943.15 Entry onto a construction site or into a locked building, dwelling or room.
MISAPPROPRIATION.
943.201 Misappropriation of personal identifying information or personal identification documents.
943.205 Theft of trade secrets.
943.207 Transfer of recorded sounds for unlawful use; sale.
943.21 Fraud on hotel or restaurant keeper or taxicab operator.
943.212 Fraud on hotel or restaurant keeper or taxicab operator; civil liability.
943.215 Absconding without paying rent.
943.22 Use of cheating tokens.
943.225 Refusal to pay for a motor bus ride.
943.23 Operating vehicle without owner's consent.
943.24 Issue of worthless check.
943.245 Worthless checks; civil liability.
943.25 Transfer of encumbered property.
943.26 Removing or damaging encumbered real property.
943.27 Possession of records of certain usurious loans.
943.28 Loan sharking prohibited.
943.30 Threats to injure or accuse of crime.
943.31 Threats to communicate derogatory information.
943.34 Receiving stolen property.
943.37 Alteration of property identification marks.
943.39 Fraudulent writings.
943.392 Fraudulent data alteration.
943.395 Fraudulent insurance and employe benefit program claims.
943.40 Fraudulent destruction of certain writings.
943.41 Financial transaction card crimes.
943.45 Theft of telecommunications service.
943.455 Theft of commercial mobile service.
943.46 Theft of cable television service.
943.47 Theft of satellite cable programming.
943.48 Telecommunications; civil liability.
943.51 Retail theft; civil liability.
943.55 Removal of shopping cart.
943.60 Criminal slander of title.
943.61 Theft of library material.
943.62 Unlawful receipt of payments to obtain loan for another.
943.75 Unauthorized release of animals.
DAMAGE.
943.01
943.01
Damage to property. 943.01(1)(1) Whoever intentionally causes damage to any physical property of another without the person's consent is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
943.01(2)
(2) Any person violating
sub. (1) under any of the following circumstances is guilty of a Class D felony:
943.01(2)(a)1.1. In this paragraph, "highway" means any public way or thoroughfare, including bridges thereon, any roadways commonly used for vehicular traffic, whether public or private, any railroad, including street and interurban railways, and any navigable waterway or airport.
943.01(2)(a)2.
2. The property damaged is a vehicle or highway and the damage is of a kind which is likely to cause injury to a person or further property damage.
943.01(2)(b)
(b) The property damaged belongs to a public utility or common carrier and the damage is of a kind which is likely to impair the services of the public utility or common carrier.
943.01(2)(c)
(c) The property damaged belongs to a person who is or was a grand or petit juror and the damage was caused by reason of any verdict or indictment assented to by the owner.
943.01(2)(d)
(d) If the total property damaged in violation of
sub. (1) is reduced in value by more than $1,000. For the purposes of this paragraph, property is reduced in value by the amount which it would cost either to repair or replace it, whichever is less.
943.01(2)(e)
(e) The property damaged is on state-owned land and is listed on the registry under
sub. (5).
943.01(2)(f)1.1. In this paragraph, "rock art site" means an archaeological site that contains paintings, carvings or other deliberate modifications of an immobile rock surface, such as a cave, overhang, boulder or bluff face, to produce symbols, stories, messages, designs or pictures. "Rock art site" includes artifacts and other cultural items, modified soils, bone and other objects of archaeological interest that are located adjacent to the paintings, carvings or other deliberate rock surface modifications.
943.01(2)(f)2.
2. The property damaged is a rock art site, any portion of a rock art site or any object that is part of a rock art site, if the rock art site is listed on the national register of historic places in Wisconsin, as defined in
s. 44.31 (5), or the state register of historic places under
s. 44.36.
943.01(2g)
(2g) Any person violating
sub. (1) under all of the following circumstances is guilty of a Class E felony:
943.01(2g)(a)
(a) The property damaged is a machine operated by the insertion of coins, currency, debit cards or credit cards.
943.01(2g)(b)
(b) The person acted with the intent to commit a theft from the machine.
943.01(2g)(c)
(c) The total property damaged in violation of
sub. (1) is reduced in value by more than $500 but not more than $1,000. For purposes of this paragraph, property is reduced in value by the amount that it would cost to repair or replace it, whichever is less, plus other monetary losses associated with the damage.
943.01(2m)
(2m) Whoever causes damage to any physical property of another under all of the following circumstances is subject to a Class B forfeiture:
943.01(2m)(a)
(a) The person does not consent to the damage of his or her property.
943.01(2m)(b)
(b) The property damaged is on state-owned land and is listed on the registry under
sub. (5).
943.01(3)
(3) If more than one item of property is damaged under a single intent and design, the damage to all the property may be prosecuted as a single forfeiture offense or crime.
943.01(4)
(4) In any case of unlawful damage involving more than one act of unlawful damage but prosecuted as a single forfeiture offense or crime, it is sufficient to allege generally that unlawful damage to property was committed between certain dates. At the trial, evidence may be given of any such unlawful damage that was committed on or between the dates alleged.
943.01(5)
(5) The department of natural resources shall maintain a registry of prominent features in the landscape of state-owned land. To be included on the registry, a feature must have significant value to the people of this state.
943.01 Annotation
The evidence was insufficient to prove that defendant intended to criminally damage property worth more than $1,000 at the time he entered the premises where no evidence was introduced as to what amount of damage could be expected to flow from the defendant's insertion of the shovel into the generator and the extent of potential damage was neither a matter of common knowledge of which the court could take judicial notice nor a fact capable of determination by resort to easily accessible sources of information. Gilbertson v. State, 69 W (2d) 587, 230 NW (2d) 874.
943.01 Annotation
Criminal damage to property is lesser-included offense of arson, 943.02. State v. Thompson, 146 W (2d) 554, 431 NW (2d) 716 (Ct. App. 1988).
943.01 Annotation
A person can be convicted of criminal damage to property in which he or she has an ownership interest if someone else has an ownership interest. State v. Sevelin, 204 W (2d) 127, 554 NW (2d) 521 (Ct. App. 1996).
943.011
943.011
Damage or threat to property of witness. 943.011(1)(a)
(a) "Family member" means a spouse, child, stepchild, foster child, treatment foster child, parent, sibling or grandchild.
943.011(2)
(2) Whoever does any of the following is guilty of a Class D felony:
943.011(2)(a)
(a) Intentionally causes damage or threatens to cause damage to any physical property owned by a person who is or was a witness by reason of the owner having attended or testified as a witness and without the owner's consent.
943.011(2)(b)
(b) Intentionally causes damage or threatens to cause damage to any physical property owned by a person who is a family member of a witness or a person sharing a common domicile with a witness by reason of the witness having attended or testified as a witness and without the owner's consent.
943.011 History
History: 1997 a. 143.
943.012
943.012
Criminal damage to or graffiti on religious and other property. Whoever intentionally causes damage to, intentionally marks, draws or writes with ink or another substance on or intentionally etches into any physical property of another, without the person's consent and with knowledge of the character of the property, is guilty of a Class E felony if the property consists of one or more of the following:
943.012(1)
(1) Any church, synagogue or other building, structure or place primarily used for religious worship or another religious purpose.
943.012(2)
(2) Any cemetery, mortuary or other facility used for burial or memorializing the dead.
943.012(3)
(3) Any school, educational facility or community center publicly identified as associated with a group of persons of a particular race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry or by an institution of any such group.
943.012(4)
(4) Any personal property contained in any property under
subs. (1) to
(3) if the personal property has particular significance or value to any group of persons of a particular race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry and the actor knows the personal property has particular significance or value to that group.
943.012 History
History: 1987 a. 348;
1995 a. 24.
943.013
943.013
Criminal damage; threat; property of judge. 943.013(1)(a)
(a) "Family member" means a parent, spouse, sibling, child, stepchild, foster child or treatment foster child.
943.013(1)(b)
(b) "Judge" means a supreme court justice, court of appeals judge, circuit court judge, municipal judge, temporary or permanent reserve judge or juvenile, probate, family or other court commissioner.