Title 15, Title 15 — Cities And Towns

Retirement age; length of service; pension amounts; leaving service early; benefit adjustment. (a) When any person duly appointed or selected and sworn as a member in any capacity or rank, other than department chief, of the police department of any city or town subject to the pr…

Retirement age; physical disability; pension amounts; reinstatement. (a) If any person, while serving as a policeman is physically disabled as a result of any bodily injury received in the immediate or direct performance or discharge of his duties, the board, upon his written req…

Death benefits; surviving spouse and children; amounts; length of payments; benefit adjustment. (a) Upon the death from any cause, of any person appointed or selected and sworn as a member in any capacity or rank of the police department of any city or town subject to the provisi…

Examination of disabled retiree. Any person retired for disability may be summoned by written notice to appear before the board at any time thereafter for examination as to his fitness for duty, and he shall abide by the decision and order of the board with reference thereto.

Benefits terminated upon felony conviction. If any person receiving any benefit from the fund is convicted of a felony, the board shall order that the pension granted to that person immediately cease, and he shall receive no further pension allowance or benefit under this article…

Application for benefits; statement filed; determination; review. If any policeman, his surviving wife, dependent children or dependent parents are entitled to any pension or benefits under this article, the policeman, or in the event of his death the dependent, shall apply for b…

Pension application; when payments made and benefits suspended; pension protections. (a) Application for pension may be made prior to actual retirement upon statement of the intention to retire, but payment shall not begin until the applicant has actually retired and his name is …

Penalties. Any person who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or both.

Citation. This article is known as the "Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981".

Definitions. (a) As used in this article: (i) "Account" means the firemen's pension account established by W.S. 15-5-202; (ii) "Board" means the retirement board established by W.S. 9-3-404 and includes all the powers and duties enumerated in W.S. 9-3-401 through 9-3-429; (iii) "…

Eligibility for service pension. (a) A member is eligible to receive a service pension after he has terminated employment beginning with the month when he has four (4) years of credited service and has attained age fifty (50). (b) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 75, § 2. (c) An inacti…

Vesting rights; return to service. (a) A member who has four (4) years of credited service has a vested right to a service pension payable as provided in W.S. 15-5-403(c). (b) If a member who has less than four (4) years of credited service ceases to be an employee, his service c…

Eligibility for disability pension. (a) A member, not otherwise eligible for a service pension, who suffers a disability is eligible for a disability pension. (b) The determination of disability shall be made by the board in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the bo…

Survivor benefits. The eligible surviving spouse or dependents of a member shall receive a survivor's pension if the member dies from any cause while in service.

Payment of service or early retirement pensions. Service or early retirement pensions shall be made to a retired member for each month beginning with the month in which he is eligible to receive such pension and ending with the month in which he dies, unless an optional form has …

Payment of disability pension. (a) Disability pension payments shall be made to a member for each month beginning with the month in which he is eligible to receive such pension and ending with the month in which he ceases to be eligible or dies, unless an optional form has been e…

Amount of service pension. (a) The amount of the monthly service pension payable to a retired member is: (i) Two and eight-tenths percent (2.8%) of his final average compensation multiplied by the number of years in his first twenty-five (25) years of his period of credited servi…

Amount of disability pension. (a) The disability pension shall be the greater of: (i) Fifty percent (50%) of final average compensation; or (ii) The service pension based on credited service accrued to the date of disability.

Amount of survivor's pension. (a) The monthly survivor's pension payable to a member's eligible primary survivor or, if there is no eligible surviving spouse, then to his eligible surviving dependents, shall be equal to the greater of: (i) Fifty percent (50%) of final average com…

Optional forms of benefits. (a) Any member eligible for a service or disability pension may elect to receive one (1) of the following optional forms, in lieu of the pension computed in W.S. 15-5-409 through 15-5-411, which shall be the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which…

Death benefit. Except as may otherwise be provided in any of the options under W.S. 15-5-413, upon the death of a member, inactive member, retired member or individual receiving a survivor's pension, there shall be paid to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries or, in the ab…

Withdrawal benefit. (a) The accumulated contributions without interest of a member who is neither eligible for a service nor disability pension, nor has a vested right to a service pension, shall be refunded upon his withdrawal from service. There shall be a rebuttable presumptio…

Application of benefits. (a) A service pension, disability pension, survivor's pension, death benefit or withdrawal benefit shall be paid only upon the filing of an application in a form prescribed by the board. A monthly benefit shall not be payable for any month earlier than th…

Election of membership. (a) A "paid fireman" as defined in W.S. 15-5-201(a)(xi) may elect to become a member, as defined in this article by filing an election with the board not later than December 31, 1981, or within thirty (30) days of return to service, if later, for any paid …

Dual membership prohibited. (a) Any employee hired before July 1, 1981 is covered by the pension system specified in W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209 unless he elects to become a member pursuant to W.S. 15-5-418. Any employee hired on or subsequent to July 1, 1981 is covered by the…

Member contributions. (a) Each employer shall deduct monthly from the compensation of each member participating in the account a sum equal to nine and seven hundred forty-five thousandths percent (9.745%) for the period from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020, ten and two hundred…

Contribution by employer. Each employer shall make monthly contributions to the account in an amount equal to the percentage contribution rate multiplied by the salaries paid to members of the account. The contribution rate, expressed as a percentage, shall be based on the result…

Payments; when and how made; protections; nonassignability; qualified domestic relations order. (a) Payments made under this article shall be made to the beneficiaries on or before the fifth day of each month. Payments shall be made by voucher drawn against the firemen's pension …

Rehiring a retired member. Rehiring a retired member under this article shall be in accordance with the Wyoming Retirement Act, W.S. 9-3-415(g) through (j).

Definitions. (a) As used in this chapter: (i) "Conventional gutters" means curb and gutter or combined sidewalk, curb and gutter; (ii) "Drains" or "drainage" means all surface sewers, drains, cross street valley gutters and all kinds of draining other than sanitary sewers or conv…

General grant of authority; nonapplicability of other provisions; restriction; nonexclusivity. (a) Any city or town may provide for the making and maintenance of local improvements and levy and collect special assessments on the property specially benefited to pay all or part of …

General powers and duties. The governing body of any city or town, when considered expedient, may order any improvement or improvements, and determine its character, kind and extent. If the improvement is to be paving, it shall designate the kinds of pavement to be used. It shall…

Powers incidental to streets. (a) The governing body of any city or town may: (i) Design, establish, vacate, widen, extend and open streets or parts thereof; (ii) Appropriate private property for the purpose; (iii) Establish or alter the grade of any street, within the corporate …

Finality of actions; construction of provisions. (a) The action and decision of the governing body on any matters passed upon by it in relation to any subject covered in this chapter is final and conclusive in the absence of fraud. (b) This chapter shall be liberally construed fo…

Generally; ordinance or resolution required. (a) If any city or town makes local improvements or establishes or alters the grade of any street at the cost and expense, in whole or in part, of property specially benefited thereby, the proceedings shall be as provided in this chapt…

Initiative resolution; contents; acceptable bids; notice to be published and mailed; caption. (a) Any improvement may be initiated directly by the governing body by resolution declaring its intention to make improvements. The resolution shall specify with convenient certainty the…

Protest petitions; requirements for abandonment; initiative petitions. At any time within fifteen (15) days from the publication of the resolution of intention, the owners of property situated within the proposed assessment district may file with the city clerk their written obje…

Authority to act and assess; deletions or modifications. (a) Upon passage and publication of the resolution of intention the governing body has jurisdiction and the right to pass any and all ordinances and resolutions, to do any and all acts necessary to prosecute the improvement…

Streets; improving intervening parts; objection thereto. If the improvement proposed is to a street, either by grading or regrading, paving or repaving, macadamizing or remacadamizing, graveling or regraveling, constructing crosswalks, gutters, curbs or providing for surface drai…

Ordinance ordering improvement; contents. (a) Upon the hearing of the resolution of intention, if the governing body decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall pass an ordinance, which shall recite: (i) The passage of the resolution of intention; (ii) The date of the heari…

General requirements; cooperation with federal government. (a) Immediately upon the passage of the ordinance, the city engineer shall prepare and file with the city clerk, plans and specifications which shall show in detail the work to be done, the quantities of material to be ha…

Call for bids; contents; procedure for awarding and executing contracts. (a) The notice and call for bids as provided in W.S. 15-6-301 shall contain in substance the following: (i) The streets or parts thereof to be improved if the improvements are to be street improvements; (ii)…

How grades established or altered; cost. If the notice provided for in W.S. 15-6-202, is in whole or in part to establish or alter a grade, the governing body, after the expiration of giving the notice as provided in W.S. 15-6-202, may establish it by ordinance or resolution. The…

Assessments; when levied; what to be included generally. If the contract or contracts for any improvements have been awarded, or the city or town has determined to construct the improvements by the use of its own equipment, labor and materials, or any of them, or avail itself of …

Assessments; included costs. (a) If any authorized local improvement is ordered, there shall be included in the cost and expense thereof to be assessed against the property specially benefited and included in the district created to pay all or any part thereof, the cost of: (i) T…

Assessments; property included in district; methods of computation; combining improvements; ordinances and resolutions. (a) The assessment district shall include all the property benefited by the improvement or improvements as determined by the governing body, including municipal…

Assessments; roll; preparation and filing; hearing; notice; action by governing body; objections; amendments; certification. (a) When an assessment roll for local improvements has been prepared, it shall be filed with the clerk of the city or town. The governing body shall then f…

Lien created; priority; filing. (a) The charge on the respective lots, tracts, parcels of land and other property for the purpose of special assessments, to pay the cost and expense in whole or in part of any improvement authorized in this chapter, when assessed and the assessmen…

Assessments; review of decisions. The decision of the governing body may be appealed to the district court by filing a written notice of appeal within fifteen (15) days from the date of the governing body's decision.

Assessments; when proceedings conclusive; when sale enjoinable. (a) When any assessment roll for local improvements has been confirmed by the governing body, the regularity, validity and correctness of the proceedings relating to the improvement and to the assessment, including t…