[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Price County
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 2-19-2013]
This article is enacted on the authority of § 59.54(24),
Wis. Stats., which authorizes a county to enact and enforce an ordinance
which imposes charges on persons who issue worthless checks and permits
a county office to retain overpayments of fees, licenses and similar
charges and waive underpayments.
If a personal check tendered to make any payment of any fee,
tax or other charge legally imposed by any office, official, employee
or officer acting on behalf of Price County is not paid by the bank
on which it is drawn or if a demand for payment under a debit or credit
card transaction or other instrument is not paid by the bank upon
which demand is made, the person, firm, corporation or other organization
shall remain liable for the payment of the amount for which the check
was tendered or the amount agreed to be paid by the debit or credit
card or other instrument and for a service charge imposed by the County.
The levying of this charge shall not preclude the issuing person,
firm, corporation or other organization from being subject to any
other civil or criminal proceeding or penalty authorized by law.
Unless otherwise provided by law, Price County departments or
agencies may retain overpayments of fees, licenses and similar charges
when the overpayment is $5 or less, unless such refund is specifically
requested in writing within 60 days of the date of original payment.
Underpayments of not more than $5 may be waived when the administrative
cost of collecting would exceed the amount of the underpayment. Such
underpayment once waived may be included in any future underpayment
collection process, should there be a reoccurrence of underpayment.
A.
Should a service charge be imposed upon a tax or special assessment
account in accordance herewith, then that service charge so added
to such tax or special assessment account shall be added to the sum
of the principal then due and owing for the purposes of determining
the amount of the lien therefor.
B.
Whenever any person has issued to the County a check or other written
instrument which has been returned for insufficient funds or other
cause, the administrator of the department which was the recipient
of that check is authorized to require future payments from the person
who issued the document to be tendered in cash or by certified or
cashier's check.
