Date of enactment: December 6, 2023
2023 Senate Bill 85 Date of publication*: December 7, 2023
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 62
AN ACT to amend 33.26 (2), 33.30 (2) (a), 33.32 (1) (c), 33.32 (1) (e) and 33.32 (1) (f); and to create 33.32 (1m)
of the statutes; relating to: authorizing email for notice of public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district
board business.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 33.26 (2) of the statutes is amended to
read:
33.26 (2) Notice announcing the hearing and stating
the boundaries of the proposed district shall be published
in a paper of general circulation in the county in which the
proposed district is located as a class 1 notice, under ch.
985, and shall be mailed or emailed by the county board
to the last−known address or email address of each
landowner within the proposed district. The notice
required under this subsection may be provided by email
only to landowners who have agreed to receive notice via
email.
SECTION 2. 33.30 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended
to read:
33.30 (2) (a) The annual meeting shall be preceded
by written notice mailed or emailed at least 14 days in
advance of the meeting to all electors within the district
whose address or email address is known or can be ascer-
tained with reasonable diligence, to all owners of prop-
erty within the district at the owner’s email address or
address as listed in the tax roll, and to the department.
The district board of commissioners may substitute a
class 2 notice, under ch. 985, in lieu of sending written
notice to electors residing within the district. The notice
required under this paragraph may be provided by email
only to electors and owners of property who have agreed
to receive notice via email.
SECTION 3. 33.32 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended
to read:
33.32 (1) (c) The commissioners shall file in the
office of the county clerk a report of the assessments
made. Notice shall be given to each owner, mortgagee,
lessee or other person having an interest in an affected
parcel that the report is open for review at a specified
place within the district for 30 days after the date of the
notice and that on a day named therein, which shall not
be more than 3 days after the expiration of the 30 days,
the commissioners will hear objections that may be made
to the report. Notice shall be by mail or email to each per-
son whose post−office address or email address is known
or can be ascertained with reasonable diligence, accom-
panied by a statement of the assessment, and shall also be
published as a class 2 notice, under ch. 985, in a newspa-
per having general circulation within the district.
SECTION 4. 33.32 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended
to read:
33.32 (1) (e) When a final determination of assess-
ments has been made, the secretary shall publish a class
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.” − 2 −2023 Wisconsin Act 62 2023 Senate Bill 85
1 notice, under ch. 985, within the district that a final
determination has been made, and shall notify by mail or
email each person entitled to notice under par. (c) of the
amount assessed against the affected parcel.
SECTION 5. 33.32 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to
read:
33.32 (1) (f) An owner, mortgagee, lessee or other
person having an interest in any parcel affected by the
determination who feels aggrieved thereby may, within
40 days after the date of mailing or emailing of notice,
appeal therefrom to the circuit court of the county in
which the district is located by causing a written notice
of appeal to be served upon the secretary of the district.
The secretary in case such appeal is taken shall make a
brief statement of the proceedings had in the matter and
shall transmit the same with all papers in the matter to the
clerk of the circuit court. Such appeal shall be tried and
determined in the same manner as cases originally com-
menced in said court.
SECTION 6m. 33.32 (1m) of the statutes is created to
read:
33.32 (1m) The notices required under sub. (1) (c),
(e), and (f) may be provided by email only to persons who
have agreed to receive notices via email.