City of Milwaukee - File #: 011096

• File #: 011096
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 11/27/2001
• In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
• Final action: 12/21/2001
• Title: Resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee's support for passage of 2001 Wisconsin Assembly Bill 62, an act allowing municipalities to enact and enforce ordinances prohibiting the possession, manufacture or delivery of drug paraphernalia by persons 17 years of age and older, and directing the Intergovernmental Relations Division-Department of Administration to lobby for its passage.
• Sponsors: ALD. DONOVAN, ALD. BOHL, ALD. CAMERON, ALD. HERRON
• Indexes: CRIME PREVENTION, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, STATE LEGISLATION

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
1/7/2002	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
12/21/2001	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
12/17/2001	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	5:0
12/13/2001	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION AND ASSIGNED; Minutes note: Add Ald. Bohl, Ald. Cameron and Ald. Herron as co-sponsors.	Pass	5:0
12/4/2001	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/4/2001	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/4/2001	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/3/2001	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/3/2001	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
11/27/2001	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
011096
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. DONOVAN
Title
Resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee's support for passage of 2001 Wisconsin Assembly Bill 62, an act allowing municipalities to enact and enforce ordinances prohibiting the possession, manufacture or delivery of drug paraphernalia by persons 17 years of age and older, and directing the Intergovernmental Relations Division-Department of Administration to lobby for its passage.
Analysis
This resolution expresses the City of Milwaukee's support for passage of 2001 Wisconsin Assembly Bill 62 and directs the Intergovernmental Relations Division-Department of Administration to lobby for passage of this legislation. Assembly Bill 62 would enable municipalities to enact and enforce local ordinances banning the possession, manufacture or delivery of drug paraphernalia by persons 17 years of age and older. Under current state law, municipalities can only pass and enforce local ordinances relating to drug paraphernalia activities involving juveniles.
Body
Whereas, Section 106-36 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances prohibits the possession, manufacture, sale, delivery or advertisement of drug paraphernalia by any person, adult or juvenile; and

Whereas, Subchapter VI of ch. 961, Wisconsin Statutes, effectively precludes a municipality from enacting legislation to prohibit the possession, manufacture, sale, delivery or advertisement of drug paraphernalia by persons age 17 or older, thus severely limiting the City of Milwaukee's ability to enforce s. 106-36; and

Whereas, Drug-related gang activity and drug-related criminal activity continue to plague many neighborhoods in Milwaukee; and

Whereas, The widespread availability of drug paraphernalia to adults undoubtedly contributes to these problems; and

Whereas, Drug-paraphernalia and drug-abuse problems are most acutely experienced, understood and combated at the local level, thus giving municipalities a legitimate ...