Municipal Court

Welcome to the Village of Salem Lakes Municipal Court.  Municipal Courts are created by the governing body of the municipality, in this case by the Village of Salem Lakes (Chapter 15).  They have exclusive jurisdiction over State Statute 755.045(1) actions involving violations of municipal ordinances, under which the penalty is a forfeiture.  In other words, this court does not handle any criminal matters.  Those matters would go to the Circuit Court in Kenosha.  We handle local issues that stem from breaking local ordinances.  These could be a whole range of violations including but not limited to; traffic, parking, truancy, boating, public nuisance, animal control, peace and order, possession of marijuana or paraphernalia, disorderly conduct, underage alcohol or tobacco, building code and property maintenance, burning violations ... and many more ordinance violations.