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Wis. Stat. § 840.11 (2026)
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840.11(1)(1) Every person who makes an application to any court, county board, common council, or village or town board for laying out, widening, vacating, or extending any street, alley, water channel, park, highway, or other public place shall, at or prior to the time of filing the same with the proper officer, present for recording in the office of the register of deeds of each county in which the affected land is situated a lis pendens, as provided in s. 840.10, containing the person’s name and a brief statement of the object thereof and a map and description of the land to be affected thereby.
840.11(2)(2) No final order, judgment or decree or final resolution or order taking or affecting such land, based upon any application therefor, shall be notice to any subsequent purchaser or encumbrancer unless a certified copy thereof, containing a legal description, as defined in s. 706.01 (7r), of the land affected thereby, and accompanied with a map showing the location thereof, is recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the land is situated.
840.11 HistoryHistory: 1973 c. 189; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 767 (1975); Stats. 1975 s. 840.11; 1993 a. 486; 2009 a. 348.
840.11 AnnotationThe application of this section is not limited to municipalities. Rock Lake Estates Unit Owners Association, Inc. v. Town of Lake Mills, 195 Wis. 2d 348, 536 N.W.2d 415 (Ct. App. 1995), 94-2488.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1995–2017 · leading case: Margaret Pulera v. Town of Richmond, 2017 WI 61 (Wis. 2017).
Margaret Pulera v. Town of Richmond, 2017 WI 61 (Wis. 2017). “For example, Wis. Stat. § 840.11 governs petitions to alter streets, parks, and other public places.”
Rock Lake Estates Unit Owners Ass'n v. Twp. of Lake Mills, 536 N.W.2d 415 (Wis. Ct. App. 1995). “The trial court held that McLay's failure to comply with the notice provisions of § 840.11, Stats., 1991-92, is fatal to the attempted dedication.”
Bishop v. City of Burlington, 2001 WI App 154 (Wis. Ct. App. 2001). “First, the taxpayers argue that the conveyance is illegal because of the City's failure to follow the notice requirements of Wis. Stat. § 840.11 (1). The record shows that this issue was not addressed.”
Affeldt v. Green Lake Cnty., 2011 WI 56 (Wis. 2011). “In explaining the changes to the curative statute in the recodification of the town highway statutes that occurred in 2003, the Wisconsin Legislative Council stated: "after the effective date of the act, the new s.”
— Wis. Stat. § 840.11(2) — 1 case
Margaret Pulera v. Town of Richmond, 2017 WI 61 (Wis. 2017). “For example, Wis. Stat. § 840.11 governs petitions to alter streets, parks, and other public places.”
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