AB601-ASA1,14,2522 23.094 (1) Definition. In this section, "political subdivision" means a city,
23village, town, county, lake sanitary district, as defined in s. 30.50 (4q), or public
24inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or local park and recreation
25district under subch. VI of ch. 229
.
AB601-ASA1, s. 34
1Section 34. 25.50 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,15,122 25.50 (1) (d) "Local government" means any county, town, village, city, power
3district, sewerage district, drainage district, town sanitary district, public inland
4lake protection and rehabilitation district, local professional baseball park district
5created under subch. III of ch. 229, family care district under s. 46.2895, local
6professional football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229, local
7cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229, local park and recreation
8district created under subch. VI of ch. 229,
public library system, school district or
9technical college district in this state, any commission, committee, board, or officer
10of any governmental subdivision of this state, any court of this state, other than the
11court of appeals or the supreme court, or any authority created under s. 231.02,
12233.02, or 234.02.
AB601-ASA1, s. 35 13Section 35. 27.01 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,15,2014 27.01 (3) Transfer of state park land to municipalities. The department may
15not transfer the ownership of any state park or land within any state park to any
16county, city, village or, town, county, or local park and recreation district created
17under subch. VI of ch. 229
unless it the department receives the approval of the joint
18committee on finance regarding the appropriate level of reimbursement to be
19received by the state to reflect the state's cost in acquiring and developing the state
20park or land within the state park.
AB601-ASA1, s. 36 21Section 36. 27.075 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,16,1922 27.075 (1) The county board of any county with a population of less than
23500,000 is hereby vested with all powers of a local, legislative, and administrative
24character for the purpose of governing, managing, controlling, improving , and caring
25for public parks, parkways, boulevards, and pleasure drives; and to carry out these

1powers in districts which it may create for different purposes, or throughout the
2county, and for such purposes to levy county taxes, to issue bonds, assessment
3certificates, and improvement bonds, or any other evidence of indebtedness. The
4powers hereby conferred under this section may be exercised by the county board in
5any town, city or village city, village, or town, or part thereof located in such the
6county upon the request of any such town, city or village city, village, or town,
7evidenced by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the members-elect of its
8governing body, designating the particular park function, duty, or act, and the terms,
9if any, upon which the same shall be exercised by the county board. Such The
10resolution shall state whether the authority or function is to be exercised exclusively
11by the county or jointly by the county and the town, city or village city, village, or
12town
, and shall also state that the exercise of such the power by the county is in the
13public interest. Upon the receipt of the resolution, the county board may, by a
14resolution adopted by a majority vote of its membership, elect to assume the exercise
15of such the authority or function, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the
16resolution presented by the town, city or village city, village, or town. A city, village,
17or town that wishes to create or participate in a local park and recreation district
18under subch. VI of ch. 229 may negotiate the termination of any agreement entered
19into with a county under this subsection
.
AB601-ASA1, s. 37 20Section 37. 27.075 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,17,1021 27.075 (2) The county board of any such county may, by a resolution adopted
22by a majority of its membership, propose to the towns, cities and villages cities,
23villages, and towns
located in such the county, or any of them, that it offers to exercise
24such the powers and functions therein in order that are necessary to consolidate
25municipal park services and functions in said the county. Such The resolution shall

1designate the particular function, duty, or act and the terms and conditions, if any,
2upon which the county board will perform the same. The powers conferred in sub.
3(1) and designated in such the resolution may thereafter be exercised by the county
4board in each such town, city or village which shall accept such city, village, or town
5which accepts the
proposal by the adoption of a resolution by a majority vote of the
6members-elect of its governing body, except that no governing body may accept any
7proposal described under this subsection unless it contains a provision under which
8the city, village, or town may terminate its agreement with the county so that the city,
9village, or town may create or participate in a local park and recreation district under
10subch. VI of ch. 229
.
AB601-ASA1, s. 38 11Section 38. 27.075 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,17,1712 27.075 (3) After the adoption of resolutions by the county board, the county
13board shall have full power to
it may legislate upon and administer the entire subject
14matter committed to it, and among other things, to and may determine, where not
15otherwise provided by law, the manner of exercising the power thus assumed. No
16county may exercise any power in a local park and recreation district under subch.
17VI of ch. 229.
AB601-ASA1, s. 39 18Section 39. 27.075 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,18,1419 27.075 (4) The town, city or village concerned A city, village, or town may enter
20into necessary contracts with the county, and appropriate money to pay the county,
21for the reasonable expenses incurred in rendering the park services assumed. Such
22The contract shall also provide a procedure for the termination of the contract by any
23city, village, or town that wishes to create or participate in a local park and recreation
24district under subch. VI of ch. 229. The
expenses may be certified, returned, and paid
25as are other county charges, and, in the case of services performed pursuant to under

1a proposal for the consolidation thereof of municipal park services initiated by the
2county board and made available to each town, city and village city, village, and town
3in the county on the same terms, the expenses thereof shall be certified, returned,
4and paid as county charges; but in the event that each and every town, city and
5village
if every city, village, and town in the county shall accept such accepts the
6proposal of the county board the expenses thereof shall be paid by county taxes to be
7levied and collected as are other taxes for county purposes. Said towns, cities and
8villages are vested with all necessary power to do the things
herein required and to
9do all things and to exercise or relinquish any of the powers herein provided or
10contemplated.
The procedure herein provided in this section for the request or
11acceptance of the exercise of the powers conferred on the county board in cities and
12villages is hereby prescribed as a special method of determining the local affairs and
13government of such cities and villages pursuant to article XI, section 3, of the
14constitution.
AB601-ASA1, s. 40 15Section 40. 27.08 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,18,2216 27.08 (1) Every city that is not part of a local park and recreation district under
17subch. VI of ch. 229
may by ordinance create a board of park commissioners subject
18to this section, or otherwise as provided by ordinance. Such, and if the city has a
19board of park commissioners the city shall terminate that board and end the board's
20authority under this section upon the city's creation of or participation in a local park
21and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229. The
board shall be organized as
22directed by the common council shall provide.
AB601-ASA1, s. 41 23Section 41. 27.08 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,19,824 27.08 (3) In any city having no If a city does not have a board of park
25commissioners its and is not part of a local park and recreation district under subch.

1VI of ch. 229, the city's
public parks, parkways, boulevards , and pleasure drives shall
2be under the charge of its board of public works, if it has such last named board;
3otherwise
or, if it does not have such a board, under the charge of its common council.
4When so in charge, the board of public works or the common council may exercise all
5of the powers of a board of park commissioners. Upon a city's creation of or
6participation in a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, the
7city's board of public works or common council may not exercise any authority under
8this section.
AB601-ASA1, s. 42 9Section 42. 30.277 (1b) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,19,1210 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 43 13Section 43. 66.0301 (1) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 2001 Wisconsin Act
1416
, is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,20,215 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 44 3Section 44. 66.0617 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,20,134 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 45 14Section 45. 66.0617 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,20,1715 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 46 18Section 46. 66.0617 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,20,2319 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 47 24Section 47. 66.0617 (1) (dg) of the statutes is created to read:
AB601-ASA1,21,2
166.0617 (1) (dg) "Local park and recreation district" has the meaning given for
2district in s. 229.86 (3).
AB601-ASA1, s. 48 3Section 48. 66.0617 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,21,64 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 49 7Section 49. 66.0617 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,21,118 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
.
AB601-ASA1, s. 50 12Section 50. 66.0617 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,21,1613 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 51 17Section 51. 66.0617 (2) (am) of the statutes is renumbered 66.0617 (2) (am)
181.
AB601-ASA1, s. 52 19Section 52. 66.0617 (2) (am) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
AB601-ASA1,21,2220 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).
AB601-ASA1, s. 53 23Section 53. 66.0617 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,22,624 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 54 7Section 54. 66.0617 (4) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,22,148 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:
AB601-ASA1, s. 55 15Section 55. 66.0617 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,22,2016 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).
AB601-ASA1, s. 56 21Section 56. 66.0617 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,22,2422 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.
AB601-ASA1,23,8
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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 57 9Section 57. 66.0617 (6) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,23,1110 66.0617 (6) Standards for impact fees. (intro.) Impact fees imposed by an
11ordinance enacted or resolution adopted under this section:
AB601-ASA1, s. 58 12Section 58. 66.0617 (6) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,23,1513 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 59 16Section 59. 66.0617 (6) (h) of the statutes is created to read:
AB601-ASA1,23,1917 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 60 20Section 60. 66.0617 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,24,221 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.
AB601-ASA1, s. 61 3Section 61. 66.0617 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,24,84 66.0617 (8) Requirements for impact fee revenues. Revenues from impact
5fees shall be placed in a segregated, interest-bearing account and shall be accounted
6for separately from the other funds of the political subdivision or local park and
7recreation district
. Impact fee revenues and interest earned on impact fee revenues
8may be expended only for capital costs for which the impact fees were imposed.
AB601-ASA1, s. 62 9Section 62. 66.0617 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,24,2010 66.0617 (9) Refund of impact fees. An ordinance enacted or resolution adopted
11under this section shall specify that impact fees that are imposed and collected by
12a political subdivision or local park and recreation district but are not used within
13a reasonable period of time after they are collected to pay the capital costs for which
14they were imposed shall be refunded to the current owner of the property with
15respect to which the impact fees were imposed. The ordinance or resolution shall
16specify, by type of public facility, reasonable time periods within which impact fees
17must be spent or refunded under this subsection. In determining the length of the
18time periods under the ordinance, a political subdivision or local park and recreation
19district
shall consider what are appropriate planning and financing periods for the
20particular types of public facilities for which the impact fees are imposed.
AB601-ASA1, s. 63 21Section 63. 66.0617 (10) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,25,222 66.0617 (10) Appeal. A political subdivision that enacts an impact fee
23ordinance under this section shall, by ordinance, and a local park and recreation
24district that adopts an impact fee resolution under this section shall, by resolution,

25specify a procedure under which a developer upon whom an impact fee is imposed

1has the right to contest the amount, collection, or use of the impact fee to the
2governing body of the political subdivision or local park and recreation district.
AB601-ASA1, s. 64 3Section 64. 66.0617 (11) of the statutes is created to read:
AB601-ASA1,25,94 66.0617 (11) Transfer of unused impact fees. If a city, village, or town
5transfers title to its municipal park facilities to a local park and recreation district,
6as described in s. 229.861 (5) (a) 4., and if the city, village, or town has unspent impact
7fees that were to be used for municipal park facilities, as defined in s. 229.86 (5), the
8city, village, or town shall transfer such impact fees to the local park and recreation
9district.
AB601-ASA1, s. 65 10Section 65. 67.01 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,25,1811 67.01 (5) "Municipality" means any of the following which is authorized to levy
12a tax: a county, city, village, town, school district, board of park commissioners,
13technical college district, metropolitan sewerage district created under ss. 200.01 to
14200.15 or 200.21 to 200.65, town sanitary district under subch. IX of ch. 60, local park
15and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229,
public inland lake protection and
16rehabilitation district established under s. 33.23, 33.235, or 33.24, and any other
17public body empowered to borrow money and issue obligations to repay the money
18out of public funds or revenues. "Municipality" does not include the state.
AB601-ASA1, s. 66 19Section 66. 70.11 (37m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB601-ASA1,25,2120 70.11 (37m) Local park and recreation district. The property of a local park
21and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229.
AB601-ASA1, s. 67 22Section 67. 71.26 (1) (bm) of the statutes, as affected by 2001 Wisconsin Act
23.... (Assembly Bill 512), is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,26,324 71.26 (1) (bm) Certain local districts. Income of a local exposition district
25created under subch. II of ch. 229, a local professional baseball park district created

1under subch. III of ch. 229, a local professional football stadium district created
2under subch. IV of ch. 229, or a local cultural arts district created under subch. V of
3ch. 229, or a local park and recreation district created under subch. VI of ch. 229.
AB601-ASA1, s. 68 4Section 68. 77.25 (18m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB601-ASA1,26,55 77.25 (18m) To a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229.
AB601-ASA1, s. 69 6Section 69. 77.54 (9a) (i) of the statutes is created to read:
AB601-ASA1,26,77 77.54 (9a) (i) A local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229.
AB601-ASA1, s. 70 8Section 70. 79.03 (3) (b) 4. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,26,179 79.03 (3) (b) 4. (intro.) "Local purpose revenues" means the sum of payments
10under s. 79.095, local general purpose taxes, regulation revenues, revenues for
11services to private parties by a county's or municipality's general operations or
12enterprises, revenue for sanitation services to private parties, special assessment
13revenues, tax base equalization aids, and, for municipalities only, impact fees
14collected by a local park and recreation district that are attributed to the
15municipality,
a proxy for private sewer service costs, a proxy for private solid waste
16and recycling service costs, and a proxy for retail charges for fire protection purposes.
17In this subdivision:
AB601-ASA1, s. 71 18Section 71. 79.03 (3) (b) 4. a. of the statutes is renumbered 79.03 (3) (b) 4. am.
19and amended to read:
AB601-ASA1,27,420 79.03 (3) (b) 4. am. "Local general purpose taxes" means the portion of tax
21increments collected for payment to a municipality under s. 66.1105 which is
22attributable to that municipality's own levy, the portion of environmental
23remediation tax increments collected for payment to a municipality or county under
24s. 66.1106 that is attributable to that municipality's or county's own levy, general
25property taxes, excluding taxes for a county children with disabilities education

1board, collected to finance the general purpose government unit, property taxes
2collected for sewage and sanitary districts, property taxes collected for local park and
3recreation districts,
mobile home fees, the proceeds of county sales and use taxes and
4municipal and county vehicle registration fees under s. 341.35 (1).
AB601-ASA1, s. 72 5Section 72. 79.03 (3) (b) 4. ad. of the statutes is created to read:
AB601-ASA1,27,126 79.03 (3) (b) 4. ad. "Impact fees collected by a local park and recreation district
7that are attributed to the municipality" means, for a municipality that is part of a
8local park and recreation district created under subch. VI of ch. 229, the portion of
9the impact fees collected by the local park and recreation district that the department
10of revenue attributes to a municipality based on the municipality's population as
11compared with the aggregate population of all of the municipalities that are part of
12the same local park and recreation district.
AB601-ASA1, s. 73 13Section 73. Subchapter VI of chapter 229 [precedes 229.86] of the statutes is
14created to read:
AB601-ASA1,27,1515 CHAPTER 229
AB601-ASA1,27,1816 subchapter vi
17 local park and
18 recreation districts
AB601-ASA1,27,19 19229.86 Definitions. In this subchapter:
AB601-ASA1,27,20 20(1) "Board of directors" means the board of directors of a district.
AB601-ASA1,27,24 21(2) "Chief executive officer" means, as to a sponsoring municipality or as to a
22municipality that is wholly within the jurisdiction of a district, the mayor or city
23manager of a city, the village president of a village, or the town board chairperson of
24a town.
AB601-ASA1,27,25 25(3) "District" means a special purpose district created under this subchapter.
AB601-ASA1,28,3
1(4) "Enabling resolution" means a resolution, or an amendment of a resolution,
2adopted by the governing body of a municipality and signed by the chief executive
3officer to create a district.
AB601-ASA1,28,5 4(5) "Municipal park facilities" means a public park or recreational facility,
5including improvements, that is owned by a municipality.
AB601-ASA1,28,9 6(6) "Municipality" means any city other than a city that has a majority of its
7territory located in a county with a population greater than 500,000; any village
8other than a village that has a majority of its territory located in a county with a
9population greater than 500,000; or any town.
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