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WY Stat § 40-12-207 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 2 - Promotional Advertising of Prizes|Section 40-12-207 - Enforcement.

40-12-207. Enforcement.| (a) The attorney general shall investigate violations of this article.  (b) The attorney general or any district attorney may on behalf of the state:  (i) Bring an action for temporary or permanent injunctive or other relief in any court of competent jurisdiction for any violation of this article. The court may, upon entry of final judgment, award restitution when appropriate to any person suffering loss because of a violation of this article if proof of the loss is submitted to the satisfaction of the court;  (ii) Bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction for the penalties authorized under W.S. 40-12-206.
WY Stat § 40-12-208 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 2 - Promotional Advertising of Prizes|Section 40-12-208 - Private Action.

40-12-208. Private action.| (a) In addition to any other remedies, a person suffering pecuniary loss because of a violation by another person of this article may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction and shall recover all of the following:  (i) The greater of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or twice the amount of the pecuniary loss;  (ii) Costs and reasonable attorney fees.
WY Stat § 40-12-209 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 2 - Promotional Advertising of Prizes|Section 40-12-209 - Exemptions.

40-12-209. Exemptions.| The provisions of this article shall not apply to the sale or purchase, or solicitation or representation in connection therewith, of goods from a catalog or of books, recordings, video cassettes, periodicals and similar goods through a membership group or club which is regulated by the federal trade commission through a contractual plan or arrangement such as a continuity plan, subscription arrangement, or a single sale or purchase series arrangement under which the seller ships goods to a consumer who has consented in advance to receive the goods and the recipient of the goods is given the opportunity, after examination of the goods, to receive a full refund of charges for the goods or unused portion thereof, upon return of the undamaged goods or unused portion of the goods.
WY Stat § 40-12-302 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 3 - Telephone Solicitation|Section 40-12-302 - Telephone Solicitations.

40-12-302. Telephone solicitations.| (a) Any telephone solicitor or merchant who makes an unsolicited telephonic sales call to a residential or mobile telephone number shall disclose at the outset of the conversation and in a clear and conspicuous manner to the person receiving the call, the following information:  (i) The name of the individual caller;  (ii) The identity of the telephone solicitor or merchant and a telephone number and address at which the telephone solicitor or merchant may be contacted;  (iii) That the purpose of the call is to sell consumer goods or services; and  (iv) The nature of the consumer goods or services.  (b) No telephone solicitor or merchant shall willfully make or cause to be made any unsolicited telephonic sales call to any residential, mobile or telephonic paging device telephone number more than sixty (60) days after the number for that telephone appears in the national do-not-call list. This subsection does not apply to any person who calls an actual or prospective seller or lessor of real property when the call is made in response to a yard sign or other form of advertisement placed by the seller or lessor.  (c) No telephone solicitor or merchant who makes an unsolicited telephonic sales call to the telephone line of a residential subscriber in this state shall knowingly utilize any method to block or otherwise circumvent the subscriber's use of a caller identification service.  (d) No telephone solicitor shall initiate any unsolicited telephonic sales call to a consumer before the hour of 8 a.m. or after 8 p.m. local time at the consumer's location.  (e) No telephone solicitor or merchant shall willfully make or cause to be made any unsolicited telephonic sales call to any unpublished cellular telephone number.
WY Stat § 40-12-303 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 3 - Telephone Solicitation|Section 40-12-303 - Automated Sales Calls.

40-12-303. Automated sales calls.| (a) No telephone solicitor or merchant shall make or knowingly allow a telephonic sales call to be made if the call involves an automated system for the selection or dialing of telephone numbers or the playing of a recorded message when a connection is completed to a number called.  (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not prohibit the use of an automated telephone dialing system with live messages if:  (i) The calls are made or messages given solely in response to calls initiated by the persons to whom the automatic calls or live messages are directed;  (ii) The telephone numbers selected for automatic dialing have been screened to exclude any telephone subscriber who is included on the national do-not-call list and any unlisted telephone number; or  (iii) The call is to a consumer with whom the caller had an established business relationship.
WY Stat § 40-12-304 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 3 - Telephone Solicitation|Section 40-12-304 - Investigation of Complaints; Enforcement; Attorney's Fees.

40-12-304. Investigation of complaints; enforcement; attorney's fees.| (a) The enforcing authority shall investigate any complaints received concerning violations of this article. If, after investigating any complaint, the enforcing authority finds that there has been a willful violation of this article, the enforcing authority may bring an action to impose a civil penalty and to seek other relief, including injunctive relief, as the court deems appropriate against the telephone solicitor or merchant. The civil penalty imposed shall be as follows:  (i) For the first violation, not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00);  (ii) For the second violation, not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00);  (iii) For the third and subsequent violations, not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per violation.  (b) An action under this section may be brought in the district court of the county in which the telephone solicitor or merchant resides or had its principle place of business or in the district court of Laramie county Wyoming. The civil penalty provided under this section may be recovered in any action brought under this article by the enforcing authority, or the enforcing authority may terminate any investigation or action upon agreement by the telephone solicitor or merchant to pay a stipulated civil penalty. The enforcing authority or the court may waive any civil penalty if the telephone solicitor or merchant has previously made full restitution or reimbursement or has paid actual damages to the consumers who have been injured by the violation.  (c) In any civil litigation resulting from a transaction involving a violation of this article, the prevailing party, after judgment in the trial court and exhaustion of all appeals, if any, shall receive reasonable attorney's fees and costs from the nonprevailing party.  (d) The remedies provided by this section are not exclusive and shall not preclude the imposition of any other relief or criminal penalties provided by law.  (e) It shall be an affirmative defense to an action brought by an enforcing authority for a violation of W.S. 40-12-302(b) that the person called a consumer listed on the national do-not-call list as a result of a good faith error.
WY Stat § 40-12-305 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 3 - Telephone Solicitation|Section 40-12-305 - Notice of Activity and Consent to Service of Process.

40-12-305. Notice of activity and consent to service of process.| Each telephone solicitor or merchant making unsolicited telephonic sales calls and doing business in this state shall file with the attorney general of this state a statement giving notice of this fact and designating the secretary of state of this state its agent for service of process, unless a lawful resident is designated as agent for service of process, for any alleged violation of this article. The written notice shall further set forth the intention of the telephone solicitor or merchant to abide by the provisions of this article. Compliance with this section shall not subject any telephone solicitor or merchant to the provisions or consequences of any other statute of this state.
WY Stat § 40-12-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 4 - Commercial Electronic Mail|Section 40-12-401 - Definitions.

40-12-401. Definitions.| (a) As used in this article:  (i) "Assist the transmission" means actions taken by a person to provide substantial assistance or support which enables any person to formulate, compose, send, originate, initiate or transmit a commercial electronic mail message when the person providing the assistance knows or consciously avoids knowing that the initiator of the commercial electronic mail message is engaged or intends to engage in any practice that violates this article;  (ii) "Commercial electronic mail message" means an electronic mail message sent for the purpose of promoting real property, goods or services for sale or lease. It does not mean an electronic mail message to which an interactive computer service provider has attached an advertisement in exchange for free use of an electronic mail account, when the sender has agreed to such an arrangement;  (iii) "Electronic mail address" means a destination, commonly expressed as a string of characters, to which electronic mail may be sent or delivered;  (iv) "Enforcing authority" means the Wyoming attorney general;  (v) "Initiate the transmission" refers to the action by the original sender of an electronic mail message, not to the action by any intervening interactive computer service that may handle or retransmit the message, unless such intervening interactive computer service assists in the transmission of an electronic mail message when it knows or consciously avoids knowing that the person initiating the transmission is engaged or intends to engage in any act or practice that violates this article;  (vi) "Interactive computer service" means any information service, system or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions;  (vii) "Internet domain name" refers to a globally unique, hierarchical reference to an internet host or service, assigned through centralized internet naming authorities, comprising a series of character strings separated by periods, with the right-most string specifying the top of the hierarchy;  (viii) "Service provider" means an entity offering the transmission, routing or providing of connections for digital online communications between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material sent or received.
WY Stat § 40-12-402 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 4 - Commercial Electronic Mail|Section 40-12-402 - Sending Unpermitted or Misleading Electronic Mail Prohibited.

40-12-402. Sending unpermitted or misleading electronic mail prohibited.| (a) No person may initiate the transmission, conspire with another to initiate the transmission or assist the transmission of a commercial electronic mail message from a computer located in Wyoming or to an electronic mail address that the sender knows or has reason to know is held by a Wyoming resident, or to an address that the sender knows or has reason to know is located in a state or other jurisdiction with laws similar to this state's laws regarding commercial electronic mail, that:  (i) Uses a third party's internet domain name without permission of the third party, or otherwise misrepresents or obscures any information in identifying the point of origin or the transmission path of a commercial electronic mail message; or  (ii) Contains false or misleading information in the subject line.  (b) For purposes of this section, a person knows that the intended recipient of a commercial electronic mail message is a Wyoming resident if that information is available, upon request, from the registrant of the internet domain name contained in the recipient's electronic mail address.  (c) For purposes of this article, a service provider does not assist in the transmission of a commercial electronic mail message in violation of this article if:  (i) The activity which violates this article was not directed by the service provider or its agent;  (ii) The service provider does not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the violation of this article by one (1) of its customers; and  (iii) The service provider does not provide the equipment or complete management of systems found to have an open mail relay.
WY Stat § 40-12-403 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 4 - Commercial Electronic Mail|Section 40-12-403 - Investigation of Complaints; Enforcement; Attorney's Fees.

40-12-403. Investigation of complaints; enforcement; attorney's fees.| (a) The enforcing authority shall investigate any complaints received concerning violations of this article. If, after investigating any complaint, the enforcing authority finds that there has been a violation of this article, the enforcing authority may bring an action to impose a civil penalty and to seek other relief, including injunctive relief. The civil penalty imposed shall be as follows:  (i) For the first violation, not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00);  (ii) For the second violation, not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00);  (iii) For the third and subsequent violations, not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per violation.  (b) An action under this section may be brought in the district court of the county in which a commercial electronic mail message that violates this article has been received or in the district court of Laramie county, Wyoming. The civil penalty provided under this section may be recovered in any action brought under this article by the enforcing authority, or the enforcing authority may terminate any investigation or action upon agreement with the person violating this article to pay a stipulated civil penalty.  (c) In any civil litigation resulting from a transaction involving a violation of this article, the prevailing party, after judgment in the trial court and exhaustion of all appeals, if any, shall receive reasonable attorney's fees and costs from the nonprevailing party.  (d) The remedies provided by this section are not exclusive and shall not preclude the imposition of any other relief or criminal penalties provided by law.
WY Stat § 40-12-404 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 4 - Commercial Electronic Mail|Section 40-12-404 - Immunity From Liability for Blocking of Commercial Electronic Mail by Interactive Computer Service.

40-12-404. Immunity from liability for blocking of commercial electronic mail by interactive computer service.| (a) An interactive computer service may, upon its own initiative, block the receipt or transmission through its service of any commercial electronic mail that it reasonably believes is, or will be, sent in violation of this article.  (b) No interactive computer service may be held liable for any action voluntarily taken in good faith to block the receipt or transmission through its service of any commercial electronic mail which it reasonably believes is, or will be, sent in violation of this article.
WY Stat § 40-12-503 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 5 - Credit Freeze Reports|Section 40-12-503 - Security Freeze.

40-12-503. Security freeze.| (a) Except as provided in W.S. 40-12-505, a consumer may place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report by:  (i) Making a request to a consumer reporting agency in writing by certified mail; and  (ii) Providing proper identification.  (b) If a security freeze is in place, a consumer reporting agency may not release a consumer's credit report or information derived from the credit report to a third party that intends to use the information to determine a consumer's eligibility for credit or the opening of a new account without prior authorization from the consumer.  (c) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, a consumer reporting agency may communicate to a third party requesting a consumer's credit report that a security freeze is in effect on the consumer's credit report. If a third party requesting a consumer's credit report in connection with the consumer's application for credit is notified of the existence of a security freeze under this subsection, the third party may treat the consumer's application as incomplete.  (d) Upon receiving a request from a consumer under subsection (a) of this section, the consumer reporting agency shall:  (i) Place a security freeze on the consumer's credit report within five (5) business days after receiving the consumer's request;  (ii) Send a written confirmation of the security freeze to the consumer within ten (10) business days after placing the security freeze; and  (iii) Provide the consumer with a unique personal identification number or password to be used by the consumer when providing authorizations for removal or temporary lift of the security freeze.  (e) A consumer reporting agency shall require proper identification of the consumer requesting to place, remove, or temporarily lift a security freeze.  (f) A consumer reporting agency shall develop a contact method to receive and process a consumer's request to place, remove or temporarily lift a security freeze. The contact method shall include:  (i) A postal address;  (ii) An electronic contact method chosen by the consumer reporting agency, which may include the use of fax, Internet or other electronic means; and  (iii) The use of telephone in a manner that is consistent with any federal requirements placed on the consumer reporting agency.  (g) A security freeze placed under this section may be removed or temporarily lifted only in accordance with W.S. 40-12-504.
WY Stat § 40-12-506 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 5 - Credit Freeze Reports|Section 40-12-506 - Fees for Security Freeze.

40-12-506. Fees for security freeze.| (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a consumer reporting agency may charge a reasonable fee not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) to a consumer for each placing, temporary lifting or removing of a security freeze.  (b) A consumer reporting agency may not charge a fee for placing, temporarily lifting or removing a security freeze if:  (i) The consumer is a victim of identity theft as defined by W.S. 6-3-901; and  (ii) The consumer provides the consumer reporting agency with a valid copy of a police report or police case number documenting the identity fraud.
WY Stat § 40-12-507 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 5 - Credit Freeze Reports|Section 40-12-507 - Changes to Information in a Credit Report Subject to a Security Freeze.

40-12-507. Changes to information in a credit report subject to a security freeze.| (a) If a credit report is subject to a security freeze, a consumer reporting agency shall notify the consumer who is the subject of the credit report within thirty (30) days if the consumer reporting agency changes their information concerning the consumer's:  (i) Name;  (ii) Date of birth;  (iii) Social security number; or  (iv) Address.  (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a consumer reporting agency may make technical modifications to information in a credit report that is subject to a security freeze without providing notification to the consumer. Technical modifications under this subsection include:  (i) The addition or subtraction of abbreviations to names and addresses; and  (ii) Transpositions or corrections of incorrect numbering or spelling.  (c) When providing notice of a change of address under subsection (a) of this section, the consumer reporting agency shall provide notice to the consumer at both the new address and the former address.
WY Stat § 40-12-508 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 5 - Credit Freeze Reports|Section 40-12-508 - Violations; Penalties.

40-12-508. Violations; penalties.| (a) If a consumer reporting agency intentionally or negligently violates a valid security freeze by releasing credit information that has been placed under a security freeze, the affected consumer is entitled to:  (i) Notification within five (5) business days following the agency's discovery, or notification from another source, of the release of the information. The notification under this paragraph shall include specificity as to the information released and the third party recipient of the information;  (ii) Notification that the consumer may file a complaint with the federal trade commission and the state attorney general.  (b) If a consumer reporting agency intentionally or negligently violates a valid security freeze by releasing credit information that has been placed under a security freeze and fails to take steps to correct the release and fails to give the notification required under subsection (a) of this section, the affected consumer is entitled to, in a civil action against the consumer reporting agency, recover:  (i) Injunctive relief to prevent or restrain further violation of the security freeze;  (ii) A civil penalty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) plus any damages available under other civil laws; and  (iii) Reasonable expenses, court costs, investigative costs and attorney's fees.  (c) Each violation of the security freeze shall be counted as a separate incident for purposes of imposing penalties under this section.
WY Stat § 40-12-601 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 40 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 12 - Consumer Protection|Article 6 - Use of Arrest Photographs|Section 40-12-601 - Unauthorized Use of Arrest Photographs; Penalty.

40-12-601. Unauthorized use of arrest photographs; penalty.| (a) A person who operates a website that disseminates photographic records of arrested individuals made by law enforcement agencies as part of routinely documenting an arrest and who charges individuals to remove their photographs shall remove any photograph and related name and personal information from all websites owned or controlled by that person without charging a fee within thirty (30) days of the date of a request to remove the photograph and information if the request:  (i) Is made in writing; and  (ii) Contains written documentation that all charges stemming from the arrest for which the photograph was made:  (A) Were resolved through acquittal or otherwise without a conviction; or  (B) Following conviction, were expunged or set aside pursuant to court order.  (b) For purposes of this section, paper or electronic copies of official court records or law enforcement records constitute written documentation.  (c) A person who violates subsection (a) of this section commits an unlawful practice under W.S. 40-12-105.