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2025 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 59 - Counties.
DEFINITIONS
LEGAL STATUS; ORGANIZATION
- 59.01 - Body corporate; status.
- 59.02 - Powers, how exercised; quorum.
- 59.03 - Home rule.
- 59.04 - Construction of powers.
- 59.05 - County seat; change.
- 59.06 - County property.
- 59.07 - Claims against counties; actions on.
- 59.08 - Consolidation of counties; procedure; referendum.
- 59.10 - Boards: composition; election; terms; compensation; compatibility.
- 59.11 - Meetings; adjournment; absentees.
- 59.12 - Chairperson; vice chairperson; powers and duties.
- 59.13 - Committees; appointment; compensation.
- 59.14 - Publication of ordinances and proceedings.
- 59.15 - Neglect of duty.
- 59.17 - County executive.
- 59.18 - County administrator.
- 59.19 - Administrative coordinator.
- 59.20 - County offices and officers.
- 59.21 - Official oaths and bonds.
- 59.22 - Compensation, fees, salaries and traveling expenses of officials and employees.
- 59.23 - Clerk.
- 59.24 - Clerks of counties containing state institutions to make claims in certain cases.
- 59.25 - Treasurer.
- 59.255 - Comptroller.
- 59.26 - Sheriff; undersheriff; deputies.
- 59.27 - Sheriff; duties.
- 59.28 - Peace maintenance; powers and duties of peace officers, cooperation.
- 59.29 - Transportation, apprehension of criminals.
- 59.30 - Not to act as attorney.
- 59.31 - Service on sheriff; how made.
- 59.32 - Fees received by sheriff.
- 59.33 - Powers after term.
- 59.34 - Coroner, medical examiner duties; coroner, medical examiner compatibility.
- 59.35 - Deputy coroner.
- 59.36 - Coroner and medical examiner; fees.
- 59.365 - Moratorium on fee increases.
- 59.37 - Service when no coroner.
- 59.38 - Medical examiner and assistants.
- 59.39 - Coroner or medical examiner as funeral director, limitation.
- 59.40 - Clerk of court.
- 59.41 - Not to act as attorney.
- 59.42 - Corporation counsel.
- 59.43 - Register of deeds; duties, fees, deputies.
- 59.44 - County abstractor; appointment; duties; fees.
- 59.45 - County surveyor; duties, deputies, fees.
- 59.46 - Penalty for nonfeasance.
- 59.47 - County auditors; powers; duties.
- 59.48 - County assessor.
- 59.51 - Board powers.
- 59.52 - County administration.
- 59.53 - Health and human services.
- 59.535 - Veterans affairs.
- 59.54 - Public protection and safety.
- 59.55 - Consumer protection.
- 59.56 - Cultural affairs; education; recreation.
- 59.57 - Economic and industrial development.
- 59.58 - Transportation.
- 59.60 - Budgetary procedure in certain counties.
- 59.605 - Tax levy rate limit.
- 59.61 - Financial transactions.
- 59.62 - Investment authority delegation.
- 59.63 - Treasurer’s disbursement of revenue.
- 59.64 - Claims against county.
- 59.65 - Publication of financial report.
- 59.66 - Unclaimed funds.
- 59.69 - Planning and zoning authority.
- 59.691 - Required notice on certain approvals.
- 59.692 - Zoning of shorelands on navigable waters.
- 59.693 - Construction site erosion control and storm water management zoning.
- 59.694 - County zoning, adjustment board.
- 59.696 - Zoning; filing fees.
- 59.697 - Fees for zoning appeals.
- 59.698 - Zoning, building inspector.
- 59.70 - Environmental protection and land use.
- 59.71 - Special counties; record keeping.
- 59.72 - Land information.
- 59.73 - Surveys; expressing bearings, subdividing sections.
- 59.74 - Perpetuation of section corners, landmarks.
- 59.75 - Certificates and records as evidence.
- 59.76 - Registration of farms.
- 59.79 - Milwaukee County.
- 59.792 - Milwaukee County; sewage, waste, refuse.
- 59.794 - Milwaukee County; limitations on board authority and on intergovernmental cooperation, shared services.
- 59.796 - Milwaukee County; opportunity schools and partnership program.
- 59.80 - Milwaukee County; city-county crime commission.
- 59.81 - Cash flow, Milwaukee.
- 59.82 - Milwaukee County Research and Technology Park.
- 59.84 - Expressways and mass transit facilities in populous counties.
- 59.85 - Appropriation bonds for payment of employee retirement system liability in populous counties.
- 59.86 - Agreements and ancillary arrangements for certain notes and appropriation bonds.
- 59.87 - Employee retirement system liability financing in populous counties; additional powers.
- 59.875 - Payment of contributions in and employment of annuitants under an employee retirement system of populous counties.
- 59.88 - Employee retirement system of populous counties; duty disability benefits for a mental injury.
- 59.90 - Provisions applicable to certain counties with special sales tax authority.
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