Title 18, Counties

County, city or local housing authority; authority to establish senior citizen center; receiving state and federal monies; contracting for services. A board of county commissioners, cities or local housing authorities designated by said counties or cities may establish and mainta…

Senior citizen advisory commission. A board of county commissioners, the mayor and council or the board of commissioners of a local housing authority may appoint an advisory commission for senior citizens. The composition of the advisory commission, the appointment and terms of i…

Cooperation with other agencies for funding and operation of senior citizen centers. The county, city or local housing authority may cooperate with other agencies as provided in W.S. 16-1-101, for the operation and funding of senior citizen centers.

Joint establishment, operation, contracts and agreements of facilities by local governments; sharing of costs; issuance of bonds; limitation on expenditures. (a) Each county, municipality, school, hospital or other special district, or any two (2) or more of them may enter into c…

Name in which county shall sue or be sued. In all suits or proceedings the county shall sue or be sued as the "board of county commissioners of the county of . . . . . . . . . . ," but this shall not prevent county officers when authorized by law from suing in their name of offic…

Commissioners to receive service of process and employ attorney in behalf of counties. In all legal proceedings against the county process shall be served on the board of county commissioners or any member thereof and they may in the absence of the county attorney employ an attor…

Judgment against county to be paid by tax levy; when execution to issue. Except as provided in the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act, when a judgment is rendered against the board of county commissioners or any county officer the judgment shall be paid by a tax levied for that purp…

Contracts for human services. A county may contract for treatment and preventive services for the mentally ill, substance abuser and developmentally disabled as provided in W.S. 35-1-611 through 35-1-627.

Prohibition of towing by a county. (a) As used in this section, "towing service" means the transportation or recovery of privately owned vehicles or the disposal of abandoned, privately owned vehicles by use of a motor vehicle altered, designed or equipped to tow or render assist…

Prohibitions; amateur radio antenna regulation. No county shall enact or enforce an ordinance or regulation that fails to conform to the limited preemption entitled "Amateur Radio Preemption, 101 FCC 2d 952 (1985)" issued by the federal communications commission. An ordinance or …

Nuisance abatement; procedures. (a) A board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, establish standards for determining when a site may be declared a nuisance under W.S. 18-2-101(a)(viii). (b) A board of county commissioners may issue an order declaring a property to be a n…

County prohibitions on utility connections. No county shall enact or implement any resolution or policy that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, the connection or reconnection of an electric, natural gas, propane or other energy utility service provided by a public utili…