[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Adams County 8-20-2019 by Ord. No. 17-2019. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall cause, continue, contrive, erect, maintain, or permit to exist any public nuisance within the County of Adams. "Nuisance" means a condition or situation which annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, comfort, or repose of others. If the public is injured in its civil or property rights or privileges or in respect to public health or safety to any degree, a nuisance exists. "Nuisance" includes, but is not limited to, the following acts, conditions, conduct, omissions, or things.
State law adopted. Except as specifically provided in this chapter, all provisions of § 943.13, Wis. Stats., are hereby adopted and by reference made a part of this chapter as if fully set forth herein. Any act required to be performed or prohibited by any statute incorporated by reference herein is respectively required or prohibited by this chapter. The term "Wisconsin Statutes," wherever used in this chapter, shall mean the then-current Wisconsin Statutes, as revised, and shall incorporate by reference any existing or future amendments.
No person shall reside at, maintain, lease, own, rent, or otherwise occupy any residence, business, dwelling, or other building where any of the following nuisances are allowed to occur:
A. 
Such property has generated three or more calls for law enforcement service for nuisance activities on separate days in one month, or six or more calls in a twelve-month period. Nuisance activities are defined as any of the following activities, behaviors, or conduct, whenever engaged in by property owners, operators, tenants, occupants, or persons associated with a property, whether or not a citation or arrest was made for the violation:
(1) 
An act of harassment, as defined in § 947.013, Wis. Stats.
(2) 
Disorderly conduct, as defined in § 947.01, Wis. Stats.
(3) 
Battery, substantial battery, or aggravated battery, as defined in § 940.19, Wis. Stats.
(4) 
Indecent conduct as defined in § 944.20(1), Wis. Stats.
(5) 
Prostitution or keeping a place of prostitution, as defined in §§ 944.30 and 944.34, Wis. Stats.
(6) 
Possession, manufacture, or delivery of a controlled substance or related offenses, as defined in Ch. 961, Wis. Stats.
(7) 
Gambling or other offenses, as defined in § 945.02, Wis. Stats.
(8) 
Illegal discharge of a firearm, as defined in § 941.20, Wis. Stats.
(9) 
Human trafficking, as defined in § 940.302, Wis. Stats.
(10) 
Any other offense against public peace and order as defined in this Code of Ordinances.
B. 
Notwithstanding Ch. 125, Wis. Stats., or Section 2.17 of this Code of Ordinances, allowing a property or place to be used for the purpose of facilitating the consumption of alcohol beverages by underage persons.
A. 
No person or persons shall engage in any noisy activity on public or private property that tends to annoy, disturb or otherwise irritate any neighboring tenant or person legally entitled to possession thereof, except for the reasonable noise which occurs in the normal course of reasonable human activity.
B. 
No owner, operator or occupant of a building, building unit or premises shall suffer, permit or allow the barking, yelping or howling of a dog or dogs, which barking shall result in an excessive or unusual noise that disturbs the comfort, quiet or repose of persons therein or in the vicinity. The provisions of this section shall not apply to licensed animal hospitals, veterinary facilities or to the premises used by municipalities for impounding animals.
A. 
Notwithstanding Section 4.5 of this Code of Ordinances, no person, business, organization or other entity shall possess, store, transport, or use, any explosive, inflammable liquid, combustible, biohazardous, radioactive, reactive, or other hazardous or toxic substance or material, contrary to state law or this Code of Ordinances, in any manner or quantity which creates, or potentially creates, a human health hazard, as defined in § 254.01(2), Wis. Stats.
B. 
Any person who shall cause, create, or maintain such a human health hazard, or who shall in any way aid or contribute to the causing or maintenance thereof, shall be guilty of a violation of this Code of Ordinances, and shall be liable for all costs and expenses related to the abatement, removal, and correction of such hazard and to the penalties provided within this Code of Ordinances and any related statutory provisions.
No person, business, organization, or other entity shall do any of the following:
A. 
Through unreasonable action or inaction, impede, obstruct, or make dangerous the free flow of vehicles, pedestrians, or other traffic upon any highway, street, alley, navigable body of water, or other public way or the use of public property.
B. 
Park or drive unauthorized vehicles within public parks, athletic fields, or other public property.
No person shall loiter, in either a public or private place, including any public way, street, highway, place, alley, sidewalk, business, or that portion of private property utilized for public use, without the consent of the owner, lessee, renter, governmental officer, or other person or entity in lawful control of said property under any of the following circumstances:
A. 
At a time or in a manner not usual for law-abiding citizens, under circumstances that warrant a justifiable and reasonable alarm or immediate concern for the safety of persons or property in the vicinity.
B. 
Individually or as part of a larger group, give reason to believe that a person or anyone in such group has committed or is committing a violation of law, whether or not a citation or arrest is made. Violations include, but are not limited to, damage to property, littering, disorderly conduct, unreasonable noise, underage alcohol consumption, theft, vandalism, or trespassing.
C. 
Remain on such property for any purpose other than what could be reasonably intended by the property owner when such property is posted with a clearly marked sign(s) indicating "NO LOITERING" or words to that effect.
D. 
Remain in such a place and refuse to obey the lawful command of a law enforcement officer to move on or provide to said law enforcement officer a lawful reason for remaining in such a place if the alleged loitering by said person would create or cause to be created any of the following:
(1) 
Danger of a breach of the peace.
(2) 
The unreasonable danger of a disturbance to the comfort and repose of any person acting lawfully therein or nearby.
(3) 
The obstruction or attempted obstruction of the free normal flow of vehicular traffic or the normal passage of pedestrian traffic.
(4) 
The obstruction, molestation, or interference or attempt to obstruct, molest, or interfere with any person lawfully therein to fear for his or her safety or the safety of others.
It shall be the duty of the Adams County Sheriff to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
A. 
Any person, firm, corporation, or legal entity which violates, disobeys, neglects, omits, or refuses to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall do all of the following:
(1) 
Incur a forfeiture not less than $10, nor more than $500, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default of payment thereof, shall be incarcerated in the Adams County Jail for a term of not more than 30 days, or until such judgment is paid.
(2) 
Abate or remove such nuisance summarily and/or within a defined reasonable period of time established by the Sheriff or designee.
(3) 
Be collaterally enjoined or restrained from further violation(s). A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
B. 
Citations under this section may be issued to any resident, tenant, lessee, occupant, and/or owner of the premises.
C. 
Nothing in this chapter shall constrain the County from subsequent or further actions commenced under Ch. 823, Wis. Stats.