Title 16, Title 16 — City, County, State And Local Powers

Removal of off-premise outdoor advertising prohibited without compensation; definitions. (a) No governmental entity, including the state, or any municipality, county or other political subdivision shall remove or cause to be removed any legally placed off-premise outdoor advertis…

Short title. This act is known and may be cited as the "Emergency Telephone Service Act".

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Governing body" means the board of county commissioners of a county, city council or other governing body of a city, town or county, the board of directors of a special district or a joint powers board established pursuant to W.S. 16-4-1…

Imposition of tax; liability of user for tax; collection; uncollected amounts; discontinuing service prohibited. (a) In addition to any other powers for the protection of the public health, a governing body may incur any nonrecurring or recurring costs for the installation, maint…

Remittance of tax to the governing body; administrative fee; establishment of rate of tax. (a) Except as provided in W.S. 16-9-109, any tax imposed under this act and the amounts collected are to be remitted quarterly to the governing body. The amount of the tax collected in one …

Agreements or contract for 911 emergency reporting systems; use of funds collected. (a) Any governing body imposing the tax authorized by this act may enter into an agreement directly with any service supplier to the 911 system or may contract and cooperate with any public agency…

Private listing and wireless subscribers, 911 service. Private listing and wireless subscribers in 911 service areas waive privacy afforded by nonlisted or nonpublished numbers to the extent that the name and address associated with the telephone number may be furnished to the 91…

Confidentiality of information. The information obtained through a 911 system shall be considered a public record under W.S. 16-4-201(a)(v) and access to the information may be denied according to law.

Immunity for providers. No basic emergency service provider or service supplier and no employee or agent thereof shall be liable to any person or entity for infringement or invasion of the right of privacy of any person caused or claimed to have been caused, directly or indirectl…

State-wide imposition of tax; prepaid wireless; collection; distribution; immunity. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, on and after July 1, 2016, there is imposed a 911 emergency tax of one and five-tenths percent (1.5%) on every retail sale of prepaid wireless com…

Statewide 911 coordinator. The governor shall designate an individual within the department of transportation as the statewide 911 coordinator, who shall be a qualified elector of the state and whose duties may be removed by the governor. The coordinator shall be responsible for …

Providing call location information in an emergency.

911 outage reporting. Any service supplier who owns, operates or controls any communications equipment necessary for the operation of a 911 emergency reporting system shall, if the failure of the communications equipment disables, impairs or degrades the operation of a 911 emerge…

911 study and grants. (a) From funds appropriated for that purpose, the department of transportation shall conduct a study, with input from the stakeholders and industry, examining the transition to next generation 911 within the state of Wyoming. The study shall include, without…

Definitions. (a) As used in this act, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply: (i) "Access line" means the facility that allows the customer of a local exchange company or radio communications service provider to access the local or toll network wit…

Committee on telecommunications services for the communications impaired; composition; allocation. (a) There is created a committee on telecommunications services for the communications impaired. (b) The committee shall consist of seven (7) members. The membership shall be appoin…

Term of office; vacancies; officers; bylaws; compensation; conflict of interest. (a) Each member of the committee shall serve a term of three (3) years, except that the governor shall appoint two (2) of the initial members to serve terms of one (1) year and two (2) of the initial…

Power and duties of the committee. (a) The committee shall advise the division as to the administration of the program provided for in W.S. 16-9-205. In fulfilling this duty, the committee shall: (i) Review and recommend policies and procedures governing administration of the pro…

Program established; purpose; responsibilities of the division of vocational rehabilitation. (a) The division in consultation with the committee, shall establish and administer a program to provide specialized telecommunications equipment and message relay services to persons who…

Message relay system; requirements. (a) The division, after consultation with the committee, shall contract with a qualified provider to design and implement a message relay system that fulfills the purpose described in W.S. 16-9-205. The division shall award the contract for thi…

Gifts and grants. The committee may accept contributions, gifts and grants, in money or otherwise, to the program established in W.S. 16-9-205. Monetary contributions, gifts and grants must be deposited in the fund created by W.S. 16-9-208.

Account for telecommunications services for the communications impaired. (a) There is created an account for telecommunications services for the communications impaired. The account shall consist of: (i) All monetary contributions, gifts and grants received by the committee as pr…

Special fee. (a) The committee shall annually determine the amount of a special fee, not to exceed twenty-five cents ($.25) per access line per month, based upon available cost data and other information, that will cover the costs of providing intrastate message relay service as …

Records; audit. (a) Each local exchange company or radio communications service provider shall maintain a record of the special fees billed and collected pursuant to W.S. 16-9-209 for a period of three (3) years from the date of billing or collection, respectively. (b) The commit…

Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Surface Water Drainage Utility Act."

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Governing body" means the board of county commissioners of a county, the governing body of a city or town or a joint powers board; (ii) "Surface water drainage system" means all natural and man-made elements used to convey surface water …

Powers. (a) In addition to all other powers provided by law, any governing body may establish a surface water drainage utility to design, plan, construct, reconstruct, acquire, operate, improve, extend or maintain a surface water drainage system, sometimes referred to as a storm …

Formation of a surface water drainage utility. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a surface water drainage utility may be formed by the governing body of any city or town, or by the county in the unincorporated area of a county, as provided by this act, for all or a port…

Ordinance or resolution for construction; required and authorized provisions. (a) If the governing body of a city, town or county desires to establish a surface water drainage utility pursuant to this act, a county shall do so by resolution and a city or town shall do so by ordin…

Agreements authorized. The state, or any department of the state, may enter into agreements with governing bodies to exercise authorities conferred by this act.

Surface water drainage utility board. (a) Any governing body which creates a surface water drainage utility may establish a surface water drainage utility board to exercise and perform all powers and duties which the governing body could perform under this act. The surface water …

Refunding revenue bonds. A governing body may issue refunding revenue bonds in the manner prescribed by W.S. 16-5-101 through 16-5-119.

Use of surplus funds. (a) A governing body may use any surplus funds arising from the service charge for the purchase and cancellation of any bonds or other forms of indebtedness issued pursuant to this act. The purchase price of the bonds shall not be either: (i) Greater than pa…

Recovery of unpaid charges. If any service charge is not paid within thirty (30) days after it is due, the amount of the service charge, plus a penalty of ten percent (10%) and a reasonable attorney's and collection agency's fee shall constitute a lien against the land served and…

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Local government" means a county, city or town; (ii) "Sport shooting range" or "range" means an area designed and operated for the use of rifles, shotguns, pistols, silhouettes, skeet, trap, black powder or any other similar sport shooti…

Operation of shooting ranges; liability. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who operates or uses a sport shooting range in this state shall not be subject to civil liability or criminal prosecution in any matter relating to noise or noise pollution resulti…

Regulation of location and construction. This act does not prohibit a local government from regulating the location and construction of a sport shooting range after the effective date of this act.

Definitions. (a) As used in this chapter: (i) "Director" or "district director" means a voting member of the governing body of a special district or other specified entity, regardless of what title is used in the principal act; (ii) "Principal act" means the statutes under which …

Applicability to special districts and other specified entities; general provisions. (a) This chapter applies to the following entities unless otherwise specified: (i) Airport joint powers boards; (ii) Cemetery districts; (iii) Conservation districts; (iv) Fire protection distric…

Short title. This article may be cited as the "Special District Public Records and Meetings Act."

Applicability; filing requirements. (a) This article specifies requirements pertaining to public records and meetings of the entities listed in W.S. 16-12-202(a) where the principal act is silent or unclear. The specific provisions of a principal act or the Wyoming Public Records…

Public meetings. (a) In addition to the requirements of W.S. 16-4-401 through 16-4-408, all public meetings of special districts and specified entities shall be held in a location accessible to the general public or made accessible to the public for purposes of the meeting. (b) N…

The adopted budget shall be filed with the department of audit and county clerk on behalf of the county commissioners no later than July 31. The adopted budget shall be forwarded by the county clerk to the county assessor and county commissioners before mill levies are set. (b) P…

Applicability. This article specifies requirements pertaining to budgeting of the entities listed in W.S. 16-12-202(a) where the principal act is silent or unclear. The specific provisions of a principal act are effective or controlling to the extent they conflict with this artic…

Definitions. (a) As used in this article: (i) "Appropriation" means an allocation of money to be expended for a specific purpose; (ii) "Budget" means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal year embodying estimates of all proposed expenditures, the proposed means of financing…

Preparation of budgets; contents; review. (a) Each special district or other specified entity shall prepare a proposed budget pursuant to W.S. 9-1-507(a)(viii). The proposed budget shall comply with department rules and set forth: (i) Actual revenues and expenditures in the last …