Green Bay, WI Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Chapter 40's jaywalking section, § 40-130, does not ban crossing outside a crosswalk outright; it lists six specific behaviors, and committing any one of them constitutes the violation. Pedestrians must yield to vehicles moving straight ahead on a green light or at a traffic officer's direction, and must yield to all vehicles when crossing anywhere outside a marked or unmarked crosswalk. Anyone walking along a highway with no sidewalk must keep to the left side and step to the outer edge of the traveled way when a vehicle approaches.

The ordinance separately bars stepping off a curb into a vehicle's path when the driver has too little room to react, and it prohibits crossing a street within one-half block of a controlled intersection or marked crosswalk at any point other than the crosswalk itself. At a controlled intersection, pedestrians may only start crossing while facing a green or "walk" signal or when a traffic officer waves them through. Subsection (b) defines a "controlled intersection" narrowly: it is any intersection where electric stop-and-go signals, for either vehicles or pedestrians, have been installed; away from one, the half-block crosswalk rule does not apply, though the yield-to-traffic rules in items (1) through (4) still do.

501, so the half-block crosswalk rule predates the current municipal code recodification. No penalty is written into § 40-130 itself, so any citation defaults to the chapter-wide forfeiture in § 40-162.