AB43: Bill Text

AB43,1276 Section 1276. 70.03 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3240 70.03 (1) In chs. 70 to 76, 78, and 79, “real property,” “real estate,” and “land” include not only the land itself but all buildings and, fixtures, improvements thereon, and all fixtures and, leases, rights, and privileges appertaining thereto, including assets that cannot be taxed separately as real property, but are inextricably intertwined with the real property, enable the real property to achieve its highest and best use, and are transferable to future owners, except as provided in sub. (2) and except that for the purpose of time-share property, as defined in s. 707.02 (32), real property does not include recurrent exclusive use and occupancy on a periodic basis or other rights, including, but not limited to, membership rights, vacation services, and club memberships. In this subsection, “lease” means a right in real estate that is related primarily to the property and not to the labor, skill, or business acumen of the property owner or tenant. In this subsection, “highest and best use” has the meaning given in s. 70.32 (1).

AB43,1277 Section 1277. 70.04 (1r) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3242 70.04 (1r) Toll bridges; private railroads and bridges; saw Saw logs, timber, and lumber, either upon land or afloat; steamboats, ships, and other vessels, whether at home or abroad; ferry boats, including the franchise for running the same; ice cut and stored for use, sale, or shipment; beginning May 1, 1974, and manufacturing machinery and equipment as defined in s. 70.11 (27), and entire property of companies defined in s. 76.28 (1), located entirely within one taxation district.

AB43,1278 Section 1278. 70.043 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3244 70.043 Mobile homes, recreational mobile homes, and manufactured homes. (1) A mobile home, as defined in s. 101.91 (10), a recreational mobile home, as defined in s. 66.0435 (1) (hm), or a manufactured home, as defined in s. 101.91 (2), is an improvement to real property if it is connected to utilities and is set upon a foundation upon land which is owned by the mobile home, recreational mobile home, or manufactured home owner. In this section, a mobile home, recreational mobile home, or manufactured home is “set upon a foundation” if it is off its wheels and is set upon some other support.

AB43,,3245 (2) A mobile home, as defined in s. 101.91 (10), a recreational mobile home, as defined in s. 66.0435 (1) (hm), or a manufactured home, as defined in s. 101.91 (2), is personal property if the land upon which it is located is not owned by the mobile home, recreational mobile home, or manufactured home owner or if the mobile home, recreational mobile home, or manufactured home is not set upon a foundation or connected to utilities.

AB43,1279 Section 1279. 70.05 (5) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3247 70.05 (5) (a) 1. “Assessed value” means with respect to each taxation district the total values established under ss. s. 70.32 and 70.34, but excluding manufacturing property subject to assessment under s. 70.995.

AB43,1280 Section 1280. 70.10 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3249 70.10 Assessment, when made, exemption. The assessor shall assess all real and personal taxable property as of the close of January 1 of each year. Except in cities of the 1st class and 2nd class cities that have a board of assessors under s. 70.075, the assessment shall be finally completed before the first Monday in April. All real property conveyed by condemnation or in any other manner to the state, any county, city, village or town by gift, purchase, tax deed or power of eminent domain before January 2 in such year shall not be included in the assessment. Assessment of manufacturing property subject to s. 70.995 shall be made according to that section.

AB43,1281 Section 1281. 70.11 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3251 70.11 (2) Municipal property and property of certain districts, exception. Property owned by any county, city, village, town, school district, technical college district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, metropolitan sewerage district, municipal water district created under s. 198.22, joint local water authority created under s. 66.0823, transit authority created under s. 66.1039, regional planning commission created under s. 66.0309, long-term care district under s. 46.2895, or town sanitary district; lands belonging to cities of any other state used for public parks; land tax-deeded to any county or city before January 2; but any residence located upon property owned by the county for park purposes that is rented out by the county for a nonpark purpose shall not be exempt from taxation. Except as to land acquired under s. 59.84 (2) (d), this exemption shall not apply to land conveyed after August 17, 1961, to any such governmental unit or for its benefit while the grantor or others for his or her benefit are permitted to occupy the land or part thereof in consideration for the conveyance. The exemption under this subsection applies to the property of a regional planning commission that the commission owned prior to October 1, 2021. If a regional planning commission subsequently sells property exempt from taxation under this subsection, the exemption applies to property purchased and owned by the commission if the total size of all property owned by the commission is substantially similar in size to the total property owned by the commission prior to October 1, 2021. Any property of the regional planning commission in excess of that size restriction is subject to taxation under this chapter. Leasing the property exempt under this subsection, regardless of the lessee and the use of the leasehold income, does not render that property taxable.

AB43,1282 Section 1282. 70.11 (36) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3253 70.11 (36) (a) Property consisting of or contained in a sports and entertainment home stadium, except a football stadium as defined in s. 229.821 (6); including but not limited to parking lots, garages, restaurants, parks, concession facilities, entertainment facilities, transportation facilities, and other functionally related or auxiliary facilities and structures, and any other property constituting baseball park development, as defined in s. 229.65 (1m); including those facilities and structures while they are being built; constructed by, leased to or primarily used by a professional athletic team that is a member of a league that includes teams that have home stadiums in other states, and the land on which that stadium and those structures and facilities are located. Leasing or subleasing the property; regardless of the lessee, the sublessee and the use of the leasehold income; does not render the property taxable.

AB43,1283 Section 1283. 70.11 (38v) of the statutes is created to read:

AB43,,3255 70.11 (38v) Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority headquarters. Land and buildings on that land owned by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority and used exclusively as either the corporate headquarters of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority or the parking facilities associated with those headquarters.

AB43,1284 Section 1284. 70.11 (42) of the statutes is repealed.

AB43,1285 Section 1285. 70.11 (47) of the statutes is created to read:

AB43,,3258 70.11 (47) Cranberry research and educational station. All property, but not exceeding 50 acres of land, owned or leased by an entity that is exempt from taxation under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is used primarily for research and educational activities associated with commercial cranberry production.

AB43,1286 Section 1286. 70.1105 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3260 70.1105 (1) Property that is exempt under s. 70.11 and that is used in part in a trade or business for which the owner of the property is subject to taxation under sections 511 to 515 of the internal revenue code, as defined in s. 71.22 (4m), shall be assessed for taxation, unless otherwise exempt under this chapter, at that portion of the fair market value of the property that is attributable to the part of the property that is used in the unrelated trade or business. This section does not apply to property that is leased by an exempt organization to another person or to property that is exempt under s. 70.11 (34).

AB43,1287 Section 1287. 70.1105 (2) of the statutes is repealed.

AB43,1288 Section 1288. 70.111 (19) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3263 70.111 (19) (b) Recreational mobile homes, as defined in s. 66.0435 (1) (hm), that are personal property under s. 70.043 (2) and recreational vehicles, as defined in s. 340.01 (48r). The exemption under this paragraph also applies to steps and a platform, not exceeding 50 square feet, that lead to a doorway of a recreational mobile home or a recreational vehicle, but does not apply to any other addition, attachment, deck, or patio.

AB43,1289 Section 1289. 70.111 (28) of the statutes is created to read:

AB43,,3265 70.111 (28) Personal property. (a) Beginning with the property tax assessments applicable to the January 1, 2024, assessment year, personal property, as defined under s. 70.04, including steam and other vessels, furniture, and equipment.

AB43,,3266 (b) The exemption under par. (a) does not apply to all of the following:

AB43,,3267 1. Property qualifying as real property under s. 70.03.

AB43,,3268 2. Property assessed as real property under s. 70.17 (3).

AB43,,3269 3. Property subject to taxation under s. 76.025 (2).

AB43,,3270 (c) A taxing jurisdiction may include the most recent valuation of personal property described under par. (a) that is located in the taxing jurisdiction for purposes of complying with debt limitations applicable to the jurisdiction.

AB43,1290 Section 1290. 70.13 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3272 70.13 (1) All For assessments made before January 1, 2024, all personal property shall be assessed in the assessment district where the same is located or customarily kept except as otherwise specifically provided. Personal property in transit within the state on the first day of January shall be assessed in the district in which the same is intended to be kept or located, and personal property having no fixed location shall be assessed in the district where the owner or the person in charge or possession thereof resides, except as provided in sub. (5).

AB43,1291 Section 1291. 70.13 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3274 70.13 (2) Saw For assessments made before January 1, 2024, saw logs or timber in transit, which are to be sawed or manufactured in any mill in this state, shall be deemed located and shall be assessed in the district in which such mill is located. Saw logs or timber shall be deemed in transit when the same are being transported either by water or rail, but when such logs or timber are banked, decked, piled or otherwise temporarily stored for transportation in any district, they shall be deemed located, and shall be assessed in such district.

AB43,1292 Section 1292. 70.13 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3276 70.13 (3) On For assessments made before January 1, 2024, on or before the tenth day of January in each year the owner of logs or timber in transit shall furnish the assessor of the district in which the mill at which the logs or timber will be sawed or manufactured is located a verified statement of the amount, character and value of all the logs and timber in transit on the first day of January preceding, and the owner of the logs or timber shall furnish to the assessor of the district in which the logs and timber were located on the first day of January preceding, a like verified statement of the amount, character and value thereof. Any assessment made in accordance with the owner’s statement shall be valid and binding on the owner notwithstanding any subsequent change as to the place where the same may be sawed or manufactured. If the owner of the logs or timber shall fail or refuse to furnish the statement herein provided for, or shall intentionally make a false statement, that owner shall be subject to the penalties prescribed by s. 70.36.

AB43,1293 Section 1293. 70.13 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3278 70.13 (7) Saw For assessments made before January 1, 2024, saw logs or timber removed from public lands during the year next preceding the first day of January or having been removed from such lands and in transit therefrom on the first day of January, shall be deemed located and assessed in the assessment district wherein such public lands are located and shall be assessed in no other assessment district. Saw logs or timber shall be deemed in transit when the same are being transported. On or before January 10 in each year the owner of such logs or timber shall furnish the assessor of the assessment district wherein they are assessable a verified statement of the amount, character and value of all such logs and timber. If the owner of any such logs or timber shall fail or refuse to furnish such statement or shall intentionally make a false statement, he or she is subject to the penalties prescribed by s. 70.36. This subsection shall supersede any provision of law in conflict therewith. The term “owner” as used in this subsection is deemed to mean the person owning the logs or timber at the time of severing. “Public lands” as used in this subsection shall mean lands owned by the United States of America, the state of Wisconsin or any political subdivision of this state.

AB43,1294 Section 1294. 70.15 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3280 70.15 (2) The owner of any steam vessel, barge, boat, or other water craft, hailing from any port of this state, “and so employed regularly in interstate traffic,” desiring to comply with the terms of this section, shall annually, on or before the first day of January, file with the clerk of such town, village, or city a verified statement, in writing, containing the name, port of hail, tonnage, and name of owner of such steam vessel, barge, boat, or other water craft, and shall thereupon pay into the said treasury of such town, village, or city a sum equal to one cent per net ton of the registered tonnage of said vessel, and the treasurer shall thereupon issue a receipt. All vessels, boats, or other water craft not regularly employed in interstate traffic and all private yachts or pleasure boats belonging to inhabitants of this state, whether at home or abroad, shall be taxed as personal property for taxes levied before January 1, 2024.

AB43,1295 Section 1295. 70.17 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3282 70.17 (1) Real property shall be entered in the name of the owner, if known to the assessor, otherwise to the occupant thereof if ascertainable, and otherwise without any name. The person holding the contract or certificate of sale of any real property contracted to be sold by the state, but not conveyed, shall be deemed the owner for such purpose. The undivided real estate of any deceased person may be entered to the heirs of such person without designating them by name. The real estate of an incorporated company shall be entered in the same manner as that of an individual. Improvements on leased lands may be assessed either as real property or personal property.

AB43,1296 Section 1296. 70.17 (3) of the statutes is created to read:

AB43,,3284 70.17 (3) Beginning with the property tax assessments applicable to the January 1, 2024, assessment year, the following shall be assessed as real property:

AB43,,3285 (a) Manufactured and mobile homes under s. 70.043 (1) or (2), not otherwise exempt from taxation under this chapter.

AB43,,3286 (b) Advertising signs except those qualifying as personal property under s. 70.04 (3).

AB43,,3287 (c) Buildings, improvements, and fixtures on leased lands.

AB43,,3288 (d) Buildings, improvements, and fixtures on exempt lands, not otherwise exempt from taxation under this chapter. The assessor may create an assessor’s plat under s. 70.27 for the assessment of taxable buildings, improvements, and fixtures on land not subject to taxation.

AB43,,3289 (e) Buildings, improvements, and fixtures on forest croplands.

AB43,,3290 (f) Buildings, improvements, and fixtures on managed forest lands.

AB43,1297 Section 1297. 70.17 (4) of the statutes is created to read:

AB43,,3292 70.17 (4) For purposes of sub. (3), buildings, improvements, and fixtures do not include personal property defined under s. 70.04 (3).

AB43,1298 Section 1298. 70.174 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3294 70.174 Improvements on government-owned land. Improvements made by any person on land within this state owned by the United States may shall be assessed either as real or personal property to the person making the same, if ascertainable, and otherwise to the occupant thereof or the person receiving benefits therefrom as provided under s. 70.17 (3).

AB43,1299 Section 1299. 70.18 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3296 70.18 Personal property, to whom assessed. (1) Personal For assessments made before January 1, 2024, personal property shall be assessed to the owner thereof, except that when it is in the charge or possession of some person other than the owner it may be assessed to the person so in charge or possession of the same. Telegraph and telephone poles, posts, railroad ties, lumber, and all other manufactured forest products shall be deemed to be in the charge or possession of the person in occupancy or possession of the premises upon which the same shall be stored or piled, and the same shall be assessed to such person, unless the owner or some other person residing in the same assessment district, shall be actually and actively in charge and possession thereof, in which case it shall be assessed to such resident owner or other person so in actual charge or possession; but nothing contained in this subsection shall affect or change the rules prescribed in s. 70.13 respecting the district in which such property shall be assessed.

AB43,,3297 (2) Goods For assessments made before January 1, 2024, goods, wares, and merchandise in storage in a commercial storage warehouse or on a public wharf shall be assessed to the owner thereof and not to the warehouse or public wharf, if the operator of the warehouse or public wharf furnishes to the assessor the names and addresses of the owners of all goods, wares, and merchandise not exempt from taxation.

AB43,1300 Section 1300. 70.19 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3299 70.19 Assessment, how made; liability and rights of representative. (1) When For assessments made before January 1, 2024, when personal property is assessed under s. 70.18 (1) to a person in charge or possession of the personal property other than the owner, the assessment of that personal property shall be entered upon the assessment roll separately from the assessment of that person’s own personal property, adding to the person’s name upon the tax roll words briefly indicating that the assessment is made to the person as the person in charge or possession of the property. The failure to enter the assessment separately or to indicate the representative capacity or other relationship of the person assessed shall not affect the validity of the assessment.

AB43,,3300 (2) The For assessments made before January 1, 2024, the person assessed under sub. (1) and s. 70.18 (1) is personally liable for the tax on the property. The person assessed under sub. (1) and s. 70.18 (1) has a personal right of action against the owner of the property for the amount of the taxes; has a lien for that amount upon the property with the rights and remedies for the preservation and enforcement of that lien as provided in ss. 779.45 and 779.48; and is entitled to retain possession of the property until the owner of the property pays the tax on the property or reimburses the person assessed for the tax. The lien and right of possession relate back and exist from the time that the assessment is made, but may be released and discharged by giving to the person assessed such undertaking or other indemnity as the person accepts or by giving the person assessed a bond in the amount and with the sureties as is directed and approved by the circuit court of the county in which the property is assessed, upon 8 days’ notice to the person assessed. The bond shall be conditioned to hold the person assessed free and harmless from all costs, expense, liability, or damage by reason of the assessment.

AB43,1301 Section 1301. 70.20 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3302 70.20 Owner’s liability when personalty assessed to another; action to collect. (1) When For assessments made before January 1, 2024, when personal property shall be assessed to some person in charge or possession thereof, other than the owner, such owner as well as the person so in charge or possession shall be liable for the taxes levied pursuant to such assessment; and the liability of such owner may be enforced in a personal action as for a debt. Such action may be brought in the name of the town, city or village in which such assessment was made, if commenced before the time fixed by law for the return of delinquent taxes, by direction of the treasurer or tax collector of such town, city or village. If commenced after such a return, it shall be brought in the name of the county or other municipality to the treasurer or other officer of which such return shall be made, by direction of such treasurer or other officer. Such action may be brought in any court of this state having jurisdiction of the amount involved and in which jurisdiction may be obtained of the person of such owner or by attachment of the property of such owner.

AB43,,3303 (2) The For assessments made before January 1, 2024, the remedy of attachment may be allowed in such action upon filing an affidavit of the officer by whose direction such action shall be brought, showing the assessment of such property in the assessment district, the amount of tax levied pursuant thereto, that the defendant was the owner of such property at the time as of which the assessment thereof was made, and that such tax remains unpaid in whole or in part, and the amount remaining unpaid. The proceedings in such actions and for enforcement of the judgment obtained therein shall be the same as in ordinary actions for debt as near as may be, but no property shall be exempt from attachment or execution issued upon a judgment against the defendant in such action.

AB43,,3304 (3) The For assessments made before January 1, 2024, and taxes levied before January 1, 2024, the assessment and tax rolls in which such assessment and tax shall be entered shall be prima facie evidence of such assessment and tax and of the justice and regularity thereof; and the same, with proof of the ownership of such property by the defendant at the time as of which the assessment was made and of the nonpayment of such tax, shall be sufficient to establish the liability of the defendant. Such liability shall not be affected and such action shall not be defeated by any omission or irregularity in the assessment or tax proceedings not affecting the substantial justice and equity of the tax. The provisions of this section shall not impair or affect the remedies given by other provisions of law for the collection or enforcement of such tax against the person to whom the property was assessed.

AB43,1302 Section 1302. 70.21 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3306 70.21 (1) Except For assessments made before January 1, 2024, except as provided in sub. (2), the personal property of a partnership may be assessed in the names of the persons composing the partnership, so far as known or in the firm name or title under which the partnership business is conducted, and each partner shall be liable for the taxes levied on the partnership’s personal property.

AB43,1303 Section 1303. 70.21 (1m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3308 70.21 (1m) (intro.) Undistributed For assessments made before January 1, 2024, undistributed personal property belonging to the estate of a decedent shall be assessed as follows:

AB43,1304 Section 1304. 70.21 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3310 70.21 (2) The For assessments made before January 1, 2024, the personal property of a limited liability partnership shall be assessed in the name of the partnership, and each partner shall be liable for the taxes levied thereon only to the extent permitted under s. 178.0306.

AB43,1305 Section 1305. 70.22 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3312 70.22 (1) In For assessments made before January 1, 2024, in case one or more of 2 or more personal representatives or trustees of the estate of a decedent who died domiciled in this state are not residents of the state, the taxable personal property belonging to the estate shall be assessed to the personal representatives or trustees residing in this state. In case there are 2 or more personal representatives or trustees of the same estate residing in this state, but in different taxation districts, the assessment of the taxable personal property belonging to the estate shall be in the names of all of the personal representatives or trustees of the estate residing in this state. In case no personal representative or trustee resides in this state, the taxable personal property belonging to the estate may be assessed in the name of the personal representative or trustee, or in the names of all of the personal representatives or trustees if there are more than one, or in the name of the estate.

AB43,1306 Section 1306. 70.22 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3314 70.22 (2) (a) The For taxes levied before January 1, 2024, the taxes imposed pursuant to an assessment under sub. (1) may be enforced as a claim against the estate, upon presentation of a claim for the taxes by the treasurer of the taxation district to the court in which the proceedings for the probate of the estate are pending. Upon due proof, the court shall allow and order the claim to be paid.

AB43,1307 Section 1307. 70.27 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3316 70.27 (1) Who may order. Whenever any area of platted or unplatted land is or land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land are owned by 2 or more persons in severalty, and when in the judgment of the governing body having jurisdiction, the description of one or more of the different parcels thereof cannot be made sufficiently certain and accurate for the purposes of assessment, taxation, or tax title procedures without noting the correct metes and bounds of the same, or when such gross errors exist in lot measurements or locations that difficulty is encountered in locating new structures, public utilities, or streets, such governing body may cause a plat to be made for such purposes. Such plat shall be called “assessor’s plat,” and shall plainly define the applicable boundary of each parcel, building, improvement, and fixture, and each street, alley, lane, or roadway, or dedication to public or special use, as such is evidenced by the records of the register of deeds or a court of record. Such plats in cities may be ordered by the city council, in villages by the village board, in towns by the town board, or the county board. A plat or part of a plat included in an assessor’s plat shall be deemed vacated to the extent it is included in or altered by an assessor’s plat. The actual and necessary costs and expenses of making assessors’ plats shall be paid out of the treasury of the city, village, town, or county whose governing body ordered the plat, and all or any part of such cost may be charged to the land property, without inclusion of improvements, so platted in the proportion that the last assessed valuation of each parcel bears to the last assessed total valuation of all lands property included in the assessor’s plat, and collected as a special assessment on such land property, as provided by s. 66.0703.

AB43,1308 Section 1308. 70.27 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3318 70.27 (3) (a) Reference to any land, or land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land as it the reference appears on a recorded assessor’s plat is deemed sufficient for purposes of assessment and taxation. Conveyance may be made by reference to such plat and shall be as effective to pass title to the land so described as it would be if the same premises had been described by metes and bounds. Such plat or record thereof shall be received in evidence in all courts and places as correctly describing the several parcels of land or land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land therein designated. After an assessor’s plat has been made and recorded with the register of deeds as provided by this section, all conveyances of lands or land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land included in such assessor’s plat shall be by reference to such plat. Any instrument dated and acknowledged after September 1, 1955, purporting to convey, mortgage, or otherwise give notice of an interest in land or land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land that is within or part of an assessor’s plat shall describe the affected land by the name of the assessor’s plat, lot, block, or outlot.

AB43,1309 Section 1309. 70.27 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3320 70.27 (4) Amendments. Amendments or corrections to an assessor’s plat may be made at any time by the governing body by recording with the register of deeds a plat of the area affected by such amendment or correction, made and authenticated as provided by this section. It shall not be necessary to refer to any amendment of the plat, but all assessments or instruments wherein any parcel of land is or land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land are described as being in an assessor’s plat, shall be construed to mean the assessor’s plat of lands or land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land with its amendments or corrections as it stood on the date of making such assessment or instrument, or such plats may be identified by number. This subsection does not prohibit the division of lands or land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land that are included in an assessor’s plat by subdivision plat, as provided in s. 236.03, or by certified survey map, as provided in s. 236.34.

AB43,1310 Section 1310. 70.27 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3322 70.27 (5) Surveys, reconciliations. The surveyor making the plat shall be a professional land surveyor licensed under ch. 443 and shall survey and lay out the boundaries of each parcel, building, improvement, fixture, street, alley, lane, roadway, or dedication to public or private use, according to the records of the register of deeds, and whatever evidence that may be available to show the intent of the buyer and seller, in the chronological order of their conveyance or dedication, and set temporary monuments to show the results of such survey which shall be made permanent upon recording of the plat as provided for in this section. The map shall be at a scale of not more than 100 feet per inch, unless waived in writing by the department of administration under s. 236.20 (2) (L). The owners of record of lands or the land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land in the plat shall be notified by certified letter mailed to their last-known addresses, in order that they shall have opportunity to examine the map, view the temporary monuments, and make known any disagreement with the boundaries as shown by the temporary monuments. It is the duty of the professional land surveyor making the plat to reconcile any discrepancies that may be revealed so that the plat as certified to the governing body is in conformity with the records of the register of deeds as nearly as is practicable. When boundary lines between adjacent parcels, as evidenced on the ground, are mutually agreed to in writing by the owners of record, those lines shall be the true boundaries for all purposes thereafter, even though they may vary from the metes and bounds descriptions previously of record. Such written agreements shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds. On every assessor’s plat, as certified to the governing body, shall appear the document number of the record and, if given on the record, the volume and page where the record is recorded for the record that contains the metes and bounds description of each parcel, as recorded in the office of the register of deeds, which shall be identified with the number by which such parcel is designated on the plat, except that a lot that has been conveyed or otherwise acquired but upon which no deed is recorded in the office of register of deeds may be shown on an assessor’s plat and when so shown shall contain a full metes and bounds description.

AB43,1311 Section 1311. 70.27 (7) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3324 70.27 (7) (b) A clear and concise description of the land or the land and the buildings, improvements, and fixtures on that land so surveyed and mapped, by government lot, quarter quarter-section, township, range and county, or if located in a city or village or platted area, then according to the plat; otherwise by metes and bounds beginning with some corner marked and established in the United States land survey.

AB43,1312 Section 1312. 70.29 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB43,,3326 70.29 Personalty, how entered. The For assessments made before January 1, 2024, the assessor shall place in one distinct and continuous part of the assessment roll all the names of persons assessed for personal property, with a statement of such property in each village in the assessor’s assessment district, and foot up the valuation thereof separately; otherwise the assessor shall arrange all names of persons assessed for personal property on the roll alphabetically so far as convenient. The assessor shall also place upon the assessment roll, in a separate column and opposite the name of each person assessed for personal property, the number of the school district in which such personal property is subject to taxation.

AB43,1313 Section 1313. 70.30 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read: