Wisconsin § 82.01 - Definitions.

§ 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.