Title 35, Public Health And Safety

Prohibited acts; penalty for violations. (a) No person, corporation or other organization nor representative thereof shall: (i) Willfully violate, disobey or disregard the provisions of the public health laws of Wyoming or the terms of any lawful notice, order, rule or regulation…

Penalty for violations. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, or any lawful rule or regulation made by the state department of health pursuant to the authority herein granted, or who shall fail or refuse to obey any lawful order issued by any state, coun…

Exceptions with reference to religion. Except as provided in W.S. 35-4-113, with respect to all persons who, either on behalf of themselves or their minor children or wards, rely in good faith upon spiritual means or prayer in the free exercise of religion to prevent or cure dise…

Legal advisers; provisions as to enforcement. The attorney general of Wyoming shall be legal adviser for the department of health and shall defend it in all action and proceedings brought against it. The district attorney for the county in which a cause of action may arise, shall…

Judicial review of decisions. (a) Any person aggrieved and affected by a decision of the department of health shall be entitled to judicial review thereof, by filing in the district court of the Wyoming county of his residence, within thirty (30) days after such decision, an appr…

Sanitary information generally. The department of health shall cause all proper sanitary information in its possession to be promptly forwarded to the county health officers, adding thereto such useful suggestions as the experience of the department may supply, and it is also her…

Cooperation to prevent spread of contagious diseases; report of epidemics or diseases required from local health officials. The department of health shall give all information that may be reasonably requested concerning any threatened danger to the public health, and the local he…

Inspection of public buildings and grounds or plans or description thereof. It is hereby made the duty of all boards and agents having the control, charge or custody of any public structure, work, ground or erection, or of any plan, description, outlines, drawings thereof, or rel…

Inspection of water supply; duties as to streets and public structures generally. The department of health is authorized and empowered to investigate and ascertain as far as possible, in relation to the pollution of streams and natural waters of this state by artificial causes, o…

Power of department in cities and towns. It shall be the duty of the state department of health, upon petition of at least twenty (20) taxpayers in any community, to send a competent representative to any incorporated city or town in this state for the purpose of inspecting and t…

Supervision of county health officers. The county health officers of this state shall be under the direction and supervision of the state department of health, and the state department of health shall have authority to make such rules and regulations for the government and direct…

Rules and regulations. (a) The state department of health is hereby empowered and directed to make such rules and regulations as shall in its judgment be necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this act, including rules and regulations providing for the control and tr…

Powers and duties. (a) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, the department of health, through the state health officer, or under his direction and supervision, through the other employees of the department, shall have and exercise the following powers and duties: (i) To exe…

Safe disposal of corpses in emergency circumstances. (a) The state health officer in consultation with the appropriate county coroner, during the period that a public health emergency exists, may: (i) Adopt and enforce measures to provide for the safe disposal of corpses as may b…

Public health nursing. (a) In exercising its powers and duties under W.S. 35-1-240(a)(xx), the department of health may enter into memoranda of understanding with the several counties separately for the organization, management, delivery and financing of public health nursing and…

Public health laboratory fees. (a) The department of health may charge reasonable fees for laboratory testing services provided to other state agencies, local law enforcement entities and other individuals or organizations in accordance with the following: (i) Fees shall be estab…

Definitions; establishment; participation by municipality in district department. (a) For the purposes of this act, the word "municipality" shall mean and include any town, village or city of this state, and the word "district" shall mean and include any combination of said towns…

Organization of units; membership of boards; removal. (a) Within thirty (30) days after the adoption of a resolution or resolutions to establish and maintain a county and/or city or district health department, the board or boards of county commissioners and/or city governing body…

Rules and regulations; jurisdiction. (a) County and/or city and district boards of health may enact rules and regulations pertaining to the prevention of disease and the promotion of public health in the area over which such respective boards have jurisdiction. But in no instance…

Treasurer designated; fund to be created; composition and use of fund; preparation and submission of budget; tax levy authorized. (a) In the case of a county and/or city health department, the county and/or city treasurer, as a part of his official duties as county and/or city tr…

Appointment of health officers and other personnel generally; local board of health may fix fees for certain services. (a) In the counties, municipalities or districts where health departments are created, as provided herein, the local board of health may appoint a full-time or p…

Appointment of health officer and other personnel where departments not established; fees and charges for services; payment. (a) In counties or municipalities where such departments are not established the boards of county commissioners or municipal governing body shall appoint t…

Purpose of health units. The establishment of full-time local health units is for public health and preventive medical purposes for the people of the state of Wyoming.

Dissolution and discontinuance. Any county and/or city or district health department may be dissolved and discontinued by resolution of the board of county commissioners and/or city governing body of a county and/or city maintaining a county and/or city health department, or by r…

Adjacent county without department becoming part of health district by agreement. (a) Generally.-Any county adjacent to a district maintaining a district health department may become a part of such district by agreement between its board of county commissioners and the boards of …

Limitation on orders. (a) No public health order requested or issued by a county, municipal or district health officer under this article shall become effective without notice being provided to the public not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the order is to become effectiv…

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Vital records" means records of birth, death, stillbirth, marriage, divorce and data relating thereto; (ii) "System of vital records" includes the registration, collection, preservation, amendment, and certification of vital records and …

State office established. The department of health shall establish a state office of vital records services, which shall install, maintain, and operate the system of vital records throughout this state.

Appointment of state registrar. The director of the department of health shall be the state registrar. He shall appoint a deputy who shall carry out the provisions of this act.

Duties of state registrar. (a) The state registrar shall: (i) Make, promulgate and enforce all necessary rules and regulations for carrying out the purpose of this act; (ii) Receive, index and statistically compile the returns of births, deaths, stillbirths, marriages and divorce…

Registration districts. The state registrar shall from time to time establish registration districts throughout the state. He may consolidate or subdivide such districts to facilitate registration.

Appointment and removal of local registrars and deputy local registrars. (a) The state registrar shall appoint a local registrar and one or more deputy local registrars of vital records for each registration district. He may remove a local registrar or deputy local registrar for …

Duties of local registrars. (a) Each local registration official shall serve as an agent of the state registrar in his district and shall: (i) Register only births, stillbirths and deaths that occur in his district; (ii) Examine certificates, record them in his register, numberin…

Form of certificates. (a) In order to promote and maintain uniformity of the system of vital statistics the forms of the certificates, reports and other returns required by the act or by regulations adopted hereunder, shall include as a minimum the items recommended by the federa…

Birth registration. (a) A certificate of birth for each live birth which occurs in this state shall be filed with the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurs within ten (10) days after such birth and shall be registered by the registrar if it has been completed …

Name of father on birth certificate. (a) If the mother was married either at the time of conception or birth of child, or between conception and birth, the name of the husband shall be entered on the certificate as the father of the child, unless: (i) Paternity has been determine…

Report required of person assuming custody of foundlings; information to be shown; report to constitute birth certificate; subsequent identification and certificate. (a) Whoever assumes the custody of a living child of unknown parentage shall report within seven (7) days on a for…

Delayed registration of births. (a) When the birth of a person born in this state has not been registered, a certificate may be filed in accordance with the regulations of vital records services. The certificate shall be registered subject to such evidentiary requirements as vita…

Delayed registration of death and marriage. When a death or marriage occurring in this state has not been registered, a certificate may be filed in accordance with regulations of the division of health and medical services. The certificate shall be registered subject to such evid…

Judicial procedure to establish facts of birth. (a) If a delayed certificate of birth is rejected under the provisions of this act, a petition may be filed with a court of competent jurisdiction for an order establishing a record of the date and place of the birth and the parenta…

Court reports of adoption. (a) For each adoption of a child born in this state that is decreed by any court in this state, the court shall require the preparation of a report of adoption on a form prescribed and furnished by the state registrar of vital records. The report shall …

New certificate of birth following adoption; court determination of paternity; and paternity acknowledgment. (a) The state registrar of vital records shall establish a new certificate of birth for a person born in this state when he receives the following: (i) An adoption report …

Death registration. (a) A death certificate for each death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the local registrar of the registration district in which the death occurred within three (3) days after the death and prior to removal of the body from the state and shall b…

Stillbirth registration. (a) A stillbirth certificate for each stillbirth which occurs in this state after gestation period of twenty (20) completed weeks or more shall be filed with the local registrar of the registration district in which the delivery occurred within three (3) …

Permits. (a) The funeral director or person acting as such who first assumes custody of a dead body or stillbirth shall obtain a burial-transit permit prior to final disposition or removal from the state of the body or stillbirth and within seventy-two (72) hours after death. The…

Extension of time. (a) The department of health may, by regulation and upon such conditions as it may prescribe to assure compliance with the purposes of this act, provide for the extension of the periods prescribed in this act, for the filing of death certificates, stillbirth ce…