The Town Board of the Town of Fulton has the
specific statutory authority, powers and duties, pursuant to the specific
statutory sections noted in this chapter and/or by its adoption of
village powers under § 60.10, Wis. Stats., to regulate,
control, prevent and enforce against in the Town of Fulton certain
uses, activities, businesses and operations by persons that may affect
public safety and public order in the Town of Fulton.
The Town Board of the Town of Fulton has, by
adoption of this chapter, confirmed the specific statutory authority,
powers and duties noted in the specific sections of this chapter and
has established by these sections and this chapter the regulations,
controls and enforcement against certain uses, activities, businesses
and operations by persons that may affect the public safety and public
order in the Town of Fulton.
No person shall commit the following offenses
in the Town of Fulton (herein noted as Town of Fulton violations)
that are hereby adopted by reference in this chapter. The prosecution
of such offenses under this chapter shall be as provided in §§ 60.23
and 66.0107, Wis. Stats., and the below-noted sections, but the penalties
for violation of these sections shall be as provided below.
A. All offenses set forth in Chs. 942 through 948, Wis.
Stats., inclusive, and amendments thereto, all of which are hereby
adopted by reference in this chapter and are made violations of this
Code.
B. In addition, no person shall within the Town intentionally
cause, provoke, or engage in any fight, brawl, riot or noisy altercation
other than a bona fide athletic contest, nor shall any person within
the Town cause bodily harm to another, as bodily harm is defined in
§ 939.22(4), Wis. Stats., by an act done with intent to
cause bodily harm to that person or another without consent of the
person so harmed.
[Amended 6-8-2000]
No person shall cause, permit or allow any person
in the Town of Fulton to intentionally damage any physical property
owned or leased by the Town of Fulton. This damage may include but
is not limited to the erection, posting, painting or maintaining of
signs, posters, pictures or drawings on any curbs, bridges, equipment,
fixtures, trees, windows, sidewalks, public highways, roads, streets,
alleys, culverts, fences, walls, posts, lamps, poles or any buildings
or materials of any type in the Town of Fulton owned or leased by
the Town of Fulton.
No person shall litter, as provided in § 287.81,
Wis. Stats., which is incorporated by reference herein.
No person shall cause, allow or permit any person
in the Town of Fulton to maintain outside any inhabited building or
structure or inside any uninhabited building or structure, in a location
accessible to small children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded
icebox, refrigerator, deep freezer or other container or equipment
which has an airtight door or lid which may not be released from the
inside without removing the door or lid or removing the lock from
such container or equipment, unless the person securely locks or fastens
the door to prevent access by small children.
[Amended 10-9-1997]
No person shall cause, allow or permit any person
in the Town of Fulton to discharge a firearm, bow or crossbow under
the following circumstances:
A. The provisions of §§ 941.20(1)(d) and
167.31(1), (2)(a) and (d) and (4), Wis. Stats., describing and defining
regulations with respect to the use of firearms, bows and crossbows
are hereby adopted and incorporated by reference by the Town of Fulton
and made a part of this chapter as if fully set forth herein.
B. Any future amendments, modifications, revisions, additions
or deletions of the above-noted statutory provisions shall be incorporated
herein and made a part of this chapter in order to secure uniform
regulation of firearms, bows and crossbows in the Town of Fulton.
[Added 4-12-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-08]
A. No person
shall operate a power-driven boat on the Rock River, in the Town of
Fulton, Rock County, Wisconsin, faster than a slow no-wake speed in
the following areas when posted:
(1) From
a point 100 feet west of Interstate 90 to a point 1,500 feet east
of the Newville Bridge (Highway 59).
(2) An
area 250 feet on either side of the railroad bridge.
(3) From
a point beginning at Cliff Lodge to the Indianford Bridge, a distance
of approximately 1,000 feet.
B. For the
purpose of this section, the term "slow no-wake" shall mean operating
a boat at the slowest speed at which said boat can be operated and
still maintain forward motion and steerage control.
C. Penalties.
Wisconsin State boating penalties as found in § 30.80, Wis.
Stats., and deposits as established in the Uniform Deposit and Bail
Schedule established by the Wisconsin Judicial Conference are hereby
adopted by reference with all references to fines amended to forfeitures
and all references to imprisonment deleted.
Chapter XI of the Rock County Code of Ordinances
concerning rules and regulations in Rock County parks is hereby adopted
by reference in its entirety and is hereby made a part of this Code.
[Added 6-8-2000]
No person within the Town of Fulton or in communication
with any person in the Town of Fulton shall make a telephone call
or send a message to any person on an electronic mail or other computerized
communication system which does any of the following:
A. Intends to frighten, intimidate, threaten, abuse or
harass, or threatens to inflict injury or physical harm to any person
or property of any person.
B. Uses any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggests
any lewd or lascivious act.
C. Makes a telephone call, whether or not conversation
ensues, without disclosing his or her identity and with intent to
abuse or threaten any person at the called number.
D. Makes or causes the telephone of another repeatedly
to ring; makes repeated telephone calls, whether or not conversation
ensues; makes a telephone call or calls, whether or not conversation
ensues, without disclosing his or her identity; or knowingly permits
any telephone under his or her control to be used to frighten, intimidate,
threaten, abuse, harass or offend another person.
E. Sends one or more messages to any person on an electronic
mail or other computerized communication system with intent solely
to harass another person, while intentionally preventing or attempting
to prevent disclosure of his or her identity, or knowingly permitting
or directing another person to send a message prohibited in any subsection
of this section from any computer terminal or other device that is
used to send messages on an electronic mail or other computerized
communication system that is under his or her control.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meaning indicated:
AIR CURTAIN DESTRUCTOR
A solid waste disposal operation that combines a fixed wall
open pit and mechanical air supply which uses an excess of oxygen
and turbulence to accomplish the smokeless combustion of clean wood
wastes and similar combustible materials.
ASBESTOS
Chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous
actinolite or fibrous anthophyllite.
BOAT
Every description of watercraft used or capable of being
used as a means of transportation on water, except a seaplane on the
water and a fishing raft.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Conduct in a public or private place that is violent, abusive,
indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud or otherwise disorderly
under circumstances in which the conduct leads to cause or provoke
a disturbance.
FIREARM
A weapon that acts by force of gunpowder.
FIRE FIGHTER
A person employed by the State of Wisconsin or any municipality
as a member or officer of a fire department or member of a volunteer
fire department, including the State Fire Marshal and deputies and
members of any rescue squad.
FIREWORKS
As defined in § 167.10(1), Wis. Stats.
INCINERATOR
A processing facility designed and operated for controlled
burning of wastes primarily to achieve volume and weight reduction
or to change waste characteristics. Facilities which use waste as
a supplemental fuel where less than 30% of the heat input to the facility
is derived from such supplemental fuel are not classified as incinerators.
METALLIC MINING
All or part of the process involved in the mining of metallic
minerals, other than for exploration or prospecting, including commercial
extraction, agglomeration, beneficiation, construction of roads, removal
of overburden and the production of refuse.
NAVIGATION
The act or the science or the business of traversing the
sea or other navigable waters in boats or vessels.
NONMETALLIC MINING
Operations or activities for the extraction from the earth
for sale or use by the operator of mineral aggregates such as stone,
sand and gravel and nonmetallic minerals such as asbestos, beryl,
clay, feldspar, peat and talc, related operations or activities such
as excavation, grading or dredging if the purpose of those operations
or activities is the extraction of mineral aggregates and nonmetallic
minerals, and related processes such as crushing, screening, scalping,
dewatering and blending.
OBSCENE
A writing, picture, sound recording or film which:
A.
The average person, applying contemporary community
standards, would find appeals to the prudent interest if taken as
a whole;
B.
Under contemporary community standards, describes
or shows sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and
C.
Lacks serious literary, artistic, political,
educational or scientific value, if taken as a whole.
OPEN BURN
Combustion in which the by-products thereof are emitted directly
into the ambient air without passing through a stack or chimney. "Open
burn" does not include the combustion occurring at a properly operated
air curtain destructor or incinerator.
SEXUAL CONDUCT
Any conduct or behavior relating to sexual activities of
the complaining witness, including but not limited to prior experience
or sexual intercourse or sexual contact, use of contraceptives, living
arrangement and lifestyle.
SLOW NO-WAKE
That speed at which a boat moves as slowly as possible while
still maintaining steerage control.
VESSEL
Every description of watercraft used or capable of being
used as a means of transportation on water, except a seaplane on the
water and a fishing raft.
WATERCRAFT
Any device used and designed for navigation on water.