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82.01

 

Definitions.

In this chapter, the following words and phrases have the designated meanings unless specifically noted:

82.01(1)

(1)

 

“Department” means the department of transportation.

82.01(2)

(2)

 

“Freeholder” means a person who owns a fee simple or life estate interest in land, a person who is a land contract vendee, or a person who has an interest in land arising under ch. 766 .

82.01(3)

(3)

 

“Highway order” means an order laying out, altering, or discontinuing a highway or a part of a highway, that contains a legal description of what the order intends to accomplish and a scale map of the land affected by the order.

82.01(4)

(4)

 

“Laid out” means any formal act or process by which a municipality determines the location of a highway.

82.01(5)

(5)

 

“Legal description” means a complete description of land without internal references to any other document, and shall be described in one of the following ways:

82.01(5)(a)

(a)

By metes and bounds commencing at a monument at the section or quarter section corner or at the end of a boundary line of a recorded private claim or federal reservation in which the annexed land is located and in one of the following ways:

82.01(5)(a)1.

1.

By government lot.

82.01(5)(a)2.

2.

By recorded private claim.

82.01(5)(a)3.

3.

By quarter section, section, township, and range.

82.01(5)(b)

(b)

If the land is located in a recorded and filed subdivision or in an area that is subject to a certified survey map, by reference as described in s.