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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 5 - Conveyances Validated › Section 34-5-111 - Adverse Claims; Action by Heir Against Purchaser.

34-5-111. Adverse claims; action by heir against purchaser.
In any action contemplated in the preceding section, commenced and brought by an heir or devisee of such deceased person in this action contemplated, or the successor in interest of such heir or devisee, if it shall appear that such heir or devisee had knowledge, either by personal notice, or constructively under the laws of the state where the estate of such deceased person was administered, of the fact of the sale or the conveyance of such real estate mentioned in the two (2) preceding sections, or where such person appeared in the proceedings in court relating thereto, it shall be prima facie evidence against such devisee and heir, and against any successor in interest of such heir or devisee without adequate consideration, that such heir and devisee consented to such sale and conveyance, and intended thereby, and did thereby, vest in the purchaser under such conveyance, or sale, all the right, title and interest which such devisee and heir had in and to such real estate so sold or conveyed at the time of such sale or conveyance, and meant to be estopped thereby to claim any future title or interest therein, and if such action is brought by the successor in interest of such heir or devisee, it shall be presumed in the first instance, that such successor in interest is such without adequate consideration, and provided further, that in all such actions, all such conveyances shall be prima facie of the effect as vesting the complete and clear title of the property conveyed in such conveyance in the grantee therein.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 5 - Conveyances Validated › Section 34-5-112 - Effect of Preceding Sections on Pending Litigation; Enforcement of Rights of Minor Heir in Conveyed Property.

34-5-112. Effect of preceding sections on pending litigation; enforcement of rights of minor heir in conveyed property.
The provisions of W.S. 34-5-104 through 34-5-108, 34-5-110, 34-5-111, inclusive, shall not affect any pending litigation. And any right which any minor heir may have in and to any property conveyed, transferred or released as in said sections mentioned, may be asserted by bringing an action in any court of competent jurisdiction within one (1) year after such minor heir becomes an adult.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 5 - Conveyances Validated › Section 34-5-113 - Where Release of Homestead or Marital Status of Grantor Not Indicated.

34-5-113. Where release of homestead or marital status of grantor not indicated.
All conveyances by which any estate or interest in real estate is created, alienated, mortgaged or assigned, or by which the title to any real estate may be affected in law or in equity wherein there is no release or waiver of homestead or the marital status of the grantor is not set forth, and which have been or hereafter may be recorded for a period of ten (10) years in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein such real estate is situated, it shall be conclusively presumed that said real estate was not used, occupied or claimed by the grantor, or the spouse of the grantor as a homestead at the time of said conveyance.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 5 - Conveyances Validated › Section 34-5-114 - Gifts to Religious and Educational Uses; Generally.

34-5-114. Gifts to religious and educational uses; generally.
No gift, devise, bequest, transfer, grant or conveyance of real or personal property to religious, educational, charitable or benevolent uses, which shall in other respects be valid under the laws of this state shall be deemed invalid by reason of the indefiniteness or uncertainty of the persons designated as the beneficiaries thereunder in the instrument creating or constituting the same.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 5 - Conveyances Validated › Section 34-5-115 - Gifts to Religious and Educational Uses; Existence of Prior Trust Agreements in Will.

34-5-115. Gifts to religious and educational uses; existence of prior trust agreements in will.
No such gift, bequest or devise contained in any will executed in accordance with the requirements of law shall be deemed invalid by reason of the incorporation by reference in the will of any written or printed resolution, declaration or trust agreement, identified as existing prior to the execution of such will, and adopted or made by any corporation or corporations authorized by law to accept and execute trusts, creating a trust to assist, encourage and promote the well being or well doing of mankind, or of the inhabitants of any community, provided that a copy of such resolution, declaration or deed of trust, certified by the secretary or assistant secretary, or other officer or officers, of such corporation or corporations under its or their corporate seal or seals, shall have been filed for record in the office of the secretary of state of the state of Wyoming, the secretary of state being hereby authorized and directed to receive and record such resolution, declaration or deed of trust, upon payment of the fees provided by law.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 5 - Conveyances Validated › Section 34-5-116 - Gifts to Religious and Educational Uses; Valid Notwithstanding Terms Are Included Only by Reference.

34-5-116. Gifts to religious and educational uses; valid notwithstanding terms are included only by reference.
(a) Any gift, devise or bequest so made to any such corporation in trust for the uses and purposes contained in such resolution, declaration, or deed of trust, shall be valid and effectual, notwithstanding:
(i) That the terms, conditions, uses and purposes of such gift, devise or bequest, are included only by such reference in the will; and, or
(ii) That such resolution, declaration, or deed of trust, has been or may be, amended in accordance with the provisions thereof.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 5 - Conveyances Validated › Section 34-5-117 - Gifts to Religious and Educational Uses; Application of w.s. 34-5-114 Through 34-5-117.

34-5-117. Gifts to religious and educational uses; application of W.S. 34-5-114 through 34-5-117.
All the terms and provisions of this act shall be deemed applicable to all gifts, devises, bequests, transfers, grants or conveyances of real or personal property heretofore made, as well as to those hereafter made, and to all such resolutions, declarations, or deeds of trust as are hereinabove referred to which have been heretofore filed for record as hereinabove provided, as well as those which shall be hereafter so filed for record.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 8 - Comprehensive Curative Act › Section 34-8-103 - When Defective Instruments Validated by Operation of Law.

34-8-103. When defective instruments validated by operation of law.
When an instrument of writing, in any manner affecting or purporting to affect the title to real estate, has been, or may hereafter be recorded for a period of ten (10) years in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein such real estate is situated, and such instrument, or the record thereof, because of defect, irregularity or omission, fails to comply in any respect with any statutory requirement or requirements relating to the execution, attestation, acknowledgment, certificate of acknowledgment, recording or certificate of recording, such instrument and the record thereof shall, notwithstanding any or all such defects, irregularities and omissions, be fully legal, valid, binding and effectual for all purposes to the same extent as though such instrument had, in the first instance, been in all respects duly executed, attested, and acknowledged and recorded.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 8 - Comprehensive Curative Act › Section 34-8-104 - Enumerated Defects.

34-8-104. Enumerated defects.
The defects, irregularities and omissions mentioned in W.S. 34-8-103 shall include all defects and irregularities in respect to formalities of execution and recording, and all defects and irregularities in, as well as the entire lack or omission of attestation, acknowledgment, certificate of acknowledgments, or certificate of recording, and shall apply with like force to instruments whether or not the real estate involved is homestead; and shall apply to instruments in which the marital status of any grantor is not given.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 8 - Comprehensive Curative Act › Section 34-8-105 - Instruments as Evidence After Validation.

34-8-105. Instruments as evidence after validation.
From and after its validation by the operation of W.S. 34-8-103, such instrument shall impart notice to subsequent purchasers, encumbrancers, and all other persons whomsoever so far as and to the same extent that the same is recorded, notwithstanding such defects, irregularities or omissions; and such instrument, the record thereof, or a duly authenticated copy, shall be competent evidence to the same extent as such instrument would have been competent if valid in the first instance.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 10 - Marketable Titles › Section 34-10-101 - Definitions.

34-10-101. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Marketable record title" means a title of record, as indicated in W.S. 34-10-103 which operates to extinguish such interests and claims, existing prior to the effective date of the root of title, as are stated in W.S. 34-10-105;
(ii) "Records" includes probate and other official public records, as well as records in the office of the county clerk;
(iii) "Recording", when applied to the official records of a probate or other court, includes filing;
(iv) "Person dealing with land" includes a purchaser of any estate or interest therein, a mortgagee, a levying or attaching creditor, a land contract vendee, or any other person seeking to acquire an estate or interest therein, or impose a lien thereon;
(v) "Root of title" means that conveyance or other title transaction in the chain of title of a person, purporting to create the interest claimed by the person, upon which he relies as a basis for the marketability of his title, and which was the most recent to be recorded as of a date forty (40) years prior to the time when marketability is being determined. The effective date of the "root of title" is the date on which it is recorded;
(vi) "Title transaction" means any transaction affecting title to any interest in land, including title by will or descent, title by tax deed, or by trustee's, referee's, guardian's, executor's, administrator's, master in chancery's, or sheriff's deed, or decree of any court, as well as warranty deed, quitclaim deed, deed of trust or mortgage;
(vii) "This act" means W.S. 34-10-101 through 34-10-109.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 10 - Marketable Titles › Section 34-10-102 - Purpose.

34-10-102. Purpose.
This act shall be liberally construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying and facilitating land title transactions by allowing persons to rely on a record chain of title as described in W.S. 34-10-103, subject only to such limitations as appear in W.S. 34-10-104.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 10 - Marketable Titles › Section 34-10-103 - Effect of Unbroken Chain of Title; Marketable Record Title.

34-10-103. Effect of unbroken chain of title; marketable record title.
Any person having the legal capacity to own land in this state, who has an unbroken chain of title of record to any interest in land for forty (40) years or more, shall be deemed to have a marketable record title to such interest subject only to the matters stated in W.S. 34-10-104. A person shall be deemed to have such an unbroken chain of title when the official public records disclose a conveyance or other title transaction of record not less than forty (40) years at the time the marketability is to be determined, which conveyance or other title transaction purports to create the interest, either in the person claiming the interest, or some other person from whom, by one (1) or more conveyances or other title transactions of record, the purported interest has become vested in the person claiming the interest, so long as nothing appears of record, in either case, purporting to divest the claimant of his purported interest.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 10 - Marketable Titles › Section 34-10-104 - Effect of Unbroken Chain of Title; Exceptions.

34-10-104. Effect of unbroken chain of title; exceptions.
(a) Marketable record title is subject to:
(i) All interests and defects which are inherent in the chain of record title. However, a general reference in the chain, to easements, use restrictions or other interests created prior to the root of title is not sufficient to preserve them, unless specific identification is made therein of a recorded title transaction which creates the easement, use restriction or other interest;
(ii) All interests preserved by the filing of proper notice or by possession by the same owner continuously for a period of forty (40) years or more, in accordance with W.S. 34-10-106;
(iii) The rights of any person arising from prescriptive use or period of adverse possession or user which was in whole or in part subsequent to the effective date of the root of title;
(iv) Any interest arising out of a title transaction which has been recorded subsequent to the effective date of the root of title from which the unbroken chain of title of record is started. However, the recording does not revive or give validity to any interest which has been extinguished prior to the time of the recording by the operation of W.S. 34-10-105;
(v) The exceptions stated in W.S. 34-10-108(a) as to rights of reversioners in leases, as to apparent easements and interests in the nature of easements, as to water rights, as to mineral interests and as to interests of the state of Wyoming and of the United States.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 10 - Marketable Titles › Section 34-10-105 - Certain Interests Null and Void.

34-10-105. Certain interests null and void.
Subject to matters stated in W.S. 34-10-104, marketable record title shall be held by its owner and shall be taken by any person dealing with the land free and clear of all interests, claims or charges whatsoever, the existence of which depends upon any act, transaction, event or omission that occurred prior to the effective date of the root of title. All such interests, claims or charges, however denominated, whether legal or equitable, present or future, whether asserted by a person sui juris or under a disability, whether such person is within or without the state, whether such person is natural, corporate, private or governmental, are null and void.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 10 - Marketable Titles › Section 34-10-106 - Perpetuation of Interest.

34-10-106. Perpetuation of interest.
(a) Any person claiming an interest in land may preserve and keep effective his interest by filing for record during the forty (40) year period immediately following the effective date of the root of title of the person whose record title would otherwise be marketable, a notice in writing, duly verified by oath, setting forth the nature of the claim. No disability or lack of knowledge of any kind on the part of anyone shall suspend the running of the forty (40) year period. Notice may be filed for record by the claimant or by any other person acting on behalf of any claimant who is:
(i) Under a disability;
(ii) Unable to assert a claim on his own behalf; or
(iii) One (1) of a class, but whose identity cannot be established or is uncertain at the time of filing the notice of claim for record.
(b) If the same record owner of any possessory interest in land has been in possession of the land continuously for a period of forty (40) years or more, during which period no title transaction with respect to the interest appears of record in his chain of title, and no notice has been filed by him or on his behalf as provided in subsection (a) of this section, and his possession continues to the time when marketability is being determined, the period of possession is equivalent to the filing of the notice immediately preceding the termination of the forty (40) year period described in subsection (a) of this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 10 - Marketable Titles › Section 34-10-107 - Contents of Notice of Claim.

34-10-107. Contents of notice of claim.
To be effective and to be entitled to record, the notice of claim shall contain an accurate and full description of all lands affected by the notice which shall be set forth in particular terms and not by general inclusions. However, if the claim is founded upon a recorded instrument, then the description in the notice may be the same as that contained in the recorded instrument. Notice shall be filed for record in the office of the county clerk of the county or counties where the land described is situated. The recorder of each county shall accept all such notices presented to him which describe land located in the county in which he serves and shall enter and record full copies thereof in the same way that deeds and other instruments are recorded. Each recorder shall charge the same fees for the recording thereof as are charged for recording deeds. In indexing the notices in his office each recorder shall enter the notices under the grantee indexes of deeds under the names of the claimants appearing in the notices.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 10 - Marketable Titles › Section 34-10-108 - Application.

34-10-108. Application.
(a) Notwithstanding a failure to file a notice of claim, this act shall not be applied:
(i) To bar any lessor or his successor as a reversioner of his right to possession on the expiration of any lease;
(ii) To bar or extinguish the title to any railroad right-of-way or station grounds or to any easement created or held for any pipeline, highway, railroad or public utility purpose the existence of which is clearly observable by physical evidence of its use;
(iii) To bar or extinguish any water rights, whether evidenced by decrees, or by certificates of appropriation;
(iv) To bar or extinguish any title, estate or interest in and to any timber or any minerals (including without limiting the generality of that term, oil, gas and other hydrocarbons) and any development, mining, production or other rights or easements related thereto or exercisable in connection therewith;
(v) To bar any right, title or interest of the state of Wyoming and of the United States;
(vi) To bar or extinguish any claim to a conservation easement by a holder of the conservation easement or by a person having third-party rights of enforcement. For purposes of this paragraph the provisions of W.S. 34-1-201 through 34-1-207 shall be applicable.
(b) Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to extend the period for the bringing of an action or for the doing of any other required act under any statutes of limitations, nor, except as herein specifically provided, to affect the operation of any statutes governing the effect of the recording or the failure to record any instrument affecting land.
(c) If the forty (40) year period specified in this act expires less than two (2) years after the effective date of this act the period shall be extended two (2) years after the effective date of this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 10 - Marketable Titles › Section 34-10-109 - Prohibition Against Filing Notices for Purpose of Slandering Title to Land.

34-10-109. Prohibition against filing notices for purpose of slandering title to land.
No person shall use the privilege of filing notices hereunder for the purpose of slandering the title to land, and in any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the court shall find that any person has filed a claim for that reason only, the court shall award the plaintiff all costs of such action as the court may allow to the plaintiff, and in addition, shall decree that the defendant asserting such claim shall pay to plaintiff all damages that plaintiff may have sustained as the result of such notice of claim having been so filed for record.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 11 - Affidavits Affecting Title › Section 34-11-101 - Recorded Affidavit as Evidence; Subjects; Facts.

34-11-101. Recorded affidavit as evidence; subjects; facts.
(a) An affidavit stating facts relating to matters which may affect the title to real estate in this state, made by any person having knowledge of the facts and competent to testify concerning them in open court, may be recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county in which the real estate is situated. A certificate of acknowledgement shall not be required on an affidavit containing a jurat in order to be recorded. A recorded affidavit or a certified copy thereof is prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated insofar as the facts affect title to real estate.
(b) The affidavits may relate to the following matters: age, sex, birth, death, relationship, family history, names, identity of parties, marital status, homestead status, possession, occupancy possession, residence, service in the armed forces, conflicts and ambiguities in descriptions of land in recorded instruments, and the happening of any condition or event which may terminate an estate or interest.
(c) The affidavits shall include a description of the land, title to which may be affected by facts stated in the affidavit, and shall state the name of the person appearing by the record to be the owner of the land at the time of the recording of the affidavit. For affidavits involving subsequently discovered real property under W.S. 2-9-203, the affidavit shall also include a copy of the judicial determination of the decedent's heirs or right of descent. The county clerk shall index the affidavit in the name of the record owner and in the same manner as deeds are recorded.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-101 - Application of Provisions.

34-12-101. Application of provisions.
None of the provisions of this act shall be construed to require replatting in any case where plats have been made and recorded in pursuance of any law heretofore in force; and all plats heretofore filed for record, and not subsequently vacated, are hereby declared valid, notwithstanding irregularities and omissions in the manner or form of acknowledgment or judge's certificate.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-102 - Description of Townsites and Subdivisions; Effect; Duty to Record.

34-12-102. Description of townsites and subdivisions; effect; duty to record.
Every original owner or proprietor of any tract or parcel of land, who has heretofore subdivided, or shall hereafter subdivide the same into three (3) or more parts for the purpose of laying out any town or city, or any addition thereto, or any part thereof, or suburban lots, shall cause a plat of such subdivision, with references to known or permanent monuments, to be made, which shall accurately describe all the subdivisions of such tract or parcel of land, numbering the same by progressive numbers, and giving the dimensions, and length and breadth thereof, and the breadth and courses of all the streets and alleys established therein. Descriptions of lots or parcels of land in such subdivisions, according to the number and designation thereof, on said plat contained, in conveyances, or for the purposes of taxation, shall be deemed good and valid for all intents and purposes. The duty to file for record a plat, as provided herein, shall attach as a covenant of warranty, in all conveyances of any part or parcel of such subdivisions by the original owners or proprietors, against any and all assessments, costs and damages, paid, lost or incurred by any grantee, or person claiming under him, in consequence of the omission on the part of said owner or proprietors to file such plat.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-103 - Contents of Plat; Acknowledgment; Approval by County Commissioners or Governing Body of Cities or Towns; Filing and Recording.

34-12-103. Contents of plat; acknowledgment; approval by county commissioners or governing body of cities or towns; filing and recording.
(a) Every plat shall contain a statement to the effect that "the above or foregoing subdivision of (here insert a correct description of the land or parcel subdivided) as appears on this plat, is with the free consent, and in accordance with the desires of the undersigned owners and proprietors", which shall be signed by the owners and proprietors, and shall be duly acknowledged before some officer authorized to take the acknowledgement of deeds. The plat shall meet the approval of the board of county commissioners if it is of land situated without the boundaries of any city or town or by the governing body of the city or town if situated within the boundaries of such city or town. Provided, however, that any plat of land which is adjacent to any incorporated city or town or within one (1) mile of the boundaries of any city or town and which is not subject to regulation under and pursuant to a comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to W.S. 18-5-202(b), shall be jointly approved by both the board of county commissioners of the county and the governing body of the city or town before the plat shall be filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk.
(b) If a city or town approval is not required under this section and the plat is located within one (1) mile of the boundaries of a first class city or town, or within one-half (1/2) mile of a town with a population of less than four thousand (4,000), the board of county commissioners, upon receipt of a plat application, shall solicit comments from the governing body of the city or town relating to impacts to the city or town's infrastructure or other development plans resulting from the proposed plat and development. The board shall consider the city or town's comments that are received by the board at least twenty (20) business days prior to the scheduled final consideration of the plat proposal and shall respond in writing to the city or town about any items of disagreement. To the extent practical, the board of county commissioners shall ensure that a plat application meets the following:
(i) Is consistent with any applicable city and county land use or comprehensive plan;
(ii) Conforms to any adopted street plan of the city, town or county;
(iii) Contains all areas for streets, roads and alleys that are dedicated rights-of-way;
(iv) Contains dedicated easements for all existing and proposed utilities; and
(v) Contains any additional criteria the governing body of the city or town and the board of county commissioners agree to through a jointly adopted plan or voluntary agreement.
(c) When executed, acknowledged and approved as provided in this section, the plat shall be filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the proper county.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-104 - Townsites; Effect of Acknowledgment and Recording.

34-12-104. Townsites; effect of acknowledgment and recording.
The acknowledgment and recording of such plat, is equivalent to a deed in fee simple of such portion of the premises platted as is on such plat set apart for streets, or other public use, or is thereon dedicated to charitable, religious or educational purposes.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-105 - Townsites; Recording Fees.

34-12-105. Townsites; recording fees.
When any person, company or corporation, shall file a townsite plat, or an addition to a townsite, it must be accompanied by the fee listed in W.S. 18-3-402(a)(xvi)(O) for the purpose of filing and recording of said plat. The record of the plat shall include a description of the lots and blocks.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-106 - Vacation; Generally.

34-12-106. Vacation; generally.
Any such plat may be vacated by the proprietors thereof at any time before the sale of any lots therein, by a written instrument declaring the same to be vacated, duly executed, acknowledged or proved and recorded in the same office with the plat to be vacated, and the execution and recording of such writing shall operate to destroy the force and effect of the recording of the plat so vacated, and to divest all public rights in the streets, alleys, commons and public grounds laid out or described in such plat, and in case where any lots have been sold, the plat may be vacated as herein provided, by all the owners of lots in such plat joining in the execution of the writing aforesaid. No plat or portion thereof within the corporate limits of a city or town shall be vacated as herein provided without the approval of the city or town. No plat or portion thereof for which a subdivision permit has been obtained pursuant to W.S. 18-5-304 shall be vacated as herein provided without the approval of the county commissioners. No municipal or county approval under this section shall be arbitrarily or unreasonably withheld.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-107 - Vacation; Streets and Alleys.

34-12-107. Vacation; streets and alleys.
Streets and alleys so platted and laid out, or which have been platted or laid out under any prior law of this state regulating private plats, may be altered or vacated in the manner provided by law for the alteration or discontinuance of highways.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-108 - Vacation; Partial Vacation; When Permitted.

34-12-108. Vacation; partial vacation; when permitted.
Any part of a plat may be vacated under the provisions, and subject to the conditions of this act; provided, such vacating does not abridge or destroy any of the rights and privileges of other proprietors in said plat; and provided, further, that nothing contained in this section shall authorize the closing or obstruction of any public highways laid out according to law.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-109 - Vacation; Partial Vacation; Effect on Streets.

34-12-109. Vacation; partial vacation; effect on streets.
When any part of a plat shall be vacated as aforesaid, the proprietors of the lots so vacated may enclose the streets, alleys and public grounds adjoining lots in equal proportions.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-110 - Vacation; Duty of County Clerk.

34-12-110. Vacation; duty of county clerk.
The county clerk, in whose office the plats aforesaid are recorded, shall write in plain, legible letters across that part of the plat so vacated, the word "vacated", and identify where the instrument of vacation is recorded.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-111 - Vacation; Platting by County Surveyor; Acknowledgment and Recording; Conveyance and Assessment by Number.

34-12-111. Vacation; platting by county surveyor; acknowledgment and recording; conveyance and assessment by number.
The owner of any lots in a plat so vacated, may cause the same and a proportionate part of adjacent streets and public grounds to be platted and numbered by the county surveyor; and when such plat is acknowledged by such owner, and is recorded in the clerk's office of the county, such lots may be conveyed and assessed by the numbers given them on such plat.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-112 - Procedure After Failure to Make Plat; Acknowledgment; Recording; Costs.

34-12-112. Procedure after failure to make plat; acknowledgment; recording; costs.
Whenever the original owner or proprietor of any subdivision of any land, as contemplated in W.S. 34-12-102, has sold or conveyed any part thereof, or invested the public with any rights therein, and has failed and neglected to execute and file for record a plat, as provided in section one of this act, the county clerk shall notify some, or all, of such owners and proprietors by mail or otherwise, and demand the execution of said plat as provided; and if such owners or proprietors, whether so notified or not, fail and neglect to execute and file for record said plat for thirty (30) days after the issuance of such notice, the county clerk shall cause to be made the plat of such subdivision, and any surveying necessary therefor. Said plat shall be signed and acknowledged by the county clerk, who shall certify that he executed it by reason of the failure of the owners or proprietors named to do so, and filed for record; and when so filed for record, shall have the same effect for all purposes as if executed, acknowledged and recorded by the owners or proprietors themselves. A correct statement of the costs and expenses of such plat, surveying and recording, verified by oath, shall be by the county clerk laid before the first session of the county commissioners, who shall allow the same and order the same to be paid out of the county treasury, and who shall, at the same time, assess the same amount pro rata, upon all the several subdivisions of said tract, parcel or lot so subdivided; and said assessment shall be collected with, and in like manner as the general taxes and shall go to the general county fund; or said county commissioners may direct suit to be brought in the name of the county before any court having jurisdiction, to recover of the said original owners or proprietors, or either of them, the said cost and expense of procuring and recording said plat.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-113 - Procedure When Ownership in Severalty and Description Uncertain.

34-12-113. Procedure when ownership in severalty and description uncertain.
Whenever any congressional subdivision of land of forty (40) acres of land, or less, or any lot or subdivision is owned by two (2) or more persons in severalty, and the description of one (1) or more of the different parts or parcels thereof, cannot, in the judgment of the county clerk, be made sufficiently certain and accurate for the purposes of assessment and taxation without noting the metes and bounds of the same, said county clerk shall require, and cause to be made and recorded, a plat of such tract or lot of land, with its several subdivisions, in accordance with the provisions of (this act, and he shall proceed in such cases according to the provisions of) W.S. 34-12-112, and all the provisions of said section in relation to plats of towns, cities, and so forth, shall govern as to the tracts and parcels of land in this section referred to.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-114 - Warranty of Accurate Description; Notice if Inaccurate Description; Proceedings Upon Repeal.

34-12-114. Warranty of accurate description; notice if inaccurate description; proceedings upon repeal.
Every conveyance of land in this state shall be deemed to be a warranty that the description therein contained is sufficiently definite and accurate, to enable the county clerk to make entries as required by law to be kept; and when there is presented for entry any conveyance in which the description is not, in the opinion of the county clerk, sufficiently definite and accurate, he shall note said fact on said deed with that of the entry for transfer, and shall notify the person presenting the same, that the land therein not sufficiently described, must be platted within thirty (30) days thereafter. Any person aggrieved by the opinion of the county clerk may, within said thirty (30) days, appeal therefrom to the county commissioners, by claiming said appeal in writing, and thereupon, no further proceedings shall be taken by the county clerk; and at their next session the county commissioners shall determine said question, and direct whether or not said plat shall be executed and filed, and within what time, and if the grantor in such conveyance shall neglect for thirty (30) days thereafter to file for record a plat of said land, and of the appropriate congressional subdivision in which the same is found, duly executed and acknowledged as required by the county clerk, or, in case of appeal, as directed by the county commissioners, then the county clerk shall proceed, as is provided in W.S. 34-12-112, and cause such plat to be made and recorded, and thereupon the same proceedings shall be had, and rights shall accrue, and remedies had as are in said section provided. Such plat shall describe said tract of land, and any other subdivision of the smallest congressional subdivision of which the same is a part, numbering them by progressive numbers, setting forth the courses and distances, and numbers of acres, and such other memoranda as are usual and proper; and descriptions of such lots or subdivisions according to the number and designation thereof on said plat, shall be deemed good and sufficient for all purposes of conveyancing and taxation.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 12 - Platting and Dedication › Section 34-12-115 - Selling Lots Not Platted Prohibited.

34-12-115. Selling lots not platted prohibited.
(a) No person shall sell, as defined in W.S. 18-5-302(a)(v), any lots in any town, or addition to any town or city, until the plat thereof has been duly acknowledged and recorded as provided in this act.
(b) The provisions of this section are enforceable by all appropriate legal remedies including but not limited to injunctive relief or a writ of mandamus.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 13 - Transfers to Minors › Section 34-13-114 - Definitions.

34-13-114. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Adult" means an individual who has attained the age of twenty-one (21) years;
(ii) "Benefit plan" means an employer's plan for the benefit of an employee or partner;
(iii) "Broker" means a person lawfully engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities or commodities for the person's own account or for the account of others;
(iv) "Conservator" means a person appointed or qualified by a court to act as general, limited or temporary guardian of a minor's property or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions;
(v) "Court" means the district court;
(vi) "Custodial property" means any interest in property transferred to a custodian under this act and the income from and proceeds of that interest in property;
(vii) "Custodian" means a person so designated under W.S. 34-13-122 or a successor or substitute custodian designated under W.S. 34-13-131;
(viii) "Financial institution" means a bank, trust company or a savings institution or credit union chartered and supervised under state or federal law;
(ix) "Legal representative" means an individual's personal representative or conservator;
(x) "Member of the minor's family" means the minor's parent, stepparent, spouse, grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt, whether of whole or half blood or by adoption;
(xi) "Minor" means:
(A) An individual who has not attained the age of twenty-one (21) years; or
(B) An individual who has not attained the age at which the custodian is required to transfer the custodial property to the beneficiary under W.S. 34-13-133, 34-13-138 or 34-13-139, when used in reference to the beneficiary for whose benefit custodial property is held or is to be held.
(xii) "Person" means an individual, corporation, organization or other legal entity;
(xiii) "Personal representative" means an executor, administrator, successor personal representative or special administrator of a decedent's estate or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions;
(xiv) "Transfer" means a transaction that creates custodial property under W.S. 34-13-122;
(xv) "Transferor" means a person who makes a transfer under this act;
(xvi) "Trust company" means any legal entity authorized to exercise general trust powers;
(xvii) "This act" means W.S. 34-13-114 through 34-13-139.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 13 - Transfers to Minors › Section 34-13-115 - Scope and Jurisdiction.

34-13-115. Scope and jurisdiction.
(a) This act applies to a transfer that refers to this act in the designation under W.S. 34-13-122(a) by which the transfer is made if at the time of the transfer the transferor, the minor or the custodian is a resident of this state or the custodial property is located in this state. The custodianship so created remains subject to this act despite a subsequent change in residence of a transferor, the minor or the custodian or the removal of custodial property from this state.
(b) A person designated as custodian under this act is subject to personal jurisdiction in this state with respect to any matter relating to the custodianship.
(c) A transfer that purports to be made and which is valid under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act or a substantially similar act of another state is governed by the law of the designated state and may be executed and enforced in this state if at the time of the transfer, the transferor, the minor or the custodian is a resident of the designated state or the custodial property is located in the designated state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 13 - Transfers to Minors › Section 34-13-116 - Nomination of Future Custodian.

34-13-116. Nomination of future custodian.
(a) A person having the right to designate the recipient of property transferable upon the occurrence of a future event may revocably nominate a future custodian to receive the property for a minor beneficiary upon the occurrence of the event by naming the future custodian followed in substance by the words: "as custodian for .... (name of minor) under the Wyoming Uniform Transfers to Minors Act". The nomination may name one (1) or more persons as substitute future custodians to whom the property shall be transferred, in the order named, if the first nominated future custodian dies before the transfer, or is unable, declines or is ineligible to serve. The nomination may be made in a will, a trust, an instrument exercising a power of appointment or in a writing designating a beneficiary of contractual rights which is delivered to the payor, issuer or other obligor of the contractual rights.
(b) A future custodian nominated under this section shall be a person to whom a transfer of property of that kind may be made under W.S. 34-13-122(a).
(c) The nomination of a future custodian under this section does not create custodial property until the nominating instrument becomes irrevocable or a transfer to the nominated custodian is completed under W.S. 34-13-122. Unless the nomination of a future custodian has been revoked, upon the occurrence of the future event the custodianship becomes effective and the custodian shall enforce a transfer of the custodial property pursuant to W.S. 34-13-122.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 13 - Transfers to Minors › Section 34-13-117 - Transfer by Gift or Exercise of Power of Appointment.

34-13-117. Transfer by gift or exercise of power of appointment.
A person may make a transfer by irrevocable gift to, or the irrevocable exercise of a power of appointment in favor of, a custodian for the benefit of a minor pursuant to W.S. 34-13-122.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 13 - Transfers to Minors › Section 34-13-118 - Transfer Authorized by Will or Trust.

34-13-118. Transfer authorized by will or trust.
(a) A personal representative or trustee may make an irrevocable transfer pursuant to W.S. 34-13-122 to a custodian for the benefit of a minor as authorized in the governing will or trust.
(b) If the testator or settlor has nominated a future custodian under W.S. 34-13-116(a) to receive the custodial property, the transfer shall be made to that person.
(c) If the testator or settlor has not nominated a future custodian or all persons nominated as future custodian die before the transfer or are unable, decline or are ineligible to serve, the personal representative or the trustee, as the case may be, shall designate the custodian from among those eligible to serve as custodian for property of that kind under W.S. 34-13-122(a).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 13 - Transfers to Minors › Section 34-13-119 - Other Transfer by Fiduciary.

34-13-119. Other transfer by fiduciary.
(a) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, a personal representative or trustee may make an irrevocable transfer to another adult or trust company as custodian for the benefit of a minor pursuant to W.S. 34-13-122, in the absence of a will or under a will or trust that does not contain an authorization to do so.
(b) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, a conservator may make an irrevocable transfer to another adult or trust company as custodian for the benefit of the minor pursuant to W.S. 34-13-122.
(c) A transfer under subsection (a) or (b) of this section may be made only if:
(i) The personal representative, trustee or conservator considers the transfer to be in the best interest of the minor;
(ii) The transfer is not prohibited by or inconsistent with provisions of the applicable will, trust agreement or other governing instrument; and
(iii) The transfer is authorized by the court if it exceeds ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) in value.