79.01 Accounts established. 79.015 Statement of estimated payments. 79.02 Shared revenue distributions. 79.035 County and municipal aid; before 2024. 79.036 County and municipal aid; beginning in 2024. 79.037 Supplemental county and municipal aid. 79.038 Innovation grants and innovation planning grants. 79.039 Certain reductions. 79.04 Public utility distribution. 79.05 Expenditure restraint incentive program. 79.095 State aid; computers. 79.096 State aid; personal property. 79.0965 State aid; repeal of personal property tax. 79.097 State aid; video service provider fee. SUBCHAPTER II
PROPERTY TAX CREDITS
79.10 Wisconsin state property tax relief. 79.11 Payment of tax credits. 79.14 School levy tax credit. 79.15 Improvements credit. 79.175 Excess tax credit corrections. 79.18 Insufficient tax credit corrections. MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY SHARED REVENUE
79.00579.005 Definitions. In this subchapter: 79.005(1b)(1b) “Alternative energy resource” means a renewable resource, as defined in s. 196.378 (1) (h); garbage, as defined in s. 289.01 (9); or nonvegetation-based industrial, commercial, or household waste. 79.005(1d)(1d) “Baseload electric generating facility” means an electric generating facility that has a capacity factor that is greater than 60 percent, as determined by the public service commission. 79.005(1f)(1f) “Capacity factor” means the anticipated actual annual output of an electric generating facility expressed as a percentage of the facility’s potential output. For purposes of this subchapter, the public service commission may review the capacity factor of an electric generating facility at any time. 79.005(1g)(1g) “Cogeneration production plant” means an electric generating facility that produces electricity and another form of thermal energy, including heat or steam, that is used for industrial, commercial, heating, or cooling purposes. 79.005(1h)(1h) “Decommissioned” means, with regard to a production plant, the earliest of the following: 79.005(1h)(a)(a) The production plant is no longer recovered through the utility’s or cooperative’s rates or, for a production plant owned by a qualified wholesale electric company, as defined in s. 76.28 (1) (gm), the production plant permanently ceases generating electricity. 79.005(1m)(1m) “Municipality” means any town, village or city in this state. If a municipality is located in more than one county, payments under this subchapter shall be computed using data for the municipality as a whole. 79.005(2)(2) “Population” means the number of persons residing in each municipality and county of the state as last determined by the department of administration under s. 16.96. 79.005(2m)(2m) “Power generation unit” means a complete set of electric generating equipment, as defined in s. 196.52 (9) (a) 1., that, collectively, is sufficient to generate electric power. 79.005(3)(3) “Production plant” does not include substations and general structures. 79.005(4)(4) “Repowered” means any of the following: 79.005(4)(a)(a) Replacing the boiler on an existing fossil fuel steam unit with a combustion turbine and heat recovery steam generator and reusing the steam turbine and heat rejection system. 79.005(4)(b)(b) Adding a heat recovery steam generator to a simple cycle combustion turbine. 79.005(4)(c)(c) Demolishing or abandoning an existing power generation unit and replacing it with a new power generation unit at the same site. 79.005(4)(d)(d) Replacing steam generating equipment at a combustion-based renewable facility, as defined in s. 196.378 (1) (g), that is located in this state, to increase efficiency or capacity, if the facility remains a combustion-based renewable facility, as defined in s. 196.378 (1) (g), after replacing the equipment. 79.00679.006 New incorporations. The information needed for the determinations under this chapter shall be calculated as follows: for those years for which the necessary data does not exist, the data for the new municipality and the municipality from which it was formed shall be combined and the sum shall be apportioned to each municipality in proportion to its respective full value in the first year of assessment of the new municipality; if the municipality is formed before April 1, the department of administration shall certify the population of the newly created municipality, and the corrected population of the municipality from which it was formed, and those figures shall be used for distributions under this chapter in the year after the incorporation. 79.006 HistoryHistory: 1981 c. 20; 1995 a. 216. 79.0179.01 Accounts established. There is established an account in the general fund entitled the “Public Utility Distribution Account,” referred to in this chapter as the “public utility account.” There shall be appropriated to the public utility account the sums specified in s. 79.04. 79.01 NoteNOTE: This section is shown as renumbered from s. 79.01 (2m) by the legislative reference bureau under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.
79.01579.015 Statement of estimated payments. The department of revenue, on or before September 15 of each year, shall provide to each municipality and county a statement of estimated payments to be made in the next calendar year to the municipality or county under ss. 79.035, 79.036, 79.037, 79.038, 79.039, 79.04, and 79.05. 79.0279.02 Shared revenue distributions. 79.02(1)(1) Except as provided in sub. (2) (b), the department of administration, upon certification by the department of revenue, shall distribute shared revenue payments to each municipality and county on the 4th Monday in July and the 3rd Monday in November. 79.02(2)(a)(a) In this subsection, “estimated payments” means the amounts in the statement provided to the county or municipality under s. 79.015. 79.02(2)(b)(b) Subject to ss. 59.605 (4) and 70.995 (14) (b), payments in July shall equal 15 percent of the municipality’s or county’s estimated payments under ss. 79.035, 79.036, 79.037, 79.038, 79.039, and 79.04 and 100 percent of the municipality’s estimated payments under s. 79.05. Upon certification by the department of revenue, the estimated payment under s. 79.05 may be distributed before the 4th Monday in July. 79.03579.035 County and municipal aid; before 2024. 79.035(1)(1) Each county and municipality shall receive a payment from the county and municipal aid account and from the appropriation account under s. 20.835 (1) (r) in an amount determined under this section. 79.035(3)(3) For the distribution in 2011, each county and municipality shall receive a payment under this section that is equal to the amount of the payment determined for the county or municipality under s. 79.02 (4), 2009 stats., in 2010. 79.035(4)(a)(a) For the distribution in 2012, the total amount of the payments to all municipalities under this section shall be reduced by $47,663,400 and the total amount of the payments to all counties under this section shall be reduced by $29,086,600. 79.035(4)(b)1.1. To calculate the reduction under this subsection for each municipality, the department of revenue shall first divide $47,663,400 by the total population of all municipalities. The department shall then adjust the result of the calculation to establish a per capita amount applied to all municipalities so that the reduction for each municipality is no more than the maximum allowable reduction under this subsection for that municipality and so that the total reductions to county and municipal aid payments for municipalities under this subsection is $47,663,400. 79.035(4)(b)2.2. To calculate the reduction under this subsection for each county, the department of revenue shall first divide $29,086,600 by the total population of all counties. The department shall then adjust the result of the calculation to establish a per capita amount applied to all counties so that the reduction for each county is no more than the maximum allowable reduction under this subsection for that county and so that the total reductions to county and municipal aid payments for counties under this subsection is $29,086,600. 79.035(4)(c)1.1. The reduction for a municipality that has a population of less than 2,500 is the amount calculated by multiplying the amount determined under par. (b) 1. by the municipality’s population, multiplied by the quotient of the municipality’s population divided by 2,500. 79.035(4)(c)2.2. Except as provided under par. (h), the reduction determined under this paragraph may not exceed the lesser of an amount equal to 15 percent of the municipality’s payment under this section in 2011, prior to any reduction under s. 79.02 (3) (e), 2021 stats., or 10 cents for each $1,000 of the municipality’s equalized value, as determined under s. 70.57. 79.035(4)(d)1.1. The reduction for a municipality that has a population of at least 2,500, but no greater than 10,000, is the amount equal to 10 cents for each $1,000 of the municipality’s equalized value, as determined under s. 70.57, plus the amount determined as follows: 79.035(4)(d)2.2. Except as provided in par. (h), the reduction determined under this paragraph may not exceed the lesser of an amount equal to 15 percent of the municipality’s payment under this section in 2011, prior to any reduction under s. 79.02 (3) (e), 2021 stats., or 15 cents for each $1,000 of the municipality’s equalized value, as determined under s. 70.57. 79.035(4)(e)1.1. The reduction for a municipality that has a population greater than 10,000, but no greater than 50,000, is the amount equal to 15 cents for each $1,000 of the municipality’s equalized value, as determined under s. 70.57, plus the amount determined as follows: 79.035(4)(e)2.2. Except as provided in par. (h), the reduction determined under this paragraph may not exceed the lesser of an amount equal to 15 percent of the municipality’s payment under this section in 2011, prior to any reduction under s. 79.02 (3) (e), 2021 stats., or 25 cents for each $1,000 of the municipality’s equalized value, as determined under s. 70.57. 79.035(4)(f)1.1. The reduction for a municipality that has a population greater than 50,000, but no greater than 110,000, is the amount equal to 25 cents for each $1,000 of the municipality’s equalized value, as determined under s. 70.57, plus the amount determined as follows:
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