Title 15, Title 15 — Cities And Towns

Exemption of property from execution; exception. All property of a municipality or agency, including funds owned or held by it for the purposes of this chapter, are exempt from levy and sale by virtue of any execution. No execution or other judicial process shall issue against th…

Exemption of property from taxation; termination thereof. The property of a municipality or agency acquired or held for the purposes of this chapter, is public property used for essential public and governmental purposes. The property is exempt from all taxes of the municipality,…

Powers of municipality, public body in aiding project. (a) To aid in the planning, undertaking or carrying out of an urban renewal project and related activities authorized by this chapter located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any public body or municipality, …

Instruments presumed properly executed. Any instrument executed by a municipality and purporting to convey the right, title or interest in any property under this chapter is conclusively presumed to have been executed in compliance with the provisions hereof insofar as title or o…

Exercise of powers; delegation and scope thereof; exceptions. (a) A municipality may itself exercise its urban renewal powers as specified in this chapter. (b) As used in this section, "urban renewal powers," when applied to their exercise by the urban renewal agency, include the…

Agency; creation; board of commissioners; appointment; compensation; actions and procedure; removal. (a) There is created in each municipality a public body corporate and politic to be known as the "urban renewal agency" of the municipality. The urban renewal agency shall not exe…

Agency; staff. An agency may employ an executive director, technical experts and any other agents and employees it requires and determine their qualifications, duties and compensation. An agency may also employ or retain its own counsel and legal staff.

Agency; annual reports. An agency authorized to transact business and exercise powers under this chapter shall file with the local governing body on or before May 31 of each year a report of its activities for the preceding calendar year. The report shall include a complete finan…

Voluntary conflicts of interest prohibited; disclosure of involuntary conflicts; violation. No public official or employee of a municipality, or board or commission thereof, and no commissioner or employee of an urban renewal agency vested by a municipality with urban renewal pro…

Declarations. (a) The Wyoming legislature declares that the organization of downtown development authorities having the purposes and powers provided in this act will serve a public use; will promote the health, safety, prosperity, security and general welfare of the inhabitants t…

Definitions. (a) As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (i) "Authority" means a downtown development authority created pursuant to the provisions of this article in any municipality of this state and any successor to its functions, authority, rights and o…

Powers of governing body; creation of authority; status thereof. A municipality may itself exercise the powers specified in this article, or if the governing body, by resolution, determines it to be in the public interest, it may elect to create and establish a downtown developme…

Organizational procedure. (a) Upon petition of twenty-five percent (25%) of the persons owning nonresidential property within the proposed district and following a public hearing, if the governing body of a municipality determines it is necessary to establish a downtown developme…

Board; appointment; membership; terms; vacancies. (a) The affairs of the authority shall be under the direct supervision and control of a board consisting of not less than five (5) nor more than eleven (11) members appointed by the governing body. A majority of the members appoin…

Board; qualifications; oath of office; rules of procedure; meetings; reimbursement; removal. (a) A majority of the members of the board, except any member from the governing body, shall reside, be a lessee or own real property in the downtown development district within the munic…

Board; powers and duties; division of property and sales tax; special fund; adjustment evaluations. (a) The board, subject to the provisions of this article and subject to other applicable provisions of law, shall have all powers customarily vested in the board of directors of a …

Plan of development; procedure for approval; public hearings; notice thereof; findings of governing body. (a) An authority shall not actually undertake a development project for a development area unless the governing body, by resolution, has first approved the plan of developmen…

Additional powers of authority; sale or letting of property at fair value. (a) In addition to the other powers granted by this article, the authority shall have all powers, except as limited in the ordinance or any amendments thereto establishing the authority, necessary to carry…

Authorization of bonds; determination of costs; expenditure of proceeds. (a) By ordinance adopted by the governing body at a regular or special meeting, by a vote of a majority of the members of the governing body, the municipality may issue bonds, payable solely from taxes pledg…

Bond provisions; lost or destroyed securities; facsimile signatures; limited obligations. (a) Bonds issued pursuant to this article shall bear interest at a rate such that the net effective interest rate of the issue does not exceed the maximum net effective interest rate authori…

Refunding bonds; limited obligations. (a) By ordinance adopted by the governing body at a regular or special meeting, by vote of a majority of the members of the governing body, any bonds issued under this article may be refunded by the municipality without an election, subject t…

Revenue bonds. In addition to the bonds authorized pursuant to W.S. 15-9-212, the municipality may issue revenue bonds payable solely from legally available nontax revenues of the municipality. Except for the foregoing, bonds shall be issued pursuant to all the other provisions o…

Tax exemption; exceptions. The bonds and the income therefrom shall be exempt from taxation, except estate and transfer taxes.

Limitation of actions. After thirty (30) days from the effective date of any ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds pursuant to this article, all actions or suits challenging its findings, determinations or contents or challenging the validity of the bonds shal…

Rights and powers of bondholders. (a) Subject to any contractual limitations binding upon the holders of any issue of bonds or trustee therefor, including but not limited to the restriction of the exercise of any remedy to a specified proportion or percentage of the holders, any …

Officers and other personnel employed by board; duties; administrative expenses. (a) The board shall employ and fix the compensation, subject to the approval of the governing body, of the following, who shall serve at the pleasure of the board: (i) A director, who shall be a pers…

Authority to adopt budget; sources of finance. (a) The authority shall adopt a budget for each fiscal year, shall maintain accounts, and shall cause an annual audit, or other oversight in accordance with rules applicable to special districts under W.S. 9-1-507(a)(iii), to be made…

Assessments against funds of authority. The governing body shall have the power to assess against the funds of the authority for the use and benefit of the general fund of the municipality a reasonable pro rata share of such funds for the cost of handling and auditing, which asse…

Conflict of interest. No board member or employee of the board shall vote or otherwise participate in any matter in which he has a specific financial interest, defined as a matter in which the member or employee would receive a benefit or incur a cost substantially greater than o…

Provisions to be construed liberally. All powers conferred upon municipalities by this article are cumulative and in addition to those conferred by any other general or special law or municipal charter or ordinance and shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes of th…

Property in development area subject to taxes for municipality's general obligation debts. Subject to W.S. 15-9-207, all real and personal property located within the development area shall continue to be subject to ad valorem taxes levied by the municipality to pay the principal…

Inclusion of additional property into development area; procedure. Subsequent to the organization of an authority, additional property may be included in the development area. Proceedings for inclusion shall be initiated by petition to the board of the authority signed by the own…

Definitions. (a) As used in this chapter: (i) "Area of operation" means the area within the boundaries of a municipality or county as the case may be or, in the case of combined operations of municipalities and counties, the area comprising the operating area of all the municipal…

Findings prerequisite to exercising authority. (a) No municipality or county shall exercise the authority conferred by this chapter until its governing body adopts a resolution finding that: (i) Unsanitary or unsafe or substandard inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the mu…

Powers of municipalities and counties generally. (a) Every municipality and county may: (i) Prepare, carry out and operate projects and provide for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, extension, alteration or repair of any project; (ii) Lea…

Property provisions inapplicable. No provision of law with respect to the acquisition, operation or disposition of property by public bodies is applicable to a municipality or county exercising powers under this chapter unless specifically provided by the legislature.

Joint exercise of powers; increasing area of operation. (a) Any powers capable of exercise by a municipality or county under this chapter may be exercised jointly with any other municipality or county or combinations thereof. (b) The area of operation of any municipality, county …

Dwellings for major disaster victims. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or any other provisions of law during the period a municipality or county determines there is an acute need for housing to assure the availability of dwellings for victims of a major disaster, th…

Tax exemption for public property; exception. The property of a municipality or county acquired or held pursuant to this chapter is public property used for essential public, governmental purposes and is exempt from all taxes and special assessments of any public body. This tax e…

Financing; borrowing; obligations authorized; security; debt provisions inapplicable; tax exemption. (a) A municipality or county may borrow funds and issue any types of obligations it determines are necessary for the purpose of financing housing for persons of low income, includ…

Financing; form and manner of issuing obligations; negotiability; presumptions. (a) Obligations issued pursuant to this chapter shall be authorized by resolution and may: (i) Be issued in a form and manner and subject to the terms and conditions the resolution provides; (ii) Be s…

Financing; exemption from judicial process; exception; waiver. All property acquired or held by a municipality or county pursuant to this chapter is exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the property, n…

Financing; federal assistance. Any municipality or county may borrow money or accept financial assistance from the federal government for any project or related activities. A municipality or county may include in any contract for financial assistance with the federal government a…

Power of eminent domain. (a) A municipality or county has the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property or interest therein which it deems necessary for its purposes under this chapter after adopting a resolution declaring that the acquisit…

Powers of public bodies generally; agreements; effect thereof; notice. (a) Consistent with the intent of this chapter, any public body, upon terms it determines, may: (i) Dedicate, convey or lease any of its interest in any property, or grant easements or any other rights therein…

When investment in bonds authorized; duty of care; other restrictions inapplicable. (a) The state or any officer thereof, any political subdivision, any person carrying on a banking or insurance business and any fiduciary may legally invest any funds belonging to them or within t…