Butte des Morts, WI

Winnebago County zoning defines a private kennel as no more than 3 dogs or other domesticated animals over 6 months old outside the A-1/A-2 districts, or 5 within them, before a…

In towns that have adopted Winnebago County's zoning chapter, general and small-animal veterinary clinics must meet the same animal-shelter standards: animals confined indoors, noise…

On Winnebago County park property, dogs and other domesticated animals must stay on a leash no longer than six feet at all times, with narrow on-leash exceptions for boat landings and…

Winnebago County extends the state dog-licensing law to cats: anyone who owns a cat must follow the same license and rabies-vaccination rules that apply to dogs under the county kennel…

Winnebago County requires a Health Department permit to operate a pet store, plus separate permits for boarding kennels and grooming salons. The ordinance sets facility, sanitation…

Winnebago County zoning caps backyard flocks at 4 hens, bans roosters and on-site slaughter, and requires a covered enclosure set back 25 feet from a neighbor's home, in towns where…

In unincorporated Winnebago County towns under the town/county zoning code, equipment that loads, moves, or processes an earth materials stockpile in a residential district may run…

Winnebago County requires any motor vehicle driven on the frozen surface of an inland lake to run a working muffler, capping stationary exhaust and engine noise at 96 decibels under…

Winnebago County's zoning code caps nighttime noise from truck-stop parking and activity areas at 60 decibels, dB(A), measured at the property line of any adjoining residential zoning…

Winnebago County zoning treats outdoor entertainment venues like race tracks, motocross courses, and sports arenas as a distinct land use: the zoning reviewing authority can set hours…

New homes built in Winnebago County's Wittman Regional Airport Traffic Pattern (Air-3) District must add 5 decibels of extra noise reduction beyond the state building code, certified…

Winnebago County has no general nighttime noise curfew, but at its Sunnyview Exposition Center campground it closes to non-campers at 10 p.m. and bars setting up or tearing down a…

In Winnebago County's unincorporated shoreland areas, removing vegetation within 35 feet of the ordinary high-water mark is prohibited except for routine maintenance, a limited viewing…

Winnebago County's zoning code bars removing trees and shrubs inside a required buffer yard except for dead, dying, hazardous, or invasive plants, and requires replacement planting…

Winnebago County zoning defines a mother-in-law suite as quarters accessory to, and used by, immediate relatives of the household in the principal residence, not an independently…

A carport counts as a residential garage under Chapter 23's town/county zoning, so it needs a zoning permit and must be conventional wood-frame, metal-frame, or masonry construction…

Winnebago County zoning allows a mother-in-law suite as an accessory use only if it sits entirely inside the principal structure and isn't recognizable from outside as a separate…

Winnebago County bars a mother-in-law suite from having its own address, utility meter, or separate entrance: the features that would let it function as an independently rented unit.

Winnebago County's town/county zoning code caps residential recreational-vehicle storage at two units, requires state licensing, and bans RVs from the street yard and from side, shore…

County zoning allows only one licensed commercial vehicle, including cargo trucks and tractor-trailers, to be stored outdoors on a residential lot in towns that fall under the county's…

At Wittman Regional Airport, Winnebago County caps loading-zone parking at five minutes in front of the Terminal Building, backed by county parking-violation forfeitures.

Winnebago County treats any motor vehicle, trailer, or mobile home left unattended over 72 hours on public or private property as abandoned. The Sheriff's Department can impound…

Winnebago County enforces Wisconsin's stopping-and-parking statutes, §§ 346.50–346.56, throughout the unincorporated county, covering blocked driveways, wrong-side stops, and…

Winnebago County bars overnight parking inside its parks except in areas designated as campgrounds or overnight mooring areas, or with the Parks Director's permission, under County…

Retaining walls are exempt from Winnebago County's yard setbacks under Chapter 23, but that exemption doesn't reach the shoreland setback: a wall within 75 feet of the water still has…

A zoning permit is required to build or rebuild a fence over 30 inches tall in residential, business, mixed-use, and industrial zoning districts, with a narrow exemption for two short…

Winnebago County's Chapter 23 zoning code bans barbed wire and electric fencing on residential parcels except for containing livestock, and requires other fence materials be common…

In Winnebago County towns that adopted Chapter 23 zoning, a fence over 30 inches built after April 29, 2012 is capped at 4 feet in the street yard and 6 feet in side and rear yards for…

Winnebago County requires backyard pools to meet current National Spa and Pool Institute and ANSI standards for plumbing, electrical, fencing, and safety, and bars draining pool water…

An above-ground pool 15 feet or wider, or one left up year-round, is a regulated swimming pool under Chapter 23 and must stay out of every yard setback: smaller take-down pools are…

Wis. Stat. §167.10 requires a user's permit for nearly all consumer fireworks (firecrackers, bottle rockets, Roman candles, mortars, aerial repeaters). Permits are issued by the mayor…

Winnebago County caps portable fire pits and recreational fires on Lake Winnebago's frozen surface at a 30-inch diameter and 2-foot height, requires a 10-foot clearance from…

Winnebago County zoning treats a family day care home for 4 to 8 children as an accessory residential use, permitted by right in every zoning district once the operator holds a state…

Winnebago County zoning caps a major or minor home occupation at 25 percent of a dwelling's floor area and requires the operator to live on site, under the town/county zoning code's…

Winnebago County does not publish a numeric STR occupancy cap. Maximum guests are set per-property through the Tourist Rooming House license under Wis. Admin. Code ATCP 72, established…

Wis. Stat. §66.1014 preempts local STR bans for stays of 7 consecutive days or longer. Hosts renting more than 10 nights per year must hold a state Tourist Rooming House license from…

In unincorporated Winnebago County, boisterous or unreasonably loud conduct that disturbs others is disorderly conduct under Code § 9.02, whether it happens in a public place or on…

Winnebago County adopts Wis. Stat. § 125.07(4) by reference, making it illegal for anyone under 21 to possess or consume alcohol beverages in a public place anywhere in the county…

Winnebago County requires a Highway Commission permit before any utility line is installed, reinstalled, or run under, over, or parallel to a County Trunk Highway, with a $75…

Winnebago County's Highway Department can remove any object or obstruction placed in the right-of-way next to a driveway approach on a County Trunk Highway if it wasn't authorized by a…

Winnebago County classifies parades on county park land as a "special event," and the County, not the organizer, decides whether the event falls outside normal park use and needs Parks…

Anyone wanting to use a Winnebago County Parks Department facility for a picnic, party, or performance must first get a use permit from the Parks Director under County Code § 19.10.

In a Winnebago County park, no one may sell or advertise goods except the park's own concessionaire, but the Parks Director can waive that ban for a non-profit's festival or fair…

Winnebago County's zoning code lists a yard sale as a Series 18 temporary land use, so under § 23.7-291 no yard sale on land covered by the town/county code may be held without first…

Winnebago County's Chapter 23 zoning code creates an Agribusiness (A-1) district built specifically to protect large-scale farming: incompatible urban development is barred, and the…

Winnebago County requires new and substantially improved homes in the floodfringe district to sit at or above the flood protection elevation, the regional flood elevation plus 2 feet…

Winnebago County's zoning code sets no dock design standards of its own, a boat dock must simply comply with state DNR rules, but it may sit inside the shore yard setback if kept 3…

Winnebago County requires an erosion-control permit for construction disturbing 4,000 square feet or more, or moving 400 cubic yards of soil, anywhere in the unincorporated county…

Winnebago County requires a stormwater management permit before grading or land development that disturbs one acre or adds more than 15,000 square feet of new impervious surface in the…

Winnebago County regulates development in the unincorporated area covered by the regional or base flood shown on adopted flood insurance rate maps, splitting the floodplain into…

Winnebago County closes its parks on a set clock: Community, Grundman, and Asylum Point Parks run 7 a.m.-10 p.m., the Jerry Finch Dog Park 6 a.m.-10 p.m., boat landings 4 a.m.-11 p.m…

Winnebago County allows one yard sale sign per property without a permit, but it can only go up 2 days before the sale starts and must come down within a day after it ends.

Winnebago County limits electronic message signs to static displays lasting at least two minutes, bans scrolling or fading transitions, and caps brightness at 5,000 nits by day and 500…

Winnebago County lets a municipal clerk, election inspector, building inspector, or law officer pull down any political sign that violates state election law, without notifying whoever…

Winnebago County lets banner, wall, and window signs go up without a zoning permit in commercial, mixed-use, and industrial districts, provided they meet the sign article's general…

Winnebago County zoning bars adult-oriented establishments from locating within 600 feet of another such business, a residential district, or specified uses like schools, parks…

Winnebago County doesn't write its own pawnbroker rules; Ch. 9 § 9.15 adopts Wisconsin's pawnbroker statute, § 134.71, wholesale by reference, so shops in the unincorporated county…

Winnebago County licenses tattoo and body-piercing shops through its Health Department rather than a separate ordinance. Operators need an annual permit under Chapter 11, and the…

Winnebago County's zoning code expressly excludes vehicle repair and motor vehicle body work from the activities that qualify as a home occupation, so an auto repair business cannot be…

Running a generator, sound truck, or loudspeaker that produces excessive or unusual noise in a Winnebago County park requires a written permit from the Parks Director first, under…

Winnebago County sets minimum front, side, and rear yard setbacks by zoning district in Chapter 23's Exhibit 8-2, and lets a street yard setback shrink toward neighboring buildings…

In towns that adopted Winnebago County's zoning ordinance, a permit is required before building, moving, or enlarging a deck, and patios must stay at least five feet from every…

Winnebago County requires a licensed zoning staffer to inspect every new private septic system (POWTS) before backfilling, with 24-hour advance notice needed to schedule the visit.

Winnebago County requires building-mounted solar panels to sit flush with the roof or wall, meet the district's height limit, and carry UL, NREL, or SRCC certification.

Winnebago County allows smaller non-riparian lots in a shoreland Planned Unit Development in exchange for larger setbacks, tying the density bonus to Wis. Admin. Code NR 115.05(1)(a)4.

Winnebago County requires externally lit signs to be shaded and shielded away from neighboring properties, bans flashing, color-changing, or moving sign illumination, but sets no…

Winnebago County does not post letter-grade placards outside restaurants. Instead, the Health Department requires every retail food establishment to hold an annual permit, renewed each…

Winnebago County requires manufactured and mobile home communities to provide a properly sized dumpster enclosure whenever the solid waste hauler does not offer individual unit pickup…

Winnebago County licenses mobile food trucks the same way it licenses restaurants: as retail food establishments under Chapter 11. The county fee schedule lists a distinct Mobile RFE…