Title 31, Motor Vehicles

Amount of fee; ad valorem tax exemption; disposition of fees; duties of department of state parks and cultural resources. (a) Except as provided in W.S. 31-2-408, the registration fee for a resident snowmobile is: (i) For a snowmobile intended for private use $50.00 annually; (ii…

Payment of fees; issuance of certificate and decal. (a) Except as provided in W.S. 31-2-410, resident snowmobile registration fees shall be paid before the expiration of thirty (30) days after acquiring ownership of a snowmobile which will be operated within the state of Wyoming.…

Lost, mutilated or destroyed certificate or decal. In the event of loss, mutilation or destruction of any resident or nonresident snowmobile certificate issued pursuant to this act, or numbered decal, the owner of a snowmobile may obtain a duplicate certificate or a new numbered …

Duration of certificate and number. Every certificate and number issued pursuant to W.S. 31-2-401 through 31-2-409 shall be valid from July 1 of the year designated until June 30 of the following year. The use of license plates or decals issued during any registration year is her…

Exemptions. (a) The following snowmobiles are exempt from W.S. 31-2-401 through 31-2-407: (i) Mobile track-laying units; (ii) Snowmobiles used solely for business and agricultural purposes; and (iii) Nonresident snowmobiles, except to the extent a nonresident snowmobile meets the…

Snowmobile user fee; amount of fee; disposition of fees; account created; duties of department of state parks and cultural resources; duration of decal; exemptions. (a) There shall be collected by selling agents a nonresident snowmobile user fee for nonresident snowmobiles operat…

Antique snowmobiles. (a) Antique snowmobiles may be registered pursuant to this section. (b) The owner of an antique snowmobile may register the snowmobile by submitting an application to the department indicating that the snowmobile is operated for the purposes of organized anti…

Definitions; application required. (a) As used in this act: (i) The definitions in W.S. 31-1-101 apply; (ii) "Mobile home" means a transportable home defined in W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xxiv)(C); (iii) "Mobile home dealer" means as defined in W.S. 35-18-102(a)(v) but includes a finance a…

Exclusions. (a) No certificate of title shall be issued or required for mobile homes: (i) Owned by the United States; (ii) Being transported from a point outside this state; (iii) Held for sale by a Wyoming mobile home dealer; (iv) Installed on a permanent foundation, taxable as …

Applications; contents; effect. (a) Applications for certificates of title shall contain or be accompanied by: (i) The name and address of the owner, the manner in which the ownership interest in the mobile home is to be held and the person to whom the certificate of title is to …

Transfer of ownership. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the owner of a mobile home who sells or transfers his interest in a mobile home for which a certificate of title has been issued shall endorse an assignment and warranty of title upon the certificate for the…

Duplicate titles. Upon loss of a certificate of title, the owner may apply to the county clerk issuing the original title for a duplicate title. For purposes of applying for a duplicate title, "owner" means any one (1) person listed as owner on the face of the title. The applican…

Prohibited acts; penalties. (a) No person shall knowingly make any false statement in any application or other document required under this act. (b) No person shall sell or transfer his interest in a mobile home for which a certificate of title is required unless he has obtained …

Payment of taxes, receipt and over-width permit for transportable homes. Before any transportable home or portion thereof, whose original movement commences within the state of Wyoming is conveyed upon any street or highway, the owner shall present a proof of ownership for each p…

Definitions. (a) Except as otherwise provided, as used in this act: (i) "Off-road recreational vehicle" means as defined in W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xv)(K); (ii) "Wyoming off-road recreational vehicle trail" means an off-road recreational vehicle trail, route, road or area specifically d…

Registration selling agents; application for trail user registration decal; affidavit required if vehicle serial number not visible; penalty. (a) The department of state parks and cultural resources through the division of state parks and historic sites, shall in accordance with …

Required user registration fee; disposition of fees; duties of department of state parks and cultural resources. (a) The owner of an off-road recreational vehicle which will be operated on Wyoming off-road recreational vehicle trails shall, upon filing of an application, pay to t…

Payment of fees; issuance of numbered decal; trespass warning printed on decal. (a) Upon receipt of user registration fees imposed under this article, the selling agent shall issue a numbered decal which shall be prominently displayed on the off-road recreational vehicle. (b) Num…

Lost, mutilated or destroyed decal. In the event of loss, mutilation or destruction of any numbered decal, the owner of an off-road recreational vehicle may obtain a duplicate or new numbered decal from any authorized selling agent or any employee of the department of state parks…

Duration of decal. Each decal issued under this article is effective for the calendar year and shall expire on December 31 of the registration year.

Exemptions. (a) Off-road recreational vehicles owned or used by a governmental agency are exempt from this article. (b) In addition to subsection (a) of this section, the off-road recreational vehicle trail user registration required under this article may be waived on an annual …

Perfection of a security interest in a vehicle or motor vehicle. (a) Perfection of a security interest in a vehicle or motor vehicle required to be titled as hereinafter defined shall occur upon delivery of the following to the office of the county clerk in which the vehicle is l…

Terminal rental adjustment clause. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of a motor vehicle or trailer that is not leased, or used, primarily for personal, family or household purposes, a transaction does not create a sale or security interest merely because…

Registration fees; exemptions. (a) Except as otherwise provided, the following fees shall accompany each application for the registration of a vehicle: (i) A county registration fee computed as follows, or five dollars ($5.00), whichever is greater: (A) 3% of 60% of the factory p…

Miscellaneous fees. (a) The following fees shall be collected for the instruments or privileges indicated: (i) Distinctive license plates indicating public ownership issued to governmental agencies Cost (ii) License plates not indicating public ownership issued to governmental ag…

Distribution of fees; refunds. (a) Fees collected pursuant to W.S. 31-3-101(a)(i) for the registration of Wyoming based commercial vehicles or fleets pursuant to this act shall be distributed monthly to the county in which each vehicle or fleet is principally located and for the …

General prohibitions. (a) No person shall knowingly operate, nor shall an owner knowingly permit to be operated, upon any highway any vehicle: (i) Unless a valid certificate of title, certificate of registration and license plates or temporary permits have been issued for the veh…

Falsifications; alterations, forgery or counterfeiting; penalties. (a) No person shall knowingly make a false statement in any application or other document required under this act. (b) No person shall alter with fraudulent intent, forge or counterfeit any certificate of title, c…

Failure to maintain liability coverage; penalties; exceptions. (a) No owner of a motor vehicle currently required to be registered or which is required to be registered within a period of time, shall operate or permit the operation of his motor vehicle without having in full forc…

General penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this act for which no separate penalty is provided upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).

Short title. This act may be cited as the "Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways".

Definitions. (a) Except as otherwise provided, as used in this act: (i) Repealed by Laws 2002, Ch. 68, § 2. (ii) "Authorized emergency vehicles" means: (A) Vehicles of fire departments, fire patrols, game and fish law enforcement personnel, livestock board law enforcement personn…

Applicability of provisions to vehicles being operated upon highways. (a) The provisions of this act relating to the operation of vehicles refer exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon highways except: (i) Where a different place is specifically referred to in a given secti…

Obedience to authorized persons directing traffic. No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer, authorized flagman, or fireman with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic.

Applicability of provisions to drivers of public vehicles. (a) The provisions of this act applicable to the drivers of vehicles upon the highways shall apply to the drivers of all vehicles owned and operated by the United States, this state, or any county, city, town, special dis…

Authorized emergency vehicles. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or when responding to but not upon returni…

Persons riding animals or driving animal-drawn vehicles. Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway is granted all the rights and is subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this act except those provisions of thi…

Local regulations. The provisions of this act shall be applicable and uniform throughout this state and in all political subdivisions and municipalities therein. Local authorities may, however, adopt by ordinance, traffic regulations for all streets within their city limits and h…

General powers of local authorities. (a) This act does not prevent local authorities with respect to streets and highways under their jurisdiction and within the reasonable exercise of the police power from: (i) Regulating or prohibiting stopping, standing or parking; (ii) Regula…

Limitations upon powers of local authorities; exceptions as to municipal authorities. (a) Except as otherwise provided, local authorities shall not require any person to pay any fee or license for the use or exclude any person from the free use of the public highways or in any ot…

Right of real property owners to prohibit or regulate public vehicular use; handicapped parking. (a) Nothing in this act prevents the owner of real property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel by permission of the owner, and not as matter of right, from prohibitin…

Adoption of uniform system of traffic-control devices. The department shall adopt a manual and specifications for a uniform system of traffic-control devices consistent with this act for use upon highways within this state. The uniform system shall correlate with and so far as po…

Placement and maintenance of traffic-control devices by department. (a) The department shall place and maintain such traffic-control devices, conforming to the department's manual and specifications, upon all state highways as it deems necessary to indicate and to carry out this …

Operation of motorcycles, autocycles and pedestrian vehicles. (a) A person operating a motorcycle shall ride only upon or astride the seat designed to be used by the driver, including a seat that incorporates a wheelchair or other assistive device, and shall not carry any other p…

Obstruction to driver's view or driving mechanism. (a) No person shall drive a vehicle when it is loaded, or when there are in the front seat enough people, exceeding three (3), to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle or to interfere with the drive…

Dropping or throwing material on highway; removal of injurious material. (a) Except in the process of highway construction or repair, any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown, upon a highway any material shall immediately remove the material or cause it to be remo…