2007 WISCONSIN ACT 11
An Act to repeal 66.0435 (1) (a), 66.0435 (1) (f), 66.0435 (3) (c) 7., 66.0435 (5) and 341.05 (26) (b); to renumber 341.05 (26) (a); to renumber and amend 66.0435 (1) (e), 66.0435 (1) (g), 138.056 (1) (c), 710.15 (1) (a) and 710.15 (1) (e); to amend 30.40 (6), 45.31 (12), 49.47 (4) (b) 1., 59.69 (4) (d), 66.0435 (title), 66.0435 (1) (b) and (c), 66.0435 (1) (d), 66.0435 (1) (hm), 66.0435 (1) (i) and (j), 66.0435 (2) (a), 66.0435 (2) (b), 66.0435 (2) (c), 66.0435 (2) (d), 66.0435 (3) (title), 66.0435 (3) (a), 66.0435 (3) (c) 1. (intro.), 66.0435 (3) (c) 1. a., 66.0435 (3) (c) 1. c., 66.0435 (3) (c) 1. d., 66.0435 (3) (c) 2., 66.0435 (3) (c) 3., 66.0435 (3) (c) 5. and 6., 66.0435 (3) (c) 8., 66.0435 (3) (cm) to (f), 66.0435 (3m), 66.0435 (4) (intro.), 66.0435 (4) (b), 66.0435 (4) (c), 66.0435 (8), 66.0435 (9), 66.0809 (3), 66.1019 (2), 70.043, 70.111 (19) (title), 70.111 (19) (b), 70.112 (7), 71.07 (6e) (a) 5., 71.07 (9) (a) 3., 71.07 (9) (a) 4., 71.52 (2), 71.52 (7), 77.51 (4) (b) 6., 77.51 (4) (b) 7., 77.51 (13) (am), 77.51 (15) (b) 5., 77.51 (15) (b) 6., 77.52 (2) (a) 1., 77.53 (17), 77.53 (18), 77.54 (7) (b) (intro.), 77.54 (31), 77.54 (36), 77.61 (1) (a), 77.61 (1) (c), 77.71 (4), 77.78, 77.785 (2), 77.995 (2), 79.03 (3) (b) 4. a., 100.21 (1) (a), subchapter III (title) of chapter 101 [precedes 101.70], 101.70, 101.71 (4), 101.71 (6) (a) (intro.), 101.71 (6) (b), 101.715, 101.72, 101.73 (1), 101.73 (1m), 101.73 (2), 101.73 (3), 101.73 (5), 101.73 (6), 101.73 (7), 101.73 (11), 101.74 (4), 101.74 (6), 101.74 (7), 101.745 (4), 101.75 (1), 101.75 (2), 101.75 (3), 101.76 (1) (a), 101.761 (3), 101.761 (5), 101.935 (1), 101.971 (2), 106.50 (1m) (L), 138.052 (1) (b), 138.056 (1) (b), 138.056 (1) (bm), 138.056 (1) (d), 138.056 (3m) (a) 4., 138.09 (7) (jm) 1. b., 214.485 (10), 215.205 (1), 218.10 (8m), 234.622 (7), 340.01 (18m), 340.01 (29), 340.01 (48r), 341.12 (1), 343.055 (1) (d), 346.94 (8), 346.94 (8m), 347.15 (2), 347.35 (4), 347.45 (1), 347.47 (2), 347.47 (4), 348.06 (1), 348.07 (2) (c), 348.07 (3) (a), 348.10 (5) (intro.), 348.10 (5) (a), 348.10 (5) (c), 348.26 (4), 348.27 (7), 348.27 (7m), 349.03 (2), 422.201 (12m), 422.202 (2) (intro.), 422.209 (1m) (a) 2., 422.209 (6m), 422.402 (5) (intro.), 422.402 (5) (b), 422.413 (2g) (intro.), 424.301 (1) (b) 1., 707.02 (4), 710.15 (title), 710.15 (1) (b), 710.15 (1) (c), 710.15 (1) (d), 710.15 (1) (f), 710.15 (1m), 710.15 (2), 710.15 (2m) (a), 710.15 (2m) (b), 710.15 (3), 710.15 (4), 710.15 (4m), 710.15 (5m) (intro.), 710.15 (5m) (a), 710.15 (5m) (e), 710.15 (5m) (em), 710.15 (5m) (f), 710.15 (5m) (g), 710.15 (5m) (h), 861.21 (1) (b), 941.20 (1) (d) and 990.01 (14); and to create 66.0435 (1) (cm), 66.0435 (3) (c) 9., 138.056 (1) (bd), 340.01 (27m), 340.01 (29k) and 710.15 (1) (am) of the statutes; relating to: revisions in terminology that affect mobile homes, manufactured homes, modular homes, manufactured buildings, recreational vehicles, and mobile and manufactured home communities, and changes that apply to monthly fees collected by certain local governmental units.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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1. 30.40 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
30.40 (6) "Mobile home" means a prefabricated unit with walls of rigid construction that is designed to be towed as a single unit or in sections upon a highway by a motor vehicle and that is used or is intended to be used for human habitation has the meaning given in s. 101.91 (10).
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2. 45.31 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.31 (12) "Manufactured home" means a structure, as defined by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, which meets or exceeds the statutory size under s. 348.07 (2) manufactured home, as defined in s. 101.91 (2).
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3. 49.47 (4) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
49.47 (4) (b) 1. A home and the land used and operated in connection therewith or in lieu thereof a manufactured home or mobile home, if the home or, manufactured home, or mobile home is used as the person's or his or her family's place of abode.
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4. 59.69 (4) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
59.69 (4) (d) Trailer camps, or tourist camps and, motels or both, and manufactured and mobile home parks communities.
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5. 66.0435 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (title) Mobile Manufactured and mobile home parks communities.
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6. 66.0435 (1) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
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7. 66.0435 (1) (b) and (c) of the statutes are amended to read:
66.0435 (1) (b) "Licensee" means any person licensed to operate and maintain a manufactured and mobile home park community under this section.
(c) "Licensing authority" means the city, town or village wherein a manufactured and mobile home park community is located.
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8. 66.0435 (1) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:
66.0435 (1) (cm) "Manufactured home" has the meaning given in s. 101.91 (2) and includes any additions, attachments, annexes, foundations, and appurtenances.
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9. 66.0435 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (1) (d) "Mobile home" is that which is, or was as originally constructed, designed to be transported by any motor vehicle upon a public highway and designed, equipped and used primarily for sleeping, eating and living quarters, or is intended to be so used; has the meaning given in s. 101.91 (10) and includes any additions, attachments, annexes, foundations and appurtenances.
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10. 66.0435 (1) (e) of the statutes is renumbered 66.0435 (1) (cg) and amended to read:
66.0435 (1) (cg) "Mobile Manufactured and mobile home park community" means any plot or plots of ground upon which 2 3 or more units manufactured homes or mobile homes, occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located, regardless of whether a charge is made for the accommodation.
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11. 66.0435 (1) (f) of the statutes is repealed.
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12. 66.0435 (1) (g) of the statutes is renumbered 66.0435 (1) (am) and amended to read:
66.0435 (1) (am) "Park Community" means a manufactured and mobile home park community.
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13. 66.0435 (1) (hm) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (1) (hm) "Recreational mobile home" means a mobile home prefabricated structure that is no larger than 400 square feet, or that is certified by the manufacturer as complying with the code promulgated by the American National Standards Institute as ANSI 119.5 A119.5, and that is designed to be towed and used primarily as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal purposes.
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14. 66.0435 (1) (i) and (j) of the statutes are amended to read:
66.0435 (1) (i) "Space" means a plot of ground within a manufactured and mobile home park community, designed for the accommodation of one manufactured or mobile home unit.
(j) "Unit" means a single manufactured or mobile home unit.
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15. 66.0435 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (2) (a) It is unlawful for any person to maintain or operate a mobile home park community within the limits of a city, town or village, unless the person has received a license from the city, town or village.
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16. 66.0435 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (2) (b) In order to protect and promote the public health, morals and welfare and to equitably defray the cost of municipal and educational services required by persons and families using or occupying trailers, mobile homes, trailer camps or mobile home parks communities for living, dwelling or sleeping purposes, a city council, village board and town board may do any of the following:
1. Establish and enforce by ordinance reasonable standards and regulations for every trailer and trailer camp and every mobile home and mobile home park community.
2. Require an annual license fee to operate a trailer and trailer camp or mobile home and mobile home park community and levy and collect special assessments to defray the cost of municipal and educational services furnished to the trailer and trailer camp, or mobile home and mobile home park a community.
3. Limit the number of units, trailers or mobile homes that may be parked or kept located in any one camp or park community.
4. Limit the number of licenses for trailer camps or parks communities in any common school district, if the mobile housing development of a community would cause the school costs to increase above the state average or if an exceedingly difficult or impossible situation exists with regard to providing adequate and proper sewage disposal in the particular area.
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17. 66.0435 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (2) (c) In a town in which the town board enacts an ordinance regulating trailers manufactured and mobile homes under this section and has also enacted and approved a county zoning ordinance under the provisions of s. 59.69, the provisions of the ordinance which is most restrictive apply with respect to the establishment and operation of a trailer camp community in the town.
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18. 66.0435 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (2) (d) A license granted under this section is subject to revocation or suspension for cause by the licensing authority that issued the license upon complaint filed with the clerk of the licensing authority, if the complaint is signed by a law enforcement officer, local health officer, as defined in s. 250.01 (5), or building inspector, after a public hearing upon the complaint. The holder of the license shall be given 10 days' written notice of the hearing, and is entitled to appear and be heard as to why the license should not be revoked. A holder of a license that is revoked or suspended by the licensing authority may within 20 days of the date of the revocation or suspension appeal the decision to the circuit court of the county in which the trailer camp or mobile home park community is located by filing a written notice of appeal with the clerk of the licensing authority, together with a bond executed to the licensing authority, in the sum of $500 with 2 sureties or a bonding company approved by the clerk, conditioned for the faithful prosecution of the appeal and the payment of costs adjudged against the license holder.
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19. 66.0435 (3) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (title) License and monthly mobile home monthly municipal permit fee; review.
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20. 66.0435 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (a) The licensing authority shall collect from the licensee an annual license fee of not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each 50 spaces or fraction of 50 spaces within each mobile home park community within its limits. If the park community lies in more than one municipality the amount of the license fee shall be determined by multiplying the gross fee by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of spaces in the park community in a municipality and the denominator of which is the entire number of spaces in the park
community.
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21. 66.0435 (3) (c) 1. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (c) 1. (intro.) In addition to the license fee provided in pars. (a) and (b), each licensing authority shall collect from each mobile home unit occupying space or lots in a park community in the licensing authority, except from recreational mobile homes as provided under par. (cm), from manufactured and mobile homes that constitute improvements to real property under s. 70.043 (1), and from recreational vehicles as defined in s. 340.01 (48r), and from camping trailers as defined in s. 340.01 (6m), a monthly parking municipal permit fee computed as follows:
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22. 66.0435 (3) (c) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (c) 1. a. On January 1, the assessor shall determine the total fair market value of each mobile home unit in the taxation district subject to the monthly parking municipal permit fee.
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23. 66.0435 (3) (c) 1. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (c) 1. c. The value of each mobile home unit, determined under subd. 1. b., shall be multiplied by the general property gross tax rate, less any credit rate for the property tax relief credit, established on the preceding year's assessment of general property.
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24. 66.0435 (3) (c) 1. d. of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (c) 1. d. The total annual parking permit fee, computed under subd. 1. c., shall be divided by 12 and shall represent the monthly mobile home parking municipal permit fee.
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25. 66.0435 (3) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (c) 2. The monthly parking
municipal permit fee is applicable to mobile homes units moving into the tax district any time during the year. The park community operator shall furnish information to the tax district clerk and the assessor on mobile homes units added to the park community within 5 days after their arrival, on forms prescribed by the department of revenue. As soon as the assessor receives the notice of an addition of a mobile home unit to a park community, the assessor shall determine its fair market value and notify the clerk of that determination. The clerk shall equate the fair market value established by the assessor and shall apply the appropriate tax rate, divide the annual parking permit fee thus determined by 12 and notify the mobile home unit owner of the monthly fee to be collected from the mobile home unit owner. Liability for payment of the fee begins on the first day of the next succeeding month and continues for the months in which the mobile home unit remains in the tax district.
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26. 66.0435 (3) (c) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (c) 3. A new monthly parking municipal permit fee and a new valuation shall be established each January and shall continue for that calendar year.
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27. 66.0435 (3) (c) 5. and 6. of the statutes are amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (c) 5. The monthly parking
municipal permit fee shall be paid by the mobile home unit owner to the local taxing authority on or before the 10th of the month following the month for which the parking monthly municipal permit fee is due.
6. The licensee of a park community is liable for the monthly parking municipal permit fee for any mobile home unit occupying space in the park community as well as the owner and occupant of the mobile home occupying space each such unit, except that the licensee is not liable until the licensing authority has failed, in an action under ch. 799, to collect the fee from the owner and occupant of the unit. A municipality, by ordinance, may require the mobile home park community operator to collect the monthly parking municipal permit fee from the mobile home unit owner.
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28. 66.0435 (3) (c) 7. of the statutes is repealed.
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29. 66.0435 (3) (c) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (c) 8. The credit under s. 79.10 (9) (bm), as it applies to the principal dwelling on a parcel of taxable property, applies to the estimated fair market value of a mobile home unit that is the principal dwelling of the owner. The owner of the mobile home unit shall file a claim for the credit with the treasurer of the municipality in which the property is located. To obtain the credit under s. 79.10 (9) (bm), the owner shall attest on the claim that the mobile home unit is the owner's principal dwelling. The treasurer shall reduce the owner's parking monthly municipal permit fee by the amount of any allowable credit. The treasurer shall furnish notice of all claims for credits filed under this subdivision to the department of revenue as provided under s. 79.10 (1m).
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30. 66.0435 (3) (c) 9. of the statutes is created to read:
66.0435 (3) (c) 9. No monthly municipal permit fee may be imposed on a financial institution, as defined in s. 69.30 (1) (b), that relates to a vacant unit that has been repossessed by the financial institution.
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31. 66.0435 (3) (cm) to (f) of the statutes are amended to read:
66.0435 (3) (cm) Recreational mobile homes and recreational vehicles, as defined in s. 340.01 (48r), are exempt from the monthly parking municipal permit fee under par. (c). The exemption under this paragraph also applies to steps and a platform, not exceeding 50 square feet, that lead to a recreational mobile home or recreational vehicle, but does not apply to any other addition, attachment, patio, or deck.
(d) This section does not apply to a mobile home park community that is owned and operated by any county under the provisions of s. 59.52 (16) (b).
(e) If a mobile home unit is permitted by local ordinance to be located outside of a licensed park community, the monthly parking municipal permit fee shall be paid by the owner of the land on which it stands, and the owner of the land shall comply with the reporting requirements of par. (c). The owner of the land may collect the fee from the owner of the mobile home unit and, on or before January 10 and on or before July 10, shall transmit to the taxation district all fees owed for the 6 months ending on the last day of the month preceding the month when the transmission is required.
(f) Nothing in this subsection prohibits the regulation by local ordinance of a mobile home park community.
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32. 66.0435 (3m) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (3m) Park Community operator reimbursement. A park community operator who is required by municipal ordinance to collect the collects a monthly parking municipal permit fee from
the mobile home a unit owner may deduct, for administrative expenses, 2% 2 percent of the monthly fees collected.
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33. 66.0435 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (4) Application for license. (intro.) Original application for mobile home park a community license shall be filed with the clerk of the licensing authority. Applications shall be in writing, signed by the applicant and shall contain the following:
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34. 66.0435 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0435 (4) (b) The location and legal description of the mobile home park community.
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35. 66.0435 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
