Title 5, Courts

Expenses of judges while acting on supreme bench. All traveling expenses incurred by any district judge while traveling to and from the capitol at Cheyenne, for the purpose of sitting at the supreme court to hear and determine cases presented before said court, and his expenses a…

Expenses of judges when acting in another district or circuit. The expenses of any district judge holding court in any district other than his own or in any circuit court pursuant to assignment under W.S. 5-9-131, including his traveling expenses to and from said district or circ…

Seal of the district court. Each county shall provide the clerk of its district court with a seal, the impression of which shall contain the following words: "The District Court of Wyoming", together with the name of the county in which the same is to be used.

County law library. The board of county commissioners shall have the power to establish and maintain in their respective counties, a county law library, for the use and benefit of the judge of the district court and other citizens of the state and shall have the power to appropri…

Assignment to circuit court judge or chancery court judge. (a) A judge of the district court may assign to a circuit court judge or a chancery court judge any case or proceeding within the jurisdiction of the district court subject only to the following restrictions: (i) Rules pr…

District courts budget submittal. All district courts shall submit standard and supplemental budget requests to the legislature not later than November 1 of the year preceding the fiscal year in which the standard or supplemental budget is to take effect. The district courts shal…

Office created; term; election in counties of first and second class; county clerk designated ex officio clerk in other counties. There shall be a clerk of the district court in each organized county of the state whose term of office shall be four (4) years and until his successo…

Duties generally. Each clerk of the district court shall keep and make up the records and books of the court of his particular county, receive all cases filed therein, properly record and attend to the same, and shall have the care and custody of all the records, seal, books, pap…

Vacation of office; filling of vacancies. The office of the clerk of the district court shall be deemed vacated under the circumstances provided by W.S. 22-18-101. Any vacancy in the office of the clerk of the district court shall be filled as provided by W.S. 22-18-111.

Salaries to be paid by county. The salaries of clerks of the district courts shall be paid by the county in which they respectively act, in monthly installments, after services are performed.

Collection of fees in advance; payment to treasurer; liability for collection. (a) All fees prescribed by statute for civil business, shall be collected in advance by the clerk and except as otherwise provided in this section shall be paid to the treasurer of the county at the en…

Fees. (a) For all civil matters filed or commenced, the clerk of each district court shall charge the following fees: (i) For filing instruments or documents in each civil action and certifying one (1) copy of any order, decree or judgment at the time of its filing for each party…

Statement of costs mailed to parties to actions. If requested by a party to a case, the clerk of the court shall make up an itemized statement of the court costs in the case and mail a copy to the requesting party.

Amount of bond; conditions. Each clerk upon entering on the duties of his office, shall give a bond in the penal sum of not less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) to the county to be approved by the county commissioners conditioned upon the faithful performance of t…

Clerk liable on bond for acts of deputies; deputy's bond. Each clerk shall be liable upon his official bond for all acts of his deputies, but each clerk may take from his deputies a bond to himself to indemnify him on account of the acts of his deputies.

Duty as custodian of seal; seal to be attached to official papers. The clerk of the district court shall be custodian of the seal of said court, which seal shall be kept in the office of the clerk of the district court in the respective counties and shall be attached to all writs…

Entries on appearance docket and their effect. The clerk shall enter on the appearance docket, at the time of the commencement of an action or proceeding, the names of the parties in full, with names of counsel, and forthwith index the case, direct and reverse, in the name of eac…

Clerk not to act as attorney. No clerk of the district court or county clerk in counties wherein such clerk is ex officio clerk of the district court, shall accept employment or retainer as an attorney-at-law or give any advice as such in any action, cause or proceeding pending i…

Appointment; number. District courts of the several judicial districts of this state are empowered to appoint such number of district court commissioners in the several counties of their respective judicial districts as the public interest may require.

Term of office; summary removal. District court commissioners shall hold office during the pleasure of the district court, and may be summarily removed.

Qualifications. District court commissioners shall be learned in the law in this state, residents of the district for which appointed, and citizens of this state. To be learned in the law a person shall have sufficient knowledge, skill, training or experience to perform judicial …

Order of appointment to be made in open court and entered on journal; use as evidence. The order appointing each district court commissioner shall be made in open court and entered upon the journal. A certified copy of such journal entry shall be evidence of such appointment in a…

Appointment and termination thereof to be reported to county clerk. When any court or the judge thereof, shall appoint a court commissioner who shall be authorized to take acknowledgments and administer oaths under this act, or whenever any court or the judge thereof shall revoke…

Oath. District court commissioners before entering upon the discharge of their official duties, shall take and subscribe before the clerk of the district court, of the county for which they were respectively appointed, the oath of office provided by the constitution.

Powers generally. (a) Each district court commissioner shall have the powers in respect to every suit or proceeding pending in the district court of the county for which he was appointed, as follows: (i) If no judge qualified to hear or act in the proceeding or action is present …

Fees. The fees of the district court commissioners shall be fixed by the district courts in which their services are rendered and may be taxed as costs, paid from the budget of the district court or from other funds available for that purpose.

Orders to be entered in court journal. All orders made by, and proceedings had before district court commissioners, shall be entered at length in the journal of the district court of the county for which they were appointed, by the district clerk, and shall be signed by the commi…

District court to review orders; approval or disapproval. The district court shall at each term review all orders made by, and proceedings had before commissioners of such court during vacation, and approve, disapprove, reverse or modify every such order or proceeding.

Office of commissioner and clerk declared incompatible. The office of district court commissioner and clerk of the district court are hereby declared to be incompatible and no person shall occupy the office of district court commissioner who is at the same time a clerk of the dis…

Commissioner not to act as attorney; when attorney not to act as commissioner. No district court commissioner shall accept employment or retainer as an attorney-at-law, or give any advice as such in any action, cause or proceeding pending before him as such commissioner; and he s…

Office created; appointment; term. The office of official court reporter for each judge of each judicial district in the state of Wyoming is hereby created and each judge of each judicial district in the state of Wyoming is hereby required and empowered to appoint one (1) court r…

Duties generally; oath; furnishing transcripts. Such reporter shall be in constant attendance upon the judge of said court at all times, and shall be the clerk and stenographer of the judge, and he shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duty, and take the oath of offic…

Criminal cases; reporting and transcript of proceedings. The court reporter for criminal cases prosecuted in the district court shall report all testimony and all proceedings held in open court, except informal discussions, informal instruction conferences and pretrial conference…

Criminal cases; post-conviction proceedings. In any case arising as a post conviction relief proceeding, W.S. 7-14-101 through 7-14-108, in which the presiding judge has determined that the post conviction petition is sufficient to require an answer, the court reporter shall tran…

Criminal cases; original and copy of transcript to be furnished when required by order. The official court reporter shall transcribe and furnish an original and copy of the proceedings at the trial of any person sentenced to any imprisonment where an order is or has been entered …

Criminal cases; payment of fees; form and contents of certificate. The reporter shall be paid in full for all his services in connection with the transcribing and filing or furnishing the transcripts referred to in this act, the same fee for the transcribing, filing, and furnishi…

Bond. Each official reporter, appointed as aforesaid, shall give a bond to the state of Wyoming, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the judge of the district court of such district, and filed with the secretary of state, in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), co…

Duty as judge's stenographer. Each official reporter appointed under the provisions of this act, as court reporter, shall also be the stenographer of the judge of said court, and shall do and perform such stenographic labor for the judge of said court as of him or her may be requ…

Fees for civil cases; collection; to be paid into state treasury; liability of reporter for collection. (a) Repealed By Laws 2014, Ch. 18, § 1. (b) Repealed By Laws 2014, Ch. 18, § 1. (c) Repealed By Laws 2014, Ch. 18, § 1. (d) Repealed By Laws 2014, Ch. 18, § 1. (e) Repealed by …

Salary. Each official district court reporter in this state shall be paid annual salaries as provided by law, payable in equal monthly installments upon warrant of the state auditor upon the state treasurer.

Substitute during absence or disability. In case of sickness or if said official court reporter be unable to attend to his official duties from any cause at any time, the judge of the district court in each judicial district in this state, when the trial of cases required to be r…

Definitions. (a) When used in this act, the following definitions will apply unless the context otherwise requires: (i) Court.-The word "court" shall mean the district or juvenile courts; (ii) Counselor.-An officer appointed by the county commissioners with the approval of the di…

Employment authorized; employment of 1 counselor for 2 or more districts. The county commissioners are hereby authorized to employ sufficient counselors in such judicial district upon the written request of the district judge or judges therein. In any district where in the discre…

Appointment after approval by district judge; determination of maximum salary. Counselors may be appointed by the county commissioners only after the applicant is interviewed and approved by the district judge or judges in the district in which he is to be employed. The maximum s…

Duties. (a) Each counselor employed under the provisions of this act shall have the following duties: (i) He shall make a complete social and background investigation of all persons referred to him by the court. This investigation shall include past violations, family background,…