2025 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 66 - General municipality law.

GENERAL 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.
• 66.0134 - Labor peace agreements prohibited.
• 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.
• 66.0144 - Advisory referenda.
• 66.0145 - No preferences in hiring or contracting.

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.
• 66.02162 - Incorporation of certain towns contiguous to 3rd class cities or villages.
• 66.02165 - Limitations on newly created incorporated village or city.
• 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.
• 66.0404 - Mobile tower siting regulations.
• 66.0405 - Removal of rubbish.
• 66.0406 - Radio broadcast service facility regulations.
• 66.0407 - Noxious weeds.
• 66.0408 - Regulation of occupations.
• 66.0409 - Local regulation of weapons.
• 66.0410 - Local regulation of ticket reselling.
• 66.0411 - Sound-producing devices; impoundment; seizure and forfeiture.
• 66.0412 - Local regulation of real estate brokers, brokerage services.
• 66.0413 - Razing buildings.
• 66.0414 - Small wireless facilities.
• 66.0415 - Offensive industry.
• 66.0416 - Certain businesses operated by minors.
• 66.0417 - Local enforcement of certain food and health regulations.
• 66.0418 - Prohibition of local regulation of certain foods, beverages.
• 66.0419 - Local regulation of auxiliary containers.
• 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 beverages.
• 66.0435 - Manufactured and mobile home communities.
• 66.0436 - Certificates of food protection practices for restaurants.
• 66.0437 - Drug disposal programs.
• 66.0438 - Limitations on locally issued identification cards.
• 66.0439 - Environmental, occupational health, and safety credentials.
• 66.0440 - Battery-powered, alarmed electric security fences.
• 66.0441 - Quarries extracting certain nonmetallic minerals.
• 66.0442 - Electric vehicle charging stations.

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

• 66.0501 - Eligibility for office.
• 66.05015 - Background investigation.
• 66.0502 - Employee residency requirements prohibited.
• 66.0503 - Combination of municipal offices.
• 66.0504 - Address confidentiality program.
• 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.
• 66.0510 - Benefits to officers, employees, agents.
• 66.0511 - Law enforcement agencies; certain policies.
• 66.0512 - Whistleblower protection for certain disclosures made by municipal clerks.
• 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 - Protective services.
• 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.
• 66.0626 - Special assessments or charges for contaminated well or wastewater system loans.
• 66.0627 - Special charges for current services and certain loan repayments.
• 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 - Prevailing wage.
• 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.
• 66.10013 - Housing affordability report.
• 66.10014 - New housing fee report.
• 66.10015 - Limitation on development regulation authority.
• 66.10016 - Permits for residential housing developments.
• 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.
• 66.1014 - Limits on residential dwelling rental prohibited.
• 66.1015 - Municipal rent control, inclusionary zoning, 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.
• 66.1036 - Building permit for a shoreland structure.
• 66.1037 - Beautification and protection.

DEVELOPMENT

• 66.1101 - Promotion of industry; industrial sites.
• 66.1102 - Land development; notification; records requests; construction site development.
• 66.1103 - Industrial development revenue bonding.
• 66.1105 - Tax increment law.
• 66.1106 - Environmental remediation tax incremental financing.
• 66.1107 - Reinvestment neighborhoods.
• 66.1108 - Limitation on weekend work.
• 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.