Dodge County, WI Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

03(2) targets obstruction of traffic by loitering: no person may loiter on public streets, alleys, sidewalks, street crossings or bridges, or any other public place in the county, in a manner that prevents, interferes with or obstructs their ordinary free use by people passing along and over them. 03(3), separately bars loitering on public streets, private driveways or sidewalks, or in adjacent doorways and entrances, so as to obstruct the free entry of persons to adjacent property. Together the two clauses cover both blocking through-traffic on a public way and blocking access into a specific building or driveway.

03(1) does; the obstruction itself, and its effect on others' ordinary use of the space, is what the Sheriff's Office and county prosecutors must show. The section sits in Chapter 9, Peace and Order, and is enforced only in the unincorporated towns and county rights-of-way, since incorporated cities and villages such as Beaver Dam, Mayville, Horicon, Fox Lake and Waupun enforce their own sidewalk and right-of-way codes within their limits. 04.