200.15(1)(c)(c) Failure of the commission to disapprove the addition of the territory under this subsection is subject to review under ch. 227.

200.15(2)(2) Proceedings leading to the addition of other territory to a district may be initiated by petition from a municipal governing body or upon motion of the commission. Upon receipt of the petition or upon adoption of the motion, the commission shall hold a public hearing preceded by a class 2 notice under ch. 985. The commission may approve the annexation upon a determination that the standards of ss. 200.05 (4) (b) and (c) and 200.15 (3) are met. Approval actions by the commission under this section shall be subject to review under ch. 227.

200.15(3)(3) Annexations under subs. (1) and (2) may be subject to reasonable requirements as to participation by newly annexed areas toward the cost of existing or proposed district facilities.

200.15(4)(4) Section 200.09 (1) does not require the appointment of a commissioner from territory annexed under this section if that territory, on the day before the annexation, has a population of less than 8.5 percent of the total population served by the district.

200.15 HistoryHistory: 1971 c. 276; 1987 a. 399; 1991 a. 39; 1999 a. 150 s. 322; Stats. 1999 s. 200.15; 2015 a. 55.

200.21(1)(1) “Capital costs” means the cost of acquiring, purchasing, adding to, leasing, planning, designing, constructing, extending and improving all or any part of a sewerage system and of paying principal, interest or premiums on any indebtedness incurred for these purposes.

200.21(2)(2) “Combined sewer overflow abatement” means decreasing discharges of a combination of storm and sanitary wastewater or storm and industrial wastewater directly or indirectly to the waters of the state that occur when the volume of wastewater flow exceeds the transport capacity of a combined storm and sanitary sewer system.

200.21(3)(3) “Commission” means the metropolitan sewerage commission created under s. 200.23.

200.21(4)(4) “District” means the metropolitan sewerage district created under s. 200.23.

200.21(5)(5) “Interceptor sewer” means a sewer that:

200.21(5)(b)(b) Is either a force main sanitary sewer with a diameter greater than 12 inches or a gravity flow sanitary sewer with a diameter greater than 24 inches; and

200.21(5)(c)1.1. Receives and conveys sanitary sewage from a sanitary sewage collection system directly or indirectly to a sewage treatment facility.

200.21(5)(c)2.2. Temporarily collects and stores excessive sewage flow until existing treatment plant capacity is available.

200.21(6)(6) “Local sewer” means any sewer constructed, operated or maintained by any municipality. “Local sewer” does not include any sewer that has been incorporated into the sewerage system under s. 200.37 (2). If the classification of any sewer is unclear, the presumption shall be that the sewer is local.

200.21(7)(7) “Municipality” means any city, town, village, sanitary district organized under subch. IX of ch. 60 or metropolitan sewerage district organized under ss. 200.01 to 200.15 that is located wholly or partially within the district or that contracts for services under s. 200.39.

200.21(8)(8) “Operating costs” means the costs of controlling, operating, managing or maintaining the sewerage system. “Operating costs” also includes replacement costs.

200.21(9)(9) “Replacement costs” means the costs of obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances that are necessary during the service life of the district’s sewerage system to maintain the capacity and performance for which the sewerage system was designed and constructed.

200.21(10)(10) “Sewerage service area” means the area of the district and the area for which service is provided by contract under s. 200.39.

200.21(11)(11) “Sewerage system” means all facilities of the district for collection, transportation, storage, pumping, treatment and final disposition of sewage. “Sewerage system” does not include any private on-site wastewater treatment system, as defined in s. 145.01 (12), or any local sewer.

200.21(12)(12) “User” means any owner or occupant of any building or lot that is located within the sewerage service area and is furnished with sewerage service.

200.21 HistoryHistory: 1981 c. 282; 1983 a. 189 ss. 70, 329 (8); 1983 a. 532 s. 36; 1999 a. 150 s. 576; Stats. 1999 s. 200.21; 2011 a. 146.