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Code · Wisconsin · Chapter 88 — Drainage of lands

88.40 Assessments for costs to be certified to register of deeds; assessments are lien on lands.

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88.40 Assessments for costs to be certified to register of deeds; assessments are lien on lands.
(1)Immediately after the issuance of a drainage board order levying any assessments for costs, whether original or supplemental, the drainage board shall record in the office of the register of deeds in each county in which the assessed lands are situated a certified copy of the order, including a true description of each parcel of land in that county that was so assessed and the amount that it was assessed.
(2)From the time of recording the order confirming such assessments for costs until they are paid, such assessments and the interest thereon are a first lien upon the lands assessed and take priority over all other liens or mortgages except liens for general taxes and liens under ss. 292.31
(i)and 292.81 , regardless of the priority in time of such other liens or mortgages.
(3)When any assessment which is a lien on land has been fully paid, the board shall execute in writing a satisfaction of such lien. Such satisfaction may be recorded in the office of the register of deeds.
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