785.04 Sanctions authorized.
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785.04 Sanctions authorized.
(1)Remedial sanction. A court may impose one or more of the following remedial sanctions:
(a)Payment of a sum of money sufficient to compensate a party for a loss or injury suffered by the party as the result of a contempt of court.
(b)Imprisonment if the contempt of court is of a type included in s. 785.01
(b),
(bm),
(c)or
(d). The imprisonment may extend only so long as the person is committing the contempt of court or 6 months, whichever is the shorter period.
(c)A forfeiture not to exceed $2,000 for each day the contempt of court continues.
(d)An order designed to ensure compliance with a prior order of the court.
(e)A sanction other than the sanctions specified in pars.
(a)to
(d)if it expressly finds that those sanctions would be ineffectual to terminate a continuing contempt of court.
(2)Punitive sanction.
(a)Nonsummary procedure. A court, after a finding of contempt of court in a nonsummary procedure under s. 785.03
(b), may impose for each separate contempt of court a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or both.
(b)Summary procedure. A court, after a finding of contempt of court in a summary procedure under s. 785.03
(2), may impose for each separate contempt of court a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 30 days or both.
(3)Past conduct. A punitive sanction may be imposed for past conduct which was a contempt of court even though similar present conduct is a continuing contempt of court.