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WY Stat § 36-1-503 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 5 - Wyoming State Forestry Good Neighbor Authority Revolving Account|Section 36-1-503 - Powers and Duties of State Forester.

36-1-503. Powers and duties of state forester.| (a) The state forester shall:  (i) Administer the account;  (ii) Ensure that all funds generated from good neighbor authority projects or other federally funded cooperative forest management projects are deposited in the account;  (iii) Enter into contracts on behalf of the division for good neighbor authority projects or other federally funded cooperative forest management projects funded through the account;  (iv) Adopt rules governing the administration of the account and to carry out the purposes of this article;  (v) Have the authority to partner with one (1) or more counties on good neighbor authority projects or other cooperative forest management projects and disburse funds from the account for these purposes.  (b) The state forester may hire additional employees as necessary to conduct good neighbor authority projects or other federally funded cooperative forest management projects funded through the account. Employees hired under this subsection shall be funded using federal funds deposited in the account. The state forester shall not fill more than one (1) full-time employee position and four (4) at-will employee contract positions under this subsection.
WY Stat § 36-2-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-2-101 - Composition; Powers Generally.

36-2-101. Composition; powers generally.| The governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor, and superintendent of public instruction, being constituted a "board of land commissioners" by the provisions of section 3, article 18, of the constitution of the state of Wyoming, shall as such board, have the direction, control, leasing, care and disposal of all lands heretofore or hereafter granted or acquired by the state for the benefit and support of public schools or for any other purpose whatsoever, subject to the limitations contained in the constitution of the state, and the laws enacted by the legislature. The board shall have the power and authority to take such official action as may be necessary in securing title to land grants, or any other lands acquired by the state. The board shall oversee the compensatory mitigation credit system established under W.S. 9-19-201 through 9-19-204 and shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with W.S. 9-19-201 through 9-19-204.
WY Stat § 36-2-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-2-102 - Authority to Administer Oaths.

36-2-102. Authority to administer oaths.| Each member of the board is hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths in any proceeding of any character which may be pending before it.
WY Stat § 36-2-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-2-103 - President; Quorum; Duties of Employees.

36-2-103. President; quorum; duties of employees.| The governor shall be president of said board, but in his absence from any meeting, one (1) of the members may act as president pro tempore, and shall preside at such meeting. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall have authority to prescribe the duties of all persons employed by it.
WY Stat § 36-2-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-2-104 - Meetings; Rules, Regulations and Forms of Procedure; Records.

36-2-104. Meetings; rules, regulations and forms of procedure; records.| The board shall hold such regular and special meetings as it may prescribe and consider necessary for the proper transaction of the business before it. All meetings and transactions incident to the duties of the board, together with all protests, contests or other proceedings before it, shall be regulated by such reasonable rules, regulations and forms of procedure as may from time to time be prescribed by the board; and such rules, regulations and forms of procedure shall bear the same relation to proceedings pending before the board, and have the same legal force and effect, upon all parties to such proceedings, as the Code of Civil Procedure bears and has to civil actions and the parties thereto in the courts of this state. The board shall cause proper records of its meetings and other proceedings to be kept in suitable books, and shall preserve all important documents and papers pertaining to the lands of the state and business of the board. All votes taken to decide the board's final action on any matter shall be recorded.
WY Stat § 36-2-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-2-107 - Rules and Regulations; General Penalty for Violations; Enforcement.

36-2-107. Rules and regulations; general penalty for violations; enforcement.| (a) The board shall have the power and authority to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the state, as it may from time to time deem necessary in the direction, control, disposition and care of all state lands, and to preserve the value of the land and to recognize the fiduciary duties of the state land office.  (b) Any person who knowingly violates any provision of this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both. In addition, any person found guilty under this section may be ordered to pay restitution to the board for actual pecuniary damage resulting from the illegal actions of the person. Restitution may be excused if a court finds that the defendant has no ability to pay. In determining the amount of restitution under this subsection, the court shall consider, and include as a special finding, the reasonably foreseeable actual pecuniary damage that has or will result from the illegal activities of the defendant. Any restitution received under this subsection shall be deposited into an account designated by the board for use to restore the rights and property of the board. The acts prohibited under this subsection are:  (i) Damaging state lands under circumstances not a violation of W.S. 6-3-201;  (ii) Using a motor vehicle on state lands off an established road as defined by the board or on a road closed by the board;  (iii) Charging for or receiving payment for purposes of allowing persons to engage in hunting, fishing or any other recreational use of state lands, unless the payment is collected pursuant to a lease or temporary use permit issued by the state;  (iv) Building, maintaining, using or attending an open fire, campfire or charcoal grill on state land except in areas established by the board;  (v) Camping overnight on state land except in areas established by the board;  (vi) Violating any lawful order issued by the board pursuant to W.S. 36-2-101 to protect state lands and assets from resource damage; and  (vii) Violating any lawful order issued by the board closing state lands for the purpose of protecting public health and safety.  (c) Any peace officer as defined in W.S. 7-2-101 shall have the authority to enforce this section on state lands. Any game and fish department law enforcement personnel qualified pursuant to W.S. 9-1-701 through 9-1-707 shall have authority to enforce this section to the extent that there is no diminishment in federal funds provided for under W.S. 23-1-601 and 23-1-602.  (d) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall not apply to the actions of any person acting pursuant to the terms of a valid lease, authorization or permit issued by the board.
WY Stat § 36-2-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-2-108 - Appointment of State Forester; Qualifications; Duties.

36-2-108. Appointment of state forester; qualifications; duties.| (a) The state board of land commissioners shall appoint a state forester who shall be the administrative head of the Wyoming state forestry division of the office of state lands and investments. He shall serve at the pleasure of the board. He shall have a bachelor's degree in forestry with not less than four (4) years experience in professional forestry work. The state forester shall, under the general supervision of the board, have direction of all forest interest and all matters pertaining to forestry within the jurisdiction of the state of Wyoming; and may, with approval of the board, appoint such assistants and employees as are necessary in executing the duties of his office.  (b) The state forester shall:  (i) Take such action as may be deemed necessary by the state board of land commissioners to protect forest, range and other rural resources from fire. This responsibility shall in no way diminish the responsibility or authority of local fire protection districts;  (ii) Assist the county sheriff in the enforcement of all laws pertaining to the protection of forest and range lands from fire;  (iii) Collect data relative to forest conditions;  (iv) Prepare an annual report on the progress and condition of state forestry work;  (v) Recommend plans for improving the state system of forest protection, management and replacement;  (vi) Whenever it is deemed essential and to the best interest of the state, cooperate with counties, cities, towns, corporations, or individuals for the protection, management and planting of trees, woodlots and timber tracts;  (vii) Promote the development of the forest industry;  (viii) Cooperate with federal agencies to fulfill the intent of this section.
WY Stat § 36-2-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-2-109 - Fire Protection Revolving Account.

36-2-109. Fire protection revolving account.| There is created the fire protection revolving account. Funds received by the state forester from local and county fire service entities and other payments received by the state forester for billable fire expenses shall be deposited into the account. Funds deposited into the account are continuously appropriated to the state forester to be expended only for costs related to fire protection activities and services, the purchase of wildland fire equipment, parts for federal excess property, supplies and to provide repairs for county and local fire service entities. As used in this section, "billable fire expenses" means any payment received from a federal, state or local entity for fire protection services or other related activities.
WY Stat § 36-2-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-201 - Questions May Be Reserved to District Court.

36-2-201. Questions may be reserved to district court.| Whenever an important or difficult matter of law or fact is to be decided in a contest or other proceeding pending before the board of land commissioners, or whenever in the judgment of the members of said board any of its members are for any reason disqualified from considering and deciding the questions or issues involved in any contest or other proceeding before such board, then and in that event, the board of land commissioners may on the motion of either party interested, or upon its own motion, cause the said contest or other proceeding to be reserved and sent to the district court for the county in which the land in controversy is situated.
WY Stat § 36-2-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-202 - Certified Copies of Papers to Be Sent to Court; Docket Fee.

36-2-202. Certified copies of papers to be sent to court; docket fee.| When a contest or other proceeding is reserved and ordered sent to a district court, the director shall transmit certified copies of all the papers in the case in his possession and in his office to the clerk of the said district court and the board of land commissioners shall determine who shall pay the docket fee in the district court.
WY Stat § 36-2-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-203 - When Issues Made Up Before Removal.

36-2-203. When issues made up before removal.| If the issues in said reserved contest or proceeding have been made up before the same shall have been removed, then in that case the said contest or proceeding when so removed shall be deemed ready for hearing; provided, however, that the judge of said district court may grant amendments to the pleadings already filed.
WY Stat § 36-2-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-204 - When Issues Not Made Up Before Removal.

36-2-204. When issues not made up before removal.| If the issues in said contest or proceeding have not been made up at the time the same is so removed to the district court then in that case the date when said contest or proceeding is filed in said district court shall be deemed the date of the filing of the petition of the contestant, and all of the proceedings thereafter shall be in accordance with the rules governing the trial of civil cases, including the making up of the issue, the trial of the case and an appeal from the judgment of the district court.
WY Stat § 36-2-205 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-205 - Determination, Certification, Recordation and Effect.

36-2-205. Determination, certification, recordation and effect.| When such case is reserved to the district court the same shall be tried and determined by such court, and its findings and judgments thereon shall be certified by the clerk of said court, to the director and he shall record the same in the record of the proceedings of the board of land commissioners, and when so recorded, such findings and judgments shall have the same force and effect as though rendered by said board.
WY Stat § 36-2-206 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-206 - Appeals to District Court.

36-2-206. Appeals to district court.| Any party who may feel himself aggrieved by the decision of the board of land commissioners rendered in any contest proceeding held before said board, may have an appeal from such decision to the district court sitting within and for the county in which the land in controversy is situated. All persons joining in the appeal shall be joined as appellants, and all persons having interests adverse to the parties appealing, or any of them, shall be joined as appellees; and upon said appeal being perfected, said contest proceeding shall stand to be heard and for trial de novo, by said court.
WY Stat § 36-2-207 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-207 - Written Notice of Intent to Appeal; Bond.

36-2-207. Written notice of intent to appeal; bond.| The party appealing shall, within thirty (30) days after receiving notice by registered mail of the decision of the board, file with the director, a notice in writing to the board of land commissioners stating that such party intends to appeal to said district court from said decision; and at the same time shall file a like notice in the said district court; and upon the filing of said notices, the appeal shall be deemed to have been taken; provided, however, that the party appealing shall within fifteen (15) days after the said notices have been filed, enter into an undertaking to be approved by the clerk or the judge of the said district court and to be given to the appellees, and to be in such an amount as said court or the judge thereof shall fix, but in any case, shall not be less than five hundred dollars ($500.00), and conditioned that the appellant shall prosecute his appeal without unnecessary delay and will pay all costs and damages which the appellees or any of them may sustain in consequence of such appeal.
WY Stat § 36-2-208 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-208 - Transmission of Evidence to District Court; Hearing on Appeal.

36-2-208. Transmission of evidence to district court; hearing on appeal.| Upon notice of intention to appeal having been filed with the director, he shall at once transmit to the clerk of the district court to which such appeal has been taken, a certified copy of all papers and documents in evidence in the case together with a transcript of all orders and journal entries concerning the same and a certified copy of the decision appealed from. Unless otherwise ordered by the court, said appeal shall be heard upon the pleadings filed before the board of land commissioners and at the trial of such appeal, evidence shall be taken and other proceedings had as in the trial of a civil action before said court.
WY Stat § 36-2-209 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-209 - Notice of Perfected Appeal; Proof of Service.

36-2-209. Notice of perfected appeal; proof of service.| Upon the approval of the bond as aforesaid, the clerk of the district court shall immediately issue a notice to the director and to said appellees and each of them that said appeal has been perfected; such notice may be served personally upon the appellees or their attorneys of record by any appellant or his attorney of record, or by registered mail, by the clerk of the district court. Proof of service may be made by the affidavit of the person making the service and also by the return registry receipt where service is made by registered mail.
WY Stat § 36-2-210 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 2 - Board of Land Commissioners|Article 2 - Appeals|Section 36-2-210 - Hearing and Trial Upon Appeal; Appeal to Supreme Court.

36-2-210. Hearing and trial upon appeal; appeal to supreme court.| At the expiration of the time for the appearance of the appellees, the case is to be deemed ready for hearing; and it shall be heard and tried the same in all respects as civil cases are tried in said district court; and an appeal from the judgment, finding and decree of said court shall lie to the supreme court the same in all respects as prescribed by law for appeals and proceedings in error from the district courts to the supreme court of this state.
WY Stat § 36-6-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 6 - Mineral Leases|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-6-102 - Submission, Custody and Confidentiality of Subsurface Log Reports.

36-6-102. Submission, custody and confidentiality of subsurface log reports.| (a) Contingent upon the leasing of any state or state school lands for coal, uranium or other mineral exploration, the board of land commissioners shall require copies of all electrical, gamma-ray neutron, resistivity or other types of subsurface log reports, and all assay reports for any rock cores or cuttings to be submitted to the office of the state geologist within ninety (90) days after completion of drilling and completion of associated reports. Reports submitted to the oil and gas conservation commission are deemed to satisfy the requirements of this subsection.  (b) All subsurface log reports and assay reports will be held confidential for a period of three (3) years after initial receipt by the state geologist. Confidentiality may be extended in one (1) year increments upon receipt by the state geologist of a written request by certified mail, return receipt requested, from the person or legal entity requesting that confidentiality be extended. All requests must be received prior to the expiration of the period of confidentiality. All reports filed under this section shall become the property of the state to be retained within the permanent files of the Wyoming geological survey board for the use of the office and public after the period of confidentiality has expired.
WY Stat § 36-6-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 6 - Mineral Leases|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-6-103 - Existing Oil and Gas Leases Ratified.

36-6-103. Existing oil and gas leases ratified.| The issuance of all oil and gas leases upon any state or school lands heretofore issued by the board of land commissioners for primary terms up to ten (10) years and as long thereafter as oil or gas may be produced in paying quantities, and the granting of all extensions heretofore granted by the board of land commissioners of the terms of existing oil and gas leases upon any state or state school lands for as long after the primary term as oil or gas may be produced in paying quantities, are hereby ratified, confirmed, and validated. Each joinder by the board of land commissioners on behalf of the state of Wyoming in any cooperative or unit plan of development or operation of any oil or gas pool, and all modifications and changes in any of the terms or conditions of any oil or gas lease arising from any such joinder, or incident thereto, and all thereof, are hereby ratified, confirmed, and validated.
WY Stat § 36-6-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 6 - Mineral Leases|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-6-104 - Payment for Improvements; "Improvements" Defined.

36-6-104. Payment for improvements; "improvements" defined.| If mineral lands upon which improvements have been made shall be sold or if such lands shall be leased to other than the owner of the improvements thereon, then such purchaser or such new lessee shall pay to the owner thereof the value of said improvements, at an agreed price with the owner thereof; or if such agreement cannot be reached, then at such price as shall be fixed by appraisement under the authority of the board of land commissioners. The word "improvements" shall be construed to mean surface improvements, machinery and other equipment used and necessary for the operation of the plant on such land, and work performed in the development of the property for operation and mining when such development work is of practical use in future mineral operations on such land. Wells drilled for oil which do not produce oil in commercial quantities, shafts, tunnels or drifts from which coal or other minerals have been practically exhausted, shall not be considered as improvements.
WY Stat § 36-6-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 6 - Mineral Leases|Article 1 - In General|Section 36-6-105 - Inspection Reports.

36-6-105. Inspection reports.| The state geologist or any state coal mine inspector shall, when requested by the board of land commissioners, visit and make a report upon any lands held under coal and mineral leases. Such report shall be made without any fee to the officer making same.