Title 35, Title 35 — Public Health And Safety

Power of cities and towns with respect to cemeteries. In addition to the powers conferred upon them by law, each incorporated city or town in the state of Wyoming shall have power and authority to purchase, hold, and pay for lands, not exceeding eighty (80) acres in one (1) body,…

Purchase of grounds outside corporate limits. For the purpose of carrying out any of the powers conferred by this act, any such city or town may go beyond its corporate limits and purchase, or otherwise acquire, real property.

Bond issue; purposes for which issue authorized; denominations, form, interest and issuance. An incorporated city or town in the state of Wyoming is authorized, for the purpose of providing funds for purchasing and improving lands for cemetery purposes, to borrow money and to iss…

Bond issue; submission of issue to voters. No bonds shall be issued for the purpose provided by this article until the proposition to issue the same shall have been submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the city or town, and by them approved. The proposition shall be s…

Bond issue; cemetery bond tax. There shall be annually levied and collected on all taxable property, real, personal, and mixed, within such city or town, a sufficient tax to pay the interest on said bonds as the same may become due, and to redeem such bonds as provided in this ar…

Bond issue; bond register. The city or town treasurer shall keep a book in which shall be registered all such bonds, showing the number of the bond, the date of issue, to whom issued, the amount, the date of redemption, and payment of interest; which book shall be open to all per…

Bond issue; redemption of bonds. Any city or town, issuing bonds for the purpose provided in this act, shall each year after the tenth year after the issue of said bonds, redeem at least one-twentieth of the said bonds in the order of their issue.

Bond issue; duty of treasurer upon payment. It shall be the duty of the city or town treasurer, as rapidly as any coupons of said bonds are paid, to cause the word "paid" to be cut in the same, and as rapidly as said bonds are paid to cause the word "paid" to be cut in the body o…

Bond issue; custodian of moneys collected. The city or town treasurer shall be custodian of all moneys arising from the sale of bonds issued in pursuance of the authority given by this chapter, and he shall give additional bond, or bonds, for the safekeeping and distributing of a…

Ordinances, rules and regulations. Any such city or town is hereby authorized and empowered to enact all ordinances necessary to the complete exercise of all the powers in this act granted, and to carry out the same, and is authorized to make all ordinances, rules, and regulation…

Application. This act shall apply to all cities and towns in the state of Wyoming whether incorporated by special charter or under general laws, and the taxes herein provided for, shall be in addition to all other taxes provided or authorized by law.

Authority to declare abandoned unoccupied lots; procedure; resale. Any city, town or special cemetery district may declare abandoned the ownership of any unoccupied lots or parcels of land in municipally owned cemeteries, created under and by virtue of W.S. 35-8-201 through 35-8-…

Procedure for proposing establishment of special cemetery district. (a) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5. (b) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5. (c) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5. (d) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5. (e) A special cemetery district may be establish…

Body corporate; name and style; powers generally; rules and regulations of trustees. Each district established is hereby declared to be a body corporate by the name and style of the .... cemetery district and the name therefor shall be entered upon the commissioners' records and …

Election of trustees in newly established districts; terms. An election of six (6) trustees shall be held therein at the same time as the election for formation of the district. Trustees shall serve without compensation to govern the affairs of the district. There shall be electe…

Procedure for election of trustees in previously existing districts. In all such districts existing as of January 1, 1999, the terms of directors shall be allowed to expire and a vacancy shall be declared and filled pursuant to W.S. 22-29-201 and 22-29-202 until the next regular …

Administration of finances; assessment and levy of taxes. (a) The assessor shall at the time of making the annual assessment of his district also assess the property of each special cemetery district in his county and return to the county assessor at the time of returning the ass…

Tax exemption. The property of such cemetery districts shall be exempt from taxation.

Bond issue; question of issuance to be submitted to electors; amount and interest. The board of trustees of any cemetery district may, whenever a majority thereof so decide, request the board of county commissioners to submit to the electors of the district the question whether t…

Bond issue; conduct of election. The election authorized under W.S. 35-8-316 shall be called, conducted and the results thereof canvassed and certified in all respects as near as practicable in the same manner as is provided for bond elections by the Political Subdivision Bond El…

Bond issue; issuance; form; advertising for bidders; sale. If the proposal to issue said bonds shall be approved, the board of trustees may issue such bonds in such form as the board may direct and shall give notice by publication in some newspaper published in the counties in wh…

Bond issue; preparation and execution; certification; to be registered by county treasurer. After ascertaining the best terms upon and the lowest interest at which said bonds can be negotiated, the board shall secure the proper engraving and printing and consecutive numbering the…

Bond issue; payment guaranteed. The full faith and credit of each cemetery district is solemnly pledged for the payment of the interest and the redemption of the principal of all bonds which are issued by such district.

Bond issue; payment of principal and interest. The county treasurer where said district's funds are kept may pay out of any moneys belonging to said district tax fund, the interest and the principal upon any bonds issued by such district, when the same becomes due, upon the prese…

Bond issue; validity. All cemetery districts heretofore formed and organized under the provisions of chapter 58 of the Session Laws of Wyoming, 1949, or under the provisions of chapter 141, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1951, are hereby declared to be duly organized and existing cemet…

Districts charged with maintaining existing public cemeteries. All districts organized under the provisions of this act are charged with the duty of maintaining existing public cemeteries owned and maintained by incorporated cities or towns, or otherwise, within the boundaries of…

Cemeteries in cities and towns in conflict with special cemetery district. No incorporated city or town which is or may be included within the boundaries of a special cemetery district organized under the laws of the state of Wyoming, shall purchase, establish, operate, maintain,…

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Columbarium" means any building, structure or any part of a building or structure which is used for the interment of cremated human remains; (ii) "Community vault, crypt, columbarium, mausoleum or structure" means one constructed for the…

Regulations and specifications generally; application to certain columbariums. (a) No person, firm, partnership, association, company or corporation shall construct any community vault, crypt, columbarium or mausoleum, wholly or partially above the surface of the ground, to be us…

Supervision of inspector required in erecting structure; compliance with requirements for perpetual care and maintenance. Such structure shall be erected under the supervision of an inspector to be appointed by the state department of health, which shall determine the amount of h…

Perpetual care and maintenance trust fund. (a) Before any cell, vault, crypt, room or niche in any community mausoleum or columbarium shall be sold, the person, firm, partnership, association, company or corporation operating the same shall first deposit the sum of ten thousand d…

Removal of body from vault constituting menace to public health; reinterment; cost; construction contrary to W.S. 35-8-401 through 35-8-407 deemed nuisance; enjoining. When any mausoleum, vault, crypt or structure containing one (1) or more deceased human bodies, shall, in the op…

Rules and regulations. The state department of health and the insurance commissioner are hereby empowered and directed to make such rules and regulations as shall in their judgment be necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this act, which regulations shall have the f…

Penalty. Any person, officer, manager or agent of any firm, partnership, association, company or corporation who violates any provisions of this act shall be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisoned not more than six (6) months, or both.

Department created. The department of fire prevention and electrical safety is created.

Definitions. (a) As used in W.S. 35-9-101 through 35-9-130: (i) "Apprentice electrician" means a person who has insufficient qualifications to be a journeyman electrician and is hired by a licensed electrical contractor to assist a licensed journeyman or master electrician. An ap…

Divisions created; council and board created. (a) There are created within the department: (i) The division of fire prevention; (ii) The division of electrical safety; (iii) The council on fire prevention and electrical safety in buildings; (iv) The electrical board. (b) The coun…

State fire marshal; qualifications. (a) After consultation with the council, the governor shall appoint a state fire marshal who shall be the director of the department and shall have theoretical knowledge and practical and managerial skill and experience which fits him for the p…

Division administrators; qualifications. (a) After consultation with the council and the governor, the state fire marshal shall appoint: (i) The chief deputy fire marshal, who is the administrator of the fire prevention division. His qualifications shall be the same as the state …

Powers and duties of council. (a) The council shall adopt rules and regulations to: (i) Establish minimum fire standards not exceeding the standards prescribed by the International Fire Code, the International Building Code, the International Mechanical Code, the International Ex…

Duties and powers of state fire marshal. (a) The state fire marshal shall: (i) Establish administrative policy for the department; (ii) Adopt regulations in consultation with the board and council to implement this article, excluding the provisions of W.S. 35-9-106 and 35-9-124; …

Plan review; procedure; fees. (a) Except as provided under subsections (h) and (q) of this section and W.S. 35-9-118, prior to beginning any new construction, the remodeling of existing buildings or the installation of aboveground flammable or combustible fuel storage tanks, the …

Investigation of fires; notification to fire marshal; powers of fire marshal. (a) The county fire warden or chief of the fire department of a city, town, county or fire district shall investigate the cause, origin and circumstances of each fire occurring in the city, town, county…

Investigation of fires; testimony; subpoena; arrest. (a) The state fire marshal may take testimony under oath and cause the testimony to be reduced to writing. (b) When the examination discloses that a fire or explosion was of incendiary origin, the state fire marshal may arrest …

Certain structures declared nuisance; repair or demolition; procedure. (a) A building or structure is a public nuisance if it is especially liable to fire and endangers people, buildings or property in the vicinity. If the state fire marshal, county fire warden, or the chief of a…

Certain structures declared nuisance; answer to notice or order. Within twenty (20) days of service of an order under W.S. 35-9-111(b) the owner or occupant may file with the clerk of the district court and serve upon the council an answer denying the existence of any of the alle…