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WY Stat § 37-5-603 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority|Article 6 - Financing of Other Projects|Section 37-5-603 - Authority Revenue Bonds; Security; Payments After Retirement.

37-5-603. Authority revenue bonds; security; payments after retirement.| (a) The principal and interest on any bonds that the authority issues shall be secured by a pledge of revenues from the operation of the pipeline or other transportation or distribution system or energy transmission project financed, by a first mortgage on the facilities, by guarantees and pledges of the entity owning the project, pipeline or system, or of the parent corporation owning said entity or by any combination thereof or other security as the authority may determine to be reasonable and prudent. The guarantees and pledges shall be no less favorable to the authority than those granted other lenders of the same class.  (b) The authority may require additional payments, as negotiated, to bondholders to be made either in a lump sum at the time of retirement of the bonds or annually from the time of retirement of the bonds until project, pipeline or system use is terminated or may require additional incentives from the owner of the project or pipeline to prospective bondholders so long as the incentives are not contrary to the Wyoming constitution.  (c) The authority may require such other security for repayment of the bonds as it deems necessary.  (d) Each pledge, agreement, mortgage or other instrument made for the benefit or security of any bonds of the authority is valid and binding from the time when made. The revenues, receipts, monies and assets pledged are immediately subject to the lien of the pledge without delivery or further act. The lien is valid and binding against persons having claims of any kind against the authority whether or not the persons have actual notice of the lien. The resolution or the indenture or other instrument by which a pledge is created need not be recorded or filed.
WY Stat § 37-5-604 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority|Article 6 - Financing of Other Projects|Section 37-5-604 - Exemptions From Taxation.

37-5-604. Exemptions from taxation.| The exercise of the powers granted by this article constitutes the performance of an essential governmental function. Any bonds issued under this article and the income therefrom shall be free from taxation of every kind by the state, municipalities and political subdivisions of the state.
WY Stat § 37-5-605 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority|Article 6 - Financing of Other Projects|Section 37-5-605 - Bonds as Legal Investments.

37-5-605. Bonds as legal investments.| The bonds of the authority are legal investments that may be used as collateral for public funds of the state, insurance companies, banks, savings and loan associations, investment companies, trustees and other fiduciaries that may properly and legally invest funds in their control or belonging to them in bonds of the authority. With the written approval of the state loan and investment board and the attorney general, the state treasurer may invest monies from the permanent Wyoming mineral trust fund in bonds of the authority in an amount specified by the state loan and investment board and the attorney general but not to exceed the amount specified in W.S. 37-5-602(a) and (b). The interest payable on the bonds shall be not less than four percent (4%), and revenue under W.S. 37-5-602(b) shall be credited as received to the general fund. The limitation on specific public purpose investments under W.S. 9-4-715(n) shall not apply to investments made under this section.
WY Stat § 37-5-606 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority|Article 6 - Financing of Other Projects|Section 37-5-606 - State Pledge Not to Impair Bondholder's Rights and Remedies.

37-5-606. State pledge not to impair bondholder's rights and remedies.| The state pledges to the holders of any bonds issued under this article that the state will not limit or alter the rights vested in the authority to fulfill the terms of agreements made with the holders, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of the holders until the bonds together with the interest, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of the holders are fully met and discharged. The authority is authorized to include this pledge of the state in any agreement with the holders of the bonds.
WY Stat § 37-5-607 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority|Article 6 - Financing of Other Projects|Section 37-5-607 - Powers; Duties; Limitations.

37-5-607. Powers; duties; limitations.| (a) The authority has the powers granted by W.S. 37-5-501 through 37-5-509 as necessary to carry out the purposes of this article, including the power to hire technical consultants, financial advisors and legal advisors and specifically including the powers granted by W.S. 37-5-504(a)(ii). In addition to the powers otherwise granted to the authority, the authority shall have the power to:  (i) Enter into loan or other agreements with respect to one (1) or more projects, energy transmission infrastructure, energy export facilities, pipelines or systems upon terms and conditions the authority considers advisable;  (ii) Make and execute agreements, contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of its powers and functions, including contracts with any individual, firm, corporation, governmental agency or other entity.  (b) The authority may assess and collect fees that are nonrefundable from applicants seeking to obtain authority financing of an energy transmission infrastructure project, energy export facility, pipeline, system or other project in total amounts not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00), which shall be credited to the state general fund.  (c) The authority shall maintain such records and accounts of revenues and expenditures as required by the director of the state department of audit. The director of the state department of audit or his designee shall conduct an annual financial and legal compliance audit of the accounts of the authority and file copies of the audit with the governor and the legislature.  (d) The authority shall require that any project owner receiving a loan under this article shall maintain records and accounts relating to the receipt and disbursements of loan proceeds, transportation costs and information on energy and associated natural resource sales and deliveries and make the records available to the state auditor for inspection.  (e) The sole recourse of any party contracting with the authority shall be against the authority, and there shall be no cause of action against the state, or any county, municipality or other political subdivision of the state.
WY Stat § 37-7-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-101 - Formation; Petition for Organization.

37-7-101. Formation; petition for organization.| (a) Whenever a majority of the freeholders on lands and entrymen upon public lands in any district who shall represent at least one-third of the area of lands within said district which desire to provide for the purchase of electric power for use in electrifying the lands within said district or to purchase, extend, operate, or maintain consecutive power lines; or to cooperate with the United States, the state of Wyoming, or any subdivision thereof, they shall procure a certificate of necessity from the public service commission of the state of Wyoming, and file in the district court of the county which embraces the largest acreage of the district a petition hereinafter referred to as the "petition" which shall include:  (i) The name of the proposed power district;  (ii) The necessity of the proposed work, describing the necessity and attaching such certificate of necessity issued by the public service commission thereto;  (iii) The object and purpose of the system to be constructed together with a general description thereof;  (iv) The names of all freeholders holding lands and the entrymen on public lands in said district when known;  (v) Whether or not the petitioners desire and propose to cooperate with the United States, the state of Wyoming or any subdivision thereof;  (vi) A general prayer for the organization of the district.  (b) No petition having as many signers as are required by this section shall be declared void, but the court may at any time permit the petition to be amended in form and substance to conform to the facts, if the facts justify the organization of the power district. Several similar petitions for the organization of the same district may be circulated, and when filed, shall together be regarded as one petition having as many signers as there are separate signers on the several petitions filed. All petitions for the organization of said district filed prior to the hearing on said petition shall be considered by the court, the same as if filed with the first petition placed on file, and the signatures thereon contained shall be counted in determining whether sufficient persons have signed said petition.
WY Stat § 37-7-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-102 - Lands Need Not Be Contiguous; Benefits to Exceed Damages and Costs; Must Be Cheaper as Single District.

37-7-102. Lands need not be contiguous; benefits to exceed damages and costs; must be cheaper as single district.| The lands proposed to be included in any power district need not be contiguous, provided that the benefits of the proposed work in each part will exceed the damages from and costs of said proposed work in each part; and provided, further, that the court shall be satisfied that said proposed work can be more cheaply done if in a single district than otherwise.
WY Stat § 37-7-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-103 - Time and Place of Hearing on Petition; Notice.

37-7-103. Time and place of hearing on petition; notice.| On such petition being filed the court or judge thereof shall make an order fixing the time and place of the hearing thereon and ordering notice; thereupon the clerk of said county, for the county in which the proceedings are instituted, shall cause twenty (20) days notice of the filing of such petition to be given.
WY Stat § 37-7-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-104 - Contests and Objections at Hearing; Notices of Contest or Objection; Court to Hear and Determine Issues.

37-7-104. Contests and objections at hearing; notices of contest or objection; court to hear and determine issues.| (a) On the day fixed for hearing on such petitions all persons owning or entitled to the possession of lands, or any interest or easement in land, within said proposed district, or who would be affected thereby, may appear and contest or object to:  (i) The sufficiency of the petition;  (ii) The sufficiency of the signers of the petition;  (iii) The sufficiency of the notice;  (iv) The constitutionality of the law;  (v) The inclusion or exclusion of any lands in the district, or any other material issue raised by the petition;  (vi) The jurisdiction of the court, specifying their objections to such jurisdiction.  (b) The petitioners and contestants may, on the trial, offer any competent evidence in regard thereto. All notices of contest or objection shall be in writing and shall clearly specify the grounds of contest or objection and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court [prior] to the date fixed for said hearing. The court shall on the day fixed for said hearing, hear and determine all issues provided in this section and may adjourn said hearing from time to time, for good and sufficient reasons shown.
WY Stat § 37-7-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-105 - Nonresident Landowners to Be Specified on Affidavit With Petition; Notice by Mail; Personal Service to Establish Jurisdiction.

37-7-105. Nonresident landowners to be specified on affidavit with petition; notice by mail; personal service to establish jurisdiction.| If any of the persons owning or entitled to possession of land in said district are nonresidents of the county or counties in which the proposed district lies, the petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit giving the names and post-office address of each such nonresident, if such are known, and if unknown shall state that, upon diligent inquiry their names or post-office addresses (whichever may be the fact) cannot be ascertained. The clerk of the court shall mail a copy of the notice aforesaid to each of said nonresident owners whose post-office address is known, within six (6) days after the first publication of the same. The certificate of the clerk of the court, or other public officer, or the affidavit of any other person who knows the facts, affixed to a copy of said notice, shall be sufficient evidence of the posting, serving, mailing or publication thereof. Personal service of said notice on (or service by leaving at the last usual place of abode of) all persons owning or entitled to possession of lands or interest in lands within said district, shall give the court complete jurisdiction, without posting, publication or mailing of said notice.
WY Stat § 37-7-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-106 - Affidavit of Signers Evidence of Facts Therein.

37-7-106. Affidavit of signers evidence of facts therein.| The affidavit of any three (3) or more of the signers of said petition stating that they have examined it and are acquainted with the locality of said district and that said petition is signed by a sufficient number of corporations and adult persons owning lands in said district, to satisfy section 1 hereof, may be taken by the court or judge as sufficient evidence of the facts therein stated.
WY Stat § 37-7-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-107 - Transfer of Lands to Establish or Defeat Petition; Filing of Petition Lis Pendens Against Lands Therein.

37-7-107. Transfer of lands to establish or defeat petition; filing of petition lis pendens against lands therein.| All deeds made for the purpose of establishing or defeating the prayer of said petition, and not made in good faith and for a valuable consideration, shall be taken and held to be a fraud, and the holders thereof shall not be considered as the owners of the lands described therein; and the filing of said petition shall constitute a lis pendens against all lands described therein, from and after the filing thereof.
WY Stat § 37-7-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-108 - Petition Dismissed for Improper Signatures; Costs; Court to Include or Exclude Lands From District.

37-7-108. Petition dismissed for improper signatures; costs; court to include or exclude lands from district.| If the court or presiding judge thereof, after hearing any and all competent evidence that may be offered for and against the said petition, shall find that the same has not been signed as herein required, the said petition shall be dismissed at the cost of the petitioners, and judgment shall be entered against said petitioners for the amount of said costs. The court shall upon proper showing include or exclude any land from the district.
WY Stat § 37-7-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-109 - Order of Court Upon Decision for Petitioners; Appointment of Commissioners; Findings and Orders Final Unless Appealed.

37-7-109. Order of court upon decision for petitioners; appointment of commissioners; findings and orders final unless appealed.| (a) If the issues at this hearing are decided in favor of the petitioners, the court shall make an order:  (i) Approving and confirming the petition;  (ii) Defining the boundaries of the district;  (iii) Establishing said district as a corporation by the name proposed with powers:  (A) To sue and be sued;  (B) To adopt and use a corporate seal;  (C) To have perpetual succession;  (D) To build or otherwise acquire power lines and the transformers and other electrical equipment necessary to connect with power lines of the United States, the state of Wyoming, or any subdivision thereof to transmit power to any and all persons deciding to use same;  (E) To exercise the power of eminent domain as provided by the laws of the state of Wyoming.  (iv) Appointing three (3) commissioners from such districts who shall be freeholders or entrymen upon public lands in said district.  (b) The commissioners appointed by the court shall at all times be under the direction of the court and may be removed from office by the court upon good cause shown; provided, however, no commissioner shall be removed until written charges specifying the grounds upon which such removal is sought are filed and an opportunity given such commissioner to be heard at a hearing provided. In case a commissioner has been removed under this provision the court shall immediately appoint a successor.  (c) All findings and orders of the court made at the hearing herein provided for shall be final and conclusive unless appealed from to the supreme court within thirty (30) days after filing thereof.
WY Stat § 37-7-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-110 - Oath and Bond of Commissioners; Quorum; Majority Rule; Term of Office.

37-7-110. Oath and bond of commissioners; quorum; majority rule; term of office.| Before entering upon their duties, such commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Wyoming, to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as such commissioners and to render a true account of their doings to the court by which they are appointed whenever required by law or the order of the court, and shall execute a bond running to the clerk of said court and his successors in office as obligees, to be filed with said clerk for the benefit of the parties interested, in an amount to be fixed by the court or presiding judge, and with sureties to be approved by the court or presiding judge, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties as such commissioners and the faithful accounting of all moneys which shall come into their hands as such commissioners. A majority shall constitute a quorum and a concurrence of a majority in any matter within their duties shall be sufficient to its determination. The commissioners appointed shall hold their office until the first Tuesday in the second succeeding December following the date of order organizing such district and until their respective successors are qualified.
WY Stat § 37-7-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-111 - Records of Commissioners; Annual Statement; Compensation and Expenses; Suit Upon Bonds.

37-7-111. Records of commissioners; annual statement; compensation and expenses; suit upon bonds.| The commissioners shall keep an accurate record of all moneys collected on account of the work under their charge and of all payments made by them and shall take vouchers of such payments and shall keep full, accurate and true minutes of all their proceedings. On the first day of November each year they shall file in the office of the clerk of the court having jurisdiction in the matter an itemized statement of all their receipts and disbursements, and leave said report in such office for examination by parties interested at all times; and include a copy thereof in the regular call for the annual meeting hereinafter provided. They shall receive for their services such compensation as the court or presiding judge thereof may determine. They shall also be reimbursed for their actual reasonable expenses. Suit may also be brought upon their bonds, and the amount recovered shall be applied to the construction of the work or to the party injured, as justice may require.
WY Stat § 37-7-112 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 7 - Power Districts|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-7-112 - Commissioners to Constitute Corporate Authority; Organization; Powers of Board.

37-7-112. Commissioners to constitute corporate authority; organization; powers of board.| The commissioners appointed as aforesaid and their successors in office shall, from the entry of such order of confirmation constitute the corporate authority of said power district, and shall exercise the power conferred on them by law. They shall organize a board, elect a president from their number and appoint a secretary-treasurer. The board shall have power, and it shall be their duty to adopt bylaws, manage and conduct the affairs and business of the district, make and execute all necessary contracts, employ such agents, attorneys, officers and employees as may be required and prescribe their duties; to purchase electric current for light, heat and power purposes; to purchase, construct or otherwise acquire, power lines, transformers and other electrical equipment necessary to conduct and transmit such electric current to various people of the district who desire to use such electric current.