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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 7 - Carey Act Lands › Article 5 - Water Rights and Liens › Section 36-7-510 - Filing of Reports for Future Use.

36-7-510. Filing of reports for future use.
The board of land commissioners shall from time to time secure reports from the state engineer or his deputies or assistants or from other qualified persons covering the lands for which it is proposed to secure water rights and lands for which applications to purchase have been filed, and shall file same until it shall seem to the advantage of the state to secure water rights for the said land or to offer same for sale.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 1 - In General › Section 36-8-103 - Removal of Plants or Structures Prohibited; Exception.

36-8-103. Removal of plants or structures prohibited; exception.
No unauthorized person shall, in any manner, remove any tree, shrub, plant, flower, or other attraction of nature within a state park, campground, recreational ground, historical landmark or historical site, nor shall any person disturb any structure therein except with the written permission of the state agency having jurisdiction of the area.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 1 - In General › Section 36-8-104 - Use of Firearms, Fireworks, Explosives and Weapons Prohibited; Exceptions.

36-8-104. Use of firearms, fireworks, explosives and weapons prohibited; exceptions.
(a) The use of firearms, fireworks, explosives and weapons of all kinds is prohibited in all state parks, campgrounds, recreational grounds, historic landmarks or historic sites providing, however, that:
(i) Firearms and weapons that otherwise comply with state law may be used at such times and in such places as the Wyoming game and fish commission may designate; and
(ii) A supervised public fireworks display may be held in a state park that is not subject to an open fire ban if the fireworks operator has obtained both a special use permit from the superintendent of the park, pursuant to department rules and regulations, and a permit for the display pursuant to W.S. 35-10-203.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 1 - In General › Section 36-8-105 - Penalty for Violating w.s. 36-8-103 Through 36-8-105.

36-8-105. Penalty for violating W.S. 36-8-103 through 36-8-105.
Any person violating the provisions of this law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon the conviction thereof shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). Each and every county and state law enforcement officer, game wardens, deputy game wardens of the Wyoming game and fish commission and the director of the department of state parks and cultural resources shall enforce the provisions of this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 1 - In General › Section 36-8-106 - Supervision of Museums; Legends and Historical Information.

36-8-106. Supervision of museums; legends and historical information.
(a) Unless otherwise provided by law, the department of state parks and cultural resources shall in consultation with the commission, supervise and control any and all museums which are established in the state parks, public recreational grounds, public campgrounds, historic landmarks or historic sites of Wyoming. All items, objects, furnishings and information in any such museum shall be prepared and arranged under the direction of the department of state parks and cultural resources. All museum employees shall be furnished by and be under the direction of such department. The care, maintenance and upkeep of the interior of such museum and outside maintenance of buildings and grounds shall be the responsibility of the department.
(b) All legends and historical information placed on any historic landmark or historic site shall be prepared or approved by the department. The department shall also provide all historical and interpretive material to be used both on the approaches to and at historic sites and landmarks within the state.
(c) Repealed by Laws 1990, ch. 44, 3.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-202 - Definitions.

36-8-202. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context shall indicate another or different meaning or intent:
(i) The term "commission" shall mean the Wyoming Yellowstone Park commission, created by section 4 of this act, or, if said commission shall be abolished, the board, body or authority succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom the powers given by this act to the commission shall be given by law;
(ii) "Recreational area and facilities" shall mean and embrace all of the area and facilities of the commission in Yellowstone National Park constructed or acquired by lease, license, agreement or purchase, including but not limited to cabins, lodges, hotels, restaurants, commissaries, and any other revenue producing facilities in the recreational area;
(iii) "Project" shall be deemed to mean collectively the acquisition or leasing of the recreational area and facilities, the acquisition or the construction of any buildings or other works, together with any incidental approaches, structures, facilities and property reasonably necessary and useful in order to provide new or improved recreational facilities in the recreational area;
(iv) The term "bonds" shall mean the bonds, notes, temporary bonds, interim receipts or other obligations issued by the commission pursuant to this act;
(v) The term "revenues" shall mean all rates, rentals, admission fees, charges and other income derived from the operation of the project by the commission;
(vi) The term "cost" as applied to a project shall include, without being limited to, the cost of acquisition of the project, the cost of construction, the cost of acquisition, leasing or licensing of all land, rights-in-land, property rights, easements and interests by the commission for such construction, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, leased or licensed, the cost of all machinery and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction and for a reasonable period thereafter, cost of estimates and of engineering and legal expenses, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and revenues, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of constructing and acquiring, leasing or licensing the project, administrative expense, and such other expense as may be necessary or incident to the construction and acquisition of the project, the financing of such construction and acquisition and the placing of the project in operation. Any moneys appropriated by the state for the purpose of the commission and required to be reimbursed by it shall be considered as a part of the cost of the project and shall be reimbursed to the state out of the proceeds of the bonds issued for the project.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-203 - Creation; Composition; Qualification; Appointment; Terms and Removal of Members; Election of Officers; Quorum; Compensation and Expenses.

36-8-203. Creation; composition; qualification; appointment; terms and removal of members; election of officers; quorum; compensation and expenses.
(a) There is created an agency and instrumentality of the state to be known as the "Wyoming Yellowstone Park commission" and by that name the commission may sue and be sued and plead and be impleaded. The exercise by the commission of the powers conferred by this act [ 36-8-201 through 36-8-238] is an essential governmental function of the state. However, the performance of such governmental functions shall not be construed to relieve the commission from liability for personal injuries or property damages incurred by it through its negligence or the negligence of its servants or agents.
(b) The commission shall consist of five (5) members appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the senate. The members shall be residents of the state and qualified electors therein for a period of at least one (1) year next preceding their appointment. The successor of each member shall be appointed for a term of five (5) years, except that any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall be appointed in accordance with W.S. 28-12-101. Members are eligible for reappointment. The governor may remove members of the commission as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
(c) The commission shall elect one (1) of the members as chairman, another as vice-chairman and another as secretary and treasurer. Three (3) members of the commission constitute a quorum and the vote of three (3) members is necessary for any action taken by the commission. No vacancy in the membership of the commission impairs the right of a quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of the commission.
(d) The members of the commission shall not receive any compensation for their services, but when actually engaged in the performance of their duties, they shall be paid a per diem for each day of actual service and be reimbursed for their travel expense at the same rate applicable to travel expenses of other state officers. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be payable solely from funds provided under the authority of this act or otherwise previously appropriated to the commission, and no liability or obligation shall be incurred by the commission beyond the extent to which monies have been provided under the authority of this act or otherwise previously appropriated.
(e) Effective July 1, 1979, appointments and terms under this section shall be in accordance with W.S. 28-12-101 through 28-12-103.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-204 - Officers, Agents and Employees.

36-8-204. Officers, agents and employees.
The commission may select and appoint such officers, agents and employees as it may deem proper. All such officers, agents and employees shall have such powers and duties, shall hold office for such term and be subject to removal in such manner, and shall receive such compensation as the commission shall prescribe and determine.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-206 - Exercise of Powers.

36-8-206. Exercise of powers.
The exercise of the powers granted by this act will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for the increase of their commerce and prosperity, and for the improvement of their health and living conditions, and as the operation and maintenance of the project by the commission will constitute the performance of essential governmental functions the commission shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any project or any property acquired or used by the commission under the provision of this act or upon the income therefrom, and the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-207 - Authority to Maintain and Operate Program.

36-8-207. Authority to maintain and operate program.
In order to maintain and operate a recreational area and facilities program in Yellowstone National Park, the Wyoming Yellowstone Park commission (hereinbefore created) is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, lease, license, improve, extend, reconstruct, maintain, repair and operate said project (as herein defined), and to issue revenue bonds of the commission payable solely from revenues and funds of the commission, to pay the cost of the project.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-208 - Consent of Legislature Necessary to Execute Contract.

36-8-208. Consent of legislature necessary to execute contract.
Provided, however, that before the commission shall execute any contract for the purchase or make any payment for the acquisition of Yellowstone Park recreational areas and facilities, the consent of the Wyoming state legislature shall be first obtained by statute to be hereafter enacted, amending and reenacting this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-209 - Revolving Account.

36-8-209. Revolving account.
There is hereby appropriated and credited to a special revolving account to be set up in the state treasury, to be known as the "Wyoming Yellowstone Park commission revolving account", the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00). Moneys shall be released from said account to the commission for the purpose of studying the feasibility of acquiring and leasing the project and the retaining of necessary consulting engineers, financial consultants, attorneys, appraisers, and other services deemed necessary to complete the study of the project and to determine its feasibility from an economic and financial standpoint. Any sums so advanced out of said revolving account for such purposes shall be repaid to said account without interest to the extent of such advance upon the sale of bonds for the project and the amount of any advances from said account shall be included as a part of the cost of the project.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-231 - Trust Agreements Generally.

36-8-231. Trust agreements generally.
In the discretion of the commission any bonds issued under the provisions of this act may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the commission and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. Any such trust agreement may pledge or assign the revenues to be received, but shall not convey or mortgage the project or any part thereof. Any such trust agreement or any resolution providing for the issuance of such bonds may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of the commission in relation to the acquisition, leasing or licensing of property and the construction, improvement, maintenance, repair, operation and insurance of the project, the rates, admission fees, charges and rentals to be charged, and the custody, safeguarding and application of all moneys, and provision for the employment of managers, and consulting engineers in connection with the construction or operation of the project. It shall be lawful for any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of the state which may act as depository of the proceeds of bonds or of revenues to furnish such indemnifying bonds or to pledge such securities as may be required by the commission. Any such trust agreement may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of trusts, and may restrict the individual right of action of bondholders as is customary in trust agreements or trust indentures securing bonds or debentures of corporations. In addition to the foregoing, any such trust agreement may contain such other provisions as the commission may deem reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of such trust agreement may be treated as a part of the cost of the operation of the project.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-232 - Rights of Bondholders and Trustees.

36-8-232. Rights of bondholders and trustees.
Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this act or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such trust agreement or the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceedings, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of the state or granted hereunder or under such trust agreement or the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by this act or by such trust agreement or resolution to be performed by the commission or by any officer thereof, including the fixing, charging and collecting of rates, admission fees, rentals or other charges.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-233 - Bonds and Expenses Not to Be Indebtedness of State or Political Subdivisions.

36-8-233. Bonds and expenses not to be indebtedness of state or political subdivisions.
(a) The bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the state or of any political subdivision thereof or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state or of any such political subdivision, but such bonds shall be payable solely from the funds pledged for their payment as authorized herein, unless such bonds are redeemed from the proceeds of the sale of refunding bonds or cancelled by refunding bonds issued in lieu thereof, issued under the provisions of this act, which refunding bonds shall be payable solely from funds pledged for their payment as authorized herein. All such revenue bonds shall contain on the face thereof a statement to the effect that neither the state nor the commission shall be obligated to pay the same or the interest thereon except from the revenues and funds of the commission, and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the state or any political subdivision thereof is pledged or may be pledged, to the payment of the principal of or interest on such bonds.
(b) All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be payable solely from funds provided under the authority of this act, and nothing in this act contained shall be construed to authorize the commission to incur indebtedness or liability on behalf of or payable by the state or any political subdivision thereof.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-234 - Bonds Deemed Legal Investments and Deposits.

36-8-234. Bonds deemed legal investments and deposits.
Bonds issued by the commission under the provisions of this act are hereby made securities in which the state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, trust and loan associations, investment companies and others carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies and insurance associations and others carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest any funds, including capital belonging to them or within their control. The bonds are also hereby made securities which may be deposited with and may be received by all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and political subdivisions for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations is now or may hereafter be authorized.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-235 - Pledge by State to Bondholders.

36-8-235. Pledge by state to bondholders.
The state of Wyoming does pledge to and agrees with the holders of the bonds issued pursuant to this act that the state will not limit or alter the rights herein vested in the commission to acquire, lease, license, construct, improve, extend, reconstruct, maintain, repair and operate the project, to establish and collect the revenues, rates, rentals, admission fees and other charges referred to in this act and to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holders of the bonds, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of such bondholders, until the bonds together with interest thereon, interests on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceedings by or on behalf of the bondholders are fully met and discharged.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-236 - Moneys Deemed Trust Funds.

36-8-236. Moneys deemed trust funds.
All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this act, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds, to be held and applied solely as provided in this act. The resolution authorizing the bonds of any issue or the trust agreement securing such bonds shall provide that any officer to whom, or any bank or trust company to which, such moneys shall be paid shall act as trustee of such moneys and shall hold and apply the same for the purposes hereof, subject to such regulations as this act and such resolution or trust agreement may provide.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-237 - Statutory Authority for Issuance of Bonds and Fixing of Charges.

36-8-237. Statutory authority for issuance of bonds and fixing of charges.
(a) This act without reference to other statutes of the state of Wyoming shall constitute full authority for the authorization and issuance of bonds hereunder, and no other act or law with regard to the authorization or issuance of bonds or other obligations or the deposit of the proceeds thereof, or in any way impeding or restricting the carrying out of the acts herein authorized to be done shall be construed as applying to any proceedings hereunder or acts done pursuant hereto, and the bonds may be issued under the provisions of this act without obtaining the consent of any department, division, commission, board, bureau, agency or officer of the state.
(b) This act without reference to other statutes of the state of Wyoming shall constitute full authority for the fixing, altering, charging and collection by the commission of rates, fees, rentals and other charges for the use of the recreational areas and facilities of the project and the services rendered in connection therewith at reasonable and uniform rates, to be determined exclusively by the commission, and the commission shall have power and authority to fix, alter, charge and collect such rates, fees, rentals and other charges without obtaining the consent or approval of any department, division, commission, board, bureau, agency or officer of the state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 2 - Wyoming Yellowstone Park Commission › Section 36-8-238 - Existing Statutory Powers.

36-8-238. Existing statutory powers.
The foregoing sections of this act shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any power now existing except as in this act specifically provided; provided, however, that the issuance of revenue bonds or revenue refunding bonds under the provisions of this act need not comply with the requirements of any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-301 - Acceptance of Big Horn Hot Springs.

36-8-301. Acceptance of Big Horn Hot Springs.
The state of Wyoming hereby accepts the lands granted by the act of congress of 1897 ceding to the state one (1) square mile in the northeast portion of the historic Shoshone Indian Reservation upon which is located the Big Horn Hot Springs and assents to all of the provisions of said act ceding the same.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-302 - Name of Park.

36-8-302. Name of park.
From and after the passage of this act, the land managed by the department as of July 1, 2010 in the northeast portion of the historic Shoshone Indian Reservation, upon which is located the Big Horn Hot Springs, is hereby declared to be and shall hereafter be known as the "Hot Springs State Park". The department shall by rule specify the legal description of the state park.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-303 - Disposition of Monies Received.

36-8-303. Disposition of monies received.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, any and all monies which may be received for rentals of said lands or waters, or any portion thereof, or for the use of said water in any form or any portion thereof, and all money in any way derived from said state lands shall be paid into the state treasury as other monies belonging to the state and shall be credited by the state treasurer to the general fund. Funds received pursuant to W.S. 36-4-110 from state outdoor recreation areas or facilities on such lands shall be deposited and expended in accordance with W.S. 36-4-121(h).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-304 - Public Baths and Public Campgrounds.

36-8-304. Public baths and public campgrounds.
The department of state parks and cultural resources shall retain one-fourth (1/4) of the water in the main or largest principal spring on the state land on the eastern bank of the Big Horn River with sufficient quantity of the land adjacent thereto, upon which suitable bathhouses may be constructed, which shall be open, with preference of use given free to persons who are indigent and suffering from ailments for which bathing in the waters of the Big Horn Hot Springs will afford relief. The department may make necessary rules and regulations governing free baths, the manner and time of bathing, and may require medical examination of applicants for baths. The bathhouse shall remain open not less than ten (10) hours a day each weekday and not less than six (6) hours on Sundays and holidays. The rules shall meet the minimum requirements of rules adopted by the department of agriculture governing public pools and spas. The department, in consultation with the commission, may set apart a suitable location and portion of the lands for public camping purposes but may contract for operation of any campgrounds by competitive sealed bid. Should the department, in consultation with the commission, operate any campground within Hot Springs State Park, the charges per night shall not be less than one-half (1/2) of the average charges imposed by private campground operators within a five (5) mile radius of the Hot Springs State Park. The balance of the water and lands may be leased by the department, in consultation with the commission, for a term not less than five (5) years nor longer than ninety-nine (99) years. The length of the term of each individual lease shall be determined by the department, in consultation with the commission, in accordance with the value of the improvements proposed and actually placed upon the leasehold. The department may by rule provide for special use permits for limited purposes. The department may make rules and regulations with respect to the erection of buildings and improvements upon the individual leaseholds and may prescribe the plans and specifications of, and the materials to be used in the buildings to be erected. The department, in consultation with the commission, in any lease may provide for such plans and buildings and such use thereof as will best carry out the purposes of this chapter in retaining the lands and waters thereon for the treatment and cure of diseases and the pleasure of the general public. The department, in consultation with the commission, may conduct through pipes or otherwise any portion of the waters of the hot springs reserved for free use under this section and to provide baths and bathhouses for the use of the water at such rental or rates as it prescribes.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-305 - Adjudication of Water Right for Flow of Big Horn Hot Springs.

36-8-305. Adjudication of water right for flow of Big Horn Hot Springs.
The legislature of Wyoming, by enacting W.S. 36-8-304, appropriated and set aside for the state of Wyoming, board of charities and reform, the total flow of the Big Horn Hot Springs at Thermopolis, Wyoming, which was estimated to have been thirteen and one-tenth (13.1) cubic feet per second in 1896. That legislation was intended to be and is hereby declared to have been an application for a permit to appropriate in behalf of the board of charities and reform the total flow of Big Horn Hot Springs at Thermopolis, Wyoming, in compliance with W.S. 41-4-501 through 41-4-506 and 41-4-517. The bathing, medicinal, irrigation uses, and the maintenance of flow of water over the terrace between the springs and the Big Horn River are all beneficial uses and are hereby declared to be beneficial uses. The state board of control is directed to adjudicate a water right in favor of the board of charities and reform, its successors and assignees, for the flow of the Big Horn Hot Springs at Thermopolis, Wyoming, with a priority date of February 17, 1899. The actual flow for adjudicated purposes shall be determined by the state board of control by established procedure. The department of state parks and cultural resources is designated as successor to the state board of charities and reform and the recreation commission under this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-306 - Transfer of Lands to United States.

36-8-306. Transfer of lands to United States.
Whenever in the judgment of the department, in consultation with the commission, the interest of the state will be advanced by granting, conveying or deeding to the United States of America any tract or tracts of land within the Hot Springs State Park not otherwise disposed of, as may be fit and proper or desirable by the United States government, for the construction and maintenance of a veterans soldiers' hospital, sanitarium and recreation grounds, together with the free use of the mineral hot waters of the springs of the Hot Springs State Park, for the use of the United States of America in conducting the same, the department, in consultation with the commission, shall notify the board of land commissioners and the board may grant, convey and deed to the United States of America the designated lands. The president of the board of land commissioners and director are hereby authorized to make, execute and deliver all necessary instruments to complete such grants or conveyances.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-307 - Control of Use of Lands; Transfer of Control to the Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.

36-8-307. Control of use of lands; transfer of control to the Wyoming department of state parks and cultural resources.
(a) The lands granted by the act of congress approved on the seventh day of June, A.D. 1897, ceding to the state of Wyoming certain lands in the northeastern portion of the historic Shoshone Indian Reservation upon which are located the Big Horn Hot Springs, are placed under control of the state board of charities and reform or its successor and are forever set aside for the treatment and care of diseases and for sanitary and charitable purposes.
(b) As provided by W.S. 36-4-122 the department of state parks and cultural resources is designated as successor to the state board of charities and reform and recreation commission under this article effective July 1, 1999.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-308 - Inspection for Health Purposes.

36-8-308. Inspection for health purposes.
The department, in consultation with the commission, may call upon the state department of health to inspect, examine and report fully upon the condition of any and all hotels, sanitariums and buildings, and all places and localities within the limits of the Big Horn Hot Springs state park and to enforce the health laws of the state and the applicable rules and regulations of the department. The department may call upon the state department of agriculture to inspect, examine and report fully upon the condition of any and all bathhouses within the limits of the Big Horn Hot Springs state park and to enforce the health laws of the state and the applicable rules and regulations.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-309 - Rules and Regulations; Adoption, Penalty for Violation and Cancellation of Leases.

36-8-309. Rules and regulations; adoption, penalty for violation and cancellation of leases.
The department of state parks and cultural resources has full power, control and supervision over the Big Horn Hot Springs State Park, located in Hot Springs county, and all property thereon. The department may adopt rules and regulations for the government of the state park for the conservation of peace and good order within the park, and for the preservation of the property of the state therein, and of the property and people situated and residing or being therein, and to promote the well being of the people, and to declare what constitutes a nuisance within the state park. Any person who violates any rule or regulation adopted and published by the department is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) and not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned for not more than six (6) months or both. Any offender convicted under this act may be permitted, in lieu of cash payment of a fine thus imposed, to work out the fine within the state park, at the rate of five dollars ($5.00) an hour until the amount of the fine is satisfied. Any circuit judge in the fifth judicial district has jurisdiction of all offenses under this article. A defendant convicted under this article has a right to appeal to the district court as provided for appeals from convictions in circuit courts and municipal courts. If any lessee of the state or of the department shall refuse to comply with the order, direction, rule or regulation of the department, or to obey any law of the state defining and punishing nuisances the department may immediately cancel the lease.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-310 - Rules and Regulations; Publication and Distribution.

36-8-310. Rules and regulations; publication and distribution.
All rules and regulations adopted by the department of state parks and cultural resources for the government of the Big Horn Hot Springs State Park shall be published in pamphlet form and distributed to all officers and persons by law entitled to receive them, and to all lessees upon the state park.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-314 - Gambling Prohibited; Sale of Alcoholic Beverages Regulated; Violations.

36-8-314. Gambling prohibited; sale of alcoholic beverages regulated; violations.
Gambling in any form is prohibited within the park. The sale of alcoholic liquor except for medicinal purposes shall be subject to any terms, conditions, regulations and license fees as the department in consultation with the commission may determine and prescribe in addition to any requirement for the procurement of a license prescribed by law. Any violation of the provisions of this section or any term, condition or regulation prescribed by the department shall be sufficient ground for the department to cancel the lease of any violator, who shall be subject to expulsion from the state land in addition to any penalty herein prescribed, or prescribed by the laws of Wyoming.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-315 - Penalty for Public Health Violations.

36-8-315. Penalty for public health violations.
Any person who maintains a filthy, unwholesome or offensive house, hotel, bathhouse, sanitarium, dwelling, stable, privy or privy vault, drainpipe or sewer, which is a menace to the public health, or who fails to comply with any order, rule, direction or regulation of the department of state parks and cultural resources, the state department of agriculture or the state department of health is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 3 - Hot Springs State Park › Section 36-8-316 - Liability and Penalty for Livestock Roaming at Will.

36-8-316. Liability and penalty for livestock roaming at will.
It shall be unlawful for any person, owner or custodian of any livestock to permit the same to roam at will over, upon or across any portion of the lands owned by the state in Hot Springs county and known as the Hot Springs State Reserve. Any owner, drover or other person or persons in charge of loose animals or livestock of any description who shall drive or trail the same upon, across or through any portion of said reserve, shall be liable for any and all damage resulting therefrom. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). In addition to the foregoing penalty the owner of any such loose animals or livestock shall be liable for any damage caused on said reserve by any such animals or livestock, and the superintendent of said reserve is hereby authorized to seize and restrain at some suitable place any such animals or livestock, and the state shall have a lien thereon for the amount of any fine imposed against the owner and for all damages and costs, including the care of such loose animals or livestock, to be collected in a civil action to be brought in the name of the state in any court of competent jurisdiction. The judgment awarding foreclosure of any such lien shall direct the sale of said loose animals or livestock in the manner now provided by law for the sale of personal property upon execution.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 4 - Saratoga Hot Springs State Reserve › Section 36-8-401 - Purchase of Hot Springs; Description of Land.

36-8-401. Purchase of hot springs; description of land.
The state board of charities and reform of the state of Wyoming is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to purchase, take and secure the title thereof in the name of the state of Wyoming and pay therefor, in the manner hereinafter provided, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for the lands within which the Saratoga Hot Springs are situated and located, which said lands are described as follows, to-wit: the northwest one-fourth; the north one-half of the southwest one-fourth, and the southwest one-fourth of the southwest one-fourth of section 13; the east one-half of the southwest one-fourth of section 12 and all that portion of the west one-half of the southwest one-fourth of section 12 not included in Caldwell Hot Springs addition to the town of Saratoga, Carbon county, state of Wyoming; and all of the unsold lots in said addition to-wit: lots 2 to 11, both inclusive, of block 2; blocks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8; lots 6, 8, 9 and 10 in block 9; lots 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 in block 14; lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in block 15; (being 108 lots) all in township 17 north, range 84 west of the sixth principal meridian and in said Carbon county, and subject only to the right-of-way heretofore granted to the Saratoga & Encampment Railway Company, together with all the hot medicinal and mineral springs therein contained and all improvements thereon; which said property is commonly known as the Saratoga Hot Springs and contains four hundred twenty (420) acres more or less.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 4 - Saratoga Hot Springs State Reserve › Section 36-8-402 - Control and Use of Property; Transfer of Control to the Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.

36-8-402. Control and use of property; transfer of control to the Wyoming department of state parks and cultural resources.
(a) The property described in W.S. 36-8-401 is placed under control of the state board of charities and reform or its successors and forever set aside for the treatment and care of diseases and for sanitary, charitable and such other purposes as determined by the board or its successors.
(b) As provided by W.S. 36-4-122, the department of state parks and cultural resources is designated as successor to the state board of charities and reform, Wyoming recreation commission and the department of commerce under this article effective July 1, 1999.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 4 - Saratoga Hot Springs State Reserve › Section 36-8-403 - Sale of Lands and Improvements; Authority.

36-8-403. Sale of lands and improvements; authority.
Notwithstanding any contrary provisions contained in W.S. 36-8-401, 36-8-402, or in any other provision of law, the sale of the lands and improvements known as and included in the Saratoga Hot Springs Reserve to any person, association of persons, firm or corporation, without restriction as to use or occupancy, is hereby authorized.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 4 - Saratoga Hot Springs State Reserve › Section 36-8-404 - Sale of Lands and Improvements; Conduct of Sale.

36-8-404. Sale of lands and improvements; conduct of sale.
Any sale of the lands and improvements referred to in W.S. 36-8-403 shall be conducted by the state board of land commissioners in the manner provided for the sale of other state lands in W.S. 36-9-101, 36-9-102 and 36-9-104 through 36-9-120, provided, however, that the board shall appoint three (3) qualified disinterested appraisers, not members of the board, to make an appraisal of the said properties, not more than ninety (90) days prior to the call for bids. Any sale so negotiated shall be for cash, and transfer of title shall be by quitclaim deed executed according to the rules of the state board of land commissioners.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 4 - Saratoga Hot Springs State Reserve › Section 36-8-405 - Lease of Lands and Improvements.

36-8-405. Lease of lands and improvements.
The department, in consultation with the commission, may lease the lands and improvements referred to in W.S. 36-8-403 to any person, association, firm or corporation for any lawful purpose, for any term not in excess of ninety-nine (99) years.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 5 - South Pass City State Historical Site › Section 36-8-501 - South Pass City State Historic Site.

36-8-501. South Pass City state historic site.
(a) Repealed By Laws 2010, Ch. 11, 3.
(b) Upon approval by the governor, the department of state parks and cultural resources may purchase in the name of the state of Wyoming the following real property, unless the Carissa gold mine has created unacceptable economical environmental impacts as shown by the department of environmental quality investigation and determined by the governor, in Fremont county containing approximately 312.41 acres which are hereby declared to be part of the South Pass City state historic site:
(i) In township 29 north, range 100 west, 6th p.m., SE1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4, NE1/4 NE1/4 SE1/4 of section 20; lots 6, 7, 9, 16, 19 and 24 of section 20; W1/2 SW1/4 NW1/4 of section 21; E1/2 SW1/4 NW1/4 of section 21; and W1/4 SE1/4 NW1/4 of section 21.
(c) The lands in Fremont County managed by the department as of July 1, 2010 as South Pass City are designated as the South Pass City state historic site. The department shall by rule specify the legal description of the historic site.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 6 - Granite Reservoir, Crystal Reservoir and Upper North Crow Reservoir Areas › Section 36-8-601 - Declaration of Curt Gowdy State Park.

36-8-601. Declaration of Curt Gowdy state park.
(a) The lands in Laramie and Albany counties managed by the department as of July 1, 2010 at Granite Reservoir, Crystal Reservoir and Upper North Crow Reservoir areas known collectively as Curt Gowdy state park are hereby declared to be a state park. The department shall by rule specify the legal description of the state park.
(i) Repealed By Laws 2010, Ch. 11, 3.
(ii) Repealed By Laws 2010, Ch. 11, 3.
(iii) Repealed By Laws 2010, Ch. 11, 3.
(iv) Repealed By Laws 2010, Ch. 11, 3.
(v) Repealed By Laws 2010, Ch. 11, 3.
(b) The state park shall be known as the Curt Gowdy state park.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 36 - State Lands › Chapter 8 - State Parks and Reserves › Article 7 - Sinks Canyon › Section 36-8-701 - Declaration of Sinks Canyon State Park; Disposal of Land.

36-8-701. Declaration of Sinks Canyon state park; disposal of land.
(a) The lands in Fremont County managed by the department as of July 1, 2010 and known as Sinks Canyon are hereby declared to be a state park. The department shall by rule specify the legal description of the state park.
(b) These lands shall not be sold, leased or otherwise disposed of by any state agency without the approval of the legislature.