Title 18, Title 18 — Counties

Remedies. (a) Any party aggrieved by the final decision of the board of county commissioners may have the decision reviewed by the district court pursuant to Rule 12 of the Wyoming Rules of Appellate Procedure. (b) When a decision is issued after hearing on an application for a p…

Referral. (a) Any board of county commissioners which receives an application to permit a wind energy facility or solar energy facility which does not meet the definition of an industrial facility as defined in W.S. 35-12-102(a)(vii)(E) or (G) may refer the facility to the indust…

Binding effect. Upon referral of a facility to the industrial siting council pursuant to W.S. 18-5-509, the facility shall not be withdrawn from the council's consideration without consent of the council. Any decision by the council shall be final except as provided in this artic…

Revocation or suspension of permit. (a) A permit may be revoked or suspended for: (i) Any material false statement in the application or in accompanying statements or studies required of the applicant, if a true statement would have warranted the refusal to grant a permit; (ii) F…

Penalties for violations. (a) No person shall: (i) Commence to construct a wind energy facility on or after July 1, 2010 or a solar energy facility on or after July 1, 2020 without first obtaining a permit required by this article; (ii) Construct, reconstruct, operate, locate, er…

Fees. (a) A board of county commissioners which receives an application under this article for the permitting of a facility may charge the applicant a reasonable fee which shall not exceed the reasonably anticipated costs of processing and considering the application and conducti…

Authority to acquire and dispose of sites generally. (a) Each board of county commissioners may purchase or receive by donation or otherwise a site for a county courthouse, jail or both at the county seat of the county or a site for a county jail at any location within the county…

Construction of jails; authority of county commissioners; plans and specifications; maximum cost permitted; call for bids; limitations applicable only when costs paid from general fund. (a) Whenever the board of county commissioners deems it in the best interest of the county to …

Construction of jails; opening of bids or proposals; awarding of contract; security for completion; payment; exemption for alternate delivery methods. (a) On the day appointed for opening the bids the county commissioners shall open and declare the same in public and shall award …

Jail to be kept by sheriff; manner in which prisoners to be kept. (a) The county sheriff or his deputy shall keep and maintain the jail in a safe and secure manner and is responsible for its operation. (b) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 122, § 3.

Care of prisoners; audit of expenses. (a) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 122, § 3. (b) The sheriff shall arrange for the administration of medical care reasonably required by prisoners committed to his custody. (c) The county commissioners shall pay for reasonable and necessary medic…

Care of United States prisoners; disposition of monies collected. Every sheriff or keeper of a jail to which any prisoner is committed by any marshal or other officer of the United States shall be responsible for the safekeeping of the prisoner according to the terms of the commi…

Care of prisoners arrested by state trooper and other special officers. (a) Every sheriff or keeper of any jail shall provide space if available for holding any persons arrested by a state trooper or other special officer of the state lawfully entitled to make arrests, prior to t…

Removal of prisoners in case of fire. Whenever any jail is on fire or any building contiguous or near a jail is on fire and there is reason to believe that the prisoners confined in the jail may be injured or endangered, the sheriff or keeper of the jail may remove the prisoners …

Sheriff and prisoners not subject to arrest when traveling. Any sheriff or other officer who has arrested any prisoner may pass through any county that is in the ordinary route of travel from the place where the prisoner was arrested to the place where he is to be delivered. The …

Juvenile prisoners. (a) Repealed By Laws 2012, Ch. 98, § 2. (b) Juvenile prisoners shall be kept separate from adult prisoners.

Custody and safekeeping of documents relating to prisoners. All instruments, writs, process of any kind, or attested copies thereof by which any prisoner is committed or released shall be endorsed and filed in some suitable place and all such documents shall be delivered to the s…

Jail register to be kept; information to be shown. (a) The sheriff or other officer performing the duties of sheriff shall maintain adequate records relating to the safety, health and welfare of all prisoners. (i) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 122, §§2, 3. (ii) Repealed by Laws 1995…

Restrictions on jail expenses. Nothing in W.S. 18-6-201 or 18-6-202 or 18-6-302 through 18-6-305 or 18-6-307 through 18-6-312 shall be construed as authorizing any board of county commissioners to give extra compensation to the county sheriff for performing the duties specified t…

Contract placement of jail prisoners. Subject to approval by the board of county commissioners and to the availability of funds, the sheriff may contract with a community correctional facility operated under the Adult Community Corrections Act for the housing of prisoners confine…

Prisoners not deemed to be in solitary confinement. A prisoner shall not be considered to be held in solitary confinement solely because he is the only prisoner in the jail.

Contract for housing municipal prisoners. Subject to approval by the board of county commissioners, the sheriff may contract with any municipality in Wyoming for the housing of prisoners charged or sentenced for municipal ordinance violations in the county jail.

Contract for housing out-of-state prisoners; general conditions. (a) Subject to approval by the board of county commissioners and the provisions of this section, the sheriff may contract with any other state or governmental entity within another state for the housing of prisoners…

Prerequisites to appropriate money for establishment and maintenance of library; payment of expenses. When the board of county commissioners has received sufficient guarantees whether in the forms of conveyances or bonds of citizens, associations or corporations that a suitable p…

Manner of levying and collecting tax; library fund. The county library tax shall be levied and collected as other county taxes and the money collected shall be set apart as the county library fund. Nothing herein shall be construed to authorize any levy in excess of those authori…

Library fund under control of board of directors; appointment, powers, duties, terms of directors; manner of filling vacancies on board. (a) The control, use and disposition of the county library fund is entrusted to the county library board of directors which shall budget and ex…

Authority of board to receive and dispose of property; appointment of librarian; library staff. The library board of directors may receive and be responsible for real estate, money or other property to aid the establishment, maintenance or operation of the county library system. …

Organization of board; rules and regulations; filing of certificate of organization; incorporation; recovery of library materials; establishment of branch libraries; cooperative library service. (a) Every library board of directors shall elect a chairman and other officers as nec…

Directors to keep records and make annual report. Each library board of directors shall keep a record of all its proceedings, file in the library all vouchers for expenditures, and after the close of the fiscal year submit an annual financial, statistical and operational report t…

Wyoming public library endowment challenge program. The Wyoming public library endowment challenge program is created.

Definitions. (a) As used in this article: (i) "Challenge fund" means the public library endowment challenge fund created under this article; (ii) "Endowment gift" means an irrevocable gift or transfer to a Wyoming public library foundation of money or other property, whether real…

Wyoming public library endowment challenge fund. (a) The Wyoming public library endowment challenge fund is created and shall consist of twenty-three (23) separate accounts, one (1) account for each Wyoming public library established pursuant to W.S. 18-7-101. (b) The state treas…

Endowment challenge fund matching program; matching payments; agreements with foundations; annual reports. (a) To the extent funds are available in the separate account of any public library within the endowment challenge fund, the state treasurer shall match endowment gifts actu…

Additional transfer of funds. (a) In addition to the transfer of matching funds authorized under W.S. 18-7-204, when the state treasurer determines that the cumulative amount of endowment gifts received by all twenty-three (23) of the public library foundations has reached two mi…

Definitions. (a) As used in W.S. 18-8-102 through 18-8-109 the words: (i) "County hospital" and "county memorial hospital" mean any institution, place, building or agency in which any accommodation is maintained, furnished or offered for the hospitalization of the sick, injured o…

Prerequisites to appointment of board of trustees; indebtedness authorized for construction; annual tax levy for maintenance. (a) When the board of county commissioners has received sufficient guaranties that not less than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) is available for co…

Authority to establish fund for improvements; revenues derived from taxation and from memorial hospital fund. The board of county commissioners of any county having a county memorial hospital may establish a fund of a certain amount to be raised within a certain number of years f…

Hospital generally under control of board of trustees; appointment, powers and duties of trustees; incorporation; use of funds for erection of hospital; term of lease; consolidation of hospitals; acquisition of land; removal of board member; filling of vacancies. (a) The erection…

Trustees to receive donations and observe accompanying conditions. The board of trustees may receive donations of real estate, money or other property in aid of the establishment of the hospital or for the construction of additions or provision of furniture or facilities. They sh…

To be maintained as public hospitals; charges for services; when free services to be given; payment for resident indigent hospitalization. Every county memorial hospital established and maintained as provided by law is a public county hospital. It may charge persons able to pay t…

Records and reports of trustees. The board of trustees shall keep a careful record of all its proceedings and keep duplicate vouchers of all expenditures, one (1) set of vouchers to be kept in the office of the secretary of the board of trustees and the other to be filed annually…

Authority to enter contract for operation; terms and conditions of contract. (a) Whenever the board of trustees of a county memorial hospital or special hospital district deems it in the best interests of the county they may with the approval and consent of the board of county co…

Dissolution; bankruptcy. (a) Subject to the requirements of this section, the trustees of a memorial hospital may vote to file bankruptcy under chapter 9 of the United States bankruptcy code or to dissolve and terminate the county memorial hospital. The plan to dissolve and termi…

Definitions; county memorial hospital; authority to issue revenue securities; purpose. (a) When a county memorial hospital as defined in W.S. 18-8-101 has been established as provided in W.S. 18-8-102 the board of county commissioners when requested by the board of trustees of a …

Additional powers; requirements and conditions; approval by governing body. (a) Subject to the requirements of this section, any county memorial hospital, special hospital district established under W.S. 35-2-401 through 35-2-438, rural health care district established under W.S.…

Authority of board of commissioners to acquire property, appoint board of trustees; purposes and uses; authority to levy taxes, issue bonds or incur indebtedness; county fair fund. (a) Each board of county commissioners may: (i) Acquire lands and other property for fairgrounds, a…

Board of trustees. (a) The board of trustees provided by W.S. 18-9-101(a)(iii) shall be composed of not less than five (5) nor more than nine (9) competent citizens of the county appointed by the board of county commissioners. Trustees shall serve five (5) year terms which shall …

Authority to establish sinking fund; sources of revenue. Each board of county commissioners may establish a sinking fund of a certain amount to be raised within a certain number of years for erecting or constructing improvements, equipping improvements already erected on a county…

Authority to establish county fair endowment fund; sources of revenue. (a) Each board of county commissioners may establish a county fair endowment fund. (b) The county fair endowment fund may accept grants, gifts, transfers, bequests and donations including those that are limite…

Recreational facilities and systems of public recreation; authority to establish and maintain; joint action by political subdivision; tax levies; removal. (a) The governing body of any city, town, county or school district either independently or jointly through any combination t…