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City of Watertown, WI
Dodge / Jefferson County
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No person shall cause bodily harm to another by an act done with intent to cause bodily harm to that person or another without the consent of the person so harmed.
A. 
No person shall:
(1) 
In any public or private place engage in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud or otherwise disorderly conduct which tends to cause or provoke an immediate disturbance of public order or tends to disturb or annoy any other person or persons.
(2) 
Intentionally cause, provoke or engage in any fight, brawl, riot or noisy altercation other than a bona fide athletic event.
(3) 
Disturb any lawful meeting, assemblage or gathering, or fail or refuse to withdraw from an unlawful assembly which the person knows has been ordered to disperse.
B. 
Disorderly conduct in school.
[Added by Ord. No. 98-39]
(1) 
Purpose. The City of Watertown finds that public education must prepare students for citizenship and, thus, must inculcate habits and manners of civility as fundamental values to the practice of self-government in the community. These values must include tolerance of divergent political and religious views. Furthermore, these values must also take into account the sensibilities of fellow students and school staff. The lessons of civil, mature conduct cannot be conveyed in a school that tolerates lewd, indecent or offensive speech and conduct. Thus, the City of Watertown finds that it is a highly appropriate function of the public schools within the City of Watertown to prevent the use of lewd, indecent or offensive speech and conduct in public discourse within the school environment. The City of Watertown recognizes that ordinances which apply to student behavior in the school environment must preserve both the informal nature of the student-staff relationship and the discretion of staff members to identify and prohibit a wide range of unanticipated and disruptive student speech and conduct.
(2) 
Disorderly conduct at school. No juvenile or student shall, in any public school environment within the corporate limits of the City of Watertown, engage in any speech or conduct, including the use of obscene, profane, lewd, indecent or offensive language or gestures, which materially and substantially interferes with the educational mission of the school.
(3) 
The following are examples of acts that may, under the circumstances, materially and substantially interfere with the educational mission of the school: the use of obscene, profane, lewd, indecent or offensive language or gestures directed at any teacher, administrator and other school staff member; the use of obscene, profane, lewd, indecent or offensive language or gestures directed at any student. This list is not intended to encompass every act that may be prohibited by this section.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 11.14, which immediately followed this section, was repealed by Ord. No. 98-53.
[Added by Ord. No. 11-12]
A. 
In this section, "message" means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data or intelligence of any nature, or any transfer of a computer program, as defined in § 943.70(1)(c), Wis. Stats.
B. 
Whoever does any of the following is subject to a penalty as set forth in the Watertown Bond Schedule:
(1) 
With intent to frighten, intimidate, threaten, abuse or harass another person, sends a message to the person through an electronic mail or other computerized communication system and in that message threatens to inflict injury or physical harm to any person or the property of any person.
(2) 
With intent to frighten, intimidate, threaten, abuse or harass another person, sends a message on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system with the reasonable expectation that the person will receive the message and in that message threatens to inflict injury or physical harm to any person or the property of any person.
(3) 
With intent to frighten, intimidate, threaten or abuse another person, sends a message to the person on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system and in that message uses any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggests any lewd or lascivious act.
(4) 
With intent to frighten, intimidate, threaten or abuse another person, sends a message on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system with the reasonable expectation that the person will receive the message and in that message uses any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggests any lewd or lascivious act.
(5) 
With intent to frighten, intimidate, threaten or abuse another person, sends a message to the person on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system while intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent the disclosure of his or her own identity.
(6) 
While intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent the disclosure of his or her identity and with intent to frighten, intimidate, threaten or abuse another person, sends a message on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system with the reasonable expectation that the person will receive the message.
C. 
Whoever does any of the following is subject to a penalty as set forth in the Watertown Bond Schedule:
(1) 
With intent to harass, annoy or offend another person, sends a message to the person on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system and in that message uses any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggests any lewd or lascivious act.
(2) 
With intent to harass, annoy or offend another person, sends a message on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system with the reasonable expectation that the person will receive the message and in that message uses any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggests any lewd or lascivious act.
(3) 
With intent solely to harass another person, sends repeated messages to the person on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system.
(4) 
With intent solely to harass another person, sends repeated messages on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system with the reasonable expectation that the person will receive the messages.
(5) 
With intent to harass or annoy another person, sends a message to the person on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system while intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent the disclosure of his or her own identity.
(6) 
While intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent the disclosure of his or her identity and with intent to harass or annoy another person, sends a message on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system with the reasonable expectation that the person will receive the message.
(7) 
Knowingly permits or directs another person to send a message prohibited by this section from any computer terminal or other device that is used to send messages on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system and that is under his or her control.
A. 
No person, with intent to harass or intimidate another person, shall do any of the following:
(1) 
Strike, shove, kick or otherwise subject the person to physical contact or attempt or threaten to do the same.
(2) 
Engage in a course of conduct or repeatedly commit acts which harass or intimidate the person and which serve no legitimate purpose.
B. 
This section does not prohibit any person from participating in lawful conduct in labor disputes under § 103.53, Wis. Stats.
[Added by Ord. No. 89-9]
Whoever knowingly allows, permits or boards any minor child at his or her residence, property or place of business, where the person knows or should have known the child to be a runaway from his or her parent, guardian or legal custodian, shall be guilty of harboring a runaway and shall be subject to the penalty provisions of this chapter.