1995 Wisconsin Act 225

225,146 Section 146 . 59.15 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

59.15 (1) (a) 1. The board shall, prior to the earliest time for filing nomination papers for any elective office to be voted on in the county (, other than supervisors and circuit judges), which officer is paid in whole or part from the county treasury, establish the total annual compensation for services to be paid to the officer (exclusive of reimbursements for expenses out-of-pocket provided for in sub. (3)). Except as provided in subd. 2., the annual compensation may be established by resolution or ordinance, on a basis of straight salary, fees, or part salary and part fees, and if the compensation established is a salary, or part salary and part fees, it shall be in lieu of all fees, including per diem and other forms of compensation for services rendered, except those specifically reserved to the officer in the resolution or ordinance. The compensation established shall not be increased nor diminished during the officer's term and shall remain for ensuing terms unless changed by the board. Court fees shall not be used for compensation for county officers.

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225,147 Section 147 . 59.16 (2) of the statutes is amended by replacing “one hundred and fifty thousand" with “150,000".

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225,148 Section 148 . 59.17 (17) of the statutes is amended by replacing “thirty" with “30".

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225,149 Section 149 . 59.17 (18) of the statutes is amended by replacing "one hundred and fifty thousand" with “150,000" and by replacing “ten" with “10".

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225,150 Section 150 . 59.17 (19) of the statutes is amended by replacing “one hundred and fifty thousand" with “150,000".

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225,151 Section 151 . 59.20 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

59.20 (3) Pay all such county orders described in sub. (2) in the order of time in which they are presented for payment; but where two 2 or more are presented at the same time, give precedence to the order of the oldest date, but the treasurer shall receive of town, city and village treasurers all county orders issued in such county, which such the town, city and village treasurers may present in payment of county taxes, to the amount of the county taxes actually collected by any such the town, city or village treasurer in the year for which such the orders are offered in payment, which amount shall be determined by the affidavit of such the town, city or village treasurer.

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225,152 Section 152 . 59.20 (4) of the statutes is amended by replacing “two" with “2".

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225,153 Section 153 . 59.20 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:

59.20 (7) Make annually, on the third 3rd Monday of March, a certified statement, and forward the same statement to each town, city and village clerk in the county, showing the amount of money paid from the county treasury during the year next preceding to each such town, city and village treasurer in the county, specifying . The statement shall specify the date of each payment, the amount thereof and the account upon which the same payment was made; and it. It shall be unlawful for any county treasurer to pay to the treasurer of any town any money in the hands of the treasurer belonging to such the town from the third 3rd Monday of March until ten 10 days after the annual town meeting except upon the written order of the town board.

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225,154 Section 154 . 59.21 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended by replacing "one thousand" with “1,000".

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225,155 Section 155 . 59.21 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended by replacing “one thousand" with “1,000" in 2 places.

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225,156 Section 156 . 59.23 (6) of the statutes is amended by replacing “three hundred thousand" with “300,000".

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225,157 Section 157 . 59.29 (1) of the statutes is amended by replacing “eight dollars" with “$8".

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225,158 Section 158 . 59.32 of the statutes is amended by replacing “twenty-five nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars" with “$25 nor more than $250".

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225,159 Section 159 . 59.55 (4) of the statutes is renumbered 59.55 (4) (a) and amended to read:

59.55 (4) (a) Whenever The county board of any county may at any meeting, by resolution, authorize a plan for a new and corrected set of tract indices and order new tract indices arranged and compiled according to the plan whenever, in the judgment of the county board of any county, any existing tract index or indices become unfit for use, because of mistake therein or of imperfection any of the following:

2. An imperfection in or insufficiency of the plan, or because of becoming of the existing tract index or indices.

3. The existing tract index or indices having become worn, overcrowded, or unserviceable or unreliable for any reason the.

(b) The county board may at any meeting thereof, by resolution, order a new and corrected set of tract indices arranged and compiled according to such plan as it may authorize, and in that behalf may purchase suitable books for the new tract indices and may receive bids and contract with any competent person to do said work prepare the new tract indices, at a price not exceeding five 5 cents per folio, which shall be paid out of the county treasury on acceptance of said work the new tract indices by the county board.

(c) The person contracting to do said work prepare the new tract indices, and the person's assistants, shall have access to and be entitled to the use of the old tract indices and other records in the register's register of deeds' office and other county records; and when said work is.

(d) When the new tract indices are completed and said new tract indices are approved and adopted by the county board, the old tract indices shall be preserved as provided in s. 59.71 (2). The resolutions of the county board ordering, approving, and adopting such the new tract indices, duly certified by the county clerk, shall be recorded in each volume of such the new tract indices; and thereupon the same the new tract indices shall become and be the only lawful tract indices in the register's register of deeds' office.

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225,160 Section 160 . 59.55 (4) (a) 1. of the statutes is created to read:

59.55 (4) (a) 1. A mistake in the existing tract index or indices.

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225,161 Section 161 . 59.56 of the statutes is renumbered 59.56 (1) and amended to read:

59.56 (1) In counties this section, “eminent domain proceedings" means the laying out, widening, extending or vacating of any street, alley, water channel, park, highway or other public place by any court, legislature, county board, common council, village board or town board.

(2) When the county board of a county having a population of two hundred and fifty thousand 250,000 or more, according to the last state or United States census, and when the county board has prepared and compiled prepares and compiles in book form an eminent domain record containing an abstract of facts relating to the laying out, widening, extending or vacating any street, alley, water channel, park, highway or other public place by any court, legislature, county board, common council, village board or town board eminent domain proceedings and shall make makes an order that such records with the record, with an index thereto, be thereafter maintained and kept up, and provide provides a suitable book for that purpose, the register of deeds shall thereafter maintain and keep such book in which shall be entered an up the record and index.

(3) The register of deeds shall enter an abstract of all eminent domain proceedings relating to the laying out, widening, extending or vacating any street, alley, water channel, park, highway or other public place by any court, county board, common council, village board or town board. Such in the record maintained under sub. (2). The abstract shall substantially contain the facts as to the filing of a notice of lis pendens, the date of filing, the description, the court in which or the body before whom the proceeding is pending, the result of the proceedings, the action taken and the date thereof and briefly state all of the essential facts of any such the proceeding , and such records shall have a. The index to the record shall be a practical index, with reference to the number and page of the volume where such abstracts are entered respectively

(4) The abstracts and records to be kept by the register of deeds shall be certified by the register to be true and correct and when so certified shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein recited and shall be received in all courts and places with the same effect as the original proceedings; and the record so prepared and compiled by the county board shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein recited and shall also be received in all courts and places with the same effect as the original proceedings.

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225,162 Section 162 . 59.57 (10) of the statutes is amended to read:

59.57 (10) For recording plats containing from one to fifty 50 lots, twenty-five dollars $25, and for each additional lot, ten 10 cents, except cemetery plats, containing from one to two hundred 200 lots or fractional part thereof, twenty-five dollars $25, and for each additional two hundred 200 lots or fractional part thereof, five dollars $5.

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225,163 Section 163 . 59.58 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

59.58 (1) (a) Except as provided under par. (b), whenever any county adopts a tract index system or any recognized chain of title system, the county board thereof may create a department to be known as an abstract department, either in connection with or independent of the office of the register of deeds, as said the county board deems considers advisable and. The county board may appoint a competent person for a term of two 2 years, who shall be known as the county abstractor, and shall have charge of and operate said the abstract department. The board shall furnish a seal for said the abstractor, who shall place said the seal on each and every abstract issued by the abstractor.

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225,164 Section 164 . 59.70 (1) of the statutes is amended by replacing “thirty thousand" with “30,000".

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225,165 Section 165. 59.77 (4) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 59.77 (4) (b) 1. and amended to read:

59.77 (4) (b) 1. The county clerk shall deliver such the statement filed under par. (a) to the district attorney, who shall examine the same statement and make a report in writing thereon to the county board, specifying the items in each for which the county is or is not liable, and the extent of its liability if it is liable for a part only of any such item. Such The statement and report shall be laid before the county board by the county clerk and insofar as the items charged therein in the statement are approved by the district attorney such the statement shall be prima facie evidence of the claims of the persons named therein; and the in the statement.

2. The county board shall examine the same and statement, allow such as the fees that are legal, and direct that orders be drawn for the amount allowed to each person named therein. If any person in whose favor any such order is drawn under this paragraph shall not call for the same fees within two 2 years from the time the claim is allowed, the person's right to any compensation for services shall be deemed considered waived and the county board shall cancel such the order.

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225,166 Section 166 . 59.78 of the statutes is amended by replacing "three hundred thousand" with "300,000".

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225,167 Section 167 . 59.81 (2) of the statutes is amended by replacing “three hundred thousand" with “300,000".

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225,168 Section 168 . 59.81 (4) of the statutes is amended by replacing “five hundred thousand" with “500,000".

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225,169 Section 169 . 59.84 (6) of the statutes is renumbered 59.84 (6) (a) and amended to read:

59.84 (6) (a) The county executive or county administrator shall review the estimates of expenditures and revenues and shall hold public hearings thereon at which the head or a representative of every county department shall appear and give information with regard to the appropriations requested, including work programs, other justification of expenditures, and such other data as that the county executive or county administrator requests. The county executive or county administrator shall make such changes in the proposed budget as that in the executive's or administrator's discretion may be deemed are considered desirable or proper, and shall, on .

(b) On or before October 1, and after the hearings required under par. (a), the county executive or county administrator shall submit the amended proposed budget to the county board the budget, as amended, after such hearings. Such. The amended proposed budget shall be the executive's or administrator's budget and shall include: (a) a all of the following:

1. A simple, clear, general summary of the detailed contents of the budget; (b) a.

2. A comparative statement by organization unit and principal object of expenditure showing the actual expenditures of the preceding fiscal year, the appropriations and estimated expenditures for the fiscal year currently ending, and the recommended appropriations for the fiscal year next succeeding; and (c) a.

3. A comparative statement of the actual revenues from all sources including property taxes during the preceding fiscal year, the anticipated revenues and the estimated revenues for the fiscal year currently ending, and the anticipated revenues for the fiscal year next succeeding including any surplus from the preceding fiscal year not otherwise appropriated pursuant to sub. (9).

(c) The anticipated revenues for the fiscal year next succeeding shall be equal in amount to the recommended appropriations.

(d) The executive's or administrator's budget shall be accompanied by a message prepared by the county executive or county administrator which shall outline the important features of the budget plan and indicate any major changes in policy or in recommended appropriations or revenues as compared with the fiscal year currently ending, and shall set forth the reasons for such changes.

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225,170 Section 170 . 59.85 (1) of the statutes is amended by replacing “one thousand dollars" with “$1,000" and by replacing “two" with “2".

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225,171 Section 171 . 59.90 (2) of the statutes is amended by replacing “ten" with “10" and by replacing “ten-year" with “10-year".

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225,172 Section 172 . 59.90 (3) of the statutes is amended by replacing “fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars" with “$50 nor more than $200".

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225,173 Section 173 . 59.965 (2) (d) 7. of the statutes is amended by replacing “submitted by a institution" with “submitted by an institution".

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225,174 Section 174 . 59.97 (15) (im) of the statutes is amended by replacing “s. 252.01 (1)" with “s. 252.01 (1m)".

Note: Corrects cross-reference. Section 252.01 (1) was renumbered s. 252.01 (1m) by 1993 Wis. Act 252.

225,175 Section 175 . 59.997 (1) of the statutes is amended by replacing “two" with “2".

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225,176 Section 176 . 59.997 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

59.997 (6) The county board of supervisors shall cause a copy of the consolidation agreement thereafter to be published in each county as a class 1 notice under ch. 985. The owner-editor or manager of each newspaper publishing the notice shall issue a certificate of the publication to the judge of the circuit court for each affected county, which shall be proof of publication.

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225,177 Section 177 . 59.997 (7) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 16, is renumbered 59.997 (7) (a) and amended to read: