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WY Stat § 37-12-304 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 3 - Damage to Underground Public Utility Facilities|Section 37-12-304 - Notification Centers; Formation; Duties.

37-12-304. Notification centers; formation; duties.| (a) All operators shall join the notification center and shall participate in the notification center providing for mutual receipt of notification of excavation activities in a specified area and pay their share of the cost for the service provided.  (b) The notification center shall:  (i) File with the county clerk the statewide toll-free telephone number;  (ii) Repealed by Laws 2003, Ch. 59, § 2.  (iii) Maintain adequate records documenting compliance with the requirements of this act, including the following:  (A) Records of all telephone calls and other notifications received electronically;  (B) Records of all location requests which shall be retained for fifty (50) months and can be printed through use of a unique file numbering system developed by the notification center;  (C) Written records related to all complaints and responses alleging noncompliance with this act.  (iv) Provide the service at a minimum during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays;  (v) For calls received after normal business hours for the notification center, provide a recording for callers which explains emergency notification and excavation procedures;  (vi) Provide a timely method for notifying participating members of the information received regarding proposed excavation activities. The method of notification shall be determined by each notification system;  (vii) Upon request, provide to excavators giving notice of an intent to engage in an excavation activity the names of participating operators of underground facilities to whom the notice will be transmitted;  (viii) Repealed By Laws 2003, Ch. 59, § 2.  (ix) Offer an excavation safety training program;  (x) Upon request, provide to any person preparing or designing architectural or engineering design drawings that call for excavation the names and contact information of operators of underground facilities within the proposed excavation area;  (xi) Provide a monthly report to the Wyoming attorney general on recent complaints alleging noncompliance with this act, including the contact information of any person or entity alleged to be in noncompliance with this act.  (c) Repealed by Laws 2003, Ch. 59, § 2.
WY Stat § 37-12-307 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 3 - Damage to Underground Public Utility Facilities|Section 37-12-307 - Architectural or Engineering Design Drawings Notice.

37-12-307. Architectural or engineering design drawings notice.| (a) Any person preparing or designing architectural or engineering design drawings that call for excavation shall make reasonable efforts to determine at no expense to the operator the nature, location, and depth if known, of underground facilities. If the location of an operator's underground facilities within the proposed excavation area are restricted as classified by the federal or state government, a contacted operator shall disclose to the person the potential presence of the underground facilities in the proposed excavation area and any known disclosable information about the nature and location of the underground facilities, as well as the contact information, if known, of the federal or state government official who may be able to provide further information. Any person preparing or designing architectural or engineering design drawings that call for excavation shall make the information and location under this subsection a part of the plan by which the excavators operate.  (b) Any person preparing or designing architectural or engineering design drawings that call for excavation for a government entity in a public right-of-way with a project cost greater than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000.00) may schedule one (1) or more predesign meetings. The person shall notify the notification center at least thirty (30) calendar days before the first predesign meeting and provide the person's contact information, the name of the government entity, the scheduled predesign meeting dates, the location of the proposed excavation area and the project's scope of work. The notification center shall provide this information to operators with underground facilities in the proposed excavation area. Any operator or the operator's agent receiving notice pursuant to this subsection shall do any one (1) of the following:  (i) Attend the predesign meeting and provide information on the location of the operator's underground facilities within the proposed excavation area;  (ii) Notify the person that the operator has already or will, within fourteen (14) business days of receipt of the notice, mark the location of the operator's underground facilities within the proposed excavation area in accordance with the standards set forth in W.S. 37-12-302(d);  (iii) Contact the person for conceptual drawings and then mark the location of the operator's underground facilities on the drawings. The operator shall return the marked drawings to the person within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt of the drawings.
WY Stat § 37-12-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 4 - Civil Remedies for Wrongful Use of Utility Facilities|Section 37-12-401 - Definitions.

37-12-401. Definitions.| (a) As used in this article:  (i) "Bypassing" means the act of attaching, connecting or in any manner affixing any wire, cord, socket, motor, pipe or other instrument, device or contrivance to the utility supply system or any part thereof in such a manner as to transmit, supply or use any utility service without passing through an authorized meter or other device provided for measuring, registering, determining or limiting the amount of electricity, gas, steam or water consumed;  (ii) "Customer" means the person responsible for payment for utility services and includes employees and agents of the customer;  (iii) "Tampering" means the act of damaging, altering, adjusting or in any manner interfering with or obstructing the action or operation of any meter or other device provided for measuring, registering, determining or limiting the amount of electricity, gas, steam or water consumed;  (iv) "Unauthorized metering" means the act of removing, moving, installing, connecting, reconnecting or disconnecting any meter or metering device for utility service by a person other than an authorized contractor, employee or agent of the utility;  (v) "Utility" means any pipeline corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, water corporation, irrigation system, cooperative association, nonprofit corporation, nonprofit association, municipality or person operating in whole or in part for the purpose of supplying electricity, gas, steam or nonagricultural water, or any combination thereof, to the public or to any person;  (vi) "Utility service" means the provision of electricity, gas, steam, water or any other service or commodity furnished by the utility for compensation;  (vii) "Utility supply system" means all wires, conduits, pipes, cords, sockets, motors, meters, instruments, pumps and any other material and equipment the utility uses to provide utility services;  (viii) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 186, § 2.
WY Stat § 37-12-402 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 4 - Civil Remedies for Wrongful Use of Utility Facilities|Section 37-12-402 - Civil Action Allowed.

37-12-402. Civil action allowed.| (a) In addition to any applicable criminal penalties, a utility may bring a civil action for damages against any person who:  (i) Commits, authorizes, solicits, aids, abets or attempts any act of bypassing, tampering, or unauthorized metering resulting in damages to the utility;  (ii) Knowingly receives utility service through bypassing, tampering or unauthorized metering.  (b) Any action brought under this section shall be commenced within three (3) years after the cause of action accrues.  (c) In any civil action brought under this section, the utility, upon proof of willful or intentional bypassing, tampering or unauthorized metering, may recover as damages two (2) times the amount of its actual damages plus all reasonable expenses incurred because of the bypassing, tampering or unauthorized metering, including expenses for investigation, disconnection, reconnection, service calls, employees and equipment, expert witnesses, costs of the suit and reasonable attorney fees.
WY Stat § 37-12-403 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 4 - Civil Remedies for Wrongful Use of Utility Facilities|Section 37-12-403 - Remedies Cumulative.

37-12-403. Remedies cumulative.| This article is intended to provide additional remedies to avoid the wrongful use of the facilities of utilities and nothing in this article abridges or alters other rights of action or remedies existing before or after the effective date of this act.
WY Stat § 37-14-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 14 - Radioactive Materials Transportation Management|Article 1 - Policy and Purpose|Section 37-14-103 - Emergency Response Fee.

37-14-103. Emergency response fee.| (a) In addition to any other fees and taxes provided by law, an emergency response fee of two hundred dollars ($200.00) shall apply to each package of radioactive materials transported through this state. The department of transportation shall collect this fee based on a permit issued by the department which is not inconsistent with federal law. The department shall promulgate rules on issuing and revoking permits which are not inconsistent with federal law. The department shall promulgate rules on quarterly reporting and payment of fees, retention of records and audit requirements. All emergency response fees shall be deposited in a separate account to be used for the payment of costs associated with training for and conducting emergency response procedures related to the transportation of radioactive materials.  (b) As used in this section:  (i) "Radioactive materials" means:  (A) Highway route controlled quantities of radioactive materials as defined in 49 C.F.R. 173.403(l) as amended as of January 1, 1989; and  (B) Nuclear waste being transported to the waste isolation pilot plant in New Mexico, to any facility established pursuant to section 135 of the federal "Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982" as amended, 42 U.S.C. 10101 et seq., to any repository licensed for the permanent deep geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, or to any monitored retrievable storage facility established pursuant to section 141 of the federal "Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982" as amended.  (ii) "Package" means a container plus its contents that are assembled to assure compliance with the minimum federal packaging requirements for radioactive materials;  (iii) "Shipper" means the party or carrier responsible for shipments of radioactive materials under this section.
WY Stat § 37-15-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 1 - General Provisions|Section 37-15-101 - Short Title; Sunset.

37-15-101. Short title; sunset.| (a) This chapter shall be known as the "Wyoming Telecommunications Act."  (b) This chapter is repealed effective July 1, 2023.
WY Stat § 37-15-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 2 - Regulation of Competitive and Noncompetitive Markets|Section 37-15-201 - Regulation of Local Exchange Services; Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity; Concurrent Certificates.

37-15-201. Regulation of local exchange services; certificates of public convenience and necessity; concurrent certificates.| (a) Except for those telecommunications companies that as of July 1, 2015, have a valid certificate of public convenience and necessity previously issued by the commission to provide local exchange services in the state, all telecommunications companies seeking to offer and provide local exchange service shall obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the commission prior to providing that service in this state.  (b) The commission shall grant a certificate or certificates of public convenience and necessity to provide local exchange service if it finds, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that the applicant possesses sufficient technical, financial and managerial resources to provide safe, adequate and reliable local exchange services within the identified geographic area.  (c) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (d) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (e) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (f) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (g) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (h) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.
WY Stat § 37-15-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 2 - Regulation of Competitive and Noncompetitive Markets|Section 37-15-204 - Price Schedules.

37-15-204. Price schedules.| (a) A local exchange company shall file with the commission, in such form and detail as the commission may require, schedules showing all noncompetitive telecommunications services terms, conditions and prices currently in effect and charged to customers by the company in this state. All prices for new noncompetitive telecommunications services, and any increase in prices for noncompetitive telecommunications services as authorized by the commission pursuant to W.S. 37-15-203, shall be filed thirty (30) days prior to the proposed effective date. No price increase for a noncompetitive service shall be effective unless the customer has been given notice by the provider at least one (1) full billing cycle prior to the proposed increase and the increase has been approved by the commission as required by W.S. 37-15-203. No price or price change is effective until filed in accordance with this section. For purposes of this subsection, the rules, regulations, policies, practices and other requirements relating to services shall be filed with the commission in such form and detail as the commission may require. Rules, regulations, policies, practices and other requirements relating to noncompetitive services shall be subject to the same requirements under this chapter as the prices of noncompetitive services.  (b) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (c) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (d) Repealed by Laws 2015, ch. 96, § 2.
WY Stat § 37-15-301 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 3 - Interexchange Companies|Section 37-15-301 - Regulation of Interexchange Companies.

37-15-301. Regulation of interexchange companies.| (a) An interexchange company not authorized to provide intrastate telecommunications service in this state on or before January 1, 1995, shall not provide intrastate interexchange telecommunications services unless it first registers with the commission. An interexchange company authorized by the commission to provide intrastate telecommunications service as of January 1, 1995, is not required to register. The form for registration shall be specified by the commission.  (b) Any interexchange company registered with the commission to provide intrastate telecommunications services shall be authorized to provide statewide services.  (c) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (d) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (e) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.
WY Stat § 37-15-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 4 - Regulation of Telecommunications Services Generally|Section 37-15-401 - Commission Powers.

37-15-401. Commission powers.| (a) In addition to the powers exercised pursuant to the provisions of W.S. 37-15-408, the commission has the power to:  (i) Investigate the methods and practices of any telecommunications company;  (ii) Require any telecommunications company to conform to the laws of this state and to all rules, regulations and orders of the commission not contrary to law;  (iii) Make any rules and regulations, in accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act, necessary for the commission to carry out its powers in this chapter, including rules objectively established and consistent with commonly accepted industry standards, where applicable standards exist;  (iv) Require reports and studies as to prices and terms and conditions of service, necessary and relevant for the commission's exercise of its authority, including those protected as trade secret or confidential based on legitimate competitive or other operational concerns;  (v) Hold hearings on complaints, or for good cause, upon notice and subject to the provisions of the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act;  (vi) Regulate telecommunications companies only as provided for in this chapter; and  (vii) Exercise authority as expressly delegated under the Federal Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
WY Stat § 37-15-404 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 4 - Regulation of Telecommunications Services Generally|Section 37-15-404 - Protection of Telecommunications Consumers.

37-15-404. Protection of telecommunications consumers.| (a) No telecommunications company shall unreasonably discriminate as to customers in prices, terms or conditions of service, or in connection to or with other telecommunications companies. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any telecommunications company from:  (i) Providing volume or other price discounts based on reasonable, nonpredatory business practices;  (ii) Passing through any state, municipal or local taxes to the customers in the area where the tax is levied; or  (iii) Furnishing free or reduced price service to its current or pensioned employees and dependent members of their families, as defined in the applicable price schedules on file with the commission.  (b) The commission shall not give unreasonably discriminatory or preferential treatment in its regulation of any telecommunications company.  (c) A telecommunications company providing a noncompetitive telecommunications service shall not discontinue providing the service without the commission's approval.  (d) A telecommunications company shall not:  (i) Fail to disclose in a timely and uniform manner information necessary for the design of equipment and services that will meet the specifications of interconnection;  (ii) Fail or refuse to provide a service or product in accordance with the telecommunications company's tariffs, price lists or contracts and within the commission's applicable rules and orders.  (e) The commission may adopt rules and regulations to provide for:  (i) The interconnection of telecommunications companies' networks at nondiscriminatory and reasonable rates, terms and conditions;  (ii) The effective and efficient interoperability of telecommunications companies' networks;  (iii) The unbundling of services into reasonable basic network features;  (iv) The administration and allocation of phone numbers to the extent technically and economically feasible;  (v) Telephone number portability to the full extent technically feasible; and  (vi) The resale and sharing of services and functions at reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates.  (f) No telecommunications company shall engage in anti-competitive behavior, including, but not limited to, discrimination in favor of its affiliates.
WY Stat § 37-15-405 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 4 - Regulation of Telecommunications Services Generally|Section 37-15-405 - Complaint Against Prices.

37-15-405. Complaint against prices.| Any person, and the commission on its own motion, may complain to the commission concerning the reasonableness of the price of any noncompetitive telecommunications service or any violation of W.S. 37-15-404. Any notice and hearing of any complaint shall be in accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and this chapter. The commission shall only set aside any price it finds after notice and hearing to be unreasonable or unreasonably discriminatory. If the commission sets aside a price as unreasonable or unreasonably discriminatory, the telecommunications company shall have sixty (60) days to file a new price which is reasonable. The company shall refund any charges found to be unreasonable as ordered by the commission. Rates or prices for noncompetitive essential services in effect as of July 1, 2006, are deemed to be fair and reasonable.
WY Stat § 37-15-406 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 4 - Regulation of Telecommunications Services Generally|Section 37-15-406 - Quality of Service.

37-15-406. Quality of service.| (a) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (b) Any customer, and the commission on its own motion, may complain concerning the quality of service provided by a telecommunications company. A complaint shall be noticed and heard as provided for in the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act. The commission, after notice and hearing, may direct the telecommunications company to take whatever remedial action is technically feasible and economically reasonable to provide reasonably adequate service. The commission shall authorize a telecommunications provider to recover the cost of compliance as reasonably determined by any commission order under this section.
WY Stat § 37-15-407 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 4 - Regulation of Telecommunications Services Generally|Section 37-15-407 - Annual Report.

37-15-407. Annual report.| (a) The commission shall with the input and participation of the telecommunications industry and other relevant state departments, boards and agencies prepare and issue an annual report on the status of the telecommunications industry. The report shall be based on information provided to the commission and shall include:  (i) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (ii) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (iii) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (iv) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.  (v) Any recommendations for legislative change which are adopted by the commission and which the commission believes are in the interest of Wyoming telecommunications customers; and  (vi) Any other information or analysis which the commission is required to provide by this title or deems necessary to provide.  (b) The commission's report shall be filed with the legislature and the governor.
WY Stat § 37-15-408 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 4 - Regulation of Telecommunications Services Generally|Section 37-15-408 - Applicability of Existing Law.

37-15-408. Applicability of existing law.| W.S. 37-2-102, 37-2-104, 37-2-106 through 37-2-109, 37-2-113, 37-2-115 through 37-2-118, 37-2-124, 37-2-125, 37-2-130, 37-2-203, 37-2-205(a), 37-2-209, 37-2-214 through 37-2-216, 37-2-218, 37-3-114, 37-4-101 through 37-4-104, 37-12-120 through 37-12-130, 37-12-201, 37-12-202, 37-12-204 through 37-12-213, 37-12-301 through 37-12-304 and 37-13-101 through 37-13-137, inclusive, unless in conflict with other provisions of this chapter, are applicable to telecommunications companies and telecommunication companies shall be considered public utilities for the purposes of those provisions.
WY Stat § 37-15-409 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 15 - Telecommunications|Article 4 - Regulation of Telecommunications Services Generally|Section 37-15-409 - Construction With Other Laws.

37-15-409. Construction with other laws.| If the provisions of this chapter conflict with any other statutes, the provisions of this chapter shall control.