No person shall engage in disorderly conduct in the Village.
Any of the following acts constitute disorderly conduct:
A. Making, aiding or assisting in making any improper noise, riot, disturbance,
breach of the peace or diversion tending to a breach of the peace.
B. Assaulting, striking or deliberately injuring another person.
C. Engaging in or aiding or abetting any fight, quarrel or other disturbance.
D. Disturbing any religious service, funeral, public or private meeting,
place of amusement, or assembly of persons.
E. Collecting in crowds the intent of which is to annoy or disturb other
persons.
F. Being intoxicated in public places, or in any place to the annoyance
and disturbance of other persons.
G. Resisting or obstructing the performance of one known to be a police
officer or any authorized act within the police officer's official
capacity; or impersonating a police officer.
H. Assisting any person in custody of police to escape or furnishing
any weapon, drugs, liquor to any such person.
I. Assembling with two or more other persons for the purpose of using
force or violence to disturb the public peace.
J. Failing to obey a lawful order of dispersal by a person known to
be a peace officer, where three or more persons are committing acts
of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity, which acts are likely
to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, annoyance or alarm.
K. Engaging in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick to obtain money
or other valuable thing, or the practice of fortune-telling, palmistry,
card reading, astrology, clairvoyancy or other scheme to obtain money
or other value.
L. Giving any false alarm of fire, danger or disturbance to any person,
or false information to any peace officer or fireman or any Village
officer.
M. Engaging in obscene or indecent activities or entertainment, or any
lewd or lascivious behavior, or appearing in public in a state of
nudity.
N. Maintaining or being in houses of ill fame or gaming houses, or engaging
in or soliciting unlawful sexual actions.
O. Using any obscene, profane, threatening or inciting language in any
public place.
P. Throwing stones or missiles in public places or at any person or
property, or using, brandishing or threatening to use any missile,
or dangerous weapon or object.
Q. Damaging or defacing trees, bushes, gardens, fences, windows, signs,
buildings, monuments, or vehicles or engaging in any acts of vandalism.
R. Abusing, beating or cruelly injuring any animal, or attempting to
kill or wound any bird other than a sparrow, crow, or blackbird.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. III)]
A. A person who is not a Village officer shall not carry about his/her
person any concealed razor, slingshot, metal knuckles or any other
weapon or thing of deadly character except, where permitted, any firearm,
or any knife.
B. The statutes
of the State of Wisconsin relating to the sale, purchase, purchase
delay, transfer, ownership, use, keeping, possession, bearing, transportation,
licensing, permitting, registration or taxation of any knife or any
firearm or part of a firearm, including ammunition and reloader components,
together with any amendments thereof, are adopted by reference.
C. No person shall sell, give or transfer any of the weapon referred
to in this section to any minor person.
No person shall sell, offer for sale, use or explode any fireworks
in the Village except the Village Board may grant a permit for a public
display of fireworks under such conditions as it may impose.
[Amended 7-2-2015 by Ord.
No. 2015-702]
No person shall start or maintain any fire in any street, sidewalk, park or public place, or any place within 30 feet of any building or structure except as provided for in §
141-14 of the Code of the Village of Footville or in a location or facility provided or officially designated for such use by the Village.
No person shall maintain any fence containing barbed wire along
or near any public sidewalk.
[Amended 12-6-2012 by Ord. No. 120612]
A. General provisions. No person shall disturb the peace and quiet of
any other person by creating excessive noise on any property within
or adjacent to the Village. The standard to be applied in determining
whether noise is excessive shall be the perception of the noise by
a reasonable person of ordinary sensibilities in view of the time,
location, use and character of the property and other relevant circumstances
involved.
B. Types of excessive noise prohibited. The types of noise which may be determined to be excessive through application of the standard set forth in Subsection
A, above, shall include, but not be limited to, the following, provided that running or idling of a diesel engine-equipped vehicle or of an auxiliary engine installed on a vehicle shall be regulated in accordance with Subsection
C below:
(1) Loud playing of phonographs, radios, television sets, music machines
or musical instruments.
(2) Barking or howling dogs or cats.
(3) Vehicles without mufflers or the unnecessary use of horns on vehicles.
C. Running of diesel engine-equipped vehicles and auxiliary engines installed on a vehicle. Subsections
A and
B above notwithstanding, no person shall permit a diesel engine-equipped vehicle or an auxiliary engine installed on a vehicle such as an engine powering a refrigeration unit to idle or run for a continuous period of 15 minutes or more while such vehicle is located in a residentially zoned area in the Village of Footville. A diesel engine-equipped vehicle or an auxiliary engine installed on a vehicle may be idled or run at any time, and or for any length of time, if the vehicle is located in an area zoned for commercial, industrial or agricultural use.
D. Penalty for successive violations. Each violation of Subsection
C involving the idling or running of a diesel-equipped vehicle or an auxiliary engine continuously for a period of 15 minutes shall constitute a separate offense.
No person shall damage, destroy or deface any public or private
property without permission of the owner.
No person shall litter any public or private property with paper
or other debris or foreign matter. Any stored or transported materials
susceptible to blowing or scattering shall be adequately covered or
protected to prevent littering.
No person shall pollute the air or any watercourse by excessive
discharge of waste products or foreign matter.
[Amended 8-5-1987]
No person shall consume or carry about an open container of
intoxicating liquor or fermented malt beverage in or on any street,
park, public building or other public place other than licensed premises
within the Village.
[Amended 3-5-1987; 5-5-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-04]
References in this Code to the "Chief of Police" or "Police
Department" shall mean the Village of Footville Police Department,
its Chief of Police, or the enforcement agency which is performing
police protection services in the Village of Footville.
[Amended 3-5-1987; 11-1-1990 by Ord. No. 11-1-90; 11-2-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-07]
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Code, the
statutory provisions of Wis. Stats. §§ 29.601(3), 175.25,
254.911, 254.916, 254.92, 287.81, and 940.19, and Chapters 941 through
964, except § 944.21, are hereby adopted and by reference
made a part of this Code as if fully set forth in this section. Any
act required to be performed or prohibited by any statute incorporated
in this section by reference is required or prohibited under this
Code. Any future amendments, revisions, or modifications of the statutes
incorporated in this section are intended to be made part of this
Code.
[Amended 11-7-1996 by Ord. No. 11-07-96; 11-2-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-07]
A. Wis. Stats. § 66.0109 shall apply to any penalty imposed by any statute incorporated in this chapter. As such, the fine amounts set forth in the Wisconsin Statutes for violations of the offenses set forth in §
234-16, above, are adopted and incorporated herein. In addition to any penalty imposed for violation of Wis. Stats. § 943.01(1), any person who shall cause physical damage to or destroy any public property shall be liable for the costs of replacing or repairing such damaged or destroyed property. The parent of any unemancipated minor child who violates Wis. Stats. § 943.01(1) may also be held liable for the cost of repairing or replacing such damaged or destroyed property in accordance with Wis. Stats. § 895.035.
B. If Subsection
A is found not to apply, the penalty for commission of offenses prohibited by this article shall be as provided in §
1-4 of this Code.
C. Nothing above shall prohibit the Court from making an appropriate
order regarding restitution pursuant to law.
D. Upon the nonpayment of a monetary judgment of the Municipal Court,
the Court may proceed in accordance with the provisions of Wis. Stats.
§ 800.095.
E. Court authority to impose alternative juvenile dispositions and sanctions:
(1) For a juvenile adjudged to have violated an ordinance, the court
is authorized to impose any of the dispositions listed in Wis. Stats.
§§ 938.342, 938.343, and 938.344, in accordance with
the provisions of those statutes.
(2) For a juvenile adjudged to have violated an ordinance who violates
a condition of a dispositional order of the court under Wis. Stats.
§§ 938.342, 938.343, 938,344, the municipal court is
authorized to impose any of the sanctions listed in Wis. Stats. § 938.355(6)(an)
or (d), in accordance with the provisions of those statutes.
(3) This section is enacted under the authority of Wis. Stats. § 938.17(2)(cm).
[Added 2-7-1991 by Ord.
No. 2-7-91]
No person shall enter upon, access, climb upon or affix any
physical equipment, ropes, or other equipment to assist climbing upon
the Footville Municipal Water Tower, also known as the Footville Municipal
Elevated Water Storage Facility, without the express written consent
of the Village Board, which consent will be granted to specifically
authorized persons for maintenance and repair purposes only.
[Added 4-1-2010 by Ord.
No. 040110]
The provisions of § 101.123 Wis. Stats., pertaining to regulation of smoking, together with all future amendments thereof, are adopted by reference. Forfeitures to be imposed for violations thereof will be subject to §
234-17 of the Code of the Village of Footville.
[Added 5-7-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-04]
A. Controlled substances. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess
a controlled substance contrary to the Uniform Controlled Substances
Act, Ch. 961, Wis. Stats.
B. Possession of marijuana. No person shall possess any amount of marijuana,
tetrahydrocannabinols or any derivative thereof, unless the substance
was obtained directly from, or pursuant to a valid prescription or
order of, a licensed physician or pharmacist for a valid medical purpose.