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66. General municipality law.
subch. I of ch. 66 SUBCHAPTER IGENERAL POWERS; ADMINISTRATION
- 66.0101 Home rule; manner of exercise.
- 66.0103 Code of ordinances.
- 66.0104 Prohibiting ordinances that place certain limits or requirements on a landlord.
- 66.0105 Jurisdiction of overlapping extraterritorial powers.
- 66.0107 Power of municipalities to prohibit criminal conduct.
- 66.0109 Penalties under county and municipal ordinances.
- 66.0111 Bond or cash deposit under municipal ordinances.
- 66.0113 Citations for certain ordinance violations.
- 66.0114 Actions for violation of ordinances.
- 66.0115 Outstanding unpaid forfeitures.
- 66.0117 Judgment against local governmental units.
- 66.0119 Special inspection warrants.
- 66.0121 Orders; action; proof of demand.
- 66.0123 Recreation authority.
- 66.0125 Community relations-social development commissions.
- 66.0127 Municipal hospital board.
- 66.0129 Hospital facilities lease from nonprofit corporation.
- 66.0131 Local governmental purchasing.
- 66.0133 Energy savings performance contracting.
- 66.0135 Interest on late payments.
- 66.0137 Provision of insurance.
- 66.0139 Disposal of abandoned property.
- 66.0141 Accident record systems.
- 66.0143 Local appeals for exemption from state mandates.
INCORPORATION; MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES
- 66.0201 Incorporation of villages and cities; purpose and definitions.
- 66.0203 Procedure for incorporation of villages and cities.
- 66.0205 Standards to be applied by the circuit court.
- 66.0207 Standards to be applied by the board.
- 66.0209 Review of incorporation-related orders and decisions.
- 66.0211 Incorporation referendum procedure.
- 66.0213 Powers of new village or city: elections; adjustment of taxes; reorganization as village.
- 66.0215 Incorporation of certain towns adjacent to 1st class cities.
- 66.0216 Incorporation of certain towns contiguous to 2nd class cities.
- 66.0217 Annexation initiated by electors and property owners.
- 66.0219 Annexation by referendum initiated by city or village.
- 66.0221 Annexation of and creation of town islands.
- 66.0223 Annexation of territory owned by a city or village.
- 66.0225 Stipulated boundary agreements in contested boundary actions.
- 66.0227 Detachment of territory.
- 66.0229 Consolidation.
- 66.0230 Town consolidation with a city or village.
- 66.0231 Notice of certain litigation affecting municipal status or boundaries.
- 66.0233 Town participation in actions to test alterations of town boundaries.
- 66.0235 Adjustment of assets and liabilities on division of territory.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION
- 66.0301 Intergovernmental cooperation.
- 66.0303 Municipal interstate cooperation.
- 66.0304 Conduit revenue bonds.
- 66.0305 Political subdivision revenue sharing.
- 66.0307 Boundary change pursuant to approved cooperative plan.
- 66.0309 Creation, organization, powers and duties of regional planning commissions.
- 66.0311 Intergovernmental cooperation in financing and undertaking housing projects.
- 66.0312 Local health departments; mutual assistance.
- 66.03125 Fire departments; mutual assistance.
- 66.0313 Law enforcement; mutual assistance.
- 66.0314 State of emergency; mutual assistance.
- 66.0315 Municipal cooperation; federal rivers, harbors or water resources projects.
- 66.0316 Renew Wisconsin performance review.
- 66.0317 Cooperation region.
REGULATION
- 66.0401 Regulation relating to solar and wind energy systems.
- 66.0403 Solar and wind access permits.
- 66.0405 Removal of rubbish.
- 66.0407 Noxious weeds.
- 66.0409 Local regulation of firearms.
- 66.0410 Local regulation of ticket reselling.
- 66.0411 Sound-producing devices; impoundment; seizure and forfeiture.
- 66.0413 Razing buildings.
- 66.0415 Offensive industry.
- 66.0417 Local enforcement of certain food and health regulations.
- 66.0420 Video service.
- 66.0421 Access to video service.
- 66.0422 Video service, telecommunications, and broadband facilities.
- 66.0423 Transient merchants.
- 66.0425 Privileges in streets.
- 66.0427 Open excavations in populous counties.
- 66.0429 Street barriers; neighborhood watch signs.
- 66.0431 Prohibiting operators from leaving keys in parked motor vehicles.
- 66.0433 Licenses for nonintoxicating and soda water beverages.
- 66.0435 Manufactured and mobile home communities.
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
- 66.0501 Eligibility for office.
- 66.0503 Combination of municipal offices.
- 66.0505 Compensation of governing bodies.
- 66.0506 Referendum; increase in employee wages.
- 66.0507 Automatic salary schedules.
- 66.0508 Collective bargaining.
- 66.0509 Civil service system; veterans preference.
- 66.0511 Law enforcement agency policies on use of force and citizen complaint procedures.
- 66.0513 Police, pay when acting outside county or municipality.
- 66.0515 Receipts for fees.
- 66.0517 Weed commissioner.
- 66.0518 Defined benefit pension plans.
FINANCE; REVENUES
- 66.0601 Appropriations.
- 66.0602 Local levy limits.
- 66.0603 Investments.
- 66.0605 Local government audits and reports.
- 66.0607 Withdrawal or disbursement from local treasury.
- 66.0608 Separate accounts for municipal fire, emergency medical technician, and first responder volunteer funds.
- 66.0609 Financial procedure; alternative system of approving claims.
- 66.0611 Political subdivisions prohibited from levying tax on incomes.
- 66.0613 Assessment on racing prohibited.
- 66.0615 Room tax; forfeitures.
- 66.0617 Impact fees.
- 66.0619 Public improvement bonds: issuance.
- 66.0621 Revenue obligations.
- 66.0623 Refunding village, town, sanitary, and inland lake district bonds.
- 66.0625 Joint issuance of mass transit bonding.
- 66.0627 Special charges for current services and energy and water efficiency improvement loans.
- 66.0628 Fees imposed by a political subdivision.
SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
- 66.0701 Special assessments by local ordinance.
- 66.0703 Special assessments, generally.
- 66.0705 Property of public and private entities subject to special assessments.
- 66.0707 Assessment or special charge against property in adjacent city, village or town.
- 66.0709 Preliminary payment of improvements funded by special assessments.
- 66.0711 Discount on cash payments for public improvements.
- 66.0713 Contractor's certificates; general obligation-local improvement bonds; special assessment B bonds.
- 66.0715 Deferral of special assessments; payment of special assessments in installments.
- 66.0717 Lien of special assessment.
- 66.0719 Disposition of special assessment proceeds where improvement paid for out of general fund or municipal obligations.
- 66.0721 Special assessments on certain farmland or camps for construction of sewerage or water system.
- 66.0723 Utilities, special assessments.
- 66.0725 Assessment of condemnation benefits.
- 66.0727 Special assessments against railroad for street improvement.
- 66.0729 Improvement of streets by abutting railroad company.
- 66.0731 Reassessment of invalid condemnation and public improvement assessments.
- 66.0733 Repayment of assessments in certain cases.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
- 66.0801 Definitions; effect on other authority.
- 66.0803 Acquisition of public utility or bus transportation system.
- 66.0805 Management of municipal public utility by commission.
- 66.0807 Joint operation of public utility or public transportation system.
- 66.0809 Municipal public utility charges.
- 66.0811 Municipal public utility revenues.
- 66.0813 Provision of utility service outside of municipality by municipal public utility.
- 66.0815 Public utility franchises and service contracts.
- 66.0817 Sale or lease of municipal public utility plant.
- 66.0819 Combining water and sewer utilities.
- 66.0821 Sewerage and storm water systems.
- 66.0823 Joint local water authorities.
- 66.0825 Municipal electric companies.
- 66.0827 Utility districts.
- 66.0829 Parking systems.
- 66.0831 Interference with public service structure.
PUBLIC WORKS AND PROJECTS
- 66.0901 Public works, contracts, bids.
- 66.0903 Municipal prevailing wage and hour scales.
- 66.0905 Pedestrian malls.
- 66.0907 Sidewalks.
- 66.0909 Curb ramping.
- 66.0911 Laterals and service pipes.
- 66.0913 City and county projects, individual or joint; revenue bonding.
- 66.0915 Viaducts in cities, villages and towns.
- 66.0917 Art museums.
- 66.0919 Civic centers.
- 66.0921 Joint civic buildings.
- 66.0923 County-city auditoriums.
- 66.0925 County-city safety building.
- 66.0927 County-city hospitals; village and town powers.
PLANNING, HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION
- 66.1001 Comprehensive planning.
- 66.1002 Development moratoria.
- 66.1003 Discontinuance of a public way.
- 66.1005 Reversion of title.
- 66.1006 Department of natural resources approval of discontinuance.
- 66.1007 Architectural conservancy districts.
- 66.1009 Agreement to establish an airport affected area.
- 66.1010 Moratorium on evictions.
- 66.1011 Local equal opportunities.
- 66.1013 Urban homestead programs.
- 66.1015 Municipal rent control prohibited.
- 66.1017 Family child care homes.
- 66.1019 Housing codes to conform to state law.
- 66.1021 City, village and town transit commissions.
- 66.1023 Transit employees; Wisconsin retirement system.
- 66.1024 Effect of reservation or exception in conveyance.
- 66.1025 Relief from conditions of gifts and dedications.
- 66.1027 Traditional neighborhood developments and conservation subdivisions.
- 66.1031 Widening of highways; establishment of excess widths.
- 66.1033 Curative provisions.
- 66.1035 Rights of abutting owners.
- 66.1037 Beautification and protection.
DEVELOPMENT
- 66.1101 Promotion of industry; industrial sites.
- 66.1102 Land development; notification; records requests.
- 66.1103 Industrial development revenue bonding.
- 66.1105 Tax increment law.
- 66.1106 Environmental remediation tax incremental financing.
- 66.1107 Reinvestment neighborhoods.
- 66.1109 Business improvement districts.
- 66.1110 Neighborhood improvement districts.
- 66.1111 Historic properties.
- 66.1113 Premier resort areas.
HOUSING AUTHORITIES
- 66.1201 Housing authorities.
- 66.1203 Housing authorities; operation not for profit.
- 66.1205 Housing authorities; rentals and tenant selection.
- 66.1207 Penalties; evidence.
- 66.1209 Housing authorities; cooperation in housing projects.
- 66.1211 Housing authorities; contracts with city; assistance to counties and municipalities.
- 66.1213 Housing authorities for elderly persons.
URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AND RENEWAL
- 66.1301 Urban redevelopment.
- 66.1303 Urban redevelopment; plans, approval.
- 66.1305 Redevelopment corporations; limitations; incubator.
- 66.1307 Urban redevelopment; regulation of corporations.
- 66.1309 Urban redevelopment; transfer of land.
- 66.1311 Urban redevelopment; acquisition of land.
- 66.1313 Urban redevelopment; condemnation for.
- 66.1315 Urban redevelopment; continued use of land by prior owner.
- 66.1317 Urban redevelopment; borrowing; mortgages.
- 66.1319 Urban redevelopment; sale or lease of land.
- 66.1321 Urban redevelopment; city lease to, terms.
- 66.1323 Urban redevelopment; aids and appropriations.
- 66.1325 Urban redevelopment; city improvements.
- 66.1327 Urban redevelopment; construction of statute; conflict of laws; supplemental powers.
- 66.1329 Urban redevelopment; enforcement of duties.
- 66.1331 Blighted area law.
- 66.1333 Blight elimination and slum clearance.
- 66.1335 Housing and community development authorities.
- 66.1337 Urban renewal.
- 66.1339 Villages to have certain city powers.
- 66.1341 Towns to have certain city powers.
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