Ashwaubenon, WI Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

Section 9-1-7 defines loitering broadly, as remaining idle in essentially one location, including spending time idly, lingering, staying, sauntering, delaying, standing around, loafing, or colloquially hanging around, and defines a public place as any property the general public can access for business, transportation, recreation or other lawful purposes, expressly naming sidewalks, parks, public grounds, public buildings, transit stations, bus stops and the areas immediately surrounding a business. Subsection (B) makes it unlawful to loiter in a way that obstructs a public street, sidewalk, transit stop or public way by hindering pedestrians, vehicles or transit users, or that otherwise obstructs or interferes with the free use of property or a lawfully conducted business fronting a public way.

A third clause targets transit specifically: a person may not remain at a transit station, bus stop or designated boarding area after a public safety officer, other law enforcement officer, or transit official has told them their conduct is obstructing passenger access, interfering with operations, or creating a safety concern, and must cease and move on when asked. Subsection (C) gives officers an express dispersal power: when any of the conditions in (B) occur, an officer must order the person to stop and move on or disperse, and failing or refusing to obey that order is itself a violation of the section, independent of the underlying obstruction.

The section was last amended by Ordinance O4-1-26 on April 28, 2026, so it is current as printed in the June 24, 2026 code update, and it cross-references the state loitering-in-roadway statute, Wis. 29.