Title 31, Title 31 — Motor Vehicles

Duty to give information and render aid. The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or damage to any vehicle or other property which is driven or attended by any person shall give his name, address and the registration number o…

Duty upon colliding with unattended vehicle or property. The driver of any vehicle which collides with or is involved in an accident with any vehicle or other property which is unattended resulting in any damage to the other vehicle or other property shall immediately stop and sh…

Notice required of driver. (a) The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident shall immediately by the quickest means of communication give notice of the accident to: (i) The local police department if the accident occurs within a municipality; or (ii) To the nearest office of t…

Written reports required of police officers; reporting of vehicles struck by bullets. (a) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 102, § 3. (b) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 102, § 3. (c) Every police officer who investigates a motor vehicle accident shall forward a written report of the acciden…

Duty of occupant and owner when driver incapable of reporting. (a) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 102, § 3. (b) Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving an immediate notice of an accident as required in W.S. 31-5-1105 and there was another occupant in the ve…

Report forms; failure to make report; false report. (a) The highway department shall prepare and upon request supply to police departments, coroners, sheriffs and other suitable agencies or individuals, forms for accident reports required hereunder, appropriate with respect to th…

Confidentiality of supplemental information to reports; use of reports as evidence; exceptions. (a) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 102, § 3. (b) Supplemental information to a crash report filed in connection with the administration of the laws of this state relating to the deposit of…

Reports required by municipalities. (a) Any municipality may by ordinance require that the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash, or the owner of the vehicle, shall file with a designated city department a report of the crash or a copy of any report herein required to be filed …

Tabulation and analysis of reports. The department shall tabulate and may analyze all accident reports and shall publish annually, or at more frequent intervals, statistical information based thereon as to the number and circumstances of traffic accidents.

Violation of provisions to constitute misdemeanor; penalties; officer training fee. (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person to violate any of the provisions of this act or rules and regulations authorized under this act unless the violation is by this act or other law of this stat…

Parties to crime. Every person who commits, attempts to commit, conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, any act declared herein [in this chapter] to be a crime, whether individually or in connection with one (1) or more other persons or as a principal, agent o…

Unlawful acts by persons owning or controlling vehicles. It is unlawful for the owner or any other person, employing or otherwise directing the driver of any vehicle to require or knowingly to permit the operation of the vehicle upon a highway in any manner contrary to law.

Authority to make arrest; general arrest procedures; arrest of nonresidents. (a) The authority of a police officer to make an arrest is the same as upon an arrest for a felony when the officer has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that the person arrested has committed a…

Traffic citations; notice to appear in court; release upon written promise to appear; procedure before judge or court; arrest for driving under the influence. (a) Whenever a person is halted by a police officer for any violation of this act punishable as a misdemeanor, and is not…

Violation of promise to appear; appearance by counsel. (a) It is unlawful for any person to violate his promise to appear given to an officer upon the issuance of a traffic citation regardless of the disposition of the charge for which the citation was originally issued. (b) A pr…

Procedure not exclusive. The provisions of W.S. 31-5-1204 through 31-5-1206 shall govern all police officers in making arrests without a warrant for violations of this act, but the procedure prescribed herein is not exclusive of any other method prescribed by law for the arrest a…

Inadmissibility of evidence of conviction. No evidence of the conviction of any person for any violation of this act is admissible in any court in any civil action.

Effect of conviction upon credibility of witness. The conviction of a person upon a charge of violating any provision of this act or other traffic regulation less than a felony shall not affect or impair the credibility of the person as a witness in any civil or criminal proceedi…

Traffic citation books. The chief administrative officer of every traffic enforcement agency is responsible for the issuance of traffic citation books and shall maintain a record of every book and each citation contained therein issued to individual members of the traffic enforce…

Disposition and records of traffic citations. (a) Every traffic enforcement officer upon issuing a traffic citation to an alleged violator of any provision of the motor vehicle laws of this state or of any traffic ordinance of any city or town shall deposit the original or a copy…

Audit of traffic citation records; annual summary of traffic violation notices. (a) Every record of traffic citations required in W.S. 31-5-1201 through 31-5-1214, shall be audited annually by the appropriate fiscal officer of the governmental agency to which the traffic enforcem…

Use of citations as lawful complaints. In the event the form of citation provided under W.S. 31-5-1210 includes information and is sworn to as required under the general laws of this state in respect to a complaint charging commission of the offense alleged in the citation to hav…

Record of traffic cases; reports of convictions. (a) Every judge of a court shall keep or cause to be kept a record of every traffic complaint, traffic citation or other legal form of traffic charge deposited with or presented to the court and shall keep a record of every officia…

Short title. This article is known and may be cited as the "Child Safety Restraint Act."

Definitions. (a) As used in this article: (i) "Child safety restraint system" means any device which is designed to protect, hold or restrain a child in a privately owned, leased or rented noncommercial passenger vehicle in such a way as to prevent or minimize injury to the child…

Child safety restraint system; required use; exception. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, no person shall operate a passenger vehicle in this state unless each child who is a passenger in that vehicle and who has not reached his ninth birthday is…

Penalty. (a) Any person who violates this article shall be issued a citation and fined not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first offense, provided that the fine shall be waived by the court upon receipt of proof by the court that the offender, after the offense occurred,…

Limiting application. Violation of this article does not constitute evidence of negligence or recklessness and does not constitute a basis for criminal prosecution except as set forth in this article.

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Emergency vehicle" means as defined in W.S. 31-5-1302(a)(iii); (ii) "Passenger vehicle" means a vehicle which is self-propelled and designed to carry eleven (11) persons or less and primarily used to transport persons, including autocycl…

Safety belts required to be used; exceptions; reduction in fine. (a) Each driver and passenger of a motor vehicle operated in this state shall wear, and each driver of a motor vehicle shall require that a passenger under twelve (12) years of age shall wear, a properly adjusted an…

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Department" means the Wyoming department of transportation; (ii) "Director" means the director of the department of transportation; (iii) "Program" means the Wyoming motorcycle safety education program established under W.S. 31-5-1502; (…

Motorcycle safety education program created. (a) The department shall develop standards for, establish and administer the Wyoming motorcycle safety education program. (b) The program shall provide for novice rider training courses in sufficient numbers and at locations throughout…

Rider training courses; certificates; exemption for licensing skills test. (a) The program shall offer motorcycle rider training courses designed to develop and instill the knowledge, attitudes, habits and skills necessary for the proper operation of a motorcycle. The courses sha…

Instructor training and approval. (a) The department shall approve instructors for the motorcycle rider training courses. No person shall be approved as an instructor unless the person meets the requirements of this act and regulations of the department and unless the person hold…

Implementing authority; rules and regulations. (a) The department shall adopt rules and regulations to implement the motorcycle safety education program. (b) The department may enter into contracts with public or private entities for course delivery and for the provision of servi…

Motorcycle safety education program account. (a) The motorcycle safety education program account is created in the state highway fund and appropriated on a continual basis to the department which shall administer the account. Money in the account shall only be used for administra…

Advisory committee created; appointments; terms; duties; removal; compensation. The director shall appoint a program advisory committee consisting of five (5) persons representing various interests in motorcycle safety to advise and assist the program coordinator in developing, e…

Operation on highways. (a) An off-road recreational vehicle may be operated upon any public road rights-of-way, streets, roads or highways within Wyoming subject to the following conditions: (i) Off-road recreational vehicles may be operated on main-traveled roadways only upon th…

Towing companies; rotation list. (a) The department shall provide by rule and regulation for the safe and efficient removal of vehicles from the highways when the owner or operator of the vehicle is unable to actively assist in the vehicle's removal. (b) Rules adopted by the depa…