The following statutes affect this form: ss. 61.35 and 62.23 (6), Wis. stats. (ONLY for use by towns authorized to exercise VILLAGE POWERS under s. 60.22, Wis. stats.) STATE OF WISCONSIN
Town of ________
________ County
I, ________ ________, clerk of the Town of ________, ________ County, Wisconsin, certify that at the regular meeting of the Town Board of the Town of ________, held on ________ ___, 20__, the town board, by resolution adopted on proper notice with a quorum and by a roll call vote of a majority of the town board present and voting, established an official town map for the Town of ________, which is on file at the Town Hall for the town.
Dated this ______ day of ________, 20__.
[Signature and seal of town clerk]
Town Name
The following statutes affect this form: s. 60.065, Wis. stats. Petition
To ________ ________, clerk of the Town of ________, ________ County, Wisconsin:
We, the undersigned, electors of the Town of ________, ________ County, Wisconsin, pursuant to s. 60.065, Wis. stats., petition that the attached resolution [attach resolution that the name of the town be changed and stating the proposed new name] be referred to a vote of the electors of the town for the purpose of determining whether the name of the Town of ________ shall be changed to the “Town of ________.” In the event of any impropriety or insufficiency in this petition or the attached resolution, contact ________ ________, whose mailing address is _________, ________ and telephone number is (____) ____-________.
Affidavit
STATE OF WISCONSIN
________ County
________ ________, of ________ ________ [insert address of residence with street and number], being duly sworn, says that I personally circulated the petition and personally obtained each of the signatures; that I know that the signers are electors of the jurisdiction or district in which the petition is circulated; that I know that the signers signed the paper with full knowledge of its content; that I know the signers’ respective residences given; that I know that each signer signed on the date stated opposite his or her name; that I reside within the jurisdiction or district in which the petition is circulated; and that I am aware that falsifying the affidavit is punishable under ss. 12.13 (3) (a) and 946.32 (1) (a), Wis. stats. [Signature of affiant]
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ____ of ________, 20__.
[Signature of officer administering oath]
The following statutes affect this form: s. 60.065, Wis. stats. STATE OF WISCONSIN
Town of ________
________ County
I, ________ ________, clerk of the Town of ________, ________ County, Wisconsin, certify that I have carefully examined the attached petition [attach this certificate to petition upon execution by town clerk] to determine the sufficiency of the petition and whether the attached proposed resolution is in proper form. Upon this examination I have determined that: [select one 1. The petition is sufficient and the resolution is in proper form. or 2. The petition is insufficient due to ______________. or 3. That the resolution is not proper in form due to ______________. Or both 2 and 3. State the particulars of any insufficiency or impropriety].
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this ____ of ________, 20__.
[Signature of town clerk]
Town Powers
The following statutes affect this form: ss. 29.038, 66.0407, 66.0413, 125.14, 169.01, and 175.25 and ch. 823, Wis. stats. (ONLY for use by towns authorized to exercise VILLAGE POWERS under s. 60.22.) STATE OF WISCONSIN
Town of ________
________ County
SECTION I – TITLE AND PURPOSE
The title of this ordinance is the Town of ________ Public Nuisance Ordinance. The purpose of this ordinance is to regulate for public health and safety reasons public nuisances and certain uses and activities in the town.
SECTION II – AUTHORITY
The town board has the specific authority under ss. 29.038, 66.0407, 66.0413, 125.14, 169.01, and 175.25, and ch. 823, Wis. stats., and general authority under its village powers under s. 60.22, Wis. stats., to adopt this ordinance. SECTION III – ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE
This ordinance, adopted by a majority of the town board on a roll call vote with a quorum present and voting and proper notice having been given, provides for the regulation of the storage, treatment, disposal, and discharge of certain junk and of other items, uses, and activities in the town.
SECTION IV – DEFINITIONS
A. “Agricultural use” means any beekeeping, commercial feed lots, dairying, egg production, floriculture, fish or fur farming, forest and game management, grazing, livestock raising, orchards, plant greenhouses and nurseries, poultry raising, raising of grain, grass, mint, and seed crops, raising of fruits, nuts, and berries, sod farming, placing land in federal programs in return for payments in kind, owning land, at least 35 acres of which is enrolled in the conservation reserve program under 16 USC 3831 to 3835, participating in the milk production termination program under 7 USC 1446 (d), and vegetable raising. B. “Appliance” means any household or office device, instrument, utensil, apparatus, or machine that utilizes power, including, but not limited to, any stove, clothes washer or dryer, refrigerator, dish washer, freezer, water heater, water pump, furnace, television set, home entertainment device, computer or peripheral device, or other home or office electronic device.
C. “Building” includes any building or structure or any portion of a building or structure.
D. “Debris” means any litter, junk, wood, bricks, paper, cement, concrete blocks, or any other unsightly accumulation of items or materials that may tend to depreciate property values in the adjacent or near area, create a blighted condition, present a substantial threat to public health or safety, or create a public nuisance or a public safety or health hazard, except when such items are determined by the town board or town committee or other agent of the town to be stored or housed out of public view and are treated and maintained so as not to be a public nuisance.
E. “Equipment” means goods used or bought for use primarily in a business, including farming and a profession.
F. “Hazardous waste” means any solid waste identified by the State of Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources as hazardous under s. 291.05 (2), Wis. stats. G. “Junk” means scrap metal, metal alloy, wood, concrete, or synthetic or organic material or any junked, inoperative, unlicensed, or unregistered vehicle, structure, equipment, furniture, appliances, or machinery, or any part thereof. “Junk” includes refuse, used tires, parts of dismantled buildings, agricultural use equipment not in usable condition, parts of agricultural use equipment, and contaminated recyclable material.
H. “Junked” means dismantled for parts or scrapped.
I. “Junked vehicle parts” means parts from a junked vehicle.
J. “Junkyard” means any place that is owned, maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, processing, buying, or selling junk. “Junkyard” includes sanitary landfills, refuse dumps, garbage dumps, automobile graveyards, scrap metal processors, auto-wrecking yards, salvage yards, auto-recycling yards, used auto parts yards, and places for temporary storage of automobile bodies or parts awaiting disposal as a normal part of a business operation when the business will continually have like materials located on the premises. “Junkyard” does not include places where litter, trash, and other debris are scattered along or upon a highway or temporary operations and outdoor storage of limited duration.
K. “Local zoning and land use regulation” means any applicable county, town, or extraterritorial zoning, subdivision, land division, platting, official map, building code, building permit, or other ordinance adopted pursuant to general police powers that is applicable in any manner to the use of land.
L. “Machinery” means a structure or assemblage of parts that transmits forces, motion, or energy from one part to another in a predetermined way by electrical, mechanical, or chemical means. “Machinery” does not include a building.
M. “Motor vehicle dealer” has the meaning given in s. 218.0101 (23), Wis. stats. N. “Motor vehicle salvage dealer” has the meaning given in s. 218.20 (1r), Wis. stats. O. “Not registered,” in reference to “all-terrain vehicles” as defined in s. 340.01 (2g), Wis. stats., “snowmobiles” as defined in s. 340.01 (58a), Wis. stats., or “boats” as defined in s. 29.001 (16), Wis. stats., means those that are required to, but do not have nor bear, required current and valid State of Wisconsin licenses or registrations. P. “Public nuisance” means a thing, act, occupation, condition, or use of property that continues in the town for such time as to do any of the following:
1. Substantially annoy, injure, or endanger the comfort, health, repose, or safety of the public.
2. In any way render the public insecure in life or in the use of property.
3. Greatly offend the public morals or decency.
4. Unlawfully and substantially interfere with, obstruct, or attempt to obstruct or render dangerous for passage any street, alley, highway, navigable body of water, or other public way, or the use of public property.
Q. “Recyclable material” means material that is suitable for recycling.
R. “Scrap metal processor” means a fixed location at which machinery and equipment are utilized for the processing and manufacturing of iron, steel, or nonferrous metallic scrap into prepared grades and whose principal product is scrap iron, scrap steel, or nonferrous metal scrap for sale for remelting purposes.
S. “Solid waste” means any garbage, refuse, sludge, ash, paper, wood, metal, glass, cloth, plastic, lumber, concrete, food waste and other organics, boxes, barrels and other containers, tires and other like materials, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and any other discarded or salvageable materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural, and community activities, but does not include solids or dissolved materials in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under ch. 283, Wis. stats., source material as defined in s. 254.31 (1), Wis. stats., special nuclear material as defined in s. 254.31 (11), Wis. stats., or by-product material as defined in s. 254.31 (1), Wis. stats. T. “Solid waste facility” means a facility for solid waste treatment, solid waste storage, or solid waste disposal, and includes commercial, industrial, municipal, state, and federal establishments or operations such as, without limitation because of enumeration, sanitary landfills, dumps, land disposal sites, incinerators, transfer stations, storage facilities, collection and transportation services, and processing, treatment, and recovery facilities. “Solid waste facility” includes the land where the facility is located. “Solid waste facility” does not include any of the following:
1. A facility for the processing of scrap iron, steel, or nonferrous metal using machinery to produce a principal product of scrap metal for sale or use for remelting purposes.
2. A facility that uses machinery to sort, grade, compact, or bale clean wastepaper, fibers, or plastics, not mixed with other solid waste, for sale or use for recycling purposes.
3. An auto junkyard or scrap metal salvage yard.
U. “Town” means the Town of ________, ________ County, Wisconsin.
V. “Town board” means the board of supervisors for the Town of ________, ________ County, Wisconsin, and includes designees of the board authorized to act for the board, specifically including the town clerk and town chair.
W. “Town chair” means the chairperson of the Town of ________, ________ County, Wisconsin.
X. “Town clerk” means the clerk of the Town of ________, ________ County, Wisconsin.
Y. “Town committee” means a committee established by the town board to address and aid in regulation of those uses and activities that may cause public nuisance or public health and safety threats in the town.
Z. “Unlicensed” or “unregistered” in reference to vehicles, mobile homes, or manufactured homes means those that are required to be licensed or registered for operation in the state, but do not have nor bear required current and valid State of Wisconsin licenses or registration.
ZA. “Vehicle” means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported. “Vehicle” includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
1. “Aircraft” as defined in s. 29.001 (16), Wis. stats. 2. “All-terrain vehicles” as defined in s. 340.01 (2g), Wis. stats. 3. “Antique vehicles” as described in s. 341.265, Wis. stats. 4. “Automobiles” as defined in s. 340.01 (4), Wis. stats. 6. “Camping trailers” as defined in s. 340.01 (6m), Wis. stats. 7. “Farm equipment” as defined in s. 100.47 (1), Wis. stats. 8. “Farm tractors” as defined in s. 340.01 (16), Wis. stats. 9. “Hobbyist or homemade vehicles” as defined in s. 341.268, Wis. stats. 10. “Junk vehicles” as defined in s. 340.01 (25j), Wis. stats. 11. “Implements of husbandry” as defined in s. 340.01 (24), Wis. stats. 12. “Manufactured homes” as defined in s. 101.91 (2), Wis. stats. 13. “Mobile homes” as defined in s. 340.01 (29), Wis. stats. 15. “Motor bicycles” as defined in s. 340.01 (30), Wis. stats. 16. “Motor buses” as defined in s. 340.01 (31), Wis. stats.
