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WY Stat § 11-38-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 38 - Wheat Marketing Commission|Section 11-38-102 - Establishment; Composition; Appointment; Removal; Officers; Consultation Permitted; Area Distribution of Nominations.

11-38-102. Establishment; composition; appointment; removal; officers; consultation permitted; area distribution of nominations.| (a) The wheat marketing commission is established consisting of five (5) members appointed by the governor from nominations made by the Wyoming wheat growers association or any other duly organized and incorporated state organization within the state of Wyoming having a commodity division working with wheat. The director of the department of agriculture or his designated representative shall serve ex officio. The governor may remove any member he appoints as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.  (b) The commission shall elect a chairman and vice chairman from its appointed members and appoint an administrator. The commission may call upon other interested organizations for consultation.  (c) All appointed members shall derive substantial income from the growing of wheat. Geographic representation of membership on the commission shall be provided for based on historical wheat production records. Each nomination shall include a resume of the nominee's qualifications for serving on the commission.
WY Stat § 11-38-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 38 - Wheat Marketing Commission|Section 11-38-103 - Terms of Office.

11-38-103. Terms of office.| (a) The terms of office for the initial wheat commission members shall be three (3) terms of one (1) year each, two (2) terms of two (2) years each and two (2) terms of three (3) years each. Subsequent appointments will be for terms of three (3) years.  (b) To reduce the commission from seven (7) members to five (5) members, the commission shall be reduced by the two (2) positions that are vacant as of March 15, 2007.
WY Stat § 11-38-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 38 - Wheat Marketing Commission|Section 11-38-104 - Powers and Duties.

11-38-104. Powers and duties.| (a) The commission shall:  (i) Receive and disburse funds under the provisions of this act to be used in administering the provisions of this act;  (ii) Annually elect a chairman from among its members and no chairman shall succeed himself more than once;  (iii) Elect a vice chairman from among its members;  (iv) Repealed By Laws 1999, ch. 173, § 2.  (v) Meet every four (4) months and at such other times as called by the chairman or when requested by three (3) or more members of the commission;  (vi) Keep a permanent record of its proceedings and prepare for the governor an annual report of its activities, receipts and expenditures.  (b) The commission may:  (i) Conduct or contract for scientific research to discover and develop improved marketing methods for wheat and wheat products, including programs of consumer education and protection;  (ii) Disseminate reliable information, founded upon research, showing uses and probable uses of wheat and wheat products;  (iii) Study state and federal legislation with respect to tariffs, duties, reciprocal trade agreements, import quotas and other matters concerning the wheat industry;  (iv) Sue and be sued as a commission, without individual liability, for the acts of the commission within the scope of the powers and duties conferred upon it by this act;  (v) Enter into contracts to carry out the purpose of this act, including contracts for promotion of wheat and wheat products and development of new markets through such promotion;  (vi) Appoint advisory groups composed of representatives from organizations, institutions or businesses related to or interested in the welfare of the wheat industry;  (vii) Make grants to research agencies for financing special or emergency studies, or for purchase or acquisition of facilities necessary to carry out the purposes of the commission;  (viii) Appoint subordinate officers and employees of the commission and prescribe their duties and fix their compensation;  (ix) Cooperate with any local, state or national organization or agency engaged in work or activities similar to or related to those of the commission, and enter into contracts with such organizations or agencies for carrying out joint programs;  (x) Act jointly and in cooperation with the state or federal government, or any agency thereof in the administration of any program of the government or of a governmental agency deemed by the commission as beneficial to the wheat industry of this state and expend funds in connection therewith;  (xi) Adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act under procedures set forth in the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act [§§ 16-3-101 through 16-3-115].
WY Stat § 11-38-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 38 - Wheat Marketing Commission|Section 11-38-105 - Authority to Accept Grants.

11-38-105. Authority to accept grants.| The commission may accept grants, donations, contributions or gifts from any source for expenditure for any purpose consistent with the powers and duties conferred on the commission.
WY Stat § 11-38-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 38 - Wheat Marketing Commission|Section 11-38-106 - Contributions Allowed.

11-38-106. Contributions allowed.| From the funds it receives, the commission may pay or contribute to organizations such as, but not limited to, the national wheat board, to carry out work and programs approved by the commission.
WY Stat § 11-38-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 38 - Wheat Marketing Commission|Section 11-38-107 - Administration of Programs.

11-38-107. Administration of programs.| The director shall administer any marketing, utilization or promotion program in such manner as to best effectuate the purpose hereof, with the advice of the commission and board.
WY Stat § 11-38-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 38 - Wheat Marketing Commission|Section 11-38-109 - Deposit and Disbursement of Collected Monies; Surety Bond Required.

11-38-109. Deposit and disbursement of collected monies; surety bond required.| (a) Monies collected pursuant to this act shall be deposited with the state treasurer's office and disbursed in accordance with the act.  (b) Any person authorized by the commission to receive or disburse funds, shall post with the commission a surety bond in the amount the commission determines sufficient, for which the cost or premium shall be paid by the commission.
WY Stat § 11-38-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 38 - Wheat Marketing Commission|Section 11-38-110 - Research Programs to Improve Marketing or Utilization; Contents; Budget of Expenses.

11-38-110. Research programs to improve marketing or utilization; contents; budget of expenses.| Whenever the wheat commission deems it advisable to implement a research, promotion or market program for the improvement of the marketing or utilization of wheat in both foreign and domestic trade, the plan may include, but shall not be limited to, the opening of new markets for wheat; developing new ideas and uses for wheat both at home and abroad; exploring the possibility of developing new agricultural and industrial uses for wheat; and engaging in sales promotion and education programs. The wheat commission shall prepare and submit therewith a proposed program to the board of agriculture together with a budget.
WY Stat § 11-39-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 39 - Livestock Feedlot Operations|Section 11-39-101 - Definitions.

11-39-101. Definitions.| (a) As used in this act:  (i) "City" means any incorporated municipality including a town;  (ii) "Department" means the department of environmental quality and includes any officer or agency within that department;  (iii) "Established date of operation" means the date on which a feedlot commenced operating with not more livestock than reasonably could be maintained by the physical facilities existing as of that date. If the physical facilities of the feedlot are subsequently expanded, the established date of operation for each expansion is deemed to be a separate and independent "established date of operation" established as of the date of commencement of the expanded operations, and the commencement of expanded operations shall not divest the feedlot of a previously established date of operation;  (iv) "Established date of ownership" means the date of the recording of an appropriate muniment of title establishing the ownership of realty;  (v) "Feedlot" means a lot, yard, corral or other area in which livestock are confined, primarily for the purposes of feeding and growth prior to slaughter. The term does not include areas which are used for the raising of crops or other vegetation and upon which livestock are allowed to graze or feed;  (vi) "Livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and other animals or fowl which are being produced primarily for use as food or food products for human consumption;  (vii) "Materially affects" means prohibits or regulates with respect to the location or the emission of noise, effluent, odors, sewage, waste or similar products resulting from the operation or the location or use of buildings, machinery, vehicles, equipment or other real or personal property used in the operation of a livestock feedlot;  (viii) "Nuisance" means and includes public or private nuisance as defined either by statute or by the common law;  (ix) "Nuisance action or proceeding" means and includes every action, claim or proceeding, whether brought at law, in equity, or as an administrative proceeding, which is based on nuisance;  (x) "Owner" means the person holding record title to real estate, including both legal and equitable interests under recorded real estate contracts;  (xi) "Rule of the department" means a rule adopted by the department and as defined in W.S. 35-11-112(a)(i);  (xii) "Zoning requirement" means a regulation or ordinance which has been adopted by a city, county or any special purpose district or authority, and which materially affects the operation of a feedlot. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to empower any agency described in this subsection to make any regulation or ordinance;  (xiii) "This act" means W.S. 11-39-101 through 11-39-104.
WY Stat § 11-39-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 39 - Livestock Feedlot Operations|Section 11-39-102 - When Defense to Nuisance Action Available.

11-39-102. When defense to nuisance action available.| In any nuisance action or proceeding against a feedlot brought by or on behalf of a person whose date of ownership of realty is subsequent to the established date of operation of that feedlot, proof of compliance with W.S. 11-39-103 is an absolute defense, if the conditions or circumstances alleged to constitute a nuisance are subject to regulatory jurisdiction by political subdivisions or related to the activities of the department of environmental quality.
WY Stat § 11-39-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 39 - Livestock Feedlot Operations|Section 11-39-103 - Compliance With Rules; Applicability Thereof; Compliance Schedule; Exception.

11-39-103. Compliance with rules; applicability thereof; compliance schedule; exception.| (a) A person who operates a feedlot shall comply with applicable rules of the department in accordance with the provisions of this section. A person complies with this section as a matter of law where no rule of the department exists.  (b) A rule of the department in effect on June 1, 1977 applies to a feedlot with an established date of operation prior to June 1, 1977.  (c) A rule of the department applies to a feedlot with an established date of operation subsequent to the effective date of the rule.  (d) A rule of the department adopted after June 1, 1977 does not apply to a feedlot holding any department of environmental quality permit and having an established date of operation prior to the effective date of the rule until either the expiration of the term of the permit in effect on the effective date of the rule, or twenty (20) years from the established date of operation of the feedlot, whichever time period is greater.  (e) A rule of the department adopted after June 1, 1977 does not apply to a feedlot not previously required to hold a department of environmental quality permit and having an established date of operation prior to the effective date of the rule for either a period of twenty (20) years from the established date of operation of the feedlot or five (5) years from the effective date of the rule, whichever time period is greater.  (f) To achieve compliance with applicable rules the department shall issue an appropriate compliance schedule, and no other provision in this act shall be deemed to empower the department to make any rule.  (g) This section does not apply to limit rules required for delegation of the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act [Clean Water Act], title 33, United States Code, chapter 26, as amended, and 40 Code of Federal Regulations, part 124.
WY Stat § 11-39-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 39 - Livestock Feedlot Operations|Section 11-39-104 - Compliance With Zoning Requirements Mandatory; Applicability Thereof.

11-39-104. Compliance with zoning requirements mandatory; applicability thereof.| (a) A person who operates a feedlot shall comply with applicable zoning requirements in accordance with the provisions of this section. A person complies with this section as a matter of law where no zoning requirement exists.  (b) A zoning requirement applies to a feedlot with an established date of operation subsequent to the effective date of the zoning requirement.  (c) A zoning requirement which is in effect on June 1, 1977 applies to a feedlot with an established date of operation prior to June 1, 1977.  (d) A zoning requirement other than one adopted by a city does not apply to a feedlot with an established date of operation prior to the effective date of the zoning requirement for a period of twenty (20) years from the effective date of that zoning requirement.  (e) A feedlot located within an incorporated area subject to regulation by that city on June 1, 1977 is subject to zoning requirements adopted by the city regardless of the established date of operation of the feedlot.  (f) A zoning requirement adopted by a city does not apply to a feedlot which becomes located within an area subject to regulation by that city by virtue of an incorporation or annexation which takes effect after June 1, 1977 for a period of twenty (20) years from the effective date of the incorporation or annexation.
WY Stat § 11-40-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 40 - Marketing of Wyoming Lean Beef|Section 11-40-101 - Definitions.

11-40-101. Definitions.| (a) As used in this chapter:  (i) "Committee" means the Wyoming lean beef committee created by W.S. 11-40-102;  (ii) "Geographically exclusive license" means a license which gives the licensee the sole right to market Wyoming lean beef at retail, or at wholesale for resale at retail, within the geographic market specified by the committee.
WY Stat § 11-40-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 40 - Marketing of Wyoming Lean Beef|Section 11-40-102 - Creation of Committee; Composition; Administrative Support; Compensation; Officers; Conflict of Interest.

11-40-102. Creation of committee; composition; administrative support; compensation; officers; conflict of interest.| (a) There is created the Wyoming lean beef committee. The initial membership of the committee shall consist of eleven (11) members of whom five (5) shall be members of the faculty of the University of Wyoming, one (1) shall be a person with professional training and experience related to human health and diet, designated by the president of the University of Wyoming, five (5) shall be appointed by the governor of whom three (3) shall be producers of beef cattle, one (1) shall be a person with training and experience in finance, one (1) shall be a person with training and experience in marketing and one (1) shall be the director of the department of agriculture or his designee serving ex officio. The members appointed by the governor shall serve three (3) year terms. The members designated by the president of the university shall serve at his pleasure.  (b) Administrative support for the committee shall be provided by and budgeted for by the University of Wyoming and thereafter it shall be the responsibility of the department of agriculture.  (c) State employees serving on the committee shall receive their normal compensation from their agency. Other members of the committee shall receive no compensation until the calendar year commencing after the calendar year in which the state first receives one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) in royalty for the use of the Wyoming lean beef trademark at which time they shall begin receiving mileage and per diem at the same rate as state legislators.  (d) Every person or organization who pays royalty for more than five hundred (500) head of cattle for the use of the Wyoming lean beef trademark or trade name shall be entitled to designate one (1) nonvoting member of the Wyoming lean beef committee. This right shall be extended for the balance of the year in which necessary royalty is first paid and for the year following any year in which the necessary royalty is paid. Committee members designated under this subsection shall receive no compensation from the state for their services.  (e) The committee shall annually select from among its members a chairman and other officers deemed necessary.  (f) If any member of the committee has applied for or received a license to market Wyoming lean beef or has a financial interest in any organization which has applied for or received a license to market Wyoming lean beef he shall disclose that interest at this first appropriate time during an open meeting of the committee and shall not vote on the issuance of that license, on the issuance of any license for a geographically exclusive area for which he or his organization is also seeking a geographically exclusive license, or any other matter uniquely affecting his license.
WY Stat § 11-40-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 40 - Marketing of Wyoming Lean Beef|Section 11-40-103 - Powers and Duties of the Committee.

11-40-103. Powers and duties of the committee.| (a) The committee shall:  (i) Promulgate regulations establishing quality standards as provided by W.S. 11-40-104 and modify these standards from time to time as necessary;  (ii) Establish regulations and procedures for licensing persons to use the trademark or trade name "Wyoming lean beef";  (iii) Enforce the quality standards for Wyoming lean beef;  (iv) As soon as possible register in the name of the state of Wyoming a trademark or trade name using the words "Wyoming lean beef" with the United States government and with any state where such registration appears prudent;  (v) Take any actions necessary to collect the royalties due the state of Wyoming for the use of the "Wyoming lean beef" trademark or trade name; and  (vi) Register labels to be used on Wyoming lean beef with appropriate agencies of the United States government and any state or foreign country.  (b) The committee may:  (i) Make recommendations to the University of Wyoming for further research concerning Wyoming lean beef;  (ii) Conduct and coordinate advertising and promotion campaigns as provided by W.S. 11-40-107;  (iii) Take any action necessary to prevent infringement of the trademark or trade name by others;  (iv) Authorize the use of public claims that adherence to the quality standards for Wyoming lean beef is certified to by the state of Wyoming and authorize the use of symbols associated with the state of Wyoming including the great seal of the state of Wyoming in connection with the claims;  (v) Receive and disburse funds for advertising, promotion and product development as provided by this chapter and accept voluntary contributions and grants for these purposes;  (vi) Contract with other state agencies, agencies of the United States government and private parties to carry out the purposes of this chapter; and  (vii) Sue and be sued as a committee without individual liability for acts relating to the powers and duties of the committee.
WY Stat § 11-40-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 11 - Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals|Chapter 40 - Marketing of Wyoming Lean Beef|Section 11-40-106 - Enforcement of Standards.

11-40-106. Enforcement of standards.| (a) The committee may promulgate rules or regulations necessary in the management of a program to enforce the standards for Wyoming lean beef.  (b) The committee may require licenses to conduct any inspections of ranching or slaughter operations necessary to insure compliance with Wyoming lean beef standards. The committee may require that this inspection program complies with any requirements imposed by the federal government to insure that the quality standards are met or that claims made on any label for, or advertising concerning, Wyoming lean beef are valid. Nothing in this subsection shall prevent the committee from having necessary inspections performed by employees of the department of agriculture or committee members or other appropriate persons.