Title 36, State Lands

Rules and regulations; general penalty for violations; enforcement. (a) The board shall have the power and authority to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the state, as it may from time to time deem necessary in the direction, control, di…

Appointment of state forester; qualifications; duties. (a) The state board of land commissioners shall appoint a state forester who shall be the administrative head of the Wyoming state forestry division of the office of state lands and investments. The state forester shall serve…

Fire protection revolving account. There is created the fire protection revolving account. Funds received by the state forester from local and county fire service entities and other payments received by the state forester for billable fire expenses shall be deposited into the acc…

Interstate compact for the prevention and control of forest fires. The interstate compact for the prevention and control of forest fires as contained herein is hereby enacted into law and entered into on behalf of this state with any and all other states legally joining therein i…

Questions may be reserved to district court. Whenever an important or difficult matter of law or fact is to be decided in a contest or other proceeding pending before the board of land commissioners, or whenever in the judgment of the members of said board any of its members are …

Certified copies of papers to be sent to court; docket fee. When a contest or other proceeding is reserved and ordered sent to a district court, the director shall transmit certified copies of all the papers in the case in his possession and in his office to the clerk of the said…

When issues made up before removal. If the issues in said reserved contest or proceeding have been made up before the same shall have been removed, then in that case the said contest or proceeding when so removed shall be deemed ready for hearing; provided, however, that the judg…

When issues not made up before removal. If the issues in said contest or proceeding have not been made up at the time the same is so removed to the district court then in that case the date when said contest or proceeding is filed in said district court shall be deemed the date o…

Determination, certification, recordation and effect. When such case is reserved to the district court the same shall be tried and determined by such court, and its findings and judgments thereon shall be certified by the clerk of said court, to the director and he shall record t…

Appeals to district court. Any party who may feel himself aggrieved by the decision of the board of land commissioners rendered in any contest proceeding held before said board, may have an appeal from such decision to the district court sitting within and for the county in which…

Written notice of intent to appeal; bond. The party appealing shall, within thirty (30) days after receiving notice by registered mail of the decision of the board, file with the director, a notice in writing to the board of land commissioners stating that such party intends to a…

Transmission of evidence to district court; hearing on appeal. Upon notice of intention to appeal having been filed with the director, he shall at once transmit to the clerk of the district court to which such appeal has been taken, a certified copy of all papers and documents in…

Notice of perfected appeal; proof of service. Upon the approval of the bond as aforesaid, the clerk of the district court shall immediately issue a notice to the director and to said appellees and each of them that said appeal has been perfected; such notice may be served persona…

Hearing and trial upon appeal; appeal to supreme court. At the expiration of the time for the appearance of the appellees, the case is to be deemed ready for hearing; and it shall be heard and tried the same in all respects as civil cases are tried in said district court; and an …