82.11 Meeting.
(1) The town supervisors shall personally examine the highway or proposed highway that is the subject of an application or resolution under s. 82.10. At the time and place stated in the notice under s. 82.10, the town board shall hold a public hearing to decide, in its discretion, whether granting the application or resolution is in the public interest. Before the town board holds a public hearing on or takes any action on the application or resolution, the town board must be satisfied, by affidavit of the applicant or otherwise, that the notices in s. 82.10 (4) have been given.
(2)
(a) No town official may act in laying out, altering, or discontinuing a highway if acting would result in a violation of the code of ethics under s. 19.59 or of a local ordinance enacted under s. 19.59 (1m). If a town official is prevented from acting, the remaining town officials shall act.
(b) Every town shall have a written policy on how the town board will act on an application or resolution when there are fewer than 2 supervisors in the town who are able to act on the application or resolution. In the absence of a policy, the town clerk may act. If the town clerk is prevented from acting, the treasurer may act.
History: 2003 a. 214 ss. 33, 40, 162.
NOTE: 2003 Wis. Act 214, which affected this section, contains extensive explanatory notes.
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Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
82.05 - Superintendent of highways.
82.08 - Town bridges or culverts; construction and repair; county aid.
82.09 - County aid for dams used for bridges.
82.10 - Initiation of procedures.
82.13 - Highways to school buildings.
82.14 - Acquiring rights to land; damages from discontinuance.
82.15 - Appeal of a highway order.
82.16 - Highway orders; presumptions.
82.17 - Highway papers, where filed.
82.19 - Discontinuance of highways.
82.20 - Removal of fences from highway; notice.
82.21 - Highways on and across town and municipal lines.
82.23 - Municipal line bridges.
82.25 - Highway taxes for limited-use road.
82.27 - Landlocked property and property with insufficient highway access.
82.28 - Highways and bridges on state boundaries.
82.29 - Highways abutted by state park lands; discontinuance or relocation.
82.31 - Validation of highways.
82.33 - Lost records; how restored; effect.
82.35 - Temporary highways and detours; damages.
82.37 - Tunnel under highway by landowner.