Sheboygan, WI Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

Section 74-64 is a flat prohibition. Subsection (a) says no person shall camp or maintain a campsite, tent or mobile recreational vehicle, whether self-propelled or not, on any street or property owned, leased, maintained or controlled by the city. It names city streets, parks and municipal parking lots as examples and says the property "shall include but not be limited to" them, so the ban is not confined to those three places. It opens with a cross-reference to Secs. 62-32 and 62-61, the only provisions it yields to by cross-reference.

Two exceptions follow. Subsection (b) says the section does not apply to any permission granted by the director of engineering and public works for activities authorized by the common council. Subsection (c) says it does not apply to the established area for overnight parking of self-contained mobile recreational vehicles at the city-owned camp marina located on North Water Street along the Sheboygan River.

What the section leaves out matters to anyone looking for a cleanup protocol. Sec. 74-64 prints no posting-notice period, no rule for storing belongings, no outreach or shelter-referral step and no penalty of its own. Enforcement runs through other parts of the code. Under Sec. 74-66, personnel authorized by the chief of police can eject a person from all city parks for up to 90 days when the person violates park rules, city ordinances or state laws in a park, and entering a park during an ejection is unlawful. Sec. 74-41 also closes city parks between 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., with a 10:00 p.m. start in four named parks, so an overnight stay in a park is a second violation. Sec. 1-12(c) adds that conditions caused or permitted to exist in violation of the Code are a public nuisance that the city can summarily abate.