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WY Stat § 36-5-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 5 - Leasing Generally|Section 36-5-110 - Right to Make and Remove Improvements.

36-5-110. Right to make and remove improvements.| (a) A lessee of state lands shall have the right to construct or make improvements upon state lands in an amount not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per section for each separate improvement, without first obtaining permission. If the lessee or any other person desires to construct or make improvements upon state lands in excess of the value of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per section for each separate improvement, he shall file an application for permission to construct or make the improvements with the director, which shall be subject to allowance or rejection as the best interests of the state require. The director shall have authority to grant permission to construct improvements in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per section for each separate improvement for fencing, water development, livestock handling facilities and range enhancements. Any other improvement in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per section for each separate improvement shall be applied for under a special use permit. Unless permission has been obtained in the manner provided by this section or the improvement has been registered as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the owner of any improvement in excess of the value of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per section at the time of construction of the improvement shall not be entitled to compensation therefor as provided by W.S. 36-5-111 and 36-9-105, and upon the expiration of the lease the improvements shall forfeit to and become the property of the state; except, that within one hundred twenty (120) days from the date of the expiration of the lease, the owner may remove such improvements in a manner which minimizes injury to the land.  (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a lessee of state lands may register all improvements made upon state lands which were made prior to June 30, 2010, with or without prior approval by the director. Improvements registered under this subsection may include improvements for which approval was not applied for pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Improvements for which permission was denied under subsection (a) of this section shall not be eligible for registration under this subsection. Registrations under the provisions of this subsection shall be made not later than June 30, 2014. Improvements registered under this subsection shall be entitled to compensation therefor as provided by W.S. 36-5-111 and 36-9-105.
WY Stat § 36-5-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 5 - Leasing Generally|Section 36-5-111 - Payment for or Removal of Existing Improvements.

36-5-111. Payment for or removal of existing improvements.| Any applicant applying to lease state lands upon which there are fences, buildings, reservoirs, ditches, dams, wells, or other improvements of any kind, belonging to or made by another, or for which water rights or proportionate interests in irrigation reservoirs, canals, or systems, have been acquired, shall before receiving the lease, pay to the director for the use and benefit of the owner or maker of any improvements at the time of the execution of the lease, the contributory value thereof as finally determined by the board in accordance with its rules and regulations; or the owner of the improvements shall, upon giving notice to the director in writing within the time fixed by board rule and regulation, have the right to remove those improvements in a manner which minimizes injury to the land; provided, that the improvements be removed within a period of one hundred twenty (120) days from the date of the expiration of the lease. For purposes of this section, "contributory value" means the increased value of the property after the lessee's improvements are considered.
WY Stat § 36-5-112 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 5 - Leasing Generally|Section 36-5-112 - Form and Execution of Lease; Bond.

36-5-112. Form and execution of lease; bond.| The general form of grazing and agricultural lease upon state lands shall be prescribed by the board and shall be signed by the director on behalf of the state. Except in cases where the board deems necessary, leases shall be issued without bond.
WY Stat § 36-5-113 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 5 - Leasing Generally|Section 36-5-113 - Cancellation of Leases.

36-5-113. Cancellation of leases.| The board shall have the power and authority to cancel leases procured by fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, or for use of the lands for unlawful or illegal purposes, or for the violation of the covenants of the lease, upon proper proof thereof.
WY Stat § 36-5-114 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 5 - Leasing Generally|Section 36-5-114 - Leasing for Industrial, Commercial and Recreational Purposes; Authority; Rental Fees; Rules and Regulations.

36-5-114. Leasing for industrial, commercial and recreational purposes; authority; rental fees; rules and regulations.| (a) The board of land commissioners may lease for a term of not more than seventy-five (75) years state lands for industrial, commercial and recreational purposes.  (b) The board may lease state lands for purposes which shall bring about the compatible use of the surface area and shall inure to the greatest long term benefit of the state land trust. Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall result in the substantive impairment of existing leases or the preferential right to the renewal thereof.  (c) The board shall fix a rental value based upon not less than the fair market value of each use of the land. If the land to be leased under this subsection was originally acquired by the state for the benefit of the common school permanent land fund, and is to be used by a Wyoming school district for the construction and maintenance of school buildings and facilities, the board may assess an annual rental fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per acre or not less than fair market value, whichever is less.  (d) The board shall promulgate rules and regulations implementing policies, procedures and standards for the long-term leasing of state lands for industrial, commercial and recreational purposes under the provisions of W.S. 36-5-114 through 36-5-117, including provisions requiring compliance with all applicable land use planning and zoning laws and permitting the board to terminate a lease for good cause shown.
WY Stat § 36-5-115 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 5 - Leasing Generally|Section 36-5-115 - Leasing for Industrial, Commercial and Recreational Purposes; "Recreational Purposes" Defined.

36-5-115. Leasing for industrial, commercial and recreational purposes; "recreational purposes" defined.| As used in W.S. 36-5-114 through 36-5-117 the term "recreational purposes" means land used for cabin sites, public camp sites, public parks and recreation areas, golf courses and any associated residential development, youth groups and ski or winter sports areas.
WY Stat § 36-5-116 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 5 - Leasing Generally|Section 36-5-116 - Leasing for Industrial, Commercial and Recreational Purposes; Assignment or Transfer.

36-5-116. Leasing for industrial, commercial and recreational purposes; assignment or transfer.| Leases issued under the provisions of W.S. 36-5-114 through 36-5-117 shall not be assignable or transferable except with written consent of the board of land commissioners.
WY Stat § 36-5-117 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 5 - Leasing Generally|Section 36-5-117 - Lessee's Liability.

36-5-117. Lessee's liability.| (a) A state lands lessee's liability to users of those lands is limited as specified in W.S. 34-19-101 through 34-19-107. A state lands lessee's liability to users of improvements upon those lands is limited to the same extent, provided that:  (i) The improvement is properly authorized under W.S. 36-5-110 or has otherwise been authorized by the board of land commissioners; and  (ii) The lessee did not charge the user to use the improvement.
WY Stat § 36-9-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-101 - Authority; Restrictions.

36-9-101. Authority; restrictions.| (a) The board of land commissioners may at any time direct the sale of state lands subject to any lease thereof. Subject to criteria established by the board, any person may request that a parcel of state land be considered for sale by the board, but such lands shall only be nominated for sale by a majority vote of the board. Such lands which have been reserved in any way to the public use, or for the use of public institutions, shall not be sold to any member of the board. The board shall sell such lands according to the subdivisions of sections as established by the United States survey thereof, or by metes and bounds, as may appear to be to the interest of the state of Wyoming. The board shall sell such subdivisions as it shall deem for the best interests of the state land trust. The board shall not sell state land unless the board finds that the proceeds from the sale are protected from inflationary effects and the proceeds will earn a significantly higher rate of return than can be realized through retention of the surface estate and if the board finds that the sale will:  (i) Make state lands more manageable where the lands are not otherwise manageable;  (ii) Meet a specific need of a school or community for land;  (iii) Better meet multiple use objectives of the beneficiaries of the trust; or  (iv) Realize a clear long term benefit to the trust which substantially exceeds the present and probable future benefit from continued ownership.
WY Stat § 36-9-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-102 - Manner of Sale; Minimum Price.

36-9-102. Manner of sale; minimum price.| All state lands shall be disposed of only at public auction to the highest responsible bidder after having been duly appraised by the board, and shall be sold at not less than the appraised value thereof, and for not less than ten dollars ($10.00) per acre.
WY Stat § 36-9-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-103 - Appraisers for Improvements.

36-9-103. Appraisers for improvements.| All improvements upon state lands, when such lands are to be sold as provided by W.S. 36-9-102, shall be appraised by three (3) disinterested persons who shall appraise the improvements separately from the lands, though they may be attached thereto. The said appraisers shall upon application of the state land board, be appointed by a judge of the district court of the judicial district wherein the lands are situate.
WY Stat § 36-9-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-104 - Advertisement.

36-9-104. Advertisement.| All sales of state lands under this act shall be advertised for four (4) consecutive weeks in some newspaper in the county in which such land is situated, if there be such paper; if not, then in some paper published in an adjoining county. Advertisements of such sales may be made in other papers, as the board may direct. The advertisement shall state the time, place, description of land, and terms of sale, and the price at which the land was appraised by the board for each parcel.
WY Stat § 36-9-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-105 - Purchaser to Pay Owner Appraised Value of Improvements; Receipt.

36-9-105. Purchaser to pay owner appraised value of improvements; receipt.| If any state lands are sold upon which surface improvements, including irrigation works of any kind, have been made by a lessee, or for which water rights or proportionate interests in irrigation, reservoirs, canals, or systems, have been acquired, the improvements, irrigation works and water rights shall be appraised under the direction of the board. The purchaser of the lands, upon which improvements and irrigation works have been made, or for which water rights have been acquired as herein provided for, shall pay the owner of such improvements, irrigation works or water rights, as the case may be, the contributory value thereof, and take a receipt therefor, and shall deliver the receipt to the director before he shall receive a patent or certificate of purchase. All such receipts shall be filed and preserved in the office of state lands and investments. For purposes of this section, "contributory value" means the increased value of the property after the lessee's improvements are considered.
WY Stat § 36-9-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-106 - Place of Sale; Execution of Leases.

36-9-106. Place of sale; execution of leases.| All sales of state lands shall be held at a location to be determined by the board within the county in which the land is located and leases for state lands may be executed in the presence of a notarial officer or other officer authorized to administer oaths.
WY Stat § 36-9-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-107 - Terms of Payment.

36-9-107. Terms of payment.| (a) The terms of payment for school and state lands shall be as follows: not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the purchase price in cash on day of sale, the balance is not to exceed thirty (30) equal annual payments figured on the amortization plan, which shall include interest on the deferred part of the payments at a rate of interest established by the board in accordance with current interests rates. The interest rate on all amounts not paid when due shall be established by the board in accordance with current lending practices. The purchaser may pay in full at the time of the sale or payment of any installment may be made at any time if accrued interest is paid to the time of payment.  (b) When school or state lands are sold under an installment contract the state shall insert a provision that the vendee shall pay the taxes upon the fair value of the lands sold from the date of the contract. The provision is binding upon the vendee. The installment contract shall be recorded in the county wherein the lands are situated by the vendee within thirty (30) days following its execution.
WY Stat § 36-9-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-108 - "Amortization Plan" Defined.

36-9-108. "Amortization plan" defined.| The amortization plan is hereby defined, when applied to state land contracts or certificates, as being that plan under which part of the principal is required to be paid each time interest becomes due and payable, and under which this part payment on the principal increases at each succeeding installment in the same amount that the interest payment decreases, so that the combined amount due on principal and interest on each due date remains the same until the loan is paid in full.
WY Stat § 36-9-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-109 - Certificate of Purchase; Issuance and Contents.

36-9-109. Certificate of purchase; issuance and contents.| When any state land shall have been purchased according to law, the board shall make and deliver to the purchaser a certificate of purchase, which shall contain the name of the purchaser, a description of the land purchased, the sum paid, the sum remaining unpaid, the amount of annual payments, which shall include the accrued interest, upon the amortization plan as hereinbefore defined, and the date on which each of the deferred payments falls due. All annual payments shall be due and payable on the first day of December of each year, provided that interest is paid on the full amount of the deferred payments at the rate of four percent (4%) per annum from date of the sale to the first day of December following such date of sale.
WY Stat § 36-9-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-110 - Certificate of Purchase; Conversion of Outstanding Certificates; Fee.

36-9-110. Certificate of purchase; conversion of outstanding certificates; fee.| (a) Any certificate of purchase of state or school land issued and outstanding when this act takes effect may be converted into an amortization certificate on the plan set forth in this act at the request of the holder of said certificate of purchase, and with the consent of the state board of land commissioners; provided, however, that any certificate holder converting said certificate as herein provided shall pay interest on future payments at the rate of four and one-quarter percent (4 1/4%) per annum and six percent (6%) per annum on all amounts not paid when due.  (b) The director shall collect in addition to the fees provided by law the sum of two dollars ($2.00) to be used by him for expenses incidental with transfers as made optional by this act for supplies, extra clerk hire, etc., and any unused portion of same shall be paid to the state treasurer at such time as all transfers have been made.
WY Stat § 36-9-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-111 - Certificate of Purchase; Loss or Wrongful Detention.

36-9-111. Certificate of purchase; loss or wrongful detention.| Whenever a certificate of purchase shall be lost, or wrongfully withheld from the owner thereof, the board may receive evidence of such loss or wrongful detention, and upon satisfactory proof of this fact, and such indemnity therefor as the board may prescribe, it may cause a new certificate of purchase or patent, as the case may be, to be issued to such person as shall appear to it to be the proprietor of the land described in the original certificate of purchase.
WY Stat § 36-9-112 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-112 - Granting of Patents; Reservation of Minerals.

36-9-112. Granting of patents; reservation of minerals.| (a) Whenever the purchaser of any state land, or his assign, has complied with all the conditions of this act and has paid all the purchase money therefor, together with the lawful interest thereon, he shall receive a patent for the land purchased. Such patent shall run in the name of the state of Wyoming, it shall be signed by the governor, and countersigned by the director, and attested by the seal of the board. Such patent signed and executed as aforesaid shall convey a good and sufficient title to the patentee therein named. A fee interest in any state land may be perfected only as herein provided and only by express grant by the state of Wyoming for that purpose.  (b) Patents issued by the state of Wyoming shall contain a reservation to the state of all the minerals, whether or not now known, or which may be discovered hereafter, together with the right of ingress and egress to prospect for, mine, and remove such minerals. The board of land commissioners is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the exchange of mineral rights on a value for value basis. The exchange program may authorize a cash equalization receipt or payment of up to twenty-five percent (25%) of the value of the mineral rights. Any receipt shall be deposited into, and any payment shall be made from, the permanent land fund.
WY Stat § 36-9-113 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-113 - Deposition of Moneys.

36-9-113. Deposition of moneys.| All moneys arising from the sale or lease of state lands as collected shall be paid by the board to the treasurer of the state, who shall receipt for the money.
WY Stat § 36-9-114 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-114 - Refund of Money When Paid by Mistake.

36-9-114. Refund of money when paid by mistake.| In case any person, persons or corporation shall pay to the board of land commissioners any money for any state or school lands sold to him, or them, or in case any person shall pay into the state treasury, any money in consideration of the leasing of lands, which said board supposed to belong to the state, and it shall thereafter be discovered that such lands do not belong to the state, and were not subject to sale by the state, as state or school lands, such money, together with interest-except in the case of money paid for leases-at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the date of the patent for such lands, but without interest if they have not been patented, shall be refunded to the person buying the same, upon certificate from the board of land commissioners to the effect that such money has been paid under mistake as aforesaid, such certificate being accompanied by a verified statement of account thereof, as in the case of other claims against the state; and upon the presentation of such certificate to the state auditor he shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount named in such certificate, if the same is within the limit of any appropriation of money for said purpose. And it is hereby made the duty of said board to furnish such certificates upon ascertaining the fact of the mistake having been made.
WY Stat § 36-9-115 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-115 - Determination of Claims; Rules and Regulations Against Fraud.

36-9-115. Determination of claims; rules and regulations against fraud.| The board of land commissioners may hear and determine the claims of each person who may claim to be entitled, in whole or in part, to any lands owned by this state. The decisions of the board shall be final until set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction. The board may establish such rules and regulations as in its opinion may be proper to prevent fraudulent applications being granted.
WY Stat § 36-9-116 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-116 - Trespass.

36-9-116. Trespass.| Any person who shall use or who shall occupy any state land without lease or certificate of purchase, and any person who shall use or occupy state lands for more than thirty (30) days after the cancellation or expiration of his lease, unless he shall be a purchaser thereof, shall be a trespasser; and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), and the bondsmen of such lessee shall, upon the bond of such lessee, be equally liable with the lessee for the payment of such fine imposed.
WY Stat § 36-9-117 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-117 - Institution of Actions.

36-9-117. Institution of actions.| All civil suits or actions brought under the provisions of this act shall be instituted by the board, in the name of the people of the state of Wyoming.
WY Stat § 36-9-118 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-118 - Rights-of-Way for Public Conveyances.

36-9-118. Rights-of-way for public conveyances.| The board may, at their discretion, grant permanent rights-of-way or easements across or upon any portion of state or school lands, upon such terms as the board may determine, for any ditch, reservoir, railroad, public highway, telegraph and telephone lines, communications company facility or other public conveyances. As used in this section, "communications company" means as defined in W.S. 1-26-813.
WY Stat § 36-9-119 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 36 - State Lands|Chapter 9 - Sale of State Lands|Section 36-9-119 - Rights of Ditch Owners.

36-9-119. Rights of ditch owners.| Nothing in this act shall be construed so as to impair the rights of any ditch company, or any person owning any ditch or ditches, on or passing through any of the lands included herein.