Title 18 — Title 18 — Counties

Service of process; attendance upon courts. The county sheriff or his deputy shall serve and execute according to law all processes, writs, precepts and orders issued by any court of record in his county or other lawful authority in all criminal and civil cases and he shall atten…

Service of process on sheriff; appearing as attorney prohibited. Every paper required by law to be served on the county sheriff may be served on him in person or left at his office during business hours. No sheriff or deputy shall appear or advise as attorney or counselor in any …

Duty to preserve peace. Each county sheriff and deputy shall preserve the peace in the respective counties and suppress all affrays, riots, unlawful assemblies and insurrections. Each sheriff or deputy sheriff may call upon any person to assist in performing these duties or for t…

Cash book to be kept by sheriff as ex officio county collector; entries to be made; inspection; receipts; penalties. (a) Every county sheriff as ex officio county collector shall have and keep in his office a cash book in which shall be entered all monies paid him by virtue of hi…

Fees generally. (a) For the serving of process according to the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure, each county sheriff shall receive from the party requesting service a single fee, to be determined and set by the board of county commissioners after a public hearing, paid in advanc…

(a) Other duties. Each county sheriff shall: (i) Pay and account for all monies which come into his office, as provided by law; (ii) Deliver to his successor in office or other person authorized by law to receive them all monies, books, papers and other property belonging to his …

Perform all other duties required of him by law. Custodian of jail when sheriff imprisoned. When the sheriff is committed to the jail of his county, the board of county commissioners shall appoint a special deputy sheriff to act as custodian thereof during the time the sheriff re…

hearings. Sheriff's office employees; removal from office; (a) This section applies to sworn nonprobationary, fulltime deputies of a sheriff's department which employs at least twenty (20) sworn, full-time deputies. Except as provided by subsection (d) of this section, this secti…

of roads. Qualifications; appointment; duty as supervisor Each board of county commissioners may appoint a county surveyor who is a licensed engineer or surveyor of the state of Wyoming. The board of county commissioners may also appoint the county surveyor to be the county super…

Duty to make county surveys and keep plats. (a) The county surveyor shall: (i) Conduct all surveys in and for his county and keep a plat of all official surveys made by him on file in his office in strict conformity to the field notes of the survey; (ii) File a copy of a plat of …

Records to be kept; copies to be furnished upon request; duty to file plats, maps and records of surveys made for county with county clerk; penalty for failure to file such records; authority of county commissioners to purchase records of private surveys. (a) The county surveyor …

Establishment of lost corners. (a) Whenever the location of any monument which marks the corner of any tract or tracts of land is in dispute between the owners of the adjoining lands, the monument shall be established as follows: (i) The county surveyor of the county in which the…

Compensation of surveyor; appointment and compensation of road supervisor in case surveyor does not act. The county surveyor in each county shall receive for each day actually employed by the county an amount not to exceed thirty dollars ($30.00) per day. If the county surveyor d…

Election. There shall be elected in each county a county treasurer, who shall be a resident of the county in which the county treasurer serves, beginning on the first day of the term and through the last day of the term for which the county treasurer serves.

Duty as collector of taxes. Each county treasurer is collector of taxes and shall perform such duties as prescribed by law. The bond given by each county treasurer, as provided by W.S. 18-3-102, shall cover any violation of his duties as collector of taxes, any failure on his par…

Liability for collection of taxes. Each county treasurer is responsible on his bond for reasonable skill, diligence, good faith and honesty in the performance of his duties. He shall diligently endeavor to collect all taxes due the county and state and is responsible on his bond …

Duty to keep accounts of receipts and expenditures generally. Each county treasurer shall keep a true account of the receipts and expenditures of all monies which come into his office and shall perform all duties required by law.

Duty to receive funds; payments made on commissioners' warrants. Each county treasurer shall receive all monies belonging to the county and state, and all monies required by law to be paid to him. All monies received for the use of the county shall be paid out only on the orders …

Manner of keeping account of receipts and expenditures; inspection of records; annual settlement; report. Each county treasurer shall keep a true account of the receipts and expenditure of all monies which come into his office in a book or books kept by him for that purpose. The …

Order in which warrants paid. Properly attested county orders or warrants are entitled to preference for payment according to date of presentation and acceptance at the treasurer's office, the oldest date having preference.

Settlement upon resignation or removal; penalty for failure to deliver books. Upon the resignation or removal from office of any county treasurer, all books, papers and monies belonging to his office shall be delivered to his successor upon the oath of the preceding treasurer or,…

warrants. Treasurer to countersign and register all When county orders or warrants are drawn by the county clerk and properly signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, before they are delivered to the person for whose benefit the same are drawn, they shall be p…

Restrictions upon countersigning warrants. No county treasurer shall countersign any blank county order or warrant or other order or warrant, or make any electronic payment or fund transfer, until the treasurer is satisfied that the electronic payment, order or warrant was ordere…

Register of county orders and payments. Each county treasurer shall keep in his office a book called the register of county orders wherein shall be entered on the date of the presentation thereof and without interval or blank line between any entry and the one preceding it every …

Settlement with state treasurer. Each county treasurer shall pay the state treasurer all state taxes and other state monies received by him and shall give the state treasurer a written statement that he has paid over the same funds in kind as received by him and has not exchanged…

Malfeasance of treasurer or deputy. Every county treasurer or deputy county treasurer who does not keep in his office a register of county orders as required by W.S. 18-3-811, or does not enter at the time of presentation every county order presented to him for payment, or makes …

Officers to pay over monies and prepare statement for commissioners monthly; forfeiture. Every elected or appointed county officer required or permitted to receive and pay to the county treasurer any taxes, fines, fees or other monies shall no later than the twenty-fifth day of e…

Repealed By Laws 2011, Ch. 41, § 2.

The supreme court may upon motion of the attorney general fix a time within which the necessary records of the proceedings and the briefs of the parties shall be filed and advance the cause for hearing. No proceeding in error shall suspend or supersede a judgment of the district …

Suspension of officers by the governor pending outcome of proceedings; notice; order to be filed; filling of vacancies; restoration of office upon verdict of not guilty; reimbursement of compensation and expense of trial. (a) Whenever a proceeding as specified by W.S. 18-3-902 ha…

Hearing by the supreme court. Either party may commence a proceeding in error in the supreme court by filing a petition in error as in civil actions within thirty (30) days after the entry and judgment provided by W.S.

Criminal statutes neither repealed nor barred. Nothing in W.S. 18-3-902 through 18-3-904 shall be construed as repealing any law making it a crime or misdemeanor for county officers to violate statutes of this state and providing a punishment for the violation. Proceedings under …

Prima facie malfeasance in office by sheriffs, district attorneys and county assessors. Every sheriff and district attorney shall prima facie be guilty of malfeasance in office and subject to removal where open and continuous violations of any law occur in the county for which su…

Repealed By Laws 2011, Ch. 41, § 2.

Public money to be paid into treasury. All county officers receiving money for any county shall pay the same into the county treasury of the proper county.

Officers to be paid in warrants; direct deposit program authorized. (a) All county officers are prohibited from paying themselves from money belonging to any county which may be in their possession, but shall receive pay for services rendered to a county by warrants drawn upon th…

Office of county clerk and budget-making authority compatible. The office of county clerk and the office of budget-making authority are declared compatible.

Certificates of indebtedness; purposes for which authorized; interest; precedence over other claims; order of payment; current year defined. (a) When there are insufficient funds in the county treasury to meet the current obligations of the county each board of county commissione…

Order of paying warrants; exception as to Laramie and Albany counties. All taxes and licenses are payable in money, and all properly attested orders and warrants are entitled to preference for payment according to date of presentation and acceptance at the treasurer's office, the…

generally. Cancellation of warrants and certificates; (a) The county treasurer shall on the first Monday of December in each year cancel all unpaid county warrants which have been issued for more than twelve (12) months. He shall at the same time cancel all county certificates of…

County officer discounting warrant; penalty. Any treasurer, clerk, sheriff, or member of the board of commissioners of a county, who shall purchase or receive any warrant or demand against such county for less than the face value of such demand, shall be fined not more than five …

Refusal of county treasurer to pay indebtedness or receive order in payment of taxes; penalty therefor. Any county treasurer who, upon presentation of any auditor's warrant, county order, or like evidence of indebtedness for payment, shall refuse payment thereof, there being then…

Election for establishment; mill levy; custodian; restriction on use; investment. (a) Each board of county commissioners may by resolution provide for an election to decide whether a building fund of a specified amount to be raised within a specified time not exceeding ten (10) y…

permitted. Authority as to issuance; maximum indebtedness Each board of county commissioners may create an indebtedness which with the existing indebtedness of the county does not exceed the constitutional debt limitation for counties, whenever the proposition to create the debt …

Election upon question of issuance generally; terms; purposes. Each board of county commissioners may submit to the electors of the county the question of whether the board of county commissioners shall be authorized to issue registered coupon bonds of the county. The bonds shall…

Proposition may be submitted at election. The proposition to create the debt may be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the county at an election called, conducted, canvassed and returned in the manner provided for bond elections by the Political Subdivision Bond Ele…

(a) Form; terms; conditions. Bonds issued by the board of county commissioners: (i) Shall bear lawful interest rates; (ii) Shall be payable annually or semiannually; (iii) May be evidenced by one (1) or two (2) sets of coupons if any but the first coupon may evidence interest for…

Form; execution; payment; presumed valid. (a) Bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and countersigned by the county treasurer or his deputy. Any coupons shall be signed by the county treasurer or his deputy. The county clerk shall endorse a ce…

Notice of intention to issue and sell. The board shall give notice by posting on the county's official website in the manner provided in W.S. 18-3-516(f) and by publication in the county's designated official newspaper.

Engraving; registration; endorsement. After ascertaining the best terms and the lowest interest at which the bonds can be negotiated the board shall secure the proper engraving and printing and consecutive numbering thereof and the bonds shall be properly prepared and executed. W…