CHAPTER 79
STATE REVENUE SHARING
SUBCHAPTER I
MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY SHARED REVENUE
79.006 New incorporations.
79.01 Accounts established.
79.015 Statement of estimated payments.
79.02 Shared revenue distributions.
79.035 County and municipal aid.
79.04 Public utility distribution.
79.05 Expenditure restraint program.
79.095 State aid; computers.
79.096 State aid; personal property.
SUBCHAPTER II
PROPERTY TAX CREDITS
79.10 Wisconsin state property tax relief.
79.11 Payment of tax credits.
79.13 Farmland tax relief credit.
79.14 School levy tax credit.
79.15 Improvements credit.
79.175 Excess tax credit corrections.
79.18 Insufficient tax credit corrections.
MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY SHARED REVENUE
79.005
79.005
Definitions. In this subchapter:
79.005(1b)
(1b) “Alternative energy resource" means a renewable resource, as defined in s.
196.378 (1) (h); garbage, as defined in s.
289.01 (9); or nonvegetation-based industrial, commercial, or household waste.
79.005(1d)
(1d) “Baseload electric generating facility" means an electric generating facility that has a capacity factor that is greater than 60 percent, as determined by the public service commission.
79.005(1f)
(1f) “Capacity factor" means the anticipated actual annual output of an electric generating facility expressed as a percentage of the facility's potential output. For purposes of this subchapter, the public service commission may review the capacity factor of an electric generating facility at any time.
79.005(1g)
(1g) “Cogeneration production plant" means an electric generating facility that produces electricity and another form of thermal energy, including heat or steam, that is used for industrial, commercial, heating, or cooling purposes.
79.005(1m)
(1m) “Municipality" means any town, village or city in this state. If a municipality is located in more than one county, payments under this subchapter shall be computed using data for the municipality as a whole.
79.005(2)
(2) “Population" means the number of persons residing in each municipality and county of the state as last determined by the department of administration under s.
16.96.
79.005(2m)
(2m) “Power generation unit" means a complete set of electric generating equipment, as defined in s.
196.52 (9) (a) 1., that, collectively, is sufficient to generate electric power.
79.005(3)
(3) “Production plant" does not include substations and general structures.
79.005(4)
(4) “Repowered" means any of the following:
79.005(4)(a)
(a) Replacing the boiler on an existing fossil fuel steam unit with a combustion turbine and heat recovery steam generator and reusing the steam turbine and heat rejection system.
79.005(4)(b)
(b) Adding a heat recovery steam generator to a simple cycle combustion turbine.
79.005(4)(c)
(c) Demolishing or abandoning an existing power generation unit and replacing it with a new power generation unit at the same site.
79.005(4)(d)
(d) Replacing steam generating equipment at a combustion-based renewable facility, as defined in s.
196.378 (1) (g), that is located in this state, to increase efficiency or capacity, if the facility remains a combustion-based renewable facility, as defined in s.
196.378 (1) (g), after replacing the equipment.
79.006
79.006
New incorporations. The information needed for the determinations under this chapter shall be calculated as follows: for those years for which the necessary data does not exist, the data for the new municipality and the municipality from which it was formed shall be combined and the sum shall be apportioned to each municipality in proportion to its respective full value in the first year of assessment of the new municipality; if the municipality is formed before April 1, the department of administration shall certify the population of the newly created municipality, and the corrected population of the municipality from which it was formed, and those figures shall be used for distributions under this chapter in the year after the incorporation.
79.006 History
History: 1981 c. 20;
1995 a. 216.
79.01
79.01
Accounts established. 79.01(1)(1)
There is established an account in the general fund entitled the “Expenditure Restraint Program Account." There shall be appropriated to that account $25,000,000 in 1991, in 1992, and in 1993; $42,000,000 in 1994; $48,000,000 in each year beginning in 1995 and ending in 1999; $57,000,000 in the year 2000 and in the year 2001; $57,570,000 in 2002; and $58,145,700 in 2003 and in each year thereafter.
79.01(2d)
(2d) There is established an account in the general fund entitled the “County and Municipal Aid Account." The total amount to be distributed in 2011 to counties and municipalities from the county and municipal aid account is $824,825,715 and the total amount to be distributed to counties and municipalities in 2012, and in each year thereafter, from the county and municipal aid account is $748,075,715.
79.01(2m)
(2m) There is established an account in the general fund entitled the “Public Utility Distribution Account," referred to in this chapter as the “public utility account." There shall be appropriated to the public utility account the sums specified in s.
79.04.
79.015
79.015
Statement of estimated payments. The department of revenue, on or before September 15 of each year, shall provide to each municipality and county a statement of estimated payments to be made in the next calendar year to the municipality or county under ss.
79.035,
79.04, and
79.05.
79.02
79.02
Shared revenue distributions. 79.02(1)(1)
The department of administration, upon certification by the department of revenue, shall distribute shared revenue payments to each municipality and county on the 4th Monday in July and the 3rd Monday in November.
79.02(2)(a)(a) In this subsection, “estimated payments" means the amounts in the statement provided to the county or municipality under s.
79.015.
79.02(3)(a)(a) Subject to s.
59.605 (4), payments to each municipality and county in November shall equal that municipality's or county's entitlement under ss.
79.035,
79.04, and
79.05 for the current year, minus the amount distributed to the municipality or county in July.
