Public Conduct in Wisconsin (2026)

Kenosha does not carve out a separate rule for aggressive panhandling: Section 11.02.O of the disorderly conduct…

Milwaukee bans aggressive panhandling anywhere in the city and separately prohibits ordinary panhandling at bus stops…

Neenah bans aggressive or menacing panhandling, touching, blocking a path, following a refusing donor, or soliciting…

Racine County Code Sec. 16-3 bars soliciting, canvassing or begging from county employees on county property without…

Fitchburg, Wisconsin bars pedestrians from approaching moving vehicles on its busiest arterial and collector streets, a…

Green Bay flatly bars urinating, defecating or depositing human waste anywhere on public or private property that isn't…

Appleton bans urinating or defecating anywhere outside a designated sanitary facility in public view, including…

De Pere Code § 8-14 makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate outside a designated sanitary facility on any sidewalk…

Kenosha classifies public urination and defecation as an 'Objectionable Condition' under its Business Nuisance…

Little Chute makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate outside a designated sanitary facility on any street, sidewalk…

Mosinee bans urinating or defecating outside a sanitary facility on any public street, sidewalk, park or other public…

Neenah makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate outside a sanitary facility on any sidewalk, street, park or other…

Sun Prairie bans defecating or urinating outside a designated sanitary facility anywhere in public view, from sidewalks…

Kenosha County Code § 8.02(6)(c) requires every county cabaret licensee to maintain "good order," and defines a lack of…

Middleton's public-urination rule lives inside its adult entertainment ordinance rather than a general nuisance…

Skateboarding, in-line skating, and riding a bicycle are flatly banned at Veterans Memorial Park under Fond du Lac…

Appleton bans skateboards, inline skates and roller skates in a defined downtown zone around Jones Park and in every…

Burlington bans skateboards, roller skates, scooters and other play vehicles on City streets, Central Business District…

Little Chute bans skateboards and other play vehicles on every street and on sidewalks in any block with a business…

The City of Milton, Wisconsin bans skateboarding on state highways 59 and 26, County Highway M, High Street, part of…

Milwaukee bans skateboards, roller skates and in-line skates on public sidewalks in eight named downtown and commercial…

Neenah bans skateboarding on business-district sidewalks -- including the 100 and 200 blocks of Wisconsin Avenue -- and…

Walworth County bans skateboards, rollerskates and in-line skates on every county-owned parking lot, sidewalk and…

Waukesha bans skateboards and in-line skates outright in Barstow Plaza and restricts them citywide: in city parks they…

Wausau bans skateboards, roller skates, and foot scooters from the entire downtown business district's streets and…

De Pere Code § 8-15(b)(2) bars riding a skateboard, bicycle, electric scooter or in-line skates in any municipal…

Green Bay Municipal Code § 40-132 bans skateboarding on every City street, in two mapped downtown and near-north-side…

Kenosha bans skateboards, scooters, and roller skates from any street, alley, highway, or thoroughfare intended for…

City of Middleton Municipal Code § 16.04(8) bans riding a skateboard, coaster, in-line skates, roller skates or roller…

Milwaukee County bans skateboarding on sidewalks, walkways, and any park area the county board designates and posts…

The City of Mosinee prohibits skateboards, bicycles, scooters, roller blades, in-line skates and motorized vehicles on…

Racine County bars skateboards, scooters, rollerblades, roller skates and motorized versions of each from the…

The Village of Ashwaubenon requires anyone under 16 to wear a CPSC-certified bicycle helmet while riding a skateboard…

Sun Prairie allows skateboarding on public sidewalks citywide, with one carve-out: it is banned on sidewalks in any…

Ashwaubenon's social host ordinance holds anyone who hosts a gathering of three or more people where minors possess or…

Rothschild's social host ordinance makes it unlawful to host or allow a gathering of three or more people at any…

Wauwatosa Municipal Code Section 7.48.020 lets police summarily abate and close any public or private party that…

Whoever is in possession or control of a Beloit property is on the hook for a loud party under Code § 15.12(4): letting…

Brown County Code § 31.02 bans boisterous, unreasonably loud conduct in public or private places that provokes a…

Little Chute makes it unlawful to cause loud, unnecessary noise at any time and separately bars unreasonably loud or…

Neenah holds the property owner or legal tenant liable for a noise-complaint violation whenever police cannot identify…

Racine County's disorderly conduct ordinance bars unreasonably loud, boisterous, or otherwise disorderly behavior in…

Sun Prairie holds any person who hosts a private gathering where a guest under 21 possesses or consumes alcohol civilly…

Wausau holds adults civilly responsible for hosting parties where anyone under 21 drinks, even without supplying the…

In unincorporated Winnebago County, boisterous or unreasonably loud conduct that disturbs others is disorderly conduct…

Milwaukee County bans loitering or loafing at its airports, and anyone caught doing it can be ejected from the property…

Kenosha's loitering ordinance does not police general public idling; Section 11.034 narrowly targets loitering for drug…

Appleton makes it unlawful for anyone, not just minors, to loiter in or upon a roadway, defined as the curbed or…

Ashwaubenon's loitering ordinance bars idling in a public place in a way that obstructs sidewalks, streets or transit…

Beloit's municipal code bars loitering or prowling in a manner not usual for law-abiding people when the circumstances…

Burlington bars loitering or prowling in a place, time or manner not usual for law-abiding people when the…

De Pere Code § 8-16 bans loitering that obstructs a public street, sidewalk or building, or interferes with a nearby…

Fitchburg City Code § 70-23 bans loitering: standing idly, lingering, or moving slowly in a manner that raises alarm…

Every county park, trail, and boat launch stays open to the public for recreation year-round, but Code § 42-5(2) bars…

Green Bay's loitering law, Municipal Code § 26-5, hits three distinct situations: loafing where "No Loitering" is…

Little Chute bars loitering on public streets, sidewalks, and parking areas once a police officer asks a person to…

Madison's loitering ordinance, MGO § 26.08, is narrow: it only bans loitering in public in a manner manifesting intent…

City of Middleton Municipal Code § 16.04(2) makes it a violation to loiter or prowl under circumstances warranting…

Standing, sitting, loafing or loitering on a City of Milton, Wisconsin street or sidewalk is unlawful only when it…

Milwaukee Code Ch. 106 restricts loitering for narrow purposes: prostitution, drug activity, gang gatherings, and…

Sec. 54-41 makes it unlawful to loiter or prowl in a place, time or manner not usual for law-abiding people, under…

Neenah prohibits loitering or prowling in a place, time or manner unusual for law-abiding people under circumstances…

New Berlin bars loitering or prowling under alarming circumstances, obstructing a street, sidewalk or bridge by…

In unincorporated Racine County, it's illegal to loiter as a visitor in or around a public school without staff…

Rock County bans loitering or prowling in a place, at a time, or in a manner not usual for law-abiding people when the…

Rothschild's ordinance bars loitering or prowling in a way that alarms a reasonable person for the safety of people or…

Sun Prairie makes it unlawful to loiter or prowl in a place, time or manner unusual for law-abiding people when the…

Washington County bars loitering or prowling under circumstances that warrant alarm for the safety of people or…

Waukesha's loitering ordinance, Municipal Code § 11.05, bars loitering or prowling in a place, at a time, or in a…

Waukesha County bars minors under 17 from loitering in public places between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. unless a parent or…

Wausau Municipal Code § 9.04.050 makes it unlawful to loiter, congregate, wander, or stand on private property posted…

Wauwatosa bars loitering and prowling anywhere in the city under Chapter 7.56 of the municipal code. An officer must…

West Allis makes it an offense to loiter or prowl in a way that raises alarm about safety, but officers must first ask…

Brown County bans smoking, vaping, and similar inhaling of any plant or e-liquid material anywhere in Fonferek's Glen…

Kenosha County Code § 9.01 adopts Wisconsin's Clean Indoor Air Act and adds its own rule: no smoking, tobacco use, or…

The village bans smoking in posted village-park areas, ballfields, the dog park, playgrounds, the aquatic center, and…

Madison bans smoking and tobacco use within 25 feet of any entrance, air intake, or operable window of a City-owned…

Middleton bars smoking within fifteen feet of any line of people waiting for a good or service, and requires designated…

Milton bans smoking outdoors on any property the city owns. Section 30-143(e) states that no person may smoke outdoors…

Outagamie County bans smoking and vaping inside, and within 20 feet of any entrance or exit of, any building or vehicle…

Appleton bans smoking or tobacco use within 20 feet of entryways to city-owned buildings, in a defined zone around the…

Ashwaubenon extends its smoking ban beyond enclosed places to specific outdoor spots: any Ashwaubenon School District…

Beloit's smoking law reaches past the indoor floor set by state law: it bars smoking outright at sports arenas and…

Dane County Code § 34.07(5) bans smoking and tobacco use within 15 feet of any entrance, operable window, or…

De Pere Code § 8-3(a)(2)b bars smoking on any childcare center's outdoor premises while children are present and within…

Smoking is banned inside and within 10 feet of every City park shelter and facility, plus specific spots at Bay Beach…

Marathon County bans smoking in, or within 50 feet of, county park playgrounds, sports fields and seating, swimming…

Milwaukee prohibits smoking and holding lit tobacco products within 30 feet of any public building the city owns or…

Milwaukee County bans smoking inside or within 30 feet of any entrance or exit of a county-owned enclosed facility, and…

New Berlin bars smoking inside any building and, under Section 93-8, within 50 feet of any public entrance to a City…

Racine County Code Sec. 16-95(a)(3) bans smoking within 25 feet of any entrance to a county building where smoking is…

Rock County bars smoking within 30 feet of any entrance to a county-owned or county-leased building or workplace, and…

Sun Prairie extends Wisconsin's statewide smoking ban by adding its own outdoor and vehicle restrictions: smoking is…

Waukesha bars smoking outdoors near entrances, windows and vents of any City-owned building, in city parks temporarily…

Waukesha County bans smoking outright in every building and facility it controls, and within 40 feet of any building…

Wausau bans smoking in specific outdoor areas of city parks and city-owned property, including playgrounds, sports…

West Allis bans smoking within 25 feet of building entrances, near the Farmers Market, and within 100 feet of public…

Kenosha bans smoking, including vaping, in specific outdoor public spaces: pool deck areas under Code § 6.02(C)(15) and…

Mosinee bans smoking within Edgewood Park and the city softball field park during school-sponsored events, and within…

Milwaukee County's traffic ordinance bans jaywalking outright, defining it as crossing within 300 feet of a marked…

Fitchburg, Wisconsin bars pedestrians from lingering on the median of a designated arterial street unless they are…

Green Bay Municipal Code § 40-130 defines six pedestrian violations that add up to jaywalking: crossing outside a…

Kenosha pedestrians may not cross between adjacent signalized intersections except in marked crosswalks, enter against…

Milwaukee posts signs banning pedestrian crossing at specific hazardous locations; crossing there draws a $2-$50…

Mosinee bars pedestrians from crossing a street between intersections unless a marked crosswalk or traffic control…

Neenah law bars pedestrians from crossing designated highways anywhere except a marked or unmarked crosswalk: the…

Sun Prairie pedestrians must cross only at an intersection or a crossing point permitted by an official traffic control…

Little Chute prohibits pedestrians from crossing a street between intersections unless an official traffic control…

Wauwatosa doesn't outlaw crossing mid-block outright; instead § 11.20.040 says a pedestrian who crosses anywhere other…

Burlington bans possessing marijuana or THC anywhere in the city, including public places, through its own municipal…

Fond du Lac County Code § 38-207 makes it unlawful to possess marijuana anywhere in the unincorporated county, public…

Little Chute makes it a village forfeiture offense to possess 25 grams or less of marijuana anywhere in the village…

Racine County bans carrying, possessing, or using marijuana, synthetic marijuana, or drug paraphernalia anywhere in the…

Rothschild bans possessing 25 grams or less of marijuana or THC anywhere in the Village, public or private, unless it…

In unincorporated Walworth County, possessing 25 grams or less of marijuana anywhere in the county, including parks…

Dane County bars possessing, using, or delivering any controlled substance, including marijuana, which Wisconsin has…

Possessing marijuana anywhere in the City of Milton, Wisconsin, public or private, is a citable municipal offense under…

Wausau makes possessing 25 grams or less of marijuana a municipal violation citywide, whether in public or private…

Wauwatosa's controlled substances chapter bars possessing any amount of marijuana or a derivative unless obtained…

Appleton treats possession of 25 grams or less of marijuana as a citable Code violation rather than a state crime…

Beloit adopts the state's small-amount THC possession offense into its own municipal code, letting officers write a…

De Pere Code § 8-1 adopts Wis. Stat. § 961.41, marijuana possession, by reference as a municipal forfeiture offense…

Fitchburg City Code § 70-122 bars possessing or using marijuana anywhere in the city unless it came from a valid…

Kenosha decriminalized simple marijuana possession into a $1 municipal forfeiture, but Section 11.146 raises the stakes…

Madison lets adults 18 and older consume cannabis or cannabis derivatives only on private property with the occupant's…

Smoking marijuana in public in Milwaukee draws a $250-$500 forfeiture, five times the $0-$50 fine for ordinary…

Neenah prosecutes first-offense possession of 25 grams or less of marijuana as a municipal forfeiture rather than a…

Rather than referring every marijuana case for criminal prosecution, New Berlin gives its police officers standing to…

Sun Prairie makes possessing 25 grams or less of marijuana a municipal forfeiture offense rather than routing every…

Waukesha County adopts the state marijuana possession statute as a county forfeiture offense rather than a criminal…

Milwaukee County has its own marijuana possession ordinance separate from state law: anyone in the county caught with…

West Allis police issue a municipal citation, not a criminal charge, for marijuana possession under home-rule…

Burlington bans possessing an open container of beer or liquor on any public street, sidewalk, alley or municipal…

New Berlin prohibits drinking alcohol on city property and in public rights-of-way citywide, with narrow carve-outs for…

Ashwaubenon bans open or unsealed alcohol containers on public streets, sidewalks, parking lots and in vehicles parked…

Brown County Code § 31.16(2) bans open containers of alcohol on the streets, sidewalks and parking lots ringing the…

Green Bay bans consuming or possessing an open alcohol container on any public way, public parking lot, or public place…

Kenosha's alcohol code makes it illegal to consume alcohol on public thoroughfares or in a licensed establishment's…

Madison bans possessing an open container of alcohol or drinking on any public street, sidewalk or alley citywide. The…

Milwaukee bans drinking or carrying open alcohol containers in any public parking structure or surface lot citywide…

Milwaukee County bans possessing or bringing alcoholic beverages into any county park or parkway, except in areas the…

Neenah bans drinking, opening, or even possessing an open container of beer or liquor on public property, streets…

Outagamie County bans possessing alcohol in any county park except Plamann Park, where a permit from park officials is…

Racine County bars bringing in or consuming alcohol in county parks and parkways except in committee-designated areas…

Carrying an open container of beer or liquor, or drinking from one, on a public street, road, highway, alley, or walk…

Carrying an open container of beer, wine, or liquor on Waukesha streets, sidewalks, parking lots, or school and church…

Wausau bans drinking or carrying an open container of alcohol on any public street, sidewalk, alley, parking lot or…

Appleton bans drinking from, opening, or carrying an open container of fermented malt beverage or intoxicating liquor…

Beloit bars drinking alcohol or carrying an open container on any public street, alley, or other government-owned…

Dane County does not ban drinking in its parks outright, but any group of ten or more people of legal drinking age who…

De Pere Code of Ordinances § 7-9 bars drinking or carrying an open container of liquor or fermented malt beverage on…

Fitchburg City Code § 60-4 bans drinking or carrying an open alcohol container on any public street right-of-way and in…

Little Chute bans drinking or carrying an open container of alcohol on any public street, sidewalk, alley or parking…

Drinking or carrying an open alcoholic or fermented malt beverage on Milton, Wisconsin streets, sidewalks, parks or…

The City of Mosinee bans drinking, selling, or displaying an open container of alcohol on any street, sidewalk, alley…

It is illegal to drink or carry an open alcohol container on any Sun Prairie street, sidewalk, alley or public parking…

In unincorporated Walworth County, drinking or carrying open alcohol on county parks or county-owned property, or on…

Washington County bans drinking alcohol on any public property or public parking lot in the unincorporated towns, from…

Waukesha County bans possessing or drinking from an open container of beer or liquor on any public thoroughfare, a term…

Wauwatosa bans drinking alcohol on public streets, alleys, sidewalks, parks or other public places unless the spot is…

Open containers of alcohol or CBD/THC beverages are banned on West Allis public ways and City property, with carve-outs…

Winnebago County adopts Wis. Stat. § 125.07(4) by reference, making it illegal for anyone under 21 to possess or…