Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-240 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-240
§ 35-1-240. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, the department of health, through the state health officer, or under his direction and supervision, through the other employees of the department, shall have and exercise the following powers and duties:

(i) To exercise in Wyoming, all the rights and powers and perform all duties hereunder;

(ii) To investigate and control the causes of epidemic, endemic, communicable, occupational and other diseases and afflictions, and physical disabilities resulting therefrom, affecting the public health;

(iii) To establish, maintain and enforce isolation and quarantine, and in pursuance thereof, and for such purpose only, to exercise such physical control over property and over the persons of the people within this state as the state health officer may find necessary for the protection of the public health;

(iv) To close theaters, schools and other public places, and to forbid gatherings of people when necessary to protect the public health;

(v) To abate nuisances when necessary for the protection of the public health;

(vi) To enforce such sanitary standards for the protection of public health as to the quality of water supplied to the public and as to the quality of the effluent of sewerage systems and trade wastes discharged upon the land or into the surface or ground waters of the state, as are or may be established by law, and to advise with municipalities, utilities, institutions, organizations and individuals, concerning the methods or processes believed by him best suited to provide the protection or purification of water and the treatment of sewage and trade wastes to meet such minimum standards;

(vii) To collect, compile, and tabulate reports of marriages, divorces and annulments, births, deaths and morbidity, and to require any person having information with regard to the same to make such reports;

(viii) To regulate the disposal, transportation, interment and disinterment of the dead;

(ix) To establish, maintain and approve chemical, bacteriological and biological laboratories and to conduct or require such laboratory investigations and examinations as it may deem necessary or proper for the protection of the public health;

(x) To make, approve, and require standard diagnostic tests and to prepare, distribute and require the completion of forms of certificates with respect thereto;

(xi) To purchase and to distribute to licensed physicians, with or without charge, as the department may determine, or to administer such vaccines, serums, toxoids and other approved biological or therapeutic products as may be necessary for the protection of the public health;

(xii) To exercise sanitary control over the use of water employed in the irrigation of vegetables or other edible crops intended for human consumption, and to exercise sanitary control over the use of fertilizer derived from excreta of human beings or from the sludge of sewage disposal plants. The state health officer shall have authority to impound any and all vegetables and other edible crops and meat and animal products intended for human consumption which have been grown or produced in violation of the orders, rules and regulations of the department, and upon five (5) days notice and after affording reasonable opportunity for a hearing, to the interested parties before the state health officer or his designee, to condemn and destroy the same if it deems such necessary for the protection of the public health;

(xiii) To certify, inspect and exercise sanitary control over hospitals, sanitoriums, convalescent homes, maternity homes, asylums, and other similar institutions;

(xiv) To establish standards and make sanitary, sewerage and health inspections for charitable, penal and other state and county institutions;

(xv) To enforce current sanitary standards, or those that may be established by law, for the operation and maintenance of lodging houses, hotels, public conveyances and stations, schools, factories, workshops, industrial and labor camps, recreational resorts and camps, and other buildings, centers and places used for public gatherings;

(xvi) To establish and enforce sanitary standards for the operation of toilet facilities in all garages, filling stations and other places of business which maintain such facilities for the convenience of their patrons;

(xvii) To disseminate public health information;

(xviii) To exercise all the rights and powers and perform all the duties vested in or imposed by law upon the state department of health, its officers and employees, as constituted before this act, becomes effective; to hold hearings, administer oaths, subpoena witnesses and take testimony in all matters relating to the exercise and performances of the powers and duties vested in or imposed upon the department;

(xix) To advise the director of the department about public health issues, programs and policies for the state;

(xx) To operate a public health nursing program which may include, but is not limited to, provision of immunizations, evaluation of the need of individuals for nursing home admission or services and the operation of an infant public health nurse home visitation subprogram. The public health nursing program may, where and to the extent appropriate, be administered through or in conjunction with county, municipal or district health departments;

(xxi) During a public health emergency as defined by W.S. 35-4-115(a)(i) , the state health officer may prescribe pharmaceutical or therapeutic interventions en masse as necessary to protect the public health;

(xxii) Administer the Wyoming physician recruitment grant program provided in W.S. 35-1-1101 ;

(xxiii) Develop initiatives and provide information to the public regarding palliative care as provided in W.S. 35-1-1203 .

(b) In carrying out duties prescribed under paragraphs (a)(ii) and (vii) of this section, the department shall:

(i) Develop and require the uniform registration and reporting of medical information by hospitals, physicians and other health care providers as necessary to establish the Wyoming central tumor registry in accordance with the American college of surgeons guidelines;

(ii) By rule and regulation establish registration fees for hospitals, physicians or other health care providers required to register medical information with the registry under paragraph (b)(i) of this section in an amount to ensure that, to the extent practicable, the total revenue generated from the fees collected approximates but does not exceed the direct and indirect costs of administering and operating the registry. Fees collected under this paragraph shall be deposited in the general fund.

(c) Any order issued under this section that restricts individuals' movements or their ability to engage in any activity, that applies to individuals not under an isolation or quarantine order and that is designed to prevent or limit the transmission of a contagious or possibly contagious disease shall be effective for a period of not more than ten (10) days. Subsequent orders for the same or substantially same purpose shall only be issued by the governor, with consultation provided by the state health officer and shall be in effect for not more than sixty (60) days.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-1032 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-1032
§ 35-7-1032. Certain unlawful acts particularly applicable to registrants
Status: in_force

(a) It is unlawful for any person:

(i) Who is subject to Article IV to distribute or dispense a controlled substance in violation of W.S. 35-7-1030 ;

(ii) Who is a registrant, to manufacture a controlled substance not authorized by his registration, or to distribute or dispense a controlled substance not authorized by his registration to another registrant or other authorized person;

(iii) To refuse or fail to make, keep or furnish any record, notification, order form, statement, invoice or information required under this act;

(iv) To refuse an entry into any premises for any inspection authorized by this act; or

(v) Knowingly to keep or maintain any store, shop, warehouse, dwelling, building, vehicle, boat, aircraft, or other structure or place, which is resorted to by persons using controlled substances in violation of this act for the purpose of using these substances, or which is used for keeping or selling them in violation of this act.

(b) Any person who violates this section is punishable by a civil fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00); provided, that if the violation is prosecuted by a complaint, information or indictment which alleges that the violation was committed knowingly or intentionally, and the trier of fact specifically finds that the violation was committed knowingly or intentionally such person is punishable by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year or a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-22-509 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 22 / Section 35-22-509
§ 35-22-509. Effect of act on euthanasia; mercy killing; construction of statute
Status: in_force

Nothing is this article shall be construed as condoning, authorizing or approving euthanasia or mercy killing. In addition, the legislature does not intend that this article be construed as permitting any affirmative or deliberate act to end a person's life, except to permit natural death as provided by this article.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-110 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-110
§ 35-7-110. Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this act:

(i) “ Advertisement ” means all representations disseminated in any manner or by any means, other than by labeling, for the purpose of inducing the purchase of food, drugs, devices or cosmetics;

(ii) “ Color ” includes black, white and intermediate grays;

(iii) “ Color additive ” means a material, other than a material exempt under the federal act, which:

(A) Is a dye, pigment or other substance from a vegetable, animal, mineral or other source; or

(B) When added or applied to a food, drug or cosmetic, or to the human body or any part thereof, is capable (alone or through reaction with other substance) of imparting color thereto.

(iv) “ Consumer commodity ” means any food, drug, device or cosmetic as those terms are defined by this act or by the federal act;

(v) “ Cosmetic ” means articles other than soap which are:

(A) Intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled or sprayed on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness or altering the appearance; and

(B) Intended for use as a component of any articles under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.

(vi) “ Counterfeit drug ” means a drug which, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization, bears the trademark, trade name or other identifying mark, imprint or device, or any likeness therefor, of a drug manufacturer, processor, packer or distributor other than the person who in fact manufactured, processed, packed or distributed the drug and which thereby falsely purports or is represented to be the product of, or to have been packed or distributed by, the other drug manufacturer, processor, packer or distributor;

(vii) “ Department ” means the department of agriculture;

(viii) “ Device ” means instruments, apparatus and contrivances, including their components, parts and accessories, intended:

(A) For use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or other animals; or

(B) To affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals.

(ix) “ Director ” means the director of the Wyoming department of agriculture or his duly authorized representative;

(x) “ Drug ” means:

(A) Articles recognized in the official United States pharmacopoeia, official homeopathic pharmacopoeia of the United States, official national formulary or any supplement to any of them; and

(B) Articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or other animals; and

(C) Articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals; and

(D) Articles intended for use as a component of any article specified in subparagraph (A), (B) or (C) of this paragraph but does not include devices or their components, parts or accessories.

(xi) “ Establishment ” means and includes any place or any area of any establishment in which foods, drugs, devices and cosmetics are displayed for sale, manufactured, processed, packed, held or stored. “Establishment” does not include a home kitchen where food is prepared and stored for family consumption, or any other place equipped for the preparation, consumption and storage of food on the premise by employees or nonpaying guests;

(xii) “ Federal act ” means the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, ( Title 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq. ) and regulations promulgated under the act;

(xiii) “ Food ” means:

(A) Articles used for food or drink for humans including meat and ice intended for human consumption;

(B) Chewing gum;

(C) Beverages subject to the Federal Alcohol Administration Act, as amended, ( Title 27 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. );

(D) Articles used for components of any article under subparagraphs (A), (B) and (C) of this paragraph.

(xiv) “ Food additive ” means any substance the intended use of which results or may be reasonably expected to result, directly or indirectly, in its becoming a component or otherwise affecting the characteristics of any food within the meaning of the federal act;

(xv) An “ imitation food ” is any food which is in physical characteristics such as taste, flavor, color, texture or appearance which resembles or purports to be or is represented as a food for which a definition and standard of identity has been prescribed and does not conform to such standard;

(xvi) “Immediate container” does not include package liners;

(xvii) “ Label ” means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article. A requirement made by or under this act that any word, statement or other information appear on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless the word, statement or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper, if there is any, of the retail package of the article, or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper;

(xviii) “ Labeling ” means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers, or accompanying the article;

(xix) “ Local board of health ” means a county or city board of health established pursuant to W.S. 35-1-301 et seq. ;

(xx) “ Local health department ” means a health department established by a county, municipality or district pursuant to W.S. 35-1-301 et seq. ;

(xxi) “ New drug ” means any drug considered to be a new drug under the federal act;

(xxii) “ Official compendium ” means the official United States pharmacopoeia, official homeopathic pharmacopoeia of the United States, official national formulary or any supplement to any of them;

(xxiii) “ Package ” means any container or wrapping in which any consumer commodity is enclosed for use in the delivery or display of that consumer commodity to retail purchasers as interpreted by the federal act;

(xxiv) “ Pesticide chemical ” means any substance which, alone, in chemical combination, or in formulation with one (1) or more other substances is an “economic poison” within the meaning of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act ( 7 U.S.C. §§ 136 through 136y ) which is used in the production, storage or transportation of raw agricultural commodities;

(xxv) “ Principal display panel ” means that part of a label that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown or examined under normal and customary conditions of display for retail sale;

(xxvi) “ Raw agricultural commodity ” means any food in its raw or natural state, including all fruits that are washed, colored or otherwise treated in their unpeeled natural form prior to marketing;

(xxvii) “ Regulatory authority ” means the authority which issued the license or promulgated the rule or regulation being enforced including the department of agriculture or local health department;

(xxviii) “ Farmers market ” means a common facility or area where several vendors may gather on a regular, recurring basis to sell a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, locally grown farm products and other items directly to consumers;

(xxix) “ Function ” means any official ceremony or organized social occasion;

(xxx) “ Not potentially hazardous food ” means any food which does not require time or temperature control for safety to limit pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation. The natural pH or the final pH of acidified food must be 4.6 or less;

(xxxi) “ Commercial food establishment ” means and includes any place or any area of any establishment that is a wholesale or retail business where foods, drugs, devices and cosmetics are displayed for sale, manufactured, processed, packed, held or stored. “Commercial food establishment” shall not include:

(A) Any farmers market;

(B) Any producer or informed consumer engaged in transactions pursuant to W.S. 11-49-103 ; or

(C) Any retail space selling homemade food that is separate from a commercial food establishment in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the department pursuant to W.S. 11-49-103(d) .

(xxxii) “ This act ” means W.S. 35-7-109 through 35-7-126 .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-1104 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-1104
§ 35-11-1104. Limitation of scope of provisions
Status: in_force

(a) Nothing in this act:

(i) Grants to the department or any division thereof any jurisdiction or authority with respect to pollution existing solely within commercial and industrial plants, works or shops;

(ii) Affects the relations between employers and employees with respect to or arising out of any condition of pollution;

(iii) Limits or interferes with the jurisdiction, duties or authority of the state engineer, the state board of control, the director of the Wyoming game and fish department, the state mine inspector, the oil and gas supervisor or the oil and gas conservation commission, or the occupational health and safety commission.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-518 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-518
§ 35-11-518. Prior federal court orders and administrative orders
Status: in_force

(a) The department may become a party to, or assume the rights and duties of the federal government for, any federal court order which has been issued pursuant to subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, P.L. 94-580 , prior to the effective date of the authorization of the state hazardous waste program under that subtitle. Any person subject to a prior federal court order issued pursuant to subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, shall not be subject to any additional, conflicting or more restrictive remedial or corrective action order or requirement under this act with respect to the hazardous waste management unit, solid waste management unit or area of concern that is the subject of the federal court order, unless required to comply with new requirements adopted under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. If the department becomes a party to, or assumes the rights and duties of the federal government for, any prior federal court order, the department shall be governed by, and subject to, the dispute resolution procedures of the federal court which retains jurisdiction for the order and may, within those procedures and under the law governing the federal order, seek any remedy, change, amendment or other relief relating to the order.

(b) The department may issue an administrative order which is equivalent to any federal administrative order which has been issued pursuant to subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, prior to the effective date of the authorization of the state hazardous waste program under that subtitle. The limitations regarding stringency contained in subsection (a) of this section apply to orders issued under this subsection. Following the issuance of any order under this subsection, any disputes concerning implementation of the order shall be resolved by appeal to the council as provided by this act. Any person aggrieved or adversely affected in fact by a final decision of the council is entitled to judicial review in accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-8-318 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 8 / Section 35-8-318
§ 35-8-318. Bond issue; issuance; form; advertising for bidders; sale
Status: in_force

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 which said district is located and in some newspaper of general circulation in the capital of this state of its intention to issue and negotiate such bonds, and to invite bidders therefor; provided that in no case shall such bonds be sold for less than their full or par value and the accrued interest thereon at the time of their delivery. And the said trustees are authorized to reject any bids, and to sell said bonds at private sale, if they deem it for the best interests of the district.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-22-504 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 22 / Section 35-22-504
§ 35-22-504. POLST forms; department of health duties
Status: in_force

(a) The department of health shall promulgate rules implementing this act and prescribing a standardized POLST form, subject to the following:

(i) The rules shall contain protocols for the implementation of a standardized POLST form, which shall be available in electronic format on the department website for downloading by patients and providers;

(ii) The department in formulating rules and forms shall consult with health care professional licensing groups, provider advocacy groups, patient advocacy groups, medical ethicists and other appropriate stakeholders;

(iii) To the extent possible, the standardized POLST form and protocols shall be consistent with use across all health care settings, shall reflect nationally recognized standards for end-of-life care and shall include:

(A) The patient's directive concerning the administration of life sustaining treatment;

(B) The dated signature of the patient or, if applicable, the patient's agent, guardian or surrogate;

(C) The name, address and telephone number of the patient's primary health care provider;

(D) The dated signature of the primary health care provider entering medical orders on the POLST form, who certifies that the signing provider discussed the patient's care goals and preferences with the patient or the patient's agent, guardian or surrogate.

(b) The department in implementing this article shall:

(i) Recommend a uniform method of identifying persons who have executed a POLST form and providing health care providers with contact information of the person's primary health care provider;

(ii) Oversee the education of health care providers regarding the POLST program under the department's licensing authority;

(iii) Develop a process for collecting provider feedback to enable periodic redesign of the POLST form in accordance with current health care practice;

(iv) Adopt a plan to convert the cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive program under W.S. 35-22-203 to a POLST program by January 1, 2016.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-9-106 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 9 / Section 35-9-106
§ 35-9-106. Powers and duties of council
Status: repealed

(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 Existing Building Code and the International Fuel Gas Code for:

(A) All new building construction or remodeling under W.S. 35-9-108(a) ;

(B) The prevention of fire and the protection of life and property from fire and panic in all existing buildings;

(C) The safeguarding of life and property from hazards of fire and explosion arising from storage, handling and use of hazardous substances, materials and devices.

(ii) Repealed by Laws 2003, ch. 49, § 3.

(iii) Repealed by Laws 2010, ch. 84, § 3, eff. July 1, 2010.

(iv) Implement this section.

(b) The council shall have access to records of the divisions and may require written or oral information from any officer or employee of the department when conducting investigations pursuant to W.S. 35-9-108(p) and 35-9-117 .

(c) Except as provided under W.S. 35-9-121(d) , 35-9-121.1(d)(ii) and 35-9-124(a)(ii) , the council shall hear appeals to determine the suitability of alternate materials and type of construction and to interpret and grant variances from rules and regulations of the council.

(d) The standards for liquefied petroleum gas installations shall be the current edition of NFPA 58 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code and ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54 National Fuel Gas Code. To the extent the standards for liquefied petroleum gas conflict with the standards prescribed by the International Fuel Gas Code, the NFPA 58 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code and ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54 National Fuel Gas Code control.

(e) Repealed by Laws 2010, ch. 84, § 3, eff. July 1, 2010.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-401 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-401
§ 35-1-401. Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this act:

(i) “Vital records” means records of birth, death, stillbirth, marriage, divorce and data relating thereto;

(ii) “System of vital records” includes the registration, collection, preservation, amendment, and certification of vital records and activities related thereto including the tabulation, analysis, and publication of statistical data derived from such records;

(iii) “Filing” means the presentation of a certificate, report, or other record of a birth, death, stillbirth, adoption, marriage, or divorce, for registration by vital records services;

(iv) “Registration” means the acceptance by vital records services and the incorporation in its official records of certificates, reports or other records of births, deaths, stillbirths, adoption, marriages, and divorces;

(v) “ Live birth ” means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother or its gestational carrier of a fetus, which after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached;

(vi) “Stillbirth” means a birth after twenty (20) completed weeks gestation in which the child shows no evidence of life after complete birth;

(vii) “Dead body” means a lifeless human body, or such severed parts of the human body, or the bones thereof, from the state of which it reasonably may be concluded that death occurred;

(viii) “Final disposition” means the burial, interment, cremation, or other disposition of a dead body or stillbirth;

(ix) “Person in charge of interment” means any person who places or causes to be placed a deceased, stillbirth, or dead body, or after cremation the ashes thereof, in the earth, a grave, tomb, vault, urn or other receptacle, either in a cemetery or at any other place, or otherwise disposes of a body;

(x) “ Physician ” means a person authorized or licensed to practice medicine as provided in W.S. 33-26-101 through 33-26-601 ;

(xi) “Institution” means any establishment, public or private, which provides inpatient medical, surgical or diagnostic care or treatment, or nursing, custodial or domiciliary care to two (2) or more unrelated individuals, or to which persons are committed by law;

(xii) “ Advanced practice registered nurse ” means as provided in W.S. 33-21-120(a)(i) ;

(xiii) “ Physician assistant ” means as provided in W.S. 33-26-501(a)(iii) ;

(xiv) “ Gestational agreement ” means a written, notarized agreement between two (2) intended parents and a gestational carrier where:

(A) The gestational carrier agrees to pregnancy by means of assisted reproduction;

(B) The gestational carrier, and her spouse if she is married, agree to relinquish all rights and duties as the parent of any child that is delivered from the gestational carrier;

(C) The agreement specifies that the intended parents shall become the parents of the child;

(D) All parties to the agreement are twenty-one (21) years of age or older;

(E) The intended parents have been residents of the state of Wyoming for not less than one (1) year immediately preceding the date of the gestational agreement;

(F) The agreement is filed with the state registrar of vital records. Any agreement filed under this subparagraph shall be sealed and placed in a special file and may be opened only upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction or as otherwise provided by law;

(G) Compensation is limited to expenses related to prenatal care, delivery of the child and any other costs including the cost of lost opportunity that are directly connected to the pregnancy.

(xv) “ Gestational carrier ” means a woman twenty-one (21) years of age or older who gives birth to a child under a gestational agreement;

(xvi) “ Intended parents ” means two (2) persons who enter into a gestational agreement with a gestational carrier for the birth of a child for which the two (2) persons shall assume paternity or maternity.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-427 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-427
§ 35-2-427. Securities for acquiring hospitals and related facilities; issuance from time to time in one or more series
Status: in_force

The securities authorized hereby may be issued from time to time and in one (1) or more series as the trustees may determine.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-369 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-369
§ 35-7-369. Disposition of funds
Status: in_force

All moneys received by the department under the provisions of this act shall be deposited into the treasury of the state to the credit of the general fund, excluding those funds collected pursuant to W.S. 35-7-356(d) .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-1051 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-1051
§ 35-7-1051. Review of decisions of board or commissioner
Status: in_force

All final administrative determinations, findings and conclusions of the board or commissioner under this act are final and conclusive decisions of the matters involved. Any person aggrieved by the decision may obtain review of such decision in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act [ §§ 16-3-101 through 16-3-115 ]. Findings of fact by the board or commissioner, if supported by substantial evidence, are conclusive.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-508 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-508
§ 35-11-508. Recycling and processing requirements for commercial solid waste management facilities
Status: in_force

(a) In recognition of the need to minimize unnecessary uses of the land for solid waste management, to allow for an effective ability for state oversight, regulation and inspection of solid wastes intended to be managed in the state and to conserve natural resources in accord with the policy and purpose of this act, commercial solid waste management facilities shall conform to the following operating practices:

(i) Solid wastes shall be screened by the facility operator in a manner approved by the director to assure to the maximum practical extent that wastes prohibited from disposal at the facility are not managed or disposed of at the facility. Management or disposal of any prohibited waste by a facility shall be cause for the council to issue a cessation order preventing continued receipt of solid wastes at the facility. The order shall remain in effect until the director approves a revised waste screening plan submitted by the facility operator which the director deems sufficient to prevent receipt of wastes prohibited from disposal at the facility;

(ii) Solid wastes shall be processed within the state to facilitate inspections of processing by the department, and removal and recovery of useful components of the waste stream as required by this section, using processes found to be acceptable in rules and regulations promulgated by the council including but not limited to grinding, shredding, incineration or composting;

(iii) Rules and regulations of the council shall establish minimum acceptable removal and recovery rates for useful components of the solid waste stream. Such rates may be established for the facility as a whole, or may differ for different components of the solid waste stream;

(iv) Following adoption by the council of rules and regulations to implement this section, disposal of useful components of the solid waste stream shall be prohibited at any land disposal facility in the state;

(v) Residues remaining following processing, separation and reclamation of useful components of the solid waste stream shall be treated, stored or disposed in compliance with the requirements of this act.

(b) For purposes of this section useful components of the solid waste stream include but are not limited to energy, glass, ferrous and nonferrous metals, paper products and organic matter.

(c) Compliance with the requirements of this section for commercial solid waste management facilities does not limit any other requirements which may be applicable to such facilities under the act, nor any applicable local rule or ordinance.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-13-204 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 13 / Section 35-13-204
§ 35-13-204. Additional provisions on use of service dogs; penalty
Status: in_force

(a) Any blind, partially blind, deaf, hearing impaired person or other person with a disability who is a passenger on any common carrier, airplane, motor vehicle, railroad train, motor bus, boat or any other public conveyance operating within the state may have with him a service dog.

(b) Any person violating this section is subject to a fine not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-1001 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-1001
§ 35-2-1001. Designation of heart attack and stroke centers
Status: in_force

(a) The department of health shall establish by rule and regulation the process for recognition and designation of hospitals as any one (1) or more of the following:

(i) Heart attack receiving centers;

(ii) Heart attack referring centers;

(iii) Comprehensive stroke centers;

(iv) Primary stroke centers;

(v) Acute stroke ready centers.

(b) The designation of hospitals pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall recognize those hospitals that are accredited by the society for cardiovascular patient care, the American heart association, the joint commission on the accreditation of healthcare organizations or another nationally recognized accreditation organization as determined by the department in its rules and regulations.

(c) The department shall withdraw the designation of a hospital pursuant to subsection (a) of this section if the department determines that the hospital is not in compliance with the requirements of this section or rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this section.

(d) The department shall adopt rules and regulations to enforce this article, which shall include all of the following:

(i) Specific criteria for qualification pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, including identification of accrediting organizations;

(ii) Designation application procedures;

(iii) Procedures for withdrawal of a designation;

(iv) Support for the coordination among designated hospitals for the referral and transfer of patients to facilitate appropriate care for acute heart attack and stroke patients;

(v) Evidence based prehospital care protocols for emergency medical services providers to assess, treat and transport stroke and acute heart attack patients. The office of emergency medical services shall work in coordination with licensed emergency medical providers in developing the protocols which shall include:

(A) Plans for the triage and transport of stroke patients to the closest comprehensive or primary stroke center or, when appropriate, to an acute stroke ready center;

(B) Plans for the triage and transport of acute heart attack patients to the closest receiving or referring center within a specified time after a patients report of symptoms.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-5-225 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 5 / Section 35-5-225
§ 35-5-225. Promotion of anatomical gifts
Status: in_force

Any money received from donations by owners of vehicles under W.S. 31-2-233(b) or 31-3-101(h) shall be deposited into a separate anatomical awareness account to be used by the department of health and its advisory council to promote general public awareness and education for the procurement of organ and tissue donations for anatomical gifts pursuant to this act.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-9-807 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 9 / Section 35-9-807
§ 35-9-807. Inspection and enforcement
Status: in_force

(a) The department of revenue may inspect cigarettes to determine if the cigarettes are marked as required by W.S. 35-9-805 . If the cigarettes are not marked as required, the department of revenue shall seize the cigarettes as provided in W.S. 35-9-806(e) and notify the attorney general.

(b) To enforce the provisions of this act, the attorney general, the department of revenue and other law enforcement personnel are authorized to examine books, papers, invoices and other records of any person or entity possessing, controlling or occupying any premises where cigarettes are placed, held, stored, sold or offered for sale.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-115 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-115
§ 35-7-115. Food; definitions and standards
Status: in_force

(a) Definitions and standards of identity, quality and fill of container under the federal act or its regulations are the definitions and standards of identity, quality and fill of container in this state. However, when the action will promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers, the director may promulgate regulations establishing definitions and standards of identity, quality and fill of container for foods where no federal regulations exist. In addition, the director may promulgate amendments to any federal or state regulations which set definitions and standards of identity, and may promulgate amendments to any federal or state regulations which set standards of quality and fill of container for foods.

(b) Temporary permits now or hereafter granted for interstate shipment of experimental packs of food under the federal act are automatically effective in this state.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-9-112 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 9 / Section 35-9-112
§ 35-9-112. Certain structures declared nuisance; answer to notice or order
Status: in_force

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 allegations in the order. If no answer is filed and served, the court shall affirm the order of condemnation and fix a time in which the order shall be enforced. If an answer is filed and served, the court shall hear and determine the issues raised as provided in W.S. 35-9-113 .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-12-107 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 12 / Section 35-12-107
§ 35-12-107. Request for waiver of permit application; form
Status: in_force

(a) Any person proposing to construct an industrial facility may submit a written request for a waiver of the application provisions of this chapter.

(b) A request for a waiver shall be filed with the division, in a form as prescribed by council rules and regulations, and shall contain the following information:

(i) The name and address of the applicant, and if the applicant is a partnership, association or corporation, the names and addresses of the managers designated by the applicant responsible for permitting or construction of the facility;

(ii) A description of the nature and location of the facility;

(iii) Estimated time of commencement of construction and construction time;

(iv) Estimated number and job classifications by calendar quarter of employees of the applicant, or contractor or subcontractor of the applicant, during the construction phase and during the operating phase;

(v) Estimated population increases attributable to the facility;

(vi) Estimated additional revenue to local governments due to the facility;

(vii) Estimated construction cost of the facility;

(viii) A description of the methods and strategies the applicant will use to maximize the employment and utilization of the existing local or in-state contractors and labor force during the construction and operation of the facility;

(ix) Any other information the applicant considers relevant or required by council rule or regulation;

(x) The procedures proposed to avoid constituting a public nuisance, endangering the public health and safety, human or animal life, property, wildlife or plant life, or recreational facilities which may be adversely affected by the facility;

(xi) Preliminary evaluations of or plans and proposals for alleviating social, economic or environmental impacts upon local government or any special districts which may result from the proposed facility, including voluntary company agreements with local governments;

(xii) Certification that the governing bodies of all local governments within the potentially impacted area were provided notification, a description of the proposed project and an opportunity to ask the applicant questions at least thirty (30) days prior to submission of the application;

(xiii) For facilities permitted pursuant to W.S. 35-12-102(a)(vii)(E), (F) or (G) , a site reclamation and decommissioning plan, which shall be updated every five (5) years and a description of a financial assurance plan which will assure that all facilities will be properly reclaimed and decommissioned. All such plans, unless otherwise exempt, shall demonstrate compliance with any rules or regulations adopted by the council pursuant to W.S. 35-12-105(d) and (e) ;

(xiv) Information demonstrating the applicant's financial capability to decommission and reclaim the facility. For facilities meeting the definition of W.S. 35-12-102(a)(vii)(E) or (G) the information shall also demonstrate the applicant's financial capability to construct, maintain and operate the facility;

(xv) For proposed facilities meeting the requirements of W.S. 35-12-102(a)(vii)(E), (F) or (G) , a list of all affected landowners with an address at which each affected landowner can be given the notices required by this act.

(c) Not more than seven (7) days following receipt of a request for a waiver, the director shall:

(i) Serve notice of the request upon the governing bodies of local governments which will be primarily affected by the proposed facility and, for proposed facilities meeting the requirements of W.S. 35-12-102(a)(vii)(E), (F) or (G) , upon affected landowners;

(ii) Cause a summary of the request to be published in one (1) or more newspapers of general circulation within the area to be primarily affected by the proposed facility;

(iii) File a copy of the request with the county clerk of the county or counties in which the proposed facility will be constructed or which will be affected by the construction.

(d) Not more than fourteen (14) days following receipt of a request, the director shall:

(i) Schedule and conduct a public meeting;

(ii) Notify the applicant and local governments of the meeting and, for proposed facilities meeting the requirements of W.S. 35-12-102(a)(vii)(E), (F) or (G) , notify affected landowners;

(iii) Cause notice of the meeting to be published in one (1) or more newspapers of general circulation within the area to be primarily affected by the proposed facility; and

(iv) Hold the meeting at a community as close as practicable to the proposed facility.

(e) At the public meeting, the applicant shall present such information as necessary to describe the proposed facility and its estimated impacts upon local units of government.

(f) Within fourteen (14) days of the public meeting, the applicant shall meet with the director and each local government affected by the proposed facility to determine the mitigation required to minimize any adverse impacts resulting from the proposed facility.

(g) Not more than fifty (50) days following receipt of a request, the director shall:

(i) Schedule and conduct a public hearing;

(ii) Notify the applicant and local governments of the hearing and, for proposed facilities meeting the requirements of W.S. 35-12-102(a)(vii)(E), (F) or (G) , notify affected landowners;

(iii) Cause notice of the hearing to be published in one (1) or more newspapers of general circulation within the area to be primarily affected by the proposed facility; and

(iv) Hold the hearing at a community as close as practicable to the proposed facility.

(h) The applicant shall present any evidence necessary to demonstrate to the council:

(i) That the facility would not produce an unacceptable environmental, social or economic impact;

(ii) That the applicant has reached agreement with local governments affected by the facility on the mitigation required to alleviate adverse effects resulting from the facility; and

(iii) That the applicant has financial resources to decommission and reclaim the facility. For facilities meeting the definition of W.S. 35-12-102(a)(vii)(E) or (G) the evidence shall also demonstrate the applicant's financial capability to construct, maintain and operate the facility.

(j) Within ten (10) days from the date of completion of the hearing the council shall make complete findings, issue an opinion and render a decision upon the record, either granting or denying the request for a waiver. The council shall grant a request for a waiver either as proposed or as modified by the council if it finds and determines that:

(i) The facility would not produce an unacceptable environmental, social and economic impact;

(ii) The applicant has discussed the proposed facility with all local governments potentially affected by the project;

(iii) The proposed facility is in compliance with all local ordinances and land use plans; and

(iv) The applicant has financial resources to decommission and reclaim the facility. For facilities meeting the definition of W.S. 35-12-102(a)(vii)(E) or (G) the council shall also be required to find the applicant has financial resources to construct, maintain and operate the facility.

(k) No request for a waiver shall be granted if two (2) or more local governments which will be affected are not satisfied that the facility, considering the voluntary company agreements, represents an acceptable impact on the local governments.

(m) If the council decides to waive all of the application requirements of this chapter, it shall issue a permit for the facility in accordance with W.S. 35-12-113 . If the council decides to waive a part of the application requirements of this chapter, it shall issue an order specifying the requirements which will not be required for an application filed pursuant to W.S. 35-12-109 .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-25-201 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 25 / Section 35-25-201
§ 35-25-201. Short title
Status: in_force

This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Wyoming Cancer Control Act.”
Wyo. Stat. § 35-6-122 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 6 / Section 35-6-122
§ 35-6-122. Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this act:

(i) “ Abortion ” means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug or any other substance, device or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman, including the elimination of one (1) or more unborn babies in a multifetal pregnancy, with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn baby. “ Abortion ” shall not include any use, prescription or means specified in this paragraph if the use, prescription or means are done with the intent to:

(A) Save the life or preserve the health of the unborn baby;

(B) Remove a dead unborn baby caused by spontaneous abortion or intrauterine fetal demise;

(C) Treat a woman for an ectopic pregnancy; or

(D) Treat a woman for cancer or another disease that requires medical treatment which treatment may be fatal or harmful to the unborn baby.

(ii) “ Pregnant ” means the human female reproductive condition of having a living unborn baby or human being within a human female's body throughout the entire embryonic and fetal stages of the unborn human being from fertilization, when a fertilized egg has implanted in the wall of the uterus, to full gestation and childbirth;

(iii) “ Reasonable medical judgment ” means a medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably prudent physician who is knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved;

(iv) “ Unborn baby ” or “ unborn human being ” means an individual living member of the species homo sapiens throughout the entire embryonic and fetal stages from fertilization to full gestation and childbirth;

(v) “ Ectopic pregnancy ” means a pregnancy that occurs when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus;

(vi) “ Lethal fetal anomaly ” means a fetal condition diagnosed before birth and if the pregnancy results in a live birth there is a substantial likelihood of death of the child within hours of the child's birth;

(vii) “ Molar pregnancy ” means the development of a tumor or cysts that may or may not include placental tissue from trophoblastic cells after fertilization of an egg that results in spontaneous abortion or intrauterine fetal demise;

(viii) “ This act ” means W.S. 35-6-120 through 35-6-138 .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-1043 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-1043
§ 35-7-1043. Immunity from prosecution
Status: in_force

All duly authorized peace officers including any special agents or other personnel appointed by the commissioner, and probation and parole agents as defined in W.S. 7-13-401 , while investigating violations of this act in performance of their official duties, shall be immune from prosecution under this act. Any person working under the immediate direction, supervision or instruction of a duly authorized peace officer, special agent or other person appointed by the commissioner, may be granted immunity from prosecution under this act by the commissioner. In addition to the foregoing persons, such immunity may also be granted to any person whose testimony is necessary to secure a conviction under this act with the consent of district judge in the district wherein prosecution is to take place. Any person granted immunity under this section shall not be excused from testifying or producing evidence on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture. Any person who except for the provisions of this act, would have been privileged to withhold the testimony given or the evidence produced by him shall not be prosecuted, subjected to any penalty, forfeiture, for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which, by reason of said immunity, he gave testimony and produced evidence; and no such testimony given or evidence produced shall be received against him in any criminal proceeding. Provided, no person given immunity under this section shall be exempt from prosecution for perjury or contempt committed while giving testimony or producing evidence under compulsion as provided in this section.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-8-205 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 8 / Section 35-8-205
§ 35-8-205. Bond issue; cemetery bond tax
Status: in_force

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 article, which tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other city or town taxes; said taxes to be known as the “cemetery bond tax”, and shall be used for the payment of interest, principal, and the redemption of the bonds so issued, and for no other purpose. And all moneys collected by such cities or towns from purchasers of cemetery lots, save such amount as shall be required for the maintenance and improvement of such cemeteries, shall become part of the cemetery bond fund, and shall be used only for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds in this act authorized to be issued.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-434 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-434
§ 35-2-434. Board may accept grants
Status: in_force

The board may accept grants of money or materials or property of any kind from the federal government, the state, any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any person, upon such terms and conditions as the federal government, the state, or such agency or political subdivision, or person may impose.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-1005 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-1005
§ 35-7-1005. Advisory board on drugs and substances control
Status: in_force

There is hereby established an advisory board on drugs and substances control for the purpose of assisting and advising the commissioner of drugs and substances control in carrying out the functions of his office. The members of the advisory board shall receive no compensation for their services except travel expenses and per diem in the same manner and amount as employees of the state of Wyoming. The advisory board consists of the director of the department of health or his designee, and the executive director and senior inspector of the Wyoming state board of pharmacy. In addition to any other duties imposed upon the advisory board by this or any other act, it is the duty of the board to advise the commissioner of drugs and substances control as to which substances shall be declared controlled drugs and substances subjected to the controls provided by law.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-319 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-319
§ 35-11-319. Certificate of project completion; release; transfer of title and custody
Status: in_force

(a) After all carbon dioxide injections underground or into pore space are completed as provided by a permit issued under W.S. 35-11-313 and upon application by the injector holding title to the carbon dioxide under W.S. 35-11-318 , the department may issue a certificate of project completion. The department shall only issue a certificate upon satisfaction of the conditions imposed under subsections (b), (c) and (d) of this section and after providing public notice of the application, an opportunity for public comment and a public hearing on the application.

(b) A certificate of project completion shall not be issued until at least twenty (20) years after carbon dioxide injections end.

(c) A certificate of project completion shall not be issued until the injector with title to the carbon dioxide establishes to the satisfaction of the department that:

(i) The injector is in full compliance with all laws governing the injection and storage of the carbon dioxide;

(ii) The injector has addressed any pending claims regarding the injection and storage of the carbon dioxide;

(iii) The underground place or pore space where the carbon dioxide was injected or stored is expected to no longer expand vertically or horizontally and poses no threat to human health, human safety, the environment or underground sources of drinking water;

(iv) The stored or injected carbon dioxide is unlikely to cross any underground or pore space boundary and is not expected to endanger any underground source of drinking water or otherwise endanger human health, human safety or the environment;

(v) All wells, equipment and facilities to be used in maintaining and managing the stored carbon dioxide are in good condition and will retain mechanical integrity;

(vi) The injector has plugged any injection wells and has completed all reclamation required by the department.

(d) Upon the issuance of a certificate of project completion under subsection (a) of this section:

(i) In exchange for assuming responsibility and liability for the stored carbon dioxide as provided in this section, title to the stored or injected carbon dioxide, and any facilities used to inject or store the carbon dioxide, without payment of any compensation, shall be transferred to the state;

(ii) Title acquired by the state includes all rights, and interests in, and all responsibilities associated with, the stored or injected carbon dioxide;

(iii) Primary responsibility and liability for the stored or injected carbon dioxide shall be transferred to the state, provided that liability to the state shall not result in the payment of any damages in excess of the balance of the Wyoming geologic sequestration special revenue account created by W.S. 35-11-320(a) ;

(iv) The injector and all persons who generated any injected or stored carbon dioxide shall be forever released from all regulatory requirements associated with the continued storage and maintenance of the injected carbon dioxide;

(v) Any bond or financial assurance submitted to the department under W.S. 35-11-313 through 35-11-317 shall be released;

(vi) The state, through the department, shall assume responsibility to manage and monitor the stored carbon dioxide until such time when the federal government assumes responsibility for the long-term monitoring and management of stored carbon dioxide.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-1016 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-1016
§ 35-7-1016. Substances included in Schedule II
Status: repealed

(a) The controlled substances listed in this section are included in Schedule II. Schedule II shall consist of the drugs and other substances, by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name or brand name designated, listed in this section.

(b) Substances, vegetable origin or chemical synthesis.--Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any of the following substances whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, independently by means of chemical synthesis or by combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:

(i) Opium and opiate and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate, excluding apomorphine, thebaine-derived butorphanol, dextrorphan, nalbuphine, nalmefene, naloxone and naltrexone and their respective salts, but including the following:

(A) Raw opium;

(B) Opium extracts;

(C) Opium fluid;

(D) Powdered opium;

(E) Granulated opium;

(F) Tincture of opium;

(G) Codeine;

(H) Ethylmorphine;

(J) Etorphine hydrochloride;

(K) Hydrocodone;

(M) Hydromorphone;

(N) Metopon;

(O) Morphine;

(P) Oxycodone;

(Q) Oxymorphone;

(R) Thebaine;

(S) Dihydroetorphine;

(T) Oripavine.

(ii) Any salt, compound, isomer, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in paragraph (b)(i) of this section, but not including the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium;

(iii) Opium poppy and poppy straw;

(iv) Coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of coca leaves (including cocaine and ecgonine and their salts, isomers, derivatives and salts of isomers and derivatives), and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances, but not including decocainized coca leaves or extractions which do not contain cocaine or ecgonine;

(v) Concentrate of poppy straw (the crude extract of poppy straw in either liquid, solid or powder form which contains the phenanthrine alkaloids of the opium poppy).

(c) Opiates.--Unless specifically excepted or unless in another schedule, any of the following opiates including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts and salts of isomers, esters and ethers whenever the existence of these isomers, esters, ethers and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation, dextrorphan and levopropoxyphene excepted:

(i) Alphaprodine;

(ii) Anileridine;

(iii) Benzitramide;

(iv) Bulk dextropropoxyphene (nondosage forms);

(v) Dihydrocodeine;

(vi) Diphenoxylate;

(vii) Fentanyl;

(viii) Isomethadone;

(ix) Levomethorphan;

(x) Levorphanol;

(xi) Metazocine;

(xii) Methadone;

(xiii) Methadone-Intermediate, 4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl butane;

(xiv) Moramide-Intermediate, 2-methyl-3-morpholino-1, 1-diphenyl- propane carboxylic acid;

(xv) Pethidine (meperidine);

(xvi) Pethidine-Intermediate-A, 4-cyano-1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine;

(xvii) Pethidine-Intermediate-B, ethyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylate;

(xviii) Pethidine-Intermediate-C, 1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid;

(xix) Phenazocine;

(xx) Piminodine;

(xxi) Racemethorphan;

(xxii) Racemorphan;

(xxiii) Sufentanil;

(xxiv) Alfentanil;

(xxv) Repealed by Laws 2011, ch. 45, § 2, eff. July 1, 2011.

(xxvi) Carfentanil;

(xxvii) Levo-alphacetylmethadol; some other names: levo-alpha-acetylmethadol, levomethadyl acetate, LAAM;

(xxviii) Remifentanil;

(xxix) Tapentadol.

(d) Stimulants.--Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system:

(i) Amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers and salts of its optical isomers;

(ii) Methamphetamine, its salts, isomers and salts of its isomers;

(iii) Phenmetrazine and its salts;

(iv) Methylphenidate;

(v) Lisdexamfetamine, its salts, isomers and salts of isomers.

(e) Depressants.--Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances having a depressant effect on the central nervous system including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:

(i) Amobarbital;

(ii) Pentobarbital;

(iii) Phencyclidine;

(iv) Secobarbital;

(v) Glutethimide.

(f) Immediate precursors.--Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances:

(i) Immediate precursor to amphetamine and methamphetamine:

(A) Phenylacetone; some trade or other names: phenyl-2-propanone; P2P; benzyl methyl ketone; methyl benzyl ketone.

(ii) Immediate precursors to phencyclidine (PCP):

(A) 1-phenylcyclohexylamine;

(B) 1-piperidinocyclohexanecarbonitrile (PCC).

(g) Hallucinogenic substances:

(i) Repealed by Laws 2001, ch. 88, § 2.

(ii) Nabilone; another name for nabilone: (±)-trans-3-(1,1-dimethylheptyl)-6,6a,7,8,10,10a-hexahydro-1-hydroxy-6,6-d imethyl-9H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-9-one.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-615 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-615
§ 35-1-615. Community board is agency of county; appropriations; joint community board agreements
Status: in_force

(a) A community board is an agency of the county government.

(b) A county which establishes or agrees to establish a community board, or community boards may appropriate funds for human services programs.

(c) When two (2) or more counties have agreed to establish a community board, the funds appropriated by the counties shall be expended by the board in accordance with the agreement between the counties. The agreement shall require each county to bear a cost proportionate to the services provided in the county. The agreement may specify that, for particular purposes, officers and employees of a joint community board are considered employees of a participating county.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-1503 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-1503
§ 35-11-1503. Preparation of the report by the department
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the department shall within twenty-one (21) months of receipt of an application and the application fee under W.S. 35-11-1502 , prepare a report which examines the environmental, social and economic impacts of any proposal to site a high-level radioactive waste storage facility within the state. The director may determine that more than twenty-one (21) months is required to complete the report. If the director makes this determination, the director shall extend the deadline as appropriate and notify the applicant and the legislature of the additional time required. The director may employ experts, contract with state or federal agencies, or obtain any other services through contractual or other means to prepare the report.

(b) Any report prepared under this section shall evaluate and assess all probable impacts associated with any proposal to site a high-level radioactive waste storage facility within the state, including but not limited to short term impacts and any other impacts which may be serious, reversible or irreversible. In developing the report under this section, the director may consider the guidelines and standards for preparation of an environmental impact statement under section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 4332(2)(C) . If appropriate and to the extent practicable, the department shall prepare a joint report with the nuclear regulatory commission under the National Environmental Policy Act.

(c) The report shall evaluate the environmental, social and economic impacts to the state from a range of alternative actions, including the siting of the high-level radioactive waste storage facility as proposed, the no action alternative and other alternatives.

(d) The report shall include a proposed benefits agreement, which shall be negotiated with the person who proposes to site the high-level radioactive waste storage facility.

(e) The director shall, in the preparation of the report, identify a recommended action from among the alternatives evaluated.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-28-107 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 28 / Section 35-28-107
§ 35-28-107. Inspections, examinations
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of enforcement of this act, the director may, upon presenting appropriate credentials to the owner, operator or agent in charge:

(i) Enter at a reasonable time any public pool or spa; and

(ii) Inspect at any reasonable time and within reasonable limits and in a reasonable manner any public pool or spa and all pertinent equipment, finished and unfinished materials and obtain samples necessary for the enforcement of this act. The frequency of inspections shall be based on the relative risk to public health and safety, with no such facility receiving less than one (1) inspection per year.

(b) Upon completion of any inspection under this section but before leaving the premises, the director shall give to the owner, operator or agent in charge a report in writing setting forth any conditions or practices observed by him which in his judgment indicate that any public pool or spa:

(i) Is not being maintained in whole or in part in a clean and sanitary condition, in good repair and free of safety hazards;

(ii) Through testing, contains water which does not comply with the requirements set forth in the regulations;

(iii) Is failing to meet generally accepted health practices for pool and spa operation in compliance with the laws and rules pertaining to public pools and spas;

(iv) Is failing to keep and maintain records pertaining to the operation and maintenance of the public pool or spa as required by the regulations.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-405 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-405
§ 35-1-405. Registration districts
Status: in_force

The state registrar shall from time to time establish registration districts throughout the state. He may consolidate or subdivide such districts to facilitate registration.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-5-217 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 5 / Section 35-5-217
§ 35-5-217. Immunity
Status: in_force

(a) A person who acts in accordance with this act or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state, or attempts in good faith to do so, is not liable for the act in a civil action, criminal prosecution or administrative proceeding.

(b) Neither the person making an anatomical gift nor the donor's estate is liable for any injury or damage that results from the making or use of the gift.

(c) In determining whether an anatomical gift has been made, amended or revoked under this act, a person may rely upon representations of an individual listed in W.S. 35-5-209(a)(ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) or (viii) relating to the individual's relationship to the donor or prospective donor unless the person knows that the representation is untrue.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-532 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-532
§ 35-11-532. Municipal solid waste facility operator financial responsibility; penalties
Status: in_force

(a) Municipal solid waste facility operators shall ensure continued revenue or funding streams sufficient to provide for all foreseeable costs of the facility, including but not limited to the full costs of:

(i) Operations;

(ii) Monitoring;

(iii) Recycling, composting and other diversion activities;

(iv) Closure; and

(v) Post-closure activities.

(b) On or before January 1, 2014 and at least once every four (4) years thereafter, municipal solid waste facility operators shall submit to the department written documentation demonstrating compliance with subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Municipal solid waste facility operators shall employ accounting principles pursuant to the Uniform Municipal Fiscal Procedures Act, W.S. 16-4-101 through 16-4-125 , which recognize liabilities associated with:

(i) Closure and post-closure costs; and

(ii) The long-term cost of waste disposal compared to recycling, composting or other diversion activities.

(d) Compliance with this section shall be a prerequisite for eligibility for any state grant and loan program available to a municipal solid waste facility and state funding for solid waste landfill monitoring and remediation.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-26-102 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 26 / Section 35-26-102
§ 35-26-102. Possession of automated external defibrillator
Status: repealed

(a) In order to ensure public health and safety, all persons who possess an AED shall:

(i) Obtain appropriate training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and in the use of an AED by the American Heart Association, American Red Cross or by another nationally recognized, or Wyoming department of health recognized, course in CPR and AED use and maintains currency through refresher training every two (2) years; and

(ii) Ensure that the AED is maintained and tested according to the manufacturer's guidelines.

(iii) Repealed by Laws 2005, ch. 89, § 2.

(b) Any person or entity in possession of an AED shall notify an agent of the emergency communications center and the local ambulance service of the existence, location and type of AED.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-25-508 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 25 / Section 35-25-508
§ 35-25-508. Confidentiality of information
Status: in_force

The information obtained through the 988 system shall be considered a public record under W.S. 16-4-201(a)(v) and access to the information may be denied according to law.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-9-130 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 9 / Section 35-9-130
§ 35-9-130. Penalties; civil penalties; other remedies
Status: in_force

(a) A person who violates W.S. 35-9-101 through 35-9-130 commits a misdemeanor punishable as follows:

(i) An individual, including an officer or agent of a corporation or association who participates in or is an accessory to the violation may be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, revocation of his license, or fine, imprisonment and revocation; and

(ii) A corporation may be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), revocation of its license or both.

(b) Violators of W.S. 35-9-101 through 35-9-130 may be enjoined from continuing the violation by proceedings brought by the district or county and prosecuting attorney or by the attorney general. The department shall make recommendations to the appropriate district attorney, county and prosecuting attorney or attorney general regarding proceedings under this subsection.

(c) A person who violates W.S. 35-9-123 shall pay a civil penalty in an amount the department determines of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for a first offense, or one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for any subsequent offense within any three (3) month period. The penalty shall be collected from the violator and credited as provided by W.S. 8-1-109 . Notwithstanding subsection (d) of this section, no penalty under this subsection shall be enforceable for sixty (60) days after delivery of the notice of violation or if the violation has been cured or appealed pursuant to subsection (d) of this section within sixty (60) days after issuance of the notice of violation.

(d) Before the department imposes a civil penalty, the department shall notify the person accused of a violation, in writing, stating specifically the nature of the alleged violation. Upon receipt of a notice of violation the person receiving it shall pay the assessed fine to the department within sixty (60) days or file an appeal to the electrical board. The department shall determine the amount of the civil penalty to be imposed in accordance with the limitations expressed in subsection (c) of this section. Each violation is a separate offense. If an appeal is submitted to the electrical board, the board shall hear the appeal at its next regularly scheduled meeting. At the appeal hearing, the electrical board may uphold the proposed fine, rule that the alleged violation is not substantiated, or reduce the amount of the proposed fine.

(e) A civil penalty may be recovered in an action brought thereon in the name of the state of Wyoming in any court of appropriate jurisdiction. Failure to pay the fine imposed by the department and upheld by the electrical board shall result in suspension of the electrical license until such time as the fine is paid in full.

(f) The provisions of subsections (c) through (e) of this section are in addition to and not instead of any other enforcement provisions contained in this article, except that no criminal penalty shall be applicable if a civil penalty has been imposed under this section for the same violation.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-6-130 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 6 / Section 35-6-130
§ 35-6-130. Persons not required to perform abortion; no civil liability for refusal; sanctions or discrimination for refusal forbidden
Status: in_force

No person shall, in any way, be required to perform or participate in any abortion or in any act or thing which accomplishes or performs or assists in accomplishing or performing a human miscarriage, euthanasia or any other death of a human fetus or human embryo. The refusal of any person to do so is not a basis for civil liability to any person. No hospital, governing board or any other person, firm, association or group shall terminate the employment of, alter the position of, prevent or impair the practice or occupation of, or impose any other sanction or otherwise discriminate against any person who refuses to perform or participate in any abortion or in any act or thing which accomplishes, performs or assists in accomplishing or performing a human miscarriage, euthanasia or any other death of a human fetus or embryo.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-1012 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-1012
§ 35-7-1012. Name by which controlled substance listed in schedule
Status: in_force

The controlled substances listed or to be listed in the schedules in W.S. 35-7-1014 , 35-7-1016 , 35-7-1018 , 35-7-1020 and 35-7-1022 are included by whatever official, common, usual, chemical, or trade name designated.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-28-106 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 28 / Section 35-28-106
§ 35-28-106. Regulations
Status: in_force

The director may adopt regulations necessary for the efficient enforcement of this act and to ensure that appropriate sanitary conditions, public safety and water quality standards are met by any person engaged in operating a public pool or spa.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-106 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-106
§ 35-1-106. Penalty for violations
Status: in_force

Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, or any lawful rule or regulation made by the state department of health pursuant to the authority herein granted, or who shall fail or refuse to obey any lawful order issued by any state, county or municipal health officer pursuant to the authority granted in this act shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be punished except as otherwise provided therein by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-720 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-720
§ 35-2-720. Trustees may accept grants
Status: in_force

The trustees may accept grants of money or materials or property of any kind from the federal government, the state, including any agency or political subdivision, or any person upon terms and conditions as the federal government, the state, including any agency or political subdivision, or person may impose.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-1303 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-1303
§ 35-11-1303. Applicability of Wyoming Insurance Code; exemption
Status: in_force

(a) The Wyoming Insurance Code applies to transactions under this act except:

(i) The state and its officers, agencies and employees are exempt from the licensing, financial and tax requirements imposed by chapters 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 of the Wyoming Insurance Code;

(ii) Any person who contracts with the state to transact insurance under this act is subject to the Wyoming Insurance Code as if the state were an insurer with a certificate of authority to transact the insurance in this state.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-10-207 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 10 / Section 35-10-207
§ 35-10-207. Penalties
Status: in_force

Any person violating any provision of W.S. 35-10-201 through 35-10-208 is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-401 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-401
§ 35-2-401. Establishment of hospital district
Status: repealed

(a) to (c) Repealed by Laws 1998, Sp. & Bud. Sess., ch. 115, § 5.

(d) A special hospital district may be established and subsequent elections held under the procedures for petitioning, hearing and election of special districts as set forth in the Special District Elections Act of 1994.

(i) to (iii) Repealed by Laws 2017, ch. 106, § 2, eff. July 1, 2017.

(e) As an alternative to the procedures specified in subsection (d) of this section, a special hospital district may be established and subsequent elections held through the following procedures:

(i) The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, submit the question of establishing the special hospital district to the electors of the proposed district at the next general election or another date as provided by W.S. 22-2-104 . The board shall provide notice that it will consider the resolution at least thirty (30) days prior to the meeting at which the resolution will be considered. Notice of the election shall be given as required by W.S. 22-29-110 ;

(ii) If a majority of the voters in the proposed district voting at the election specified in paragraph (i) of this subsection vote for the establishment of the district the board of county commissioners shall enter that fact upon its record and the district is established;

(iii) Any subsequent election for a special hospital district established under this subsection shall be held as set forth in the Special District Elections Act of 1994.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-1303 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-1303
§ 35-2-1303. Authorized electronic monitoring; applicability
Status: in_force

(a) No facility or resident of a facility shall engage in electronic monitoring or use electronic monitoring devices except as provided in this act.

(b) Notwithstanding W.S. 7-3-702 , nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize or permit the use of an electronic monitoring device for the nonconsensual interception or unauthorized recording, storage or disclosure of private communications or actions occurring in a resident's room.

(c) A facility may install and use security surveillance devices in the facility's common areas and other locations except for resident rooms as the facility deems necessary for monitoring the facility. Any recording made by security surveillance devices under this subsection shall be the property of the facility.

(d) A resident or resident's representative may seek to install and use electronic monitoring devices in the resident's room pursuant to the requirements of this act. Any recording made by an electronic monitoring device under this subsection shall be the property of the resident or the resident's representative but may be used by a facility as provided by rule of the department.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-1802 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-1802
§ 35-11-1802. Immunity for innocent owners
Status: in_force

(a) An innocent owner is not liable for investigation, monitoring, remediation or other response action regarding contamination attributable to a release, discharge or migration of contaminants on his property.

(b) To be eligible for immunity under this act, a person shall:

(i) Grant to the department or to a person designated by the department, reasonable access to the land for purposes of investigation, monitoring or remediation;

(ii) Comply with any requirements established by the department that are necessary to maintain state authorization to implement federal regulatory programs;

(iii) Not use the real property in a manner that causes exposure of the public to harmful environmental conditions; and

(iv) Comply with any engineering or institutional controls applicable to the real property.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-9-102 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 9 / Section 35-9-102
§ 35-9-102. Definitions
Status: in_force

(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 apprentice electrician must be registered with the department of fire prevention and electrical safety and must be enrolled in a bona fide program of training approved by the bureau of apprenticeship and training, United States department of labor, or present evidence directly to the department that he is enrolled in an apprentice training program which provides training equivalent to a program approved by the bureau of apprenticeship and training, United States department of labor;

(ii) “ Apprentice technician ” means a person who has insufficient qualifications to be a low voltage or a limited technician and is hired by a licensed electrical contractor, low voltage contractor, or limited contractor to assist a licensed low voltage or limited technician. An apprentice technician must be registered with the department of fire prevention and electrical safety and must be enrolled in a training program as approved by the department;

(iii) “Board” means the electrical board;

(iv) “ Council ” means the council on fire prevention and electrical safety in buildings;

(v) “Department” means the department of fire prevention and electrical safety;

(vi) “Electrical contractor” means a person licensed by the department to contract with another to plan, lay out and supervise the installation of electric equipment. “Electrical contractor” excludes a person who only plans or designs electrical installations;

(vii) “Full-time paid fire fighters” means an individual regularly employed for devoting his entire time of employment to the care, operation and requirements of a regularly constituted fire department;

(viii) “Installation of electric equipment” includes installing, altering and repairing the wiring of apparatus equipment and conductors subject to the National Electrical Code;

(ix) “Journeyman electrician” means a person licensed by the department who has four (4) years experience in the electrical wiring industry and technical knowledge to install and supervise the installation of electrical equipment for any purpose in accordance with the National Electrical Code and city, county and state ordinances and regulations;

(x) “Limited electrical contractor” means a person, licensed by the department to contract with another to plan, lay out and supervise the installation of electrical equipment associated with the type of limited electrical contractor license held. “Limited electrical contractor” excludes a person who only plans or designs electrical installations;

(xi) “ Limited technician ” means a person licensed by the department who has met the minimum experience requirements as prescribed by board rules and regulations in the portion of the electrical wiring industry covered by his limited license. The limited technician shall have technical knowledge to install and supervise the installation of electrical equipment associated with the type of limited electrical license held in accordance with the National Electrical Code and city, county and state ordinances and regulations;

(xii) “Low voltage electrical contractor” means a person licensed by the department to contract with another to plan, lay out and supervise the installation of electrical equipment associated with the type of limited electrical contractor license held. “Low voltage electrical contractor” excludes a person who only plans or designs electrical installations;

(xiii) “ Low voltage technician ” means a person licensed by the department who has met the minimum experience requirements as prescribed by board rules and regulations in the portion of the electrical wiring industry covered by his low voltage license. The low voltage technician shall have technical knowledge to install and supervise the installation of electrical equipment associated with the type of low voltage electrical license held in accordance with the National Electrical Code and city, county and state ordinances and regulations;

(xiv) “Master electrician” means a person licensed by the department who has eight (8) years experience in the electrical wiring industry and technical knowledge to plan, lay out and supervise the installation of electric equipment in accordance with the National Electrical Code and city, county and state ordinances and regulations;

(xv) “Master electrician of record” means a Wyoming licensed master electrician who is actively employed by a licensed electrical contractor in a full-time capacity, and who assumes responsibility to ensure that the National Electrical Code, W.S. 35-9-120 through 35-9-130 and applicable rules of the department of fire prevention and electrical safety are adhered to on all electrical work undertaken by the electrical contractor in the state of Wyoming, and who is not the master electrician of record for, or employed by, any other electrical contractor;

(xvi) “Owner” means the person holding legal title to a building or real property;

(xvii) “Public building” means a building intended for access by the general public;

(xviii) “Remodeling” includes repairing, altering or adding to a building or its electrical system;

(xix) “Technician of record” means a Wyoming licensed low voltage or limited technician who is actively employed by a licensed low voltage or limited electrical contractor in a full-time capacity, and who assumes responsibility to ensure that the National Electrical Code, W.S. 35-9-120 through 35-9-130 and applicable rules of the department of fire prevention and electrical safety are adhered to on all low voltage or limited electrical work undertaken by the low voltage or limited electrical contractor in the state of Wyoming, and who is not the technician of record for, or employed by, any other low voltage or limited electrical contractor.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-15-106 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 15 / Section 35-15-106
§ 35-15-106. Exception to license requirements
Status: in_force

This act shall not apply to any regularly established, permanent place of worship, stadium, athletic field, arena, auditorium, coliseum or other similar permanently established place of assembly for assemblies which do not exceed by more than two hundred and fifty (250) people the maximum seating capacity of the structure where the assembly is held, nor shall this act apply to government-sponsored fairs or rodeos held on regularly established fairgrounds or rodeo grounds nor to assemblies required to be licensed by other laws, ordinances, and rules and regulations promulgated by the state of Wyoming, any municipality, city and town, or other political subdivision of the state of Wyoming.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-721 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-721
§ 35-2-721. Charges and rentals
Status: in_force

The trustees shall establish and collect charges for services and rentals for use of facilities furnished, acquired, constructed or purchased from the proceeds of the securities sufficient to pay the principal or the interest, or both, on the securities as they become due and payable, together with the additional sums as may be deemed necessary for accumulating reserves and providing for obsolescence and depreciation and to pay the expenses of operating and maintaining the facilities. The trustees shall establish all other charges, fees and rates to be derived from the operation of the hospital, nursing home or any other facility of the rural health care district.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-1045 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-1045
§ 35-7-1045. Duties and powers of law enforcement officers; search warrants
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding the powers conferred upon the attorney general by this act all law enforcement officers within this state shall have the responsibility for the enforcement of this act.

(b) Any special agent designated by the attorney general and any law enforcement officer engaged in the enforcement of this act may:

(i) Carry firearms in the performance of his official duties;

(ii) Serve search warrants, arrest warrants, administrative inspection warrants, subpoenas, and summonses issued under the authority of this state;

(iii) Make arrests without warrant for any offense under this act committed in his presence, or if he has probable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed, or is committing a violation of this act;

(iv) Make seizures of property pursuant to this act; and

(v) Perform such other law enforcement duties as the commissioner may designate.

(c) All prosecutions originating under this act shall be the duty and obligation of the district attorney for the county in which the offense occurred.

(d) A search warrant relating to offenses involving controlled substances may be served at any time of the day or night if the judge or district court commissioner issuing the warrant is satisfied that there is probable cause to believe that grounds exist for the warrant and for its service at such time.

(e) Any officer authorized to execute a search warrant relating to offenses involving controlled substances the penalty for which is imprisonment for more than one (1) year may, without notice of his authority and purpose, break open an outer or inner door or window of a building, or any part of the building, or anything therein, only if a district judge or district court commissioner issuing the warrant: (i) is satisfied that there is probable cause to believe that (A) the property sought may and, if such notice is given, will be easily and quickly destroyed or disposed of, or (B) the giving of such notice will immediately endanger the life or safety of the executing officer or another person; and (ii) has included in the warrant a direction that the officer executing it shall not be required to give such notice. Any officer acting under such warrant, shall, as soon as practicable after entering the premises, identify himself and give the reason and authority for his entrance upon the premises.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-536 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-536
§ 35-11-536. Rules and regulations
Status: in_force

(a) The council shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to administer the program after recommendation from the director of the department, the administrator of the solid and hazardous waste division and the water and waste advisory board. The rules shall include but shall not be limited to rules and regulations which:

(i) Provide for landfill monitoring and remediation system design, construction, installation and monitoring standards which shall be no less stringent than federal requirements;

(ii) Specify the requirements for delegating installation or modification inspection authority including but not limited to requirements for contractors and local operators;

(iii) Establish a procedure or procedures for reporting any release from a municipal solid waste landfill;

(iv) Include provisions under which priorities for remediation actions shall be established in addition to the priority list created pursuant to W.S. 35-11-524 . Those priorities shall be established considering, but not limited to, the following factors:

(A) Funding availability;

(B) Cost efficiencies achieved by allocation of resources;

(C) Opportunities for increased cost sharing between monitoring and remediation actions at multiple leaking municipal solid waste landfills;

(D) Timeliness of remediation in reducing risk to public health, safety and welfare or the environment;

(E) The likelihood that the remedy will reduce or eliminate the threat posed to public health, safety and welfare or the environment by continuing releases; and

(F) Whether the facility has completed closure and transfer actions at the leaking municipal solid waste facility. Priority shall be given to solid waste facilities which have completed closure and transfer actions.

(v) Require records for compliance with repairs and upgrades to be maintained for the operational life of the landfill remediation and monitoring system;

(vi) Create requirements for participation in the program and for the return of the facility to local control pursuant to W.S. 35-11-534(a) ; and

(vii) Specify standards for restoration of the environment.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-9-210 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 9 / Section 35-9-210
§ 35-9-210. District formation initiated by resolution of county commissioners; procedures; conditions
Status: in_force

(a) A fire protection district comprised of lands within unincorporated areas of the county which are not within existing fire protection districts may be created under the following procedure:

(i) The board of county commissioners may, by resolution, identify lands to be included within the proposed district and submit the question of establishing the district to the electors of the proposed district at the next general election. The board shall provide notice that it will consider a resolution under this paragraph at least thirty (30) days prior to the meeting at which the resolution will be considered. Notice of the election shall be given as required by W.S. 22-29-110 ;

(ii) If the establishment of the district is defeated at the election, the board may refuse to provide fire and public safety protection to the area within the proposed district commencing with the succeeding fiscal year. If a majority of the voters in the proposed district voting at the election vote for the establishment of the district, the board of county commissioners shall enter that fact upon its records and the district is established. The board shall hold an election for a district board of directors under W.S. 35-9-202 . Districts formed under this subsection are otherwise subject to W.S. 35-9-201 through 35-9-208 .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-416 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-416
§ 35-2-416. General obligation coupon bonds; conduct and results of election
Status: in_force

The election authorized under W.S. 35-2-415 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 Election Law, W.S. 22-21-101 through 22-21-112 .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-1803 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-1803
§ 35-11-1803. Limitations
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who knowingly transfers, conveys or obtains an interest in land to avoid liability for contamination, remediation or compliance with any provision of this act shall not be an innocent owner.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of W.S. 35-11-1802 , an innocent owner who undertakes a cleanup of his property must comply with all applicable provisions of this act.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-3-111 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 3 / Section 35-3-111
§ 35-3-111. Eminent domain; manner of exercise; ascertaining damage to property
Status: in_force

Whenever the board of trustees of any sanitary and improvement district shall by order determine to make any public improvement under the provisions of this act which shall require that private property be taken or damaged, the district may cause the damage therefor to be ascertained as nearly as may be according to the provisions of law for the appropriation of right-of-way by railway companies.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-15-102 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 15 / Section 35-15-102
§ 35-15-102. Chapter not applicable to certain political subdivisions
Status: in_force

The provisions of this act shall not apply to municipalities or any cities or towns in the state of Wyoming, or other political subdivisions which, at the effective date of this act, have enacted ordinances or adopted rules and regulations regulating the assemblage of large numbers of people, in excess of those normally meeting the health, sanitary, fire, police, transportation and utility services regularly provided in any such municipality, city or town or other political subdivision, in order that the health, safety and welfare of all persons therein, residents and visitors alike, may be protected.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-4-131 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 4 / Section 35-4-131
§ 35-4-131. Consent of minors to treatment; treatment of infected or exposed persons; immunity from liability
Status: in_force

(a) Persons under eighteen (18) years of age may give legal consent for examination and treatment for any sexually transmitted disease infection.

(b) For the protection of public health, a physician, health officer or other person or facility providing health care in accordance with state or federal law shall for any individual regardless of age, sex, race or color:

(i) If reasonably suspected of being infected with any sexually transmitted disease, administer, refer for or recommend appropriate and adequate treatment;

(ii) If exposed to any sexually transmitted disease, recommend or offer treatment.

(c) Physical examination and treatment by a licensed physician or other qualified health care provider of a person under eighteen (18) years of age consenting to examination or treatment is not an assault or an assault and battery upon that person.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-1415 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-1415
§ 35-11-1415. Definitions
Status: repealed

(a) As used in this article:

(i) “Corrective action” means an action taken to investigate, minimize, eliminate or clean up a release to protect the public health, safety and welfare or the environment;

(ii) “Corrective action account” means the account established in W.S. 35-11-1424 ;

(iii) “ Department ” means the department of environmental quality through its solid and hazardous waste division;

(iv) “Environmental pollution financial responsibility account” or “financial responsibility account” means the account established in W.S. 35-11-1427 ;

(v) “Operator” means any person in control of, or having responsibility for, the daily operation of the tank;

(vi) “ Owner ” means:

(A) In the case of an underground storage tank in use or brought into use on or after November 8, 1984, any person who owns an underground storage tank while it is used for the storage, use or dispensing of regulated substances;

(B) In the case of an underground storage tank in use before November 8, 1984, but no longer in use after that date, any person who owned such a tank immediately before the discontinuation of its use;

(C) Any person who owns an aboveground storage tank meeting the definition of paragraph (xi) of this subsection;

(D) In the case of a site contaminated by an aboveground or underground storage tank regulated under this article and where all tanks have been permanently closed, any person who owns the site.

(vii) “Regulated substance” means:

(A) Any substance defined in section 101(14) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 but not including any substance regulated as a hazardous waste under subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; and

(B) Petroleum, including crude oil or any fraction thereof, which is liquid at standard conditions of temperature and pressure (60 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute).

(viii) “Release” means any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching or disposing from a tank into groundwater, surface water or subsurface soils;

(ix) “ Underground storage tank ” means and includes any one (1) or combination of underground storage tanks, including underground pipes connected thereto, used to contain an accumulation of regulated substances, and the volume of which, including the volume of the underground pipes connected thereto, is ten percent (10%) or more beneath the surface of the ground, but does not include:

(A) A farm or residential underground storage tank of one thousand one hundred (1,100) gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial or agricultural purposes;

(B) An underground storage tank used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored;

(C) Septic tanks;

(D) A pipeline facility, including gathering lines, regulated under:

(I), (II) Repealed by Laws 2017, ch. 35, § 3, eff. July 1, 2017.

(III) An intrastate pipeline facility regulated under state laws, as provided in 49 U.S.C. chapter 601 , which is determined by the United States secretary of transportation to be connected to a pipeline or to be operated or intended to be capable of operating at pipeline pressure or as an integral part of a pipeline;

(IV) 49 U.S.C. chapter 601 .

(E) Surface impoundments, pits, ponds or lagoons;

(F) Storm water or wastewater collection systems including oil/water separators used to separate oil and water at oil production sites, gas processing plants and refineries;

(G) Flow-through process tanks;

(H) Liquid traps or associated gathering lines directly related to oil or gas production and gathering operations;

(J) Storage tanks situated in an underground area, if the storage tank is situated upon or above the surface of the floor;

(K) Underground storage tanks of one hundred ten (110) gallons or less of holding capacity;

(M) Underground storage tanks containing de minimus concentrations of regulated substances;

(N) Emergency spill or overflow containment underground storage tank systems that are expeditiously emptied after use;

(O) An underground storage tank system holding hazardous wastes listed or identified under Subtitle C of the federal Solid Waste Disposal Act or a mixture of such hazardous waste and other regulated substances;

(P) A wastewater treatment tank system that is part of a wastewater treatment facility regulated under section 307(b) or 402 of the federal Clean Water Act;

(Q) Any equipment or machinery that contains regulated substances for operational purposes such as hydraulic lift tanks and electrical equipment tanks.

(x) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 186, § 2, eff. July 1, 2019.

(xi) “ Aboveground storage tank ” means any one (1) or a combination of containers, vessels and enclosures, including structures and appurtenances connected to them, constructed of non-earthen materials including but not limited to concrete, steel or plastic which provides structural support, the volume of which including the pipes connected thereto is more than ninety percent (90%) above the surface of the ground, which is used by a dealer to dispense gasoline or diesel fuels;

(xii) “Dealer” means a person meeting the definition of W.S. 39-17-101(a)(v) or 39-17-201(a)(vi) ;

(xiii) “Tank” means and includes both underground and aboveground storage tanks as defined by this act.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-4-603 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 4 / Section 35-4-603
§ 35-4-603. Restriction upon use of bodies; bond required of applicant; prohibited acts
Status: in_force

It shall not be lawful for any person so receiving dead bodies to use the same, except for the prosecution of anatomical science or the training of search and rescue animals, or elsewhere than in this state; and the state department of health in its rules and regulations in regard to the distribution of the same, may require each applicant to furnish a good and sufficient bond that the provisions of this act will be observed. Whosoever shall use said body for any other purpose, or shall remove the same beyond the limits of the state, or whosoever shall traffic, trade or deal with said bodies for a commercial purpose shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined, on conviction, not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty (30) days or more than one (1) year; the fine accruing from said conviction to be paid to the school fund of the county, wherein such offense was committed.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-4-220 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 4 / Section 35-4-220
§ 35-4-220. Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) The following words as used in this act, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following meaning:

(i) “Service connection” shall mean and include any water line or pipe connected to a distribution supply main or pipe for the purpose of conveying water to a building or dwelling;

(ii) “Sanitary public water supply” shall mean and include any water supply being distributed by ten (10) or more service connections, such connections being utilized to furnish water for human consumption either in preparing foods or beverages for inhabitants of residences or business establishments;

(iii) “United States public health service drinking water standards” shall mean and include the standards prescribed by the United States public health service for the quality of water on interstate carriers, provided further that the section of these standards pertaining to physical and chemical characteristics of water shall not be included in these standards for the purpose of this act.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-222 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-222
§ 35-1-222. Sanitary information generally
Status: in_force

The department of health shall cause all proper sanitary information in its possession to be promptly forwarded to the county health officers, adding thereto such useful suggestions as the experience of the department may supply, and it is also hereby made the duty of said county health officers to supply the like information and suggestions to the department of health, and the department of health is authorized to require reports and information at such times of such facts and of such nature and extent relating to the safety of life and promotion of health as its bylaws or rules may provide; from all public or private dispensaries, hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, prisons, schools, and from managers, principals, and officers thereof, and from all other public institutions, their officers, managers and from the proprietors, managers, lessees, and occupants of all places of public resort in the state, but such reports and information shall only be required concerning matters or particulars in respect to which they may in their opinion need information for the proper discharge of their duties. The department shall, when requested by public authorities, or when they may deem it best advise the officers of the state, counties, cities, or towns or local governments in regard to sanitary drainage and the location, drainage, ventilation and sanitary provisions of any public institution, building or public place.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-116 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-116
§ 35-7-116. Food, drugs and cosmetics; adulteration and misbranding
Status: in_force

A food, cosmetic or a drug or device is adulterated if it is adulterated under the federal act. A food, cosmetic or a drug or device is misbranded if it is misbranded under the federal act.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-411 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-411
§ 35-1-411. Name of father on birth certificate
Status: in_force

(a) If the mother was married either at the time of conception or birth of child, or between conception and birth, the name of the husband shall be entered on the certificate as the father of the child, unless:

(i) Paternity has been determined otherwise by a court of competent jurisdiction; or

(ii) The husband signs an affidavit denying that he is the father and the mother and the person to be named as the father sign an affidavit of paternity under this section. Affidavits may be joint or individual or a combination thereof, and each signature shall be individually notarized. The name of the person signing the affidavit of paternity shall be entered as the father on the certificate of birth.

(b) If the mother was not married either at the time of conception or birth of child, or between conception and birth, the name of the father shall not be entered on the certificate of birth without an affidavit of paternity signed by the mother and the person to be named as father, unless a determination of the paternity has been made by a court of competent jurisdiction.

(c) In any case in which paternity of a child is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, the name of the father and surname of the child shall be entered on the certificate of birth in accordance with the finding and order of the court.

(d) If the father is not named on the certificate of birth, no other information about the father shall be entered on the certificate.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-358 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-358
§ 35-7-358. Refusal to register; cancellation; suspension; legal recourse
Status: in_force

(a) If it does not appear to the director of the department of agriculture that the pesticide or device is such as to warrant the proposed claims for it or if the pesticide or device and its labeling and other material required to be submitted do not comply with the provisions of this act or regulations adopted thereunder, he shall notify the applicant of the manner in which the pesticide or device, labeling, or other material required to be submitted fails to comply with the provisions of this act so as to afford the applicant an opportunity to make the necessary corrections. If, upon receipt of notice, the applicant does not make the required changes the director may refuse to register the pesticide or device. The applicant may request a hearing as provided for in the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.

(b) The director, when he determines that the pesticide or device or labeling does not comply with the provisions of the act or the regulations adopted thereunder, may cancel the registration of a pesticide or device after a hearing in accordance with the provisions of the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.

(c) The director, when he determines that there is an imminent hazard, may suspend on his own motion, the registration of a pesticide in conformance with the provisions of the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.

(d) Any person who will be adversely affected by an order under this section may obtain judicial review in accord with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-429 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-429
§ 35-1-429. Persons required to keep records
Status: in_force

(a) Every person in charge of an institution as defined in this act shall keep a record of personal particulars and data concerning each person admitted or confined to the institution. The record shall be limited to information required by the standard certificate of birth, death and stillbirth forms issued under the provisions of this act. The record shall be made at the time of admission from information provided by the person, but when it cannot be so obtained, the same shall be obtained from relatives or other persons acquainted with the facts. The name and address of the person providing the information shall be a part of the record.

(b) When a dead human body is released or disposed of by an institution, the person in charge of the institution shall keep a record showing the name of the deceased, date of death, name and address of the person to whom the body is released, date of removal from the institution, or if finally disposed of by the institution, the date, place and manner of disposition.

(c) A funeral director, embalmer or other person who removes from the place of death or transports or finally disposes of a dead body or stillbirth, in addition to filing any certificate or other form required by this act, shall keep a record which shall identify the body, and such information pertaining to his receipt, removal, and delivery of the body as may be prescribed in regulations adopted by the division of health and medical services.

(d) Records maintained under this section shall be retained for a period of not less than ten (10) years and shall be made available for inspection by the state registrar of vital records or his representative upon demand.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-301 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-301
§ 35-1-301. Definitions; establishment; participation by municipality in district department
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this act, the word “municipality” shall mean and include any town, village or city of this state, and the word “district” shall mean and include any combination of said towns, villages, cities and counties of this state.

(b) Any county, municipality, or district may, by resolution of the board of county commissioners or municipal governing body or by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of such county, municipality, or district, establish and maintain a county, municipal, or district health department.

(c) Any two (2) or more adjacent counties may, by resolutions of the boards of county commissioners or by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors establish and maintain a district health department.

(d) Any municipality within a health department district may, by resolution of the municipal governing body or by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of such municipality, participate in such a district health department.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-402 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-402
§ 35-11-402. Establishment of standards
Status: in_force

(a) The council shall, upon recommendation by the advisory board through the administrator and the director, establish rules and regulations pursuant to the following reclamation standards for the affected areas, including but not limited to:

(i) The highest previous use of the affected lands, the surrounding terrain and natural vegetation, surface and subsurface flowing or stationary water bodies, wildlife and aquatic habitat and resources, and acceptable uses after reclamation including the utility and capacity of the reclaimed lands to support such uses;

(ii) Backfilling, regrading or recontouring to assure the reclamation of the land to a use at least equal to its highest previous use;

(iii) A time schedule encouraging the earliest possible reclamation program consistent with the orderly and economic development of the mining property;

(iv) Revegetation of affected lands including species to be used, methods of planting and other details necessary to assure the development of a vegetative cover consistent with the surrounding terrain and the highest prior use standards set out in paragraph (i) of this subsection;

(v) Stockpiling, preservation and reuse of topsoil for revegetation, unless it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the administrator that other methods of reclamation or types of soil are superior;

(vi) Prevention of pollution of waters of the state from mining operations, substantial erosion, sedimentation, landslides, accumulation and discharge of acid water, and flooding, both during and after mining and reclamation;

(vii) In administering established rules and regulations on such standards the administrator shall consider all the facts and circumstances bearing upon any reclamation plan. In consideration of reclamation plans for any mining operation that is presently being conducted in the state under a permit issued by the state land commission under the “Open Cut Land Reclamation Act of 1969”, particular attention shall be paid to:

(A) The social and economic value of the product mined;

(B) The technological availability for economic feasibility of reclaiming the affected area.

(viii) Establishing methods of estimating cost of reclamation which shall be computed according to established engineering methods;

(ix) Establishing procedures to obtain special license to explore by dozing. Such procedures will include but not be limited to method of application, location of proposed exploration, present use of affected lands, name of surface owner, proposed reclamation program, bonding requirement, and such other procedures as are necessary to insure that the exploration work will be conducted within the intent of this act;

(x) Rules and regulations for the criteria for review and information and public notice requirements for permit revisions. A permit may be revised without public notice or hearing for revisions, including incidental boundary revisions to the area covered by the permit, if these do not propose significant alterations in the reclamation plan. Subject to applicable standards, any permit, except for surface coal mining permits, may be revised, in the permitted area, by identifying proposed alterations to the mining or reclamation plan in the annual report or addendum thereto, or by obtaining prior approval from the director, at the operator's discretion;

(xi) Rules and regulations for conducting coal exploration operations which shall include prior notice of intention to explore, written approval by the director for the removal of more than two hundred fifty (250) tons of coal and reclamation provisions for new and existing operations in accordance with the reclamation standards governing surface mining;

(xii) Rules and regulations governing new and existing special bituminous surface coal mines as recognized in P.L. 95-87 , which shall be controlling notwithstanding other provisions of this act to the contrary. The regulations shall pertain only to standards governing on site handling of spoils, elimination of depressions capable of collecting water, creation of impoundments and regrading to the approximate original contour, and shall specify that all remaining highwalls be stable. All other performance standards contained in this act shall apply to such mines;

(xiii) Rules and regulations governing the use of decommissioned wind turbine blades and towers to backfill surface coal mining sites as part of an approved reclamation plan. Rules promulgated under this paragraph shall, at a minimum, provide for:

(A) Minimum depth requirements for the burial of decommissioned wind turbine blades and towers to be buried below the surface and above any aquifers as defined in W.S. 35-11-103(h)(i) . In setting depth requirements under this subparagraph, the council, administrator and director may consult standards for solid waste management facilities established by the solid and hazardous waste management division;

(B) The removal of all mechanical, electrical and other materials from the decommissioned wind turbine blades and towers allowing only the base material of the blades and towers to be buried;

(C) Disposal fees to be remitted to the department by the operator who allows disposal of decommissioned wind turbine blades and towers in surface coal mining sites, which shall be twenty-five percent (25%) of any revenues collected by the operator for the disposal of the decommissioned wind turbine blades and towers. The fees collected under this subparagraph shall be credited to the general fund;

(D) The incorporation or amendment of any rules pertaining to solid and hazardous waste necessary to allow for the disposal of decommissioned wind turbine blades and towers in surface coal mining sites to be reclaimed.

(xiv) Establishing such other rules and regulations necessary to insure full compliance with all requirements relating to reclamation, and the attainment of those objectives directed to public health, safety, and welfare;

(xv) Rules and regulations governing the use of inert material as backfill for non-coal mining sites as part of an approved reclamation plan. Rules promulgated under this paragraph shall, at a minimum, provide for:

(A) Minimum depth requirements for the burial of inert material to be buried below the surface and above any aquifers as defined in W.S. 35-11-103(h)(i) . In setting depth requirements under this subparagraph, the council, administrator and director may consult standards for solid waste management facilities established by the solid and hazardous waste management division;

(B) Disposal fees to be remitted to the department by the operator who allows disposal of inert material in non-coal mining sites, which shall be ten percent (10%) of any revenues collected by the operator for the disposal of the inert material. The fees collected under this subparagraph shall be credited to the general fund;

(C) The incorporation or amendment of any rules pertaining to solid and hazardous waste necessary to allow for the disposal of inert material in non-coal mining sites to be reclaimed.

(b) To the extent federal law or regulations require approval by state wildlife agencies regarding surface mining lands to be reclaimed for fish and wildlife habitat, the Wyoming game and fish department shall consider fish and wildlife habitat to mean as defined in W.S. 35-11-103(e)(xxvi) and does not include grazingland as defined in W.S. 35-11-103(e)(xxvii) , unless the grazingland has been designated as:

(i) Critical habitat by the United States fish and wildlife service; or

(ii) Crucial habitat by the Wyoming game and fish department prior to submittal of the initial permit application or any subsequent amendments to the permit application.

(c) For the reclamation of grazingland, native shrubs shall be used for reestablishment. No shrub species shall be required to be more than one-half ( 1 / 2 ) of the shrubs in the post-mining standard.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-32-104 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 32 / Section 35-32-104
§ 35-32-104. Criminal penalty; private right of action
Status: in_force

(a) Any person violating the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each violation.

(b) An individual whose rights have been violated under the provisions of this chapter may bring a civil action to enjoin or restrain any violation of this chapter and may in the same action seek damages from the person violating this chapter. Prior to filing an action under this subsection the individual shall give notice in writing to the alleged violator stating fully the nature of the alleged violation. The alleged violator shall have not more than sixty (60) days from the date notice is provided to cure any violation. If, after sixty (60) days the violation has not been cured, the individual may bring a civil action. A prevailing party in an action brought under this subsection may recover all costs and expenses reasonably associated with the action, including but not limited to reasonable attorney fees.

(c) The attorney general may bring an action in the name of the state or as parens patriae on behalf of consumers to enforce this chapter. In any action brought by the attorney general to enforce this chapter, a person found to have violated this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for each violation, the recovery of actual damages incurred by consumers on whose behalf the action was brought and costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the office of the attorney general.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-1103 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-1103
§ 35-2-1103. Petition for receivership; hearing; parties; emergency order
Status: in_force

(a) The department may file a petition in the district court to appoint a receiver for a health care facility, if the facility:

(i) Is operating without a license or the facility's license has been suspended, revoked or not timely renewed; or

(ii) Presents a situation, physical condition, practice or method of operation that causes an imminent danger of death or significant mental or physical harm to its residents or patients.

(b) Service of process shall be made in any manner as provided by the Rules of Civil Procedure. If personal service cannot practicably or promptly be made as provided in the Rules of Civil Procedure, service may be made by delivery of the summons with the petition attached to any person in charge of the health care facility at the time service is made.

(c) The court shall hold a hearing on the merits of the petition not later than ten (10) days after the date the petition is filed.

(d) Following a hearing, the district court shall appoint the director of the department as the receiver if it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that any of the conditions in subsection (a) of this section exist.

(e) The court may appoint a receiver upon an ex parte motion when affidavits, testimony or any other evidence presented indicates there is a reasonable likelihood that any of the conditions in paragraph (a)(ii) of this section exist. Notice of the petition and ex parte order appointing the receiver shall be served in any manner as provided by the Rules of Civil Procedure and shall be posted in a conspicuous place inside the facility not later than twenty-four (24) hours after issuance of the order. A hearing on the original petition shall be held not later than five (5) days after the issuance of the ex parte order unless the health care facility consents to a later date or waives the hearing.

(f) Following any regular or ex parte hearing, the director of the department may designate a qualified person, experienced in health facility management, to act as the receiver. The designated person shall be free of conflict of interest with the health care facility that is in receivership.

(g) After the appointment of a receiver, the court shall conduct a hearing on the status of the receivership every six (6) months.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-6-139 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 6 / Section 35-6-139
§ 35-6-139. Chemical abortions prohibited; exceptions; penalty
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be unlawful to prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion on any person.

(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to:

(i) The sale, use, prescription or administration of any contraceptive agent administered before conception or before pregnancy can be confirmed through conventional medical testing;

(ii) The treatment of a natural miscarriage according to currently accepted medical guidelines;

(iii) Treatment necessary to preserve the woman from an imminent peril that substantially endangers her life or health, according to appropriate medical judgment, or the pregnancy is the result of incest as defined by W.S. 6-4-402 or sexual assault as defined by W.S. 6-2-301 . As used in this paragraph, “ imminent peril ” means only a physical condition and shall not include any psychological or emotional conditions. No medical treatment shall form the basis for an exception under this paragraph if it is based on a claim or diagnosis that the pregnant woman will engage in conduct which she intends to result in her death or other self-harm.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any physician or other person who violates subsection (a) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, a fine not to exceed nine thousand dollars ($9,000.00), or both.

(d) A woman upon whom a chemical abortion is performed or attempted shall not be criminally prosecuted pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-2002 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-2002
§ 35-7-2002. Child resistant packaging required
Status: in_force

(a) Any liquid nicotine container sold to consumers in this state shall be sold in child resistant packaging.

(b) Any person who sells a liquid nicotine container in violation of subsection (a) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for the first violation and by a fine of not more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) for each subsequent violation.

(c) This article shall be enforced by the consumer health services division of the department of agriculture. The division's inspection or enforcement duties under this subsection may be performed by a county or local department of health with which the division has a memorandum of understanding for inspections.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-4-102 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 4 / Section 35-4-102
§ 35-4-102. Liability of county for medical services; indigent patients
Status: in_force

The respective counties of the state shall not be liable for the payment of any claim for service rendered by any physician in the treatment of contagious diseases, unless such treatment shall be for the care of indigent persons who are a public charge.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-438 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-438
§ 35-2-438. Dissolution
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to the requirements of this section, the trustees of a hospital district may vote to dissolve and terminate the district. The plan to dissolve and terminate the district shall provide for the following:

(i) Payment of all bonded and other indebtedness against the district;

(ii) Disposition of assets of the district upon dissolution. The assets may either be donated to a nonprofit or governmental hospital or health care facility which provides services to the residents of the hospital district upon such conditions as agreed to by the nonprofit or governmental hospital or health care facility, or conveyed to the county to be used solely for health care purposes by the county.

(b) Before any plan to dissolve and terminate a hospital district is effective, the plan shall be approved by a majority of the qualified electors of the hospital district who vote on the question. The vote on the question may be submitted to the qualified electors at an election following the provisions of W.S. 22-29-404 as applicable. The question to be presented to the qualified electors is: “Shall Hospital District ․․․․ be dissolved in accordance with the plan of dissolution approved by the board of trustees?”

Yes ☐ No ☐

(c) If the qualified electors of the district approve the dissolution and termination plan, the board of trustees are empowered to take all action necessary to effectuate the plan and dissolve and terminate the hospital district.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-20-113 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 20 / Section 35-20-113
§ 35-20-113. False report; penalty
Status: in_force

A person commits a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or both, if he reports information pursuant to this act and knows or has reason to know the information is false or lacks factual foundation.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-1306 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-1306
§ 35-2-1306. Facility rules; installation of electronic monitoring devices; accommodation by facility
Status: in_force

(a) A facility shall not refuse to admit, remove or retaliate against a resident who requests to use, uses or declines to consent to use electronic monitoring in his room pursuant to this act.

(b) A facility may develop policies governing the placement and installation of electronic monitoring devices, subject to the provisions of this act and any rules promulgated by the department.

(c) A facility shall not unnecessarily impair or impede a resident's use of electronic monitoring devices but may require installation of devices by a licensed contractor or facility personnel and may limit the placement of devices to maintain resident privacy and dignity.

(d) A resident shall obtain the facility's approval before installing or using any electronic monitoring device, subject to the consent of any other resident residing in the same room as required under W.S. 35-2-1305(c) .

(e) A resident or the resident's representative shall be responsible for all costs associated with purchasing, installing, using, maintaining, servicing and removing electronic monitoring devices. For electronic monitoring devices requiring an internet connection, the facility may restrict or limit a resident's use of the facility's network services for those devices and may charge a reasonable fee to the resident using the facility's internet for electronic monitoring.

(f) All electronic monitoring devices used by facilities and residents in facilities shall be conspicuous and in plain view. The facility is responsible for ensuring that no electronic monitoring device is installed in a location that:

(i) Jeopardizes the privacy or dignity of any resident;

(ii) Contravenes any imposed limitation on its placement or use as set forth by the department, the facility, the resident or any other resident residing in the same room;

(iii) Jeopardizes the safety of a resident, employee, visitor or other person;

(iv) Violates federal, state or local regulations.

(g) Any resident residing in a room with electronic monitoring may establish limits on the use of electronic monitoring. The resident may impose limits restricting monitoring during specific times, in the presence of specific individuals, during times of personal care and treatment or for any other reason. Upon request by the resident, the facility shall make reasonable efforts to disable or obscure the electronic monitoring devices and to accommodate the resident's requested limits on electronic monitoring when the facility can reasonably do so. The facility shall document all limits requested by the resident and the facility's efforts to accommodate those requests.

(h) A facility or employee of the facility shall not have access to video or audio recordings captured by an electronic monitoring device except as specified in this act.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-10-409 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 10 / Section 35-10-409
§ 35-10-409. Sale of metal beverage containers which are severable upon opening prohibited; penalty; definitions
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall sell or offer for sale in this state any metal beverage container so designed and constructed that a nonbiodegradable part of the container is severed when the container is opened, with the following exceptions:

(i) Metal beverage containers designed and constructed with biodegradable severed parts;

(ii) Metal beverage containers sealed by pressure sensitive adhesive strips; and

(iii) The manufacture of metal beverage containers with or without severable parts in this state for sale outside of Wyoming.

(b) Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).

(c) As used in this section, “beverage” means mineral waters, soda water, carbonated or noncarbonated soft drinks or alcoholic or malt beverages as defined in W.S. 12-1-101(a)(vii) and (x) .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-25-505 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 25 / Section 35-25-505
§ 35-25-505. Advisory body
Status: in_force

The governor shall create an advisory body or designate an existing advisory body to provide guidance to the department, gather feedback and make recommendations regarding the planning and implementation of the 988 system under this article. The advisory body may include representatives of a designated crisis center, 911 call center, law enforcement, hospital emergency department, individuals or family members of individuals with lived experience with suicide prevention or behavioral health crisis service usage and behavioral health crisis service providers and may include members of the judicial branch appointed by the chief justice of the supreme court.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-221 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-221
§ 35-1-221. Judicial review of decisions
Status: in_force

(a) Any person aggrieved and affected by a decision of the department of health shall be entitled to judicial review thereof, by filing in the district court of the Wyoming county of his residence, within thirty (30) days after such decision, an appropriate action requesting such review. The court may make any interested person a party to the action. The review shall be conducted by the court without a jury and shall be confined to the department's record, if a complete record is so presented, except that in cases of alleged irregularities in the record or in the procedure before the department, testimony may be taken in and by the court, which may affirm the department's decision or may reserve or modify it if the substantial rights of the appellant have been prejudiced as a result of the findings and decisions of the department because:

(i) Contrary to or affecting constitutional rights or privileges; or

(ii) In excess of statutory authority or jurisdiction of the department, or resulting from other error or law; or

(iii) Made or promulgated upon unlawful procedure; or

(iv) Unsupported by substantial evidence in view of the entire record as submitted; or

(v) Arbitrary or capricious.

(b) Any party may have a review of the final judgment or decision of the district court by appeal to the supreme court of Wyoming.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-901 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-901
§ 35-2-901. Definitions; applicability of provisions
Status: repealed

(a) As used in this act:

(i) “ Acute care ” means short term care provided in a hospital;

(ii) “ Ambulatory surgical center ” means a facility which provides surgical treatment to patients not requiring hospitalization and is not part of a hospital or offices of private physicians, dentists or podiatrists;

(iii) “ Birthing center ” means a facility which operates for the primary purpose of performing deliveries and is not part of a hospital;

(iv) “ Boarding home ” means a dwelling or rooming house operated by any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of operating a home for the purpose of letting rooms for rent and providing meals and personal daily living care, but not habilitative or nursing care, for persons not related to the owner. Boarding home does not include a lodging facility or an apartment in which only room and board is provided;

(v) “ Construction area ” means thirty (30) highway miles, from any existing nursing care facility or hospital with swing beds to the site of the proposed nursing care facility, as determined by utilizing the state map prepared by the Wyoming department of transportation;

(vi) “ Department ” means the department of health;

(vii) “ Division ” means the designated division within the department of health;

(viii) “ Freestanding diagnostic testing center ” means a mobile or permanent facility which provides diagnostic testing but not treatment and is not part of the private offices of health care professionals operating within the scope of their licenses;

(ix) Repealed by Laws 1999, ch. 119, § 2.

(x) “ Health care facility ” means any ambulatory surgical center, assisted living facility, adult day care facility, adult foster care home, alternative eldercare home, birthing center, boarding home, freestanding diagnostic testing center, home health agency, hospice, hospital, freestanding emergency center, intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disability, medical assistance facility, nursing care facility, rehabilitation facility and renal dialysis center;

(xi) “ Home health agency ” means an agency primarily engaged in arranging and directly providing nursing or other health care services to persons at their residence;

(xii) “ Hospice ” means a program of care for the terminally ill and their families given in a home or health facility which provides medical, palliative, psychological, spiritual and supportive care and treatment. Hospice care may include short-term respite care for non-hospice patients, if the primary activity of the hospice is the provision of hospice services to terminally ill individuals and provided that the respite care is paid by the patient or by a private third party payor and not through any governmental third party payment program;

(xiii) “ Hospital ” means an institution or a unit in an institution providing one (1) or more of the following to patients by or under the supervision of an organized medical staff:

(A) Diagnostic and therapeutic services for medical diagnosis, treatment and care of injured, disabled or sick persons;

(B) Rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled or sick persons;

(C) Acute care;

(D) Psychiatric care;

(E) Swing beds.

(xiv) “ Intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disability ” means a facility which provides on a regular basis health related care and training to persons with intellectual disabilities or persons with related conditions, who do not require the degree of care and treatment of a hospital or nursing facility and services above the need of a boarding home. The term also means “intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded” or “ICFMR” or “ICFs/MR” as those terms are used in federal law and in other laws, rules and regulations;

(xv) “ Medical assistance facility ” means a facility which provides inpatient care to ill or injured persons prior to their transportation to a hospital or provides inpatient care to persons needing that care for a period of no longer than sixty (60) hours and is located more than thirty (30) miles from the nearest Wyoming hospital;

(xvi) “ Nursing care facility ” means a facility providing assisted living care, nursing care, rehabilitative and other related services;

(xvii) “ Physician ” means a doctor of medicine or osteopathy licensed to practice medicine or surgery under state law;

(xviii) “ Psychiatric care ” means the in-patient care and treatment of persons with a mental diagnosis;

(xix) “ Rehabilitation facility ” means an outpatient or residential facility which is operated for the primary purpose of assisting the rehabilitation of disabled persons including persons with acquired brain injury by providing comprehensive medical evaluations and services, psychological and social services, or vocational evaluations and training or any combination of these services and in which the major portion of the services is furnished within the facility;

(xx) “ Renal dialysis center ” means a freestanding facility for treatment of kidney diseases;

(xxi) “ Swing bed ” means a special designation for a hospital which has a program to provide specialized in-patient long term care. Any medical-surgical bed in a hospital can be designated as a swing bed;

(xxii) “ Assisted living facility ” means a dwelling operated by any person, firm or corporation engaged in providing limited nursing care, personal care and boarding home care, but not habilitative care, for persons not related to the owner of the facility. This definition may include facilities with secured units and facilities dedicated to the special care and services for people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia conditions;

(xxiii) “ Adult day care facility ” means any facility not otherwise certified by the department of health, engaged in the business of providing activities of daily living support and supervision services programming based on a social model, to four (4) or more persons eighteen (18) years of age or older with physical or mental disabilities;

(xxiv) “ Adult foster care home ” means a home where care is provided for up to five (5) adults who are not related to the provider by blood, marriage or adoption, except in special circumstances, in need of long term care in a home like atmosphere. “Adult foster care home” does not include any residential facility otherwise licensed or funded by the state of Wyoming. The homes shall be regulated in accordance with this act and with the Wyoming Long Term Care Choices Act 1 , which shall govern in case of conflict with this act;

(xxv) “ Alternative eldercare home ” means a facility as defined in W.S. 42-6-102(a)(iii) . The homes shall be regulated in accordance with this act and with the Wyoming Long Term Care Choices Act which shall govern in case of conflict with this act;

(xxvi) “ Freestanding emergency center ” means a facility that provides services twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week for life threatening emergency medical conditions and is at a location separate from a hospital;

(xxvii) “ This act ” means W.S. 35-2-901 through 35-2-914 .

(b) This act does not apply to hospitals or any other facility or agency operated by the federal government which would otherwise be required to be licensed under this act or to any person providing health care services within the scope of his license in a private office.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-1041 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-1041
§ 35-7-1041. Distribution of liquid, substance or material in lieu of controlled substance
Status: in_force

Any person who in any manner offers to unlawfully sell, furnish, transport, administer, or give any controlled substance to any person, or offers, arranges, or negotiates to have any controlled substance unlawfully sold, delivered, transported, furnished, administered, or given to any person and then sells, delivers, furnishes, transports, administers, or gives, or offers, arranges, or negotiates to have sold, delivered, transported, furnished, administered or given to any person any other liquid, substance, or material in lieu of any controlled substance shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than (1) year, or fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-16-101 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 16 / Section 35-16-101
§ 35-16-101. Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this act unless the context otherwise requires:

(i) “Explosive materials” means explosives, blasting agents, and detonators as defined by section 181.11 of title 26, Code of Federal Regulations [ 27 CFR § 55.11 ];

(ii) “Nonlicensee or nonpermittee” means any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society, or joint stock company who is not required to be licensed or obtain a permit under title XI, Regulation of Explosives, of the federal Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 ( Public Law 91-452 ) [ 18 U.S.C. §§ 841 to 848 ].
Wyo. Stat. § 35-5-209 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 5 / Section 35-5-209
§ 35-5-209. Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section and unless barred by W.S. 35-5-207 or 35-5-208 , an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part for purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education may be made by any member of the following classes of persons who is reasonably available, in the order of priority listed:

(i) An agent of the decedent at the time of death who could have made an anatomical gift under W.S. 35-5-204(a)(ii) immediately before the decedent's death;

(ii) The spouse of the decedent;

(iii) Adult children of the decedent;

(iv) Parents of the decedent;

(v) Adult siblings of the decedent;

(vi) Adult grandchildren of the decedent;

(vii) Grandparents of the decedent;

(viii) An adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent;

(ix) The persons who were acting as the guardians of the person of the decedent at the time of death; and

(x) Any other person having the authority to dispose of the decedent's body.

(b) If there is more than one (1) member of a class listed in paragraph (i), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) or (ix) of subsection (a) of this section entitled to make an anatomical gift, an anatomical gift may be made by a member of the class unless that member or a person to which the gift may pass under W.S. W.S. 35-5-211 knows of an objection by another member of the class. If an objection is known, the gift may be made only by a majority of the members of the class who are reasonably available.

(c) A person may not make an anatomical gift if, at the time of the decedent's death, a person in a prior class under subsection (a) of this section is reasonably available to make or to object to the making of an anatomical gift.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-22-407 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 22 / Section 35-22-407
§ 35-22-407. Decisions by guardian
Status: repealed

(a) Repealed by Laws 2007, ch. 61, § 2.

(b) Absent a court order to the contrary, a health care decision of an agent takes precedence over that of a guardian.

(c), (d) Repealed by Laws 2007, ch. 61, § 2.

(e) A guardian's authority to make health care decisions for the ward shall be as provided in W.S. 3-2-201(a)(iii) , subject to the restrictions in W.S. 3-2-202 and 35-22-407(b) .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-123 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-123
§ 35-7-123. Establishment of food safety system
Status: in_force

(a) The director of the department of agriculture shall establish and maintain a food safety program located within the department. The director shall carry out the provisions of the food safety program and shall be assisted by the director of the department of health. A local department of health, if established according to law, may establish and maintain its own local food safety program so long as the program meets the requirements of this act. The director of the department of agriculture or his designee shall:

(i) Gather food safety information and disseminate the information to the public, food industry and to local departments of health with a food safety program;

(ii) On a voluntary basis, provide food safety training for the food industry in this state, work with other state, local and federal agencies to coordinate food safety educational efforts;

(iii) Regulate the safety of foods and work together with the department of health to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, except that the director of the department of agriculture shall not promulgate any rules which impose standards or requirements related to meat processing which are more stringent than federal law, rules or regulations. In any area which does not have a local food safety program established pursuant to law, the department shall issue licenses, conduct inspections, hold hearings to enforce any legal provision or rule promulgated under this act;

(iv) Maintain a statewide database of food licenses and inspection results;

(v) Work with federal, state and local agencies to coordinate food safety efforts and activities, and coordinate with all other agencies to maintain consistency in inspection and enforcement activities;

(vi) Establish food safety priorities for this state based on risk and information provided by the department of health;

(vii) Provide laboratory support for the analysis of routine food and water samples used to support inspection activities and to monitor safety;

(viii) Report each year to the department of health on how the food safety activities have addressed the epidemiological data provided by the department of health;

(ix) Assist the department of health, or any local jurisdiction, when requested to investigate possible food borne and water related illness;

(x) Establish and maintain a meat inspection program for this state. However, nothing in this act shall be construed to grant authority in the director of the department of agriculture or his designee for the inspection or regulation of live animal production or the processing and storage of meat by a producer of live animals for nonprofit consumption.

(b) The director of the department of health or his designee shall:

(i) Carry out the surveillance of food borne illness with assistance from the department of agriculture and report each year to the department of agriculture and local jurisdictions on the leading causes of food borne illness;

(ii) Participate with the department of agriculture in a joint food safety rulemaking process;

(iii) Ensure the department of health is the lead agency for the investigation of possible food borne illness and outbreaks and to request assistance from the department of agriculture and local jurisdictions as determined to be necessary by the department of health;

(iv) Provide laboratory support for and conduct analysis of samples connected with disease outbreak investigations;

(v) Provide support for local food safety programs as authorized by the legislature;

(vi) Take appropriate action against any person holding a food license for the purpose of protecting the public health and preventing the transmission of infectious disease;

(vii) Provide consultation and advice on food borne illness to local jurisdictions and to the department of agriculture as requested.

(c) Duties of a local board of health shall include:

(i) Issuing licenses, conducting inspections, holding hearings and taking enforcement actions as necessary to carry out the provisions of the food safety program;

(ii) Promulgating rules containing provisions for inspections which may differ from state food safety regulations promulgated under this act so long as direct food safety and disease transmission requirements including cooking temperatures, hot and cold holding temperatures, reheating times and temperatures, cooling times and temperatures, and such other requirements as determined by the department of agriculture, do not differ;

(iii) Coordinating activities with the department of agriculture in order to provide for statewide consistency;

(iv) Providing the department of agriculture with a quarterly report providing information on any food licenses issued and the results of any food inspections;

(v) Reporting to the department of health any food borne outbreak of illness and assist the department of health in any outbreak investigations, if requested.

(d) A local jurisdiction may provide laboratory support for food safety and drinking water inspection and accompanying monitoring activities.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-525 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-525
§ 35-11-525. Orphan landfill sites
Status: in_force

(a) The director may expend funds contained within the account for remediation of orphan landfill sites and the performance of any other activity as defined in this article.

(b) As used in this section, “ orphan landfill site ” means:

(i) A landfill where the department determines:

(A) There is no viable party responsible for causing or contributing to the landfill site; and

(B) The landfill site is not the result of activities conducted on the site after September 13, 1989.

(ii) A landfill site, where the department determines that the person responsible for the landfill cannot be identified;

(iii) A landfill site where the department must take prompt action to prevent hazards to human health or the environment where a responsible party fails to act promptly.

(c) To the extent funds are available, the department may expend funds from the account to conduct orphan landfill site evaluations and testing, evaluate remedial measures, select remediation requirements and construct, install, maintain and operate systems to remedy contamination in accordance with a remediation work plan prescribed by the director for the orphan landfill site.

(d) Revenue to the account shall include any monies which may be deposited in the account for use in identification, characterization, prioritization, remediation and monitoring of orphan landfill sites. The liability of the state to fulfill the requirements of this section is limited to the amount of funds available in the account.

(e) The department shall provide a report to the joint appropriations interim committee and the joint minerals, business and economic development interim committee. The report shall be included in the report required under W.S. 35-11-524(d) and shall include:

(i) The work completed on the identification, characterization, prioritization, remediation and monitoring of orphan landfill sites within the state;

(ii) The estimated funding need for the identification, characterization, prioritization, remediation and monitoring of orphan landfill sites within the state for:

(A) The next year or the next biennium, as applicable; and

(B) The next ten (10) years.

(f) In any case under paragraph (b)(iii) of this section where the department expends funds to remediate or contain contamination resulting from a landfill, and where the department has identified a responsible party, the responsible party shall reimburse the department in an amount equal to two (2) times the expenditure from the account. The attorney general shall bring suit to recover the reimbursement amount required in this subsection where recovery is deemed possible.

(g) For purposes of this section, “account” means the account created under W.S. 35-11-515(a) .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-430 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-430
§ 35-1-430. Duties to furnish information relative to vital events
Status: in_force

Any person having actual knowledge of the facts shall furnish such information as he may possess regarding any birth, death, stillbirth, marriage or divorce upon demand of the state registrar of vital records.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-210 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-210
§ 35-11-210. Small business assistance program advisory panel
Status: in_force

(a) There is created a compliance advisory panel consisting of the following nine (9) members:

(i) Two (2) members, who are not owners, or representatives of owners, of small business stationary sources, shall be appointed by the governor to represent the general public;

(ii) Four (4) members shall be appointed by the legislature who are owners, or who represent owners of small business stationary sources. One (1) member each shall be appointed by the majority and minority leadership of the house of representatives and one (1) member each shall be appointed by the majority and minority leadership of the senate;

(iii) One (1) member shall be selected by the director of the department to represent the department;

(iv) Two (2) members who represent major source operators in the state of Wyoming, shall be appointed by the governor.

(b) The panel shall:

(i) Render advisory opinions concerning the effectiveness of the small business stationary source technical and environmental compliance assistance program, difficulties encountered, and degree and severity of enforcement;

(ii) Make periodic reports to the environmental protection agency required under title V of the Clean Air Act;

(iii) Review information for small business stationary sources to assure such information is understandable by the layperson; and

(iv) Have the small business stationary source technical and environmental compliance assistance program serve as the secretariat for the development and dissemination of such reports and advisory opinions.

(c) Except for the initial members the panel members shall serve four (4) year terms and may be reappointed. The legislative members appointed from the house of representatives shall initially serve two (2) year terms. One (1) member appointed by the governor shall initially serve a three (3) year term. A vacancy occurs if a member ceases to meet the qualifications specified in subsection (a) of this section. A vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. The panel shall select from its members a chairman. The panel shall hold at least four (4) regularly scheduled meetings each year, and may hold special meetings as called by the chairman. Five (5) members shall constitute a quorum for the purposes of conducting business, but all decisions must be approved by a majority of the total membership of the panel. Each member, except the department representative, shall be reimbursed for per diem, mileage and expenses for attending panel meetings in the same manner and amount as state employees. The department representative shall suffer no loss of wages for the time devoted to the duties of the panel.

(d) The panel shall be in addition to and operate separate from the advisory boards created pursuant to W.S. 35-11-113 .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-26-103 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 26 / Section 35-26-103
§ 35-26-103. Limited liability for use of automated external defibrillator
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who uses or attempts to use an automated external defibrillator device on a victim of a perceived medical emergency, any prescribing physician who authorizes the purchase of the AED and any individual who provides training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the use of an AED shall be immune from civil liability for any harm resulting from the use or attempted use of such device, unless the harm involved was caused by willful or criminal misconduct, gross negligence, reckless misconduct or a conscious, flagrant indifference to the safety of the victim who was harmed.

(b) Any person responsible for the site where the AED is located shall be immune from civil liability for any personal injury that results from any act or omission of acts that do not amount to willful or wanton misconduct or gross negligence if that person complies with the requirements of W.S. 35-26-102 .

(c) Any clinical use of the AED shall be reported to the licensed physician.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-1-1002 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 1 / Section 35-1-1002
§ 35-1-1002. Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) As used in this article:

(i) “ Challenge account ” means the critical access or rural hospital endowment challenge account created under this article;

(ii) “ Critical access or rural hospital ” means:

(A) A county hospital established pursuant to W.S. 18-8-101, et seq. , or a special district hospital established pursuant to W.S. 35-2-401, et seq. , that is certified to receive cost-based reimbursement from Medicare or has forty (40) beds or less; or

(B) A hospital that is certified to receive cost-based reimbursement from Medicare or has forty (40) beds or less which is owned by a private not for profit entity and is operated in a county in this state in which there is no hospital meeting the requirements of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.

(iii) “ Endowment gift ” means an irrevocable gift or transfer to a Wyoming critical access or rural hospital foundation of money or other property, whether real, personal, tangible or intangible, and whether or not the donor or transferor retains an interest in the property, where the gift or the foundation's interest in the property is required to be used by the foundation exclusively for endowment purposes, provided:

(A) The gift was received or the transfer occurred during the period July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2014; or

(B) A commitment to make the gift or transfer was made in writing to the respective critical access or rural hospital foundation, which commitment was received during the period July 1, 2007, through June 30, 2014, and the gift was received or the transfer occurred not later than June 30, 2015.

(iv) “ Foundation ” means an organization established for each critical access or rural hospital that among other purposes, exists to generate additional revenues for critical access or rural hospital programs and activities;

(v) “ Permanent endowment funds managed by a Wyoming critical access or rural hospital foundation ” means the endowment funds that are invested by the respective Wyoming critical access or rural hospital foundation on a permanent basis and the earnings on those investments are dedicated to be expended exclusively to benefit and promote the mission, operation or any program or activity of the respective critical access or rural hospital, including but not limited to capital and programmatic expenses, healthcare, increases to the corpus of the endowment and to defray reasonable costs of endowment administration;

(vi) “ Unobligated ,” for purposes of W.S. 35-1-1003(b) and (d) , means no commitment meeting the requirements of subparagraph (iii)(B) of this subsection was received prior to June 30, 2012.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-1201 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 2 / Section 35-2-1201
§ 35-2-1201. Senior health care districts; establishment; definitions
Status: in_force

(a) A senior health care district may be established under the procedures for petitioning, hearing and election of special districts as set forth in the Special District Elections Act of 1994.

(b) As used in this article “ senior health care ” means “health care” as defined in W.S. 35-22-402(a)(viii) that is delivered to a person who is at least sixty (60) years of age, a disabled adult who is at least eighteen (18) years of age, or a person with medical or behavioral health care needs as determined by appropriate medical assessments and is provided:

(i) By a person or facility licensed, certified or otherwise authorized by the laws of this state in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession to provide health care services;

(ii) Through home care services, assisted living programs, skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, hospice services, residential care homes or other related facilities; or

(iii) As specified under W.S. 18-15-111(a)(i) through (iii) .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-24-109 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 24 / Section 35-24-109
§ 35-24-109. Limited hearing on application; issues identified prior to hearing; procedure; evidence; decision
Status: in_force

(a) If a contested case hearing is not required pursuant to W.S. 35-24-107(b) and in lieu of W.S. 35-24-108 , the director may prior to rendering a decision on any application, order a limited hearing. A copy of the order shall be mailed to the applicant and to all persons who have submitted comments or requested to be kept informed of the proceedings involving the application. The order shall state the date, time and location of the limited hearing and shall identify specific issues to be addressed at the limited hearing, which may include the feasibility and desirability of one (1) or more alternatives to the proposed arrangement. The order shall require the applicant to submit written evidence in the form of affidavits and supporting documents, addressing the issues identified within twenty (20) days after the date of the order. The order shall also state that any person may arrange to receive a copy of the written evidence from the director, at the person's expense, and may provide written comments on the evidence within forty (40) days after the date of the order. Any person providing written comments pursuant to this subsection shall provide a copy of the comments to the applicant.

(b) The limited hearing shall be held before the director or a department staff member designated by the director. The director or his designee shall question the applicant concerning the evidence submitted by the applicant. The questions may address relevant issues identified in the comments submitted in response to the written evidence or identified by the department of health staff or discovered through publicly available department of health data. At the conclusion of the applicant's responses to the questions, any person who submitted comments about the applicant's written evidence may make a statement addressing the applicant's responses to the questions. The director or his designee may ask questions of any person making a statement. At the conclusion of all statements, the applicant may make a closing statement.

(c) The director's decision after a limited hearing shall to the extent each is relevant, be based upon the application, the comments, the applicant's response to the comments, the applicant's written evidence, the comments in response to the written evidence and the information presented at the limited hearing. In making the decision, the director may rely on publicly available department of health data.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-9-619 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 9 / Section 35-9-619
§ 35-9-619. Authority to receive donations; investment of monies; employment of actuary; actuarial reports
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to contributions from the state, counties, volunteer fire departments and licensed ambulance services, the board may receive and credit to the account any gifts, donations and other contributions made by individuals, organizations and cities, towns, counties and other political subdivisions for the benefit of the account. The board may invest monies within the account not immediately necessary to pay benefits, awards or pensions under this article, in investments authorized under W.S. 9-3-408(b) .

(b) The board shall employ a consulting actuary to review the account annually to determine its solvency and to make recommendations as to revisions and modifications to the pension account. The board may employ legal and other consultants as necessary. Actuarial reports are public records and available for inspection by all participating members of the account.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-6-137 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 6 / Section 35-6-137
§ 35-6-137. Advertising drug or nostrum for procuring abortion or miscarriage
Status: in_force

Whoever prints or publishes any advertisement of any drug or nostrum with intent to obtain utilization of such drug or nostrum for procuring abortion or miscarriage; or sells or gives away, or keeps for sale or gratuitous distribution, any newspaper, circular, pamphlet, or book containing such advertisement, or any account or description, of such drug or nostrum with intent to obtain utilization of such drugs or nostrum to procure abortion or miscarriage, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-374 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-374
§ 35-7-374. Prohibited acts
Status: in_force

(a) It is unlawful for any person to:

(i) Detach, alter, deface or destroy, in whole or in part, any labeling prior to proper disposal of the pesticide containers;

(ii) Refuse to keep any records as required by the director by regulation or to refuse to allow the inspection of such records by the director during normal working hours;

(iii) Make available for use, or to use, any restricted pesticide classified for restricted use for some or all purposes, except by or under the direct supervision of a certified applicator;

(iv) Use any pesticide in a manner inconsistent with its labeling which means to use any pesticide in a manner not permitted by the labeling, or not authorized by the director under a special local need registration, an experimental use permit or an emergency exemption, provided that this paragraph does not include:

(A) Applying a pesticide at any dosage, concentration or frequency less than that specified on the labeling;

(B) Applying a pesticide against any target pest not specified on the labeling if the application is to the crop, animal or site specified on the labeling;

(C) Employing any method of application not prohibited by the labeling; or

(D) Mixing a pesticide or pesticides with a fertilizer when the mixture is not prohibited by the labeling.

(v) To falsify any records required by the director by regulation;

(vi) To falsify any application, examination or affidavit for certification or license;

(vii) Other than certified applicators or persons working under their direct supervision to use restricted use pesticides;

(viii) To use restricted use pesticides inconsistent with the applicator category of certification.

(b) If the director finds that the violation occurred despite the exercise of due care or did not cause significant harm to another person, to health or to the environment, he shall issue a warning in lieu of prosecution.

(c) Except as otherwise provided by the Wyoming Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1973, no political subdivision of this state shall adopt or enforce any ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation regarding pesticides storage, sale, distribution, notification of use, or use that is more stringent than the Wyoming Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1973 or rules promulgated thereunder.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-9-802 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 9 / Section 35-9-802
§ 35-9-802. Definitions
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this act unless the context otherwise requires:

(i) “ Agent ” means any person authorized by the department of revenue to purchase and affix stamps on packages of cigarettes;

(ii) “ Cigarette ” means:

(A) Any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper or in any substance not containing tobacco. “ Cigarette ” includes any roll or tube of tobacco, or product derived from tobacco, that is produced by a machine on the premises of a retail dealer or a wholesale dealer; or

(B) Any roll of tobacco wrapped in any substance containing tobacco which, because of its appearance, the type of tobacco used in the filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be offered to or purchased by consumers as a cigarette as described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.

(iii) “ Manufacturer ” means:

(A) Any entity that manufactures cigarettes or causes the manufacture of cigarettes that are intended for sale in this state including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer;

(B) Any successor of any entity described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.

(iv) “ Quality control ” and “ quality assurance program ” means the laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias, systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors and equipment related problems do not affect the results of testing. A quality control program shall ensure that testing repeatability remains within the required repeatability values stated in W.S. 35-9-803(a)(vi) for all test trials used to certify cigarettes in accordance with this act;

(v) “ Repeatability ” means the range of values within which the repeat results of test trials from a single laboratory must fall ninety-five percent (95%) of the time;

(vi) “ Retail dealer ” means any person, other than a manufacturer or wholesale dealer, engaged in selling cigarettes or tobacco products;

(vii) “ Sale ” means any transfer of title or possession, exchange or barter in any manner, by any means, or by any agreement, including cash and credit sales, giving of cigarettes as samples, prizes or gifts, and the exchange of cigarettes for any consideration other than money;

(viii) “ Sell ” means to sell, or to offer or agree to do the same;

(ix) “ Wholesale dealer ” means any person other than a manufacturer who sells cigarettes or tobacco products to retail dealers or others for resale and any person who owns, operates or maintains one (1) or more cigarette or tobacco product vending machines upon premises owned or occupied by any other person;

(x) “ This act ” means W.S. 35-9-801 through 35-9-811 .
Wyo. Stat. § 35-5-219 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 5 / Section 35-5-219
§ 35-5-219. Donor registry
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall electronically transfer to a procurement organization the information that appears on the front of the driver's license or identification card, to include the name, gender, date of birth, social security number if it appears on the license or card, driver's license or identification card number, issue date or renewal date and address of the individual identified as a donor. The department shall also electronically transfer any subsequent change in the donor's status, including revocation of the gift. The department shall submit to the department of health a statement of costs incurred to initially install and establish the electronic transfer of donor information. The department of health shall direct the state auditor to reimburse the department for the costs from the anatomical awareness account under W.S. 35-5-225 to the extent there are funds in that account. There shall be no charge to a procurement organization for the transfer of donor information.

(b) With the information obtained from the department and from other sources including donors and donors' agents pursuant to W.S. 35-5-205(b) , the procurement organization shall establish and maintain a statewide organ and tissue donor registry to facilitate organ and tissue donations. The cost incurred to create and maintain the registry shall be paid by the procurement organization. Registry information shall be accessible to any procurement organization located in Wyoming and may be disseminated to a procurement organization in another state for the recovery or placement of organs and tissue. Registry information may also be disseminated to Wyoming eye banks under this section.

(c) A donor registry shall:

(i) Allow a donor or other person authorized under W.S. 35-5-204 to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift;

(ii) Be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift; and

(iii) Be accessible for purposes of paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this subsection seven (7) days a week on a twenty-four (24) hour basis.

(d) Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor or person who made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift.

(e) This section does not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the state. Any such registry shall comply with subsections (c) and (d) of this section.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-7-1047 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 7 / Section 35-7-1047
§ 35-7-1047. Injunctions against violations
Status: in_force

(a) The district courts of this state have jurisdiction to restrain or enjoin violations of this act.

(b) The defendant may demand trial by jury for an alleged violation of an injunction or restraining order under this section.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-211 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-211
§ 35-11-211. Fees
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall implement a permit fee system and schedule of fees adequate to cover all reasonable direct and indirect costs of reviewing and acting upon any construction and modification permits under this article and developing, implementing and administering the operating permit program including the small business technical assistance program.

(b) Permit fees shall be assessed against operators of sources applying for any permit under this article and annually thereafter for the duration of the permit. The fee for operating sources shall be based on the emissions of each regulated pollutant, as defined in section 502(b)(3)(B)(ii) of the Clean Air Act. The department shall exclude any amount of regulated pollutant emitted by any source in excess of four thousand (4,000) tons per year in determining the amount of fee required for any operating source. A fee shall be assessed upon applicants for construction and modification permits based on costs to the department in reviewing and acting upon those permit applications. The department shall develop a fee structure subject to the minimum amounts specified in subsection (j) of this section which equitably assesses the fees based on emissions for operating sources and projected costs of reviewing and acting upon construction and modification permits sufficient to recover the amount reviewed by the joint appropriations committee and appropriated by the legislature for implementing the operating permit program. The fee structure and appropriation shall be based upon measurable goals and approved by the joint appropriations committee prior to implementation. The department shall prepare a biennium report for review by the joint minerals, business and economic development interim committee by October 31 of the year prior to the Wyoming legislative budget session. Permit fees shall cover all reasonable direct and indirect costs including the costs of:

(i) Reviewing and acting upon any permit application including construction and modification permit applications;

(ii) Implementing and enforcing permits;

(iii) Emissions and ambient monitoring;

(iv) Preparing regulations and guidance;

(v) Modeling analyses and demonstrations;

(vi) Preparing emission and source inventories and tracking emissions;

(vii) Permit-related functions performed by the department;

(viii) Development and administration of the state small business assistance program; and

(ix) Information management activities.

(c) The fees collected by the department pursuant to this section shall be deposited in a separate account, and shall be subject to appropriation by the legislature to the department solely for permitting construction and modification and for the development and administration of the construction, modification and operating permit programs.

(d) The department shall give written notice of the amount of the fee to be assessed and the basis for the assessment to the operator of the source. The operator may appeal the assessment to the council within twenty (20) days after receipt of the written notice. The appeal shall be based only upon the allegation that the particular assessment is erroneous or excessive and may not be based upon the entire fee schedule adopted to fund the permitting programs. The contested case procedures of the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act shall apply to any appeal under this subsection.

(e) If any part of the assessment is not appealed it shall be paid to the department upon receipt of the written notice.

(f) The department may reduce any fee required under the operating permit program to take into account the financial resources of small business stationary sources.

(g) There shall be no double counting of the regulated emissions for the purpose of fee determination.

(h) Fees under this section, for sources subject to the operating permit program as enumerated in W.S. 35-11-203(a) , shall not be assessed for tailpipe emissions from any nonroad vehicle as defined under section 201 of the Clean Air Act.

(j) The department shall charge the following minimum fees under this section:

(i) Application $500.00;

(ii) In addition to paragraph (i) of this subsection, review and acting on an application $75.00 per hour;

(iii) Relocation of portable sources or facilities that are authorized to use self issuance permits $150.00;

(iv) Relocation of portable sources or facilities not authorized to use self issuance permits $300.00.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-115 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-115
§ 35-11-115. Power of director to issue emergency orders
Status: in_force

(a) Any other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, if the director finds that a condition of air, water or land pollution exists and that it creates an emergency requiring immediate action to protect human or animal health or safety, the director, with the concurrence of the governor, shall order any persons causing or contributing to such pollution to reduce or discontinue immediately the actions causing the condition of pollution and such order shall fix a time and place for hearing before the council within forty-eight (48) hours thereafter. The council shall affirm, modify or set aside the director's order within forty-eight (48) hours following the adjournment of the hearing.

(b) If the director has evidence that any pollution source presents an immediate and substantial danger to human or animal health or safety, he may institute, through the attorney general, a civil action for immediate injunctive relief to halt any activity causing the danger. The court may issue an ex-parte order and shall schedule a hearing on the matter within three (3) working days from the date the petition for injunctive relief is filed.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit any power which the governor or any other officer may have to declare an emergency and act on the basis of such declaration, if such power is conferred by statute or constitutional provision or inheres in the office.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-9-120 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 9 / Section 35-9-120
§ 35-9-120. Minimum requirements for electrical installations; permits; inspections; fees
Status: in_force

(a) The installation of electric equipment in or on buildings, mobile homes and premises shall be made subject to the applicable minimum requirements of the National Electrical Code. To the extent that any provision in the International Fire Code, the International Building Code, the International Mechanical Code, the International Existing Building Code and the International Fuel Gas Code conflicts with the standards prescribed by the National Electrical Code, the National Electrical Code shall control.

(b) Subject to W.S. 35-9-121(b) , the chief electrical inspector and his deputies:

(i) Have the right of ingress or egress to all buildings or other structures owned or leased by the state or local governmental entities during reasonable working hours to make electrical inspections;

(ii) May inspect any building or structure:

(A) With a search warrant issued by a district court after a finding of probable cause that there is a violation of state law regarding electrical installations; or

(B) At any time during construction and within thirty (30) days after completion of the installation for which an electrical wiring permit was issued or an electrical plan review was performed.

(iii) Shall inspect any building or structure within five (5) business days of the request of the owner or the general or electrical contractor installing the electrical equipment.

(c) For any requested electrical inspection conducted or electrical wiring permit issued by the chief electrical inspector or his deputy, a fee established by the department by rule shall be paid by the person or contractor making the request. The electrical wiring permit fee shall be waived for anyone requesting and paying for an electrical inspection. The fees established by the department shall not exceed the following:

(i)

Electrical inspection fees for requested inspections:

(A)

Each residential unit․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․․․․․․․$ 20.00

plus $.50 per ampere rating of the electrical service;

(B)

Mobile home services․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․․․․․․․$ 20.00

plus $.50 per ampere rating of mobile home;

(C)

Temporary services․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․$ 40.00 each;

(D)

Remodels of residential units․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․․․․․․․$ 20.00

plus 2% of the value of any electrical installation included in the remodel;

(E)

All other electrical installations․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․․․․․․․$ 20.00

plus $.50 per ampere rating of the electrical service;

(F)

Reinspections․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․․․․․․․$ 50.00

plus $.20 per ampere rating of the electrical service.

(ii)

Electrical wiring permit fees.․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․․

․․․․․․․․․․․$50.00

(d) Inspection fees pursuant to paragraph (c)(i) of this section shall be charged for requested inspections made on installations that are not under new construction or remodeling.

(e) No person shall install electrical equipment in new construction or remodeling, if the remodeling requires a public utility to connect or disconnect and restore electrical power, of a building, mobile home or premises without obtaining an electrical wiring permit. No public utility shall energize an electrical service for an electrical installation which requires an electrical wiring permit until the person responsible for the electrical installation has obtained an electrical wiring permit. A utility may energize an electrical service in an emergency situation without proof that an electrical wiring permit has been obtained, however the utility shall notify the department of the action as soon as possible, but in no case later than five (5) days following the date that the electrical service was energized. Electrical wiring permits shall be issued by the chief electrical inspector upon request. Each permit shall explain procedures and costs for permits and requested inspections conducted by the chief electrical inspector or his deputy electrical inspectors. This subsection does not apply to municipalities and counties granted local enforcement authority for electrical safety standards under W.S. 35-9-121(a) and to exempt installations under W.S. 35-9-123(a)(ii) through (v) .

(f) Sixty percent (60%) of the fees collected pursuant to subsection (c) of this section shall be deposited in a separate account for the purpose of providing additional state electrical inspectors. Forty percent (40%) of the fees collected pursuant to subsection (c) of this section shall be deposited in the general fund.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-8-323 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 8 / Section 35-8-323
§ 35-8-323. Districts charged with maintaining existing public cemeteries
Status: in_force

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 the district; and such maintenance shall be as nearly uniform as possible.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-1604 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-1604
§ 35-11-1604. Public participation; notice; plan
Status: in_force

(a) Following any determination by the department that a site is an eligible site, or following the submission of any application to modify an existing remedy agreement, the owner or operator shall give written notice to all surface owners of record of land which is contiguous to the site, and to all known adjacent surface owners of record of land, and shall publish notice once per week for four (4) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the site is located. The notice published in a newspaper shall be a display advertisement. The notice to individual landowners and the notice published in a newspaper shall identify the site, provide a summary of the criterion in W.S. 35-11-1602 which makes the site eligible for participation in the voluntary remediation program under this article, describe the process for the public to request the development of a public participation plan under subsection (b) of this section, and provide a thirty (30) day period for the public to request that a public participation plan be developed.

(b) For any eligible site where there is significant public interest as determined by the director after considering the factors enumerated in paragraphs (i) through (iii) of this subsection, the person who has submitted an application for participation, or the owner of the site, shall prepare and implement a public participation plan which shall be approved by the director. In preparing the plan, the applicant or owner shall consult with and consider the public participation needs of interested parties, including but not limited to contiguous surface owners of record and all known adjacent surface owners of record of land, local government, local economic development agencies or groups, and public interest groups. In determining whether there is significant public interest, the director shall consider whether there have been responses to the notice required under subsection (a) of this section requesting the development of a public participation plan by:

(i) At least twenty-five (25) individuals;

(ii) An organization representing at least twenty-five (25) individuals; or

(iii) The governing body of a local government.

(c) Any owner or operator of an eligible site which is also subject to permitting or corrective action requirements of the hazardous waste rules and regulations promulgated under W.S. 35-11-503(d) shall prepare and implement a public participation plan which complies with those rules and regulations.

(d) At a minimum for any eligible site regardless of whether a public participation plan has been required, prior to entering into a remedy agreement, the owner shall give written notice of the proposed remedy agreement to all surface owners of record of land adjacent to the site, and publish notice once per week for four (4) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the site is located. The notice shall be of a form and content prescribed by the department, and shall summarize the proposed remedy agreement, provide a description of the site, provide for a thirty (30) day public comment period after the date of the last publication, and provide an opportunity for an oral hearing. An oral hearing on the proposed remedy agreement shall be held if the department finds sufficient interest. The department may enter into a remedy agreement following the public comment period or any hearing, whichever is later.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-18-106 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 18 / Section 35-18-106
§ 35-18-106. Sale or lease of used mobile homes; inspection; responsibility for repair
Status: in_force

(a) In the sale or lease of any used mobile home by a mobile home dealer, the sales invoice or lease agreement shall contain the point of manufacture of the used mobile home, the name of the manufacturer and the name and address of the previous owner.

(b) No sale or lease of a used mobile home by a mobile home dealer on an “as is” or “with all faults” basis shall be effective to exclude or modify an implied warranty of merchantability or an implied warranty of fitness, unless the mobile home buyer or lessee signs a separate writing made by the dealer listing specifically all substantial defects which are to be exempt from warranty, or unless the defects would not have been discovered by a reasonable inspection by the dealer or lessor before consummation of the sale or lease.

(c) Directly above the customer's signature the following notice shall be printed all in capital letters:

“THIS IS A LIST OF DEFECTS TO BE EXEMPT FROM WARRANTY IN THIS MOBILE HOME. IF YOU SIGN THIS WRITING, YOU AGREE THAT THE DEALER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR REPAIRING THESE DEFECTS.”
Wyo. Stat. § 35-11-412 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 11 / Section 35-11-412
§ 35-11-412. License revocation or suspension
Status: in_force

(a) The director shall revoke an operator's license:

(i) If at any time he becomes aware of the existence of any fact, reason, or condition that would have caused him to deny an application for a mining permit whether or not such condition existed at the time of the application;

(ii) If he determines that the operator intentionally misstated or failed to provide any fact that would have resulted in the denial of a license and which good faith compliance with the policies, purposes and provisions of this act would have required him to provide.

(b) The director may suspend the license if he determines the operator is in substantial violation of the terms of the license or of the provisions of this act. The suspension shall be lifted when the violations have been corrected to the director's satisfaction. No suspension shall be unreasonably prolonged.

(c) Unless an emergency exists, the revocation or suspension of a license shall become effective upon thirty (30) days notice to the applicant. In the case of an emergency, the director may cause such revocation or suspension to become effective immediately upon receipt of notice.
Wyo. Stat. § 35-30-104 — WY Code / Title 35 / Chapter 30 / Section 35-30-104
§ 35-30-104. Consultation with caregiver by hospital; discharge plan
Status: in_force

(a) As soon as practicable after designation of a caregiver, the hospital shall attempt to consult with the designated caregiver to prepare for the patient's aftercare and shall issue a discharge plan describing a patient's aftercare needs.

(b) Before discharge, the hospital shall provide individualized explanations and in-person instruction about tasks the caregiver will need to carry out at home after discharge.

(c) In the event the hospital is unable to contact the designated caregiver, the lack of contact shall not interfere with, delay or otherwise affect the discharge of the patient.