Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 61 - Villages.
61.35 - Village planning.

61.35 Village planning. Section 62.23 applies to villages, and the powers and duties conferred and imposed by s. 62.23 upon mayors, councils and specified city officials are hereby conferred upon presidents, village boards, and village officials performing duties similar to the duties of such specified city officials, respectively. Any ordinance or resolution passed prior to May 30, 1925, by any village board under s. 61.35, 1923 stats., shall remain in effect until repealed or amended by such village board.
History: 1981 c. 390.
The line distinguishing general police power regulation from zoning ordinances is far from clear. The question of whether a particular enactment constitutes a zoning ordinance is often a matter of degree. Broad statements of the purposes of zoning and the purposes of an ordinance are not helpful in distinguishing a zoning ordinance from an ordinance enacted pursuant to non-zoning police power. The statutorily enumerated purposes of zoning are not the exclusive domain of zoning regulation. A more specific and analytically helpful formulation of the purpose of zoning, at least in the present case, is to separate incompatible land uses. Multiple factors are considered and discussed. Zwiefelhofer v. Town of Cooks Valley, 2012 WI 7, 338 Wis. 2d 488, 809 N.W.2d 362, 10-2398.

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Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 61 - Villages.

61.187 - Dissolution.

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.

61.24 - President.

61.25 - Clerk.

61.26 - Treasurer.

61.261 - Deputy village treasurer.

61.27 - Assessor.

61.28 - Marshal.

61.29 - Constable.

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.

61.342 - Direct legislation.

61.345 - Recycling or resource recovery facilities.

61.35 - Village planning.

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.

61.46 - Village taxes.

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.

61.51 - Auditing accounts.

61.54 - Public works.

61.57 - Acquisition of facilities without bids.

61.61 - Village orders; borrowing money.

61.64 - Ambulance service.

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.

61.74 - Detachment of farm lands from villages.

61.75 - Rewards.