Title 31 — Title 31 — Motor Vehicles

Instructor training and approval. (a) The department shall approve instructors for the motorcycle rider training courses. No person shall be approved as an instructor unless the person meets the requirements of this act and regulations of the department and unless the person hold…

Implementing authority; rules and regulations. (a) The department shall adopt rules and regulations to implement the motorcycle safety education program. (b) The department may enter into contracts with public or private entities for course delivery and for the provision of servi…

Motorcycle safety education program account. (a) The motorcycle safety education program account is created in the state highway fund and appropriated on a continual basis to the department which shall administer the account. Money in the account shall only be used for administra…

Advisory committee created; appointments; terms; duties; removal; compensation. The director shall appoint a program advisory committee consisting of five (5) persons representing various interests in motorcycle safety to advise and assist the program coordinator in developing, e…

Operation on highways. (a) An off-road recreational vehicle may be operated upon any public road rights-of-way, streets, roads or highways within Wyoming subject to the following conditions: (i) Off-road recreational vehicles may be operated on main-traveled roadways only upon th…

Towing companies; rotation list. (a) The department shall provide by rule and regulation for the safe and efficient removal of vehicles from the highways when the owner or operator of the vehicle is unable to actively assist in the vehicle's removal. (b) Rules adopted by the depa…

(a) Definitions. As used in this act: (i) "Alcohol concentration" means as defined in W.S. 31-5-233(a)(i); (ii) "Controlled substance" includes: (A) 35-7-1002(a)(iv); Any drug or substance defined by W.S. (B) Any glue, aerosol or other toxic vapor which when intentionally inhaled…

Test to determine alcoholic or controlled substance content of blood; suspension of license. (a) If arrested for an offense as defined by W.S. 31-5-233: (i) Any person who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a public street or highway in this state is …

Application for hearing; stay of suspension of license; scope of hearing. (a) A timely request for a hearing shall stay the suspension until the order following the hearing is entered and all appellate review of the matter is completed, provided the stay of suspension is effectiv…

Right to petition for subsequent hearing; suspension applies to all licenses held; persons not required to take test. (a) If the suspension is sustained after a hearing, the person whose Wyoming driver's license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle has been suspended under thi…

Method of performing chemical analysis; persons permitted to draw blood; request by arrested person for test; information made available; evidence of refusal to take test. (a) Chemical analysis of the person's blood, breath or urine to be considered valid under this section, shal…

No liability incurred by persons requested to administer test. No physician, registered nurse, qualified clinical or laboratory technician or other person who routinely does venipunctures at the direction of a physician or facility in which the blood is drawn shall incur any civi…

[Repealed or reserved.]

drivers. Repealed By Laws 2011, Ch. 178, § 2. Implied consent requirements for youthful (a) If arrested for an offense as defined by W.S. 31-5-234: (i) A person under twenty-one (21) years of age who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle within this state is …

Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Driver's License Act."

(a) Definitions. As used in this act: (i) "Alcohol" means any substance containing any form of alcohol, including but not limited to, ethanol, methanol, propanol and isopropanol; (ii) "Alcohol concentration" means: (A) The number of grams of alcohol per one hundred (100) millilit…

Administration and enforcement. (a) The administration of this act shall be exercised by the department, which may prescribe forms and reasonable rules and regulations in conformity with this act and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act under W.S. 40-21-101 through 40-21119. P…

Disposition of fees. Except as provided in this section and W.S. 31-7-113(g), the license fees levied and collected under this act are payable to the department and shall be transmitted to the state treasurer to be credited to the highway fund. Subject to the allocation in W.S. 3…

(a) Administrative hearings. Repealed by Laws 1992, ch. 30, § 3. (b) A hearing examiner designated by the office of administrative hearings created by W.S. 9-2-2201 shall sit as the administrative hearing agency for the department to hear all: (i) Contested cases involving per se…

Repealed By Laws 2011, Ch. 178, § 2. License required; limited to one license. (a) No person, unless exempt under this act shall drive, steer or exercise any degree of physical control of any motor vehicle or a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle upon a highway in this state u…

Persons exempted. (a) The following persons are exempt from the licensing requirement under this act: (i) Any employee of the United States government while operating a motor vehicle owned by or leased to the United States government and being operated on official business unless…

division. Persons not to be licensed; investigation by the (a) No driver's license shall be issued to any person who is under the age of seventeen (17) years, except as provided in W.S. 31-7-110 and 31-7-117(c), or unless the person is at least sixteen (16) years of age and has h…

Classes of licenses. (a) Every driver's license issued by the division shall be classified by the class, type or endorsement of the vehicles the licensee may drive. (b) License classification, type or endorsement shall take into account the operational characteristics of the vehi…

Instruction and temporary driver's permits. (a) Any person who is at least fifteen (15) years of age may apply to the division for an instruction permit. The division, after the applicant has successfully passed all parts of the examination other than the driving test, may issue …

Application for license or permit generally. (a) Every application for an instruction permit, driver's license, commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit shall be made upon a form furnished by the division. Every application shall be accompanied by the proper fee…

under 18. Application for license or permit of persons The application of any person under the age of eighteen (18) years for an instruction permit or driver's license shall be signed by a parent or guardian having custody of the applicant. If there is no parent or guardian the a…

Fees. (a) The following fees are imposed, in addition to the fee in subsection (g) of this section: (i) Driver's license $40.00 (ii) Instruction permit $40.00 (iii) Restricted license under W.S. 31-7-117(c) $20.00 (iv) Repealed by Laws 2025, ch. 5, § 2. (v) Extension or renewal $…

Examinations; visual acuity. (a) The division shall examine every applicant for a driver's license and instructional permit and shall require each applicant to demonstrate adequate visual acuity according to department rules. The division's examination shall include a test of the…

Issuance, description and contents. (a) Upon the satisfactory completion of any required examination, the division shall issue to every qualifying applicant a driver's license, and: (i) The license shall be tamperproof to the maximum extent practicable and may include security fe…

Carrying and displaying. Every licensee shall have his driver's license in his immediate possession at all times when driving a motor vehicle and shall display the license upon demand of any judicial officer, municipal court judge, any officer or agent of the division or any poli…

Restricted licenses. (a) Upon issuing a driver's license the division for good cause may impose restrictions suitable to the licensee's driving ability. The restrictions may require special mechanical control devices on any motor vehicle which the licensee may drive and any other…

Replacement license. (a) If a license issued under this act is lost, destroyed or if the licensee desires to withdraw or insert notice of anatomical organ donation or a medical alert designation, the person may obtain the appropriate replacement license upon payment of the proper…

extension. Expiration and renewal; required tests; (a) Every driver's license shall expire on the licensee's birthday in the fifth year following the issuance of the license. (b) The division shall require every person applying for renewal of a driver's license to demonstrate ade…

Records to be kept by division; exceptions. (a) The division shall maintain a readily available file of and suitable indexes for: (i) All license applications denied with the reasons for denial noted thereon; (ii) All applications granted; (iii) Every licensee whose license has b…

Repealed By Laws 1997, ch. 5, § 1.

Reexaminations. (a) The division, having good cause to believe that a licensed driver is unsafe or otherwise not qualified to be licensed, may upon written notice of not less than ten (10) days to the licensee require him to submit to an appropriate examination. Upon the conclusi…

permit. Authority of division to cancel license or The division may cancel any driver's license, instruction permit or commercial learner's permit upon determining that the licensee or permittee was not entitled to the license or permit, that the licensee or permittee failed to g…

Suspension or revocation of privileges of nonresidents; reporting of convictions, suspensions and revocations by division. (a) The privilege of a nonresident to drive a motor vehicle on the highways of this state is subject to suspension or revocation by the division under this a…

Suspension or revocation upon notice of conviction in another state or in federal court. The division shall suspend or revoke the license of any resident of this state or the privilege of a nonresident to drive a motor vehicle in this state upon receiving notice of the conviction…

by courts. Reporting of convictions and failure to appear (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, every court having jurisdiction under any statute of this state or a municipal ordinance adopted by local authority regulating the driving of motor vehicles, shall …

violations. Mandatory revocation of license for certain (a) The division shall revoke the license or nonresident operating privilege of any person, upon receipt of a record of conviction of the person of any of the following violations: (i) Any felony which is the direct result o…

Mandatory suspension of license or nonresident operating privilege for certain violations; suspension of registration. (a) The division shall suspend the license or nonresident operating privilege of any driver upon receiving a record of the driver's conviction under W.S. 31-5-22…

Discretionary suspension of license. (a) The division may suspend the license of any driver for a period not to exceed twelve (12) months if the licensee: (i) Is a repeated violator, such fact being established by a record of moving violations, accidents or by other evidence; (ii…

revocation. Commencement of cancellation, suspension or (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, a cancellation, suspension or revocation by the division under this act or any other law shall commence the later of: (i) Twenty (20) days after notice of intent to suspend or revoke …

Repealed by Laws 2025, ch. 9, § 2.

Restriction on operation under foreign license during cancellation, suspension or revocation in this state. Any resident or nonresident whose driver's license or privilege to drive a motor vehicle in this state has been cancelled, suspended or revoked under this act, shall not dr…

Unlawful use of license. (a) It is an unlawful use of a license and is a misdemeanor for any person to: (i) Display or permit to be displayed, or have in his possession any cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious or fraudulently altered driver's license; (ii) Lend his driver's …

Driving while license cancelled, suspended, invalid or revoked. (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on any public highway in this state at a time when his driver's license, from this or any other jurisdiction, or nonresident operating privileges are cancelled, suspended, de…

Permitting unlicensed person to drive. No person shall authorize or knowingly permit a motor vehicle owned by him or under his control to be driven or towed upon any highway by any person who is not licensed for the type or class of vehicles to be driven or is in violation of any…

General penalties. Except as otherwise provided by this act, any person who violates any provision of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be punished by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).