Prohibited acts B - penalties
Known as the Uniform Controlled Substances Act
The act spans §§ 961.001 to 961.69 (71 sections).
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case State v. Artic (2010)
Most recently applied in Ardonis Greer v. Wayne J. Wiedenhoeft (April 2014)
1971 c. 219; 1995 a. 448 s. 267; Stats. 1995 s. 961.42; 1997 a. 283; 2001 a. 109. “Keeping” a substance under s. 161.42 (1) [now sub
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) It is unlawful for any person knowingly to keep or maintain any store, shop, warehouse, dwelling, building, vehicle, boat, aircraft or other structure or place, which is resorted to by persons using controlled substances in violation of this chapter for the purpose of using these substances, or which is used for manufacturing, keeping or delivering them in violation of this chapter.
(2) Any person who violates this section is guilty of a Class I felony.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.