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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-937 - Approval of Safety Equipment by Superintendent.

31-5-937. Approval of safety equipment by superintendent.
(a) The superintendent shall approve or disapprove any lighting device or other safety equipment, component or assembly of a type for which approval is specifically required in this act within a reasonable time after approval has been requested.
(b) The superintendent shall establish the procedure to be followed when request for approval of any lighting device or other safety equipment, component or assembly is submitted under this section. The procedure may provide for submission of the device, component or assembly to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators as the agent of the superintendent and for the issuance of an approval certificate by the association in the name of the superintendent in lieu of submission of the device, component or assembly to the superintendent. Approval issued by the association shall have the same force and effect as if it had been issued by the superintendent.
(c) The superintendent shall maintain and publish lists of all devices, components or assemblies which have been approved by him.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-938 - Duration of Superintendent's Approval.

31-5-938. Duration of superintendent's approval.
Approvals shall remain valid unless revoked under W.S. 31-5-939 or unless the superintendent requires them to be renewed under regulations issued by him.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-939 - Revocation of Superintendent's Approval; Reapproval.

31-5-939. Revocation of superintendent's approval; reapproval.
(a) Whenever the superintendent has reason to believe that a device approved under W.S. 31-5-937 does not comply with his standards, he shall upon thirty (30) days notice to the one to whom the approval was issued conduct a hearing upon the question of the continued compliance of the approved device. After the hearing the superintendent shall determine whether the device meets the requirements of the applicable standard. If the device does not meet those requirements the superintendent shall give notice to the one to whom the approval has been issued of his intention to revoke the approval. If the holder of the approval fails to satisfy the superintendent that the device being sold or offered for sale meets the applicable standard within ten (10) days of the notice, the superintendent shall revoke the approval and shall require the withdrawal of all such devices from the market and may require that all devices sold since the notification be replaced by devices that do comply.
(b) When an approval has been revoked pursuant to this section, the device shall not be again approved unless and until it has been submitted to reapproval and it has been demonstrated, in the same manner as in an application for an original approval, that the device fully meets the requirements of the applicable standard. The superintendent may require that all previously approved items are being effectively recalled and removed from the market as a condition for reapproval.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-940 - Testing and Enforcement Program.

31-5-940. Testing and enforcement program.
(a) The highway department may purchase and test equipment described in W.S. 31-5-934 to determine whether it complies with its standards.
(b) Upon identification of unapproved or substandard devices being sold or offered for sale, the superintendent shall give notice to the person selling them that he is in violation of W.S. 31-5-934 and that selling or offering them for sale is prohibited.
(c) In order to enforce the prohibition against the sale or offer for sale of unapproved or substandard devices, the superintendent may file a petition in the district court to enjoin any further sale or offer of sale of the unapproved or substandard devices. Upon a prima facie showing that the device is of a type required to be approved by the superintendent, it has not been approved and it is being sold or offered for sale, the injunction shall be issued.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-950 - General Braking Requirements.

31-5-950. General braking requirements.
(a) Every motor vehicle and every combination of vehicles shall have a service braking system which will stop the vehicle or combination within forty (40) feet from an initial speed of twenty (20) miles per hour on a level, dry, smooth, hard surface or within such shorter distance as may be specified by the superintendent.
(b) Every motor vehicle and combination of vehicles excluding motorcycles, motor-driven cycles and mopeds shall have a parking brake system adequate to hold the vehicle or combination on any grade on which it is operated under all conditions of loading on a surface free from snow, ice or loose material or which shall comply with performance standards issued by the superintendent.
(c) When necessary for safe operation, the superintendent may by regulation require additional braking systems.
(d) The superintendent may adopt performance requirements for braking systems under this section. In formulating these requirements, the superintendent shall consider standards of the United States Department of Transportation, recommendations of other agencies and organizations, different classes of vehicles, deceleration rates, speeds, weather, loads, terrain and all other factors bearing on safe highway operations.
(e) This section applies to motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, multipurpose vehicles and mopeds unless specifically excluded.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-951 - Brakes on Motor-Driven Cycles.

31-5-951. Brakes on motor-driven cycles.
(a) The superintendent may require an inspection of the braking system on any motor-driven cycle and disapprove any brake which in his opinion is not so designed or constructed as to insure reasonable and reliable performance in actual use.
(b) The department may refuse to register or may suspend or revoke the registration of any motor-driven cycle when it is notified by the superintendent that the brake thereon does not comply with the provisions of this section.
(c) No person shall operate on any highway any motor-driven cycle if the superintendent has disapproved the brake equipment upon that motor-driven cycle or type of motor-driven cycle.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-952 - Horns and Warning Devices.

31-5-952. Horns and warning devices.
(a) Every motor vehicle when operated upon a highway shall be equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than two hundred (200) feet, but no horn or other warning device shall emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or a whistle. The driver of a motor vehicle shall when reasonably necessary to insure safe operation give audible warning with his horn but shall not otherwise use the horn when upon a highway.
(b) No vehicle shall be equipped with nor shall any person use upon a vehicle any siren, whistle or bell, except as otherwise permitted in this section.
(c) Any vehicle may be equipped with a theft alarm signal device which is so arranged that it cannot be used by the driver as an ordinary warning signal. The theft alarm signal device may use a whistle, bell, horn or other audible signal but shall not use a siren.
(d) Every authorized emergency vehicle, except wreckers, shall be equipped with a siren, whistle or bell, capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than five hundred (500) feet and of a type approved by the superintendent, but the siren shall not be used except when the vehicle is operated in response to an emergency call or in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, in which case the driver of the vehicle shall sound the siren when reasonably necessary to warn pedestrians and other drivers of the approach thereof.
(e) This section applies to motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, multipurpose vehicles, mopeds and off-road recreational vehicles as defined by W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xv)(K)(II) that are registered pursuant to W.S. 31-2-232 and off-road recreational vehicles as defined by W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xv)(K) that are operated pursuant to W.S. 31-5-1601.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-953 - Mufflers.

31-5-953. Mufflers.
(a) Every vehicle shall be equipped, maintained and operated so as to prevent excessive or unusual noise. Every motor vehicle shall at all times be equipped with a muffler or other effective noise suppressing system in good working order and in constant operation. No person shall use a muffler cut-out, bypass or similar device.
(b) The engine and power mechanism of every motor vehicle shall be so equipped and adjusted as to prevent the escape of excessive fumes or smoke.
(c) This section applies to motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, multipurpose vehicles, mopeds and off-road recreational vehicles as defined by W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xv)(K)(II) that are registered pursuant to W.S. 31-2-232 and off-road recreational vehicles as defined by W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xv)(K) that are operated pursuant to W.S. 31-5-1601.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-954 - Mirrors.

31-5-954. Mirrors.
(a) Every motor vehicle including motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, multipurpose vehicles, mopeds and off-road recreational vehicles as defined by W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xv)(K)(II) that are registered pursuant to W.S. 31-2-232 and off-road recreational vehicles as defined by W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xv)(K) that are operated pursuant to W.S. 31-5-1601 shall be equipped with a mirror mounted on the left side of the vehicle and so located as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway to the rear of the vehicle.
(b) Every motor vehicle except a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle or moped, shall be equipped with an additional mirror mounted either inside the vehicle approximately in the center or outside the vehicle on the right side and so located as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway to the rear of the vehicle.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-955 - Windshields and Wipers.

31-5-955. Windshields and wipers.
(a) No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any sign, poster or other material or substance upon or crack within the front windshield, side or rear windows of the vehicle which materially obstructs, obscures or impairs the driver's clear view of the highway or any intersecting highway.
(b) The windshield on every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a device for cleaning rain, snow or other moisture from the windshield, which device shall be so constructed as to be controlled or operated by the driver of the vehicle. This subsection shall apply to multipurpose vehicles as defined in W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xv)(M) when equipped with a windshield and an enclosed cab.
(c) Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a windshield and a windshield wiper which shall be maintained in good working order.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-957 - Required Flares, Lanterns or Reflectors for Certain Vehicles.

31-5-957. Required flares, lanterns or reflectors for certain vehicles.
(a) No person shall operate any truck more than eighty (80) inches in width, bus, truck-tractor or any motor vehicle towing a house trailer, upon any highway outside an urban district or upon any divided highway unless there is carried in the vehicle the following equipment except as provided in subsection (b) of this section:
(i) At least three (3) flares or three (3) red electric lanterns or three (3) portable red emergency reflectors, each of which shall meet the requirements in SAE Standards J596 and J597 and Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 125. No flare, fusee, electric lantern or warning flag shall be used for the purpose of compliance with the requirements of this section unless the equipment is of a type which has been submitted to the superintendent and approved by him. No portable reflector unit shall be used for the purpose of compliance with the requirements of this section unless it is so designed and constructed as to be capable of reflecting red light clearly visible from all distances within six hundred (600) feet to one hundred (100) feet under normal atmospheric conditions at night when directly in front of lawful lower beams of head lamps and unless it is of a type which has been submitted to the superintendent and approved by him;
(ii) At least three (3) red-burning fusees unless red electric lanterns or red portable emergency reflectors are carried.
(b) No person shall use or permit the use of any flame-producing emergency signal for protecting any vehicle transporting explosives, Class A or Class B, any cargo tank motor vehicle used for the transportation of any flammable liquid or flammable compressed gas, whether loaded or empty, or any motor vehicle using compressed gas as motor fuel. In lieu thereof, emergency reflective triangles, red electric lanterns or red emergency reflectors shall be used, the placement of which shall be in the same manner as prescribed in W.S. 31-5-958.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-959 - Vehicles Transporting Hazardous Materials.

31-5-959. Vehicles transporting hazardous materials.
(a) Any person operating any vehicle transporting any hazardous materials, hazardous substance, hazardous waste, marine pollutant or radioactive material as a cargo or part of a cargo upon a highway shall at all times comply with regulations of the department adopted pursuant to W.S. 31-18-303. The regulations shall be consistent with current hazardous materials regulations of the United States department of transportation.
(b) No person shall dispose of or deposit any hazardous materials, hazardous substance, hazardous waste, marine pollutant or radioactive material upon any public street, road or highway in the state. However, the department of environmental quality or department of transportation may grant approval for the disposal or deposit of any material according to law.
(c) Any person convicted of willfully violating subsection (b) of this section is guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or both. Any person convicted of recklessly, as defined by W.S. 6-1-104(a)(ix), violating subsection (b) of this section is guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), imprisonment for not more than three (3) years, or both. Any person convicted of criminal negligence, as defined by W.S. 6-1-104(a)(iii), in violating subsection (b) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or both.
(d) As used in this section:
(i) "Hazardous materials" means a substance or material, including a hazardous substance, which has been determined by the United States secretary of transportation under title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations to be capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety and property and which has been so designated;
(ii) "Hazardous waste" means any material that is subject to the hazardous waste manifest requirements of the United States environmental protection agency as specified in 40 C.F.R. part 262;
(iii) "Marine pollutant" means a hazardous substance which is listed in appendix b, 49 C.F.R. part 172.101 and, when in a solution or mixture of one (1) or more marine pollutants, is packaged in a concentration which equals or exceeds:
(A) Ten percent (10%) by weight of the solution or mixture for materials that are listed in the appendix;
(B) One percent (1%) by weight of the solution or mixture for materials that are identified as severe marine pollutants in the appendix.
(iv) "Radioactive material" means any material having a specific activity greater than 0.002 microcuries per gram;
(v) "Specific activity" of a radionuclide means the activity of the radionuclide per unit mass of that nuclide. The specific activity of a material in which the radionuclide is essentially uniformly distributed is the activity per unit mass of the material.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-960 - Pedestrian Vehicles.

31-5-960. Pedestrian vehicles.
(a) Every pedestrian vehicle operated upon a highway shall be equipped with the following equipment:
(i) A horn meeting the requirements of W.S. 31-5-952(a);
(ii) At least one (1) headlamp of either a single-beam or multiple-beam type which shall be of sufficient intensity to reveal a person or a vehicle at a distance of not less than one hundred (100) feet when operated at any speed less than twenty-five (25) miles per hour;
(iii) Two (2) tail lamps which shall be so wired as to be lighted whenever the headlamp is lighted and which, when lighted, shall emit a red light plainly visible from a distance of at least one hundred (100) feet to the rear;
(iv) Rear stop lamps and turn signals conforming to the requirements of the superintendent;
(v) A brake which conforms to the performance requirements of W.S. 31-5-951; and
(vi) A reflectorized flag mounted in a bracket permanently affixed to the vehicle. The flag, when mounted, shall be visible from all directions at a height of not less than forty-eight (48) inches nor more than seventy-two (72) inches measured from the level ground upon which the vehicle stands and shall conform to the following requirements:
(A) Be constructed of durable, all-weather type material;
(B) Be orange in color;
(C) Be triangular in shape with a minimum base length of eight and one-half (8 1/2) inches and a minimum side length of eleven and one-half (11 1/2) inches.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-961 - Television Receivers; Electronic Displays.

31-5-961. Television receivers; electronic displays.
(a) No motor vehicle operated on Wyoming highways shall be equipped with television-type receiving equipment so located that the viewer or screen is visible from the driver's seat.
(b) This section does not prohibit the use of television-type receiving equipment used exclusively for safety or law enforcement purposes, provided the use is approved by the highway department.
(c) This section does not prohibit the use of electronic displays used in conjunction with vehicle navigation systems.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 9 - Equipment › Section 31-5-970 - Required Safe Mechanical Condition.

31-5-970. Required safe mechanical condition.
No person shall drive or move on the highway any vehicle, including vehicles referenced in W.S. 31-5-901(c), unless the equipment upon the vehicle is in good working order and adjustment as required in this act and unless the vehicle is in such safe mechanical condition as not to endanger the driver or other occupant or any person upon the highway.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 10 - Size and Weight Limits › Section 31-5-1009 - Prohibition of Triple Trailers.

31-5-1009. Prohibition of triple trailers.
Except for the provisions of W.S. 31-18-808 and 31-18-803(a) no vehicle combination composed of more than three (3) single vehicles shall operate by special permit, test permit, or otherwise on the highways of this state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1101 - Duty to Stop Vehicle Where Accident Involves Death or Personal Injuries; Penalties.

31-5-1101. Duty to stop vehicle where accident involves death or personal injuries; penalties.
(a) The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident or as close thereto as possible but shall then forthwith return to and in every event shall remain at the scene of the accident until he has fulfilled the requirements of W.S. 31-5-1103. Every stop shall be made without obstructing traffic more than is necessary.
(b) Any person failing to stop or to comply with subsection (a) of this section shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned not more than one (1) year, fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1102 - Duty to Stop Vehicle Where Accident Involves Damage to Attended Vehicle or Property; Penalty.

31-5-1102. Duty to stop vehicle where accident involves damage to attended vehicle or property; penalty.
The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to a vehicle or other property which is driven or attended by any person shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident or as close thereto as possible, but shall forthwith return to and remain at the scene of the accident until he has fulfilled the requirements of W.S. 31-5-1103. Every stop shall be made without obstructing traffic more than is necessary. Any person failing to stop or comply with this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1103 - Duty to Give Information and Render Aid.

31-5-1103. Duty to give information and render aid.
The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or damage to any vehicle or other property which is driven or attended by any person shall give his name, address and the registration number of the vehicle he is driving and shall upon request and if available exhibit his driver's license to the person injured in the accident or to the driver or occupant of or person attending any vehicle or other property damaged in the accident and to any police officer at the scene of or who is investigating the accident. The driver shall also render to any person injured in the accident reasonable assistance, including the carrying, or the making of arrangements for the carrying, of the person to a physician, surgeon or hospital for medical or surgical treatment if it is apparent that the treatment is necessary or if the carrying is requested by the injured person.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1104 - Duty Upon Colliding With Unattended Vehicle or Property.

31-5-1104. Duty upon colliding with unattended vehicle or property.
The driver of any vehicle which collides with or is involved in an accident with any vehicle or other property which is unattended resulting in any damage to the other vehicle or other property shall immediately stop and shall immediately either locate and notify the operator or owner of the vehicle or other property of his name, address and the registration number of the vehicle he is driving or shall attach securely in a conspicuous place in or on the vehicle or other property a written notice giving his name, address and the registration number of the vehicle he is driving. Every stop shall be made without obstructing traffic more than is necessary.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1105 - Notice Required of Driver.

31-5-1105. Notice required of driver.
The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person, in property damage to another or others to an apparent extent of at least one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or in any vehicle, excluding bicycles or any other vehicle moved solely by human power, becoming so disabled as to prevent its normal and safe operation, shall immediately by the quickest means of communication give notice of the accident to the local police department if the accident occurs within a municipality, otherwise to the nearest office of the state highway patrol or to the office of the county sheriff.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1106 - Written Reports Required of Police Officers; Reporting of Vehicles Struck by Bullets.

31-5-1106. Written reports required of police officers; reporting of vehicles struck by bullets.
(a) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 102, 3.
(b) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 102, 3.
(c) Every police officer who investigates a motor vehicle accident resulting in bodily injury to or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent extent of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or more, either at the time of and at the scene of the accident or thereafter by interviewing the participants or witnesses shall forward a written report of the accident to the highway department within ten (10) days after his investigation of the accident.
(d) The person in charge of any garage or repair shop to which is brought any motor vehicle which shows evidence of having been struck by any bullet, shall report to the local police department if the garage is located within a municipality, otherwise to the county sheriff or nearest office of the state highway patrol, within twenty-four (24) hours after the motor vehicle is received by the garage or repair shop, giving the identifying number, registration number and the name and address of the owner or driver of the vehicle.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1107 - Duty of Occupant and Owner When Driver Incapable of Reporting.

31-5-1107. Duty of occupant and owner when driver incapable of reporting.
(a) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 102, 3.
(b) Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of giving an immediate notice of an accident as required in W.S. 31-5-1105 and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of doing so, the occupant shall make or cause to be given the notice not given by the driver.
(c) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 102, 3.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1108 - Report Forms; Failure to Make Report; False Report.

31-5-1108. Report forms; failure to make report; false report.
(a) The highway department shall prepare and upon request supply to police departments, coroners, sheriffs and other suitable agencies or individuals, forms for accident reports required hereunder, appropriate with respect to the persons required to make the reports and the purposes to be served. The written reports to be made by investigating officers shall call for sufficiently detailed information to disclose with reference to a traffic accident the cause, conditions then existing and the persons and vehicles involved.
(b) Every accident report required to be made in writing shall be made on the appropriate form approved by the highway department and shall contain all of the information required therein unless not available.
(c) Every accident report shall also contain information sufficient to enable the department to determine whether the requirements for the deposit of security under any of the laws of this state are inapplicable by reason of the existence of insurance or other exceptions specified therein.
(d) Repealed By Laws 2013
(e) A person shall not give information in oral or written reports as required in W.S. 31-5-1101 through 31-5-1111 knowing or having reason to believe that the information is false.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1110 - Confidentiality of Supplemental Information to Reports; Use of Reports as Evidence; Exceptions.

31-5-1110. Confidentiality of supplemental information to reports; use of reports as evidence; exceptions.
(a) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 102, 3.
(b) Supplemental information to a crash report filed in connection with the administration of the laws of this state relating to the deposit of security or proof of financial responsibility shall be confidential and not open to general public inspection. The supplemental information may be examined by any person named therein or by his representative designated in writing.
(c) No written reports forwarded under this section shall be used as evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of a crash except for prosecutions for filing false reports and, except that the highway department shall furnish upon demand of any party to the trial, or upon demand of any court, a certificate showing that a specified crash report has or has not been made to the highway department in compliance with law, and, if a report has been made, the date, time and location of the crash, the names and addresses of the drivers, the owners of the vehicles involved and the investigating officers.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1111 - Reports Required by Municipalities.

31-5-1111. Reports required by municipalities.
(a) Any municipality may by ordinance require that the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash, or the owner of the vehicle, shall file with a designated city department a report of the crash or a copy of any report herein required to be filed with the highway department. All reports shall be subject to W.S. 31-5-1110. Any crash report required of persons involved in crashes shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting.
(i) Repealed by Laws 2017, ch. 174, 2.
(ii) Repealed by Laws 2017, ch. 174, 2.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 11 - Accidents › Section 31-5-1112 - Tabulation and Analysis of Reports.

31-5-1112. Tabulation and analysis of reports.
The department shall tabulate and may analyze all accident reports and shall publish annually, or at more frequent intervals, statistical information based thereon as to the number and circumstances of traffic accidents.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1202 - Parties to Crime.

31-5-1202. Parties to crime.
Every person who commits, attempts to commit, conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, any act declared herein [in this chapter] to be a crime, whether individually or in connection with one (1) or more other persons or as a principal, agent or accessory, is guilty of the offense, and every person who falsely, fraudulently, forcibly or willfully induces, causes, coerces, requires, permits or directs another to violate any provision of this act is likewise guilty of the offense.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1203 - Unlawful Acts by Persons Owning or Controlling Vehicles.

31-5-1203. Unlawful acts by persons owning or controlling vehicles.
It is unlawful for the owner or any other person, employing or otherwise directing the driver of any vehicle to require or knowingly to permit the operation of the vehicle upon a highway in any manner contrary to law.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1206 - Violation of Promise to Appear; Appearance by Counsel.

31-5-1206. Violation of promise to appear; appearance by counsel.
(a) It is unlawful for any person to violate his promise to appear given to an officer upon the issuance of a traffic citation regardless of the disposition of the charge for which the citation was originally issued.
(b) A promise to appear in court may be complied with by an appearance by counsel.
(c) Failure to appear as defined in this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1207 - Procedure Not Exclusive.

31-5-1207. Procedure not exclusive.
The provisions of W.S. 31-5-1204 through 31-5-1206 shall govern all police officers in making arrests without a warrant for violations of this act, but the procedure prescribed herein is not exclusive of any other method prescribed by law for the arrest and prosecution of a person for an offense of like grade.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1208 - Inadmissibility of Evidence of Conviction.

31-5-1208. Inadmissibility of evidence of conviction.
No evidence of the conviction of any person for any violation of this act is admissible in any court in any civil action.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1209 - Effect of Conviction Upon Credibility of Witness.

31-5-1209. Effect of conviction upon credibility of witness.
The conviction of a person upon a charge of violating any provision of this act or other traffic regulation less than a felony shall not affect or impair the credibility of the person as a witness in any civil or criminal proceeding.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1210 - Traffic Citation Books.

31-5-1210. Traffic citation books.
The chief administrative officer of every traffic enforcement agency is responsible for the issuance of traffic citation books and shall maintain a record of every book and each citation contained therein issued to individual members of the traffic enforcement agency and shall require and retain a receipt for every book so issued.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1211 - Disposition and Records of Traffic Citations.

31-5-1211. Disposition and records of traffic citations.
(a) Every traffic enforcement officer upon issuing a traffic citation to an alleged violator of any provision of the motor vehicle laws of this state or of any traffic ordinance of any city or town shall deposit the original or a copy of the traffic citation with a court having jurisdiction over the alleged offense or with its traffic violations bureau.
(b) Upon the deposit of the original or a copy of the traffic citation with a court having jurisdiction over the alleged offense or with its traffic violations bureau as aforesaid, the original or copy of the traffic citation may be disposed of only by trial in court or other official action by a judge of the court, including forfeiture of the bail, or by the deposit of sufficient bail with or payment of a fine to the traffic violations bureau by the person to whom the traffic citation was issued by the traffic enforcement officer.
(c) It is unlawful and official misconduct for any traffic enforcement officer or other officer or public employee to dispose of a traffic citation or copies thereof or of the record of the issuance of the same in a manner other than as required by this act.
(d) The chief administrative officer of every traffic enforcement agency shall require the return to him of a copy of every traffic citation issued by an officer under his supervision to an alleged violator of any traffic law or ordinance and of all copies of every traffic citation which has been spoiled or upon which any entry has been made and not issued to an alleged violator.
(e) The chief administrative officer shall also maintain or cause to be maintained in connection with every traffic citation issued by an officer under his supervision a record of the disposition of the charge by the court or its traffic violations bureau in which the original or copy of the traffic citation was deposited.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1212 - Audit of Traffic Citation Records; Annual Summary of Traffic Violation Notices.

31-5-1212. Audit of traffic citation records; annual summary of traffic violation notices.
(a) Every record of traffic citations required in W.S. 31-5-1201 through 31-5-1214, shall be audited annually by the appropriate fiscal officer of the governmental agency to which the traffic enforcement agency is responsible.
(b) The fiscal officer shall publish or cause to be published an annual summary of all traffic violation notices issued by the traffic enforcement agency and the dispositions thereof in at least one (1) local daily newspaper of general circulation.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1213 - Use of Citations as Lawful Complaints.

31-5-1213. Use of citations as lawful complaints.
In the event the form of citation provided under W.S. 31-5-1210 includes information and is sworn to as required under the general laws of this state in respect to a complaint charging commission of the offense alleged in the citation to have been committed, then the citation when filed with a court having jurisdiction shall be deemed to be a lawful complaint for the purpose of prosecution under this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 12 - Offenses, Penalties and Enforcement › Section 31-5-1214 - Record of Traffic Cases; Reports of Convictions.

31-5-1214. Record of traffic cases; reports of convictions.
(a) Every judge of a court shall keep or cause to be kept a record of every traffic complaint, traffic citation or other legal form of traffic charge deposited with or presented to the court and shall keep a record of every official action by the court in reference thereto, including but not limited to a record of every conviction, forfeiture of bail, judgment of acquittal and the amount of fine or forfeiture resulting from every traffic complaint or citation deposited with or presented to the court.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, within ten (10) days after the conviction or forfeiture of bail of a person upon a charge of violating any provisions of this act or other law regulating the operation of vehicles on highways every clerk of the court of record in which the conviction was had or bail was forfeited shall prepare and immediately forward to the department an abstract of the court record covering the case in which the person was so convicted or forfeited bail, which abstract must be certified by the person required to prepare the same to be true and correct. Report need not be made of any conviction involving the illegal parking or standing of a vehicle.
(c) The abstract must be made upon a form furnished by the department and shall include the name and address of the party charged, the number, if any, of his driver's license, the registration number of the vehicle involved, the nature of the offense, the date of hearing, the plea, the judgment or whether bail forfeited and the amount of the fine or forfeiture as the case may be.
(d) Every court of record shall also forward a like report to the department upon the conviction of any person of manslaughter or other felony in the commission of which a vehicle was used.
(e) The failure, refusal or neglect of any judicial officer to comply with any of the requirements of this section constitutes misconduct in office and is grounds for removal therefrom.
(f) The department shall keep all abstracts received hereunder at its main office and the abstracts shall be open to public inspection during reasonable business hours.
(g) Upon implementation of a case management system in a circuit court or district court, the supreme court shall, on behalf of the circuit court or district court, furnish the abstract of the court record required under this section to the department. The abstract furnished under this section shall include the information required in W.S. 7-19-107(k).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 13 - Child Safety Restraint › Section 31-5-1302 - Definitions.

31-5-1302. Definitions.
(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Child safety restraint system" means any device which is designed to protect, hold or restrain a child in a privately owned, leased or rented noncommercial passenger vehicle in such a way as to prevent or minimize injury to the child in the event of a motor vehicle accident or sudden stop and which conforms to the standards prescribed by 49 C.F.R. 571.213 or to applicable federal motor vehicle safety standards in effect at the time of manufacture;
(ii) Repealed by Laws 2003, Ch. 197, 2.
(iii) "Emergency vehicle" means any fire department vehicle, police, sheriff's department or highway patrol vehicle, civil defense vehicle, ambulance, hearse or other vehicle used primarily for emergency purposes;
(iv) "Motor vehicle" means every vehicle which is self-propelled;
(v) "Passenger vehicle" means a motor vehicle designed to carry people and that was equipped with safety belts at the time of manufacture, excluding:
(A) Emergency and law enforcement vehicles;
(B) School buses as defined under W.S. 31-5-102(a)(xlii), including buses registered to a private school or church used to transport children to or from school or church or in connection with school or church activities;
(C) Buses, or other vehicles designed and used for public transportation, whether intrastate or interstate, that were not equipped with safety belts at the time of manufacture.
(vi) Repealed By Laws 2003, Ch. 197, 2.
(vii) Repealed By Laws 2003, Ch. 197, 2.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 13 - Child Safety Restraint › Section 31-5-1303 - Child Safety Restraint System; Required Use; Exception.

31-5-1303. Child safety restraint system; required use; exception.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, no person shall operate a passenger vehicle in this state unless each child who is a passenger in that vehicle and who has not reached his ninth birthday is properly secured in a child safety restraint system in a seat of the vehicle other than the front seat, except if the vehicle is only equipped with one (1) row of seats, or if all safety belts in the rows of seats behind the front seat are in use by other child passengers in the vehicle, the child may be properly secured in a child safety restraint system in the front passenger seat of the vehicle, except that a rear-facing infant seat shall not be placed in front of an active airbag.
(b) Any child who is within the age requirements specified in subsection (a) of this section need not be properly secured in a child safety restraint system if:
(i) A licensed physician has determined that the weight or physical or medical condition of the child requires that the child not be secured in such a system. The person operating a passenger vehicle transporting such a child shall carry in the vehicle the physician's signed statement certifying that the child should not be secured in a child restraint system;
(ii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 86, 2.
(iii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 86, 2.
(iv) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 86, 2.
(v) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 86, 2.
(vi) The driver of the vehicle is rendering aid or assistance to the child or his parent or guardian;
(vii) The lap and shoulder belts of the vehicle will fit properly across the collarbone, chest and hips of the child and the belts do not pose a danger to the neck, face or abdominal area of the child in the event of a crash or sudden stop.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 13 - Child Safety Restraint › Section 31-5-1304 - Penalty.

31-5-1304. Penalty.
(a) Any person who violates this article shall be issued a citation and fined not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first offense, provided that the fine shall be waived by the court upon receipt of proof by the court that the offender, after the offense occurred, has purchased, leased or otherwise acquired a child safety restraint system which meets the requirements of this article. For a second or subsequent violation of this article, the offender shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(b) Any person who uses a child safety restraint system in a manner other than in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions is guilty of a violation of this article and shall be fined as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 13 - Child Safety Restraint › Section 31-5-1305 - Limiting Application.

31-5-1305. Limiting application.
Violation of this article does not constitute evidence of negligence or recklessness and does not constitute a basis for criminal prosecution except as set forth in this article.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 31 - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 5 - Regulation of Traffic on Highways › Article 14 - Safety Belt Usage › Section 31-5-1401 - Definitions.

31-5-1401. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Emergency vehicle" means as defined in W.S. 31-5-1302(a)(iii);
(ii) "Passenger vehicle" means a vehicle which is self-propelled and designed to carry eleven (11) persons or less and primarily used to transport persons, including autocycles and pickup trucks but excluding emergency vehicles, motorcycles and buses;
(iii) "Police officer" means as defined in W.S. 31-5-102(a)(xxxiii);
(iv) "Safety belt" means a passenger restraint which was installed when the vehicle was manufactured;
(v) "Vehicle" means as defined in W.S. 31-5-102(a)(lviii);
(vi) "This act" means W.S. 31-5-1401 and 31-5-1402.