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WY Stat § 15-5-418 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-418 - Election of Membership.

15-5-418. Election of membership.| (a) A "paid fireman" as defined in W.S. 15-5-201(a)(xi) may elect to become a member, as defined in this article by filing an election with the board not later than December 31, 1981, or within thirty (30) days of return to service, if later, for any paid fireman who leaves service prior to July 1, 1981.  (b) Commencing January 1, 1982, or thirty (30) days after return to service, if later, an electing member is covered by the provisions of this article, and all rights to a pension under W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209 are extinguished. The member shall receive credited service for all prior service, not to exceed ten (10) years, which was recognized under W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209. However, that credit may be reinstated only by payment of any contributions previously refunded with interest at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum from the date of refund.
WY Stat § 15-5-419 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-419 - Dual Membership Prohibited.

15-5-419. Dual membership prohibited.| (a) Any employee hired before July 1, 1981 is covered by the pension system specified in W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209 unless he elects to become a member pursuant to W.S. 15-5-418. Any employee hired on or subsequent to July 1, 1981 is covered by the pension system specified in this article. No employee may be covered by the pension systems of both W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209 and this article.  (b) No paid employee shall participate as a member of the firemen's pension system established under this article and as a member of the volunteer firefighter, EMT and search and rescue pension account established under W.S. 35-9-616 through 35-9-628 if participation is based upon covered service with the same fire department.
WY Stat § 15-5-420 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-420 - Member Contributions.

15-5-420. Member contributions.| (a) Each employer shall deduct monthly from the compensation of each member participating in the account a sum equal to nine and seven hundred forty-five thousandths percent (9.745%) for the period from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020, ten and two hundred forty-five thousandths percent (10.245%) for the period from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, ten and seven hundred forty-five thousandths percent (10.745%) for the period from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 and thereafter eleven and two hundred forty-five thousandths percent (11.245%) of his compensation, and that amount shall be paid by the employer to the account.  (b) The contributions required by subsection (a) of this section shall be paid by the employer for employees covered under this article in order to be treated as employer contributions for the sole purpose of determining tax treatment under the United States internal revenue code.  (c) The contributions under subsection (b) of this section shall be paid from the source of funds which is used in paying salary to the employee. The employer may pay these contributions by a reduction in cash salary of the employee or by an offset against a future salary increase, or by a combination of a reduction in salary and an offset against a future salary increase, provided:  (i) No such salary reduction or offset, or combination thereof, shall exceed the percentage amount actually being deducted from an employee's salary for contributions to the account as of July 1, 1983; and  (ii) Any employer may pay any amount of an employee's share of retirement contributions without a salary reduction or offset, or combination thereof.
WY Stat § 15-5-421 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-421 - Contribution by Employer.

15-5-421. Contribution by employer.| Each employer shall make monthly contributions to the account in an amount equal to the percentage contribution rate multiplied by the salaries paid to members of the account. The contribution rate, expressed as a percentage, shall be based on the results of actuarial valuations made at least every three (3) years. The city's contribution rate shall be comprised of the normal cost plus the payment required to amortize the actuarial liability over a period of thirty (30) years calculated on the basis of an amortization policy approved by the board.
WY Stat § 15-5-422 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments|Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981|Section 15-5-422 - Payments; When and How Made; Protections; Nonassignability; Qualified Domestic Relations Order.

15-5-422. Payments; when and how made; protections; nonassignability; qualified domestic relations order.| (a) Payments made under this article shall be made to the beneficiaries on or before the fifth day of each month. Payments shall be made by voucher drawn against the firemen's pension account and paid by the state auditor out of the account or using an appropriate alternative method approved by the state auditor. No payments made under this article are subject to judgment, attachment, execution, garnishment or other legal process and are not assignable nor shall the board recognize any assignment nor pay over any sum assigned.  (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, payments under this article may be made in accordance with qualified domestic relations orders pursuant to W.S. 9-3-426.
WY Stat § 15-6-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 1 - In General|Section 15-6-101 - Definitions.

15-6-101. Definitions.| (a) As used in this chapter:  (i) "Conventional gutters" means curb and gutter or combined sidewalk, curb and gutter;  (ii) "Drains" or "drainage" means all surface sewers, drains, cross street valley gutters and all kinds of draining other than sanitary sewers or conventional gutters;  (iii) "Engineer" means the city engineer, town engineer or any engineer employed by a city or town for local improvement work;  (iv) "Improvement" means any lawful local improvement of any kind, which the governing body finds to be of special benefit to the property proposed to be assessed for the cost thereof;  (v) "Streets" means streets, highways, alleys, roads and public ways.
WY Stat § 15-6-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 1 - In General|Section 15-6-102 - General Grant of Authority; Nonapplicability of Other Provisions; Restriction; Nonexclusivity.

15-6-102. General grant of authority; nonapplicability of other provisions; restriction; nonexclusivity.| (a) Any city or town may provide for the making and maintenance of local improvements and levy and collect special assessments on the property specially benefited to pay all or part of the cost of the improvement. This chapter, without reference to other statutes, unless otherwise expressly provided, constitutes the full authority for the exercise of powers herein granted. No other law relating to any city or town, with regard to like matters, that provides for a petition or an election, requires an approval, or in any way impedes or restricts the doing of things authorized to be done by this chapter, shall be construed as applying to any proceedings or acts done pursuant to this chapter. No one other than the governing body of the municipality may fix, prescribe, modify, supervise or regulate the levy or collection of special assessments or taxes authorized by this chapter, except as expressly provided or necessarily implied, nor supervise or regulate the establishment or modification of grades and the acquisition of any improvement authorized.  (b) It is intended that this chapter provide a separate but not exclusive method of accomplishing its objectives, and it shall not be construed as repealing, amending or changing any other law.
WY Stat § 15-6-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 1 - In General|Section 15-6-103 - General Powers and Duties.

15-6-103. General powers and duties.| The governing body of any city or town, when considered expedient, may order any improvement or improvements, and determine its character, kind and extent. If the improvement is to be paving, it shall designate the kinds of pavement to be used. It shall provide for the maintenance of an improvement for a specified period not to exceed five (5) years and include the cost of that maintenance in the assessment for making the improvements. It shall levy and collect an assessment upon all lots, parts of lots and parcels of land specially benefited by the improvement to defray all or any part of the cost and expense and determine what lots, parts of lots and parcels of land are specially benefited by the improvements and the amount each is benefited.
WY Stat § 15-6-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 1 - In General|Section 15-6-104 - Powers Incidental to Streets.

15-6-104. Powers incidental to streets.| (a) The governing body of any city or town may:  (i) Design, establish, vacate, widen, extend and open streets or parts thereof;  (ii) Appropriate private property for the purpose;  (iii) Establish or alter the grade of any street, within the corporate limits; and  (iv) Determine and provide everything necessary and convenient to the exercise of this authority.
WY Stat § 15-6-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 1 - In General|Section 15-6-105 - Finality of Actions; Construction of Provisions.

15-6-105. Finality of actions; construction of provisions.| (a) The action and decision of the governing body on any matters passed upon by it in relation to any subject covered in this chapter is final and conclusive in the absence of fraud.  (b) This chapter shall be liberally construed for the purpose of carrying out the objects for which it is intended.
WY Stat § 15-6-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings|Section 15-6-201 - Generally; Ordinance or Resolution Required.

15-6-201. Generally; ordinance or resolution required.| (a) If any city or town makes local improvements or establishes or alters the grade of any street at the cost and expense, in whole or in part, of property specially benefited thereby, the proceedings shall be as provided in this chapter.  (b) Any such improvement may be ordered only by ordinance or resolution of the governing body.
WY Stat § 15-6-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings|Section 15-6-203 - Protest Petitions; Requirements for Abandonment; Initiative Petitions.

15-6-203. Protest petitions; requirements for abandonment; initiative petitions.| At any time within fifteen (15) days from the publication of the resolution of intention, the owners of property situated within the proposed assessment district may file with the city clerk their written objections to the proposed improvement. If protests against the making of the improvements are filed by the legal owners of record of more than one-half (1/2) of the area of the property subject to assessment therefor, within an assessment district, the proposed improvements within that district shall be abandoned. No protest will be considered unless filed within fifteen (15) days after the publication of resolution of intention. If any petition is filed signed by the owners of fifty percent (50%) of the property proposed in the petition to be assessed for any local improvement, the governing body shall proceed with the type of improvement set forth in the petition, following the same procedure as though initiated by resolution.
WY Stat § 15-6-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings|Section 15-6-204 - Authority to Act and Assess; Deletions or Modifications.

15-6-204. Authority to act and assess; deletions or modifications.| (a) Upon passage and publication of the resolution of intention the governing body has jurisdiction and the right to pass any and all ordinances and resolutions, to do any and all acts necessary to prosecute the improvement to completion and to make and levy an assessment to pay for the improvement.  (b) If no remonstrances are made and filed or if all remonstrances filed are overruled by the governing body, it shall delete or modify the improvements and delete any property to be assessed as it considers proper and shall cause the improvements to be begun and prosecuted with reasonable diligence until completed.
WY Stat § 15-6-205 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings|Section 15-6-205 - Streets; Improving Intervening Parts; Objection Thereto.

15-6-205. Streets; improving intervening parts; objection thereto.| If the improvement proposed is to a street, either by grading or regrading, paving or repaving, macadamizing or remacadamizing, graveling or regraveling, constructing crosswalks, gutters, curbs or providing for surface drainage, and not more than two (2) blocks remain unimproved in the street between improvements either already made or proposed to be made, the governing body on its own motion may cause the intervening or unimproved part to be improved. The improvement of that part shall not be stayed, defeated or prevented by any remonstrance or other objection, unless the governing body considers the remonstrance or objection proper to stay or prevent the improvement.
WY Stat § 15-6-206 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings|Section 15-6-206 - Ordinance Ordering Improvement; Contents.

15-6-206. Ordinance ordering improvement; contents.| (a) Upon the hearing of the resolution of intention, if the governing body decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall pass an ordinance, which shall recite:  (i) The passage of the resolution of intention;  (ii) The date of the hearing; and  (iii) Whether or not remonstrances were filed and if any were filed, the action of the governing body thereon.  (b) The ordinance shall also:  (i) Order the improvements;  (ii) Describe the improvements proposed to be made;  (iii) Direct the city engineer to prepare plans and specifications therefor; and  (iv) Fix the boundaries of the assessment district, which shall include all property to be assessed for the improvements.
WY Stat § 15-6-301 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 3 - Plans, Specifications and Contracts|Section 15-6-301 - General Requirements; Cooperation With Federal Government.

15-6-301. General requirements; cooperation with federal government.| (a) Immediately upon the passage of the ordinance, the city engineer shall prepare and file with the city clerk, plans and specifications which shall show in detail the work to be done, the quantities of material to be handled and the estimated cost of the improvements. The governing body shall approve the plans and specifications by motion or resolution.  (b) The improvements may be made under contracts, or as a part of a contract, publicly let by the state or any agency thereof, or by the city or town in the manner provided in this section and W.S. 15-6-302, or the city or town may make the improvements with its own equipment, labor and materials, without contract, or any combination of methods may be followed. If the improvements are to be made by municipal contracts, the city clerk shall call for bids by publishing a notice in at least one (1) issue of some newspaper published within the city or town or within the county in which the city or town is located and in such other papers as the governing body may provide in the ordinance.  (c) The improvements may be made with the cooperation and assistance of the United States government or any agency or subdivision thereof, and the city or town may take advantage of any offer from any source to complete the improvements on a division of expense or responsibility.
WY Stat § 15-6-302 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 3 - Plans, Specifications and Contracts|Section 15-6-302 - Call for Bids; Contents; Procedure for Awarding and Executing Contracts.

15-6-302. Call for bids; contents; procedure for awarding and executing contracts.| (a) The notice and call for bids as provided in W.S. 15-6-301 shall contain in substance the following:  (i) The streets or parts thereof to be improved if the improvements are to be street improvements;  (ii) The general kind of improvement proposed to be made and whether it is to be maintained by the contractor for a specified period, but in no event for more than five (5) years;  (iii) The time within which bids will be received and the place where they shall be filed;  (iv) That a certified or cashier's check or bid bond in the sum of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid must be filed with the bid, to be forfeited to the city or town as liquidated damages if the bidder is awarded the contract and fails to enter into a contract with the city or town within five (5) days from the date of his notification;  (v) The successful bidder shall perform the work and furnish a bond guaranteeing the faithful performance of the work and a maintenance bond, if required by the governing body, which shall be furnished at the time of signing the contract. The guarantee and maintenance bond may be a single instrument.  (b) The bids shall be opened by the governing body and the contract or contracts shall be awarded to the bidder or bidders who in its opinion are the lowest and best responsible bidders. The governing body may reject any and all bids.  (c) Upon the letting of the contract or contracts to the successful bidders, the governing body, by motion or resolution, shall order the mayor or clerk, or some other officer of the city or town, to execute a written contract or contracts on behalf of the city or town with the successful bidders. The refusal of any official or officer of the city or town to execute the written contract or contracts does not affect the validity of the contract or contracts and the governing body may order some other city or town official or officer or one (1) of its members to execute the written agreement or agreements in place of the official or officer refusing to do so.  (d) All bids and contracts for capital construction projects shall be in accord with the Wyoming contractor preference laws of title 16, chapter 6.
WY Stat § 15-6-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally|Section 15-6-401 - How Grades Established or Altered; Cost.

15-6-401. How grades established or altered; cost.| If the notice provided for in W.S. 15-6-202, is in whole or in part to establish or alter a grade, the governing body, after the expiration of giving the notice as provided in W.S. 15-6-202, may establish it by ordinance or resolution. The cost of establishing or altering the grade of any streets, highway, avenue, road or alley may be paid out of the general funds of the city or town or may be specially assessed.
WY Stat § 15-6-402 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally|Section 15-6-402 - Assessments; When Levied; What to Be Included Generally.

15-6-402. Assessments; when levied; what to be included generally.| If the contract or contracts for any improvements have been awarded, or the city or town has determined to construct the improvements by the use of its own equipment, labor and materials, or any of them, or avail itself of any state or federal program contributing to the cost of the improvement, the city engineer, either immediately, or at the council's discretion upon the completion of the improvements, shall levy an assessment upon the property included in the district. The assessment shall include as a part of the cost the contract price, or the estimated costs of construction, together with the expense of engineering, inspection, advertising, levying and collecting assessments and all other charges which the city or town may have incurred or expects to incur in making and financing the improvements, or the portion of the costs designated by the governing body to be defrayed by special assessments.
WY Stat § 15-6-403 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally|Section 15-6-403 - Assessments; Included Costs.

15-6-403. Assessments; included costs.| (a) If any authorized local improvement is ordered, there shall be included in the cost and expense thereof to be assessed against the property specially benefited and included in the district created to pay all or any part thereof, the cost of:  (i) That portion of the improvement included within the limits of any street intersection space or spaces;  (ii) Inspection, tests, materials or work and of all engineering and surveying necessary for the improvement done under the direction of the city or town engineer;  (iii) Ascertaining the ownership of the lots or parcels of land included in the assessment district;  (iv) Advertising, mailing and publishing all notices; and  (v) All accounting and clerical labor, books and blanks expended or used by the city or town comptroller and the city or town treasurer in connection with the improvements.
WY Stat § 15-6-406 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally|Section 15-6-406 - Lien Created; Priority; Filing.

15-6-406. Lien created; priority; filing.| (a) The charge on the respective lots, tracts, parcels of land and other property for the purpose of special assessments, to pay the cost and expense in whole or in part of any improvement authorized in this chapter, when assessed and the assessment roll is confirmed by the governing body, shall be a lien upon the property assessed from the time the assessment roll is placed in the hands of the officer authorized by law to collect the assessment. The lien shall be paramount and superior to any other lien or encumbrance created before or after, except a lien for assessments for general taxes.  (b) In order to have a valid, enforceable lien under this section, a lien statement sworn to before a notarial officer, shall be filed by the claimant with the county clerk of the county in which the assessment district is located. The county clerk shall file the statement and index by date, name of claimant and property owner, and by legal description. The lien statement shall contain the following:  (i) The name and address of the governing body seeking to enforce the lien;  (ii) The name and address of the person against whose property the lien is filed; and  (iii) The legal description of the property to which the lien attaches.  (c) Special assessment rolls approved prior to July 1, 1989 and still in effect, shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which the district is located.
WY Stat § 15-6-407 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 15 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 6 - Local Improvements|Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally|Section 15-6-407 - Assessments; Review of Decisions.

15-6-407. Assessments; review of decisions.| The decision of the governing body may be appealed to the district court by filing a written notice of appeal within fifteen (15) days from the date of the governing body's decision.