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WY Stat § 37-12-118 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-118 - Electricity; Penalty.

37-12-118. Electricity; penalty.| Any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty (30) days or more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
WY Stat § 37-12-119 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-119 - Interfering or Tampering With Petroleum Pipeline.

37-12-119. Interfering or tampering with petroleum pipeline.| It shall be unlawful for any person, intentionally, knowingly and without lawful right so to do, to tap, tamper with, alter, interfere with or injure any oil well, drip, pipeline, or any other facility used in the production, handling, refining, or transportation of gas, natural gasoline, casinghead gasoline, petroleum, or derivatives or by-products of any of them. Any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this act [section] shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for more than five (5) years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
WY Stat § 37-12-120 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-120 - Interference With or Injury to Electric Utility Poles or Wires; Affixing Posters to Telegraph, Telephone and Electric Utility Poles Prohibited; Penalties.

37-12-120. Interference with or injury to electric utility poles or wires; affixing posters to telegraph, telephone and electric utility poles prohibited; penalties.| (a) Whoever maliciously or mischievously takes down, removes, interferes with, obstructs or injures any electric utility pole or wire, or any part thereof, or any appurtenance or apparatus connected therewith, or severs or breaks or obstructs any such wire or apparatus or appurtenance is guilty of a malicious trespass.  (b) Whoever affixes any poster, placard, sign, or notice of any kind, to any telegraph, telephone or electric utility pole or wire, or any part thereof, or any appurtenance or apparatus connected thereto is guilty of malicious trespass.  (c) Any person convicted of a malicious trespass as defined in this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months.
WY Stat § 37-12-121 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-121 - Damaging Public Telephones or Equipment or Telegraph or Telephone Lines or Poles.

37-12-121. Damaging public telephones or equipment or telegraph or telephone lines or poles.| Any person who willfully displaces, removes, injures or destroys any public telephone instrument or any part thereof or any equipment or facilities associated therewith or who enters or breaks into any coin box associated therewith or who willfully displaces, removes, injures or destroys any telegraph or telephone line, wire, cable, pole or conduit belonging to another or the material or property appurtenant thereto is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not more than five (5) years, to which may be added a fine not exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).
WY Stat § 37-12-124 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-124 - Sale of Equipment Designed to Conceal Source or Avoid Charges for Telecommunication Service; Prohibited.

37-12-124. Sale of equipment designed to conceal source or avoid charges for telecommunication service; prohibited.| (a) Any individual, corporation or other person who under circumstances evincing an intent to defraud, makes, possesses, sells, gives, or otherwise transfers to another, or who offers or advertises for sale, any instrument, apparatus, equipment or device, or any plans or instructions for making or assembling the same, and which is designed or adapted, or which can be used:  (i) To fraudulently avoid the lawful charge for any telecommunication service in violation of section 1, chapter 126, Session Laws of Wyoming 1961; or,  (ii) To conceal, or to assist another to conceal, from any supplier of telecommunication service or from any lawful authority, the existence or place of origin or of destination of any telecommunication, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
WY Stat § 37-12-125 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-125 - Sale of Equipment Designed to Conceal Source or Avoid Charges for Telecommunication Service; Exemption.

37-12-125. Sale of equipment designed to conceal source or avoid charges for telecommunication service; exemption.| Nothing herein shall apply to holders of valid federal communications commission licenses when the licensee is acting within the scope of his license; provided that nothing herein shall excuse any person from compliance with lawful tariffs of any telecommunications company.
WY Stat § 37-12-126 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-126 - Failure to Yield Telephone for Reporting Emergencies; Definitions.

37-12-126. Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; definitions.| (a) In W.S. 37-12-126 through 37-12-130 unless the context otherwise requires:  (i) "Party line" means a subscriber's line telephone circuit, consisting of two (2) or more main telephone stations connected therewith, each station with a distinctive ring or telephone number;  (ii) "Emergency" means a situation in which property or human life is in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of aid is essential.
WY Stat § 37-12-127 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-127 - Failure to Yield Telephone for Reporting Emergencies; Misdemeanor; Exception.

37-12-127. Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; misdemeanor; exception.| Any person who willfully refuses to yield or surrender the use of a party line or a public pay telephone to another person for the purpose of permitting such other person to report a fire or summon police, medical or other aid in case of emergency, is guilty of a misdemeanor. This section shall not apply to persons using a party line for such an emergency call.
WY Stat § 37-12-128 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-128 - Failure to Yield Telephone for Reporting Emergencies; Pretext That Emergency Exists.

37-12-128. Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; pretext that emergency exists.| Any person who asks for or requests the use of a party line or a public pay telephone on the pretext that an emergency exists, knowing that no emergency in fact exists, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
WY Stat § 37-12-129 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-129 - Failure to Yield Telephone for Reporting Emergencies; Defense.

37-12-129. Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; defense.| It is a defense to prosecution under this act that the accused did not know or did not have reason to know of the emergency in question, or that the accused was himself using the telephone party line or public pay telephone for such an emergency call.
WY Stat § 37-12-130 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities|Section 37-12-130 - Failure to Yield Telephone for Reporting Emergencies; Notice in Telephone Directories.

37-12-130. Failure to yield telephone for reporting emergencies; notice in telephone directories.| Every telephone directory published after the effective date of this act and which is distributed to the members of the general public of this state shall contain, in a prominent place, a notice which explains the offenses provided in this act. The provisions of this section shall not apply to those directories distributed solely for public advertising purposes, commonly known as classified directories.
WY Stat § 37-12-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-201 - Failure to Obey Orders of Commission, Provisions of Statutes.

37-12-201. Failure to obey orders of commission, provisions of statutes.| Every public utility and all officers, agents and employees of any public utility, and every person shall obey, observe and comply with every lawful order made by the commission under authority of this act so long as the same shall be and remain in force. Any public utility, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, or any person who shall violate any provision of this act, or shall fail, omit or neglect to obey, observe or comply with any lawful order or any direction or any requirement of the commission shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each and every offense; every violation of any such order or requirement of this act shall be a separate and distinct offense and in case of a continuing violation, every day's continuance thereof shall be and be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense.
WY Stat § 37-12-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-202 - Public Utility Personnel Violating or Aiding or Abetting in Violations.

37-12-202. Public utility personnel violating or aiding or abetting in violations.| (a) Every officer, agent or employee of any public utility, who shall violate, or who shall procure, aid or abet any violation by any public utility of any provision of this act, or who shall fail to obey, observe and comply with any lawful order of the commission, or any provision of any lawful order of the commission, or who shall procure, aid, or abet any public utility in its failure to obey, observe and comply with any such order or provision, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense.  (b) Every officer, agent or employee of any public utility who violates or fails to comply with, or procures, aids or abets any violation by any public utility of any provision of this act, or who fails to obey, observe or comply with any order, decision, rule, direction, demand or requirement, or any part or provision thereof, of the commission, or who procures, aids or abets any public utility in its failure to obey, observe and comply with any such order, decision, rule, direction, demand or requirement, or any part or provision thereof, in a case in which a penalty has not hereinbefore been provided for, such officer, agent or employee is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or both such fine and imprisonment.
WY Stat § 37-12-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-203 - Giving or Receiving Preferences.

37-12-203. Giving or receiving preferences.| Any natural person who knowingly authorizes, gives or affords any benefit, preference or advantage, or who knowingly receives or participates directly or indirectly in any benefit, preference or advantage from such offense, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense.
WY Stat § 37-12-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-204 - Refusal to File Report or Answer Questions.

37-12-204. Refusal to file report or answer questions.| Any public utility which refuses to make and file any report called for by the commission within the time specified, or within the time extended, as the case may be, or willfully refuses to answer to any question propounded by the commissioner shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each offense.
WY Stat § 37-12-205 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-205 - Making False Returns.

37-12-205. Making false returns.| Any person who willfully makes any false return or report to the commission, or to any member, agent or employee thereof, and any person who aids or abets such person, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned as the court may direct for a term not exceeding five (5) years for each offense.
WY Stat § 37-12-206 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-206 - Hindering Investigation.

37-12-206. Hindering investigation.| Any person who willfully obstructs or hinders the commission or a member thereof, or an authorized agent or examiner in making an inspection, examination or investigation of the accounts, records, memoranda, books or papers of any public utility, or of the property or facilities thereof is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisoned as the court may direct for a term not exceeding five (5) years.
WY Stat § 37-12-207 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-207 - Divulging Information; Exception.

37-12-207. Divulging information; exception.| Any regular or special employee of the commission who divulges any facts or information coming to his knowledge respecting an inspection, examination or investigation of any account, record, memoranda, book or paper or of the property and facilities of a public utility, except insofar as he may be authorized by the commission or by a court of competent jurisdiction, or the judge thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
WY Stat § 37-12-208 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-208 - Utility Liable for Loss or Damage.

37-12-208. Utility liable for loss or damage.| In case any public utility shall do, cause to be done, or permit to be done, any act, matter or thing prohibited, forbidden or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any act, matter or thing required to be done by this act, or by any lawful order of the commission, such public utility shall be liable to the persons affected thereby for the amount of all loss, damage or injury caused thereby or resulting therefrom. An action to recover for such loss, damage or injury may be brought in any district court in this state by any person.
WY Stat § 37-12-209 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-209 - Accepting Rebates.

37-12-209. Accepting rebates.| Any person receiving service from any public utility subject to the provisions of this act, who shall knowingly by an employee, agent, officer or otherwise, directly or indirectly, by or through any means or device whatsoever, receive or accept from such public utility any sum of money or other valuable consideration as rebate or offset against the regular charge for such service as fixed by the schedule of rates provided for in this act, shall in addition to any penalty provided for by this act, forfeit to the state a sum of money three (3) times the amount of money so received or accepted and three (3) times the value of any other consideration so received or accepted, to be ascertained by the trial court; and the attorney general of the state, or the attorney of the commission under its direction shall institute in the name of the state in the district court of the county in which the commission has its principal offices a civil action to collect the said sum or sums so forfeited as aforesaid; in the trial of the said action, all such rebate or other consideration so received or accepted subsequent to the passage of this act for a period of three (3) years prior to the commencement of the action may be included therein; the amount of the recovery shall be three (3) times the total amount of money or three (3) times the total value of such consideration received or accepted, or both, as the case may be.
WY Stat § 37-12-210 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-210 - Perjury.

37-12-210. Perjury.| Any person who knowingly makes any false statement of fact under oath, whether oral or in writing, as required by this act, is guilty of perjury and upon conviction shall be punished as provided for in the perjury statutes of this state.
WY Stat § 37-12-211 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-211 - Penalty for Violations by Utility; Other Offenses.

37-12-211. Penalty for violations by utility; other offenses.| Any public utility which violates or fails to comply with any provision of this act, or which fails, omits or neglects to obey, observe or comply with any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand or requirement, or any part or provision thereof, of the commission, in a case in which a penalty has not hereinbefore been provided for, such public utility is subject to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for each and every offense.
WY Stat § 37-12-212 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-212 - Additional Penalties.

37-12-212. Additional penalties.| Every public utility, all officers and agents of any public utility, and every person shall obey, observe and comply with every provision of this act and with every order made by the commission under authority of this act and duly served in accordance with its provisions so long as the same shall be and remain in force. Any public utility or its officers or agents, and any other persons, who shall knowingly and willfully violate any of the provisions of this act is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, or who fails, omits or neglects to obey, observe or comply with any order or any direction or requirement of the commission, shall (in addition to liability to the party aggrieved for all damages sustained by reason of such violation) forfeit to the state not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each and every violation, or in case of a violation which is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony, not to exceed the maximum sum fixed as a fine therefor, which shall be recovered in an action at law to the use of the state upon the complaint of the commission appearing by its attorney or the attorney general; but no such action shall be maintained unless brought within two (2) years after the date of such violation; nor shall such an action be maintained in the case of a person who has already been convicted for the same violation of this act, and recovery by civil action brought in accordance with this section shall not be a bar to any criminal prosecution for the same violation of this act.
WY Stat § 37-12-213 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities|Article 2 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities of Public Utilities, Officers and Employees|Section 37-12-213 - Disposition of Fines.

37-12-213. Disposition of fines.| All fines, forfeitures and penalties collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the state treasurer and credited as provided in W.S. 8-1-109; and all penalties accruing under this act shall be cumulative of each other, and the suit for the recovery of one (1) penalty shall not be a bar to or affect the recovery of another penalty or forfeiture or be a bar to any criminal prosecution against any such public utility or any officer, director, agent or employee thereof.