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WY Stat § 35-1-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 1 - In General|Section 35-1-105 - Prohibited Acts; Penalty for Violations.

35-1-105. Prohibited acts; penalty for violations.| (a) No person, corporation or other organization nor representative thereof shall:  (i) Willfully violate, disobey or disregard the provisions of the public health laws of Wyoming or the terms of any lawful notice, order, rule or regulation issued pursuant thereto;  (ii) Repealed by Laws 1982, ch. 75, § 5.  (iii) Being a person charged by law or rule of the department of health with the duty of reporting the existence of disease or other facts and statistics relating to the public health, fail to make or file such reports as required by law or requirement of the department;  (iv) Conduct a business or activity for which the department requires a certificate or permit without such a certificate or permit;  (v) Willfully and falsely make or alter any certificate or certified copy thereof issued pursuant to public health laws of Wyoming;  (vi) Knowingly transport or accept for transportation, interment or other disposition a dead human body without an accompanying permit issued in accordance with the public health laws of Wyoming or the rules of the department; or  (vii) Being the owner or occupant of private property upon which there shall exist a nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness, willfully fail to remove the same at his own expense within forty-eight (48) hours after being ordered to do so by health authorities.  (b) Upon conviction of any of the offenses prohibited in subsection (a) of this section, the violator shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment not to exceed six (6) months, or both, and shall be liable for all expense incurred by health authorities in removing the nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness. No conviction under the penalty provisions of this act or of any other public health laws shall relieve any person from an action in damages for injury resulting from violation of public health laws.
WY Stat § 35-1-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 1 - In General|Section 35-1-106 - Penalty for Violations.

35-1-106. Penalty for violations.| Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, or any lawful rule or regulation made by the state department of health pursuant to the authority herein granted, or who shall fail or refuse to obey any lawful order issued by any state, county or municipal health officer pursuant to the authority granted in this act shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be punished except as otherwise provided therein by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year or by both such fine and imprisonment.
WY Stat § 35-1-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-201 - Exceptions With Reference to Religion.

35-1-201. Exceptions with reference to religion.| Except as provided in W.S. 35-4-113, with respect to all persons who, either on behalf of themselves or their minor children or wards, rely in good faith upon spiritual means or prayer in the free exercise of religion to prevent or cure disease, nothing in this act shall have the effect of requiring or giving any health officer or other person the right to compel any such person, minor child or ward, to go or be confined in a hospital, or other medical institution unless no other place for quarantine of such person, minor child, or ward can be secured, nor to compel any such person, child, or ward to submit to any medical treatment.
WY Stat § 35-1-220 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-220 - Legal Advisers; Provisions as to Enforcement.

35-1-220. Legal advisers; provisions as to enforcement.| The attorney general of Wyoming shall be legal adviser for the department of health and shall defend it in all action and proceedings brought against it. The district attorney for the county in which a cause of action may arise, shall bring any action requested by the department to abate a condition which exists in violation of, or to restrain or enforce any action which is in violation of, or to prosecute for the violation of, or for the enforcement of, the public health laws of Wyoming. If he fails to so act, the department may bring any such action and shall be represented by the attorney general or by special counsel.
WY Stat § 35-1-221 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-221 - Judicial Review of Decisions.

35-1-221. Judicial review of decisions.| (a) Any person aggrieved and affected by a decision of the department of health shall be entitled to judicial review thereof, by filing in the district court of the Wyoming county of his residence, within thirty (30) days after such decision, an appropriate action requesting such review. The court may make any interested person a party to the action. The review shall be conducted by the court without a jury and shall be confined to the department's record, if a complete record is so presented, except that in cases of alleged irregularities in the record or in the procedure before the department, testimony may be taken in and by the court, which may affirm the department's decision or may reserve or modify it if the substantial rights of the appellant have been prejudiced as a result of the findings and decisions of the department because:  (i) Contrary to or affecting constitutional rights or privileges; or  (ii) In excess of statutory authority or jurisdiction of the department, or resulting from other error or law; or  (iii) Made or promulgated upon unlawful procedure; or  (iv) Unsupported by substantial evidence in view of the entire record as submitted; or  (v) Arbitrary or capricious.  (b) Any party may have a review of the final judgment or decision of the district court by appeal to the supreme court of Wyoming.
WY Stat § 35-1-222 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-222 - Sanitary Information Generally.

35-1-222. Sanitary information generally.| The department of health shall cause all proper sanitary information in its possession to be promptly forwarded to the county health officers, adding thereto such useful suggestions as the experience of the department may supply, and it is also hereby made the duty of said county health officers to supply the like information and suggestions to the department of health, and the department of health is authorized to require reports and information at such times of such facts and of such nature and extent relating to the safety of life and promotion of health as its bylaws or rules may provide; from all public or private dispensaries, hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, prisons, schools, and from managers, principals, and officers thereof, and from all other public institutions, their officers, managers and from the proprietors, managers, lessees, and occupants of all places of public resort in the state, but such reports and information shall only be required concerning matters or particulars in respect to which they may in their opinion need information for the proper discharge of their duties. The department shall, when requested by public authorities, or when they may deem it best advise the officers of the state, counties, cities, or towns or local governments in regard to sanitary drainage and the location, drainage, ventilation and sanitary provisions of any public institution, building or public place.
WY Stat § 35-1-223 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-223 - Cooperation to Prevent Spread of Contagious Diseases; Report of Epidemics or Diseases Required From Local Health Officials.

35-1-223. Cooperation to prevent spread of contagious diseases; report of epidemics or diseases required from local health officials.| The department of health shall give all information that may be reasonably requested concerning any threatened danger to the public health, and the local health officers and all the state, county, city and town officers in the state shall give the like information to the state health officer, and the department and said state, county, city and town officers, insofar as legal and practicable, shall cooperate to prevent the spread of diseases, and for the protection of life and the promotion of health within the sphere of their respective duties. When in any county, an epidemic or contagious or infectious disease including venereal diseases, is known to exist, it shall be the duty of the county health officer of such county to immediately notify the state health officer of the existence of the same, with such facts as to its cause and continuance as may then be known.
WY Stat § 35-1-224 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-224 - Inspection of Public Buildings and Grounds or Plans or Description Thereof.

35-1-224. Inspection of public buildings and grounds or plans or description thereof.| It is hereby made the duty of all boards and agents having the control, charge or custody of any public structure, work, ground or erection, or of any plan, description, outlines, drawings thereof, or relating thereto, made, kept or controlled by any public authority, to promote and facilitate the examination and inspection and the making of copies of the same by any officer or person by the department of health authorized; and the members of the department may, without fee or hindrance enter, examine and survey all such grounds, erection, structures, buildings and places.
WY Stat § 35-1-225 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-225 - Inspection of Water Supply; Duties as to Streets and Public Structures Generally.

35-1-225. Inspection of water supply; duties as to streets and public structures generally.| The department of health is authorized and empowered to investigate and ascertain as far as possible, in relation to the pollution of streams and natural waters of this state by artificial causes, or of all waterworks, and water systems belonging to any city or town, sanitary district, corporation, company or individual, in this state and supplying water for public consumption, which in their judgment may be necessary to determine the sanitary and economic effects of such pollution, and to enter in and upon the grounds, buildings and premises, waterworks, reservoirs, pipelines, pump houses and everything connected with the collection and distribution of water to the inhabitants of any city or town, to make, institute, and conduct needful experiments pertaining thereto, and shall have power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and hear evidence relating to such matters, and to make full report to the city, town or sanitary district authorities and also to the proper officers of any privately owned water utility when included in such investigations, of their operations and investigations in writing; and it shall be the duty of all such officers when notified of any unsanitary conditions of streets, alleys, sidewalks, waterworks, or other public ways, structures or improvements under their control, to at once take steps to repair, cleanse, abate or destroy the same.
WY Stat § 35-1-226 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-226 - Power of Department in Cities and Towns.

35-1-226. Power of department in cities and towns.| It shall be the duty of the state department of health, upon petition of at least twenty (20) taxpayers in any community, to send a competent representative to any incorporated city or town in this state for the purpose of inspecting and thoroughly investigating the sanitary condition of such city or town and the department shall have the power and it shall be the duty of the department to condemn, in any such city or town, any buildings, sewers, water connections, or other things, that in their judgment are in such condition as is likely to produce or cause the spread of epidemic diseases. And the department shall give notice to the mayor and council of such city or town to repair, remove, cleanse or remedy such defect or defects, within ten (10) days, and if the same shall not be done within the time specified in said notice, as directed by the department of health, it shall be the duty of the department to have same done; and the department is authorized to employ sufficient labor and furnish all necessary materials for the performance of such work, and it shall be the duty of the department, upon the completion of such work, to issue certificates to the person or persons performing such work and furnishing material therefor, and to file a report of the expense incurred in the performance of such work with the clerk of said city or town; and it shall be the duty of the council of such city or town where such work has been performed, to issue warrant or warrants to the proper parties for the payment of all such expense. Said warrant or warrants to be paid by the treasurer of such city or town as other warrants are paid.
WY Stat § 35-1-227 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-227 - Supervision of County Health Officers.

35-1-227. Supervision of county health officers.| The county health officers of this state shall be under the direction and supervision of the state department of health, and the state department of health shall have authority to make such rules and regulations for the government and direction of said county health officers as in their judgment may be best suited to maintain the public health.
WY Stat § 35-1-229 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-229 - Rules and Regulations.

35-1-229. Rules and regulations.| (a) The state department of health is hereby empowered and directed to make such rules and regulations as shall in its judgment be necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this act, including rules and regulations providing for the control and treatment of persons isolated or quarantined under the provisions of W.S. 35-4-133 and 35-4-134, and such other rules and regulations not in conflict with provisions of this act concerning the control of venereal diseases and concerning the care, treatment and quarantine of persons infected therewith as it may from time to time deem advisable. All such regulations so made shall be of force and binding upon all county and municipal health officers and other persons affected by this act and shall have the force and effect of law; provided, further, that the expense incident to the quarantine and treatment of venereally infected persons in prisons shall be borne by the county in which the person or persons are imprisoned, excepting inmates of state institutions which shall be borne by the state, when evidenced by proper vouchers and receipts approved by the department of health.  (b) The department of health may promulgate rules and regulations to set standards for the chemical, bacteriological, physical or radiological content of a small water supply and shall be applicable only when a legal interest in real property to which the small water supply is appurtenant is conveyed from one (1) party to another or when a conveyance is reasonably anticipated and when such standards are required by a lender. As used in this subsection, "small water supply" means any water supply with not more than nine (9) service connections, which is currently used for human consumption or for which plans exist for its future use for human consumption. The cost of any testing to determine the chemical, bacteriological, physical or radiological content of a small water supply shall be borne by the parties.
WY Stat § 35-1-241 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-241 - Safe Disposal of Corpses in Emergency Circumstances.

35-1-241. Safe disposal of corpses in emergency circumstances.| (a) The state health officer in consultation with the appropriate county coroner, during the period that a public health emergency exists, may:  (i) Adopt and enforce measures to provide for the safe disposal of corpses as may be reasonable and necessary for emergency response. These measures may include the embalming, burial, cremation, interment, disinterment, transportation and disposal of corpses;  (ii) Take possession or control of any corpse;  (iii) Order the disposal of any corpse of a person who has died of an infectious disease through burial or cremation within twenty-four (24) hours after death;  (iv) Compel any person authorized to embalm, bury, cremate, inter, disinter, transport or dispose of corpses to accept any corpse or provide the use of his business or facility if the actions are reasonable and necessary for emergency response. The use of a business or facility may include transferring the management and supervision of the business or facility to the state health officer and granting the right for the state health officer to take immediate possession for a limited or unlimited period of time, but shall not exceed beyond the termination of the public health emergency.  (b) Every corpse prior to disposal pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be clearly labeled with all available information to identify the decedent and the circumstances of death. Any corpse of a deceased person with an infectious disease shall have an external, clearly visible tag indicating that the corpse is infected and, if known, the infectious disease.  (c) Every person in charge of disposing of any corpse pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall maintain a written record of each corpse and all available information to identify the decedent and the circumstances of death and disposal. If a corpse cannot be identified, prior to disposal a qualified person shall, to the extent possible, take fingerprints and one (1) or more photographs of the corpse, and collect a DNA specimen. All information collected under this subsection shall be promptly forwarded to the state health official.  (d) As used in this section "public health emergency" means as defined by W.S. 35-4-115(a)(i).
WY Stat § 35-1-244 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 2 - Department of Health|Section 35-1-244 - Public Health Laboratory Fees.

35-1-244. Public health laboratory fees.| (a) The department of health may charge reasonable fees for laboratory testing services provided to other state agencies, local law enforcement entities and other individuals or organizations in accordance with the following:  (i) Fees shall be established by rule or regulation promulgated in accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act;  (ii) Fees shall be established in an amount sufficient to recoup the department's cost of providing the laboratory testing services.  (b) The department shall only charge fees pursuant to this section if the department makes personnel available to testify in criminal trials as to the department's laboratory testing results.  (c) Fees collected by the department pursuant to this section shall be credited to a special revenue account. No funds shall be expended from the special revenue account unless and until the legislature appropriates the funds.
WY Stat § 35-1-301 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 1 - Administration|Article 3 - County, Municipal and District Health Departments|Section 35-1-301 - Definitions; Establishment; Participation by Municipality in District Department.

35-1-301. Definitions; establishment; participation by municipality in district department.| (a) For the purposes of this act, the word "municipality" shall mean and include any town, village or city of this state, and the word "district" shall mean and include any combination of said towns, villages, cities and counties of this state.  (b) Any county, municipality, or district may, by resolution of the board of county commissioners or municipal governing body or by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of such county, municipality, or district, establish and maintain a county, municipal, or district health department.  (c) Any two (2) or more adjacent counties may, by resolutions of the boards of county commissioners or by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors establish and maintain a district health department.  (d) Any municipality within a health department district may, by resolution of the municipal governing body or by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified electors of such municipality, participate in such a district health department.