Opinion No. Oag 14-93, (1993)

The Honorable Walter Kunicki Assembly Speaker Assembly Committee on Organization 119 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Room 101 Madison, Wisconsin 53702

Dear Representative Kunicki:

On behalf of the Assembly Committee on Organization, you have asked whether the position of county housing director is a position of public employment and, if it is, whether holding that position is compatible with holding the office of county planning and zoning commissioner.

The doctrine of incompatibility applies when one office is superior in some respect to another, so that the duties exercised under each might…