236.10 Approvals necessary.

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(1)To entitle a final plat of a subdivision to be recorded, it shall have the approval of the following in accordance with the provisions of s. 236.12 :

(a)If within a municipality, the governing body, but if the plat is within an area, the annexation of which is being legally contested, the governing bodies of both the annexing municipality and the town from which the area has been annexed shall approve.

(b)Except as provided under s. 62.23

(am), if within the extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction of a municipality:

1. The town board; and

2. The governing body of the municipality if, by July 1, 1958, or thereafter it adopts a subdivision ordinance or an official map under s. 62.23 ; and

3. Subject to sub.

(1m), the county planning agency if such agency employs on a full-time basis a professional engineer, a planner or other person charged with the duty of administering zoning or other planning legislation.

(c)If outside the extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction of a municipality:

1. The town board; and

2. Subject to sub.

(1m), the county planning agency, if there is one.

(a)Except as provided in par.

(b), a county planning agency under sub.

(b)3. or

(c)2. has no authority to approve or object to the preliminary or final plat of a subdivision that is located in a town that has, before the preliminary plat is submitted for approval, or before the final plat is submitted for approval if no preliminary plat is submitted, enacted an ordinance under s. 60.23

(34)or

(35)withdrawing the town from county zoning and the county development plan.

(b)A county planning agency under sub.

(b)3. or

(a):

1. Any portion of the subdivision that is shoreland, as defined in s. 59.692

(b), in the county.

2. Any portion of the subdivision that is in a 100-year floodplain in the county.

(2)Except as provided under s. 62.23

(am), if a subdivision lies within the extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction of more than one municipality, the provisions of s. 66.0105 shall apply.

(3)The authority to approve or object to preliminary or final plats under this chapter may be delegated to a planning committee or commission of the approving governing body. Final plats dedicating streets, highways or other lands shall be approved by the governing body of the town or municipality in which such are located.