SB322, s. 6 3Section 6. 5.68 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,7,114 5.68 (3) If voting machines are used or if an electronic voting system is used
5in which all candidates and referenda appear on the same ballot card, the ballots for
6all national, state, and county offices and for county and state referenda shall be
7prepared and paid for by the county wherein they are used. If the voting machine
8or electronic voting system ballot includes a municipal or school, technical college,
9sewerage or, sanitary, or local park and recreation district ballot, the cost of that
10portion of the ballot shall be reimbursed to the county or paid for by the municipality
11or district, except as provided in a 1st class city school district under sub. (2).
SB322, s. 7 12Section 7. 7.51 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,7,1813 7.51 (3) (b) For ballots which relate only to municipal or, school district, or local
14park and recreation district
offices or referenda, the inspectors, in lieu of par. (a),
15after counting the ballots shall return them to the proper ballot boxes, lock the boxes,
16paste paper over the slots, sign their names to the paper, and deliver them and the
17keys therefor to the municipal or, school district, or local park and recreation district
18clerk. The clerk shall retain the ballots until destruction is authorized under s. 7.23.
SB322, s. 8 19Section 8. 7.51 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,8,220 7.51 (3) (d) All absentee certificate envelopes which have been opened shall be
21returned by the inspectors to the municipal clerk in a securely sealed carrier
22envelope which is clearly marked "used absentee certificate envelopes". The
23envelopes shall be signed by the chief inspector and 2 other inspectors. Except when
24the ballots are used in a municipal or, school district, or local park and recreation

1district
election only, the municipal clerk shall transmit the used envelopes to the
2county clerk.
SB322, s. 9 3Section 9. 7.51 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,8,94 7.51 (4) (b) The chief inspector, or one of the inspectors appointed by him or her,
5immediately after the votes are tabulated or counted at each election, shall report
6the returns of the election to the municipal clerk or , to the school district clerk for
7school district elections, except in 1st class cities, or to the local park and recreation
8district clerk for local park and recreation district elections
. The clerk shall then
9make the returns public.
SB322, s. 10 10Section 10. 7.51 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,9,1211 7.51 (5) Returns. The inspectors shall make full and accurate return of the
12votes cast for each candidate and proposition on tally sheet blanks provided by the
13municipal clerk for the purpose. Each tally sheet shall record the returns for each
14office or referendum by ward, unless combined returns are authorized in accordance
15with s. 5.15 (6) (b) in which case the tally sheet shall record the returns for each group
16of combined wards. After recording the votes, the inspectors shall seal in a carrier
17envelope outside the ballot bag or container one inspectors' statement under sub. (4)
18(a), one tally sheet, and one poll or registration list for delivery to the county clerk,
19unless the election relates only to municipal or school district offices or referenda or
20local park and recreation district offices
. The inspectors shall also similarly seal one
21inspectors' statement, one tally sheet, and one poll or registration list for delivery to
22the municipal clerk. For school district elections, except in 1st class cities, the
23inspectors shall similarly seal one inspectors' statement, one tally sheet, and one poll
24or registration list for delivery to the school district clerk. For local park and
25recreation district elections, the inspectors shall similarly seal one inspectors'

1statement, one tally sheet, and one poll or registration list for delivery to the local
2park and recreation district clerk.
The inspectors shall immediately deliver all
3ballots, statements, tally sheets, lists, and envelopes to the municipal clerk. The
4municipal clerk shall arrange for delivery of all ballots, statements, tally sheets,
5lists, and envelopes relating to a school district or local park and recreation district
6election to the school district or local park and recreation district clerk, respectively.
7The municipal clerk shall deliver the ballots, statements, tally sheets, lists, and
8envelopes for his or her municipality relating to any county, technical college district,
9state, or national election to the county clerk by 2 p.m. on the day following each such
10election. The person delivering the returns shall be paid out of the municipal
11treasury. Each clerk receiving ballots, statements, tally sheets, or envelopes shall
12retain them until destruction is authorized under s. 7.23 (1).
SB322, s. 11 13Section 11. 7.53 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:
SB322,9,2514 7.53 (3m) Local park and recreation district elections. The local park and
15recreation district clerk shall appoint 2 qualified electors of the district prior to the
16date of the election being canvassed, who shall, with the clerk, constitute the local
17park and recreation district board of canvassers. The clerk shall appoint a member
18to fill any temporary vacancy on the board of canvassers. The canvass shall begin
19as soon as possible after receipt of the returns and shall continue, without
20adjournment, until completed. The board of canvassers may return defective returns
21to the municipal board of canvassers in the manner provided in s. 7.60 (3). The board
22of canvassers shall prepare a written statement showing the numbers of votes cast
23for each person for each office and shall prepare a determination showing the names
24of the persons who are elected to the board of directors. Following each primary
25election, the board of canvassers shall prepare a statement certifying the names of

1the persons who have won nomination to the board of directors. Each statement and
2determination shall be attested by each of the canvassers. The board of canvassers
3shall file each statement and determination in the local park and recreation district
4office.
SB322, s. 12 5Section 12. 8.10 (6) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
SB322,10,76 8.10 (6) (e) For members of the board of directors of a local park and recreation
7district, with the local park and recreation district clerk.
SB322, s. 13 8Section 13. 8.11 (2f) of the statutes is created to read:
SB322,10,149 8.11 (2f) Board of directors of certain local park and recreation districts.
10A primary shall be held in a local park and recreation district whenever there are
11more than twice the number of candidates to be elected members of the board of
12directors of the local park and recreation district, or, if the district elects board
13members from apportioned areas, more than twice as many candidates as are to be
14elected members of the board of directors from any apportioned area.
SB322, s. 14 15Section 14. 9.10 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,10,2116 9.10 (1) (a) The qualified electors of the state,; of any county, city, village, or
17town,; of any congressional, legislative, judicial, or school district,; of any local park
18and recreation district;
or of any prosecutorial unit may petition for the recall of any
19incumbent elective official by filing a petition with the same official or agency with
20whom nomination papers or declarations of candidacy for the office are filed
21demanding the recall of the officeholder.
SB322, s. 15 22Section 15. 9.10 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,11,523 9.10 (1) (b) Except as provided in par. (c), a petition for recall of a state,
24congressional, legislative, judicial, or county officer shall be signed by electors equal
25to at least 25% of the vote cast for the office of governor at the last election within the

1same district or territory as that of the officeholder being recalled. Except as
2provided in par. (c), a petition for the recall of a city, village, town, local park and
3recreation district,
or school district officer shall be signed by electors equal to at
4least 25% of the vote cast for the office of president at the last election within the same
5district or territory as that of the officeholder being recalled.
SB322, s. 16 6Section 16. 9.10 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,11,227 9.10 (2) (d) No petition may be offered for filing for the recall of an officer unless
8the petitioner first files a registration statement under s. 11.05 (1) or (2) with the
9filing officer with whom the petition is filed. The petitioner shall append to the
10registration a statement indicating his or her intent to circulate a recall petition, the
11name of the officer for whom recall is sought and, in the case of a petition for the recall
12of a city, village, town, local park and recreation district, or school district officer, a
13statement of a reason for the recall which is related to the official responsibilities of
14the official for whom removal is sought. No petitioner may circulate a petition for
15the recall of an officer prior to completing registration. The last date that on which
16a petition for the recall of a state, congressional, legislative, judicial, or county officer
17may be offered for filing is 5 p.m. on the 60th day commencing after registration. The
18last date that on which a petition for the recall of a city, village, town, local park and
19recreation district,
or school district officer may be offered for filing is 5 p.m. on the
2030th day commencing after registration. After the recall petition has been offered
21for filing, no name may be added or removed. No signature may be counted unless
22the date of the signature is within the period provided in this paragraph.
SB322, s. 17 23Section 17. 9.10 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,12,224 9.10 (3) (a) This subsection applies to the recall of all elective officials other
25than city, village, town, local park and recreation district, and school district officials.

1City, village, town, local park and recreation district, and school district officials are
2recalled under sub. (4).
SB322, s. 18 3Section 18. 9.10 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,13,124 9.10 (4) (a) Within 10 days after a petition for the recall of a city, village, town,
5local park and recreation district,
or school district official , is offered for filing, the
6officer against whom the petition is filed may file a written challenge with the
7municipal clerk or board of election commissioners or school district clerk official or
8agency
with whom it the petition is filed, specifying any alleged insufficiency. If a
9challenge is filed, the petitioner may file a written rebuttal to the challenge with the
10clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency within 5 days after the
11challenge is filed. If a rebuttal is filed, the officer against whom the petition is filed
12may file a reply to any new matter raised in the rebuttal within 2 days after the
13rebuttal is filed. Within 14 days after the expiration of the time allowed for filing a
14reply to a rebuttal, the clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency
15shall file the certificate or an amended certificate. Within 31 days after the petition
16is offered for filing, the clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency
17shall determine by careful examination of the face of the petition whether the
18petition is sufficient and shall so state in a certificate issued by the official or agency
19and
attached to the petition. If the petition is found to be insufficient, the certificate
20shall state the particulars creating the insufficiency. The petition may be amended
21to correct any insufficiency within 5 days following the affixing of the original
22certificate. Within 2 days after the offering of the amended petition for filing, the
23clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency shall again carefully
24examine the face of the petition to determine sufficiency and shall attach to the
25petition a certificate stating the findings. Immediately upon finding an original or

1amended petition sufficient, except in cities over 500,000 population, the municipal
2clerk or school district clerk
and except with regard to a member of the board of
3directors of a local park and recreation district, the official
shall transmit the petition
4to the governing body or to the school board. Immediately Except with regard to a
5member of the board of directors of a local park and recreation district, immediately
6upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, in cities over 500,000
7population, the board of election commissioners shall file the petition in its office.
8Immediately upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, with regard to
9a member of the board of directors of a local park and recreation district, the local
10park and recreation district clerk shall file the petition in his or her office and shall
11transmit a copy of the petition to the governing body of each city, village, and town
12that has territory within the jurisdiction of the local park and recreation district.
SB322, s. 19 13Section 19. 9.10 (4) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,13,1814 9.10 (4) (d) The governing body, school board, or board of election
15commissioners, upon receiving the certificate or copy of the certificate issued under
16par. (a),
shall call an election on the Tuesday of the 6th week commencing after the
17date of the certificate. If Tuesday is a legal holiday, the recall election shall be held
18on the first day after Tuesday which is not a legal holiday.
SB322, s. 20 19Section 20. 9.10 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,13,2220 9.10 (7) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the operation of
21article XIII, section 12, of the constitution and to extend the same rights to electors
22of cities, villages, towns, local park and recreation districts, and school districts.
SB322, s. 21 23Section 21. 10.05 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,14,12 2410.05 Posting of notice. Unless specifically designated elsewhere, this
25section applies to villages, towns and, school districts, and local park and recreation

1districts
. Whenever a notice is required to be published, a village, town or, school
2district, or local park and recreation district may post 3 notices in lieu of publication
3under ch. 985 whenever there is not a newspaper published within the village, town
4or, school district, or local park and recreation district or whenever the governing
5body of the village, town or, school district, or local park and recreation district
6chooses to post in order to supplement notice provided in a newspaper. Whenever
7the manner of giving notice is changed by the governing body, the body shall give
8notice of the change in the manner used before the change. Whenever posting is
9used, the notices shall be posted no later than the day prescribed by law for
10publication, or, if that day falls within the week preceding the election to be noticed,
11at least one week before the election. All notices given for the same election shall be
12given in the same manner.
SB322, s. 22 13Section 22. 10.07 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,14,2314 10.07 (1) Except as provided in sub. (2) in the case of voting machine ballots,
15whenever any county clerk or and one or more municipal or, school district , or local
16park and recreation district
clerks within the same county are directed to publish,
17or whenever 2 or more municipal, school district or local park and recreation district
18clerks within the same county are directed to publish
any notice or portion of a notice
19under this chapter on the same date in the same newspaper, the text of which is
20identical, the clerks may publish one notice only. The cost of publication of such
21notice or the portion of the notice required shall be apportioned equally between the
22county and each municipality or, school district, or local park and recreation district
23sharing in its publication.
SB322, s. 23 24Section 23. 11.02 (8) of the statutes is created to read:
SB322,15,2
111.02 (8) If the jurisdiction under sub. (3) is a local park and recreation district,
2the appropriate clerk is the local park and recreation district clerk.
SB322, s. 24 3Section 24. 11.31 (1) (h) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,15,84 11.31 (1) (h) (intro.) Candidates for any local office , who are elected from a
5jurisdiction or district with less than 500,000 inhabitants according to the latest
6federal census or census information on which the district is based, as certified by
7the appropriate filing officer, and candidates for member of the board of directors of
8a local park and recreation district,
an amount equal to the greater of the following:
SB322, s. 25 9Section 25. 17.01 (11m) of the statutes is created to read:
SB322,15,1410 17.01 (11m) By a member of the board of directors of a local park and recreation
11district, to the board of directors. The board of directors shall immediately give a copy
12of each resignation under this subsection to the elections board and to the chief
13executive officer of each municipality that has territory within the jurisdiction of the
14district.
SB322, s. 26 15Section 26. 17.13 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,15,20 1617.13 Removal of village, town, town sanitary district, school district,
17technical college and family care district
, and local park and recreation
18district
officers. (intro.) Officers of towns, town sanitary districts, villages, school
19districts, technical college districts and, family care districts, and local park and
20recreation districts
may be removed as follows:
SB322, s. 27 21Section 27. 17.13 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,16,222 17.13 (3) All officers. Any village, town, town sanitary district, school district
23or, technical college district, or local park and recreation district officer, elective or
24appointive, including those embraced within subs. (1) and (2), by the a judge of the
25circuit court of the a circuit wherein the village, town, town sanitary district, school

1district or, technical college district, or local park and recreation district is situated,
2for cause.
SB322, s. 28 3Section 28. 17.27 (1f) of the statutes is created to read:
SB322,16,134 17.27 (1f) Board of directors of local park and recreation districts. Except
5as provided in s. 9.10, a vacancy in the office of any member of the board of directors
6of a local park and recreation district may be filled by temporary appointment of the
7remaining members of the board of directors. The temporary appointee shall serve
8until a successor is elected and qualified. If the vacancy occurs in any year after the
9first Tuesday in April and on or before December 1, the vacancy shall be filled for the
10residue of the unexpired term, if any, at on the date of the next spring election. If the
11vacancy occurs in any year after December 1 or on or before the first Tuesday in April,
12the vacancy shall be filled for the residue of the unexpired term, if any, at the 2nd
13succeeding spring election.
SB322, s. 29 14Section 29. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place,
15insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated: - See PDF for table PDF
SB322, s. 30 16Section 30. 20.566 (1) (gc) of the statutes is created to read:
SB322,17,217 20.566 (1) (gc) Administration of local park and recreation district taxes. The
18amounts in the schedule for administering the special district taxes imposed under
19s. 77.704 by local park and recreation districts created under subch. VI of ch. 229.

1One and one-half percent of all moneys received from the taxes imposed under s.
277.704 shall be credited to this appropriation account.
SB322, s. 31 3Section 31. 20.835 (4) (gc) of the statutes is created to read:
SB322,17,64 20.835 (4) (gc) Local park and recreation district taxes. Ninety-eight and
5one-half percent of all moneys received from the taxes imposed under s. 77.704, for
6the purposes provided in s. 77.76 (3n).
SB322, s. 32 7Section 32. 23.09 (19) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,17,118 23.09 (19) (a) 2. "Governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, lake
9sanitary district, as defined in s. 30.50 (4q), public inland lake protection and
10rehabilitation district, or local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229,
11or the Kickapoo reserve management board.
SB322, s. 33 12Section 33. 23.09 (20) (ab) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,17,1513 23.09 (20) (ab) 1. "Governmental unit" means a municipality, a local park and
14recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229,
or the Kickapoo reserve management
15board.
SB322, s. 34 16Section 34. 23.09 (20m) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,17,1917 23.09 (20m) (a) 1. "Governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, or
18local park and creation district under subch. VI of ch. 229,
or the Kickapoo reserve
19management board.
SB322, s. 35 20Section 35. 23.0917 (4m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,17,2421 23.0917 (4m) (a) 3. "Local governmental unit" means a city, village, town,
22county, lake sanitary district, as defined in s. 30.50 (4q), or a public inland lake
23protection and rehabilitation district, or local park and recreation district under
24subch. VI of ch. 229
.
SB322, s. 36 25Section 36. 23.094 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,18,4
123.094 (1) Definition. In this section, "political subdivision" means a city,
2village, town, county, lake sanitary district, as defined in s. 30.50 (4q), or public
3inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or local park and recreation
4district under subch. VI of ch. 229
.
SB322, s. 37 5Section 37. 25.50 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,18,166 25.50 (1) (d) "Local government" means any county, town, village, city, power
7district, sewerage district, drainage district, town sanitary district, public inland
8lake protection and rehabilitation district, local professional baseball park district
9created under subch. III of ch. 229, family care district under s. 46.2895, local
10professional football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229, local
11cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229, local park and recreation
12district created under subch. VI of ch. 229,
public library system, school district or
13technical college district in this state, any commission, committee, board, or officer
14of any governmental subdivision of this state, any court of this state, other than the
15court of appeals or the supreme court, or any authority created under s. 231.02,
16233.02, or 234.02.
SB322, s. 38 17Section 38. 27.01 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,18,2418 27.01 (3) Transfer of state park land to municipalities. The department may
19not transfer the ownership of any state park or land within any state park to any
20county, city, village or, town, county, or local park and recreation district created
21under subch. VI of ch. 229
unless it the department receives the approval of the joint
22committee on finance regarding the appropriate level of reimbursement to be
23received by the state to reflect the state's cost in acquiring and developing the state
24park or land within the state park.
SB322, s. 39 25Section 39. 27.075 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,19,23
127.075 (1) The county board of any county with a population of less than
2500,000 is hereby vested with all powers of a local, legislative, and administrative
3character for the purpose of governing, managing, controlling, improving , and caring
4for public parks, parkways, boulevards, and pleasure drives; and to carry out these
5powers in districts which it may create for different purposes, or throughout the
6county, and for such purposes to levy county taxes, to issue bonds, assessment
7certificates, and improvement bonds, or any other evidence of indebtedness. The
8powers hereby conferred under this section may be exercised by the county board in
9any town, city or village city, village, or town, or part thereof located in such the
10county upon the request of any such town, city or village city, village, or town,
11evidenced by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the members-elect of its
12governing body, designating the particular park function, duty, or act, and the terms,
13if any, upon which the same shall be exercised by the county board. Such The
14resolution shall state whether the authority or function is to be exercised exclusively
15by the county or jointly by the county and the town, city or village city, village, or
16town
, and shall also state that the exercise of such the power by the county is in the
17public interest. Upon the receipt of the resolution, the county board may, by a
18resolution adopted by a majority vote of its membership, elect to assume the exercise
19of such the authority or function, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the
20resolution presented by the town, city or village city, village, or town. A city, village,
21or town that wishes to create or participate in a local park and recreation district
22under subch. VI of ch. 229 may negotiate the termination of any agreement entered
23into with a county under this subsection
.
SB322, s. 40 24Section 40. 27.075 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,20,15
127.075 (2) The county board of any such county may, by a resolution adopted
2by a majority of its membership, propose to the towns, cities and villages cities,
3villages, and towns
located in such the county, or any of them, that it offers to exercise
4such the powers and functions therein in order that are necessary to consolidate
5municipal park services and functions in said the county. Such The resolution shall
6designate the particular function, duty, or act and the terms and conditions, if any,
7upon which the county board will perform the same. The powers conferred in sub.
8(1) and designated in such the resolution may thereafter be exercised by the county
9board in each such town, city or village which shall accept such city, village, or town
10which accepts the
proposal by the adoption of a resolution by a majority vote of the
11members-elect of its governing body, except that no governing body may accept any
12proposal described under this subsection unless it contains a provision under which
13the city, village, or town may terminate its agreement with the county so that the city,
14village, or town may create or participate in a local park and recreation district under
15subch. VI of ch. 229
.
SB322, s. 41 16Section 41. 27.075 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,20,2217 27.075 (3) After the adoption of resolutions by the county board, the county
18board shall have full power to
it may legislate upon and administer the entire subject
19matter committed to it, and among other things, to and may determine, where not
20otherwise provided by law, the manner of exercising the power thus assumed. No
21county may exercise any power in a local park and recreation district under subch.
22VI of ch. 229.
SB322, s. 42 23Section 42. 27.075 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,21,1924 27.075 (4) The town, city or village concerned A city, village, or town may enter
25into necessary contracts with the county, and appropriate money to pay the county,

1for the reasonable expenses incurred in rendering the park services assumed. Such
2The contract shall also provide a procedure for the termination of the contract by any
3city, village, or town that wishes to create or participate in a local park and recreation
4district under subch. VI of ch. 229. The
expenses may be certified, returned, and paid
5as are other county charges, and, in the case of services performed pursuant to under
6a proposal for the consolidation thereof of municipal park services initiated by the
7county board and made available to each town, city and village city, village, and town
8in the county on the same terms, the expenses thereof shall be certified, returned,
9and paid as county charges; but in the event that each and every town, city and
10village
if every city, village, and town in the county shall accept such accepts the
11proposal of the county board the expenses thereof shall be paid by county taxes to be
12levied and collected as are other taxes for county purposes. Said towns, cities and
13villages are vested with all necessary power to do the things
herein required and to
14do all things and to exercise or relinquish any of the powers herein provided or
15contemplated.
The procedure herein provided in this section for the request or
16acceptance of the exercise of the powers conferred on the county board in cities and
17villages is hereby prescribed as a special method of determining the local affairs and
18government of such cities and villages pursuant to article XI, section 3, of the
19constitution.
SB322, s. 43 20Section 43. 27.08 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,22,221 27.08 (1) Every city that is not part of a local park and recreation district under
22subch. VI of ch. 229
may by ordinance create a board of park commissioners subject
23to this section, or otherwise as provided by ordinance. Such, and if the city has a
24board of park commissioners the city shall terminate that board and end the board's
25authority under this section upon the city's creation of or participation in a local park

1and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229. The
board shall be organized as
2directed by the common council shall provide.
SB322, s. 44 3Section 44. 27.08 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,22,134 27.08 (3) In any city having no If a city does not have a board of park
5commissioners its and is not part of a local park and recreation district under subch.
6VI of ch. 229, the city's
public parks, parkways, boulevards, and pleasure drives shall
7be under the charge of its board of public works, if it has such last named board;
8otherwise
or, if it does not have such a board, under the charge of its common council.
9When so in charge, the board of public works or the common council may exercise all
10of the powers of a board of park commissioners. Upon a city's creation of or
11participation in a local park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229, the
12city's board of public works or common council may not exercise any authority under
13this section.
SB322, s. 45 14Section 45. 30.277 (1b) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,22,1715 30.277 (1b) (a) "Governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, or local
16park and recreation district under subch. VI of ch. 229,
or the Kickapoo reserve
17management board.
SB322, s. 46 18Section 46. 66.0301 (1) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 2001 Wisconsin Act
1916
, is amended to read:
SB322,23,720 66.0301 (1) (a) In this section "municipality" means the state or any
21department or agency thereof, or any city, village, town, county, school district, public
22library system, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, sanitary
23district, farm drainage district, metropolitan sewerage district, sewer utility district,
24solid waste management system created under s. 59.70 (2), local exposition district
25created under subch. II of ch. 229, local professional baseball park district created

1under subch. III of ch. 229, local professional football stadium district created under
2subch. IV of ch. 229, a local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229,
3local park and recreation district created under subch. VI of ch. 229, family care
4district under s. 46.2895, water utility district, mosquito control district, municipal
5electric company, county or city transit commission, commission created by contract
6under this section, taxation district, regional planning commission, or city-county
7health department.
SB322, s. 47 8Section 47. 66.0617 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,23,189 66.0617 (1) (a) "Capital costs" means the capital costs to construct, expand, or
10improve public facilities, including the cost of land, and including legal, engineering,
11and design costs to construct, expand, or improve public facilities, except that not
12more than 10% of capital costs may consist of legal, engineering, and design costs
13unless the political subdivision or local park and recreation district can demonstrate
14that its legal, engineering, and design costs which relate directly to the public
15improvement for which the impact fees were imposed exceed 10% of capital costs.
16"Capital costs" does not include other noncapital costs to construct, expand, or
17improve public facilities or the costs of equipment to construct, expand, or improve
18public facilities.
SB322, s. 48 19Section 48. 66.0617 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,23,2220 66.0617 (1) (c) "Impact fees" means cash contributions, contributions of land
21or interests in land, or any other items of value that are imposed on a developer by
22a political subdivision or a local park and recreation district under this section.
SB322, s. 49 23Section 49. 66.0617 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB322,24,324 66.0617 (1) (d) "Land development" means the construction or modification of
25improvements to real property that creates additional residential dwelling units

1within a political subdivision or local park and recreation district or that results in
2nonresidential uses that create a need for new, expanded, or improved public
3facilities within a political subdivision or local park and recreation district.
SB322, s. 50 4Section 50. 66.0617 (1) (dg) of the statutes is created to read:
SB322,24,65 66.0617 (1) (dg) "Local park and recreation district" has the meaning given for
6district in s. 229.86 (3).
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