In this subchapter, unless the context indicates otherwise:

Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 24.60

  • Following: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next following that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Municipality: includes cities and villages; it may be construed to include towns. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Town: may be construed to include cities, villages, wards or districts. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Village: means incorporated village. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
   (1)   “Consortium” means an association of 2 or more of any of the following entities for the purpose of implementing, expanding or participating in a distance education or educational technology project:
      (a)    A school district.
      (b)    A technical college district.
      (c)    A county, if the county acts on behalf of a county library board that has adopted a resolution under s. 24.66 (3m).
      (d)    A city, village or town, if the city, village or town acts on behalf of a municipal library board that has adopted a resolution under s. 24.66 (3m).
   (1g)   “Distance education” means instruction that takes place, regardless of the location of a teacher or student, by means of telecommunications or other means of communication, including cable, instructional television fixed service, microwave, radio, satellite, computer, telephone or television.
   (1r)   “Educational technology” means technology used in the education or training of any person or in the administration of an elementary or secondary school or a public library.
   (1v)   “Federated public library system” means a federated public library system whose territory lies within 2 or more counties.
   (1w)   “General obligation trust fund loan” means a state trust fund loan that is the general obligation of the borrower.
   (2)   “Municipality” means a town, village, city, county, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, town sanitary district created under s. 60.71, metropolitan sewerage district created under s. 200.05 or 200.23, joint sewerage system created under s. 281.43 (4), school district or technical college district.
   (2m)   “Revenue obligation trust fund loan” means a state trust fund loan to which any of the following applies:
      (a)    It is made to a municipality for the purpose of financing or refinancing a project, as defined in s. 67.04 (1) (ar), and is secured by a pledge and assignment of the revenue that the municipality will receive from moneys generated by that project.
      (b)    It is made to a city or village for the purpose of financing or refinancing project costs, as defined in s. 66.1105 (2) (f), and is secured by a pledge and assignment of the tax increments that will be allocated to the city or village for those project costs by the department of revenue under s. 66.1105 (6).
      (c)    It is made to a county for the purpose of financing or refinancing project costs, as defined in s. 66.1105 (2) (f), and is secured by a pledge and assignment of the tax increments that will be allocated to the county for those project costs by the department of revenue under s. 59.57 (3).
      (d)    It is made to a town for the purpose of financing or refinancing project costs, as defined in s. 60.85 (1) (h) 1., and is secured by a pledge and assignment of the tax increments that will be allocated to the town for those project costs by the department of revenue under s. 60.85 (6).
      (e)    It is made to a local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229 for the purpose of financing acquisition, construction, and equipment costs for sports and entertainment arena facilities, as defined in s. 229.41 (11g), and is secured by district revenues.
   (3)   “School district” has the meaning designated under s. 115.01 (3).
   (4)   “State trust fund loan” means a loan authorized under s. 24.61 (3).
   (5)   “Trust funds” means the common school fund, the normal school fund, the university fund and the agricultural college fund.