61.19 Annual elections; appointments. At the annual spring election in each village in odd-numbered years, except as otherwise provided herein, there shall be chosen: A president, a clerk, a treasurer, an assessor if election of the assessor is provided and a constable. In villages in counties having a population of 750,000 or more, the officers named shall be elected for a term of 2 years on the first Tuesday of April of each even-numbered year. Any other officers shall be appointed annually by the village board at their first meeting after the first Tuesday in April unless the board otherwise provides. No person not a resident elector in such village shall be elected to any office therein. The village clerk may appoint a deputy clerk for whom the clerk shall be responsible, and who shall take and file the oath of office, and in case of the absence, sickness or other disability of the clerk, may perform the clerk's duties and receive the same compensation unless the village board appoints a person to act as such clerk. No assessor shall be elected or appointed if the village has come within the jurisdiction of a county assessor under s. 70.99.
History: 1973 c. 90; 1991 a. 316; 1995 a. 16 s. 2; 2017 a. 207 s. 5.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
61.188 - Certain villages may become cities by charter ordinance.
61.189 - Villages of 1,000 may become cities.
61.19 - Annual elections; appointments.
61.191 - Population, use of federal census.
61.193 - Establishing and changing compensation for elective offices.
61.195 - Discontinuance and change of term of offices.
61.197 - Selection of officers.
61.20 - Election of trustees; terms; number.
61.21 - Clerk to notify officers-elect; oath of office.
61.22 - Official bonds; officers not to be sureties.
61.23 - Terms; temporary vacancy.
61.261 - Deputy village treasurer.
61.31 - Peace officers, powers.
61.32 - Village board; meeting; salaries.
61.325 - Trustee may be appointed president.
61.327 - Village trustees serving as employees.
61.34 - Powers of village board.
61.345 - Recycling or resource recovery facilities.
61.351 - Zoning of wetlands in shorelands.
61.352 - Required notice on certain approvals.
61.353 - Zoning of annexed or incorporated shorelands.
61.354 - Construction site erosion control and storm water management zoning.
61.36 - Streets, sidewalks, sewers and watercourses.
61.39 - Service pipes and sewers.
61.44 - Railroads, dust prevention.
61.47 - Street and sidewalk improvement tax.
61.48 - County aid for construction and repair of bridges and culverts.
61.50 - Ordinances; contracts; other instruments; how executed.
61.57 - Acquisition of facilities without bids.
61.61 - Village orders; borrowing money.
61.65 - Police and fire departments; pension funds.
61.66 - Combined protective services.
61.71 - Consolidated plats; numbering of buildings.
61.72 - Pest and disease prevention.
61.73 - Village housing authorities.