[Adopted as Title 9, Ch. 3 of the 1985 Code]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
A. 
No person shall wilfully injury or intentionally deface, destroy or unlawfully remove, take or meddle with any property of any kind or nature within the City and belonging to the City or its departments, the Neillsville School District, or to any private person, without the consent of the owner or proper authority.
B. 
Pursuant to § 895.035, Wis. Stats., the parents of an unemancipated minor shall be liable for the damage of property caused by the willful, malicious or wanton act of such child; such liability shall not exceed $5,000.
No person shall throw any glass, refuse or waste, filth or other litter upon the streets, alleys highways, public parks or other property of the City, or upon property within the City owned by the Neillsville School District or any private person, or upon the surface of any body of water within the City.
No person shall have or permit on any premises owned or occupied by him/her any open cisterns, cesspools, wells, unused basements, excavations or other dangerous openings. All such places shall be filled, securely covered or fenced in such manner as to prevent injury to any person and any cover shall be of a design, size and weight that the same cannot be removed by small children.
No person shall leave or permit to remain outside of any dwelling, building or other structure, or within any unoccupied or abandoned building, dwelling or other structure under his/her control in a place accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded ice box, refrigerator or other container which has an airtight door or lid, snap lock or other locking device which may not be released from the inside without first removing said door or lid, snap lock or other locking device from said ice box, refrigerator or container, unless such container is displayed for sale on the premises of the owner or his/her agent and is securely locked or fastened.
A. 
Whoever intentionally alters indicia of price or value of merchandise or takes and carries away, transfers, conceals or retains possession of merchandise held for resale be a merchant without consent and with intent to deprive the merchant permanently of possession, or the full purchase price may be penalized as provided in Subsection D.
B. 
The intentional concealment of unpurchased merchandise which continues from one floor to another or beyond the last station for receiving payments in a merchant's store is evidence of intent to deprive the merchant permanently of possession of such merchandise without paying the purchase price thereof. The discovery of unpurchased merchandise concealed upon the person or among the belongings of another is evidence of intentional concealment on the part of the person so concealing such goods.
C. 
A merchant or merchant's adult employee who has probable cause for believing that a person has violated this section in his/her presence may detain such person in a reasonable manner for a reasonable length of time to deliver him/her to a peace officer, or to his/her parent or guardian if a minor. The detained person must be promptly informed of the purpose for the detention and may make phone calls, but he/she shall not be interrogated or searched against his/her will before the arrival of a police officer who may conduct a lawful interrogation of the accused person. Compliance with this subsection entitles the merchant or his/her employee affecting the detention to the same defense in any action as is available to a peace officer making an arrest in the line of duty.
D. 
Penalty. If the value of the merchandise does not exceed $100, any person violating this section shall forfeit not more than $200. If the value of the merchandise exceeds $100, this section shall not apply and the matter shall be referred to the Clark County District Attorney for criminal prosecution.
No person shall store junked or discarded property, including automobiles, automobile parts, trucks, tractors, refrigerators, furnaces, washing machines, stoves, machinery or machinery parts, wood, bricks, cement blocks, or other unsightly debris which substantially depreciates property values in the neighborhood except in an enclosure which houses such property from public view, or upon permit issued by the Common Council. The Chief of Police may require by written order any premises violating this section to be put in compliance within the time specified in such order, and if the order is not complied with, may have the premises put in compliance and the cost thereof assessed as a special tax against the property.
A. 
Whoever issues any check or other order for the payment of money less than $500 which, at the time of issuance, he/she intends shall not be paid is guilty of a violation of this section.
B. 
Any of the following is prima facie evidence that the person at the time he/she issued the check or other order for payment of money intended it should not be paid:
(1) 
Proof that at the time of issuance, the person did not have an account with the drawee; or
(2) 
Proof that at the time of issuance, person did not have sufficient funds or credit with the drawee and that the person failed within five days after receiving notice of non-payment or dishonor to pay the check or other order; or
(3) 
Proof that when presentment was made within a reasonable time, the person did not have sufficient funds or credit with the drawee and the person failed within five days after receiving notice of non-payment or dishonor to pay the check or other order.
C. 
This section does not apply to a post-dated check or to a check given in past consideration, except a payroll check.
D. 
Any person violating any provisions of this section shall forfeit not less than $50 if the worthless check is for an amount equal to or less than $150 and shall forfeit not less than $100 if the worthless check is an amount greater than $150 and less than $500, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default of payment, imprisonment in the Clark County Jail until forfeiture and costs are paid but not to exceed 60 days.
A. 
Definitions. For the purposes of this section, certain words and terms are defined as follows:
ARCHIVES
A place in which public or institutional records are systematically preserved.
LIBRARY
The Neillsville Public Library.
LIBRARY MATERIAL
Includes any book, plate, picture photograph, engraving, painting, drawing, map, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, broadside, manuscript, document, letter, public record, microform, sound recording, audiovisual materials in any format, magnetic or other tapes, electronic data processing records, or other tapes, artifacts or other documentary, written or printed materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, belonging to, on loan to or otherwise in the custody of a library.
B. 
Possession without consent prohibited. Whoever intentionally takes and carries away, transfers, conceals or retains possession of any library material without the consent of a library official, agent or employee and with intent to deprive the library of possession of the material may be subject to a forfeiture as provided by the general penalty provisions of this Code.
C. 
Concealment. The concealment of library material beyond the last station for borrowing library material in a library is evidence of intent to deprive the library of possession of the material. The discovery of library material which has not been borrowed in accordance with the library's procedures or taken with consent of a library official, agent or employee and which is concealed upon the person or among the belongings of the person or concealed by a person upon the person or among the belongings of another is evidence of intentional concealment on the part of the person so concealing the material.
D. 
Detention based on probable cause. An official or adult employee or agent of a library who has probable cause for believing that a person has violated this section in his/her presence may detain the person in a reasonable manner for a reasonable length of time to deliver the person to a peace officer, or to the person's parent or guardian in the case of a minor. The detained person shall be promptly informed of the purpose of the detention and be permitted to make telephone calls, but shall not be interrogated or searched against his/her will before the arrival of a peace officer who may conduct a lawful interrogation of the accused person. Compliance with this section articles the official, agent or employee effecting the detention to the same defense in any action as is available to a peace officer making an arrest in the line of duty.
E. 
Damaging material prohibited. No person shall mar, deface or in any other way damage or mutilate any library material.
F. 
Return demanded. No person shall fail, on demand, to return any library material when such demand has been made in accordance with the rules and regulations duly made and adopted by the library.
No person shall, without lawful authority, open, remove or damage any coin machine, coin telephone or other vending machine dispensing goods or services, or a part thereof, or possess a key or device specifically designed to open or break any coin machine, coin telephone or other vending machine dispensing goods or services, or possess a drawing, print or mold of a key or device specifically designed to open or break any coin machine, coin telephone or other vending machine dispensing goods or services within the limits of the City of Neillsville.
A. 
Damaging of drinking fountains. All persons are hereby prohibited from breaking or otherwise injuring any bubbler, drinking fountain or any drinking bubbler, or in any way injuring, soiling, tampering with or defacing any such bubbler or drinking fountain, or placing dirt, leaves, refuse or matter of any sort in or upon any such bubbler, drinking fountain or drinking bubbler, in any public park, street, sidewalk or ground, or any public building, schoolhouse, hall, museum, library or branch library, City of Neillsville.
B. 
Damaging of public property. All persons are hereby prohibited from breaking or otherwise injuring any tree, shrub or plant; breaking, soiling or defacing any fountain, statue or other ornamental structure; or in any way injuring, soiling, damaging or defacing any public building or public property in any public park, square, sidewalk or ground in the City of Neillsville, whether the same shall be owned or held in trust by said City held in trust for the use of any district of said City.
C. 
Breaking of street lamps or windows. No person shall break glass in any street lamps or windows of any building owner or occupied by the City of Neillsville.
No person within the limits of the City of Neillsville shall intentionally cause damage to any physical property of another without his/her consent.
No person except the owner of the cemetery lot or a cemetery employee shall cut, remove, injure or carry away flowers, trees, plants or vines from any cemetery lot or property; nor shall any person deface, injure or mark upon any cemetery markers, headstones, monuments, fences, or structures; nor shall any person other than the owner injure, carry away or destroy any vases, flower pots, urns or other objects which have been placed on any cemetery lot.
In addition to the general penalty of this Code or any other penalty imposed for violation of any section of this chapter, any person who shall cause physical damage to or destroy any public property shall be liable for the cost of replacing or repairing such damaged or destroyed property. The parent or parents of any unemancipated minor child who violates § 325-19 may also be held liable for the cost of replacing or repairing such damaged or destroyed property in accordance with the Wisconsin Statutes.