City of Brookfield v. Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) appeals a decision of the Waukesha county circuit court which declared the challenged provisions of 1983 Wis. Act 27 and 1985 Wis. Act 29 unconstitutional as private or local laws impermissibly included in the state budget bill. These provisions, general on their face, concern the method by which sewerage districts containing cities of the first-class must charge their outlying municipalities for capital costs incurred in providing certain sewerage services. We hold that when legislation which arises in a classification context fails the…