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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits › Section 15-5-312 - Application for Benefits; Statement Filed; Determination; Review.

15-5-312. Application for benefits; statement filed; determination; review.
If any policeman, his surviving wife, dependent children or dependent parents are entitled to any pension or benefits under this article, the policeman, or in the event of his death the dependent, shall apply for benefits or pension by filing a complete and concise statement of facts necessary to entitle the applicant to the benefits or pension. The application shall be filed with the board upon forms it provides. The board may investigate each application and determine whether benefits or pension should be granted. The board may also hear evidence as to the justice of the application, or require and receive affidavits as to the truth of the statements made therein. If the application is refused, the matter may be reviewed by the district court of the county in which the applicant resides pursuant to Rule 12 of the Wyoming Rules of Appellate Procedure.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits › Section 15-5-313 - Pension Application; When Payments Made and Benefits Suspended; Pension Protections.

15-5-313. Pension application; when payments made and benefits suspended; pension protections.
(a) Application for pension may be made prior to actual retirement upon statement of the intention to retire, but payment shall not begin until the applicant has actually retired and his name is stricken from the payrolls of the city or town. Payments under this article shall be made to the pensioner or to his beneficiaries on or before the fifth day of each month by voucher drawn against the policemen pension fund as provided in W.S. 15-5-305.
(b) No policeman or any of his survivors is entitled to any benefits of this article while the policeman or his survivors are receiving payments under the Worker's Compensation Act, but when payments under the Worker's Compensation Act terminate, the pensions of this article attach.
(c) The cash and securities while in the account created by this article are exempt from any state, county or municipal tax of this state, and are not subject to execution or attachment by trustee process or otherwise, in law or equity, or under any other process whatsoever, and are not assignable.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 3 - Policemen Pensions and Death Benefits › Section 15-5-314 - Penalties.

15-5-314. Penalties.
Any person who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-403 - Eligibility for Service Pension.

15-5-403. Eligibility for service pension.
(a) A member is eligible to receive a service pension after he has terminated employment beginning with the month when he has four (4) years of credited service and has attained age fifty (50).
(b) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 75, 2.
(c) An inactive member with a vested right to a service pension is eligible to receive such pension, computed in accordance with the provisions of this article in effect when he ceased to be an employee, beginning with the first month after his attainment of age fifty (50).
(d) For purposes of this section, credited service includes any period during which a member is receiving a disability pension as provided by this article.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-404 - Vesting Rights; Return to Service.

15-5-404. Vesting rights; return to service.
(a) A member who has four (4) years of credited service has a vested right to a service pension payable as provided in W.S. 15-5-403(c).
(b) If a member who has less than four (4) years of credited service ceases to be an employee, his service credits to the date of termination shall be cancelled unless:
(i) He again becomes an employee within four (4) months after his cessation of employment; or
(ii) He subsequently acquires four (4) years of credited service; and
(iii) If he has withdrawn his contributions he repays them with interest at a rate determined by the board and remains employed for not less than two (2) continuous years following the date or reemployment.
(c) For purposes of this section, credited service includes any period during which a member is receiving a disability pension under this article.
(d) The board shall adopt rules to allow service for any period of time, after commencement of participation under this article, which an employee spends in active military or other emergency service of the United States as required by the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, 38 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-405 - Eligibility for Disability Pension.

15-5-405. Eligibility for disability pension.
(a) A member, not otherwise eligible for a service pension, who suffers a disability is eligible for a disability pension.
(b) The determination of disability shall be made by the board in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board for this purpose. The board may require physician reports, medical examinations, psychological examinations, functional capacity evaluations, vocational examinations and other necessary reports and examinations in determining a disability under this subsection and in reviewing any disability under subsection (c) of this section. The cost of any functional capacity evaluation, vocational examination or other specialized test incurred pursuant to this section shall be paid from the account.
(c) The board may annually review the status of any member receiving a disability benefit under this article and may require any member receiving a disability benefit who is not eligible for normal retirement benefits under W.S. 15-5-403, to submit to any examination, test or evaluation by a physician or other appropriate professional designated or approved by the board, as necessary for conducting a review under this subsection. If a member refuses to submit to an examination, test or evaluation required under this subsection, benefit payments under this article shall be discontinued.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-407 - Payment of Service or Early Retirement Pensions.

15-5-407. Payment of service or early retirement pensions.
Service or early retirement pensions shall be made to a retired member for each month beginning with the month in which he is eligible to receive such pension and ending with the month in which he dies, unless an optional form has been elected in accordance with W.S. 15-5-413.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-408 - Payment of Disability Pension.

15-5-408. Payment of disability pension.
(a) Disability pension payments shall be made to a member for each month beginning with the month in which he is eligible to receive such pension and ending with the month in which he ceases to be eligible or dies, unless an optional form has been elected in accordance with W.S. 15-5-413.
(b) If a member who is disabled recovers and is no longer totally or partially disabled, his disability pension shall be discontinued unless he has reached normal retirement age.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-409 - Amount of Service Pension.

15-5-409. Amount of service pension.
(a) The amount of the monthly service pension payable to a retired member is:
(i) Two and eight-tenths percent (2.8%) of his final average compensation multiplied by the number of years in his first twenty-five (25) years of his period of credited service.
(ii) Repealed By Laws 2000, Ch. 43, 2.
(iii) Repealed By Laws 2008, Ch. 112, 2.
(b) For purposes of this section, credited service shall be measured in years taken to the nearest twelfth (1/12) of a year.
(c) Benefits shall not be payable under the pension system to the extent that they exceed the limitations imposed by section 415(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-411 - Amount of Disability Pension.

15-5-411. Amount of disability pension.
(a) The disability pension shall be the greater of:
(i) Fifty percent (50%) of final average compensation; or
(ii) The service pension based on credited service accrued to the date of disability.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-412 - Amount of Survivor's Pension.

15-5-412. Amount of survivor's pension.
(a) The monthly survivor's pension payable to a member's eligible primary survivor or, if there is no eligible surviving spouse, then to his eligible surviving dependents, shall be equal to the greater of:
(i) Fifty percent (50%) of final average compensation; or
(ii) The service pension based on credited service accrued to the date of the member's death.
(b) If the primary survivor is the surviving spouse, that person shall have been married to the deceased member for at least one (1) year before the date of death, unless the death was the result of an accident.
(c) A survivor's pension shall begin with the month following the month in which the member dies. If the pension is payable to a surviving spouse who subsequently dies, it is then payable in the following month to the next primary survivor as defined in W.S. 15-5-402(a)(xiv) or ceases with that month in the absence of eligible dependents. If payable to a child who dies or fails to meet the conditions of eligibility in W.S. 15-5-402(a)(vi), the pension shall cease with that month.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-413 - Optional Forms of Benefits.

15-5-413. Optional forms of benefits.
(a) Any member eligible for a service or disability pension may elect to receive one (1) of the following optional forms, in lieu of the pension computed in W.S. 15-5-409 through 15-5-411, which shall be the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which he would otherwise be entitled:
(i) A reduced pension payable to the retired member and upon his death all of the reduced pension to be paid to his surviving spouse;
(ii) A reduced pension payable to the retired member and upon his death one-half (1/2) of the reduced pension to be paid to his surviving spouse;
(iii) A benefit which provides reduced monthly service retirement payments with provision for the continuance of payments for ten (10) years certain and life thereafter. If the retired member dies within ten (10) years after retirement, the remaining guaranteed payments shall be made to his designated beneficiary. This beneficiary may be changed at any time by written notification to the board as provided in subsection (b) of this section;
(iv) The largest possible benefit for life with no lump sum refund or benefit for anyone else upon the retired member's death;
(v) Any other modified monthly service retirement benefit, including any other modified joint and survivor monthly service retirement benefit, actuarially determined, which the board approves.
(b) An election of an optional benefit shall be in writing and filed with the board prior to the first benefit payment. After an election of any of the options provided in subsection (a) of this section has been made and the member has cashed his first pension check, or sixty (60) days from the date of issuance of the check have elapsed, the election is irrevocable unless a beneficiary dies prior to the occurrence of either such event, in which case the election is void and the member may, by written notice to the board, designate a new beneficiary and may select a different option. As provided in paragraph (a)(iii) of this section, upon written notice to the board, a member may change a beneficiary at any time within the ten (10) year period.
(c) The retirement benefits payable under optional forms available under this section shall be the actuarial equivalent of the normal benefit form under W.S. 15-5-409.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-414 - Death Benefit.

15-5-414. Death benefit.
Except as may otherwise be provided in any of the options under W.S. 15-5-413, upon the death of a member, inactive member, retired member or individual receiving a survivor's pension, there shall be paid to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries or, in the absence of a designated beneficiary, to the estate of the member, inactive member, retired member or survivor, a lump sum equal to the excess, if any, of the member's contributions paid from any source without interest over the aggregate of all pension payments made.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-415 - Withdrawal Benefit.

15-5-415. Withdrawal benefit.
(a) The accumulated contributions without interest of a member who is neither eligible for a service nor disability pension, nor has a vested right to a service pension, shall be refunded upon his withdrawal from service. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a former member who fails to apply for a withdrawal benefit within five (5) years after the date of withdrawal has waived his right to such benefit.
(b) If a member has a vested right to a service pension and withdraws from service and is not immediately eligible for a service or disability benefit, he may request a refund of his accumulated contributions without interest. Refund of such contributions extinguishes all rights to any benefits under this article.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-417 - Application of Benefits.

15-5-417. Application of benefits.
(a) A service pension, disability pension, survivor's pension, death benefit or withdrawal benefit shall be paid only upon the filing of an application in a form prescribed by the board. A monthly benefit shall not be payable for any month earlier than the second month preceding the date on which the application for such benefit is filed.
(b) The board may require any member, inactive member, retired member or eligible survivor to furnish any information as may be required for the determination of benefits under this article, if the determination of the pension is dependent upon that information. The board may withhold payment of any benefit, if the determination of the benefit is dependent upon the information and the member, inactive member, retired member or eligible survivor does not cooperate in the furnishing or procuring thereof.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-418 - Election of Membership.

15-5-418. Election of membership.
(a) A "paid fireman" as defined in W.S. 15-5-201(a)(xi) may elect to become a member, as defined in this article by filing an election with the board not later than December 31, 1981, or within thirty (30) days of return to service, if later, for any paid fireman who leaves service prior to July 1, 1981.
(b) Commencing January 1, 1982, or thirty (30) days after return to service, if later, an electing member is covered by the provisions of this article, and all rights to a pension under W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209 are extinguished. The member shall receive credited service for all prior service, not to exceed ten (10) years, which was recognized under W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209. However, that credit may be reinstated only by payment of any contributions previously refunded with interest at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum from the date of refund.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-419 - Dual Membership Prohibited.

15-5-419. Dual membership prohibited.
(a) Any employee hired before July 1, 1981 is covered by the pension system specified in W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209 unless he elects to become a member pursuant to W.S. 15-5-418. Any employee hired on or subsequent to July 1, 1981 is covered by the pension system specified in this article. No employee may be covered by the pension systems of both W.S. 15-5-201 through 15-5-209 and this article.
(b) No paid employee shall participate as a member of the firemen's pension system established under this article and as a member of the volunteer firefighter, EMT and search and rescue pension account established under W.S. 35-9-616 through 35-9-628 if participation is based upon covered service with the same fire department.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-420 - Member Contributions.

15-5-420. Member contributions.
(a) Each employer shall deduct monthly from the compensation of each member participating in the account a sum equal to nine and seven hundred forty-five thousandths percent (9.745%) for the period from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020, ten and two hundred forty-five thousandths percent (10.245%) for the period from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, ten and seven hundred forty-five thousandths percent (10.745%) for the period from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 and thereafter eleven and two hundred forty-five thousandths percent (11.245%) of his compensation, and that amount shall be paid by the employer to the account.
(b) The contributions required by subsection (a) of this section shall be paid by the employer for employees covered under this article in order to be treated as employer contributions for the sole purpose of determining tax treatment under the United States internal revenue code.
(c) The contributions under subsection (b) of this section shall be paid from the source of funds which is used in paying salary to the employee. The employer may pay these contributions by a reduction in cash salary of the employee or by an offset against a future salary increase, or by a combination of a reduction in salary and an offset against a future salary increase, provided:
(i) No such salary reduction or offset, or combination thereof, shall exceed the percentage amount actually being deducted from an employee's salary for contributions to the account as of July 1, 1983; and
(ii) Any employer may pay any amount of an employee's share of retirement contributions without a salary reduction or offset, or combination thereof.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-421 - Contribution by Employer.

15-5-421. Contribution by employer.
Each employer shall make monthly contributions to the account in an amount equal to the percentage contribution rate multiplied by the salaries paid to members of the account. The contribution rate, expressed as a percentage, shall be based on the results of actuarial valuations made at least every three (3) years. The city's contribution rate shall be comprised of the normal cost plus the payment required to amortize the actuarial liability over a period of thirty (30) years calculated on the basis of an amortization policy approved by the board.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 5 - Fire and Police Departments › Article 4 - Firemen's Pension Account Reform Act of 1981 › Section 15-5-422 - Payments; When and How Made; Protections; Nonassignability; Qualified Domestic Relations Order.

15-5-422. Payments; when and how made; protections; nonassignability; qualified domestic relations order.
(a) Payments made under this article shall be made to the beneficiaries on or before the fifth day of each month. Payments shall be made by voucher drawn against the firemen's pension account and paid by the state auditor out of the account or using an appropriate alternative method approved by the state auditor. No payments made under this article are subject to judgment, attachment, execution, garnishment or other legal process and are not assignable nor shall the board recognize any assignment nor pay over any sum assigned.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, payments under this article may be made in accordance with qualified domestic relations orders pursuant to W.S. 9-3-426.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 1 - In General › Section 15-6-101 - Definitions.

15-6-101. Definitions.
(a) As used in this chapter:
(i) "Conventional gutters" means curb and gutter or combined sidewalk, curb and gutter;
(ii) "Drains" or "drainage" means all surface sewers, drains, cross street valley gutters and all kinds of draining other than sanitary sewers or conventional gutters;
(iii) "Engineer" means the city engineer, town engineer or any engineer employed by a city or town for local improvement work;
(iv) "Improvement" means any lawful local improvement of any kind, which the governing body finds to be of special benefit to the property proposed to be assessed for the cost thereof;
(v) "Streets" means streets, highways, alleys, roads and public ways.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 1 - In General › Section 15-6-102 - General Grant of Authority; Nonapplicability of Other Provisions; Restriction; Nonexclusivity.

15-6-102. General grant of authority; nonapplicability of other provisions; restriction; nonexclusivity.
(a) Any city or town may provide for the making and maintenance of local improvements and levy and collect special assessments on the property specially benefited to pay all or part of the cost of the improvement. This chapter, without reference to other statutes, unless otherwise expressly provided, constitutes the full authority for the exercise of powers herein granted. No other law relating to any city or town, with regard to like matters, that provides for a petition or an election, requires an approval, or in any way impedes or restricts the doing of things authorized to be done by this chapter, shall be construed as applying to any proceedings or acts done pursuant to this chapter. No one other than the governing body of the municipality may fix, prescribe, modify, supervise or regulate the levy or collection of special assessments or taxes authorized by this chapter, except as expressly provided or necessarily implied, nor supervise or regulate the establishment or modification of grades and the acquisition of any improvement authorized.
(b) It is intended that this chapter provide a separate but not exclusive method of accomplishing its objectives, and it shall not be construed as repealing, amending or changing any other law.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 1 - In General › Section 15-6-103 - General Powers and Duties.

15-6-103. General powers and duties.
The governing body of any city or town, when considered expedient, may order any improvement or improvements, and determine its character, kind and extent. If the improvement is to be paving, it shall designate the kinds of pavement to be used. It shall provide for the maintenance of an improvement for a specified period not to exceed five (5) years and include the cost of that maintenance in the assessment for making the improvements. It shall levy and collect an assessment upon all lots, parts of lots and parcels of land specially benefited by the improvement to defray all or any part of the cost and expense and determine what lots, parts of lots and parcels of land are specially benefited by the improvements and the amount each is benefited.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 1 - In General › Section 15-6-104 - Powers Incidental to Streets.

15-6-104. Powers incidental to streets.
(a) The governing body of any city or town may:
(i) Design, establish, vacate, widen, extend and open streets or parts thereof;
(ii) Appropriate private property for the purpose;
(iii) Establish or alter the grade of any street, within the corporate limits; and
(iv) Determine and provide everything necessary and convenient to the exercise of this authority.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 1 - In General › Section 15-6-105 - Finality of Actions; Construction of Provisions.

15-6-105. Finality of actions; construction of provisions.
(a) The action and decision of the governing body on any matters passed upon by it in relation to any subject covered in this chapter is final and conclusive in the absence of fraud.
(b) This chapter shall be liberally construed for the purpose of carrying out the objects for which it is intended.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings › Section 15-6-201 - Generally; Ordinance or Resolution Required.

15-6-201. Generally; ordinance or resolution required.
(a) If any city or town makes local improvements or establishes or alters the grade of any street at the cost and expense, in whole or in part, of property specially benefited thereby, the proceedings shall be as provided in this chapter.
(b) Any such improvement may be ordered only by ordinance or resolution of the governing body.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings › Section 15-6-203 - Protest Petitions; Requirements for Abandonment; Initiative Petitions.

15-6-203. Protest petitions; requirements for abandonment; initiative petitions.
At any time within fifteen (15) days from the publication of the resolution of intention, the owners of property situated within the proposed assessment district may file with the city clerk their written objections to the proposed improvement. If protests against the making of the improvements are filed by the legal owners of record of more than one-half (1/2) of the area of the property subject to assessment therefor, within an assessment district, the proposed improvements within that district shall be abandoned. No protest will be considered unless filed within fifteen (15) days after the publication of resolution of intention. If any petition is filed signed by the owners of fifty percent (50%) of the property proposed in the petition to be assessed for any local improvement, the governing body shall proceed with the type of improvement set forth in the petition, following the same procedure as though initiated by resolution.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings › Section 15-6-204 - Authority to Act and Assess; Deletions or Modifications.

15-6-204. Authority to act and assess; deletions or modifications.
(a) Upon passage and publication of the resolution of intention the governing body has jurisdiction and the right to pass any and all ordinances and resolutions, to do any and all acts necessary to prosecute the improvement to completion and to make and levy an assessment to pay for the improvement.
(b) If no remonstrances are made and filed or if all remonstrances filed are overruled by the governing body, it shall delete or modify the improvements and delete any property to be assessed as it considers proper and shall cause the improvements to be begun and prosecuted with reasonable diligence until completed.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings › Section 15-6-205 - Streets; Improving Intervening Parts; Objection Thereto.

15-6-205. Streets; improving intervening parts; objection thereto.
If the improvement proposed is to a street, either by grading or regrading, paving or repaving, macadamizing or remacadamizing, graveling or regraveling, constructing crosswalks, gutters, curbs or providing for surface drainage, and not more than two (2) blocks remain unimproved in the street between improvements either already made or proposed to be made, the governing body on its own motion may cause the intervening or unimproved part to be improved. The improvement of that part shall not be stayed, defeated or prevented by any remonstrance or other objection, unless the governing body considers the remonstrance or objection proper to stay or prevent the improvement.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 2 - Beginning Proceedings › Section 15-6-206 - Ordinance Ordering Improvement; Contents.

15-6-206. Ordinance ordering improvement; contents.
(a) Upon the hearing of the resolution of intention, if the governing body decides to proceed with the improvement, it shall pass an ordinance, which shall recite:
(i) The passage of the resolution of intention;
(ii) The date of the hearing; and
(iii) Whether or not remonstrances were filed and if any were filed, the action of the governing body thereon.
(b) The ordinance shall also:
(i) Order the improvements;
(ii) Describe the improvements proposed to be made;
(iii) Direct the city engineer to prepare plans and specifications therefor; and
(iv) Fix the boundaries of the assessment district, which shall include all property to be assessed for the improvements.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 3 - Plans, Specifications and Contracts › Section 15-6-301 - General Requirements; Cooperation With Federal Government.

15-6-301. General requirements; cooperation with federal government.
(a) Immediately upon the passage of the ordinance, the city engineer shall prepare and file with the city clerk, plans and specifications which shall show in detail the work to be done, the quantities of material to be handled and the estimated cost of the improvements. The governing body shall approve the plans and specifications by motion or resolution.
(b) The improvements may be made under contracts, or as a part of a contract, publicly let by the state or any agency thereof, or by the city or town in the manner provided in this section and W.S. 15-6-302, or the city or town may make the improvements with its own equipment, labor and materials, without contract, or any combination of methods may be followed. If the improvements are to be made by municipal contracts, the city clerk shall call for bids by publishing a notice in at least one (1) issue of some newspaper published within the city or town or within the county in which the city or town is located and in such other papers as the governing body may provide in the ordinance.
(c) The improvements may be made with the cooperation and assistance of the United States government or any agency or subdivision thereof, and the city or town may take advantage of any offer from any source to complete the improvements on a division of expense or responsibility.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 3 - Plans, Specifications and Contracts › Section 15-6-302 - Call for Bids; Contents; Procedure for Awarding and Executing Contracts.

15-6-302. Call for bids; contents; procedure for awarding and executing contracts.
(a) The notice and call for bids as provided in W.S. 15-6-301 shall contain in substance the following:
(i) The streets or parts thereof to be improved if the improvements are to be street improvements;
(ii) The general kind of improvement proposed to be made and whether it is to be maintained by the contractor for a specified period, but in no event for more than five (5) years;
(iii) The time within which bids will be received and the place where they shall be filed;
(iv) That a certified or cashier's check or bid bond in the sum of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid must be filed with the bid, to be forfeited to the city or town as liquidated damages if the bidder is awarded the contract and fails to enter into a contract with the city or town within five (5) days from the date of his notification;
(v) The successful bidder shall perform the work and furnish a bond guaranteeing the faithful performance of the work and a maintenance bond, if required by the governing body, which shall be furnished at the time of signing the contract. The guarantee and maintenance bond may be a single instrument.
(b) The bids shall be opened by the governing body and the contract or contracts shall be awarded to the bidder or bidders who in its opinion are the lowest and best responsible bidders. The governing body may reject any and all bids.
(c) Upon the letting of the contract or contracts to the successful bidders, the governing body, by motion or resolution, shall order the mayor or clerk, or some other officer of the city or town, to execute a written contract or contracts on behalf of the city or town with the successful bidders. The refusal of any official or officer of the city or town to execute the written contract or contracts does not affect the validity of the contract or contracts and the governing body may order some other city or town official or officer or one (1) of its members to execute the written agreement or agreements in place of the official or officer refusing to do so.
(d) All bids and contracts for capital construction projects shall be in accord with the Wyoming contractor preference laws of title 16, chapter 6.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-401 - How Grades Established or Altered; Cost.

15-6-401. How grades established or altered; cost.
If the notice provided for in W.S. 15-6-202, is in whole or in part to establish or alter a grade, the governing body, after the expiration of giving the notice as provided in W.S. 15-6-202, may establish it by ordinance or resolution. The cost of establishing or altering the grade of any streets, highway, avenue, road or alley may be paid out of the general funds of the city or town or may be specially assessed.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-402 - Assessments; When Levied; What to Be Included Generally.

15-6-402. Assessments; when levied; what to be included generally.
If the contract or contracts for any improvements have been awarded, or the city or town has determined to construct the improvements by the use of its own equipment, labor and materials, or any of them, or avail itself of any state or federal program contributing to the cost of the improvement, the city engineer, either immediately, or at the council's discretion upon the completion of the improvements, shall levy an assessment upon the property included in the district. The assessment shall include as a part of the cost the contract price, or the estimated costs of construction, together with the expense of engineering, inspection, advertising, levying and collecting assessments and all other charges which the city or town may have incurred or expects to incur in making and financing the improvements, or the portion of the costs designated by the governing body to be defrayed by special assessments.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-403 - Assessments; Included Costs.

15-6-403. Assessments; included costs.
(a) If any authorized local improvement is ordered, there shall be included in the cost and expense thereof to be assessed against the property specially benefited and included in the district created to pay all or any part thereof, the cost of:
(i) That portion of the improvement included within the limits of any street intersection space or spaces;
(ii) Inspection, tests, materials or work and of all engineering and surveying necessary for the improvement done under the direction of the city or town engineer;
(iii) Ascertaining the ownership of the lots or parcels of land included in the assessment district;
(iv) Advertising, mailing and publishing all notices; and
(v) All accounting and clerical labor, books and blanks expended or used by the city or town comptroller and the city or town treasurer in connection with the improvements.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-406 - Lien Created; Priority; Filing.

15-6-406. Lien created; priority; filing.
(a) The charge on the respective lots, tracts, parcels of land and other property for the purpose of special assessments, to pay the cost and expense in whole or in part of any improvement authorized in this chapter, when assessed and the assessment roll is confirmed by the governing body, shall be a lien upon the property assessed from the time the assessment roll is placed in the hands of the officer authorized by law to collect the assessment. The lien shall be paramount and superior to any other lien or encumbrance created before or after, except a lien for assessments for general taxes.
(b) In order to have a valid, enforceable lien under this section, a lien statement sworn to before a notarial officer, shall be filed by the claimant with the county clerk of the county in which the assessment district is located. The county clerk shall file the statement and index by date, name of claimant and property owner, and by legal description. The lien statement shall contain the following:
(i) The name and address of the governing body seeking to enforce the lien;
(ii) The name and address of the person against whose property the lien is filed; and
(iii) The legal description of the property to which the lien attaches.
(c) Special assessment rolls approved prior to July 1, 1989 and still in effect, shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which the district is located.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-407 - Assessments; Review of Decisions.

15-6-407. Assessments; review of decisions.
The decision of the governing body may be appealed to the district court by filing a written notice of appeal within fifteen (15) days from the date of the governing body's decision.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-408 - Assessments; When Proceedings Conclusive; When Sale Enjoinable.

15-6-408. Assessments; when proceedings conclusive; when sale enjoinable.
(a) When any assessment roll for local improvements has been confirmed by the governing body, the regularity, validity and correctness of the proceedings relating to the improvement and to the assessment, including the action of the governing body upon the assessment roll and its confirmation, is conclusive in all things upon all parties and cannot in any manner be contested or questioned in any proceedings by any person not filing written objections and not appealing the confirmation of the assessment roll in the manner provided.
(b) No proceeding of any kind may be commenced or prosecuted to defeat or contest:
(i) Any assessment specified in subsection (a) of this section;
(ii) The sale of any property to pay the assessment;
(iii) Any certificate of delinquency issued therefor;
(iv) The foreclosure of any lien issued therefor, except injunction proceedings to prevent the sale of any real estate on the grounds that the property about to be sold does not appear upon the assessment roll; or
(v) That the assessment has been paid.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-409 - Assessments; When Paid; Interest; Penalty; Collection and Enforcement of Liens Generally.

15-6-409. Assessments; when paid; interest; penalty; collection and enforcement of liens generally.
The city or town, in the ordinance confirming the assessment roll, shall prescribe the time within which the assessment or installments thereof shall be paid and shall provide for the payment and collection of interest thereon at a rate established by ordinance. Assessments or installments thereof, when delinquent, in addition to interest, shall bear a penalty of not more than five percent (5%) as prescribed by general ordinance. Interest and penalty shall be included in and made a part of the assessment lien. All local assessments becoming a lien upon any property in any city or town shall be collected by the treasurer, and all liens shall be enforced in the manner provided. In cities and towns other than cities of the first class, delinquent assessments or delinquent installments thereof shall be certified to the treasurer of the county in which the city or town is located, and he shall enter them upon the general tax rolls and collect them as other general taxes are collected. The county treasurer shall remit to the city treasurer on the tenth of each month all sums so collected.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-411 - Assessments; Sale of Property; Statement Returned.

15-6-411. Assessments; sale of property; statement returned.
Within fifteen (15) days after the completion of the sale of all property described in the assessment rolls and authorized to be sold, the treasurer shall return to the comptroller, or other officer by whom the warrant was issued for the sale, a statement indicating his action thereon and showing all the property he sold, to whom sold and the sums paid for each.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-412 - Assessments; Sale of Property; Certificates; Private Purchaser; Contents; City or Town; Sale.

15-6-412. Assessments; sale of property; certificates; private purchaser; contents; city or town; sale.
(a) After receiving the amount of the assessment, penalty, interest, costs and charges, the treasurer shall make out a certificate, dated on the day of sale, stating (when known) the name of the owner as given on the assessment roll, a description of the land or other property sold, the amount paid therefor, the name of the purchaser, that it was sold for the assessment, giving the names of the streets, or other brief designation of the improvement for which the assessment was made, and specifying that the purchaser is entitled to a deed two (2) years from the date of sale, unless the property is redeemed. The certificate shall be signed by the treasurer and delivered to the purchaser who shall record it in the county clerk's office in the county in which the lands or other property is situated within three (3) months from the date thereof. If not recorded within that time, the lien thereof shall be postponed to claims of subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers for value and in good faith who become purchasers and encumbrancers while it is unrecorded.
(b) The city or town comptroller, if there is one, and if not then the city or town clerk, is the custodian of all certificates for property sold to the city or town. At any time within two (2) years from the date of a certificate and before redemption of the property, he shall sell and transfer any certificate to any person who presents to him the treasurer's receipt evidencing payment of the amount for which the property described was stricken off to the city, with interest subsequently accrued to the date of payment. The comptroller or clerk, if authorized by the governing body, may sell and transfer any certificate in like manner after the expiration of two (2) years from the date of the certificate.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-413 - Assessments; Fund Created; Use.

15-6-413. Assessments; fund created; use.
All monies collected by the treasurer upon any assessments under this chapter shall be kept as a separate fund to be known as "local improvement fund, district no. ....," or by any other appropriate designation approved by the governing body. The fund shall be used for the retirement of any obligation or debt created in the construction of the improvement.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-414 - Assessments; Liability of Treasurer for Error.

15-6-414. Assessments; liability of treasurer for error.
If the treasurer receives any monies for assessments, giving a receipt therefor, for any property and afterward returns it as unpaid, or receives any money after making the return, and the property is sold for assessment which has been so paid and receipted for by him, his clerk, assistant or deputy, he and his bond are liable to the holder of the certificate given to the purchaser at the sale for the amount of the face of the certificate and legal interest which shall be demanded within two (2) years from the date of sale and recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction. No city or town is liable to the holder of any certificate.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-415 - Assessments; Record of Payment or Redemption.

15-6-415. Assessments; record of payment or redemption.
If the amount of any assessment, with interest, penalty, costs and charges accrued thereon is paid to the treasurer before the sale of any property, he shall mark it paid with the date of payment on the assessment roll. If any property sold for any assessments is redeemed, the treasurer shall enter it with the date of redemption on the roll. The records shall be made on the margin of the roll opposite the description of the property.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 15 - Cities and Towns › Chapter 6 - Local Improvements › Article 4 - Assessments and Bonds Generally › Section 15-6-416 - Assessments; Property Held in Trust; Creation and Discharge Thereof.

15-6-416. Assessments; property held in trust; creation and discharge thereof.
If any property is bid in by or stricken off to any city or town under any proceeding of this chapter, the property shall be held in trust by the city or town for the fund of the improvement district for which the assessment was levied to the extent of the assessment or installment for which the property was sold, with penalty, accrued interest and interest on the installment to time of next call for bonds or warrants. The city or town, at any time after receiving a deed, may pay the fund the amount of the delinquent assessment for which the property was sold and all accrued interest and interest to the time of the next call for bonds or warrants issued against the assessment fund at the rate provided, and thereupon take and hold the property discharged of the trust.