LRB-0118/1
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1997 - 1998 LEGISLATURE
April 17, 1997 - Introduced by Representatives La Fave, Lazich, Albers, Bock,
Gronemus, F. Lasee, Notestein, Powers, Riley, Turner and Walker. Referred
to Committee on Government Operations.
AB292,1,2
1An Act to amend 74.53 (1) (b) of the statutes;
relating to: personal liability for
2razing costs.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, counties and the city of Milwaukee may bring a civil action
against persons for certain costs that appear on property tax bills. Among those costs
are those of razing property and restoring the site. Those costs are charged against
the person who owned the property at the time when it was razed. Under this bill,
those costs are charged against the person who owned the property at the time when
the order to raze the property was recorded in the register of deeds office.
For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB292, s. 1
3Section
1. 74.53 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB292,2,34
74.53
(1) (b) The cost of razing and removing property and restoring the site
5to a dust-free and erosion-free condition incurred under s. 66.05 (2), (5), (8) (bg) or
6(10) or of filling an excavation incurred under s. 66.05 (6) if the person owned the
1property when the
property was razed and removed and the site restored or the
2excavation was filled order to raze the property was recorded in the register of deeds
3office.
