310 Relating to: the information contained in referendum questions to authorize exceeding county levy limits.
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2013 WISCONSIN ACT
310
An Act
to amend
66.0602 (4) (c) of the statutes;
relating to:
the information contained in referendum questions to authorize exceeding county levy limits.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1
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66.0602 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0602
(4)
(c) The referendum shall be held in accordance with chs. 5 to 12. The political subdivision shall provide the election officials with all necessary election supplies. The form of the ballot shall correspond substantially with the standard form for referendum ballots prescribed by the elections board under ss. 5.64 (2) and 7.08 (1) (a). The question shall be submitted as follows: "Under state law, the increase in the levy of the .... (name of political subdivision) for the tax to be imposed for the next fiscal year, .... (year), is limited to ....%, which results in a levy of $.... Shall the .... (name of political subdivision) be allowed to exceed this limit and increase the levy for the next fiscal year, .... (year), by a total of ....%, which results in a levy of $....?".
In preparing the ballot question for a referendum held at a partisan primary in 2014, as it relates to the allowable amount of levy rate increase and the total amount of a levy, a county with a population of at least 30,000, but no more than 40,000, that is adjacent to a county with a population exceeding 450,000, shall use the most recent data that it has and the most recent data that is available from the department of revenue.
