AB329: Bill Text

AB329,31,15 (q) Perform all other duties required of the comptroller by law.

AB329,31,21 (rm) If the comptroller's county receives national forest income, distribute the income to the towns in the county in which national forest lands are situated, with each town to receive such proportion of the income as the area of national forest lands in the town bears to the area of the national forest lands in the entire county. Fifty percent of the amount received by any town shall be expended by the town exclusively for the benefit of roads therein.

AB329,31,23 (s) Exercise any investment authority delegated to the comptroller by the board under s. 59.62.

AB329,31,25 (t) Notify municipalities of payments made under ss. 74.29 and 79.10 in respect to property tax levies originally certified to the municipality for collection.

AB329,32,8 (tc) Each month, at the board's first meeting, the comptroller shall report to the board and the county executive, in writing, the condition of the county's outstanding contracts and of each of the county's funds and the claims payable from the funds. The comptroller shall also file with the the county executive and the board each year on or before October 1 a certified and detailed statement of the receipts and disbursements on account of each fund of the county during the preceding fiscal year, specifying the source of each receipt and the object of each disbursement, and also an estimate of the receipts and disbursements for the current fiscal year.

AB329,32,11 (te) The comptroller shall countersign all contracts with the county if the necessary funds have been provided to pay the liability that may be incurred under the contract. No contract is valid until so countersigned.

AB329,32,15 (tg) Whenever requested to do so by the county executive or board, the comptroller shall provide an independent fiscal analysis of any matter affecting the county, and shall provide the county executive and board with a fiscal note for all proposed legislation.

AB329,32,18 (ti) Annually, the comptroller shall prepare a written 5-year financial condition forecast for the county, which shall be distributed to the county executive and the board.

AB329,32,23 (tk) The comptroller shall perform all audit functions related to county government. The comptroller shall also have the duties and all the powers conferred upon the clerk as auditor under s. 59.47 (1), and shall perform any additional duties and shall have any additional powers as are imposed and conferred upon him or her from time to time by resolution adopted by the board.

AB329,32,24 (tL) The comptroller shall administer and oversee all shared services contracts.

AB329, s. 68 Section 68. 59.29 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,33,15 59.29 (1) (b) Whenever a person convicted of, or charged with, any felony, the punishment for which is not less than 5 years' imprisonment, shall escape, or whenever any such felony shall be committed by any unknown person or persons the sheriff of the county from which such escape was made or in which such felony was committed may, with the consent of the chairperson of the board of such county when such board is not in session, and with the consent of the board when it is in session, offer such reward for the apprehension and delivery of such escaped person, or the apprehension or conviction of the perpetrator of such felony as the sheriff considers necessary, not exceeding $1,000 in any one case; but no such reward or any part thereof shall be paid to any such sheriff, undersheriff or any deputy. The right to any such reward shall be determined finally by such sheriff; and if more than one person claims the reward the sheriff shall determine what portion, if any, the claimants are entitled to, and shall certify the determination to the treasurer or comptroller, and such certificate shall be the treasurer's or comptroller's authority for paying the sum so certified.

AB329, s. 69 Section 69. 59.32 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,33,19 59.32 (1) Sheriff; fees. The sheriff shall collect the fees prescribed in s. 814.70, unless a higher fee is applicable under s. 814.705 (1) (a) or (2), and remit them to the treasurer or comptroller as provided in s. 59.22 (1) (b).

AB329, s. 70 Section 70. 59.38 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,34,12 59.38 (1) Medical examiner, assistants; salaries; fees; report. The medical examiner and medical examiner's assistants authorized by the board shall be paid semimonthly out of the county treasury of the proper county, for the performance of all their official duties and in lieu of all other compensation, salaries to be fixed by the board. The medical examiner and medical examiner's assistants shall collect for all services performed, except in cases where the county is solely liable, all fees that coroners are by law entitled to receive, and shall keep accurate books of account in which shall be entered from day to day the items of services rendered, the titles of the proceedings in which and the names of the persons for whom rendered, and the fees charged and received, and shall, at the end of every 3 months, render to the board and to the treasurer or comptroller an accurate report or statement, verified by his or her oath, of all fees and income collected by them or for them during the 3 months; and at the same time they shall pay to the treasurer or comptroller all fees and incomes collected by them, or which they were entitled by law to charge or receive, not paid to the treasurer or comptroller. The medical examiner or a medical examiner's assistant shall act as coroner in another county when requested to do so under s. 59.34 (2) (b).

AB329, s. 71 Section 71. 59.38 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,34,21 59.38 (3) Medical examiner's bond. Before entering upon the duties of office, the medical examiner of the county shall deliver to the clerk a bond, subscribed by 2 or more sufficient sureties, in such penal sum as the board determines, conditioned for the faithful performance of all official duties as set forth in this chapter and ch. 979 and that he or she will faithfully account for and pay to the treasurer or comptroller of the county all moneys which may come to him or her belonging to the county, and which by virtue of this chapter and ch. 979 the medical examiner is required to account for and pay as aforesaid.

AB329, s. 72 Section 72. 59.40 (2) (m) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,35,4 59.40 (2) (m) Pay monthly to the treasurer or comptroller for the use of the state the state's percentage of the costs, fees, and surcharges imposed under ch. 814 that are required to be paid on each civil action, criminal action, and special proceeding filed during the preceding month and pay monthly to the treasurer or comptroller for the use of the state the percentage of court imposed fines and forfeitures that are required by law to be deposited in the state treasury. The payments shall be made by the 15th day of the month following receipt of the payments.

AB329, s. 73 Section 73. 59.40 (2) (n) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,35,8 59.40 (2) (n) Pay monthly to the treasurer or comptroller the amounts required by s. 302.46 (1) for the jail assessment surcharge. The payments shall be made by the 15th day of the month following receipt thereof.

AB329, s. 74 Section 74. 59.42 (2) (b) 5. of the statutes is created to read:

AB329,35,12 59.42 (2) (b) 5. Review and countersign all contracts to verify that the contracts comply with all statutes, rules, ordinances, and the county's ethics policy. This subdivision applies only in a county with a population of 750,000 or more.

AB329, s. 75 Section 75. 59.47 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,35,25 59.47 (1) In every county, except as provided in s. 59.255 (2) (tk), the clerk shall act as auditor, unless a separate office of county auditor is created as provided in sub. (2), and, when directed by resolution of the board, shall examine the books and accounts of any county officer, board, commission, committee, trustees or other officer or employee entrusted with the receipt, custody or expenditure of money, or by or on whose certificate any funds appropriated by the board are authorized to be expended, whether compensated for services by fees or by salary, and all original bills and vouchers on which moneys have been paid out and all receipts of moneys received by them. The clerk shall have free access to such books, accounts, bills, vouchers and receipts as often as may be necessary to perform the duties required under this subsection and he or she shall report in writing the results of the examinations to the board.

AB329, s. 76 Section 76. 59.52 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,36,24 59.52 (3) (b) When any book, public record or the record of any city, village or town plat in any county office shall, from any cause, become unfit for use in whole or in part, the board shall order that the book, record or plat be rebound or transcribed. If the order is to rebind such book, record or plat, the rebinding must be done under the direction of the officer in charge of the book, record or plat, and in that officer's office. If the order is to transcribe such book, record or plat, the officer having charge of the same shall provide a suitable book for that purpose; and thereupon such officer shall transcribe the same in the book so provided and carefully compare the transcript with the originals, and make the same a correct copy thereof, and shall attach to the transcript a certificate over that officer's official signature that that officer has carefully compared the matter therein contained with, and that the same is a correct and literal copy of the book, record or plat from which the same was transcribed, naming such book. The certified copy of the book, record or plat shall have the same effect in all respects as the original, and the original book, record or plat shall be deposited with the treasurer or comptroller and carefully preserved, except that in counties having a population of 500,000 750,000 or more where a book containing a tract index is rewritten or transcribed the original book may be destroyed. The order of the board directing the transcribing of any book, record or plat duly certified by the clerk shall, with such certificate, be recorded in each copy of the book, record or plat transcribed. The fee of the officer for such service shall be fixed by the board, not exceeding 10 cents per folio, or if such books or any part thereof consist of printed forms, not to exceed 5 cents per folio for such books or records, to be paid by the county.

AB329, s. 77 Section 77. 59.52 (4) (a) 12. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,37,2 59.52 (4) (a) 12. The clerk's copies of all receipts that are issued by the treasurer or comptroller, 4 years or until after being competently audited, whichever is earlier.

AB329, s. 78 Section 78. 59.52 (4) (a) 15. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,37,4 59.52 (4) (a) 15. All other receipts of the treasurer or comptroller, after 7 years.

AB329, s. 79 Section 79. 59.53 (17) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,37,17 59.53 (17) (b) The disbursement of an appropriation made under this subsection shall be under the supervision of the chairperson of the board, the clerk, and the treasurer or comptroller, and in all cases after such an appropriation has been made, there shall be filed with the clerk a sworn statement by the treasurer of the immigration society for whose benefit the appropriation was made, showing that the amount of the appropriation has been used by the association for the purpose of inducing immigration to the county making the appropriation and to adjoining counties, and itemized bills for the expenditure of a sum equal to the appropriation duly verified shall accompany the statement of the treasurer. Upon the approval of the statement and the itemized bills, by the county officers above named, the money so appropriated shall be paid by the proper officers of the county making the same into the treasury of the immigration association.

AB329, s. 80 Section 80. 59.56 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,38,2 59.56 (3) (d) Finance. For the partial maintenance of the work of the university extension program, including cooperative extension programs as provided for in an act of congress approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 372) and all acts supplementary thereto, the board may appropriate moneys as requested by the committee on agriculture and extension education to provide the county's share in such work. The money appropriated by the board shall be disbursed by the treasurer or comptroller upon orders of the clerk pursuant to the actions of the committee on agriculture and extension education and as adopted by the board.

AB329, s. 81 Section 81. 59.56 (14) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,38,11 59.56 (14) (d) The board may vote an amount which it considers sufficient to aid in the purchase of, or to make improvements upon the fairgrounds for any organized agricultural society, or to aid any organized agricultural society or any incorporated poultry association in any of its public exhibitions held or to be held; and any amount so voted shall be paid upon demand by the treasurer or comptroller to the treasurer of such organized agricultural society, who shall keep an accurate record of the expenditure thereof by such society, and file a verified copy of such record with the clerk within one year after the receipt of such amount.

AB329, s. 82 Section 82. 59.57 (2) (e) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,38,21 59.57 (2) (e) 2. The articles of incorporation shall be signed and acknowledged by persons designated by the board or where counties join in the formation of the agency by the boards of those counties and shall include at least 3 of the following from each county: the county executive, if there is one; the chairperson of the board; the chairperson of the board finance committee, if there is one; the county corporation counsel and the county auditor, or treasurer or comptroller, in counties having no county auditor, and only those persons so signing and acknowledging the articles of incorporation shall for the purposes of ch. 181 be the incorporators of the agency.

AB329, s. 83 Section 83. 59.57 (2) (e) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,39,8 59.57 (2) (e) 5. The articles of incorporation shall provide for 2 classes of directors, each class to consist of such number as is provided in the bylaws. The county executive, if there is one, the chairperson of the board, the chairperson of the board finance committee, if there is one, the county corporation counsel and the county auditor, or treasurer or comptroller, in counties having no county auditor, shall be members of the board of directors by virtue of their office and as representatives of the county in which they hold the office and the board of each county shall have the right to designate such additional county directors as the bylaws authorize. The county directors shall at all times constitute not less than a majority of the total authorized number of directors. Public directors shall be appointed by the board and shall hold office at the pleasure of the board.

AB329, s. 84 Section 84. 59.61 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,39,11 59.61 (1) (a) Give such receipts therefor and file such duplicates thereof with the clerk and treasurer or comptroller, as the board directs.

AB329, s. 85 Section 85. 59.61 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,40,3 59.61 (3) (a) Whenever a board has designated a county depository under sub. (2), the treasurer or comptroller shall deposit therein as soon as received all funds that come to the treasurer's or comptroller's hands in that capacity in excess of the sum the treasurer or comptroller is authorized by the board to retain. Any sum on deposit shall be considered to be in the county treasury, and the treasurer or comptroller shall not be liable for any loss thereon resulting from the failure or default of such depository. The board, a committee of the board designated by it or the treasurer acting under s. 59.25 (3) (s), or the comptroller acting under s. 59.255 (3) (s), may invest any funds that come into the county treasurer's or comptroller's hands in excess of the sum the treasurer or comptroller is authorized by the board to retain for immediate use in the name of the county in the local government pooled-investment fund, in interest-bearing bonds of the United States or of any county or municipality in the state or in any other investment authorized by statute. The board, committee or, the county treasurer acting under s. 59.25 (3) (s), or the comptroller acting under s. 59.255 (3) (s) may sell such securities when considered advisable.

AB329, s. 86 Section 86. 59.61 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,40,10 59.61 (3) (b) Every such depository shall on the first business day of each month, and more often when required, file with the clerk a statement of the amount of county money deposited with it during the preceding month, and the treasurer or comptroller shall at the same time file with such clerk a statement showing the amount of moneys received and disbursed by the treasurer or comptroller during the previous month.

AB329, s. 87 Section 87. 59.61 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,40,15 59.61 (3) (c) The board may fix the amount of money which may be retained by the treasurer or comptroller but in no case shall the sum exceed $3,000; provided, that in all counties having a population of 200,000 or more inhabitants, the treasurer or comptroller may retain such sum as may be fixed by the board.

AB329, s. 88 Section 88. 59.61 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,40,20 59.61 (3) (d) Such treasurer or comptroller and clerk, whenever the cash balance does not amount to the sum authorized by the board to be retained, may increase it to such amount by their check on the county depository or depositories in favor of such treasurer or comptroller.

AB329, s. 89 Section 89. 59.63 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,40,25 59.63 Treasurer's or comptroller's disbursement of revenue. The treasurer or comptroller may make disbursements of property tax revenues and of credits under s. 79.10 according to the proportions that are reported under ss. 60.33 (10m), 61.25 (10) and 62.09 (11) (j).

AB329, s. 90 Section 90. 59.64 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,41,7 59.64 (1) (e) Fees for statements and certificates. Every circuit or supplemental court commissioner shall receive from the treasurer or comptroller $1 per page for making statements and returns required by par. (c) and $1 for making each certificate required by par. (d). All such statements and certificates shall be transmitted to the clerk by certified mail and for transmitting the statements and certificates the circuit or supplemental court commissioner shall receive $1.

AB329, s. 91 Section 91. 59.64 (1) (g) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,41,16 59.64 (1) (g) 1. The clerk of the respective court, the register of probate, or the medical examiner as the case may be shall issue to the person an order directing the treasurer or comptroller to make payment of the fee. The order shall state the name of the person to whom payable, the time served, the number of miles traveled by the person, and the amount of compensation to which the person is entitled, together with the title of the action in which the person served, the capacity in which the person served and the date or dates of service, or in case of transcript fees, the title of the action and the dates on which the testimony for the transcript was taken.

AB329, s. 92 Section 92. 59.64 (1) (g) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,41,22 59.64 (1) (g) 3. Upon presentation of the certificate or order properly signed and endorsed, the treasurer or comptroller shall pay to the holder, upon surrender of the certificate or order, the amount set forth in the certificate or order, and the order or certificate shall in all other respects be handled by the treasurer or comptroller in the same manner as all other county orders drawn upon him or her are handled.

AB329, s. 93 Section 93. 59.64 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,42,13 59.64 (2) Special counties; classification of claims. In counties with a population of more than 300,000, the county auditor shall classify all such claims according to the budgetary funds provided for in s. 59.60, against which they are chargeable, before such claims are laid before such board. The county auditor shall then submit with the claims chargeable against each fund, a statement of the balance in such fund against which no county orders have been issued. If such balance in any fund is less than the total of the claims chargeable against such fund, the auditor shall call the attention of the board to that fact, and such board shall not issue county orders in excess of such balance without previously appropriating to such fund an additional sum at least sufficient to cover such orders. If any claims are for a purpose for which no specific appropriation has been made in the budget, such claims shall be considered as chargeable against the contingent fund. When the county auditor countersigns any order on the treasurer or comptroller for the payment of a claim allowed the auditor shall charge such order against the fund appropriated for that purpose.

AB329, s. 94 Section 94. 59.64 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,43,6 59.64 (4) (a) Issuance; limitations. When any claim is allowed by a board, either in whole or in part, the board shall direct an order to be drawn upon the treasurer or comptroller in favor of the claimant for the amount so allowed, but no order except for the per diem and mileage of the members of the board may be drawn in favor of any claimant within 5 days after the allowance of his or her claim. Any person whose claim has been allowed in part may receive the order drawn for the part so allowed without prejudice to his or her right to appeal as to the part disallowed. No board may issue a greater amount of orders, scrip and certificates of indebtedness than the amount of the county taxes levied in the county for that year. The board may authorize the issuance of orders, scrip or certificates of indebtedness at a rate of interest specified thereon, but not to exceed 6% per year; except that the orders, scrip and certificates of indebtedness shall bear no interest if paid and payable within one month from date of issuance, and shall bear no interest after date of publication of redemption notice as provided in this paragraph. The treasurer or comptroller may publish a class 1 notice, under ch. 985, that the county will redeem certain outstanding orders, scrip or certificates, which notice shall specify the particular orders, scrip or certificates, or series thereof, then redeemable.

AB329, s. 95 Section 95. 59.64 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,43,17 59.64 (4) (c) Special counties; countersigned by auditor. In all counties with a population of 300,000 or more all orders and warrants drawn upon or against county funds shall be countersigned by the county auditor; and the treasurer or comptroller of the county shall make no payments of county funds for any purpose unless the order, warrant, certificate, direction or authority given the treasurer or comptroller for the payment is countersigned by the county auditor. This provision requiring the countersigning by the auditor shall apply to all laws and statutes, special and general, relative to the payment of county funds by the treasurer or comptroller except certificates or orders issued for the payment of juror, witness, interpreter, attorney, guardian ad litem and transcript fees.

AB329, s. 96 Section 96. 59.64 (4) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,44,4 59.64 (4) (d) Examination of. The board at its annual session, or more often if it considers it necessary, shall carefully examine the county orders returned paid by the treasurer or comptroller by comparing each order with the record of orders in the clerk's office, and cause to be entered in the record opposite to the entry of each order issued the date when the order was canceled. The board shall also make a complete list of the orders so canceled, specifying the number, date, amount, and person to whom the same is made payable, except in counties having a population of more than 500,000 750,000, the name of the person to whom the same is made payable may be omitted, which statement shall be entered at length on the journal of the board; and immediately after the above requirements are complied with the orders so canceled shall be destroyed in the presence of the board.

AB329, s. 97 Section 97. 59.66 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,44,18 59.66 (1) Disposition of unclaimed funds by court clerks. (a) On or before January 10 of every odd-numbered year the circuit court clerk shall file with the treasurer or comptroller of his or her county a written report under oath of all moneys, securities or funds in his or her hands or under his or her possession or control where, for a period of 4 years or more, no order was made, or no step or proceeding had or taken in the case, action, or proceeding in, by or through which the moneys, securities or funds may have been deposited or left with the clerk or his or her predecessors in office, and where no valid claim was made upon or for any such moneys, securities or funds for a period of 4 years or more, and where the owner or ownership of the moneys, securities or funds is unknown, or undetermined, and the clerk or his or her successor in office shall hold the moneys, securities or funds, together with all interest or profits, until one year after the making of the report unless sooner demanded by and turned over to the legal owners thereof.

AB329,44,23 (b) One year after the filing of the report the clerk of any circuit court holding or having in his or her possession any such moneys, securities or funds shall turn them over to the treasurer or comptroller, unless sooner demanded by and turned over to the legal owners thereof under order of the court in which the case, action or proceeding was pending.

AB329,45,7 (c) On or before March 1 of the same year the treasurer or comptroller shall publish in the county, as a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, the fact that he or she has unclaimed moneys, securities or funds in his or her possession for disposition. If no legal claim is made for the moneys, securities or funds within 90 days after the last publication above provided for, then the treasurer or comptroller shall deposit the moneys, securities or funds, together with all interest and profits thereon, in the general fund of the county treasury, and no action may thereafter be maintained by any person, firm or corporation against the county or the treasurer or comptroller for the moneys, securities or funds.

AB329, s. 98 Section 98. 59.66 (2) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,46,2 59.66 (2) (a) 1. On or before January 10 of every odd-numbered year, each officer of a municipality and county, and each clerk of every court of record, shall file with the treasurer or comptroller of that person's county a written report under oath giving the names and the last-known addresses of all persons for whom any such officer or clerk holds money or security, and which has not been claimed for at least one year, and showing the amount of the money or the nature of the security in detail. A duplicate report shall also be mailed to the department of financial institutions. Upon receiving the reports the treasurer or comptroller shall cause to be published a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, on or before February 1 of the same year, which contains the names and last-known addresses of the owners of the unclaimed money or security that has a value of at least $10, and shall state that unless the owners call for and prove their ownership of the money or security, within 6 months from the time of the completed publication, the treasurer or comptroller will take possession or control of the money or security. At the end of the 6 months from the time of the completed publication, the treasurer or comptroller shall also take possession or control of all money or security of persons for whom an officer of a municipality and county, and each clerk of every court of record, holds money or security, and which has not been claimed for at least one year, if the money or security has a value of less than $10.

AB329, s. 99 Section 99. 59.66 (2) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,46,8 59.66 (2) (a) 2. In counties with a population of 500,000 750,000 or more, the treasurer comptroller shall distribute to as many community-based newspapers as possible, that are published in the county, a copy of the notice that is described in subd. 1. The treasurer comptroller shall distribute these copies of notices at the same time that he or she causes the notices to be published.

AB329, s. 100 Section 100. 59.66 (2) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,46,16 59.66 (2) (am) Any money or security of which the treasurer or comptroller has taken possession or control under par. (a) 1. and has had in his or her possession or control for more than one year shall, to the extent possible, be deposited in the county's general revenue fund. Money or security that is deposited under this paragraph may remain in the county's general revenue fund or may be used by the county until the money or security is paid or delivered to its owner, or becomes the property of the county, under par. (b).

AB329, s. 101 Section 101. 59.66 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,46,25 59.66 (2) (b) If within 10 years from the time any such money or security is delivered to the treasurer or comptroller the owner of the money or security proves to the satisfaction of the treasurer or comptroller the owner's right to the possession of the money or security, it shall be paid or delivered to the owner. If no such proof is made, then at the end of the 10-year period the money or property shall become the property of the county. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to deprive the owner of any such property of the owner's right to proceed by court action for the recovery of such money or security from the treasurer or comptroller.

AB329, s. 102 Section 102. 59.66 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,48,5 59.66 (3) Disposition of unclaimed personal property other than money or securities held by county institutions, coroners, medical examiners, or sheriffs. All personal property other than money or securities of a deceased person who at the time of his or her death is a patient at any county institution or whose body is taken in charge by the coroner or medical examiner shall be preserved by the superintendent of the institution, the coroner, or the medical examiner for one year unless the property is claimed sooner by a person having the legal right to the property. Annually on July 1 the superintendent, coroner, or medical examiner shall make a verified written report listing all personal property which has remained in that person's custody for one year without being claimed and giving all facts as to ownership of the property as that person's records contain. The superintendent, coroner, or medical examiner shall file the report with the sheriff of the county and deliver the property to the sheriff, who shall issue a receipt for the property. Thereupon the superintendent, coroner, or medical examiner shall be discharged from further liability for the property, title to which shall then vest in the county. Any property which is left at the county jail for a period of one year after the prisoner has been discharged, transferred, or committed and any property, found or stolen, which comes into the hands of the sheriff and in any case remains unclaimed for a period of one year, shall be sold as prescribed in this subsection. The sheriff shall, on or before August 1 annually, post a notice in 3 public places in the county, briefly describing the property and stating that the sheriff will sell the property at public auction on a certain date and at a specified physical location or Internet site, which auction shall be held accordingly. Any of the property which is not disposed of at the auction shall be sold for the best price obtainable, and if the property cannot be disposed of by sale, shall be destroyed in the presence of the sheriff. The sheriff shall, on or before September 1 annually, remit the proceeds of the auction or general sale to the treasurer or comptroller and shall file a verified report of the sheriff's action in connection therewith. The proceeds shall become a part of the general fund of the county.

AB329, s. 103 Section 103. 59.70 (16) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,48,15 59.70 (16) (a) 2. The board of appraisers shall consist of 3 members, one who is appointed by the terminating county, one by the commission and one by the other 2 members of the appraisal board. If the 2 appraisers cannot agree on the appointment of the 3rd appraiser within 30 days, the commission may appoint the 3rd appraiser. The commission shall pay to the treasurer or comptroller of the terminating county an amount equal to that county's share in the net assets of the commission, proportionate to the county's financial contribution to the mosquito control district. The terminating county shall remain liable for its allocated share of the contractual obligations of the mosquito control district.

AB329, s. 104 Section 104. 59.70 (17) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,48,23 59.70 (17) (b) When such an emergency exists the committee may draw on the contingent fund, if available, an amount not to exceed $5,000 which shall be disbursed upon certification of the committee for the purposes specified in par. (a) as they relate to worm or insect pests; the treasurer or comptroller shall pay the amounts so certified. No disbursement shall be made by the committee unless the owner of the premises affected has requested the committee to take steps to suppress or control the pests or when steps have been undertaken by another authority.

AB329, s. 105 Section 105. 59.72 (3m) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB329,49,5 59.72 (3m) (a) (intro.) If the board has established a land information office under sub. (3), the board shall have a land information council consisting of not less than 8 members. The council shall consist of the register of deeds, the treasurer or comptroller, and, if one has been appointed, the real property lister or their designees and the following members appointed by the board for terms prescribed by the board: