229.42 Creation and organization.

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(1)A sponsoring municipality may create a special purpose district that is a unit of government, that is a body corporate and politic, that is separate and distinct from, and independent of, the state and the sponsoring municipality, and that has the powers under s. 229.44 , if the sponsoring municipality does all of the following:

(a)Adopts an enabling resolution, subject to sub.

(2), that does all of the following:

1. Declares the need for establishing the district.

2. Contains findings of public purpose.

3. Names the district.

4. Contains a description of the exposition center to be developed, owned, leased or operated by the district.

5. If the sole sponsoring municipality is a 1st class city, states that the municipality agrees to stop imposing and collecting its room tax under s. 66.0615

(a).

(b)Files copies of the enabling resolution with the secretary of administration, the secretary of revenue and the county executive, if the sponsoring municipality is not a county.

(2)A district may have more than one sponsoring municipality if each sponsoring municipality is identified in a substantially similar enabling resolution that is adopted by the governing body of each sponsoring municipality within a 90-day period commencing with the date of adoption of the first enabling resolution.

(3)The district shall be governed by its board of directors and, except for the 3rd member described under sub.

(d)who is either a chief executive officer of a municipality or a resident of the district, may not act until all of the persons appointed to its board are certified under s. 229.435 . The board of directors shall adopt bylaws to govern the district’s activities, subject to this subchapter.