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DUI law in Wisconsin
The criminal charge and your driving privileges are separate questions. Check both.
DUI law in Wisconsin concerns both the criminal charge and the right to drive. The applicable licence process depends on the alleged conduct, test result or refusal, and the notice or court order. A criminal court date is not a substitute for checking a separate licence deadline. The cited rules below identify what has been verified for this jurisdiction.
The two legal questions
The criminal charge and driving privileges can involve different proceedings. The notice, order and cited rule identify the applicable process.
Driving privileges
The licence case
- Forum
- The agency or court identified by the applicable licence proceeding
- Clock
- Check the applicable notice or order for the deadline and its starting event
- Deadline to request a hearing
- Administrative suspension: within 10 days after notification. If notification is mailed, within 13 days after mailing, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
- The 10-day administrative-review period runs from notification, not arrest; the statute provides the separate mailed-notice calculation stated above.
- For a test-refusal revocation, the separate court-hearing request must be received within 10 days after service of the notice of intent to revoke. The administrative-review mailing extension is not stated for this refusal hearing.
- Suspension under the cited rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Hearing procedure under the cited rule
- Administrative suspension review requires a written request to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. A test-refusal hearing instead requires a written request to the court named in the notice.
- The 10-day administrative-review period runs from notification, not arrest; the statute provides the separate mailed-notice calculation stated above.
- For a test-refusal revocation, the separate court-hearing request must be received within 10 days after service of the notice of intent to revoke. The administrative-review mailing extension is not stated for this refusal hearing.
Criminal charge
The criminal case
- Forum
- A criminal court
- Clock
- Check court notices and orders; no case duration is predicted here
- Alcohol-concentration threshold
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- First-offense penalty rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.The cited rule may describe a range or a minimum with conditions, not a predicted sentence.
- Lookback period
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Alcohol-concentration thresholds in Wisconsin
The cited provision controls the threshold’s scope. Underage and commercial rules can concern licensing as well as criminal liability; they are not all the same offense.
- Standard drivers
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Operating a commercial motor vehicle
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Under-21 rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Wisconsin in detail
8 further Wisconsin topics — interlock, hardship licences, drug DUI, felony DUI, underage, commercial drivers, checkpoints and record relief — are part of the approved taxonomy and are not built yet.