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WY Stat § 24-6-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 6 - Access Facilities|Section 24-6-104 - Powers of Highway Authorities Generally.

24-6-104. Powers of highway authorities generally.| The highway authority of the state, county, city, town, or village may designate and establish access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within an access facility. The state or any of its subdivisions shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of access facilities with existing state and county roads, and city and town or village streets, by grade separation or service road, or by closing off such roads and streets at the right-of-way boundary line of such access facility; and after the establishment of any access facility, no highway or street which is not part of said facility shall intersect the same at grade. No city, town, or village street, county or state highway or other public way shall be opened into or connected with any such access facility without the consent and previous approval of the highway authority in the state, county, city, town, or village having jurisdiction over such limited access facility. Such consent and approval shall be given only if the public interest shall be served thereby.
WY Stat § 24-6-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 6 - Access Facilities|Section 24-6-105 - Design and Regulation of Access to Highway.

24-6-105. Design and regulation of access to highway.| The highway authorities of the state, county, city and town are authorized to design any access facility and to regulate, restrict or prohibit access as in their opinion may best serve the traffic for which the facility is intended. When an access facility is established under the authority of this act and if rights of ingress or egress are granted and designated by the highway authorities at specified points along the access facility as provided, the means of ingress or egress to and from the access facility shall be limited to the use designated by the transportation commission. In the event the commission grants a private and not a commercial entrance or access to the highway, the entrance or point of access shall not be used for or in connection with the conduct of any roadside business or other commercial enterprise. The highway authorities are authorized to divide and separate any access facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbings, central dividing sections, or other physical separations, or by designating separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes, and the proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes and other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from, or across access facilities to or from abutting lands, except at such designated points at which access may be permitted, for the use for which access may be permitted, and upon such terms and conditions as may be specified by proper authority from time to time, or as specifically provided for.
WY Stat § 24-6-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 6 - Access Facilities|Section 24-6-106 - Acquisition of Public or Private Property.

24-6-106. Acquisition of public or private property.| For the purposes of this act, the highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, or village may acquire private or public property and property rights for access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view, and light, by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation in the same manner as such units are now or hereafter may be authorized by law to acquire such property or property rights in connection with highways and streets within their respective jurisdictions. All property rights acquired under the provisions of this act shall be in fee simple where conditions permit, otherwise by appropriate easement.
WY Stat § 24-6-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 6 - Access Facilities|Section 24-6-107 - Agreements Respecting Financing and Planning.

24-6-107. Agreements respecting financing and planning.| The highway authorities of the state, city, county, town, or village are authorized to enter into agreements with each other, or with the federal government, respecting the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation, or vacation of access facilities or other public ways in their respective jurisdictions, to facilitate the purposes of this act.
WY Stat § 24-6-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 6 - Access Facilities|Section 24-6-108 - Property Rights of Abutting Residents.

24-6-108. Property rights of abutting residents.| No access facility shall be constructed without providing for the property rights of residents whose homes or places of business are now located on or abut the said proposed access facility. In all such cases, provisions shall be made to afford said residents access to said facility within five hundred (500) feet of their homes or places of business; or in the alternative, and at the option of the proper highway authorities, service roads shall be built so as to afford said residents a convenient route to the nearest city, town or village adjoining them.
WY Stat § 24-6-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 6 - Access Facilities|Section 24-6-109 - Local Service Roads or Streets.

24-6-109. Local service roads or streets.| In connection with the development of any access facility the state, county, city, town, or village highway authorities are authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or to designate as local service roads and streets any existing road or street, and to exercise jurisdiction over service roads in the same manner as is authorized over access facilities under the terms of this act, if in their opinion, such local service roads and streets are necessary or desirable. Such local service roads or streets shall be of appropriate design, and shall be separated from the access facility proper by means of all devices designated as necessary or desirable by the proper authority.
WY Stat § 24-6-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 6 - Access Facilities|Section 24-6-110 - Prohibited Acts.

24-6-110. Prohibited acts.| (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to:  (i) Drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line on access facilities;  (ii) Make a left turn, a semicircular, or U-turn except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb section, separation, or line;  (iii) Drive any vehicle except in the proper lane provided for that purpose and in the proper direction and to the right of the central dividing curb, separation section, or line;  (iv) Drive any vehicle into the access facility from a local service road except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb or dividing section or dividing line which separates such service road from the access facility proper.  (b) The performance of a prohibited act shall not be unlawful if necessitated by an emergency resulting from the then existing condition of such access facility or local service road. If access to the facility is made by means of cutting or removal of a fence or gate, the person so doing shall be liable for its repair or replacement under the direction of the department of transportation. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon arrest and conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
WY Stat § 24-6-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 6 - Access Facilities|Section 24-6-111 - Service Stations Not to Be Constructed or Located Within Right-of-Way.

24-6-111. Service stations not to be constructed or located within right-of-way.| No automotive service station or other commercial establishment for serving motor vehicle users shall be constructed or located within the right-of-way of, or on publicly owned or publicly leased land acquired or used for or in connection with, an access facility, as defined by W.S. 24-6-102.
WY Stat § 24-7-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 7 - Relocation of Highways|Section 24-7-101 - Subject to City or Town Election.

24-7-101. Subject to city or town election.| (a) It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the state of Wyoming that no state highway or state and federal highway now traversing or passing through any incorporated city or town of the state of Wyoming shall be so moved or relocated in such city or town as to divert the present route of the same in such city or town nor to bypass such city or town except with the express approval of the people thereof.  (b) In any incorporated city or town when the decision is to be made, the proposal to move or relocate a highway shall be submitted at any regular or special election in the municipality to the qualified electors thereof. The ballot question shall set forth a concise and accurate summary of the proposed change and shall permit and direct each voter to vote either "For the Proposed Change" or "Against the Proposed Change". The election shall be conducted in all respects as any other municipal election. If a majority of those voting are in favor of the proposal to move or relocate the highway, the proposal carries. Otherwise, the proposal fails.  (c) If the majority of the ballots cast in such election in any town or city shall be in favor of the proposed change, as herein provided, then the governing board of such city or town shall proceed to effectuate the same, but if the majority in either case shall oppose such change then such governing board shall have no further jurisdiction or authority to consider or act upon the same; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the governing board of any city or town wherein, because of congestion of motor vehicle traffic, narrowness of streets, density of fumes, smoke or exhaust, intensity or frequency of unusually loud sounds, or other cause, the passage of motor vehicles consisting of more than one (1) self-propelled unit constitutes a nuisance or an actual danger to health or safety, as determined by such governing board, from establishing a separate route for such multi-unit motor vehicles around such city or town but connecting with public highways at or near the boundaries thereof, by acquiring lands or easements for rights-of-way for such routes, which need not be dedicated to the public nor to the public use but may be laid out as private highways solely for the use of such multi-unit motor vehicles.
WY Stat § 24-7-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 7 - Relocation of Highways|Section 24-7-102 - Prohibited Expenditures.

24-7-102. Prohibited expenditures.| It is declared to be unlawful for the transportation commission or the department of transportation to expend any monies for the construction of a proposed change or for the acquisition of the necessary right-of-way for the same, until the approval of the governing body of the affected town or city shall have first been obtained as above provided.
WY Stat § 24-7-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 7 - Relocation of Highways|Section 24-7-103 - Application of w.s. 24-1-127, 24-7-101 Through 24-7-103.

24-7-103. Application of W.S. 24-1-127, 24-7-101 through 24-7-103.| This enactment shall have no application to the usual and necessary diversion of traffic for purposes of road repair or reconstruction, nor shall it apply to any city having a population of more than twenty thousand (20,000), nor shall the provisions of this act be retroactive from the effective date of this act.
WY Stat § 24-7-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 7 - Relocation of Highways|Section 24-7-104 - Connecting Roads; Construction.

24-7-104. Connecting roads; construction.| From and after the passage of this act whenever an established state highway is relocated, it shall be the duty of the department of transportation to cause to be constructed a hard-surfaced highway from any city or town of a population of not less than fifty (50) people now on or adjacent to the established highway to the relocated highway by the nearest practicable route.
WY Stat § 24-7-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 7 - Relocation of Highways|Section 24-7-105 - Connecting Roads; Expense.

24-7-105. Connecting roads; expense.| The connecting roads from the cities or towns to the relocated highway shall be constructed and maintained by the department of transportation without expense to the county or counties in which the roads are constructed.
WY Stat § 24-7-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 7 - Relocation of Highways|Section 24-7-106 - Connecting Roads; Property Owners to Be Furnished Approaches.

24-7-106. Connecting roads; property owners to be furnished approaches.| Adjacent property owners shall be furnished safe, convenient and proper approaches to such relocated or connecting highways, but not beyond the highway right-of-way.
WY Stat § 24-8-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 8 - Bonds|Section 24-8-101 - Purpose, Issuance and Disposal.

24-8-101. Purpose, issuance and disposal.| For the purpose of providing funds for the construction and improvement of public roads and highways in Wyoming, the state treasurer, with the approval of the governor is hereby authorized from time to time within the limits of the amount authorized by law to issue and dispose of bonds of the state of Wyoming to be designated as highway bonds.
WY Stat § 24-8-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 8 - Bonds|Section 24-8-102 - Denominations; Interest Rate; Redemption; Sale and Issuance Procedures; Recordation.

24-8-102. Denominations; interest rate; redemption; sale and issuance procedures; recordation.| Such bonds shall bear date and may be issued in such amounts and bearing such rates of interest, not exceeding ten percent (10%) per annum, as shall be determined by the governor and state treasurer. They shall be redeemable at the option of the state ten (10) years after date and payable twenty (20) years after date. The interest shall be payable semiannually at the option of the holder at the office of the state treasurer, or at such bank in the city of New York as may be designated in the bonds. They may be issued in denominations of five hundred ($500.00), one thousand ($1,000.00), five thousand ($5,000.00) and ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars and shall be engraved and printed under the direction of the governor and shall be signed by the governor and attested by the secretary of state under the seal of the state and countersigned by the state treasurer. Interest coupons with lithographed facsimile signature of the state treasurer may be attached to said bonds. At the request of the holder, bonds may be registered with the state auditor. The bonds shall be deposited until sold with the state treasurer and when sold the proceeds of such bonds shall be paid into the state treasury and be kept in a separate fund which shall be known as state highway fund. Such bonds shall be in the form determined by the governor and the treasurer and each bond shall have endorsed thereon a certificate signed by the auditor and secretary of state that the bond is issued pursuant to law and is within the debt limit. Such bonds shall be numbered from one (1) upward and shall be redeemable in that order. Before issuance they are to be recorded in the office of the state treasurer.
WY Stat § 24-8-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 8 - Bonds|Section 24-8-103 - Notice of Intention to Issue; Sale to Public; Rejection of Bids.

24-8-103. Notice of intention to issue; sale to public; rejection of bids.| The state treasurer shall give notice by publication in not less than three (3) newspapers published in the state and at least one (1) newspaper published outside the state, of his intention to issue and negotiate bonds in all cases where the same are not purchased out of state funds and the bonds shall be sold at not less than the par value thereof to the highest responsible bidder in response to such advertisement. The state treasurer, however, may reject any or all bids.
WY Stat § 24-8-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 8 - Bonds|Section 24-8-104 - Tax Levies; Notice of Redemption.

24-8-104. Tax levies; notice of redemption.| The state board of equalization shall each year at the time of making the annual levy for state purposes direct the boards of county commissioners of the several counties to levy upon all taxable property a tax which, with other funds available for the purpose, shall be sufficient to pay the interest on all such bonds outstanding for that year. Beginning with the tenth year after date of issue of any series of such bonds an additional tax shall be levied which, with other funds available for the purpose, shall be sufficient to redeem one-tenth of the bonds in such series then outstanding. Notice of the call for the redemption of such bonds shall be given at the office of the state treasurer and at the office of the financial agency where the same are payable.
WY Stat § 24-8-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 8 - Bonds|Section 24-8-105 - Investment of State Money.

24-8-105. Investment of state money.| Whenever the state treasurer shall have in his hands any funds whether permanent state funds or other funds available for investment he may, in his discretion, purchase state highway bonds and invest therein at not to exceed the market value such portion of the available funds as he may deem expedient. Any premiums which may be paid for such bonds shall be taken from other than permanent funds.
WY Stat § 24-9-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 9 - Establishment of Private Roads|Section 24-9-103 - Report of Viewers and Appraisers; Trial to the Court; Costs.

24-9-103. Report of viewers and appraisers; trial to the court; costs.| (a) The viewers and appraisers so appointed, or a majority of them, shall make a report of their recommendations to the court, and also the amount of damages, if any, appraised by them, and the defendant entitled to such damages. Upon receiving the report of the viewers and appraisers, the matter shall be tried to the court without a jury. The court may accept, reject or modify the report and recommendations. The court shall select the most reasonable and convenient route for the access, provided that access shall be along section and boundary lines whenever practical. The court shall issue a final order specifying the route, any conditions imposed by the court and any damages and costs to be paid by the plaintiff.  (b) A party may appeal any final judgment of the district court under this section to the supreme court.  (c) After the court has received a survey of the route and proof of payment of any damages and costs ordered to be paid, the court shall enter an order incorporating a legal description of the road, a legal description of the land benefitted by the road, declaring the road to be a private road, and citing in the order any conditions imposed by the court. A certified copy of the court's order shall be filed in the office of the county clerk.  (d) In addition to paying any damages to be suffered by the defendants, the court shall order the plaintiff to pay appropriate costs, which shall include any survey, plat, engineering and construction costs incurred concerning the location and construction of the road.  (e) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 99, § 3.  (f) In addition to paying other damages and costs required by this section and by W.S. 24-9-101, the plaintiff shall be responsible for paying the reasonable costs of an appraisal obtained by a defendant if that appraisal was adopted in substantial part as a basis for damages and varied more than fifteen percent (15%) from the valuation determined by the viewers and appraisers appointed under W.S. 24-9-101(h).
WY Stat § 24-9-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 9 - Establishment of Private Roads|Section 24-9-104 - Water and Timber Ways.

24-9-104. Water and timber ways.| Upon the presentation of a petition signed by at least five (5) freeholders of any neighborhood, praying for passage to any watercourse for the purpose of watering livestock, or for the convenient access to timber, the district court may establish such water or timber way as provided in W.S. 24-9-101 through 24-9-105 relating to the opening of private roads.
WY Stat § 24-9-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 9 - Establishment of Private Roads|Section 24-9-105 - Rules of Procedure; Legislative Findings and Intent.

24-9-105. Rules of procedure; legislative findings and intent.| (a) The supreme court may adopt rules governing proceedings commenced under W.S. 24-9-101, including limited application of the rules relating to procedure, discovery and evidence and such other rules as the court determines appropriate to provide for expedited and efficient proceedings, including appellate proceedings, which minimize the delay and cost in actions to establish a private road.  (b) It is the intent of the legislature to provide for a more expeditious and affordable means to establish a private road under this article. The legislature further intends that the precedents established with respect to the creation of private roads prior to the July 1, 2013 amendments to this article should continue to be followed to the extent they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this article.
WY Stat § 24-10-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 10 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 24-10-101 - Short Title.

24-10-101. Short title.| This act may be cited as the "Outdoor Advertising Act".
WY Stat § 24-10-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 24 - Highways|Chapter 10 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 24-10-102 - Declaration of Policy and Legislative Intent.

24-10-102. Declaration of policy and legislative intent.| The legislature finds and declares that in order to promote the safety, convenience and enjoyment of travel on, and protection of the public investment in highways within this state, and to preserve and enhance the natural scenic beauty or aesthetic features of the highways and adjacent areas, it shall be the policy of this state that the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising in areas adjacent to the right-of-way of the interstate and primary systems within this state shall be regulated in accordance with the terms of this act and the rules and regulations promulgated by the commission, pursuant thereto, and finds that all outdoor advertising which does not conform to the requirements of the act are public nuisances. It is the intention of the legislature in this act to provide a statutory basis for regulation of outdoor advertising consistent with the public policy relating to areas adjacent to the interstate and primary systems declared by congress in title 23, United States Code, "Highways".