LRB-2461/1
JEO:mfd:arm
1997 - 1998 LEGISLATURE
February 19, 1998 - Introduced by Representatives Carpenter, Wasserman,
Freese, Cullen, Staskunas, Plale, Meyer, Porter, Hasenohrl, Musser,
Ziegelbauer, Urban and
Ott, cosponsored by Senators Burke, Rude, Moen
and Darling. Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Corrections.
AB805,1,2
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. Currently, a person may be fined not more than $10,000
or imprisoned for not more than 2 years or both if, knowing the character of the
property, he or she 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. This bill increases the maximum imprisonment for this
crime to 5 years. 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:
AB805, s. 1
3Section
1. 943.012 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB805,2,3
4943.012 Criminal damage to or graffiti on religious and other
5property. (intro.) Whoever intentionally causes damage to, intentionally marks,
6draws or writes with ink or another substance on or intentionally etches into any
1physical property of another, without the person's consent and with knowledge of the
2character of the property, is guilty of a Class
E
D felony if the property consists of one
3or more of the following:
AB805,2,65
(1) This act applies to offenses occurring on or after the effective date of this
6subsection.
