Wisconsin Statutes
Wis. Stat. § 60.01 (2026)
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60.01(1)(1) A town is a body corporate and politic, with those powers granted by law. A town shall be designated in all actions and proceedings by its name, as “Town of ....”.
60.01(2)(b)(b) Acquire and hold real and personal property for public use and convey and dispose of the property.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases, 1954–2019 · leading case: Town of Rib Mountain v. Marathon Cnty., 926 N.W.2d 731 (Wis. 2019).
Town of Rib Mountain v. Marathon Cnty., 926 N.W.2d 731 (Wis. 2019). “Towns are corporate bodies, see Wis. Stat. § 60.01 (1) ("A town is a body corporate[.”
Stoner v. Dep't of Agric., 846 F. Supp. 738 (W.D. Wis. 1994). “Singer, Sutherland, Statutory Construction, § 60.01 (5th ed. 1992). Nothing in the purposes of the 1991 Civil Rights Act supports a finding that Congress intended to bar public employees from using 42 U.”
Pugnier v. Ramharter, 81 N.W.2d 38 (Wis. 1957). “Nowhere in those provisions is authority granted to expend money from the town treasury for charitable purposes.”
City of Milwaukee v. Sewerage Comm'n, 67 N.W.2d 624 (Wis. 1954). “Respondent maintains that the statute is neither a delegation of legislative power to a town nor an option law; that it is a complete legislative enactment in itself, prescribing the conditions upon and proceedings under which cities, towns, and villages may consolidate, and…”
Polanski v. Town of Eagle Point, 141 N.W.2d 281 (Wis. 1966). “*515 Sec. 60.01, Stats., provides in part: “Each organized town is a body corporate and empowered to sue and be sued; to purchase, take and hold real and personal property for public uses and convey and dispose of the same .”
Vill. of Brown Deer v. City of Milwaukee, 86 N.W.2d 487 (Wis. 1957). “02 to substantially its present form. We cannot read out of this statutory history any manifestation of intent to bar the ordinary sort of town from consolidating with a city.”
Town of Waukesha v. 164 of Waukesha Ltd. P'ship, 2009 WI App 147 (Wis. Ct. App. 2009). “Under Wis. Stat. § 60.01 (2)(c), the Town has the authority to enter into agreements that are necessary to the exercise of its corporate powers.”
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