Title 37, Public Utilities

Unlawful riding on railroad trains; power of conductor as special constable. The conductor in charge of any car or train who finds any person on his car or train, violating the provisions of this act, is hereby made a special constable, authorized to arrest any such person and de…

Unlawful riding on railroad trains; prosecution of offender. Any sheriff or deputy sheriff receiving any person from any special constable, as in this act provided, shall forthwith deliver the person, with the charge made against him to the sheriff of the county wherein the offen…

Gas; interference with pipes. Any person who connects any pipe or other conduit, device or contrivance with any gas main or lateral supply pipe, supplying or intended to supply gas to any house, store or other building, without the knowledge and consent of any person or corporati…

Gas; piping gas around meter. Any person who connects or changes any pipe or other conduit, device or contrivance with any gas main or lateral supply pipe, supplying or intended to supply gas to any house, store or other building, without the knowledge and consent of any person o…

Gas; alteration or destruction of meter. Any person who willfully injures, alters, or by any instrument, device or contrivance in any manner interferes with or destroys the action or operation of any meter for measuring gas, or of the amount or quantity of gas passing through it …

Gas; penalty. Any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not les…

Electricity; interference with wires. Any person who connects or changes any wire, cord, socket, motor or other instrument, device or contrivance, with any wire transmitting or supplying, or intended to transmit or supply electricity to any house, store or other building, without…

Electricity; wiring around electric meter. Any person who connects or changes any wire, cord, socket, motor or other instrument, device, or contrivance with any wire, transmitting or supplying or intended to transmit or supply electricity to any house, store, or other building, w…

Electricity; alteration or destruction of electric meter. Any person who willfully injures, alters or by any instrument, device or contrivance in any manner interferes with or obstructs the action or operation of any meter for measuring electricity or the amount or quantity of el…

Electricity; penalty. Any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period o…

Interfering or tampering with petroleum pipeline. It shall be unlawful for any person, intentionally, knowingly and without lawful right so to do, to tap, tamper with, alter, interfere with or injure any oil well, drip, pipeline, or any other facility used in the production, hand…

Interference with or injury to electric utility poles or wires; affixing posters to telegraph, telephone and electric utility poles prohibited; penalties. (a) Whoever maliciously or mischievously takes down, removes, interferes with, obstructs or injures any electric utility pole…

Damaging public telephones or equipment or telegraph or telephone lines or poles. Any person who willfully displaces, removes, injures or destroys any public telephone instrument or any part thereof or any equipment or facilities associated therewith or who enters or breaks into …

Sale of equipment designed to conceal source or avoid charges for telecommunication service; prohibited. (a) Any individual, corporation or other person who under circumstances evincing an intent to defraud, makes, possesses, sells, gives, or otherwise transfers to another, or wh…

Sale of equipment designed to conceal source or avoid charges for telecommunication service; exemption. Nothing herein shall apply to holders of valid federal communications commission licenses when the licensee is acting within the scope of his license; provided that nothing her…

Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; definitions. (a) In W.S. 37-12-126 through 37-12-130 unless the context otherwise requires: (i) "Party line" means a subscriber's line telephone circuit, consisting of two (2) or more main telephone stations connected therewit…

Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; misdemeanor; exception. Any person who willfully refuses to yield or surrender the use of a party line or a public pay telephone to another person for the purpose of permitting such other person to report a fire or summon poli…

Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; pretext that emergency exists. Any person who asks for or requests the use of a party line or a public pay telephone on the pretext that an emergency exists, knowing that no emergency in fact exists, is guilty of a misdemeanor…

Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; defense. It is a defense to prosecution under this act that the accused did not know or did not have reason to know of the emergency in question, or that the accused was himself using the telephone party line or public pay tel…

Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; notice in telephone directories. Every telephone directory published after the effective date of this act and which is distributed to the members of the general public of this state shall contain, in a prominent place, a notic…

Failure to obey orders of commission, provisions of statutes. Every public utility and all officers, agents and employees of any public utility, and every person shall obey, observe and comply with every lawful order made by the commission under authority of this act so long as t…

Public utility personnel violating or aiding or abetting in violations. (a) Every officer, agent or employee of any public utility, who shall violate, or who shall procure, aid or abet any violation by any public utility of any provision of this act, or who shall fail to obey, ob…

Giving or receiving preferences. Any natural person who knowingly authorizes, gives or affords any benefit, preference or advantage, or who knowingly receives or participates directly or indirectly in any benefit, preference or advantage from such offense, shall be guilty of a mi…

Refusal to file report or answer questions. Any public utility which refuses to make and file any report called for by the commission within the time specified, or within the time extended, as the case may be, or willfully refuses to answer to any question propounded by the commi…

Making false returns. Any person who willfully makes any false return or report to the commission, or to any member, agent or employee thereof, and any person who aids or abets such person, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned as the court may di…

Hindering investigation. Any person who willfully obstructs or hinders the commission or a member thereof, or an authorized agent or examiner in making an inspection, examination or investigation of the accounts, records, memoranda, books or papers of any public utility, or of th…

Divulging information; exception. Any regular or special employee of the commission who divulges any facts or information coming to his knowledge respecting an inspection, examination or investigation of any account, record, memoranda, book or paper or of the property and facilit…

Utility liable for loss or damage. In case any public utility shall do, cause to be done, or permit to be done, any act, matter or thing prohibited, forbidden or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any act, matter or thing required to be done by this act, or by any lawfu…

Accepting rebates. Any person receiving service from any public utility subject to the provisions of this act, who shall knowingly by an employee, agent, officer or otherwise, directly or indirectly, by or through any means or device whatsoever, receive or accept from such public…

Perjury. Any person who knowingly makes any false statement of fact under oath, whether oral or in writing, as required by this act, is guilty of perjury and upon conviction shall be punished as provided for in the perjury statutes of this state.

Penalty for violations by utility; other offenses. Any public utility which violates or fails to comply with any provision of this act, or which fails, omits or neglects to obey, observe or comply with any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand or requirement, or any pa…

Additional penalties. Every public utility, all officers and agents of any public utility, and every person shall obey, observe and comply with every provision of this act and with every order made by the commission under authority of this act and duly served in accordance with i…

Disposition of fines. All fines, forfeitures and penalties collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the state treasurer and credited as provided in W.S. 8-1-109; and all penalties accruing under this act shall be cumulative of each other, and the suit for the r…

Short title; definitions. (a) This act may be known and shall be cited as the "Wyoming Underground Facilities Notification Act." (b) As used in this act: (i) "Business day" means any twenty-four (24) hour period other than Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday; (ii) "Emergency" means…

Notices; exceptions; penalty. (a) Every operator shall file with the notification center a general description of the area served together with the name, address and telephone number of the person from whom necessary information may be obtained concerning the location of undergro…

Notification centers; formation; duties. (a) All operators shall join the notification center and shall participate in the notification center providing for mutual receipt of notification of excavation activities in a specified area and pay their share of the cost for the service…

Exemptions. (a) The following oil and gas production facilities are not subject to this act: (i) Aboveground or underground storage tanks, sumps, impoundments or piping connected to aboveground or underground storage tanks, sumps or impoundments located in the same tract of land …

Civil penalties; applicability. (a) An action to recover a civil penalty under this section may be brought by an operator, excavator, aggrieved party, the notification center, county attorney, district attorney or the attorney general. Venue for an action shall be in the district…

Architectural or engineering design drawings notice. (a) Any person preparing or designing architectural or engineering design drawings that call for excavation shall make reasonable efforts to determine at no expense to the operator the nature, location, and depth if known, of u…

Definitions. (a) As used in this article: (i) "Bypassing" means the act of attaching, connecting or in any manner affixing any wire, cord, socket, motor, pipe or other instrument, device or contrivance to the utility supply system or any part thereof in such a manner as to transm…

Civil action allowed. (a) In addition to any applicable criminal penalties, a utility may bring a civil action for damages against any person who: (i) Commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets or attempts any act of bypassing, tampering, or unauthorized metering resulting in dam…

Remedies cumulative. This article is intended to provide additional remedies to avoid the wrongful use of the facilities of utilities and nothing in this article abridges or alters other rights of action or remedies existing before or after the effective date of this act.