343.45 Permitting unauthorized person to drive.
(1) No person shall cause or knowingly permit the person's child or ward under 18 years of age to operate a motor vehicle upon any highway in violation of this chapter or when such minor is not authorized under this chapter to operate a motor vehicle.
(2) No person shall authorize or knowingly permit a motor vehicle owned by the person or under the person's control to be operated upon any highway in violation of this chapter or by a person who is not authorized under this chapter to operate a motor vehicle. No dealer as defined in s. 340.01 (11) (intro.) but including the persons specified in s. 340.01 (11) (a), (b), (c) and (d), shall permit any person to operate any motor vehicle owned by the dealer or in the dealer's possession or control on a trial run unless the dealer has been shown the person's valid operator's license, issued by this state or other jurisdiction, before permitting the trial run.
(3) Except as another penalty is provided by s. 343.245 (4) (b), any person violating this section may be required to forfeit not more than $100.
History: 1971 c. 278; 1989 a. 105, 359.
A parent's unrestricted entrustment of a motorcycle to minor child in violation of this section constituted negligence per se. Kempf v. Boehrig, 95 Wis. 2d 435, 290 N.W.2d 563 (Ct. App. 1980).
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 343 - Operators' licenses.
343.01 - Words and phrases defined.
343.02 - Administration of driver license law.
343.025 - Medicare acceptance of assignment; information; report.
343.027 - Confidentiality of signatures.
343.03 - Classified driver license system.
343.04 - Vehicle classifications.
343.05 - Operators to be licensed; exceptions.
343.055 - Commercial driver license waivers.
343.06 - Persons not to be licensed.
343.065 - Restricted commercial driver license.
343.075 - Instructional permits for applicants for special restricted operators' licenses.
343.08 - Restricted licenses for persons under 18 years of age.
343.085 - Probationary licenses to new drivers.
343.10 - Occupational licenses.
343.11 - Temporary license for persons previously licensed in another state.
343.12 - School bus operators to obtain special authorization.
343.125 - Endorsements for transporting certain hazardous materials.
343.135 - Special restricted operator's license.
343.14 - Application for license.
343.16 - Examination of applicants; reexamination of licensed persons.
343.165 - Processing license and identification card applications.
343.17 - Contents and issuance of operator's license.
343.175 - Organ donor information.
343.18 - License to be carried; verification of signature.
343.19 - Duplicate licenses or identification cards.
343.20 - Expiration of licenses.
343.22 - Notice of change of address or name.
343.23 - Records to be kept by the department.
343.234 - Department to furnish information to the selective service system.
343.235 - Access to license and identification card records.
343.237 - Access to license and identification card photographs and fingerprints.
343.24 - Department to furnish operating record.
343.245 - Duties of commercial motor vehicle drivers; employer responsibilities; penalties.
343.247 - Employer notification program.
343.25 - Cancellation of licenses.
343.26 - License after cancellation.
343.265 - Voluntary surrender and reissuance after surrender.
343.28 - Courts to report convictions and forward licenses to the department.
343.30 - Suspension and revocation by the courts.
343.301 - Installation of ignition interlock device.
343.303 - Preliminary breath screening test.
343.305 - Tests for intoxication; administrative suspension and court-ordered revocation.
343.307 - Prior convictions, suspensions or revocations to be counted as offenses.
343.31 - Revocation or suspension of licenses after certain convictions or declarations.
343.315 - Commercial motor vehicle disqualifications; effects.
343.32 - Other grounds for revocation or suspension of licenses; demerit points.
343.325 - Courts to report appeals; when appeal stays suspension, revocation or disqualification.
343.33 - Hearing on suspensions and revocations.
343.34 - Suspension of licenses.
343.345 - Restriction, limitation or suspension of operating privilege.
343.35 - Surrender of licenses upon cancellation, revocation or suspension.
343.37 - No operation under foreign license during revocation or suspension.
343.38 - Reinstatement after revocation, suspension, cancellation, or disqualification.
343.39 - When operating privilege automatically reinstated.
343.40 - Judicial review of suspension, revocation, cancellation or denial of license.
343.43 - Unlawful use of license.
343.435 - License not to be used as security.
343.44 - Operating while suspended, revoked, ordered out-of-service or disqualified.
343.45 - Permitting unauthorized person to drive.
343.46 - Duty of persons renting vehicles to another.
343.50 - Identification cards.
343.51 - Special identification cards for physically disabled.
343.52 - Unlawful use of special identification cards.
343.61 - Driver school requirements.
343.62 - Instructor requirements.
343.71 - Driver school records, curriculum, and operations.
343.72 - Rules for conducting driver schools; prohibited practices.