Except where a penalty is provided elsewhere in this Code, any
person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Code shall,
upon conviction of such violation, be subject to a penalty, which
shall be as follows:
A. First
offense — penalty. Any person who shall violate any provision
of this Code shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit not less than
$25 nor more than $500 together with the costs of prosecution and,
in default of payment of such forfeiture and costs of prosecution,
shall be imprisoned in the County Jail until such forfeiture and costs
are paid, but not exceeding 90 days.
B. Second
offense — penalty. Any person found guilty of violating any
ordinance or part of an ordinance of this Code who shall previously
have been convicted of a violation of the same ordinance within one
year shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit not less than $50 nor
more than $1,000 for each such offense together with costs of prosecution
and, in default of payment of such forfeiture and costs, shall be
imprisoned in the County Jail until such forfeiture and costs of prosecution
are paid, but not exceeding six months.
Each violation and each day a violation continues or occurs
shall constitute a separate offense. Nothing in this Code shall preclude
the Village from maintaining any appropriate action to prevent or
remove a violation of any provision of this Code.
The Village shall have any and all other remedies afforded by
the Wisconsin Statutes in addition to the forfeitures and costs of
prosecution above.
The Court may impose one or more of the following dispositional
alternatives against a juvenile found to have violated a municipal
ordinance for which no penalty is otherwise provided, as follows:
A. Counseling
for the juvenile and/or the parent or guardian.
B. A
forfeiture not to exceed the maximum forfeiture that may be imposed
on an adult for committing the same violation.
C. If
the forfeiture is for a violation that is only applicable to a juvenile,
the maximum forfeiture amount is $50 plus costs.
D. Suspend
a fishing, hunting or driving license from 90 days to two years for
failure to pay the forfeiture.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. IV)]
E. Order
the juvenile to participate in a supervised work program or other
community service work.
F. Order
participation in an AODA assessment, an outpatient AODA treatment
or an AODA education program.
G. Order
participation in a pupil assistance program provided by the juvenile's
school, provided the juvenile's school agrees.
H. In
addition to the dispositions listed above, the Court may order a juvenile
to participate in a teen court program if the following conditions
are satisfied:
(1) The Chief Judge of the Judicial Administrative District has approved
a teen court program established in juvenile's county of residence
and the Judge determines that participation in the Court program will
likely benefit the juvenile and the community;
(2) The juvenile admits or pleads no contest to the allegations that
the juvenile violated the ordinance in open court with the juvenile's
parent, guardian or legal custodian present;
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. IV)]
(3) The juvenile has not successfully completed participation in a teen
court program during the two years before the date of the alleged
violation.
The Court may impose the following sanctions on a juvenile who
has violated a Village ordinance and who has violated a condition
of his or her dispositional order:
A. Suspend
the juvenile's operating privilege as provided in § 938.355(6)(d)2.,
Wis. Stats.;
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. IV)]
B. Detain
the juvenile in his or her home or current residence for not more
than 30 days without electronic monitoring;
C. Order
not more than 25 hours of community service work in a supervised work
program.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. IV)]
Pursuant to § 814.65(1), Wis. Stats., as amended,
the Village of Centuria authorizes the Municipal Judge to collect
the maximum fee allowed by statute on each separate matter, whether
it is on default of appearance, a plea of guilty or no contest, on
issuance of a warrant or summons, or the action is tried as a contested
matter.