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1999 - 2000 LEGISLATURE
February 11, 1999 - Introduced by Representatives Carpenter, Freese, Musser,
Plale, Boyle, Ryba, Hasenohrl, Riley, Sinicki, Urban, Gronemus and Porter,
cosponsored by Senators Burke, Roessler, Baumgart and
Darling. Referred
to Committee on Criminal Justice.
AB121,1,2
1An Act to amend 943.012 (intro.) of the statutes;
relating to: criminal damage
2to certain property and providing a penalty.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law makes it a crime to damage another person's property without that
person's consent, with the penalty for the crime depending on the type or value of the
property that is damaged. If a person who knows the character of the property
damages religious property, cemetery property, property of a school or community
center publicly identified with a particular religious, racial, ethnic or other group or
personal property of particular significance to a religious, racial, ethnic or other
group, he or she may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than
two years if the offense occurs before December 31, 1999, or for not more than five
years if the offense occurs on or after December 31, 1999. This bill increases the
maximum imprisonment for this crime to five years for offenses committed before
December 31, 1999, and to ten years for offenses committed on or after December 31,
1999. The bill does not change the maximum fine for the crime.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB121, s. 1
3Section
1. 943.012 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB121,2,4
4943.012 Criminal damage to or graffiti on religious and other
5property. (intro.) Whoever intentionally causes damage to, intentionally marks,
1draws or writes with ink or another substance on or intentionally etches into any
2physical property of another, without the person's consent and with knowledge of the
3character of the property, is guilty of a Class
E
D felony if the property consists of one
4or more of the following:
AB121,2,76
(1) This act applies to offenses occurring on or after the effective date of this
7subsection.
