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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 2 - Hospitals, Health Care Facilities and Health Services › Article 13 - Electronic Monitoring of Long-Term Care › Section 35-2-1308 - Electronic Monitoring Devices; Rulemaking; Compliance With Rules.

35-2-1308. Electronic monitoring devices; rulemaking; compliance with rules.
(a) The department shall promulgate rules necessary to implement this act including rules for receiving and resolving grievances received from residents.
(b) Any resident or facility using an electronic monitoring device before, on or after October 1, 2020 shall comply with this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-101 - Procedure for Proposing Establishment of Sanitary and Improvement Districts.

35-3-101. Procedure for proposing establishment of sanitary and improvement districts.
(a) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, 5.
(b) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, 5.
(c) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, 5.
(d) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, 5.
(e) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, 5.
(f) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, 5.
(g) A special sanitary and improvement district may be established under the procedures for petitioning, hearing and election of special districts as set forth in the Special District Elections Act of 1994.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-102 - Contents of Petition; Lands Not to Be Included.

35-3-102. Contents of petition; lands not to be included.
The petition for the establishment of said district shall contain a definite description of the territory intended to be embraced in such district according to government survey and the name of the proposed district. No lands included within any municipal corporation shall be included in any sanitary and improvement district, and no tract of twenty (20) acres or more which is outside any municipal corporation and is used primarily for industrial purposes shall be included in any sanitary and improvement district organized under this act without the written consent of the owner of such tract.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-103 - Election of Trustees at Organization; Term; Salary; Corporate Powers.

35-3-103. Election of trustees at organization; term; salary; corporate powers.
At the election for the organization of the district, there shall be elected two (2) trustees for a term of two (2) years and three (3) trustees for a term of four (4) years. Thereafter their respective successors shall be elected for a term of four (4) years and until their successors are elected pursuant to the Special District Elections Act of 1994. At the first meeting after election of one (1) or more members, the board shall elect one (1) of their number president. Such district shall be a body corporate and politic by name of "Sanitary and Improvement District of ....", with power to sue, be sued, contract, acquire, and hold property, and adopt a common seal. The trustees shall each receive as his salary the sum of three dollars ($3.00) for each meeting.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-104 - Bond of Trustees.

35-3-104. Bond of trustees.
Each trustee of any such district shall, prior to entering upon his office, execute and file with the county clerk of the county in which said district, or the greater portion of the area thereof, is located his bond, with one (1) or more sureties, to be approved by the county clerk, running to the state of Wyoming in the penal sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), conditioned for the faithful performance by said trustee of his official duties and the faithful accounting by him for all funds and property of the district that shall come into his possession or control during his term of office. The premium, if any, on any such bond shall be paid out of the funds of the district. Suit may be brought on said bonds by any person, firm or corporation that has sustained loss or damage in consequence of the breach thereof.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-105 - Election and Compensation of Clerk; Employment of Engineer; Ordinances, Rules and Regulations; Publication of Proceedings.

35-3-105. Election and compensation of clerk; employment of engineer; ordinances, rules and regulations; publication of proceedings.
The board of trustees shall elect one (1) of their members clerk and have the power to appoint, employ and pay an engineer, who shall be removable at pleasure. The clerk may be paid not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) per year by said board. The board shall have power to pass all necessary ordinances, orders, rules and regulations for the necessary conduct of its business and to carry into effect the objects for which such sanitary and improvement district is formed. Immediately after each regular and special meeting of said board, it shall cause to be published in one (1) newspaper of general circulation in the district, a brief statement of its proceedings, including an itemized list of bills and claims allowed, specifying the amount of each, to whom paid and for what purpose; provided, no publication shall be required unless the same can be done at an expense not exceeding one-third of the rate for publication of legal notices.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-106 - Power of Trustees to Establish Water Mains, Sewers and Disposal Plants; Approval by State Department of Health.

35-3-106. Power of trustees to establish water mains, sewers and disposal plants; approval by state department of health.
The board of trustees of any district organized under this act shall have power to provide for establishing, maintaining and constructing water mains, sewers and disposal plants, and disposing of drainage, waste and sewage of such district in a satisfactory manner. Any system established shall be approved by the Wyoming state department of health. The district may construct its sewage disposal plant and other sewerage improvements, in whole or in part, inside or outside the boundaries of the district and may contract with corporations or municipalities for disposal of sewage and use of existing sewerage improvements.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-107 - Contracts.

35-3-107. Contracts.
All contracts for work to be done, the expense of which is more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), may employ alternate design and construction delivery methods as defined in W.S. 16-6-701 and shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, upon notice of not less than twenty (20) days of the terms and conditions of the contract to be let. The board of trustees shall have power to reject any and all responses or bids and readvertise for the letting of such work.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-109 - Annual Tax Levy Authorized; Certification and Collection; Treasurer Designated.

35-3-109. Annual tax levy authorized; certification and collection; treasurer designated.
The board of trustees may annually levy and collect taxes for corporate purposes upon property within the limits of such sanitary and improvement district, to the amount of not more than one (1) mill on the dollar of the actual valuation for general purposes and file the resolution in the office of the county clerk who shall record the same in the county where the district lies. The board shall also certify the same to the county assessor of the counties in which the district is located, who shall extend the same upon the county tax list. The same shall be collected by the county treasurer in the same manner as state and county taxes. The county treasurer of the county in which the greater portion of the area of the district is located shall disburse the same on warrants of the board of trustees, and in respect to such fund the county treasurer shall be ex officio treasurer of the sanitary and improvement district.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-110 - Eminent Domain; Power Conferred.

35-3-110. Eminent domain; power conferred.
Such sanitary and improvement district may acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, real or personal property, right-of-way, and privilege, within or without its corporate limits, necessary for its corporate purposes.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-111 - Eminent Domain; Manner of Exercise; Ascertaining Damage to Property.

35-3-111. Eminent domain; manner of exercise; ascertaining damage to property.
Whenever the board of trustees of any sanitary and improvement district shall by order determine to make any public improvement under the provisions of this act which shall require that private property be taken or damaged, the district may cause the damage therefor to be ascertained as nearly as may be according to the provisions of law for the appropriation of right-of-way by railway companies.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-112 - Right-of-Way Over Public Lands.

35-3-112. Right-of-way over public lands.
Whenever it is necessary, in making any improvement under the provisions of this act, to enter upon or cross any state or public lands, the district may acquire a right-of-way over the lands subject to any rules, regulations or requirements as may be necessary and by paying fair market value for the right-of-way as determined by the board of land commissioners subject to appeal to district court as to the determination of fair market value.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-113 - Annual Oversight of Accounts; Information to Be Shown; Powers and Duties of Director.

35-3-113. Annual oversight of accounts; information to be shown; powers and duties of director.
(a) The director of the state department of audit shall cause there to be oversight of the books of account, kept by the board of trustees of each sanitary and improvement district in the state of Wyoming, in accordance with W.S. 9-1-507 or 16-4-121(f), as applicable.
(i) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(ii) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(iii) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(iv) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(v) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(vi) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(vii) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(viii) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(ix) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(x) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(xi) Repealed by Laws 1995, ch. 199, 2.
(b) All reports under subsection (a) of this section shall be and remain a part of the public records in the office of the director of the state department of audit. The expense of such oversight shall be paid out of the funds of the district. The director of the state department of audit or his designee shall be given access to all books and papers, contracts, minutes, bonds and other documents and memoranda of every kind and character of such district and be furnished all additional information possessed by any present or past officer or employee of any such district, or by any other person, that is essential to the making of a comprehensive and correct report.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-114 - Annexation by City or Village.

35-3-114. Annexation by city or village.
If the district, or any part of it, is annexed by any city or village, such city or village shall assume and pay the bonds and other obligations outstanding at the time of annexation.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-115 - Bonds; General Requirements as to Issuance; Tax Levy.

35-3-115. Bonds; general requirements as to issuance; tax levy.
The district may borrow money for corporate purposes and issue its general obligation bonds therefor, but the principal amount of the general obligation bond shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the assessed valuation of the taxable property in the district and the district shall cause to be levied and collected annually a tax by valuation on all the taxable property in the district, except intangible property, sufficient to pay the interest and principal of the bonds as the interest and principal become due and payable. In lieu of the issuance of general obligation bonds, the district may issue its revenue bonds to pay all or part of the cost of the improvements and pledge and hypothecate the revenues and earnings of its sewer system for the payment of the revenue bonds, and enter into a contract with reference thereto as may be necessary or proper. The district may pay part of the cost of the improvements by the issuance of general obligation bonds and part by the issuance of revenue bonds. The procedure for the issuance of the bonds shall be that prescribed by this act. The limit on the amount of the bonds shall not apply to revenue bonds payable solely from the revenues and earnings of the district.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-116 - Bonds; Judicial Examination and Approval; Prerequisite to Sale.

35-3-116. Bonds; judicial examination and approval; prerequisite to sale.
The board of trustees of a sanitary and improvement district organized under the provisions of this act, shall, before issuing and before selling any bonds of such district, commence special proceedings, in and by which the proceedings of the board and of the district providing for and authorizing the issue and sale of the bonds of the district shall be judicially examined, approved and confirmed, or disapproved and disaffirmed.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-117 - Bonds; Judicial Examination and Approval; Petition.

35-3-117. Bonds; judicial examination and approval; petition.
The board of trustees of the district or such holder or holders of any bond or bonds of the district shall file in the district court of the county in which the lands of the district, or the greater portion thereof, are situated, a petition praying in effect that the proceedings aforesaid may be examined, approved, and confirmed by the court. The petition shall state the facts showing the proceedings had for the issuance and sale of the bonds and shall state generally that the sanitary and improvement district was duly organized, and that the first board of trustees was duly elected. The petition need not state the facts showing such organization of the district or the election of the first board of trustees.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-118 - Bonds; Judicial Examination and Approval; Notice and Hearing.

35-3-118. Bonds; judicial examination and approval; notice and hearing.
The court shall fix the time for the hearing of the petition, and shall order the clerk of the court to give and publish a notice of the filing of the petition. The notice shall be given as is provided in section 3. The notice shall state the time and place fixed for the hearing of the petition and prayer of the petition, and that any person interested in the organization of the district, or in the proceedings for the issuance or sale of the bonds may, on or before the day fixed for the hearing of the petition, move to dismiss the petition or answer thereto. The petition may be referred to and described in the notice as the petition of .... (giving its name), praying that the proceedings for the issuance and sale of such bonds of such district may be examined, approved and confirmed by the court.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-119 - Bonds; Judicial Examination and Approval; Objections to Petition; Pleading and Practice.

35-3-119. Bonds; judicial examination and approval; objections to petition; pleading and practice.
Any person interested in the district, or in the issuance or sale of the bonds, may move to dismiss the petition or answer thereto. The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure respecting motions and answer to a petition shall be applicable to motions and answer to the petition in such special proceedings. The persons so filing motion and answering the petition shall be the defendants in the special proceedings, and the board of trustees shall be the plaintiff. Every material statement of the petition not specially controverted by the answer must, for the purpose of such special proceedings, be taken as true. Each person failing to answer the petition shall be deemed to admit as true all the material statements of the petition. The rules of pleading and practice provided by the Code of Civil Procedure which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act are applicable to the special proceedings herein provided for.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-120 - Bonds; Judicial Examination and Approval; Powers of Court; Confirmation or Disapproval of Issue; Cost; History of Proceedings; Endorsement and Registration.

35-3-120. Bonds; judicial examination and approval; powers of court; confirmation or disapproval of issue; cost; history of proceedings; endorsement and registration.
Upon the hearing of such special proceedings, the court shall have power and jurisdiction to examine and determine the legality and validity of, and approve and confirm or disapprove and disaffirm each and all of the proceedings for the organization of such district under the provisions of this act, from and including the petition for the organization of the district, and all other proceedings which may affect the legality or validity of the bonds and the order of sale and the sale thereof. The court in inquiring into the regularity, legality or correctness of such proceedings, must disregard an error, irregularity or omission which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties to such special proceedings. It may approve and confirm such proceedings in part and disapprove and declare illegal or invalid other and subsequent parts of the proceedings. The court shall find and determine whether the notice of the filing of the petition has been duly given and published for the time and in the manner prescribed in W.S. 35-3-118. The costs of the special proceedings may be allowed and apportioned between the parties in the discretion of the court. If the court shall determine the proceedings for the organization of the district and for the voting and issuing of the bonds legal and valid, the board of trustees shall then prepare a written statement beginning with the filing of the petition for the organization of the district, including all subsequent proceedings for the organization of the district and voting and issuing of the bonds, and ending with the decree of the court finding the proceedings for the organization of the district and the proceedings for the voting and issuing of the bonds legal and valid, and shall present such written statement and the bonds to the director of the state department of audit. The written statement shall be certified under oath by the board of trustees of the district, and the director shall then examine the statements and the bonds so submitted to him and if he is satisfied that the bonds have been voted in conformity to law and are in all respects in due form, he shall record the statement and register the bonds in his office. No such bonds shall be issued or be valid unless they shall be so registered and have endorsed thereon a certificate of the examiner showing that such bonds are issued pursuant to law, the data filed in the office of the director being the basis of such certificate.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-121 - Bonds; Objections to Issuance; Submission of Question to Voters; Issuance Upon Favorable Vote; Rate of Interest.

35-3-121. Bonds; objections to issuance; submission of question to voters; issuance upon favorable vote; rate of interest.
If the electors of the district, equal in number to forty percent (40%) of the electors of the district voting at the last general state election, file written objections to the proposed issuance of the bonds with the clerk of the board of trustees within twenty (20) days after the first publication of notice, the board of trustees shall submit the proposition of issuing the bonds to the electors of the district at an election on a date as determined by the board of county commissioners and authorized under W.S. 22-21-103, notice of which shall be given by publication in a legal newspaper published or of general circulation in the district three (3) consecutive weeks. If a majority of the qualified electors of the district, voting upon the proposition, vote in favor of issuing bonds, the board of trustees may issue and sell bonds and, if revenue bonds are issued, pledge for the payment of same the revenues and earnings of the improvements as proposed in the notice, and enter into contracts in connection therewith as may be necessary or proper. The bonds shall draw interest from and after the date of the issuance thereof, at a rate determined by the board. In the event the electors fail to approve the proposition by majority vote, the proposition shall not be again submitted to the electors for their consideration until five (5) months have elapsed from the date of the election.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-122 - Rules and Regulations of Trustees; Determination and Collection of Service Charges; Discontinuance of Service.

35-3-122. Rules and regulations of trustees; determination and collection of service charges; discontinuance of service.
The board of trustees may make all necessary rules and regulations governing the use, operation, and control thereof. The board may establish an initial connection charge to be paid by any person, firm or corporation connecting to the system at the time of connection and establish just and equitable rates or charges to be paid to it for connections and the use of the water mains, disposal plant and sewerage system by each person, firm or corporation whose premises are served thereby. If the service charge so established is not paid when due, such sum may be recovered by the district in an action for the recovery of money or it may be certified to the county assessor and assessed against the premises served, and collected or returned in the same manner as other district taxes are certified, assessed, collected and returned. The district through its board of trustees, may make contracts or agreements whereby a person or corporation, public or private, furnishing water to the inhabitants of the district, shall turn off and refuse to sell water to any such water user who is delinquent in the payment of any sewer rental or service charges over forty-five (45) days. Notice of such discontinuance of water service to such person or corporation and water user shall be given by registered mail.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-123 - Required Connections With Sewer.

35-3-123. Required connections with sewer.
Whenever a sewer system has been established, all dwellings in the district shall connect therewith and all septic tanks shall be dispensed with. The board of trustees shall have the authority to institute court proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction to carry out the provisions of this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 3 - Sanitary and Improvement Districts › Section 35-3-124 - Preparation of Plans and Specifications for Improvement; Estimate of Cost; Notice Required Before Adoption; Information to Be Shown in Notice.

35-3-124. Preparation of plans and specifications for improvement; estimate of cost; notice required before adoption; information to be shown in notice.
(a) The board of trustees of such district shall first cause plans and specifications for said improvements and an estimate of the cost thereof to be made by a special engineer employed for that purpose. Such plans, specifications and estimate of cost, after being approved and adopted by the board of trustees, shall be filed with the county clerk and be open to public inspection.
(b) The board of trustees shall then, by resolution entered in the minutes of their proceedings, direct that public notice be given in regard thereto. This notice shall state:
(i) The general nature of the improvements proposed to be made;
(ii) That the plans, specifications and estimate thereof are on file in the office of the county clerk and are open to public inspection;
(iii) The estimated cost thereof;
(iv) That it has proposed to pay for the same by:
(A) Direct obligation bonds payable from unlimited ad valorem taxes on all the property located in the district in which the bonds are issued;
(B) Revenue bonds payable from service charges from present and future residents of the district; or
(C) A combination of the two (2) methods.
(v) The principal amount of said bonds which it proposes to issue;
(vi) The maximum rate of interest which the bonds will bear and that they shall mature in not to exceed forty (40) years from the date of issuance thereof;
(vii) That in the event revenue bonds are issued, the payment of said bonds will be a lien upon and will be secured by a pledge of the revenues and earnings from the improvements;
(viii) The kind of improvements whose revenues and earnings are to be so pledged;
(ix) That any qualified elector of the district may file written objections to the issuance of said bonds with the clerk of the board of trustees of the district within twenty (20) days after the first publication of said notice;
(x) That if such objections are filed within said time by qualified electors of the district, equal in number to forty percent (40%) of the electors of the district who voted at the last general state election, the bonds will not be issued unless the issuance of such bonds is otherwise authorized in accordance with law; and
(xi) That if such objections are not so filed by such percentage of such electors, the board of trustees of the district proposes to pass a resolution authorizing the sale of said bonds and making such contracts with reference thereto as may be necessary or proper.
(c) Such notice shall be signed by the clerk of the board of trustees and be published three (3) consecutive weeks in a legal newspaper published or of general circulation in the district.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-101 - Department of Health to Prescribe Rules and Regulations; Penalty for Violation; Resisting or Interfering With Enforcement.

35-4-101. Department of health to prescribe rules and regulations; penalty for violation; resisting or interfering with enforcement.
The state department of health shall have the power to prescribe rules and regulations for the management and control of communicable diseases. Any persons violating or refusing to obey such rules and regulations or resisting or interfering with any officer or agent of the state department of health while in the performance of his duties shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by the imposition of such penalty as may be provided by law. Or in the discretion of the court said person may be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30) days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-102 - Liability of County for Medical Services; Indigent Patients.

35-4-102. Liability of county for medical services; indigent patients.
The respective counties of the state shall not be liable for the payment of any claim for service rendered by any physician in the treatment of contagious diseases, unless such treatment shall be for the care of indigent persons who are a public charge.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-104 - Quarantine Regulations Generally; Modification or Abrogation.

35-4-104. Quarantine regulations generally; modification or abrogation.
In case of the existence of smallpox, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or any infectious or contagious disease, including venereal diseases, that is a menace to public health, or of any epidemic of any such disease, the state health officer may, if he deems proper, proceed to the locality where such disease exists, and make such investigation as is necessary to ascertain the cause therefor, and in case of quarantine established by the county health officer, the state health officer shall have power after close personal inspection, to modify or abrogate any or all quarantine regulations after the same have been established.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-105 - Escape From Quarantine Deemed Crime; Punishment.

35-4-105. Escape from quarantine deemed crime; punishment.
Any person or persons confined in any quarantine established in this state under the provisions of this act who shall escape therefrom or attempt to escape therefrom, without having been dismissed upon the certificate or authority of the county health officer may be charged with a crime and shall be quarantined for tuberculosis or other emergent disease or condition that might pose comparable risk for transmission in the absence of strict quarantine, and confined to a site designated by the state health officer and the director of the department of health until such disease is cured or becomes inactive or noninfectious. Upon conviction of a violation of this section, a person may be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment for not more than one (1) year.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-106 - Vaccination for Smallpox; Penalty for Refusal.

35-4-106. Vaccination for smallpox; penalty for refusal.
The state department of health may adopt such measures for the general vaccination of the inhabitants of any city, town or county in the state, as they shall deem proper and necessary to prevent the introduction or arrest the progress of smallpox; and every person who shall refuse to be vaccinated, or prevent any person under his care and control from being vaccinated, or who shall fail to present himself or herself to the county health officer or a practicing physician acting under the direction of the department or county health officer, for the purpose of being vaccinated, if such physician believes vaccination necessary, shall upon conviction be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or less than ten dollars ($10.00) or imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty (30) days.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-107 - Report Required of Physician; Record of Each Case to Be Kept; Duty of Individuals to Report Diseases.

35-4-107. Report required of physician; record of each case to be kept; duty of individuals to report diseases.
(a) Pursuant to department of health rules and regulations, the state health officer or his designee shall publish a list of communicable diseases or conditions to be reported by licensed physicians and laboratories in the state. It shall be the duty of every practicing or licensed physician or other health care provider as provided by department rules and regulations in the state of Wyoming to report immediately to the state health officer or his designee in the manner established by department rule and regulation through published reporting procedures provided to each licensed physician or laboratory. The state health officer or his designee shall collect and provide information which may include the name of the person suffering from disease only to the county health officer or health representatives where disease control efforts are required. For purposes of this section, "health representatives" means those health care workers assigned by federal, state or local health authorities to assist with disease control and investigation efforts under the direct supervision of the state health officer or his designee and local county health officer. Any person knowing of a case of a serious contagious or infectious disease, not under the care of a physician, may report the same to the state health officer or his designee or the health officer of the county in which the disease exists.
(b) Pursuant to department of health rules and regulations, there may be a review of medical records by the state health officer, his designee or their designated health care representatives who shall be under the direct supervision of the state health officer or his designee to confirm diagnosis, investigate causes or identify other cases of disease conditions in a region, community or workplace in the state to determine if proper measures have been taken to protect public health and safety. Notwithstanding other provisions of state law, the review of records may occur without patient consent, but shall be kept confidential and shall be restricted to information necessary for the control, investigation and prevention of disease conditions dangerous to the public health. Any person who receives medical information under this subsection shall not disclose that information for any other purpose other than for purposes of the investigation and disease control efforts. Any violation of this subsection is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-108 - Penalty for Failure to Report or for False Report.

35-4-108. Penalty for failure to report or for false report.
Any practicing, licensed physician or other person required to report who fails to report to the state health officer or his designee any case of disease in the manner provided in W.S. 35-4-107, or who willfully makes any false report regarding any case, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisonment in the county jail not more than six (6) months, or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-109 - Spreading Contagious Disease; Prohibited.

35-4-109. Spreading contagious disease; prohibited.
Any person who shall knowingly have or use about his premises, or who shall convey or cause to be conveyed into any neighborhood, any clothing, bedding or other substance used by, or in taking care of, any person afflicted with the smallpox or other infectious or contagious disease, or infected thereby, or shall do any other act with intent to, or necessarily tending to the spread of such disease, into any neighborhood or locality, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by both fine and imprisonment; and the court trying any such offender may also include in any judgment rendered, an order to the effect that the clothing or other property infected be burned or otherwise destroyed, and shall have power to carry such order into effect.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-110 - Spreading Contagious Disease; Liability for Damages in Civil Action.

35-4-110. Spreading contagious disease; liability for damages in civil action.
Any person guilty of violating the provisions of W.S. 35-4-109, in addition to the penalties therein prescribed, shall be liable in a civil action in damages to any and all persons, who may, from that cause, become infected with such contagious disease; said damages shall be so assessed as to include, in addition to other damages, all expenses incurred by reason of such sickness, loss of time and burial expenses; and such action may also be maintained by the representative of any deceased person.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-111 - Reporting of Reye's Syndrome.

35-4-111. Reporting of Reye's Syndrome.
Every hospital or local health officer shall immediately report every diagnosed case of Reye's Syndrome to the state health officer of the department of health.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-112 - Right of Appeal of Quarantine.

35-4-112. Right of appeal of quarantine.
(a) Any person who has been quarantined pursuant to this act may appeal to the district court at any time for release from the quarantine. The court may hold a hearing on the appeal after notice is provided to the state health officer at least seventy-two (72) hours prior to the hearing. After the hearing, if the court finds that the quarantine is not reasonably necessary to protect the public health, it shall order the person released from quarantine. The burden of proof for the need for the quarantine shall be on the state health officer, except that in the case of bona fide scientific or medical uncertainty the court shall give deference to the professional judgment of the state health officer unless the person quarantined proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the quarantine is not reasonably necessary to protect the public health.
(b) Any person quarantined shall have the right to communicate by telephone or any other available electronic means, but the state health officer may, in order to protect the public health, deny the quarantined person's right to meet in person with any person not subject to the quarantine, except that a parent or legal guardian may upon request be quarantined with the minor patient.
(c) In the event of a public health emergency of unknown effect, the state health officer may impose a temporary quarantine until there is sufficient information to determine what actions, if any, are reasonably needed to protect the public health.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-113 - Treatment When Consent Is Not Available; Quarantine.

35-4-113. Treatment when consent is not available; quarantine.
(a) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, W.S. 14-4-116 and 21-4-309, the state health officer shall not subject any person to any vaccination or medical treatment without the consent of the person.
(b) During a public health emergency, the state health officer may subject a person to vaccination or medical treatment without consent in the following circumstances:
(i) If the parent, legal guardian or other adult person authorized to consent to medical treatment of a minor child cannot be located and consulted and the vaccination of or medical treatment for the minor child is reasonably needed to protect the public health or protect the minor child from disease, death, disability or suffering;
(ii) If the person authorized to consent on behalf of an incompetent person cannot be located and consulted and the vaccination of or medical treatment for the incompetent person is reasonably needed to protect the public health or protect the incompetent person from disease, death, disability or suffering.
(c) If a person withholds or refuses consent for himself, a minor or other incompetent when the vaccination or medical treatment is reasonably needed to protect the health of others from a disease carrying the risk of death or disability, then the person for whom the vaccination or medical treatment is refused may be quarantined by the state health officer.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-114 - Immunity From Liability.

35-4-114. Immunity from liability.
(a) During a public health emergency as defined by W.S. 35-4-115(a)(i) and subject to subsection (d) of this section, any health care provider or other person, including a business entity, who in good faith follows the instructions of a state, city, town or county health officer or who acts in good faith in responding to the public health emergency is immune from any liability arising from complying with those instructions or acting in good faith. This immunity shall apply to health care providers who are retired, who have an inactive license or who are licensed in another state without a valid Wyoming license and while performing as a volunteer during a declared public health emergency as defined by W.S. 35-4-115(a)(i). This immunity shall not apply to acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.
(b) The licensing boards for any health care provider holding a permit or license as a health care provider regulated under title 33 of the Wyoming statutes shall provide by rule and regulations for the temporary licensure of health care providers during a public health emergency as declared by the governor pursuant to W.S. 35-4-115(a)(i). If necessary during a declared public health emergency, the state health officer may issue temporary practice licenses to health care providers who are retired, who have an inactive license or who are licensed in another state without a valid Wyoming license pending action on an application for issuance of a temporary license by the appropriate licensing board pursuant to this subsection.
(c) All temporary health care provider licenses issued by the state health officer under subsection (b) of this section shall terminate automatically upon declaration by the governor, pursuant to W.S. 35-4-115(a)(i), that the public health emergency has ended.
(d) Any health care provider, person or entity shall be immune from liability for damages in an action involving a COVID-19 liability claim unless the person seeking damages proves that the health care provider, person or entity took actions that constitutes gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit any other immunity available under law, including the immunity provided in subsection (a) of this section. As used in this subsection, "COVID-19 liability claim" means as defined by W.S. 1-1-141(a)(iii).
(e) Any acts or omissions constituting the basis of a COVID-19 liability claim as defined by W.S. 1-1-141(a)(iii) shall be stated with particularity and shall be proven by clear and convincing evidence.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-115 - Definitions.

35-4-115. Definitions.
(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Public health emergency" means an occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition caused by an epidemic or pandemic disease, a novel and highly fatal infectious agent or a biological toxin that poses a substantial risk of a significant number of human fatalities or incidents of permanent or long-term disability. The governor shall declare when a public health emergency exists or has ended;
(ii) "Quarantine" means:
(A) The physical separation and confinement of an individual or group of individuals that has been, or may have been, exposed to, or is reasonably believed to be infected with, a contagious or possibly contagious disease, from nonquarantined individuals, to prevent or limit the transmission of the disease to nonquarantined individuals;
(B) The isolation of a geographic area where individuals are located who have been or are reasonably believed to have been exposed to or infected by a contagious or possibly contagious disease; or
(C) The physical separation and confinement of an individual or group of individuals or the isolation of a geographic area where a public health emergency of unknown effect has occurred or is reasonably believed to have occurred.
Division 2. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-130 - Declared Contagious and Dangerous to Health; List of Reportable Diseases Established by Department of Health; Violation of w.s. 35-4-130 Through 35-4-134; Penalty.

35-4-130. Declared contagious and dangerous to health; list of reportable diseases established by department of health; violation of W.S. 35-4-130 through 35-4-134; penalty.
(a) Sexually transmitted diseases as included within the list of reportable diseases of the department of health are contagious, infectious, communicable and dangerous to public health.
(b) The department of health shall by rule and regulation develop a list of reportable sexually transmitted diseases including all venereal diseases and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The list shall be available to all physicians, health officers, hospitals and other health care providers and facilities within the state.
(c) Any person violating W.S. 35-4-130 through 35-4-134 or failing or refusing to comply with any order lawfully issued under W.S. 35-4-130 through 35-4-134 is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 35 - Public Health and Safety › Chapter 4 - Health Regulations Generally › Article 1 - Communicable Diseases › Section 35-4-131 - Consent of Minors to Treatment; Treatment of Infected or Exposed Persons; Immunity From Liability.

35-4-131. Consent of minors to treatment; treatment of infected or exposed persons; immunity from liability.
(a) Persons under eighteen (18) years of age may give legal consent for examination and treatment for any sexually transmitted disease infection.
(b) For the protection of public health, a physician, health officer or other person or facility providing health care in accordance with state or federal law shall for any individual regardless of age, sex, race or color:
(i) If reasonably suspected of being infected with any sexually transmitted disease, administer, refer for or recommend appropriate and adequate treatment;
(ii) If exposed to any sexually transmitted disease, recommend or offer treatment.
(c) Physical examination and treatment by a licensed physician or other qualified health care provider of a person under eighteen (18) years of age consenting to examination or treatment is not an assault or an assault and battery upon that person.