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75.365 – Agreements as to delinquent taxes.

75.365 Agreements as to delinquent taxes. (1) Counties may enter. Written agreements may be entered into and be operative between a county and any town, city, village, metropolitan sewerage district or area, drainage district, or any other territory, area or district for the benefit of which any taxes may be levied, therein, upon prior authorization […]

75.37 – Waste on land subject to a tax certificate.

75.37 Waste on land subject to a tax certificate. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to cut, destroy or remove any logs, wood or timber or any buildings, fixtures and other improvements assessed as real property from any land included in a tax certificate for the nonpayment of taxes while such […]

75.375 – Waste on lands subject to a tax certificate; penalty.

75.375 Waste on lands subject to a tax certificate; penalty. Any person who shall willfully, maliciously or wantonly injure, destroy or commit waste upon any lands, tenements, or anything appertaining thereto which has been included in a tax certificate for the nonpayment of taxes while such taxes remain unpaid may be fined not more than […]

75.377 – Inspection of property subject to tax certificate.

75.377 Inspection of property subject to tax certificate. A county may enter any real property for which a tax certificate has been issued under s. 74.57, or may authorize another person to enter the real property, to determine the nature and extent of environmental pollution, as defined in s. 299.01 (4). History: 1993 a. 453; […]

75.39 – Action to bar former owner.

75.39 Action to bar former owner. A county, as the grantee named in any deed made by a county clerk, which conveys lands subject to a tax certificate which has not been redeemed may, at any time within 3 years after the date of such conveyance, commence an action against the person or persons owning […]

75.40 – Action, where and how brought.

75.40 Action, where and how brought. Such action must be brought in the circuit court of the county in which the lands or some parcel of them, the title of which is sought to be barred by such action, are situated. The county, as plaintiff in such action, may include in its complaint all the […]

75.41 – Complaint.

75.41 Complaint. The complaint in such action shall contain: a description of all the lands the title to which is sought to be barred by such action; a statement that the county claims title to such lands under a deed made by the county clerk and a copy of such deed; the name or names […]

75.42 – Defense, answer.

75.42 Defense, answer. (1) The defendants in such action may answer severally, or such of them as are jointly interested in any separate parcel or parcels of land described in the complaint may answer jointly, either to the whole complaint or to any separate cause of action stated therein, that the action thereon was not […]

75.285 – Action; condition precedent.

75.285 Action; condition precedent. No action or proceeding shall be maintained by the former owner or any person claiming under the former owner, based upon the invalidity of any tax certificate or tax deed due to the failure of the county treasurer to give notice under s. 74.59, unless there is deposited with the clerk […]

75.29 – Actions of ejectment, when barred.

75.29 Actions of ejectment, when barred. (1) Subject to sub. (2), no action to quiet title, to remove a cloud on title; to cancel, to annul or to set aside any tax deed; of ejectment, of trespass, of waste or for other injury to land shall be brought as to lands purporting to be conveyed […]