1995 Wisconsin Act 93

  Date of enactment: December 1, 1995
1995 Assembly Bill 276   Date of publication*: December 15, 1995

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1993-94: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

1995 WISCONSIN ACT 93

An Act to create 946.415 of the statutes; relating to: refusing to comply with a peace officer's attempt to take a person into custody and providing penalties.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

93,1 Section 1 . 946.415 of the statutes is created to read:

946.415 Failure to comply with officer's attempt to take person into custody. (1) In this section, “ officer" has the meaning given in s. 946.41 (2) (b).

(2) Whoever intentionally does all of the following is guilty of a Class E felony:

(a) Refuses to comply with an officer's lawful attempt to take him or her into custody.

(b) Retreats or remains in a building or place and, through action or threat, attempts to prevent the officer from taking him or her into custody.

(c) While acting under pars. (a) and (b), remains or becomes armed with a dangerous weapon or threatens to use a dangerous weapon regardless of whether he or she has a dangerous weapon.