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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 848
January 15, 2026 - Introduced by Senators
L. Johnson
,
Carpenter
,
Drake
,
Larson
,
Ratcliff
and
Roys
, cosponsored by Representatives
Haywood
,
Arney
,
Clancy
,
Goodwin
,
Joers
,
Kirsch
,
Madison
,
Miresse
,
Moore Omokunde
,
Prado
,
Sinicki
,
Stubbs
,
Subeck
,
Udell
and
Vining
. Referred to Committee on Utilities, Technology and Tourism.
SB848,1,3
1
An Act
to renumber
66.0911;
to amend
60.53, 62.16 (2) (a) and 704.05 (3);
to
2
create
66.0911 (2) of the statutes;
relating to:
constructing laterals and
3
service pipes without a landowner’s permission in the City of Milwaukee.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, local governing bodies may provide that the cost of constructing water, heat, sewer, and gas laterals or service lines be charged and be a lien against the lot or parcel served by the construction. This bill provides that the governing body of a city of the first class (currently only Milwaukee) may construct such laterals or service lines without express permission from the owner of the lot or parcel if all of the following conditions are met:
1. The owner is not a resident of the lot or parcel.
2. After at least three attempts by mail, email, phone, or other reasonable means, the governing body has failed to make contact with the owner.
3. The governing body receives express permission from a tenant of the lot or parcel.
Under the bill, the city may not charge the cost of such construction against the lot or parcel.
For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB848,1
1
Section
1
.
60.53 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB848,2,3
2
60.53
Service pipes and laterals.
Sections 62.16 (2) and 66.0911
(1)
,
3
relating to service pipes and laterals, are applicable to towns.
SB848,2
4
Section
2
.
62.16 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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5
62.16
(2)
(a)
Expense.
Whenever the council, department of transportation, or
6
county board shall declare its intention to improve any street in which water, gas, or
7
heat mains and sewers, or any of them, shall have been previously laid or are to be
8
laid the council shall also by resolution require water, heat, sewer and gas service
9
pipes to be first laid in such street, at the cost of the property fronting therein,
10
except as herein provided, from the sewer, water, heat and gas mains in such street
11
to the curb line on either or both sides thereof, at such intervals as the council shall
12
direct along that part of said street to be improved, except at street and alley
13
crossings. Such work may be done by contract or by the city directly without the
14
intervention of a contractor, under the supervision of the board of public works, or
15
in the case of service pipes of a municipal owned utility under the supervision of the
16
board or officers charged with the management of such utility. The board or
17
officers under whose supervision such service pipes shall be laid shall keep an
18
accurate account of the expenses of putting in the same in front of each lot or parcel
19
of land, whether the work be done by contract or otherwise, and report the same to
20
the comptroller who shall annually prepare a statement of the expenses so incurred
21
in front of each lot or parcel of land, and report the same to the city clerk, and
,
22
except as provided in s. 66.0911 (2),
the amount therein charged to each lot or parcel
1
of land shall be by such clerk entered in the tax roll as a special tax against said lot
2
or parcel of land, and the same shall be collected in all respects like other taxes
3
upon real estate.
SB848,3
4
Section
3
.
66.0911 of the statutes is renumbered 66.0911 (1).
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5
Section
4
.
66.0911 (2) of the statutes is created to read:
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6
66.0911
(2)
(a) The governing body of a city of the first class may construct
7
water, heat, sewer, and gas laterals or service pipes under sub. (1) without express
8
permission from the owner of the lot or parcel if all of the following conditions are
9
met:
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10
1. The owner is not a resident of the lot or parcel.
SB848,3,12
11
2. After at least 3 attempts by mail, email, phone, or other reasonable means,
12
the governing body has failed to make contact with the owner.
SB848,3,14
13
3. The governing body receives express permission from a tenant of the lot or
14
parcel to construct the laterals or service pipes.
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15
(b) Notwithstanding sub. (1), the governing body may not charge against the
16
lot or parcel the cost of constructing laterals or service pipes.
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17
Section
5
.
704.05 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
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18
704.05
(3)
Use of premises, additions or alterations by tenant.
The
19
Except as provided in s. 66.0911 (2), the
tenant can make no physical changes in the
20
nature of the premises, including decorating, removing, altering or adding to the
21
structures thereon, without prior consent of the landlord. The tenant cannot use
22
the premises for any unlawful purpose nor in such manner as to interfere
1
unreasonably with use by another occupant of the same building or group of
2
buildings.
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