Oneida County, WI Ordinances (2026)

Oneida County bans placing or leaving any obstacle, structure or material on a public highway or highway right-of-way anywhere the county's highway system runs. It is a county-highway…

Oneida County bars stopping, standing or parking on any county trunk highway except where Wisconsin's statutory exceptions apply, and lets the Highway Commissioner post additional…

Oneida County can have the Sheriff tow any vehicle parked in violation on Courthouse or Law Enforcement Center lots, storing it until the owner produces a Sheriff's Department release…

Oneida County bars overnight parking in every parking lot the county maintains, from the Courthouse lot in Rhinelander to Law Enforcement Center lots, unless an exception applies. The…

Oneida County defines illegal dumping broadly and bans depositing solid waste anywhere except the county landfill or a licensed recycling processor, including on highways, in waters…

Oneida County bans dropping yard waste or natural woody waste at the County Transfer Station. Leaves, brush and grass clippings must instead decompose on the property where they…

Oneida County requires every municipality using the county sanitary landfill to run an effective recycling program covering glass, paper, cans, plastics, motor oil and more, and…

Oneida County requires a zoning permit before any new development, repair, modification, addition or use change inside its mapped floodplain, under the Oneida County Floodplain Zoning…

New Oneida County land divisions crossing a watercourse must include a stormwater easement or drainage right-of-way under General Code § 15.22(2), sized to carry the flow and, where…

Oneida County requires two feet of freeboard above the regional flood elevation for new construction in its mapped floodplain. Section 20.10.1 defines 'flood protection elevation' as…

Every new Oneida County land division must be designed to minimize soil erosion and manage surface water drainage under General Code § 15.22(1), and the Planning and Zoning Committee…

Oneida County does not post A, B, or C letter grades in restaurant windows. Instead, General Code § 11.16 makes the Oneida County Health Department the licensing and inspection…

Oneida County has no separate 'food truck ordinance.' Mobile restaurants and mobile retail food facilities are folded into General Code § 11.16's countywide food-permit scheme, so a…

Tattoo and body-piercing shops in Oneida County answer to the same Health Department licensing scheme as restaurants and hotels. General Code § 11.16 defines body piercing and…

Oneida County closes its recreation areas, boat landings and special use areas from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. under General Code § 14.13(1), and bars overnight camping outside a…

Oneida County's Animal Control Ordinance treats a continuously barking, whining or howling dog as a 'public nuisance' under § 23.04(15)(f), and § 23.10(2) makes every owner responsible…

Oneida County bars sound trucks, loudspeakers, motors and any other mechanical device from producing unduly loud or unnecessary noise on county-owned recreation land under General Code…

Oneida County-owned campgrounds run on a hard 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. quiet period under General Code § 14.18(4)(a)1, and gas-powered generators cannot run at all during that window. A…

Within Oneida County's own campgrounds, campfires are allowed only for cooking or heating and only inside a designated fireplace, fire-ring or grill under General Code § 14.18(4)(b)3…

Oneida County's Public Health Ordinance, General Code § 11.13, declares any dwelling rented out while 'unfit for human habitation' a public nuisance alongside rubbish piles…

Oneida County bars every owned animal from running at large. Section 23.10(1) states the rule outright, § 23.04(2) defines 'at large' as off the owner's property and uncontrolled, and…

Oneida County has no breed-specific ban; instead § 23.04(20) defines a 'vicious animal' by conduct, two bites or one serious injury, unprovoked, within twelve months. Once an officer…

Feeding or baiting any wild animal inside the boundary of an Oneida County-owned campground is unlawful under General Code § 14.18(4)(e)2, a flat prohibition with no permit exception…

Oneida County does not ban exotic pets, but § 23.16(1) requires every exotic animal, defined by § 23.04(10) as not normally domesticated or wild by nature, to be kept in an…

Oneida County has no stand-alone parade ordinance, but General Code § 12.04 licenses any large gathering, an assembly of 1,000 or more people lasting eight-plus hours, 5,000 for…

Oneida County requires anyone peddling, canvassing or soliciting door to door on a temporary basis to get a transient merchant permit from the County Clerk before selling a single…