66.02162 Incorporation of certain towns contiguous to 3rd class cities or villages.

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(1)Conditions. A town board may initiate the procedure for incorporating its town as a village under this section by adopting a resolution providing for a referendum by the electors of the town on the question of whether the town should become a village if on the date of the adoption of the resolution any of the following is satisfied:

(a)All of the following conditions apply:

1. The most recent federal decennial census shows that the resident population of the town exceeds 6,300.

2. The town is contiguous to a 3rd class city.

3. The most recent data available from the department of revenue show that the equalized value for the town exceeds $600,000,000.

4. In one of the 5 years before the year in which the town board adopts the resolution, the town’s equalized value increased more than 7 percent, compared to the town’s equalized value for the prior year.

5. The town board of the town is authorized to exercise village powers.

6. The town has entered into, and is bound by, at least 2 separate cooperative boundary agreements under s. 66.0307 with at least 2 municipalities.

7. The town has created at least one tax incremental financing district as authorized under s. 60.23

(32).

8. The town has established at least one town sanitary district under subch. IX of ch. 60 .

(b)All of the following conditions apply:

1. The most recent federal decennial census shows that the resident population of the town exceeds 2,300.

2. The most recent data available from the department of revenue show that the equalized value for the town exceeds $190,000,000.

3. The area of the town exceeds 40 square miles.

4. The town is contiguous to a village to which all of the following conditions apply:

a. The most recent federal decennial census shows that the resident population of the village is less than 300.

b. The area of the village is less than 2 square miles.

c. The aggregate net tax rate of the village, as determined by the department of revenue under s. 70.114

(3), is greater than 36 mills.

5. The village under subd. 4. and the town are located in a county for which the most recent federal decennial census shows that the resident population is less than 150,000.

(2)Referendum resolution. The resolution of the town board required under sub.

(1)shall do all of the following:

(a)Certify that the requirements under sub.

(1)are satisfied.

(b)Contain a description of the territory to be incorporated sufficiently accurate to determine its location and a statement that a scale map reasonably showing the boundaries of the territory is on file with the town clerk.