbursements from the land acquisition fund to acquire the lands, improvements thereon or interests therein or appurtenant thereto. All state or federal funds thus received shall be used for expressway purposes.

4. The board, in acquiring lands, improvements thereon on lands and interests therein in lands and appurtenant thereto to lands, as provided in this subsection, may acquire the same lands in fee simple or by easement for highway purposes as it may by order determine. In any such acquisition, the board may, and shall when requested by the department of transportation, act in the name of the state as the agent of the department of transportation and in other cases shall act in the name of the county. The board in making the acquisition may proceed under ch. 32.

5. Whenever, prior to before actual expressway project construction, a saving is shown to be probable in the cost of constructing a proposed new municipal or privately owned public utility (which, if presently installed in a public way in a proposed normal manner, would ultimately be interfered with by expressway construction) by initially constructing the municipal or privately owned public utility in other than a normal manner to accommodate future expressway construction, in order to effect savings by avoiding reconstruction and relocating at a later date, the board may contract with the municipal government or utility company involved for the construction of the public utility in such other than normal manner and to pay to it the portion of the cost of the special construction in excess of the cost if constructed in the proposed normal manner. Funds for such purpose may be taken from the land acquisition fund authorized in subd. 2.

6. When the board has acquired title to lands in fee either for the county or the state, the county or a person authorized by the county may use and develop any portion of the lands not directly needed for expressway-roadway purposes and which do not interfere with the primary expressway purpose, and without exclusion limitation because of enumeration the power to may use the subsoil beneath the ground, the ground level area or air space above the ground, for parking, storage or building purposes subject to municipal land use zoning regulations except as to parking, but if the expressway right-of-way area is either on the federal interstate system or on a state trunk highway, the county shall obtain the consent of the department of transportation to the development and use prior to construction or initiation of that use. The state shall receive a share of the rentals or sale price derived from the use in the proportion that the amount of federal or state funds used in the purchase of the site bears to the total cost of the land and improvement which is the subject of the sale or rental. Such sharing shall not be made until the county or the person authorized by the county has been reimbursed for all sums expended by it, in the developments referred to in this paragraph, and such sharing shall terminate when the fair proportion of the federal and state funds allocable to the purchase of the area so developed has been reimbursed. In lieu of sharing in the proportion of the amount of federal or state funds used in the purchase of the site to the total cost of the land and improvement which is the subject of the sale or rental, the state and the county or the person authorized by the county may share the rentals or sale price on the basis of a different formula for such sharing if the department of transportation and the county agree to a different formula.

7. Before the county authorizes any person to use or develop lands under subd. 6., the county shall make a reasonable effort to determine whether any institution of higher education in the vicinity of the lands has demonstrated to the county an interest in the use or development of the lands. The county shall give preference to proposals for the use or development of lands under subd. 6. which are submitted by a an institution of higher education in the vicinity of those lands and which provide for reasonable payment to the county under a lease of or other authority to use or develop those lands.

(e) Contracts. The board may construct and administer projects under its jurisdiction, and may contract in the name of the county with the department of transportation as may be necessary under state and federal statutes to secure state and federal aid on expressway projects.

(f) Vacation, relocation, reconstruction of streets, alleys, etc. 1. Whenever the board determines that it is necessary for the proper construction of an expressway project that streets or alleys be vacated in whole or in part, or be dead-ended at the expressway right-of-way line; that existing streets or alleys be relocated; that new streets or alleys be laid out and opened; that accessory streets or ramps to serve as approaches to the expressway be constructed; that existing streets leading to or off from expressway ramps be designated as one-way streets for such reasonable distance as is necessary for the proper operation of the facility; that the grade of existing streets be changed or that the traveled portion of existing streets be widened and improved so as to facilitate entrance to the expressway, it shall formulate a tentative order evidencing such requirement and file a certified copy thereof with the municipal clerk of each town, city or village municipality affected by the tentative order for consideration thereof by the governing body of the town, city or village municipality.

2. The governing body or the committee which the governing body designates shall hold a public hearing in considering to consider the tentative order and shall publish in the county a class 2 notice, under ch. 985, of such the hearing.

3. If the tentative order is not approved within 90 days from the date of the filing, the board shall present the tentative order to the department of transportation, which shall hold a public hearing thereon on the order, of which hearing the municipality in question shall be given notice. The department of transportation shall have jurisdiction to pass upon the necessity and reasonableness of the proposed tentative order, and it may approve, modify and approve or disapprove the order. The department's decision thereon shall be final, with no review allowed under ch. 227.

4. If the tentative order is approved by the governing body of the municipality affected, or if it is approved or modified and approved by the department of transportation, the board may thereafter issue a final order identical with the original tentative order as modified by the department's decision. A certified copy of the final order shall be filed with the municipal clerk of the town, village or city municipality affected. Notice of the making of the order shall be published in the county as a class 1 notice, under ch. 985.

5. The governing body of the town, village or city municipality shall, within 30 days after filing, take the necessary action to comply with the order and in so doing shall not be limited by the objections of any an abutting owner, and s. 80.32 (4) shall not be applicable to any vacation or discontinuance required by the order, and any such town, village or city municipality may act upon the initiative of its governing body without the necessity of obtaining the consent of any an abutting owners owner, notwithstanding chs. 60, 61, 62 and 66 and s. 80.32 (4) and any other provisions of law to the contrary.

6. If the town, village or city municipality does not comply with the order within a reasonable time, the board may perform the work required by the order with its own forces or by contract and in so doing and for such purpose shall have the same powers and freedom from limitations as are vested by chs. 60, 61, 62 and 66 and this subsection in the governing body of the town, village or city municipality.

7. The plans, specifications, proposed contracts and the appraisal of damages, if any, caused to abutting owners by compliance with the order shall be subject to approval by the board prior to before the commencement of any work under the order but such the requirement for approval of the order shall not affect the abutting property owners' rights of appeal from the determination of damages by the commissioner of public works of the city or by any other authorized person or body.

8. The cost of performing such work as may be required by any order of the board under this subsection, including damages granted for changes of legally established grade or necessary acquisition of lands, shall be paid by the county from expressway funds as an item of the particular expressway project budget upon presentation of vouchers which have been approved for payment by the governing body of the town, village or city municipality and the board. If the payment made by the county has been increased by reason of the town, city or village municipality requesting an expenditure in excess of replacement or termination costs, the town, village or city municipality shall reimburse the county for the excess cost. The reimbursement shall be credited by the county to abatement of the respective expense for which it was received.