Title 36, State Lands

Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission Act".

Definitions. (a) As used in this act, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning or intent: (i) The term "commission" shall mean the Wyoming Yellowstone Park commission, created by section 4 of t…

Creation; composition; qualification; appointment; terms and removal of members; election of officers; quorum; compensation and expenses. (a) There is created an agency and instrumentality of the state to be known as the "Wyoming Yellowstone Park commission" and by that name the …

Officers, agents and employees. The commission may select and appoint such officers, agents and employees as it may deem proper. All such officers, agents and employees shall have such powers and duties, shall hold office for such term and be subject to removal in such manner, an…

General powers. (a) The commission is hereby authorized and empowered: (i) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (ii) To adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure; (iii) To maintain a principal office and suboffice at such …

Exercise of powers. The exercise of the powers granted by this act will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for the increase of their commerce and prosperity, and for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and as the operation and mainte…

Authority to maintain and operate program. In order to maintain and operate a recreational area and facilities program in Yellowstone National Park, the Wyoming Yellowstone Park commission (hereinbefore created) is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, lease, license, impro…

Consent of legislature necessary to execute contract. Provided, however, that before the commission shall execute any contract for the purchase or make any payment for the acquisition of Yellowstone Park recreational areas and facilities, the consent of the Wyoming state legislat…

Revolving account. There is hereby appropriated and credited to a special revolving account to be set up in the state treasury, to be known as the "Wyoming Yellowstone Park commission revolving account", the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00). Moneys shall be released fro…

Construction of provisions. This act, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its habitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof. Division 2. Bonds

Authority to issue; terms. (a) The commission shall be empowered and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its negotiable bonds for any of its public purposes, including the payment of the cost of the project and incidental expenses in connection therewith, and to secur…

Trust agreements generally. In the discretion of the commission any bonds issued under the provisions of this act may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the commission and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company…

Rights of bondholders and trustees. Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this act or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such trust agreement or the res…

Bonds and expenses not to be indebtedness of state or political subdivisions. (a) The bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the state or of any political subdivision thereof or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state or of…

Bonds deemed legal investments and deposits. Bonds issued by the commission under the provisions of this act are hereby made securities in which the state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companie…

Pledge by state to bondholders. The state of Wyoming does pledge to and agrees with the holders of the bonds issued pursuant to this act that the state will not limit or alter the rights herein vested in the commission to acquire, lease, license, construct, improve, extend, recon…

Moneys deemed trust funds. All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this act, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds, to be held and applied solely as provided in this act. The resolution authorizing the bonds of any i…

Statutory authority for issuance of bonds and fixing of charges. (a) This act without reference to other statutes of the state of Wyoming shall constitute full authority for the authorization and issuance of bonds hereunder, and no other act or law with regard to the authorizatio…

Existing statutory powers. The foregoing sections of this act shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be r…

Acceptance of Big Horn Hot Springs. The state of Wyoming hereby accepts the lands granted by the act of congress of 1897 ceding to the state one (1) square mile in the northeast portion of the historic Shoshone Indian Reservation upon which is located the Big Horn Hot Springs and…

Name of park. From and after the passage of this act, the land managed by the department as of July 1, 2010 in the northeast portion of the historic Shoshone Indian Reservation, upon which is located the Big Horn Hot Springs, is hereby declared to be and shall hereafter be known …

Disposition of monies received. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any and all monies which may be received for rentals of said lands or waters, or any portion thereof, or for the use of said water in any form or any portion thereof, and all money in any way derived fr…

Public baths and public campgrounds. The department of state parks and cultural resources shall retain one-fourth (1/4) of the water in the main or largest principal spring on the state land on the eastern bank of the Big Horn River with sufficient quantity of the land adjacent t…

Adjudication of water right for flow of Big Horn Hot Springs. The legislature of Wyoming, by enacting W.S. 36-8-304, appropriated and set aside for the state of Wyoming, board of charities and reform, the total flow of the Big Horn Hot Springs at Thermopolis, Wyoming, which was e…

Transfer of lands to United States. Whenever in the judgment of the department, in consultation with the commission, the interest of the state will be advanced by granting, conveying or deeding to the United States of America any tract or tracts of land within the Hot Springs Sta…

Control of use of lands; transfer of control to the Wyoming department of state parks and cultural resources. (a) The lands granted by the act of congress approved on the seventh day of June, A.D. 1897, ceding to the state of Wyoming certain lands in the northeastern portion of t…

Inspection for health purposes. The department, in consultation with the commission, may call upon the state department of health to inspect, examine and report fully upon the condition of any and all hotels, sanitariums and buildings, and all places and localities within the lim…

Rules and regulations; adoption, penalty for violation and cancellation of leases. The department of state parks and cultural resources has full power, control and supervision over the Big Horn Hot Springs State Park, located in Hot Springs county, and all property thereon. The d…

Rules and regulations; publication and distribution. All rules and regulations adopted by the department of state parks and cultural resources for the government of the Big Horn Hot Springs State Park shall be published in pamphlet form and distributed to all officers and persons…

Superintendent. The department of state parks and cultural resources may employ a superintendent of the Big Horn Hot Springs State Park who shall have charge of all the state property at that park under the direction of the department.

Attendant for free bathhouse. The department may employ an attendant at the free bathhouse of the Big Horn Hot Springs whose duties shall be specified by the department.

Gambling prohibited; sale of alcoholic beverages regulated; violations. Gambling in any form is prohibited within the park. The sale of alcoholic liquor except for medicinal purposes shall be subject to any terms, conditions, regulations and license fees as the department in cons…

Penalty for public health violations. Any person who maintains a filthy, unwholesome or offensive house, hotel, bathhouse, sanitarium, dwelling, stable, privy or privy vault, drainpipe or sewer, which is a menace to the public health, or who fails to comply with any order, rule, …

Liability and penalty for livestock roaming at will. It shall be unlawful for any person, owner or custodian of any livestock to permit the same to roam at will over, upon or across any portion of the lands owned by the state in Hot Springs county and known as the Hot Springs Sta…

Purchase of hot springs; description of land. The state board of charities and reform of the state of Wyoming is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to purchase, take and secure the title thereof in the name of the state of Wyoming and pay therefor, in the manner hereinafte…

Control and use of property; transfer of control to the Wyoming department of state parks and cultural resources. (a) The property described in W.S. 36-8-401 is placed under control of the state board of charities and reform or its successors and forever set aside for the treatme…

Sale of lands and improvements; authority. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions contained in W.S. 36-8-401, 36-8-402, or in any other provision of law, the sale of the lands and improvements known as and included in the Saratoga Hot Springs Reserve to any person, association o…

Sale of lands and improvements; conduct of sale. Any sale of the lands and improvements referred to in W.S. 36-8-403 shall be conducted by the state board of land commissioners in the manner provided for the sale of other state lands in W.S. 36-9-101, 36-9-102 and 36-9-104 throug…

Lease of lands and improvements. The department, in consultation with the commission, may lease the lands and improvements referred to in W.S. 36-8-403 to any person, association, firm or corporation for any lawful purpose, for any term not in excess of ninety-nine (99) years.

South Pass City state historic site. (a) Repealed By Laws 2010, Ch. 11, § 3. (b) Upon approval by the governor, the department of state parks and cultural resources may purchase in the name of the state of Wyoming the following real property, unless the Carissa gold mine has crea…

Corporate powers. Except as herein limited the preserve shall have powers like a corporation as provided in the Wyoming Business Corporation Act and by law for nonprofit corporations.

Declaration of Curt Gowdy state park. (a) The lands in Laramie and Albany counties managed by the department as of July 1, 2010 at Granite Reservoir, Crystal Reservoir and Upper North Crow Reservoir areas known collectively as Curt Gowdy state park are hereby declared to be a sta…

Administration. The department of state parks and cultural resources shall administer this area.

Declaration of Sinks Canyon state park; disposal of land. (a) The lands in Fremont County managed by the department as of July 1, 2010 and known as Sinks Canyon are hereby declared to be a state park. The department shall by rule specify the legal description of the state park. (…

Administration. The department of state parks and cultural resources and the Wyoming game and fish commission shall jointly administer this area.

Declaration of area as Fort Fred Steele state historic site; administration; safety facilities. (a) The lands in Carbon county managed by the department as of July 1, 2010 and known as the Fort Fred Steele area are hereby declared to be a state historic site. The department shall…