Chapter 272 - CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY, DECENCY AND GOOD ORDER
- Section 272:1 - Enticing away a person under 16 for marriage
- Section 272:2 - Enticing away a person for prostitution or sexual intercourse
- Section 272:3 - Drugging persons for sexual intercourse
- Section 272:4 - Inducing person under 18 to have sexual intercourse
- Section 272:4A - Inducing minor into prostitution; penalties
- Section 272:4B - Living off or sharing earnings of minor prostitute; penalties
- Section 272:6 - One controlling a place, inducing or suffering a person to resort there for sexual intercourse
- Section 272:7 - Support from, or sharing, earnings of prostitute
- Section 272:8 - Soliciting for prostitute
- Section 272:9 - Oath and warrant to enter place for prostitution; detention of person in control and prostitute; recognizance to appear as witness
- Section 272:10 - Arrest without warrant
- Section 272:11 - Corroboration of one witness; limitations
- Section 272:12 - Procuring person to practice, or enter a place for, prostitution; employment office procuring person
- Section 272:13 - Detaining, or drugging to detain, person in place for prostitution
- Section 272:14 - [Repealed]
- Section 272:15 - Polygamy
- Section 272:16 - Open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior
- Section 272:17 - Incestuous marriage or intercourse
- Section 272:18 - [Repealed]
- Section 272:19 - [Repealed]
- Section 272:20 - [Repealed]
- Section 272:21 - [Repealed]
- Section 272:21A - Furnishing drugs, articles or information for prevention of pregnancy or conception
- Section 272:21B - Privately controlled hospital or health facility not required to perform abortion or sterilization procedures, or to furnish contraceptive devices or information or family planning services
- Section 272:22 - Concealment of death of child born out of wedlock
- Section 272:23 - Joinder of charges of murder and offense under sec. 22
- Section 272:24 - Keeping house of ill fame
- Section 272:25 - Enclosures in restaurants or taverns closed by devices obstructing view of patrons; barricaded entrances impeding access by officers
- Section 272:26 - Resorting to restaurants or taverns for immoral purposes; engaging in such acts therein
- Section 272:27 - Copy of record of convictions under secs. 25 and 26 sent to licensing officers
- Section 272:28 - Matter harmful to minors, dissemination; possession; defenses
- Section 272:28C - Information or petition against obscene books; order of notice to show cause; notice of order; interlocutory adjudication; defense
- Section 272:28D - Answer to notice; right to jury trial
- Section 272:28E - Order of default; adjudication
- Section 272:28F - Hearing; evidence; adjudication
- Section 272:28G - Objection that mere judgment sought and no relief claimed on issue of knowledge
- Section 272:28H - Proceeding under sec. 28C as evidence in trial under sec. 28B; presumptions as to knowledge
- Section 272:28I - Certain procedures as condition precedent to institution of proceedings for dissemination of obscene books
- Section 272:29 - Dissemination or possession of obscene matter; punishment; defense
- Section 272:29A - Posing or exhibiting child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment
- Section 272:29B - Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment
- Section 272:29C - Knowing purchase or possession of visual material of child depicted in sexual conduct; punishment
- Section 272:29D - [Effective 9/18/2024] Possession, purchase or dissemination by minors of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment
- Section 272:30 - Injunctive relief against dissemination of obscene matter; jurisdiction; procedures; appeal
- Section 272:30D - Jurisdiction to enjoin dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct
- Section 272:31 - Definitions applicable to secs. 28, 28C, 28D, 28E, 29, 29A, 29B, 30 and 30D
- Section 272:32 - Motion picture theater managers or operators; applicability of secs. 28, 29 and 29A
- Section 272:33 - Exhibition of deformities
- Section 272:34 - Crime against nature
- Section 272:35 - Unnatural and lascivious acts
- Section 272:35A - Unnatural and lascivious acts with child under 16
- Section 272:36 - Blasphemy
- Section 272:36A - Sporting events; penalty for abuse of participants and officials
- Section 272:38 - Disturbance of assembly for worship
- Section 272:39 - Selling goods and provisions, caring for horses, illegal gaming, horse racing or exhibits near camp meetings
- Section 272:40 - Disturbance of schools or assemblies
- Section 272:40A - Alcoholic beverages; gift, sale, delivery or possession on public school premises
- Section 272:41 - Disturbance of libraries
- Section 272:42 - Disturbance of funerals
- Section 272:42A - Disturbance of funeral services
- Section 272:42B - Creating disturbance at military funeral service; penalty
- Section 272:43 - Disorderliness in public conveyances; disturbance of travelers
- Section 272:43A - Smoking in public conveyances and transportation terminals
- Section 272:53 - Penalty for certain offenses
- Section 272:53A - Engaging in sexual conduct for a fee; engaging in sexual conduct with a child under 18; penalty
- Section 272:54 - Apprehension for offences mentioned in sec. 53, without warrant; custody
- Section 272:56 - Commission of subsequent offence as breach of recognizance on appeal
- Section 272:57 - Discharge upon recognizance and paying expenses of prosecutions under secs. 53, 66 and 68
- Section 272:58 - Employing or permitting employment of minor under 15 to beg
- Section 272:59 - Violation of regulations relating to streets, reservations, or parkways; alcoholic beverages; profanity; arrest without warrant
- Section 272:60 - Refusal to remove substance placed on public way in violation of town regulations; arrest without warrant until identity ascertained
- Section 272:61 - Conviction after discharge from sentence under sec. 53
- Section 272:62 - Third conviction of being a common nightwalker
- Section 272:63 - Tramps; begging or riding freight trains as prima facie evidence
- Section 272:64 - Punishment of tramps; entering buildings; injuries to or threats against persons or property; carrying weapons
- Section 272:65 - Arrest of tramps without warrant; making complaint
- Section 272:66 - Vagrants
- Section 272:67 - Arrest of vagrants without warrant; taking before court; making complaint
- Section 272:68 - Vagabonds
- Section 272:69 - Arresting vagabonds without warrant; taking before court; making complaint
- Section 272:70 - Taking dead body on process or execution
- Section 272:71 - Disinterring bodies
- Section 272:72 - Buying, selling or possessing dead bodies
- Section 272:73 - Tombs, graves, memorials, trees, plants; injuring, removing
- Section 272:73A - Removal of gravestones and other memorials for repair or reproduction
- Section 272:73B - Selling or attempt to sell stolen commemorative grave marker; receiving, retention of disposal of stolen commemorative grave marker
- Section 272:74 - Desecrating place of burial; use and occupation as evidence of title
- Section 272:75 - Removal of flowers, flags or memorial tokens from burial lot
- Section 272:76 - Ways, railroads, canals or public easements through burial grounds
- Section 272:77 - Cruelty to animals; prohibition from work involving animal contact
- Section 272:77A - Willfully injuring police dogs and horses
- Section 272:77B - Exhibition of wild animals
- Section 272:77C - Sexual contact with animals
- Section 272:78 - Selling, leading, or using horses not fit for work; forfeiture of auctioneer's license
- Section 272:78A - Sale of foals under five months; penalty
- Section 272:79 - Corporations' and companies' punishment and responsibility relative to animals transported, owned or used
- Section 272:79A - Cutting bones or muscles to dock or set tail of horse; wound as evidence
- Section 272:79B - Exhibiting horse with tail cut under sec. 79A; affidavit as to cutting in state where not prohibited; inspection
- Section 272:80 1/2 - Surgical devocalization of cats and dogs
- Section 272:80A - Cropping or cutting off ear of dog; wound as prima facie evidence
- Section 272:80B - Exhibiting dogs with ears cropped or cut off
- Section 272:80C - Taking cat, dog or bird to exhibit it, subject it to experimentation or mutilation, or to sell it for such purposes; application of law
- Section 272:80D - Sale, etc. of living rabbits, baby chickens, ducklings or other fowl
- Section 272:80E - Use of decompression chambers for putting animals to death
- Section 272:80E 1/2 - Drowning of animals
- Section 272:80F - Giving away live animals as prize or award
- Section 272:80G - Experiments on vertebrates; vivisection, dissection of animals; care
- Section 272:80H - Motor vehicles; striking, injuring or killing dogs or cats
- Section 272:80I - Leasing or renting dogs
- Section 272:81 - Rest, water and feed for transported animals; lien; liability for detention
- Section 272:82 - Arrest without warrant for violation of sec. 77 or 81; notice to owner; care of animals; lien
- Section 272:83 - Complaint, warrant and search relative to cruelty to animals
- Section 272:84 - Prosecutions under secs. 77 to 81
- Section 272:85A - Injuring, taking away or harboring domesticated animals or birds; removal of dog license tag, collar or harness; imitation tag
- Section 272:85B - Damages for stealing or attacking assistance animals
- Section 272:86 - Stabling horses or mules on second or higher floors, in places other than cities
- Section 272:86A - Stabling horses and mules above first floor or exceeding six in cities; use of exits
- Section 272:86B - Stabling horses or mules exceeding fifteen
- Section 272:86C - Smoking in buildings used for stabling horses or mules
- Section 272:86D - Pails of water and sand in buildings used for stables
- Section 272:86E - Entry upon premises to enforce secs. 86A to 86D; ordering conditions remedied; service
- Section 272:86F - Punishment for violation of secs. 86 to 86D or for neglect to comply with orders under sec. 86E
- Section 272:87 - Keeping or using birds to be shot at; shooting them; permitting premises to be used for shooting
- Section 272:88 - Complaints and warrants relative to fighting animals; searches; arrests
- Section 272:89 - Entering without warrant place for exhibition of fighting animals; arrests; seizure of animals
- Section 272:90 - Custody of arrested persons; taking before court; proceedings
- Section 272:91 - Application for decree of forfeiture; notice; hearing; adjudication; returning or killing animals; claimant
- Section 272:92 - Appeal; recognizance; custody and disposition of animals
- Section 272:92A - Advertisement, book, notice or sign relative to discrimination; definition of place of public accommodation, resort or amusement
- Section 272:93 - Expenses of care and destruction of fighting animals
- Section 272:94 - Owning, possessing or training fighting animals; establishing or promoting exhibition
- Section 272:95 - Aiding or being present at exhibition of fighting animals
- Section 272:96 - False notice of birth, marriage or death
- Section 272:97A - Demands, notices or other documents resembling court process; complaint; order to discontinue
- Section 272:98 - Discrimination in admission to, or treatment in, place of public accommodation; punishment; forfeiture; civil right
- Section 272:98A - Accommodations and privileges of physically handicapped persons with a dog guide; charges or fares; liability
- Section 272:98B - Discrimination in employment on public works or in public relief or transitional assistance
- Section 272:98C - Libel relative to groups of persons; punishment; prosecutions; defenses
- Section 272:99 - Interception of wire and oral communications
- Section 272:99A - Overhearing deliberations of jury by using devices
- Section 272:100 through 272:102 - [Repealed]
- Section 272:103 - [Repealed]
- Section 272:104 - Security for seizure and impoundment of animals relating to cruelty to animals or animal fighting
- Section 272:105 - Photographing, videotaping or electronically surveilling partially nude or nude person or sexual or intimate parts of person around person's clothing; exceptions; punishment
- Section 272:106 - Stolen valor
- Section 272:107 - Fines deposited into Victims of Human Trafficking Trust Fund