70.63 Apportionment of county and state taxes to municipalities. - Wisconsin Statutes

70.63

70.63 Apportionment of county and state taxes to municipalities.

70.63(1)

(1) By county clerk. The county clerk shall apportion the county tax and the whole amount of state taxes and charges levied upon the county, as certified by the department of administration, among the towns, cities and villages of the county, according and in proportion to the valuation thereof as determined by the department of revenue. The county clerk shall carry out in the record book, opposite the name of each in separate columns, the amount of state taxes and charges and the amount of county taxes so apportioned thereto, and the amount of all other special taxes or charges apportioned or ordered, or which the clerk is required by law to make in any year to any town, city or village, to be collected with the annual taxes. The clerk shall certify to the clerk of and charge to each town, city and village, except in cities of the 1st class, the amount of all such taxes so apportioned to and levied upon it, and shall, at the same time, file with the county treasurer a certified copy of each apportionment.

70.63(2)

(2) City of first class. The county clerk shall certify in a similar manner to the commissioner of assessments of each city of the first class located within the limits of the county.

70.63 - ANNOT.

History: 1973 c. 90; 1981 c. 20; 1991 a. 156; 1997 a. 35.

70.63 - ANNOT.

The statutory duties of the county clerk under ch. 70 may not be transferred to the county auditor, but the county auditor may be granted supervisory authority over the manner in which such duties are exercised. OAG 6-08.