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CODE OF GENERAL ORDINANCES, 2011 - KENOSHA, WISCONSIN of a person or entity. C. Prohibited Acts. It is unlawful for any person(s) to: host or allow an event or gathering at any residence, premises or on any other private or public property where alcohol or alcoholic beverages are present when the person knows that an underage person will or does consume any alcohol or alcoholic beverage; or possess any alcohol or alcoholic beverage with the intent to consume it; and the person fails to take reasonable steps to prevent possession or consumption by the underage person(s). 1. A person is responsible for violating this section if the person intentionally aids, advises, hires, counsels or conspires with or otherwise procures another to commit the prohibited act. 2. A person who hosts an event or gathering does not have to be present at the event or gathering to be responsible. D. Exceptions. 1. This chapter does not apply to conduct solely between an underage person and his or her parents while the parent is present and in control of the underage person. 2. This chapter does not apply to legally protected religious observances. unlawful for any person to consume any fermented malt beverage or intoxicating liquor or to possess the same in other than a sealed container while upon any public walk, street, public park, other public place in the City or over which the City has any lease or jurisdiction, on any parking lot open to and available to the public, or within a parked vehicle located on any street within the City of Kenosha. However, the sale, service, giving away and consumption of fermented malt beverages, where authorized under City and State law, is permitted upon City streets and sidewalks where said areas are blocked off and in use for a street party authorized under §5.04 B., Ordinances, or where said activity is associated with a community event and where a Special Class "B" Fermented Malt Beverage License has been granted and issued, and where a permit therefor is reviewed by the Committee on Licensing/Permits and approved by the Common Council. Any permit issued must particularly describe the area in which said activity will be permitted and temporary signs must be posted within the permit area informing the public of the terms and limitations of the permit. C. Intoxicants Permitted On City Sidewalks In An Outdoor Dining Area. The sale, service, giving away and consumption of intoxicants is permitted upon City sidewalks in an Outdoor Dining Area authorized and subject to a Permit under Section 5.046 of the Code of General Ordinances. 3. This chapter does not apply to situations where underage persons are lawfully in possession of alcohol or alcoholic beverages during the course and scope of employment. E. Penalties. A person who violates any provision of this ordinance is subject to a forfeiture of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, together with the costs of prosecution. A person who is in default of payment is subject to imprisonment in the county jail until the forfeiture and costs are paid 11.026 PROHIBITING THE DRINKING OF (b) bloodshot eyes; INTOXICANTS ON PUBLIC STREETS AND (c) dilated pupils; SIDEWALKS, OR WITHIN ANY PARKED MOTOR VEHICLE A. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or serve or give to another person, or offer to sell or serve or give to another person any fermented malt beverage or intoxicating liquor while upon any public street or sidewalk, or within a parked motor vehicle located on any street within the City of Kenosha. B. Unless otherwise properly licensed, It shall be XI - 6 D. Underage Persons Under the Influence Prohibited. 1. No underage person as defined in Section 125.02(20m), Wisconsin Statutes, shall be under the influence of alcohol in the City of Kenosha. Such prohibition is subject to the exceptions in Section 125.07(4)(b), Wisconsin Statutes. 2. For the purpose of this section "under the influence" shall mean any underage person who exhibits one or more of the following indicators: (a) odor of intoxicants on the breath; (d) unstable balance; (e) slurred speech; (f) failure of Standard Field Sobriety Test; and (g) admission to consumption of alcohol. 11.027 SERVICE STATIONS A. Purpose. The purpose of this Ordinance is to reduce the number of service station robberies and thereby safeguard the health, safety and welfare of service station patrons and attendants
CODE OF GENERAL ORDINANCES, 2011 - KENOSHA, WISCONSIN during those evening hours when such robberies responsibility must be encouraged to effectively are most likely to occur. The primary hours of control or eliminate juvenile offenses. The purpose concern to law enforcement authorities are the of this Ordinance is to encourage parental hours of 8:00 P.M. to 8:00 A.M.; however, the responsibility and to penalize those that fail to restrictions of this Ordinance include only the hours exercise said responsibility. of 9:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M., so as to impose as little burden as possible on service stations which are B. Definitions. not open throughout the night but which may close their workday at 9:00 P.M. and open at 7:00 A.M. 1. "Minor" means a person who is above the age of seven (7) years, but not yet eighteen (18) B. Restriction. No service station shall be or years of age. remain open, within the City, during the hours of 2. "Legal Guardian" means a person 9:00 P.M. through 7:00 A.M., or any portion thereof, appointed guardian or given custody of a minor unless said service station shall have a safety child by a Court of record. deposit box on the premises which cannot be opened by the attendant on duty, and which is permanently attached, and not readily removable from the premises, into which box cash from all sales during said hours must be deposited by the attendant on duty immediately after said sale is consummated. C. Definition. Service stations shall be defined herein as a business involving primarily the sale of gasoline and diesel fuel for motor vehicles, and the sale of any products or services incidental to the operation of a motor vehicle, and the sale of any groceries or merchandise conducted while the station is otherwise open for business. D. Permit. No service station shall be or remain open during the hours of 9:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M., after May 1, 1977, without first obtaining a permit from the City Clerk which shall be issued without the payment of a fee. The City Clerk shall not issue said permit until the application which shall be upon a form supplied by the City Clerk, shall be sent to the Police Department for an inspection of the premises, and report thereon for the purpose of determining whether a proper safety deposit box has been installed as heretofore required. E. Penalty. Any person, party, firm or corporation who shall operate a service station in a manner contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance shall be subject to a fine of $25 per day, each day constituting a separate violation, and the payment of costs and prosecution, and in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be committed to the County Jail for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days. 11.028 PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY A. Purpose. Juvenile acts causing injury to persons and damage to property are of vital concern to the citizens of Kenosha, and it is the declared policy of this City that parental XI - 7 C. Prohibition. The parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor residing with such parent or legal guardian shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary to have failed to exercise proper parental responsibility and said minor shall be deemed to have committed the acts described below with the knowledge and permission of the parent or guardian, in violation of this Ordinance, upon the occurrence of the events described in 1., 2. and 3. below: 1. An unemancipated minor residing with said parent or legal guardian shall either be adjudicated to be in violation of any Ordinances, law or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property, or shall have incurred nonjudicial sanctions from another official agency resulting from an admission of guilt of violation of any Ordinance, law or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property; and, 2. Said parent or legal guardian shall have received a written notice thereof, either by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service, with a certificate of personal service returned from the Police Department of the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin, following said adjudication or nonjudicial sanction; and If at any time within one (1) year following receipt of the notice set forth in 2. above, said minor is either adjudicated to be in violation of any Ordinance, law or statute as described in 1. above, or shall have incurred nonjudicial sanctions from another official agency resulting from an admission of guilt of violation or any Ordinance, law or statute as described in 1. above. D. Penalty. Any person convicted for a violation of this Ordinance shall be fined not less than Twenty-Five ($25.00) Dollars, nor more than Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars for each offense, and costs of prosecution, and in default of payment
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