978.01 Number of district attorneys; election; term.
(1) There shall be 71 district attorneys elected for full terms at the general election held in 2008 and quadrennially thereafter. The regular term of office for each district attorney is 4 years, commencing on the first Monday of January next succeeding his or her election. Each county is a prosecutorial unit and shall elect a district attorney, except that Shawano and Menominee counties form one 2-county prosecutorial unit and shall elect a single district attorney by the combined electorate of the 2 counties.
(2)
(a) Except as provided in par. (b), each district attorney serves on a full-time basis.
(b) A district attorney serves on a part-time basis if his or her prosecutorial unit consists of Buffalo, Florence, or Pepin county.
History: 1989 a. 31 ss. 2900, 2900c; 1991 a. 39; 1999 a. 9; 2007 a. 20, 158.
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