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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 7 - Transition › Section 34.1-9-709 - Priority.

34.1-9-709. Priority.
(a) This act determines the priority of conflicting claims to collateral. However, if the relative priorities of the claims were established before this act takes effect, former article 9 determines priority.
(b) For purposes of section 34.1-9-322(a), the priority of a security interest that becomes enforceable under section 34.1-9-203 of this act dates from the time this act takes effect if the security interest is perfected under this act by the filing of a financing statement before this act takes effect which would not have been effective to perfect the security interest under former article 9. This subsection does not apply to conflicting security interests each of which is perfected by the filing of such a financing statement.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 8 - Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments › Section 34.1-9-801 - Effective Date of Amendments.

34.1-9-801. Effective date of amendments.
(a) In this part, "2013 amendments" means the amendments to this title that are enacted by the act of the 2013 legislative session that enacted this part 8.
(b) The 2013 amendments are effective July 1, 2013.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 8 - Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments › Section 34.1-9-802 - Savings Clause.

34.1-9-802. Savings clause.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this part, the 2013 amendments apply to a transaction or lien within its scope, even if the transaction or lien was entered into or created before July 1, 2013.
(b) The 2013 amendments do not affect an action, case or proceeding commenced before July 1, 2013.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 8 - Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments › Section 34.1-9-803 - Security Interest Perfected Before July 1, 2013.

34.1-9-803. Security interest perfected before July 1, 2013.
(a) A security interest that is a perfected security interest immediately before July 1, 2013, is a perfected security interest under this title as amended by the 2013 amendments if, on July 1, 2013, the applicable requirements for attachment and perfection under this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments, are satisfied without further action.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in W.S. 34.1-9-805, if, immediately before July 1, 2013, a security interest is a perfected security interest, but the applicable requirements for perfection under this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments, are not satisfied on July 1, 2013, the security interest remains perfected thereafter only if the applicable requirements for perfection under this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments, are satisfied within one (1) year after July 1, 2013.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 8 - Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments › Section 34.1-9-804 - Security Interest Unperfected Before July 1, 2013.

34.1-9-804. Security interest unperfected before July 1, 2013.
(a) A security interest that is an unperfected security interest immediately before July 1, 2013, becomes a perfected security interest:
(i) Without further action, on July 1, 2013, if the applicable requirements for perfection under this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments, are satisfied before or at that time; or
(ii) When the applicable requirements for perfection are satisfied if the requirements are satisfied after that time.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 8 - Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments › Section 34.1-9-806 - When Initial Financing Statement Suffices to Continue Effectiveness of Financing Statement.

34.1-9-806. When initial financing statement suffices to continue effectiveness of financing statement.
(a) The filing statement of an initial financing statement in the office specified in W.S. 34.1-9-501 continues the effectiveness of a financing statement filed before the 2013 amendments take effect if:
(i) The filing of an initial financing statement in that office would be effective to perfect a security interest under this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments;
(ii) The pre-effective-date financing statement was filed in an office in another state; and
(iii) The initial financing statement satisfies subsection (c) of this section.
(b) The filing of an initial financing statement under subsection (a) of this section continues the effectiveness of the pre-effective-date financing statement:
(i) If the initial financing statement is filed before July 1, 2013, for the period provided in W.S. 34.1-9-515 as that section was in effect on June 30, 2013, with respect to an initial financing statement; and
(ii) If the initial financing statement is filed on or after July 1, 2013, for the period provided in W.S. 34.1-9-515, as amended by the 2013 amendments, with respect to an initial financing statement.
(c) To be effective for purposes of subsection (a) of this section, an initial financing statement must:
(i) Satisfy the requirements of W.S. 34.1-9-501 through 34.1-9-526, as amended by the 2013 amendments, for an initial financing statement;
(ii) Identify the pre-effective-date financing statement by indicating the office in which the financing statement was filed and providing the dates of filing and file numbers, if any, of the financing statement and of the most recent continuation statement filed with respect to the financing statement; and
(iii) Indicate that the pre-effective-date financing statement remains effective.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 8 - Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments › Section 34.1-9-807 - Amendment of Pre-Effective-Date Financing Statement.

34.1-9-807. Amendment of pre-effective-date financing statement.
(a) In this section, "pre-effective-date financing statement" means a financing statement filed before July 1, 2013.
(b) On and after July 1, 2013, a person may add or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or otherwise amend the information provided in a pre-effective-date financing statement only in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments. However, the effectiveness of a pre-effective-date financing statement also may be terminated in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction in which the financing statement is filed.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section, if the law of the state governs perfection of a security interest, the information in a pre-effective-date financing statement may be amended on and after July 1, 2013, only if:
(i) The pre-effective-date financing statement and an amendment are filed in the office specified in W.S. 34.1-9-501;
(ii) An amendment is filed in the office specified in W.S. 34.1-9-501 concurrently with, or after the filing in that office of, an initial financing statement that satisfies W.S. 34.1-9-806(c); or
(iii) An initial financing statement that provides the information as amended and satisfies W.S. 34.1-9-806(c) is filed in the office specified in W.S. 34.1-9-501.
(d) If the law of the state governs perfection of a security interest, the effectiveness of a financing statement filed before July 1, 2013, may be continued only under W.S. 34.1-9-805(c) or (e) and 34.1-9-806.
(e) Whether or not the law of the state governs perfection of a security interest, the effectiveness of a financing statement filed before July 1, 2013, in the state may be terminated on or after July 1, 2013, by filing a termination statement in the office in which the pre-effective-date financing statement is filed, unless an initial financing statement that satisfies W.S. 34.1-9-806(c) has been filed in the office specified by the law of the jurisdiction governing perfection as provided in this title, as amended by the 2013 amendments, as the office in which to file a financing statement.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 8 - Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments › Section 34.1-9-808 - Person Entitled to File Initial Financing Statement or Continuation Statement.

34.1-9-808. Person entitled to file initial financing statement or continuation statement.
(a) A person may file an initial financing statement or a continuation statement under this part if:
(i) The secured party of record authorizes the filing; and
(ii) The filing is necessary under this part:
(A) To continue the effectiveness of a financing statement filed before July 1, 2013; or
(B) To perfect or continue the perfection of a security interest.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 9 - Secured Transactions › Part 8 - Transition Provisions for 2013 Amendments › Section 34.1-9-809 - Priority.

34.1-9-809. Priority.
The 2013 amendments determine the priority of conflicting claims to collateral. However, if the relative priorities of the claims were established before July 1, 2013, this title, as it was in effect on June 30, 2013, determines priority.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34.1 - Uniform Commercial Code › Article 10 - Repeal of Inconsistent Legislation and Effective Date › Section 34.1-10-102 - Provision for Transition.

34.1-10-102. Provision for transition.
Transactions validly entered into before that date and the rights, duties and interests flowing from them remain valid thereafter and may be terminated, completed, consummated, or enforced as required or permitted by any statute or other law amended or repealed by this act as though such repeal or amendment had not occurred.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-101 - "Purchaser" Defined.

34-1-101. "Purchaser" defined.
The term "purchaser", as used in this act shall be construed to embrace every person to whom any estate or interest in real estate shall be conveyed for a valuable consideration, and also every assignee of a mortgage or lease, or other conditional estate.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-102 - "Conveyance" Defined.

34-1-102. "Conveyance" defined.
The term "conveyance", as used in this act, shall be construed to embrace every instrument in writing by which any estate or interest in real estate is created, alienated, mortgaged or assigned, or by which the title to any real estate may be affected in law or in equity, except wills, leases for a term not exceeding three (3) years, executory contracts for the sale or purchase of lands, and certificates which show that the purchaser has paid the consideration and is entitled to a deed for the lands, and contain a promise or agreement to furnish said deed at some future time.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-103 - Letters of Attorney; Not a Conveyance.

34-1-103. Letters of attorney; not a conveyance.
The preceding section shall not be construed to extend to a letter of attorney, or other instrument, containing a power to convey lands as agent or attorney for the owner of such lands.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-104 - Letters of Attorney; Recordation; Effect as Evidence.

34-1-104. Letters of attorney; recordation; effect as evidence.
Every letter of attorney, or other instrument, containing a power to convey lands as agent or attorney for the owner of such lands, and every executory contract for the sale or purchase of lands, only when acknowledged by such owner, may be recorded by the county clerk of any county in which the lands to which such letter, instrument or contract relates, or any part of such lands, may be situated, and when so acknowledged, and the record thereof when recorded, or a transcript of such record duly certified, may be read in evidence in the same manner and with like effect as a conveyance recorded in such county.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-105 - Letters of Attorney; Recordation; When Revocation Valid.

34-1-105. Letters of attorney; recordation; when revocation valid.
No letter of attorney, or other instrument so recorded, shall be deemed to be revoked by any act of the party by whom it was executed, unless the instrument containing such revocation be also recorded in the same office in which the instrument containing the power was recorded.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-106 - Form and Capacity of Conveyances.

34-1-106. Form and capacity of conveyances.
Conveyances of land or of any estate or interest therein, may be made by instrument executed and acknowledged by the party from whom or which the estate or interest is intended to pass.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-107 - Quitclaim Deed.

34-1-107. Quitclaim deed.
A deed of quitclaim and release shall be sufficient to pass all the estate which the grantor could lawfully convey by deed of bargain and sale.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-108 - Married Women; Right to Convey Generally.

34-1-108. Married women; right to convey generally.
A married woman may, by her deed or mortgage, convey her real estate in like manner as she might, if she were an unmarried woman.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-109 - Married Women; Right to Convey All Interest in Land Divested From Husband; Effect of Conveyance.

34-1-109. Married women; right to convey all interest in land divested from husband; effect of conveyance.
In all cases where the interest of the husband in any tract or parcel of land has been, or shall be, divested by process of law, or by voluntary conveyance or otherwise, the wife may, by her separate deed, release and convey to the purchaser, his heirs or grantees, all her interest in such tract or parcel of land, whether in possession or expectancy, in the same manner as though she were sole and unmarried; and any deed by the wife so executed and acknowledged, shall be a valid and sufficient bar in law and equity to any right or choice of dower, or other interest which she may thereafter assert in such premises.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-110 - Married Women; Conveyance by Nonresident.

34-1-110. Married women; conveyance by nonresident.
When any married woman, not residing in this state, shall join her husband in any conveyance of real estate situated within this state, the conveyance shall have the same effect as if she were sole, and the acknowledgment of proof of the execution of such conveyance by her, may be the same as if she were sole.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-111 - Conveyance by Tenant for Life.

34-1-111. Conveyance by tenant for life.
A conveyance made by a tenant for life or years, purporting to grant a greater estate than he possessed or could lawfully convey, shall not work a forfeiture of his estate, but shall pass to the grantee all the estate which such tenant could lawfully convey.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-112 - Claim of Adverse Possession Not to Invalidate Conveyance.

34-1-112. Claim of adverse possession not to invalidate conveyance.
No grant or conveyance of lands or interest therein shall be void, for the reason that at the time of the execution thereof, such land shall be in the actual possession of another, claiming adversely.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-113 - Acknowledgment of Conveyances; Generally.

34-1-113. Acknowledgment of conveyances; generally.
Execution of deeds, mortgages or other conveyances of lands, or any interest in lands, shall be acknowledged by the party or parties executing same, before any notarial officer. The notarial officer taking such acknowledgment shall comply with the requirements of W.S. 32-3-109.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-118 - Where Conveyance to Be Recorded.

34-1-118. Where conveyance to be recorded.
A certificate of the acknowledgment of any deed, mortgage or conveyance, or proof of the execution thereof, before a notarial officer, shall entitle such deed, mortgage or conveyance, certificate or certificates aforesaid, to be recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county where the land lies.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-119 - Duties of County Clerk Generally.

34-1-119. Duties of county clerk generally.
(a) The county clerk of each county within this state shall receive and record at length all deeds, mortgages, conveyances, patents, certificates and instruments left with him for that purpose, and he shall endorse on every such instrument the day and hour on which it was filed for record. The county clerk shall not record any document until the address of the grantee, mortgagee or assignee of the mortgagee is furnished to the county clerk, but this requirement shall not affect the validity of the recording of any instrument except to the extent provided in W.S. 34-1-142(b). Only instruments which are the originally signed documents, including electronic documents recorded pursuant to the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act, W.S. 34-1-401 through 34-1-407, or properly certified or authenticated copies thereof may be properly recorded. A document is properly certified if in compliance with Rule 902 of the Wyoming Rules of Evidence or other applicable rule or statute.
(b) Whenever a transfer on death deed is filed with the county clerk pursuant to W.S. 2-18-103, the county clerk shall furnish the following information to the Wyoming department of health, division of healthcare financing within fourteen (14) days of recording the deed:
(i) The name of the grantor;
(ii) The name of the grantee;
(iii) The legal description of the property being transferred.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-120 - Unrecorded Conveyance Void as to Subsequent Purchasers Recording First.

34-1-120. Unrecorded conveyance void as to subsequent purchasers recording first.
Every conveyance of real estate within this state, hereafter made, which shall not be recorded as required by law, shall be void, as against any subsequent purchaser or purchasers in good faith and for a valuable consideration of the same real estate or any portion thereof, whose conveyance shall be first duly recorded.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-121 - Recorded Instrument as Notice to Subsequent Purchasers; Recordation of Instruments Issued by United States or State of Wyoming.

34-1-121. Recorded instrument as notice to subsequent purchasers; recordation of instruments issued by United States or state of Wyoming.
(a) Each and every deed, mortgage, instrument or conveyance touching any interest in lands, made and recorded, according to the provisions of this chapter, shall be notice to and take precedence of any subsequent purchaser or purchasers from the time of the delivery of any instrument at the office of the county clerk, for record. Any and all instruments or other documents, or copies of instruments or other documents duly certified by any agency, department or bureau of the United States or the state of Wyoming having charge of the records of the instruments or other documents, conveying, remising or demising, or otherwise affecting:
(i) Real estate on any Indian reservation and relating to any period the real estate may be or has been held by the United States in trust for an Indian or Indians or Indian tribe, or restricted against alienation under the laws of the United States, or any interest in the real estate; or
(ii) Real estate, or any interest therein, or any assignment thereof, issued by the United States or the state of Wyoming, or any agency, department or bureau of either thereof, including mineral leases and assignments thereof, certificates of purchase or payment for public lands issued by the receiver of the land office, shall be entitled to record under this chapter, and the record of all instruments or other documents shall have the same effect to all intents and purposes as though the same were acknowledged and otherwise executed as required by the provisions of this chapter relating to conveyances.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-122 - Force and Effect of Conveyances Prior to Act.

34-1-122. Force and effect of conveyances prior to act.
All conveyances of real estate heretofore made and acknowledged or proved in accordance with the laws of this state in force at the time of such making, acknowledgment or proof, shall have the same force as evidence, and be recorded in the same manner and with like effect as conveyances executed and acknowledged in accordance with the provisions of this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-123 - Admissibility of Conveyance or Record Thereof as Evidence.

34-1-123. Admissibility of conveyance or record thereof as evidence.
All deeds, mortgages, conveyances or instruments of any character, concerning any interest in lands within this state, which shall be executed, acknowledged, attested or proved in accordance with the provisions of this act or the laws of this state, or the local laws of any mining district wherein such real estate is situate, in force at the date of such acknowledgment, attestation or proof, may be read in evidence, without in the first instance additional proof of the execution thereof, and the record of any such deed, mortgage, conveyance or instrument, whether an original record of any mining district, or a copy thereof deposited in the register's [county clerk's] office of any county, in accordance with the laws of this state (as a part of the records of such mining district) or a record of such recorder's office, when the same appears by such record to be properly acknowledged, attested or proved in accordance with the laws of this state, or of the proper mining district in force at the date of such acknowledgment, attestation or proof, or a transcript from any such record, certified by the register [county clerk] of the proper county where such deed, mortgage, conveyance or instrument ought by law to be recorded, may, upon the affidavit of the party desiring to use the same, that the original thereof is not in his possession or power to produce, be read in evidence with like effect as the original of such deed, mortgage, conveyance or instrument properly acknowledged, attested or proved as aforesaid, but the effect of such evidence may be rebutted by other competent testimony.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-124 - Federal Land Office Instruments; Generally; Railway Maps and Affidavits; Recording and Recording Fees.

34-1-124. Federal land office instruments; generally; railway maps and affidavits; recording and recording fees.
Patents heretofore or hereafter issued by the United States, for lands and certificates of purchase or payment for public lands, heretofore or hereafter issued by the receiver of any land office of the United States, shall be entitled to be recorded under the provisions of this chapter, and the record of all such instruments shall have the effect to all intents and purposes, as though same were acknowledged and otherwise executed as required by law; provided, that any railroad company, having a right-of-way or station grounds, acquired in conformity to an act of the congress of the United States, requiring a map thereof, to be approved by the secretary of the interior, shall file with the county clerk, of any county in this state, wherein such right-of-way and station grounds may be, a copy of such map, duly authenticated, together with the affidavit of any officer or agent of such railroad company, describing by quarter sections the lands within such county, affected by such right-of-way, which were public lands when such map was approved, and it shall be the duty of such county clerk to record said affidavit, and file said map, and to note upon the abstract of lands of his office as to each quarter section so described, that a right-of-way across the same is claimed by the company filing said map; provided, further, that the fee for filing said map and recording said affidavit, shall be two dollars ($2.00).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-125 - Federal Land Office Instruments; as Evidence.

34-1-125. Federal land office instruments; as evidence.
The certificate of purchase or payment issued by the receiver of any land office of the United States, or the record thereof, or if the same be lost or destroyed or beyond the reach of the person entitled thereto, secondary evidence of its contents, is proof of the title to the lands described therein, equivalent to a patent against all except the United States or the holder of a patent from the United States.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-127 - Effect on Purported Absolute Conveyance of Unrecorded Deed of Defeasance.

34-1-127. Effect on purported absolute conveyance of unrecorded deed of defeasance.
When a deed or mortgage purports to be an absolute conveyance in terms, but is made or intended to be made defeasible by force of defeasance, or other instrument for that purpose, the original conveyance shall not be thereby defeated or affected as against any person other than the maker of the defeasance, or his heirs or devisees, or persons having actual notice thereof, unless the instrument of defeasance shall have been recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county where the lands lie.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-128 - Recorded Assignment of Mortgage.

34-1-128. Recorded assignment of mortgage.
The recording of the assignment of a mortgage, shall not in itself, be deemed notice of such assignment to the mortgagor, his heirs or personal representatives, so as to invalidate any payment made by them or either of them to the mortgagee.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-129 - Husband or Wife May Appoint Each Other as Attorney-in-Fact to Control Interests.

34-1-129. Husband or wife may appoint each other as attorney-in-fact to control interests.
A husband or wife may constitute the other his or her attorney-in-fact to control or dispose of his or her property, or any inchoate or other interest therein and may revoke the same to the same extent and in the same manner as other persons.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-130 - County Clerk to Discharge Mortgage or Deed of Trust on Record When Certificate of Release Recorded.

34-1-130. County clerk to discharge mortgage or deed of trust on record when certificate of release recorded.
Any mortgage or deed of trust shall be discharged upon the record thereof, by the county clerk in whose custody it shall be, or in whose office it is recorded, when there shall be recorded in his office a certificate or deed of release executed by the mortgagee, trustee or beneficiary, his assignee or legally authorized representative, or by a title agent or title insurer acting in accordance with the provisions of W.S. 34-1-145 through 34-1-150, acknowledged or proven and certified as by law prescribed to entitle conveyances to be recorded, specifying that such mortgage or deed of trust has been paid or otherwise satisfied or discharged, and the county clerk shall make a reference to such release in the record.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-131 - Force and Effect of Section 34-1-130 on Mortgages and Deeds of Trust Executed and Deeds of Trust Discharged Prior to Act.

34-1-131. Force and effect of section 34-1-130 on mortgages and deeds of trust executed and deeds of trust discharged prior to act.
The preceding section, as hereby amended, shall apply to all mortgages and deeds of trust, heretofore as well as those which may be hereafter, executed and the release or discharge of any deed of trust heretofore made in accordance with said section, by the trustee named in said deed of trust or his successor, is hereby legalized and declared to be as binding upon all parties in interest as though such release or discharge had been made after the passage of this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-132 - Liability of Mortgagee for Failing to Discharge; Damage Limitations; Definition.

34-1-132. Liability of mortgagee for failing to discharge; damage limitations; definition.
(a) A mortgagee shall, within thirty (30) days after having received by certified or registered mail a request in writing for the discharge or release of a mortgage, execute and acknowledge a certificate or deed of discharge or release of the mortgage if there has been full performance of the condition of the mortgage and if there is no other written agreement between the mortgagee and mortgagor encumbering the property subject to the mortgage.
(b) A mortgagee who fails or refuses to discharge or release a mortgage within the thirty (30) day period required by subsection (a) of this section is liable to the mortgagor or his assignees for:
(i) All actual damages resulting from the mortgagee's failure or refusal to discharge or release the mortgage; and
(ii) Special damages in the amount of one-tenth of one percent (.10%) of the original principal amount of the mortgage for each additional day after the thirty (30) day period until the mortgage is released or discharged. Special damages authorized by this paragraph shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day.
(c) Notwithstanding any assignment of the mortgage, the mortgagee of record is liable for the damages specified in subsection (b) of this section unless, within sixty (60) days after receipt of the request for discharge or release as provided by subsection (a) of this section, he furnishes to the person making the request the name and address of the current assignee or holder of the mortgage who has legal authority to execute the discharge or release.
(d) As used in this section "mortgagee" means the mortgagee named in the original mortgage or, if assigned, the current holder of the mortgage or the servicing agent for the current holder of the mortgage.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-133 - Release; Mortgage of Deceased Nonresident Mortgagee.

34-1-133. Release; mortgage of deceased nonresident mortgagee.
Whenever any nonresident of this state shall die without this state, owing, at the time of his death, debts secured by mortgage or other incumbrance upon real or personal property situated in this state, and the debtor shall make voluntary payment of such debt to the executor of the last will and testament of such deceased person, or to the administrator of the estate of such deceased person, whose letters testamentary or of administration, as the case may be, were issued from the proper court of the state or territory of the United States, where such deceased creditor resided at the time of his death, it shall be lawful and competent for such executor or administrator to execute a full and valid release, and acquittance of such debt, and of the mortgage or other incumbrance securing the same; provided, that there shall be attached to such release and acquittance, and made a part thereof, a full and complete transcript of the records of the court issuing such letters testamentary or of administration, as the case may be, certified to by the clerk of such court, or other proper custodian of the records thereof, under his hand and under the seal of such court, fully exhibiting the due appointment and qualification of such executor or administrator, and there shall also be attached to such release and made a part thereof, a certificate under the hand of the presiding judge of such court, or the clerk thereof, that at the date of such release, the person or persons executing the same, was such duly appointed and qualified executor or administrator, as set forth in such release. Any release so executed shall be admitted to record, in this state, in the office of any of the county clerks and upon being recorded in the proper office, the county clerk shall discharge the mortgage or other incumbrance in such release mentioned, in the manner provided by law, but this section shall not be construed to authorize any administrator appointed by the courts of any other state or territory of the United States, to exercise any power, within the state other than the power to receive voluntary payments of debts due to his intestate, and to release mortgages or other incumbrances upon property situate in this state and securing such debts.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-134 - Release; Mortgage of Bankrupt Corporation Mortgagee.

34-1-134. Release; mortgage of bankrupt corporation mortgagee.
It shall be the duty of any county clerk within the state of Wyoming, upon request of any person and the filing in his office of a certified copy of an order of discharge of any receiver or trustee in bankruptcy of any national or state bank, trust company or building and loan association, to cancel of record any unreleased and unassigned mortgage or deed of trust of record in his office in which such national or state bank, trust company, or building and loan association, is mortgagee by releasing the said mortgage or deed of trust in the record where the same has been placed of record, and said release shall be effective and constitute a discharge of the lien of said mortgage or trust deed upon the real property covered by the same in the same manner and to the same effect as if said release had been made by the mortgagee thereof.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-135 - Covenants; Not Implied in Conveyances; Exception.

34-1-135. Covenants; not implied in conveyances; exception.
No covenant shall be implied in any conveyance of real estate other than a conveyance of oil, gas or other minerals whether such conveyance contains special covenants or not.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-136 - Covenants; Not Implied for Payment of Sum Secured by Mortgage.

34-1-136. Covenants; not implied for payment of sum secured by mortgage.
No mortgage shall be construed as implying a covenant for the payment of the sum thereby intended to be secured, where there shall be no express covenant for such payment contained in the mortgage, and, if no bond or other separate instrument to secure such payment shall be given, the remedies of the mortgagee shall be confined to the lands mentioned in the mortgage.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-137 - Fees Tail Prohibited; Future Interests of Fees Tail; Worthier Title Doctrine Abolished.

34-1-137. Fees tail prohibited; future interests of fees tail; worthier title doctrine abolished.
(a) The creation of fees tail is not permitted. The use in an otherwise effective conveyance of property of language appropriate to create a fee tail, creates a fee simple in the person who would have taken a fee tail. Any future interest limited upon such an interest is a limitation upon the fee simple and its validity is determined accordingly.
(b) The doctrine of worthier title is abolished as a rule of law and as a rule of construction. Language in a will, trust agreement, beneficiary designation or other governing instrument describing the beneficiaries of a disposition as "heirs," "heirs at law," "next of kin," "distributees," "relatives" or "family" or language of similar import, does not create or presumptively create a reversionary interest in the transferor.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-139 - Perpetuities; Time Limits for Vesting; Restrictions on Selected Lives; Legislative Intent.

34-1-139. Perpetuities; time limits for vesting; restrictions on selected lives; legislative intent.
(a) No interest in real property shall be valid unless it must vest not later than twenty-one (21) years after some life in being at the creation of the interest and any period of gestation involved in the situation to which the limitation applies. The lives selected to govern the time of vesting must not be so numerous nor so situated that evidence of their deaths is likely to be unreasonably difficult to obtain. It is intended by this subsection to make effective in this state the American common-law rule against perpetuities for interests in real property.
(b) A trust created after July 1, 2003, owning or holding property other than or in addition to interests in real property, shall continue for up to one thousand (1,000) years after the trust's creation, unless some earlier term is expressly set forth in the trust instrument, so long as:
(i) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 47, 2.
(ii) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 47, 2.
(iii) The trust is governed by the laws of this state;
(iv) The trustee maintains a place of business, administers the trust in this state or is a resident of this state; and
(v) The trust terms require that any power of appointment over the trust property, other than interests in real property, terminate and all such interests in trust property vest or terminate no later than one thousand (1,000) years after the trust's creation or such earlier date as is set forth in the trust instrument.
(c) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 47, 2.
(d) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 47, 2.
(e) If a trust owns or holds both interests in real property and interests in property other than real property, subsection (a) of this section shall apply to any real property interests held in the trust and subsection (b) shall apply to the remaining property of the trust.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-140 - Establishing Joint Tenancy or Tenancy by Entirety in Real or Personal Property.

34-1-140. Establishing joint tenancy or tenancy by entirety in real or personal property.
(a) A joint tenancy or a tenancy by the entirety as to any interest in real or personal property may be established by the owner thereof, by designating in the instrument of conveyance or transfer, the names of such joint tenants or tenants by the entirety, including his own, without the necessity of any transfer or conveyance to or through a third person.
(b) Unless the deed specifies another form of ownership, the designation of tenants on an instrument of conveyance or transfer of real property as "husband and wife," "spouses" or similar language, shall be deemed to establish a tenancy by the entirety under subsection (a) of this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-141 - Easements.

34-1-141. Easements.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, easements across land executed and recorded after the effective date of this act which do not specifically describe the location of the easement are null and void and of no force and effect.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, agreements entered into after the effective date of this act which grant the right to locate an easement at a later date and which do not specifically describe the location of the easement are null and void.
(c) For purposes of this section an easement or agreement which does not specifically describe the location of the easement or which grants a right to locate an easement at a later date shall be valid for a period of one (1) year from the date of execution of the easement or agreement. If the specific description is not recorded within one (1) year then the easement or agreement shall be of no further force and effect.
(d) For purposes of this section the specific description required in an easement shall be sufficient to locate the easement and is not limited to a survey.
(e) For purposes of this section options to obtain easements at a later date shall not be considered easements or agreements pursuant to subsections (b) and (c) of this section and shall be for a period not to exceed seven (7) years.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-143 - Information to Be Furnished to Department of Revenue and the State Board of Equalization.

34-1-143. Information to be furnished to department of revenue and the state board of equalization.
The county clerk shall place the recording data on the statement of consideration paid and deliver the statement to the county assessor. The county assessor shall furnish information from the statements of consideration to the state board of equalization and department of revenue as the board or department shall require, and when disclosed under W.S. 34-1-142(g) and 39-13-109(b)(i), any person or his agent wishing to review or contest his property tax assessment or valuation and the county board of equalization. The county assessor may furnish information from the statements of consideration to a county assessor in another county in this state to be used as provided by law.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-144 - Penalty for Falsifying Statement.

34-1-144. Penalty for falsifying statement.
It is a misdemeanor for a person to willfully falsify or publicly disclose, except as specifically authorized by law, any information on the statement of consideration required by W.S. 34-1-142 and 34-1-143. Upon conviction the offender is subject to a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-145 - Definitions.

34-1-145. Definitions.
(a) As used in W.S. 34-1-145 through 34-1-150:
(i) "Beneficiary" means the record owner of the beneficiary's interest under a trust deed, including successors in interest;
(ii) "Mortgage" means as described in W.S. 34-2-107;
(iii) "Mortgagee" means the record owner of the mortgagee's interest under a mortgage, including a successor in interest;
(iv) "Satisfactory evidence of the full payment of the obligation secured by a trust deed or mortgage" means the original cancelled check or a copy of a cancelled check, showing all endorsements, payable to the beneficiary, servicer or mortgagee and reasonable documentary evidence that the check was to effect full payment under the trust deed or an encumbrance upon the property covered by the trust deed or mortgage;
(v) "Servicer" means a person or entity that collects loan payments on behalf of a beneficiary or mortgagee;
(vi) "Title agent" means a title insurance agent licensed as an organization under W.S. 26-23-316 and bonded as a title abstractor under W.S. 26-23-308 or 33-2-101;
(vii) "Title insurer" means a title insurer authorized to conduct business in the state under the Wyoming Insurance Code;
(viii) "Trust deed" means as described in W.S. 34-3-101.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-147 - Objections to Reconveyance or Release.

34-1-147. Objections to reconveyance or release.
A title insurer or title agent may not record a reconveyance of trust deed or release of mortgage if, within thirty (30) days from the day on which the title insurer or title agent delivered or mailed the notice of intent to release or reconvey in accordance with W.S. 34-1-146(c) and (d), the beneficiary, mortgagee or servicer sends a notice by certified mail that the obligation secured by the trust deed or mortgage has not been paid in full or objects to the release of the mortgage or reconveyance of the trust deed under W.S. 34-1-146(e).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-148 - Liability of Title Insurer or Title Agent.

34-1-148. Liability of title insurer or title agent.
(a) A title insurer or title agent purporting to act under the provisions of W.S. 34-1-146 who reconveys a trust deed or releases a mortgage is liable for the damages suffered as a result of the reconveyance if the obligation secured by the trust deed or mortgage has not been fully paid and:
(i) The title insurer or title agent failed to comply with the provisions of W.S. 34-1-146 and 34-1-147; or
(ii) The title insurer or title agent acted with gross negligence or in bad faith in reconveying the trust deed.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 34 - Property, Conveyances and Security Transactions › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - In General › Section 34-1-149 - Application of Provisions.

34-1-149. Application of provisions.
The provisions of W.S. 34-1-145 through 34-1-148 apply to any obligation secured by a trust deed or mortgage that was paid prior to, on or after July 1, 1999.