Wis. Stat. § 61.46

This is the official text of Wis. Stat. § 61.46, part of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Statutes — the complete compiled statutory law of Wisconsin, organized into numbered chapters by subject.

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Village taxes.

Official statutory text

(1) General; limitation. The village board shall, on or before December 15 in each year, by resolution to be entered of record, determine the amount of corporation taxes to be levied and assessed on the taxable property in such village for the current year. Before levying any tax for any specified purpose, exceeding one percent of the assessed valuation aforesaid, the village board shall, and in all other cases may in its discretion, submit the question of levying the same to the village electors at any general or special election by giving 10 days’ notice thereof prior to such election by publication in a newspaper published in the village, if any, and if there is none, then by posting notices in 3 public places in said village, setting forth in such notices the object and purposes for which such taxes are to be raised and the amount of the proposed tax. The village board shall file the question as provided in s. 8.37 .

(2) Highway. The village board shall, at the same time and in like manner, determine the amount, if any, of highway tax to be levied and collected in such village for the current year. Such highway tax shall thereafter be assessed and collected by the village treasurer at the time and in the manner provided for the collection of other village taxes; and such highway tax shall be kept as a separate fund, and shall be expended under the direction of the village board in the improvement of the streets, highways and bridges in said village.

History: 1973 c. 90 , 333 ; 1975 c. 39 , 80 , 224 ; 1977 c. 113 ss. 1 , 6 ; 1977 c. 142 ; 1977 c. 203 s. 101 ; 1977 c. 418 ss. 389 to 394 , 929 (42) ; 1979 c. 34 ; 1979 c. 175 s. 51 ; 1981 c. 20 , 61 , 93 ; 1983 a. 27 ; 1985 a. 29 ; 1999 a. 182 .

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