Opinion No. Oag 65-80, (1980)

ED JACKAMONIS, Speaker Wisconsin State Assembly

Pursuant to sec. 165.015(1), Stats., the Assembly Committee on Organization requests my opinion on the following question:

Where a town sanitary district consists of territory located wholly within a single town and the town board has appointed the commissioners for such district, is the town board required to call an election to elect commissioners pursuant to sec.60.305(1)(a), Stats., if a petition signed by at least twenty percent of the qualified electors of the district is filed?

It is my opinion that the town board is not required to call…