The following chapters and their subchapters of the Wisconsin Statutes defining offenses against the peace and good order of the State of Wisconsin are hereby adopted by reference to define offenses against the peace and good order of the City of Watertown, provided that the penalty for commission of such offenses hereunder shall be in strict conformity with the state statutes as they relate to adoption by a municipality and limited to a forfeiture imposed under the general penalty provisions of § 1-4 of this Code if not expressly provided for in the statute. In order to remain in strict conformity with these state statutes, all future amendments, revisions or modifications of the statutes incorporated herein by reference are intended to be made part of this Code.
Chapter 29
Wild Animals and Plants
§ 101.123
Smoking prohibited
Chapter 114
Aeronautics and Astronautics
§ 118.07
Health and safety requirements
§ 118.08
School zones; crossings
§ 118.09
Safety zones
§ 118.10
School safety patrols
§ 118.105
Control of traffic on school premises
§ 118.11
School fences
§ 118.123
Reports and records; forfeitures
§ 118.15
Compulsory school attendance
§ 118.16
School attendance enforcement
§ 118.163
Municipal truancy and school dropout ordinances
§ 134.65
Cigarette and tobacco products retailer license
§ 134.66
Restrictions on sale or gift of cigarettes or nicotine or tobacco products
Chapter 125
Alcohol Beverages
Chapter 139
Beverage, Controlled Substances and Tobacco Taxes
Chapter 167
Safeguards of Persons and Property
Chapter 175
Miscellaneous Police Provisions
§ 254.76
Causing fires by tobacco smoking
§ 254.92
Purchase or possession of cigarettes or tobacco products by person under 18 prohibited
Chapter 939
Crimes – General Provisions
Chapter 940
Crimes Against Life and Bodily Security
Chapter 941
Crimes Against Public Health and Safety
Chapter 942
Crimes Against Reputation, Privacy and Civil Liberties
Chapter 943
Crimes Against Property
Chapter 944
Crimes Against Sexual Morality, except § 944.21
Chapter 945
Gambling
Chapter 946
Crimes Against Government and Its Administration
Chapter 947
Crimes Against Public Peace, Order and Other Interests
Chapter 948
Crimes Against Children
Chapter 951
Crimes Against Animals
Chapter 961
Uniformed Controlled Substances Act
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Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
In this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the designated meaning unless the context of a specific section manifestly requires a different construal:
AIRGUN
A weapon which expels a missile by the expansion of compressed air or other gas.
[Added by Ord. No. 94-55]
BODILY HARM
Physical pain or injury, illness or any impairment of physical condition.
DANGEROUS WEAPON
Any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded; any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily harm; or any other device or instrumentality which, in the manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm.
FIREARM
Any instrument used in the propulsion of a bullet, shot, slug or other projectile by the force or action of gunpowder exploded or burned in it.
[Added by Ord. No. 94-55]
GREAT BODILY HARM
Bodily injury which creates a high probability of death, or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or which causes a permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ or other serious bodily injury.
HOUSEHOLD MEMBER
A person currently or formerly residing in a place of abode with another person.
HUNTING
Shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, catching or killing any mammal, bird, fish or other creature of a wild nature.
[Added by Ord. No. 94-55]
PEDESTRIAN
Any person on foot.
ROADWAY
That portion of all public ways and thoroughfares and bridges on the same between the regularly established curblines or that portion which is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, excluding the berm or shoulder.
SPRING GUN
A weapon which expels a missile by the action of a spring.
[Added by Ord. No. 94-55]
UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY
An assembly which consists of three or more persons and which causes such a disturbance of public order that it is reasonable to believe that the assembly will cause injury to persons or damage to property unless it is immediately dispersed, and includes, but is not limited to, an assembly of persons who assemble for the purpose of blocking or obstructing the lawful use by any other person or persons of any private or public thoroughfares, property or of any positions of access or exit to or from any private or public building, dwelling or other place.
VALUE
In reference to property, means the market value at the time of the incident or the replacement cost within a reasonable time thereafter, whichever is less, except that the value of property held for resale by a merchant shall mean the stated price or, in the case of altering, transferring or removing a price marking or causing a cash register or other sales device to reflect less than the merchant's stated price, the difference between the stated price and the altered price.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn.
Any person who attempts a violation of this chapter shall be subject to 1/2 of the penalty provided for a completed violation. An attempt to commit a violation requires that the person have an intent to perform acts and attain a result which, if accomplished, would constitute such violation and that he does acts toward the commission of the violation which demonstrate unequivocally under all the circumstances that he formed that intent and would commit the violation except for the intervention of another person or some other extraneous factor.
Whoever is concerned in the commission of a violation of this chapter is a principal and may be charged with and convicted of such violation although he did not directly commit it and although the person who directly committed it has not been convicted or has been convicted of some other violation based on the same act and shall be subject to the penalties contained in § 1-4 of this Code. A person is concerned in the commission of the violation if it is demonstrated unequivocally under all the circumstances that he intentionally aided and abetted the commission of it or, with intent that a violation be committed, agrees or combines with another or others for the purpose of committing that violation, and an act is done to effect the violation.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this chapter shall be penalized as provided in § 1-4 of this Code, unless otherwise indicated herein.