Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.
86.192 - Penalty for injuring guide board, markers, etc.

86.192 Penalty for injuring guide board, markers, etc.
(1) No person may injure, deface or remove any sign, guide board, mile post, signal or marker erected by the state or by any municipality thereof for the warning, instruction or information of the public. The following warning shall be affixed to the front of each such sign, guide board, mile post, signal or marker: “WARNING: $25 to $100 fine or imprisonment for removing or tampering with this sign."
(1m) No person may possess any sign, guide board, mile post, signal or marker of the type erected by the state or by any municipality for the warning, instruction or information of the public, unless the person can demonstrate that he or she obtained it in a legal manner. Possession of such a sign, guide board, mile post, signal or marker creates a rebuttable presumption of illegal possession. In this subsection, “possession" means the presence of such a sign, guide board, mile post, signal or marker on premises owned or controlled by the person, including but not limited to a rented apartment, rented room or dormitory room. Persons who voluntarily notify a law enforcement agency of the presence on their premises of such a sign, guide board, mile post, signal or marker shall be exempt from prosecution under this subsection.
(2) Any person who violates this section shall be fined $25 for the first violation, $100 for a subsequent violation, or imprisoned not exceeding 30 days for the first violation, or 60 days for a subsequent violation, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court. The court may, in addition, order any such person either to restore or replace any such damaged sign, mile post, signal or marker, or to pay the cost thereof.
(3) On conviction of any person of a violation of this section, the person or persons who informed against and aided in the prosecution of such offense to conviction shall be paid by the court one-half of the amount of the fine paid into the court.
(4) Any person who violates this section is guilty of a Class H felony if the injury, defacement or removal causes the death of a person.
History: 1975 c. 169, 421; 1997 a. 283; 2001 a. 109.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 86 - Miscellaneous highway provisions.

86.001 - Definitions.

86.01 - Materials left in highway; penalty.

86.02 - Injury to highway.

86.021 - Highways, cultivation of; injury by farm machinery.

86.022 - Obstructing highway with embankment or ditch.

86.025 - Camping on highways.

86.03 - Trees on and adjacent to highway.

86.04 - Highway encroachments.

86.05 - Entrances to highways restored.

86.06 - Highways closed to travel; penalties.

86.07 - Digging in highways or using bridges for advertising.

86.073 - Review of denial of permit.

86.075 - Highway authorities to notify drainage board of highway construction.

86.08 - Dust-free surfacing at licensed dairy or meat packing plants.

86.09 - Access to cemetery preserved.

86.10 - Salvage in highway construction.

86.105 - Snow removal in private driveways.

86.11 - Highways; railroad crossings; grade separation.

86.12 - Highway railroad grade crossings; construction and repair.

86.13 - Railroads to maintain highway crossings.

86.135 - Railroad highway crossings; traffic control.

86.14 - Strength of bridges.

86.15 - Donations of highway aid to adjoining municipalities.

86.16 - Utility lines on highways; place of poles; penalty.

86.17 - Taking water from highway streams.

86.18 - Milwaukee County highways; location, alteration, maintenance.

86.185 - Populous counties; power over county trunk highways.

86.19 - Highway signs, regulation, prohibition.

86.191 - Advertising in highways prohibited, where.

86.192 - Penalty for injuring guide board, markers, etc.

86.195 - Specific information signs.

86.196 - Tourist-oriented directional signs.

86.20 - Interstate bridge corporations.

86.21 - Interstate toll bridges.

86.22 - Interstate railroad bridges must have convenient approaches.

86.23 - Maintenance of drawbridges owned jointly.

86.25 - Municipal cooperation as to highways improved with state or federal aid.

86.255 - Limitation on moneys used to purchase land remote from highway project.

86.257 - Transfer of highways.

86.30 - General transportation aids.

86.302 - Local roads; inventory.

86.303 - Cost determinations.

86.305 - Eligibility for transportation aids.

86.31 - Local roads improvement program.

86.312 - Local roads for job preservation program.

86.315 - County forest road aids.

86.32 - Connecting highways.

86.33 - Population estimates.

86.34 - Disaster damage aids.

86.50 - Milwaukee County high-wide route.

86.51 - Requirements for local projects.