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Wis. Stat. § 17.13

Removal of village, town, town sanitary district, school district, and technical college officers

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 216 Wis. 2d 560 - Barland v. Eau Claire County (1998)

Most recently applied in Jeffrey Becker v. Dane County (July 2022)

1971 c. 154; 1977 c. 449; 1983 a. 532; 1993 a. 399; 1995 a. 34, 225; 1999 a. 9; 2007 a. 20; 2019 a. 140

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Officers of towns, town sanitary districts, villages, school districts, and technical college districts may be removed as follows:

(1) APPOINTIVE OFFICERS. Except as provided in s. 60.30 (1e)

(c) and (f), any appointive village, town, town sanitary district, school district and technical college district officer, by the officer or body that appointed him or her, at pleasure. Removal of any such officer by a body shall be by a majority vote of all the members thereof.

(2) ELECTIVE VILLAGE OFFICERS. Any elective village officer by a majority vote of all the members of the village board, because of continued physical inability to perform the duties of office or gross neglect of duty.

(2m) ELECTIVE TOWN OFFICERS. Any elective town officer by a majority vote of all the members of the town board, because of continued physical inability to perform the duties of office or gross neglect of duty.

(3) ALL OFFICERS. Any village, town, town sanitary district, school district or technical college district officer, elective or appointive, including those embraced within subs. (1), (2), and (2m), by the judge of the circuit court of the circuit wherein the village, town, town sanitary district, school district or technical college district is situated, for cause.

Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.