2020 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 229. Public institutions.
229.64 Legislative declaration.
229.64 Legislative declaration.
(1) The legislature determines that the provision of assistance by state agencies to a district under this subchapter, any appropriation of funds to a district under this subchapter and the moral obligation pledge under s. 229.74 (7) serve a statewide public purpose by assisting the development of a professional baseball park in the state for providing recreation, by encouraging economic development and tourism, by reducing unemployment and by bringing needed capital into the state for the benefit and welfare of people throughout the state. The legislature determines that the taxes that may be imposed by a district under subch. V of ch. 77 are special taxes that are generated apart from any direct annual tax on taxable property.
(2) The legislature determines that a district including a county with a population of more than 600,000 serves a public purpose in that county and all counties that are contiguous to that county by providing recreation, by encouraging economic development and tourism, by reducing unemployment and by bringing needed capital into the multicounty area for the benefit of people in the multicounty area.
History: 1995 a. 56; 2001 a. 16.
1995 Wisconsin Act 56, which created subchapter III of chapter 229, is constitutional. Libertarian Party v. State, 199 Wis. 2d 791, 546 N.W.2d 424 (1996), 95-3114.
