AB 204

This bill makes various changes to municipal ordinance enforcement and

municipal court procedures, including the following: the bill outlines the procedure

for the formation or dissolution of joint municipal courts; the bill specifies that

municipal court budgets must be separate from, or appear on a separate line item

from municipal prosecuting attorneys and municipal law enforcement agencies; the

bill allows for non-OWI municipal citations from an OWI offense to be tried with the

OWI offense in circuit court; the bill outlines when proceedings in municipal court

may be held by audiovisual means; the bill clarifies the procedure and fees required

for an appeal from a municipal court judgment; the bill requires each municipal court

to have an armed guard unless the judge orders otherwise; and the bill specifies that

no municipal court clerk may appear in attire that suggests he or she is a law

enforcement officer or employee of a law enforcement agency.