AB784,10,104 7.51 (3) (d) Except in municipalities where absentee ballots are canvassed
5under s. 7.52, all absentee certificate envelopes which have been opened shall be
6returned by the inspectors to the municipal clerk in a securely sealed carrier
7envelope which is clearly marked "used absentee certificate envelopes". The
8envelopes shall be signed by the chief inspector and 2 other inspectors. Except when
9the ballots are used in a municipal or, school district, or local park district election
10only, the municipal clerk shall transmit the used envelopes to the county clerk.

AB784,10,1612 7.51 (4) (b) The chief inspector, or one of the inspectors appointed by him or her,
13immediately after the votes are tabulated or counted at each election, shall report
14the returns of the election to the municipal clerk or , to the school district clerk for
15school district elections, except in 1st class cities, or to the local park district clerk
16for local park district elections. The clerk shall then make the returns public.

AB784,10,2118 7.51 (5) (a) 2. After recording the votes, the inspectors shall seal in a carrier
19envelope outside the ballot bag or container one tally sheet and one poll list for
20delivery to the county clerk, unless the election relates only to municipal or, school
21district, or local park district offices or referenda.

AB784,11,322 3. The inspectors shall also seal the inspectors' statement inside a separate
23carrier envelope, and shall similarly seal in a separate carrier envelope one tally
24sheet and one poll list for delivery to the municipal clerk. For school district
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1poll list for delivery to the school district clerk. For local park district elections, the
2inspectors shall seal one tally sheet and one poll list for delivery to the local park
3district clerk.

AB784,11,94 5. Upon receipt of the materials under subd. 4., the municipal clerk shall make
5sufficient copies of the inspectors' statement under sub. (4) (a) and seal one copy of
6the statement inside a carrier envelope together with the envelope containing any
7materials required to be delivered to the county clerk or , the school district clerk, or
8the local park district clerk. The municipal clerk shall retain the original inspectors'
9statement.

AB784,11,2110 (b) The municipal clerk shall deliver all ballots, statements, tally sheets, lists,
11and envelopes relating to a school district or local park district election to the school
12district or local park district clerk, respectively by 4 p.m. on the day following each
13such election. The municipal clerk shall deliver the ballots, statements, tally sheets,
14lists, and envelopes for his or her municipality relating to any county, technical
15college district, state, or national election to the county clerk no later than 4 p.m. on
16the day following each such election or, in municipalities where absentee ballots are
17canvassed under s. 7.52, by 4 p.m. on the 2nd day following each such election, and
18no later than 4 p.m. on the day after receiving any corrected returns under s. 6.221
19(6) (b). The person delivering the returns shall be paid out of the municipal treasury.
20Each clerk shall retain ballots, statements, tally sheets, or envelopes received by the
21clerk until destruction is authorized under s. 7.23 (1).

AB784,12,1523 7.53 (3m) Local park district elections. The local park district clerk shall
24appoint 2 qualified electors of the district prior to the date of the election being
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1canvassers. The clerk shall appoint another qualified elector of the district to fill any
2vacancy on the board of canvassers. If the clerk's office is vacant or the clerk cannot
3perform his or her duties, the chairperson of the local park district commission shall
4designate another qualified elector of the district to serve in lieu of the clerk. The
5canvass shall begin as soon as possible after receipt of the returns and shall continue,
6without adjournment, until completed. The board of canvassers may return
7defective returns to the municipal board of canvassers in the manner provided in s.
87.60 (3). The board of canvassers shall prepare a written statement showing the
9numbers of votes cast for each person for each office and shall prepare a
10determination showing the names of the persons who are elected to the local park
11district commission. Following each primary election, the board of canvassers shall
12prepare a statement certifying the names of the persons who have won nomination
13to the local park district commission. Each statement and determination shall be
14attested by each of the canvassers. The board of canvassers shall file each statement
15and determination in the local park district office.

AB784,12,2117 8.10 (3) (kw) For commissioners of local park districts who are elected at large,
18not less than 40 nor more than 200 electors, and for commissioners of local park
19districts who are elected from election districts, not less than 200 nor more than 400
20electors in local park districts of 500,000 population or more, and not less than 20 nor
21more than 100 electors in districts of less than 500,000 population.

AB784,12,2423 8.10 (6) (e) For members of the local park district commission, with the local
24park district clerk.

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18.11 (2f) Local park district commission. A primary shall be held in a local
2park district whenever there are more than twice the number of candidates to be
3elected members of the local park district commission at large or from any election
4district.

AB784,13,116 9.10 (1) (a) The qualified electors of the state,; of any county, city, village, or
7town,; of any congressional, legislative, judicial, or school district,; of any local park
8district or election district thereof; or of any prosecutorial unit may petition for the
9recall of any incumbent elective official by filing a petition with the same official or
10agency with whom nomination papers or declarations of candidacy for the office are
11filed demanding the recall of the officeholder.

AB784,13,2513 9.10 (2) (d) No petition may be offered for filing for the recall of an officer unless
14the petitioner first files a registration statement under s. 11.05 (1) or (2) with the
15filing officer with whom the petition is filed. The petitioner shall append to the
16registration a statement indicating his or her intent to circulate a recall petition, the
17name of the officer for whom recall is sought and, in the case of a petition for the recall
18of a city, village, town, local park district, or school district officer, a statement of a
19reason for the recall which is related to the official responsibilities of the official for
20whom removal is sought. No petitioner may circulate a petition for the recall of an
21officer prior to completing registration. The last date that on which a petition for the
22recall of an officer may be offered for filing is 5 p.m. on the 60th day commencing after
23registration. After the recall petition has been offered for filing, no name may be
24added or removed. No signature may be counted unless the date of the signature is
25within the period provided in this paragraph.

AB784,14,42 9.10 (3) (a) This subsection applies to the recall of all elective officials other
3than city, village, town, local park district, and school district officials. City, village,
4town, local park district, and school district officials are recalled under sub. (4).

AB784,15,136 9.10 (4) (a) Within 10 days after a petition for the recall of a city, village, town,
7local park district, or school district official, is offered for filing, the officer against
8whom the petition is filed may file a written challenge with the municipal clerk or
9board of election commissioners or school district clerk official or agency with whom
10it the petition is filed, specifying any alleged insufficiency. If a challenge is filed, the
11petitioner may file a written rebuttal to the challenge with the clerk or board of
12election commissioners official or agency within 5 days after the challenge is filed.
13If a rebuttal is filed, the officer against whom the petition is filed may file a reply to
14any new matter raised in the rebuttal within 2 days after the rebuttal is filed. Within
1514 days after the expiration of the time allowed for filing a reply to a rebuttal, the
16clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency shall file the certificate or
17an amended certificate. Within 31 days after the petition is offered for filing, the
18clerk or board of election commissioners official or agency shall determine by careful
19examination of the face of the petition whether the petition is sufficient and shall so
20state in a certificate issued by the official or agency and attached to the petition. If
21the petition is found to be insufficient, the certificate shall state the particulars
22creating the insufficiency. The petition may be amended to correct any insufficiency
23within 5 days following the affixing of the original certificate. Within 2 days after
24the offering of the amended petition for filing, the clerk or board of election
25commissioners official or agency shall again carefully examine the face of the petition

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1to determine sufficiency and shall attach to the petition a certificate stating the
2findings. Immediately upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient,
3except in cities over 500,000 population, the municipal clerk or school district clerk
4and except with regard to a commissioner of a local park district, the official shall
5transmit the petition to the governing body or to the school board. Immediately
6Except with regard to a commissioner of a local park district, immediately upon
7finding an original or amended petition sufficient, in cities over 500,000 population,
8the board of election commissioners shall file the petition in its office. Immediately
9upon finding an original or amended petition sufficient, with regard to a member of
10the local park district commission, the local park district clerk shall file the petition
11in his or her office and shall transmit a copy of the petition to the governing body of
12each city, village, and town that has territory within the jurisdiction of the local park
13district.

AB784,15,2015 9.10 (4) (d) Promptly upon receipt of a certificate or copy of the certificate issued
16under par. (a), the governing body, school board, or board of election commissioners
17shall call a recall election. The recall election shall be held on the Tuesday of the 6th
18week commencing after the date on which the certificate is filed, except that if
19Tuesday is a legal holiday the recall election shall be held on the first day after
20Tuesday which is not a legal holiday.

AB784,15,2422 9.10 (7) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the operation of
23article XIII, section 12, of the constitution and to extend the same rights to electors
24of cities, villages, towns, local park districts, and school districts.

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110.05 Posting of notice. Unless specifically designated elsewhere, this
2section applies to villages, towns and, school districts, and local park districts.
3Whenever a notice is required to be published, a village, town or, school district, or
4local park district may post 3 notices in lieu of publication under ch. 985 whenever
5there is not a newspaper published within the village, town or, school district, or local
6park district or whenever the governing body of the village, town or, school district,
7or local park district chooses to post in order to supplement notice provided in a
8newspaper. Whenever the manner of giving notice is changed by the governing body,
9the body shall give notice of the change in the manner used before the change.
10Whenever posting is used, the notices shall be posted no later than the day prescribed
11by law for publication, or, if that day falls within the week preceding the election to
12be noticed, at least one week before the election. All notices given for the same
13election shall be given in the same manner.

AB784,16,2215 10.07 (1) Except as provided in sub. (2) in the case of voting machine ballots,
16whenever any county clerk or, any local park district clerk, and one or more
17municipal or school district clerks within the same county are directed to publish any
18notice or portion of a notice under this chapter on the same date in the same
19newspaper, the text of which is identical, the clerks may publish one notice only. The
20cost of publication of such notice or the portion of the notice required shall be
21apportioned equally between the county and each municipality or, school district, or
22local park district sharing in its publication.

AB784,16,2524 11.02 (8) If the jurisdiction under sub. (3) is a local park district, the
25appropriate clerk is the local park district clerk.

AB784,17,52 11.26 (1) (d) 2. One cent times the number of inhabitants of the jurisdiction or,
3district, or election district, according to the latest federal census or the census
4information on which the district is based, as certified by the appropriate filing
5officer, but not more than $3,000.

AB784,17,107 11.26 (2) (e) 2. Three-fourths of one cent times the number of inhabitants of
8the jurisdiction or, district, or election district, according to the latest federal census
9or the census information on which the district is based, as certified by the
10appropriate filing officer, but not more than $2,500.

AB784,17,1612 11.31 (1) (h) (intro.) Candidates for any local office , who are elected from a
13jurisdiction or, district, or election district with less than 500,000 inhabitants
14according to the latest federal census or census information on which the district is
15based, as certified by the appropriate filing officer, an amount equal to the greater
16of the following:

AB784,17,2118 17.01 (11m) By a commissioner of a local park district, to the local park district
19commission. The local park district commission shall immediately give a copy of each
20resignation under this subsection to the clerk or board of election commissioners of
21each municipality that has territory within the jurisdiction of the district.

AB784,18,2 2417.13 Removal of village, town, town sanitary district, school district,
25and technical college, and local park district officers. (intro.) Officers of

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1towns, town sanitary districts, villages, school districts, and technical college
2districts, and local park districts may be removed as follows:

AB784,18,84 17.13 (3) All officers. Any village, town, town sanitary district, school district
5or, technical college district, or local park district officer, elective or appointive,
6including those embraced within subs. (1) and (2), by the a judge of the circuit court
7of the a circuit wherein the village, town, town sanitary district, school district or,
8technical college district, or local park district is situated, for cause.

AB784,18,1810 17.27 (1f) Local park district commission. Except as provided in s. 9.10, a
11vacancy in the office of commissioner of a local park district may be filled for the
12residue of the unexpired term by temporary appointment of the remaining members
13of the local park district commission. If the vacancy occurs in any year after the first
14Tuesday in April and on or before December 1, the vacancy shall be filled for the
15residue of the unexpired term, if any, at the next spring election. If the vacancy
16occurs in any year after December 1 or on or before the first Tuesday in April, the
17vacancy shall be filled for the residue of the unexpired term, if any, at the 2nd
18succeeding spring election.

AB784,18,2420 20.370 (5) (cr) Recreation aids — county snowmobile trail and area aids. As
21a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule from the snowmobile
22account in the conservation fund to provide state aid to counties and local park
23districts, as defined in s. 350.01 (2m), for snowmobile trails , facilities, and areas
24consistent with the requirements of ss. 23.09 (26) and 350.12 (4) (b).

AB784,19,73 20.370 (5) (ct) Recreation aids — all-terrain vehicle project aids; gas tax
4payment. As a continuing appropriation, an amount equal to the estimated
5all-terrain vehicle gas tax payment to provide aid to towns, villages, cities, counties,
6local park districts, as defined in s. 23.33 (1) (im), and federal agencies for nonstate
7all-terrain vehicle projects.

AB784,19,1610 20.370 (5) (cu) Recreation aids — all-terrain vehicle project aids. As a
11continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule from moneys received from
12all-terrain vehicle fees under s. 23.33 (2) (c) to (e) to provide aid to towns, villages,
13cities, counties, local park districts, as defined in s. 23.33 (1m), and federal agencies
14for nonstate all-terrain vehicle projects, and to provide grants under s. 23.33 (11m)
15(g) to counties and municipalities participating in the lightweight utility vehicle pilot
16program.

AB784,19,2118 23.09 (19) (a) 2. "Governmental unit" means a city, a village, a town, a county,
19a local park district created under s. 27.161, a lake sanitary district, as defined in s.
2030.50 (4q), a public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, or the Kickapoo
21reserve management board.

AB784,19,2423 23.09 (20) (ab) 2. "Municipality" means a city, a village, a town or, a county, or
24a local park district created under s. 27.161.

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123.09 (20m) (a) 1. "Governmental unit" means a city, a village, a town, a county,
2a local park district created under s. 27.161, or the Kickapoo reserve management
3board.

AB784,20,65 23.09 (26) (title) Aids to counties County and park district aid for
6snowmobile purposes.

AB784,20,149 23.09 (26) (g) The procedures in sub. (11) (a), (d), (e) and (f) shall apply to this
10subsection except that the The department shall consult with the snowmobile
11recreational council before adopting snowmobile trail construction standards, the
12restriction in sub. (11) (a) as to county lands is not applicable, the restriction in sub.
13(11) (d) as to encumbrance of funds is not applicable and the restriction in sub. (11)
14(e) as to requests for state aids exceeding available funds is not applicable.

AB784,20,1616 23.09 (26) (ac) In this subsection:

AB784,20,1717 1. "Local park district" has the meaning given in s. 350.01 (2m).

AB784,20,1818 2. "Facility" means a parking area, shelter, or toilet.

AB784,20,2120 23.09 (26) (am) (intro.) Counties and local park districts may receive aids under
21this subsection distributed in accordance with s. 350.12 (4) to do any of the following:

AB784,21,1123 23.09 (26) (am) 1. Purchase lands or secure easements, leases, permits, or other
24appropriate agreements, written or oral, permitting use of private property for
25snowmobile trails, facilities, and areas, if such the easements, leases, permits, or

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1other agreements provide public access to the trail, facility , or area. No lands
2purchased or leases, easements, permits, or agreements secured under authority of
3this section subsection may be acquired by the county through condemnation.
4Counties and local park districts shall certify to the department that such the lands,
5easements, leases, permits, or other appropriate agreements have been secured.
6However, when bridges, culverts, toilet facilities, parking lots or shelters or facilities
7are to be constructed under this section subsection and the improvements are
8estimated to cost in excess of $3,000, the land underlying such these improvements
9must be purchased by the county or local park district or secured by the county or
10local park district by written easements or leases having a term of not less than 3
11years.

AB784,21,1513 23.09 (26) (am) 3. Develop and maintain snowmobile trails, facilities, and areas
14on public lands designated by the county board or trails or areas under subd. 1. or
152 or by the local park district.

AB784,21,1817 23.09 (26) (am) 3m. Develop and maintain snowmobile trails, facilities, and
18areas under subd. 1. or 2.

AB784,21,2321 23.09 (26) (ar) Counties may receive aids under this subsection distributed in
22accordance with s. 350.12 (4) to enforce laws in and on snowmobile trails, facilities,
23and areas.

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123.09 (26) (b) The county board of any county, which, by resolution, indicates
2its desire Any county or any local park district that wishes to receive aids under this
3subsection shall apply to the department on forms prescribed by the department and
4submit required documentation as set forth promulgated by rule on or before April
515, beginning in 1978 of each year. A decision on an aid application shall be made
6by the department on or before the following July 1, beginning in 1978.

AB784,22,138 23.09 (26) (bg) The department shall review the aid application as it considers
9necessary to determine whether the approval of the application will best serve the
10public interest and need. In making its decision, the department shall give careful
11consideration to whether the proposal is an integral part of an official comprehensive
12land and water use plan for the area as well as the relationship of the proposal to
13similar proposals on other public lands.

AB784,22,2015 23.09 (26) (d) Distribution of snowmobile trail development funds shall be
16limited to trails which provide a primary access route through one county and
17connect with another county's trails, provide access from population centers to main
18access trails or support a high volume of use. Counties and local park districts
19applying for aid for snowmobile trail development shall identify the type of trail for
20which aid is being sought on the forms under par. (b).

AB784,23,422 23.09 (26) (h) Trails, areas, facilities, or other structures for which aid granted
23under this subsection is provided may not be converted to uses that are inconsistent
24with the purposes of this subsection without the approval of the department. The
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1essential to and in accordance with an official comprehensive land and water use
2plan for the area. The department shall require that the proceeds from the sale or
3other disposal of trails, areas, facilities, or other structures for which aid is provided
4under this subsection be used to further the purposes of this subsection.

AB784,23,76 23.175 (1) (a) "Political subdivision" means a city, a village, a town or, a county,
7or a local park district created under s. 27.161.