2005 WISCONSIN ACT 477
An Act to repeal 66.0617 (2) (am); to amend 66.0617 (1) (a), 66.0617 (1) (c), 66.0617 (1) (d), 66.0617 (1) (e), 66.0617 (1) (f), 66.0617 (1) (g), 66.0617 (1) (h), 66.0617 (2) (a), 66.0617 (2) (b), 66.0617 (2) (c), 66.0617 (3), 66.0617 (4) (a) (intro.), 66.0617 (4) (a) 3., 66.0617 (4) (b), 66.0617 (5) (b), 66.0617 (6) (b), 66.0617 (6) (d), 66.0617 (6) (g), 66.0617 (7), 66.0617 (8), 66.0617 (9) (a) and 66.0617 (10); and to create 65.90 (3) (b) 3. and 236.45 (6) of the statutes; relating to: changes to the impact fee law, imposing certain publication requirements for the budget summaries that are published by political subdivisions, and imposing certain requirements on plat approval conditions.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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Section 1g. 65.90 (3) (b) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
65.90 (3) (b) 3. Revenue and expenditure totals for each impact fee that is imposed by a municipality.
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Section 1r. 66.0617 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0617 (1) (a) "Capital costs" means the capital costs to construct, expand or improve public facilities, including the cost of land, and including legal, engineering and design costs to construct, expand or improve public facilities, except that not more than 10% of capital costs may consist of legal, engineering and design costs unless the political subdivision municipality can demonstrate that its legal, engineering and design costs which relate directly to the public improvement for which the impact fees were imposed exceed 10% of capital costs. "Capital costs" does not include other noncapital costs to construct, expand or improve public facilities, vehicles; or the costs of equipment to construct, expand or improve public facilities.
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2. 66.0617 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0617 (1) (c) "Impact fees" means cash contributions, contributions of land or interests in land or any other items of value that are imposed on a developer by a political subdivision municipality under this section.
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3. 66.0617 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0617 (1) (d) "Land development" means the construction or modification of improvements to real property that creates additional residential dwelling units within a political subdivision municipality or that results in nonresidential uses that create a need for new, expanded or improved public facilities within a political subdivision municipality.
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4. 66.0617 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0617 (1) (e) "Political subdivision" "Municipality" means a city, village, town or county or town.
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5. 66.0617 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0617 (1) (f) "Public facilities" means highways, as defined in s. 340.01 (22), and other transportation facilities, traffic control devices, facilities for collecting and treating sewage, facilities for collecting and treating storm and surface waters, facilities for pumping, storing, and distributing water, parks, playgrounds, and other recreational land for athletic fields, solid waste and recycling facilities, fire protection facilities, law enforcement facilities, emergency medical facilities and libraries except that, with regard to counties, "public facilities" does not include highways, as defined in s. 340.01 (22), other transportation facilities or traffic control devices. "Public facilities" does not include facilities owned by a school district.
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6. 66.0617 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0617 (1) (g) "Service area" means a geographic area delineated by a political subdivision municipality within which there are public facilities.
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7. 66.0617 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0617 (1) (h) "Service standard" means a certain quantity or quality of public facilities relative to a certain number of persons, parcels of land or other appropriate measure, as specified by the political subdivision
municipality.