CHAPTER 61
VILLAGES
61.189 Villages of 1,000 may become cities.
61.19 Annual elections; appointments.
61.191 Population, use of federal census.
61.195 Discontinuance and change of term of offices.
61.197 Selection of officers.
61.20 Election of trustees; terms; number.
61.21 Clerk to notify officers-elect; oath of office.
61.22 Official bonds; officers not to be sureties.
61.23 Terms; temporary vacancy.
61.261 Deputy village treasurer.
61.31 Peace officers, who are.
61.32 Village board; meeting; salaries.
61.325 Trustee may be appointed president.
61.34 Powers of village board.
61.342 Direct legislation.
61.345 Recycling or resource recovery facilities.
61.351 Zoning of wetlands in shorelands.
61.354 Construction site erosion control and storm water management zoning.
61.36 Streets, sidewalks, sewers and watercourses.
61.39 Service pipes and sewers.
61.44 Railroads, dust prevention.
61.47 Street and sidewalk improvement tax.
61.50 Ordinances; contracts; other instruments; how executed.
61.54 Bids on improvements.
61.55 Contracts involving over $10,000; how let; exception.
61.56 Alternative letting of contracts.
61.57 Acquisition of recycling or resource recovery facilities without bids.
61.61 Village orders; borrowing money.
61.65 Police and fire departments; pension funds.
61.66 Combined protective services.
61.71 Consolidated plats; numbering of buildings.
61.72 Pest and disease prevention.
61.73 Village housing authorities.
61.74 Detachment of farm lands from villages.
61.187(1)(1)
Procedure. Whenever a petition conforming to the requirements of
s. 8.40, signed by at least one-third as many electors of any village as voted for village officers at the next preceding election therefor, shall be presented to the village board praying for dissolution of the village corporation, such board shall submit to the electors of such village, for determination by ballot in substantially the manner provided by
ss. 5.64 (2) and
10.02, at a general election or at a special election called by them for that purpose, the question whether or not such village corporation shall be dissolved.
61.187(2)
(2) Date of; property; claims; territory. If two-thirds of the ballots cast at such election on such proposition shall be for dissolution such village shall, at the expiration of 6 months from the date of such election, cease to be an incorporated village. Within 6 months the village board shall dispose of the village property and settle, audit and allow all just claims against the village. It shall settle with the treasurer and other village officers, and cause the assets of the village to be used in paying its debts. If anything remains after paying such debts it may designate the manner in which the same shall be used. If there are not sufficient funds to pay the debts of the village the board may levy a tax to cover the deficiency, which shall be collected as other taxes and be paid out by the town treasurer in payment of the outstanding village orders or bonds; and in case of such dissolution the territory embraced in the village shall revert to and become a part of the town or towns from which it was taken or in which it is then located. Within 10 days after such election, if resulting in favor of dissolution, the village clerk shall record the petition and determination with the register of deeds and file with the secretary of state certified copies of the petition and the determination of inspectors of election, and shall also record the certificate by the village clerk showing the date when the dissolution takes effect with the register of deeds and file with the secretary of state 4 copies of the certificate. These documents shall be recorded and indexed by the register of deeds. The index shall include the volume or reel number and the page or image number of the original documents. The secretary of state shall forward 2 copies of the certificate to the department of transportation and one to the department of revenue.
61.189
61.189
Villages of 1,000 may become cities. 61.189(1)
(1) Whenever the resident population of any village exceeds 1,000 as shown by the last federal census or by a census provided for under
sub. (3), the village may become a 4th class city, and the trustees of the village may at a regular meeting, by a two-thirds vote of the members thereof, by resolution, so determine. The resolution shall observe the requirements of
s. 5.15 (1) and
(2) for wards, and shall fix the number and boundary of the aldermanic districts into which the city shall be divided and fix the time for holding the first city election, which shall not be less than 20 days from the date of such resolution, shall designate a polling place for each ward, and shall provide for the appointment of initial inspectors of election in the manner provided in
ss. 7.30 and
7.32.
61.189(2)
(2) The election shall be noticed and conducted and the result canvassed and certified as in the case of regular village elections and the village clerk shall immediately file with the secretary of state 4 copies of a certification certifying the fact of holding such election and the result thereof and a description of the legal boundaries of such village or proposed city and 4 certified copies of a plat thereof; and thereupon a certificate of incorporation shall be issued to such city by the secretary of state. Two copies of the certification and plat shall be forwarded by the secretary of state to the department of transportation and one copy to the department of revenue. Thereafter such city shall in all things be governed by the general city charter law. All debts, obligations and liabilities existing against such village at the time of such change shall continue and become like debts, obligations and liabilities against such city, and such city may carry out and complete all proceedings then pending for the issue of bonds for improvements therein.
61.189(3)
(3) If the last federal census figures are not used the village trustees shall cause to be taken an accurate census of the resident population of the village on some day not more than 10 weeks previous to the time of the adoption of such resolution, exhibiting the name of every head of a family and the name of every person a resident in good faith on such day and the lot on which that person resides, which shall be verified by the affidavit of the person taking the same affixed thereto. The original of such census shall be filed in the office of the village clerk and a duly verified copy filed with the clerk of the circuit court of the county wherein such village is situated.
61.189(4)
(4) Any village incorporated after August 12, 1959, may not become a city unless it meets the standards for incorporation in
ss. 66.015 and
66.016.
