CHAPTER 236
PLATTING LANDS AND RECORDING AND VACATING PLATS
SUBCHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
236.01 Purpose of chapter.
236.015 Applicability of chapter.
236.025 Ordinary high water marks.
236.03 Survey and plat; when required.
SUBCHAPTER II
APPROVAL OF PLAT
236.10 Approvals necessary.
236.11 Submission of plats for approval.
236.12 Procedure for approval of plats.
236.13 Basis for approval.
SUBCHAPTER III
LAYOUT REQUIREMENTS
236.15 Surveying requirements.
236.16 Layout requirements.
236.18 Wisconsin coordinate system.
SUBCHAPTER IV
FINAL PLAT AND DATA
236.21 Certificates to accompany plat.
SUBCHAPTER V
RECORDING OF PLATS
236.26 Notification to approving authorities.
236.27 Filing of copy of plat.
236.28 Description of lots in recorded plat.
236.292 Certain restrictions void.
236.293 Restrictions for public benefit.
236.295 Correction instruments.
SUBCHAPTER VI
PENALTIES AND REMEDIES
236.30 Forfeiture for improper recording.
236.31 Penalties and remedies for transfer of lots without recorded plat.
236.32 Penalty for disturbing or not placing monuments.
236.33 Division of land into small parcels in cities of the first class prohibited; penalty.
236.335 Prohibited subdividing; forfeit.
236.34 Recording of certified survey map; use in changing boundaries; use in conveyancing.
SUBCHAPTER VII
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
236.35 Sale of lands abutting on private way outside corporate limits of municipality.
SUBCHAPTER VIII
VACATING AND ALTERING PLATS
236.40 Who may apply for vacation of plat.
236.42 Hearing and order.
236.43 Vacation or alteration of areas dedicated to the public.
236.445 Discontinuance of streets by county board.
SUBCHAPTER IX
SUBDIVISION REGULATION AND REGIONAL PLANS
236.45 Local subdivision regulation.
SUBCHAPTER X
GENERAL PROVISIONS
236.50 Date chapter applies; curative provisions as to plats before that date.
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
236.01
236.01
Purpose of chapter. The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the subdivision of land to promote public health, safety and general welfare; to further the orderly layout and use of land; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to lessen congestion in the streets and highways; to provide for adequate light and air; to facilitate adequate provision for water, sewerage and other public requirements; to provide for proper ingress and egress; and to promote proper monumenting of land subdivided and conveyancing by accurate legal description. The approvals to be obtained by the subdivider as required in this chapter shall be based on requirements designed to accomplish the aforesaid purposes.
236.01 Annotation
This chapter authorizes a municipality to reject a preliminary plat under its extraterritorial jurisdictional authority based upon a subdivision ordinance that considers the plat's proposed use. Wood v. City of Madison,
2003 WI 24,
260 Wis. 2d 71,
659 N.W.2d 31,
01-1206.
236.015
236.015
Applicability of chapter. This chapter does not apply to transportation project plats that conform to s.
84.095.
236.015 History
History: 1997 a. 282.
236.02
236.02
Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter clearly requires otherwise:
236.02(1)
(1) “Alley" means a public or private right-of-way shown on a plat, which provides secondary access to a lot, block or parcel of land.
236.02(2)
(2) “Copy" means a true and accurate copy of all sheets of the original subdivision plat. Such copy shall be on durable white matte finished paper with legible dark lines and lettering.
236.02(2m)
(2m) “Correction instrument" means an instrument drafted by a professional land surveyor that complies with the requirements of s.
236.295 and that, upon recording, corrects a subdivision plat or a certified survey map.
236.02(3)
(3) “County planning agency" means a rural county planning agency authorized by s.
27.019, a county park commission authorized by s.
27.02 except that in a county with a county executive or county administrator, the county park manager appointed under s.
27.03 (2), a county zoning agency authorized by s.
59.69 or any agency created by the county board and authorized by statute to plan land use.
236.02(4)
(4) “Department" means the department of administration.
236.02(5)
(5) “Extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction" means the unincorporated area within 3 miles of the corporate limits of a first, second or third class city, or 1 1/2 miles of a fourth class city or a village.
236.02(6)
(6) “Municipality" means an incorporated city or village.
236.02(7)
(7) An “outlot" is a parcel of land, other than a lot or block, so designated on the plat.
236.02(8)
(8) “Plat" is a map of a subdivision.
236.02(9)
(9) “Preliminary plat" is a map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision submitted to an approving authority for purposes of preliminary consideration.
236.02(9b)
(9b) “Professional land surveyor" means a professional land surveyor licensed under ch.
443.
236.02(9c)
(9c) “Record" means, with respect to a final plat or a certified survey map, to record and file the document with the register of deeds.
236.02(9m)
(9m) “Recorded private claim" means a claim of title to land based on a conveyance from a foreign government made before the land was acquired by the United States.
236.02(11)
(11) “Replat" is the process of changing, or the map or plat which changes, the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat or part thereof. The legal dividing of a large block, lot or outlot within a recorded subdivision plat without changing exterior boundaries of said block, lot or outlot is not a replat.
236.02(12)(am)(am) Except as provided in par.
(bm), “subdivision" means a division of a lot, parcel, or tract of land by the owner thereof or the owner's agent for the purpose of sale or of building development and to which any of the following applies:
236.02(12)(am)1.
1. The act of division creates 5 or more parcels or building sites of 1 1/2 acres each or less in area.
236.02(12)(am)2.
2. Five or more parcels or building sites of 1 1/2 acres each or less in area are created by successive divisions within a period of 5 years.
236.02(12)(bm)
(bm) “Subdivision" does not include a division of land into 5 or more parcels or building sites by a certified survey map in accordance with an ordinance enacted or a resolution adopted under s.
236.34 (1) (ar) 1. 236.02(13)
(13) “Town planning agency" means a town zoning committee appointed under s.
60.61 (4) (a) or any agency created by the town board and authorized by statute to plan land use.
