Oshkosh, WI

City of Oshkosh Zoning Ordinance Chapter 30, Section 30-192 (Fencing Standards) caps fence height at 4 feet in front or street yards across residential and most nonresidential…

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…

Wisconsin Chapter 90 governs partition (line) fences between adjoining owners of farming or grazing land. Adjoining owners generally share the cost equally, and town fence viewers…

Oshkosh enforces parking with special provisions during EAA AirVenture week. UW Oshkosh campus area has student parking management. Winter alternate-side parking supports snow removal.

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 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…

Wisconsin caps what a towing service may charge you after a nonconsensual tow from private property. Wis. Admin. Code § Trans 319.03(1) limits removal to $150 regardless of the…

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…

Wisconsin requires beekeepers to register colonies with the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). State apiary inspection law applies uniformly statewide…

Wisconsin bans private possession, breeding, and sale of dangerous exotic animals (nonnative big cats, nonnative bears, apes, and crocodilians) under Wis. Stat. 951.097, enacted by…

Wisconsin prohibits baiting and feeding deer in counties with chronic wasting disease (CWD) or bovine TB under Wis. Stat. 29.336 and NR 10.07. The Department of Natural Resources…

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…

Wisconsin has no statute banning rainwater harvesting. Under Wis. Stat. 145.01(10)(br)1, a rainwater gutter or downspout is expressly excluded from the legal definition of "plumbing"…

Wisconsin Statute 66.0407 universally requires every property owner to destroy noxious weeds, including Canada thistle, leafy spurge, and field bindweed, on their land. Municipalities…

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.

Wisconsin's Uniform Dwelling Code (Wis. Stat. ch. 101 and SPS 320-325) sets statewide construction standards for one- and two-family dwellings, including tiny homes built as permanent…

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…

Wisconsin requires a DNR burning permit for most outdoor debris burning in DNR Protection Areas under Wis. Stat. § 26.12 and Wis. Admin. Code NR 30, with statewide bans during high…

Wisconsin uniformly regulates propane storage, installation, and handling under Wis. Admin. Code SPS 340, adopting NFPA 58 statewide and preempting inconsistent local rules through…

Wisconsin DNR designates statewide Fire Protection Areas under Wis. Stat. § 26.11 where the agency holds primary wildfire suppression authority and enforces stricter ignition rules…

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…

Wisconsin has only one cottage food exemption written into its statutes, and it is narrow. Wis. Stat. § 97.29(2)(b)2. lets you sell home-canned pickles and other processed fruits or…

Wisconsin has never created a microenterprise home kitchen permit, and it has no exemption that lets you cook meals in your own kitchen and sell them. Wis. Stat. § 97.30(2)(a) requires…

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…

Wisconsin requires short-term rental hosts to collect state sales tax and any local room tax. Wis. Stat. § 66.0615 governs municipal room taxes and caps maximum rates absent…

The City of Oshkosh administers floodplain and shoreland zoning within its corporate limits through Chapter 30 of the Municipal Code, using overlay zoning districts including 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…

Wisconsin's NR 115 sets minimum shoreland zoning standards along navigable waters, and the Public Trust Doctrine protects Great Lakes shores. Counties must adopt rules at least as…

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…

Wisconsin Statute 823.08 protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits by neighbors, requiring courts to dismiss claims unless the farm substantially threatens…

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…

Wisconsin regulates electronic vaping devices under its tobacco statutes, requiring retailer licenses, age-verification, and excise taxes on vapor products, with state law preempting…

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…

Wisconsin Administrative Code NR 115 sets uniform impervious surface coverage limits for shoreland properties statewide. Counties must adopt these standards, typically capping coverage…

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.

Wisconsin does not merely limit what a homeowners' association may say about solar. Wis. Stat. § 236.292(2) declares that all restrictions on platted land that prevent or unduly…

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…

Wisconsin universally bans designated recyclable materials from landfills and incinerators under Wis. Stat. § 287.07 and requires every responsible unit to operate an effective…

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…

Wisconsin has no legal recreational or medical marijuana dispensary program. State law prohibits cannabis sales, so no municipality can authorize dispensary operations through zoning…

Wisconsin prohibits all marijuana cultivation, including for personal use. Growing any cannabis plant is a felony under state controlled substances law. No municipality may authorize…

Wisconsin commercial drone operators follow FAA Part 107. Wis. Stat. 114.045 sets state no-fly zones over prisons, schools, and utilities, and local governments cannot regulate flight…

Wisconsin has a partial drone framework: local governments generally cannot regulate drone flight, but Wis. Stat. 114.045 sets state no-fly zones over prisons, schools, and utilities…

Wisconsin Statute 104.001 expressly preempts cities, villages, towns, and counties from establishing a minimum wage higher than the state minimum, ensuring uniform wage rules across…

Wisconsin Statute 103.10 and 104.001 preempt local paid sick leave ordinances, blocking cities and counties from requiring private employers to provide paid time off beyond state and…

Wisconsin preempts local predictive scheduling and fair workweek ordinances under Wis. Stat. 103.007, ensuring statewide uniformity for employer scheduling practices and forbidding…

Wisconsin Statute 66.0409 broadly preempts local firearm regulation, barring cities, villages, towns, and counties from enacting ordinances stricter than state law on possession…

Wisconsin permits adults at least 18 who are not prohibited persons to openly carry firearms in public without a permit, with statewide preemption blocking local restrictions on lawful…

Wisconsin Statute 941.23 makes carrying a concealed handgun in a vehicle without a CCW license a misdemeanor, while open carry and licensed concealed carry inside vehicles are lawful…

Wisconsin requires footings and foundations to sit below the frost penetration level or at least 48 inches below adjacent grade, whichever is deeper, so 48 inches is a floor, not a…

Wisconsin's dwelling code sets minimum roof snow loads from a state zone map and does not state a ground snow load at all, which is the opposite of how most states publish the figure.

Wisconsin bans gambling as a crime, but Wis. Stat. § 563.11(1) lets bona fide religious, charitable, service, fraternal, or veterans organizations apply to the Department of…

Wisconsin's gambling code has no carve-out for private social games. Wis. Stat. § 945.01(1) defines 'bet' and lists eight exceptions, business deals, contest prizes, bingo, pari-mutuel…

Wisconsin has no commercial sportsbook law. Wis. Stat. § 945.02 makes placing any bet a Class B misdemeanor unless it fits a listed exception, and § 945.01(1)(h), added by 2025…

Wisconsin has no comprehensive non-condo HOA act. Condominium associations get a statutory assessment lien under Wis. Stat. § 703.165 that is foreclosed like a mortgage. Non-condo HOAs…

Wisconsin condominiums run through an association of unit owners under Wis. Stat. § 703.15, which sets meeting-notice, proxy, and voting rules. Non-condo HOAs are governed as nonstock…

Wisconsin overrides anti-solar and anti-wind HOA restrictions by statute. Wis. Stat. § 236.292 voids restrictions on platted land that prevent or unduly restrict solar or wind energy…

Wisconsin protects flag display through two separate statutes, and which one applies depends on whether you own a condominium unit or a lot in a covenanted subdivision. Wis. Stat. §…

Wisconsin sets no dollar cap on association fines and requires no hearing before one is imposed. For condominiums, Wis. Stat. § 703.24(2) makes a unit owner liable for any charges…

Only Wisconsin condominium associations hold a statutory collection lien. Wis. Stat. § 703.165(3) gives the association a lien for unpaid assessments if it files a statement of…

Wisconsin runs the opposite way from states that shield owners who lease. Wis. Stat. § 703.10(3) expressly authorizes condominium bylaws to carry any restriction on the use of the…

You will not meet an OWI checkpoint in Wisconsin. Wis. Stat. § 349.02(2)(a) forbids a police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, traffic officer or motor vehicle inspector from stopping…

Wisconsin is a one-party consent state. Wis. Stat. § 968.31(2)(c) makes it lawful for a person not acting under color of law to intercept a wire, electronic or oral communication when…

Wisconsin has no general stop-and-identify offense. Wis. Stat. § 968.24 lets an officer who has first identified himself or herself as law enforcement stop you in a public place, for a…

Wisconsin is unusual in codifying the grounds for a search at all. Wis. Stat. § 968.10 says a search may be made and things seized only when it is incident to a lawful arrest, with…

Wisconsin splits these two machines apart in the definitions and then treats them completely differently. A low-speed vehicle has a statewide right of the road: under Wis. Stat. s…

Wis. Stat. Sec. 704.17 sets the pre-eviction notice. For nonpayment of rent on a month-to-month tenancy or a lease of one year or less, the landlord gives a 5-day notice to pay or…

Wis. Stat. Sec. 704.07 makes the landlord keep structural elements, common areas, and equipment supplying heat, water, and other services in a reasonable state of repair. If the…

Wisconsin Statute 66.0104 and Act 317 prevent municipalities from limiting landlord-tenant relationships beyond state law, including any local just-cause eviction requirement. Eviction…

Wis. Stat. Sec. 704.05(2) lets a landlord enter only on advance notice and at reasonable times to inspect, repair, or show the unit. Wis. Admin. Code ATCP 134.09(2) makes that…

Under Wis. Stat. Sec. 704.19, either the landlord or tenant may end a month-to-month or other periodic tenancy with at least 28 days' written notice. If rent is payable on a basis less…

Wisconsin prohibits rent control statewide. Wis. Stat. § 66.1015 bars every city, village, town, and county from regulating the amount of rent charged for a residential rental unit…

Wisconsin Statute 66.0104 bars municipalities from requiring rental registration or licensing and limits inspection programs to designated districts with blight or code problems…

Wisconsin sets no statutory cap on the amount of a residential security deposit. After a tenancy ends, the landlord must mail or deliver the deposit, less lawful deductions, within 21…

Wisconsin recognizes three adverse-possession tracks. The default under Wis. Stat. Sec. 893.25 is 20 years of uninterrupted possession with no written instrument. Sec. 893.26 shortens…

Wisconsin Statute 134.66 bars selling cigarettes and tobacco to anyone under 18 and vapor products to anyone under 21. The federal Tobacco 21 law independently requires all tobacco and…

Wisconsin has not enacted a statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vapor products; sales of menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarettes remain lawful under Wis. Stat. 134.66 subject to…

Wisconsin's rule on extra lighting is a colour rule with a count attached. Wis. Stat. § 347.07(2) bars operating any vehicle on a highway displaying a colour other than white or amber…

Wisconsin never legislated dash cams, so the governing rule is the windshield rule, and Wisconsin's version is a closed list. Wis. Admin. Code § Trans 305.34(6) bars any posters…

Wisconsin has never legislated lane splitting in either direction. The phrases "lane splitting" and "between lanes" appear nowhere in chs. 340 to 351, the whole Wisconsin Vehicle Code…

Wisconsin attacks plate covers from two directions. Wis. Stat. s. 341.61 (3) makes it an offence carrying a forfeiture of up to $500 to place any substance on a plate that hinders its…

A radar detector is lawful in a private car in Wisconsin. The phrase "radar detector" appears nowhere in the Wisconsin Statutes or the Wisconsin Administrative Code, and the equipment…

Wisconsin gives ordinary drivers no studded-tire season at all. Wis. Stat. s. 347.45 (2) bans any block, stud, flange, cleat, spike or other non-rubber protuberance that projects…

Wisconsin puts its tint numbers in the Department of Transportation's equipment rules, not in the statute book. Aftermarket film on the vent and front side windows must still pass at…