33.21 Public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts; purposes. Districts may be created for the purpose of undertaking a program of lake protection and rehabilitation of a lake or parts thereof within the district. History: 1973 c. 301; 1995 a. 349. A district may rehabilitate part of a lake only if the entire lake lies […]
33.22 District; powers. (1) Any district organized under this chapter may select a name for the district, sue and be sued, make contracts, accept gifts, purchase, lease, devise or otherwise acquire, hold, maintain or dispose of property, disburse money, contract debt and do any other acts necessary to carry out a program of lake protection […]
33.23 Municipalities may establish district. (1) The governing body of a municipality may by resolution establish a district if the municipality encompasses within its boundaries all the frontage of the public inland lake within this state. Except as provided under sub. (3), the governing body of the municipality which establishes the district shall perform the […]
33.235 Restructured districts; conversion and merger of town sanitary districts. (1) In this section: (a) “Lake” means a lake, reservoir or flowage within the boundaries of the state. (b) “Lake district” means a public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district that does not include a restructured district. (1m) A town board by resolution may convert […]
33.24 County board may establish district. (1) Notwithstanding s. 33.01 (3), in this section, “district” does not include a restructured district. (2) The county board of any county may establish districts within the county if the conditions stated in s. 33.26 are found to exist. Before a district that includes any portion of a city […]
33.25 Petition. (1) Who to make. (a) Before a county board may establish a district under s. 33.235 or 33.24, a petition requesting establishment shall be filed with the county clerk, addressed to the board and signed by persons constituting 51 percent of the landowners or the owners of 51 percent of the lands within […]
33.26 Hearings, time, notice, boundaries, approval, limitations. (1) Upon receipt of the petition the county board shall arrange a hearing to be held not later than 30 days from the date of presentation of the petition, and shall appoint a committee to conduct the hearing. At the hearing all interested persons may offer objections, criticisms […]
33.265 Notice, filing and recording requirements. If a district is created or its boundaries altered, the board of commissioners shall record the authorizing document, including a legal description of the boundary, with the register of deeds in each county where the district is situated, and file the document and legal description with the department of […]
33.27 Initial district board of commissioners. (1) The county board shall, at the time of making the order establishing a district, appoint 3 owners of property within the district, at least one of whom is a resident of the district, to serve as commissioners until the first annual meeting of the district, and shall also […]
33.28 District board of commissioners. (1) Management of the affairs of the district shall be delegated to a board of commissioners. (2) Except as provided in sub. (2m) (c), the board of commissioners shall consist of all of the following: (a) One person appointed by the county board who is a member of the county […]
33.285 Property owning requirements. Any requirement under s. 33.27 (1) or 33.28 that a person own property within the district to be eligible for membership on the board of commissioners is satisfied if a person is an official representative, officer or employee of any trust, foundation, corporation, association or organization which is an owner of […]
33.29 Board of commissioners; officers; powers and duties. (1) The board shall be responsible for: (a) Initiating and coordinating research and surveys for the purpose of gathering data on the lake, related shorelands and the drainage basin; (b) Planning lake protection and rehabilitation projects; (c) Contacting and attempting to secure the cooperation of officials of […]
33.30 Annual meeting of district. (1) Every district shall have an annual meeting. Each annual meeting shall be scheduled during the time period between May 22 and September 8 unless scheduled outside those dates by majority vote of the previous annual meeting. (2) (a) The annual meeting shall be preceded by written notice mailed at […]
33.305 Special meetings of district. (1) The board of commissioners of a district may schedule a special meeting of the district at any time. The board of commissioners shall schedule a special meeting upon receipt of a petition signed by at least 10 percent of the electors and property owners in the district. (2) Written […]
33.31 Power to finance. (1) Every district may borrow money and use any other financing method prescribed by law. In utilizing financing powers, the commission shall follow the procedures required by statute for the selected financing methods so far as they are applicable and not in conflict with this subchapter. (2) Any district, when in […]
33.32 Special assessments and special charges. (1) Special assessments for the purpose of carrying out district protection and rehabilitation projects, or for other lake management or sanitary service activities undertaken by the district, may be levied by the commissioners as an exercise of the district’s police powers in the following manner: (a) Upon approval of […]
33.33 Merger, attachment, detachment. (1) Merger. Any district may be merged with a contiguous district by resolution passed by a four-fifths vote of all the members of each board of commissioners. At the next annual or special meeting, whichever occurs first, the electors and property owners shall vote on whether to ratify the merger. If […]
33.35 Dissolution of districts. A petition to dissolve an existing district created under this chapter may not be considered at an annual meeting of the district unless an elector within the district or a property owner within the district notifies the district board of commissioners in writing at least 90 days before the annual meeting […]
33.36 Alteration of districts. (1) Whenever any territory that contains an entire district is incorporated as a city or village, consolidated with a city or village or annexed to a city or village, the district shall survive and shall be subject to s. 33.23. (2) Whenever any territory containing less than an entire district is […]
33.37 Districts in more than one county. (1) Where the proposed district is in more than one county, the county board of the county within which the largest portion, by valuation, of the proposed district lies shall have jurisdiction under ss. 33.24 to 33.28. (2) The county within which the largest portion, by valuation, of […]
