Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 60 - Towns.
60.70 - Definitions.

60.70 Definitions. In this subchapter:
(1) “Commission" means the town sanitary district commission.
(1m) “Commissioner" means a member of a commission.
(2) “Equalized full value" means the assessed full value adjusted to reflect the full value as determined under s. 70.57.
(3) “Municipality" means a city, village or town.
(4) “Pollution" means contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the waters of the state, or making them injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.
(5) “Private on-site wastewater treatment system" has the meaning given under s. 145.01 (12).
(6) “Sewerage system" means all structures, conduits and pipelines by which sewage is collected, transported, pumped, treated and disposed of, except plumbing inside and in connection with buildings served, and service pipes from building to street main.
(7) “Solid waste" has the meaning given under s. 289.01 (33).
(8) “Solid waste disposal" has the meaning given under s. 289.01 (34).
(9) “Town sanitary district" or “district" means a town sanitary district created under this subchapter.
(10) “Water system" means all structures, conduits and appurtenances by means of which water is delivered to consumers except piping and fixtures inside buildings served and service pipes from building to street main.
(11) “Waters of the state" has the meaning given under s. 281.01 (18).
History: 1983 a. 532; 1991 a. 189; 1995 a. 227, 378; 2011 a. 146.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 60 - Towns.

60.001 - Definitions.

60.01 - Legal status; general powers.

60.03 - Division and dissolution of towns generally.

60.05 - Organization of towns in special cases.

60.06 - Validity of attachment or detachment.

60.065 - Change of town name.

60.07 - Delivery of papers to clerk of new town.

60.09 - When a county constitutes a town.

60.10 - Powers of town meeting.

60.11 - Annual town meeting.

60.12 - Special town meetings.

60.13 - Presiding officer.

60.14 - Procedure.

60.15 - Clerk.

60.16 - First town meeting in new towns.

60.20 - Town board.

60.21 - Town board, increased size authorized.

60.22 - General powers and duties.

60.23 - Miscellaneous powers.

60.24 - Powers and duties of town board chairperson.

60.30 - Election, appointment of town officers; general provisions.

60.305 - Combined and part-time offices.

60.307 - Appointment of town assessors.

60.31 - Official oath and bond.

60.32 - Compensation of elective town offices.

60.321 - Reimbursement of expenses.

60.323 - Compensation when acting in more than one official capacity.

60.33 - Duties of town clerk.

60.331 - Deputy town clerk.

60.34 - Duties of town treasurer.

60.341 - Deputy town treasurer.

60.35 - Duties of town constable.

60.351 - Town constable fees.

60.36 - Municipal judge.

60.37 - Town employees.

60.40 - Preparation and adoption of budget.

60.41 - Annual financial statement.

60.42 - Finance book.

60.43 - Financial audits.

60.44 - Claims against town.

60.45 - Disbursements from town treasury.

60.46 - Public depository.

60.47 - Public contracts and competitive bidding.

60.50 - Public works.

60.52 - Sewer and water systems of adjoining municipality.

60.53 - Service pipes and laterals.

60.54 - Solid waste transportation.

60.55 - Fire protection.

60.553 - Combined protective services.

60.555 - Fire safety regulations.

60.557 - Reimbursement for fire calls on highways.

60.56 - Law enforcement.

60.563 - Rewards for crime information.

60.565 - Ambulance service.

60.57 - Police and fire commission.

60.61 - General zoning authority.

60.62 - Zoning authority if exercising village powers.

60.625 - Required notice on certain approvals.

60.627 - Town construction site erosion control and storm water management zoning.

60.63 - Community and other living arrangements.

60.635 - Environmental protection; interstate hazardous liquid pipelines.

60.64 - Historic preservation.

60.65 - Board of adjustment.

60.66 - Town park commission.

60.70 - Definitions.

60.71 - Creation of town sanitary district by town board order.

60.72 - Creation of town sanitary district by order of the department of natural resources.

60.726 - Property with private on-site wastewater treatment system included.

60.73 - Review of orders creating town sanitary districts.

60.74 - Commissioners; method of selection.

60.75 - Commissioners; requirements.

60.76 - Organization of the commission.

60.77 - Powers and duties.

60.78 - Powers to borrow money and issue municipal obligations.

60.782 - Power to act as a public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district.

60.785 - Changes in district boundaries.

60.79 - Alteration of town sanitary districts.

60.80 - Publication or posting of ordinances and resolutions.

60.81 - Population; use of federal census.

60.82 - Regional planning programs.

60.83 - Destruction of obsolete town records.

60.84 - Monuments.

60.85 - Town tax increment law.