66.0510(1)(b)(b) “Local governmental unit” has the definition given in s. 66.0131 (1) (a).
66.0510(2)(2)Benefits. If a local governmental unit provides an employee benefit plan to its officers, agents, and employees, the plan may cover only such officers, agents, and employees and their spouses and dependent children.
66.0510 HistoryHistory: 2017 a. 59.
66.051166.0511Law enforcement agencies; certain policies.
66.0511(1)(1)Definitions. In this section:
66.0511(1)(a)(a) “Choke hold” means the intentional and prolonged application of force to the throat, windpipe, or carotid arteries that prevents or hinders breathing or blood flow, reduces the intake of air, or reduces blood flow to the head.
66.0511(1)(b)(b) “Law enforcement agency” has the meaning given under s. 165.83 (1) (b).
66.0511(2)(2)Use of force policy. Each person in charge of a law enforcement agency shall prepare in writing a policy or standard regulating the use of force by law enforcement officers in the performance of their duties. The law enforcement agency shall make the policy or standard publicly available on a website maintained by the law enforcement agency or, if the agency does not maintain its own site, on a website maintained by the municipality over which the law enforcement agency has jurisdiction. If the policy or standard is changed, the law enforcement agency shall ensure the website displays the updated policy or standard as soon as practically possible but no later than one year after the change is made. The law enforcement agency shall also prominently display a means of requesting a copy of the policy or standard. If a person requests a copy of the policy or standard, the law enforcement agency shall provide a copy of the current policy or standard free of charge as soon as practically possible but no later than 3 business days after the request is made. A law enforcement agency may not authorize the use of choke holds by law enforcement officers in a policy or standard under this subsection, except in life-threatening situations or in self-defense.
66.0511(3)(3)Citizen complaint procedure. Each person in charge of a law enforcement agency shall prepare in writing and make available for public scrutiny a specific procedure for processing and resolving a complaint by any person regarding the conduct of a law enforcement officer employed by the agency. The writing prepared under this subsection shall include a conspicuous notification of the prohibition and penalty under s. 946.66.
66.0511(4)(4)Human trafficking prevention and enforcement. Each person in charge of a law enforcement agency in a county that has received a recommendation from the human trafficking council under s. 165.29 (1) (d) is encouraged to designate a law enforcement officer of the law enforcement agency to coordinate the law enforcement agency’s human trafficking prevention and enforcement efforts.
Effective date noteNOTE: Sub. (4) is created eff. 7-1-25 by 2023 Wis. Act 239. Sub. (4) is repealed eff. 6-30-29 by 2023 Wis. Act 239.
66.0511 HistoryHistory: 1987 a. 131; 1997 a. 176; 1999 a. 150 s. 366; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0511; 2021 a. 48, 49, 240; 2023 a. 239.
66.051266.0512Whistleblower protection for certain disclosures made by municipal clerks. No municipal clerk, as defined in s. 5.02 (10), county clerk, as defined in s. 5.02 (2), or election official, as defined in s. 5.02 (4e), may be discharged, disciplined, demoted, or otherwise discriminated against in regard to employment, or threatened with any such treatment, as a reprisal because the clerk or election official lawfully reported, or is believed to have reported, witnessing what the clerk or election official reasonably believed to be election fraud or irregularities. For purposes of this section, “lawfully reported” means a report of information the disclosure of which is not expressly prohibited by state or federal law, rule, or regulation.
Effective date noteNOTE: This section is created eff. 7-1-25 by 2023 Wis. Act 126.
66.0512 HistoryHistory: 2023 a. 126.
66.051366.0513Police, pay when acting outside county or municipality.
66.0513(1)(1)Any chief of police, sheriff, deputy sheriff, county traffic officer or other peace officer of any city, county, village or town, who is required by command of the governor, sheriff or other superior authority to maintain the peace, or who responds to the request of the authorities of another municipality, to perform police or peace duties outside territorial limits of the city, county, village or town where the officer is employed, is entitled to the same wage, salary, pension, worker’s compensation, and all other service rights for this service as for service rendered within the limits of the city, county, village or town where regularly employed.
66.0513(2)(2)All wage and disability payments, pension and worker’s compensation claims, damage to equipment and clothing, and medical expense arising under sub. (1), shall be paid by the city, county, village or town regularly employing the officer. Upon making the payment the city, county, village or town shall be reimbursed by the state, county or other political subdivision whose officer or agent commanded the services out of which the payments arose.
66.0513 HistoryHistory: 1975 c. 147 s. 54; 1999 a. 150 s. 367; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0513.
66.0513 AnnotationThe use of the phrase “required by command” in sub. (1) plainly does not mean that officers who volunteer to go to another city, county, village, or town are excluded from worker’s compensation and other benefits. A governmental body obligated to reimburse another for worker’s compensation payments under this section is obligated under worker’s compensation law for purposes of worker’s compensation insurance coverage. Milwaukee County v. Juneau County, 2004 WI App 23, 269 Wis. 2d 730, 676 N.W.2d 513, 02-2880.
66.051566.0515Receipts for fees. Every officer or employee upon receiving fees shall, if requested to do so by the person paying the fees, deliver to that person a receipt for the fees, specifying for which account each portion of the fees respectively accrued.
66.0515 HistoryHistory: 1991 a. 316; 1999 a. 150 s. 270; Stats. 1999 s. 66.0515.
66.051766.0517Weed commissioner.
66.0517(1)(1)Definition. In this section, “noxious weeds” has the meaning given in s. 66.0407 (1) (b).
66.0517(2)(2)Appointment.
66.0517(2)(a)(a) Town, village and city weed commissioner. The chairperson of each town, the president of each village and the mayor of each city may appoint one or more commissioners of noxious weeds on or before May 15 in each year. A weed commissioner shall take the official oath and the oath shall be filed in the office of the town, village or city clerk. A weed commissioner shall hold office for one year and until a successor has qualified or the town chairperson, village president or mayor determines not to appoint a weed commissioner. If more than one commissioner is appointed, the town, village or city shall be divided into districts by the officer making the appointment and each commissioner shall be assigned to a different district. The town chairperson, village president or mayor may appoint a resident of any district to serve as weed commissioner in any other district of the same town, village or city.
66.0517(2)(b)(b) County weed commissioner. A county may by resolution adopted by its county board provide for the appointment of a county weed commissioner and determine the duties, term and compensation for the county weed commissioner. When a weed commissioner has been appointed under this paragraph and has qualified, the commissioner has the powers and duties of a weed commissioner described in this section. Each town chairperson, village president or mayor may appoint one or more deputy weed commissioners, who shall work in cooperation with the county weed commissioner in the district assigned by the appointing officer.
66.0517(3)(3)Powers, duties and compensation.
66.0517(3)(a)(a) Destruction of noxious weeds. A weed commissioner shall investigate the existence of noxious weeds in his or her district. If a person in a district neglects to destroy noxious weeds as required under s. 66.0407 (3), the weed commissioner shall destroy, or have destroyed, the noxious weeds in the most economical manner. A weed commissioner may enter upon any lands that are not exempt under s. 66.0407 (5) and cut or otherwise destroy noxious weeds without being liable to an action for trespass or any other action for damages resulting from the entry and destruction, if reasonable care is exercised.