Municipal funds may be invested in savings and loan associations to the extent permitted by sec. 219.05(1), Stats. 62-312
Municipalities and other local governmental entities may only invest in certain specifically authorized bonds, securities, deposits, etc., and may not invest in mutual funds, even if the assets of such funds consist solely of statutorily-allowed bonds and securities. 77-274
Law enforcement
Counties and municipalities do not have authority to regulate the interception and rebroadcast of local law enforcement agency radio communications. 64-103
Law enforcement contracts with counties
Under section 66.30, Stats., and subject to some limitation, a county may furnish certain supplemental law enforcement services to villages and towns within the county. The County Sheriff's consent to provide such supplemental services and the Sheriff's approval of such a contract is required. 75-119
Law enforcement contracts with municipalities
Under sec. 66.30, Stats., a county may contract to furnish certain law enforcement services to cities, villages and towns within the county but cannot take over all law enforcement functions. A deputy sheriff may not be designated as a city police chief. 65-47
Under section 66.30, Stats., and subject to some limitation, a county may furnish certain supplemental law enforcement services to villages and towns within the county. The County Sheriff's consent to provide such supplemental services and the Sheriff's approval of such a contract is required. 75-119
Libraries
Municipal libraries are a matter of statewide concern. Accordingly, home rule provisions will not justify local departures from the provisions of chapter 43, Stats. 76-203
Library tax levy
A town, city or village which does not maintain a public library, as a municipality or jointly with another municipality under contract, but which makes contributions to a nearby public library, cannot be exempted from the county library tax levy under sec. 43.64(2), Stats. 65-182
Lime pit
Pursuant to secs. 59.07(1)(a) and 59.873, Stats., a county can own and operate a lime pit in another county, within reasonable distance, if such operation is necessary to obtain sufficient supply to furnish lime at cost to farmers within the county operating such pit. However, absent a co operation agreement pursuant to sec. 66.30, Stats., lime cannot be sold or distributed to farmers in such other county. 66-72
Liquor store employes
Municipalities may not require by ordinance that all grocery and liquor store employes and bartenders must obtain bartenders' or operators' licenses, such ordinances being in conflict with the provisions of chapter 125, Stats. 76-86
Madison Public Library
The Madison Public Library can charge user fees for any services that fall outside of a library's inherent information-providing functions; services that constitute core "library services" must be provided free of charge to the inhabitants of the municipality; a one-dollar fee can be collected for lending duplicate copies of best seller books. 73-86
Milwaukee, City of
City has power to create an ordinance making possession of marijuana an offense in the City of Milwaukee. 63 OAG 107 discussed. (Unpub.). July 9, 1975
Milwaukee County
If all the municipalities in Milwaukee County establish their own system or combine with several other municipalities to establish a system with a central location, Milwaukee County would be required to establish a system which connects with all central locations of the emergency telephone systems established in the County. It is possible that a mandamus proceeding could be instituted against public officials to obtain compliance with the provisions of the statute. 68-165
Milwaukee School Board
Authority of a state or governmental subdivision to provide a retirement plan in lieu of or supplemental to existing statutory plans discussed. The Milwaukee School Board is authorized by sec. 111.70, Stats., to contract for a retirement system supplementary to the existing statutory system. 67-153
Mobile homes
In a town in which a county-wide zoning ordinance is effective, a town ordinance which purports to regulate the location of the individual mobile homes is a zoning ordinance which can only be enacted in compliance with the provisions of sec. 60.74(7) or (8), Stats. Once the exercise of town zoning authority under sec. 60.74(7), Stats., is approved by referendum, town zoning ordinances and amendments need only be approved by the county board. Section 60.74(7), Stats., required the appropriate town authorities to hold a public hearing on town zoning, but no further hearing by the county authorities is required. 65-288
Mutual funds
Municipalities and other local governmental entities may only invest in certain specifically authorized bonds, securities, deposits, etc., and may not invest in mutual funds, even if the assets of such funds consist solely of statutorily-allowed bonds and securities. 77-274
Nonresident property owners
1973 Senate Bill 59 contains inconsistent provisions which require redrafting, although the general intent of the Bill appears to be to provide nonresident property owners with a voice in both metropolitan sewerage district and town sanitary district bond elections. Such a limited extension of voting rights probably would not infringe the local district electors' federal or state constitutional guarantees of equal protection. Such extension of suffrage probably is required to be submitted to a vote of the electors of the State, under art. III, sec. 1, Wis. Const. 63-391
Nursing homes
A village has power to own and operate a home for the aged, finance the same under secs. 66.066, 66.067, and lease facility to a nonprofit corporation but probably could not lease facility to a profit corporation for operation. 62-226
Open meeting
Boards of review cannot rely on exemptions in Open Meeting Law, sec. 19.85(1), Stats., to close any meeting in view of explicit requirements in sec. 70.47(2m), Stats. 65-162
Common Council's practice of giving notice in December of all contemplated meetings and general subjects to be considered during the next year does not comply with notice requirements of sec. 19.84(1)(4), Stats., even where detailed agenda is available for inspection in City Clerk's office four hours before meeting. Governmental body cannot commence an open session, convene in closed session, and reconvene into open session within twelve hours unless notice of such subsequent open session was given in the same manner as the public notice of the first open session. (Unpub.). 111-1979
Sections 895.35 and 895.46, Stats., apply to actions for open meetings law violations to the same extent they apply to other actions against public officers and employes, except that public officials cannot be reimbursed for forfeitures they are ordered to pay for violating the open meetings law. 77-177
Volunteer fire department organized as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to sec. 213.05, Stats., is not a governmental or quasi-governmental corporation and is not subject to provisions of the Open Meeting Law, secs. 19.81-19.98, Stats. 66-113
Ordinances
Codification and publication of municipal ordinances discussed. 70-124
The ordinance adopted by the Village of West Milwaukee which authorizes the placement of an immobilization device on an automobile of an individual who has ten or more outstanding or otherwise unsettled traffic violations does not constitute a valid exercise of a municipality's authority under Wisconsin law. 77-73
Overpayment of shared taxes
Department of Revenue should adjust the correction of an overpayment of shared taxes to municipalities and counties in 1975, as certified on the July 1976 preliminary distribution, by reducing the correction to only $3,488,454.46 and thereby provide for minimum 1975 distribution to municipalities and counties of $278,000,000. (Unpub.). 76-1976
Penalty assessment
When a municipal court adjudges a child to have violated a municipal ordinance, that court must impose court costs and should add the ten percent penalty assessment provided in sec. 165.87(2), Stats., to any forfeiture imposed for such violation. 69-26
Referenda
City may avoid the referendum procedures normally attendant to the issuance of general obligation bonds, by using alternative methods of financing which do not require referenda such as borrowing on promissory notes under sec. 67.12(12), Stats. 69-158
Retirement funds
The Department of Employe Trust Funds is not authorized to administer supplemental retirement funds established by collective bargaining under sec. 111.70, Stats. (Unpub.). 59-1979
Retirement systems
Authority of a state or governmental subdivision to provide a retirement plan in lieu of or supplemental to existing statutory plans discussed. The Milwaukee School Board is authorized by sec. 111.70, Stats., to contract for a retirement system supplementary to the existing statutory system. 67-153
Road construction costs
Counties may charge a one percent of project cost administrative fee for work done on municipal roads pursuant to sec. 83.035, Stats. 63-321
Sanitary district
Where town sanitary district consists of territory wholly within one town and town board has not designated its members as commissioners but has appointed commissioners, town board is not required to call special election to elect commissioners if petition signed by at least twenty percent of the qualified electors of the district is filed. 69-245
School districts
School districts may not invoke the damage and interest provisions of section 74.22, Stats., to penalize a township for failing to settle tax payments within the time required by law. 74-84
School lunchrooms
A city health department may inspect and license public school lunchrooms pursuant to a specific ordinance even though sec. 160.01(3), Stats., precludes public school lunchrooms from regulation as restaurants by the Department of Health and Social Services and its designated agents. The authority in the Department of Public Instruction, under sec. 115.33, Stats., to ensure a sanitary facility is not precluded by sec. 160.01(3), Stats. 65-54
Sewage, private system
