(1) CLERK AND TREASURER. Except as provided under sub. (3), the town meeting may: (a) Combine the offices of town clerk and town treasurer. If the offices are combined, the town board shall provide for an annual audit under s. 60.43 (2). (b) Designate as part-time the office of town clerk, the office of town treasurer or the combined office of town clerk and town treasurer. (2) CLERK AND ASSESSOR. Except as provided under sub. (3), the town meeting may combine the offices of town clerk and town assessor. If a person elected to a combined office is not certified under s. 73.09 by June 1 of the year elected, the combined office is vacant. (3) TOWN IN COUNTY WITH ONLY ONE TOWN. (a) In the town in any county containing only one town, the town board may, by resolution: 1. Combine 2 or more town offices. 2. Designate any town office as a part-time position. 3. Combine, if concurred in by the county board, the offices of town clerk and county clerk and any other town and county offices if the offices combined are not incompatible and the combination is not expressly forbidden by law. (b) If the town board and county board agree to combine a county and town office under this subsection, the election to fill the combined office shall be under s. 59.20 (2). No separate election for the town office may be held until the county board, by resolution, revokes the combination and the town board, by resolution, concurs. (4) GENERAL PROVISIONS. (a) 1. Subject to subd. 2., a combination of offices under this section takes effect on the latest date that any current term of an office to be combined expires. 2. The town board may provide that a combination of offices under this section takes effect immediately as both positions become vacant, as set forth in s. 17.03, or, if the person appointed to the combined office holds one of the offices to be combined, immediately upon a vacancy in the other office to be combined. (b) Except as provided under sub. (3) (b) for combined town and county offices, the election to fill any combined office shall be under s. 60.30. (c) The combination of town offices may be revoked in the same way that they were combined. No separate election for a town office, if combined, may be held until the combination is so revoked.
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