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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-118 - Construction and Maintenance to Be Performed at Expense of State; Geologic Formations.

24-1-118. Construction and maintenance to be performed at expense of state; geologic formations.
(a) Excepting as such work may be performed through mutual agreement with other entities, either public or private, the construction and maintenance of all state highways, including all bridges, and culverts thereon, shall be performed at the expense of the state and by and under the supervision of the commission and the director of the department of transportation or his authorized representative.
(b) When a new permanent highway cut is made that exposes a bedrock geological formation:
(i) It shall be the policy of the state to leave the bedrock geological formation exposed and not to cover it with soil and planted vegetation except when:
(A) There are safety requirements that require another treatment;
(B) The exposure occurs on private, tribal or federal land that will be private, tribal or federal land once the construction is completed and the landowner desires a different reclamation; or
(C) There are cost of construction or operational reasons to remove or cover the exposed formation.
(ii) After completion of highway construction, for any exposed bedrock geological formation site within the highway right-of-way, with exceptions for site specific safety needs, an individual wishing to understand the local geology for economic, educational or private curiosity reasons may examine the cut and the exposed formation and may remove any geologic samples as may be gathered by hand or collected using geological hammers or other hand held tools;
(iii) The department of transportation shall work with the state geologist to address and resolve any grievances raised under this subsection;
(iv) For exposed bedrock geologic formations of interest to the public, the department of transportation may install appropriate signage, in compliance with applicable federal and state law, to identify the geological formation and may consult with the state geologist on the appropriateness of the signage.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-119 - State Highway Fund Created; Income and Expenditure.

24-1-119. State highway fund created; income and expenditure.
There is created a fund known as the state highway fund, to the credit of which the state treasurer, who is designated as the state official to receive all amounts paid by the United States under the act of congress approved July 11, 1916, shall place all monies previously received for the fund, all money subsequently received from the United States, under cooperative agreements as authorized, all money derived from taxes levied for such purpose or appropriated for the fund, all monies received from the sale of state bonds for highway construction or improvement, all money received from the counties under cooperative agreements as hereinbefore authorized, and all other monies received from donations or bequests, which may be accepted by the commission on behalf of the state of Wyoming, or from any source designated by law for that purpose. All monies in the fund shall be available for the purpose of this act without further appropriation and no warrant shall be drawn on the fund excepting on a voucher approved by the director of the department of transportation or an assistant authorized by the director and approved by the transportation commission. It is provided that seventy-five percent (75%) of the amount of any bond issue subsequently issued by the state of Wyoming for the construction or improvement of state highways, after the payment of overhead expense, shall be apportioned to and spent in each county in the proportion which the assessed valuation of each county by the last general assessment bears to the total assessment of the state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-120 - Administration of Provisions; Maximum Overhead Expenses.

24-1-120. Administration of provisions; maximum overhead expenses.
It is hereby provided that all expenses of the maintenance of office, offices, salary, salaries, engineering, surveying, field supervision and other overhead expenses in connection with the administration of this act, shall not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the total amount expended each year under the provisions of this act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-121 - Highways Subject to Injury From Cattle; Designation; Entry of Order; Notice to Be Posted.

24-1-121. Highways subject to injury from cattle; designation; entry of order; notice to be posted.
The board of county commissioners of every county, wherein is situated any mountain road or highway or portion thereof, which would be liable to receive unusual injury and damage by driving over the same herds of cattle, horses or flocks of sheep, shall have the power, by order entered in the records of such board of commissioners, to designate so much of such road or highway as would be so liable to receive unusual injury and damage, as, not a highway for herds of horses, cattle or flocks of sheep, a notice of which designation shall be posted at convenient and conspicuous places along, and in the vicinity of the portion of such road or highway so designated, which notices shall likewise reasonably point out the lieu road or highway laid out as hereinafter provided.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-122 - Highways Subject to Injury From Cattle; Designation of Substitute Highway.

24-1-122. Highways subject to injury from cattle; designation of substitute highway.
In case of such designation it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of such county to provide in lieu of the portion of such highway, so designated, a highway for herds and flocks of cattle, horses and sheep which shall be reasonably safe and convenient for that purpose and shall be a reasonably convenient way of access to the same place that would otherwise be reached by the portions of the road or highway designated as not a highway for cattle, horses or sheep as aforesaid.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-123 - Highways Subject to Injury From Cattle; Drover's Liability.

24-1-123. Highways subject to injury from cattle; drover's liability.
Any person who shall drive any herd of horses, cattle or flock of sheep over any portion of any road or highway, so designated as not for horses, cattle or sheep as aforesaid, after such designation and the posting of notices as aforesaid, and after the provision of another reasonable highway for cattle, horses and sheep in lieu thereof as aforesaid, shall be liable to the county in which is situated such mountain road or highway, for any and all damages done thereto, by driving over the same, such flocks or herds of cattle, horses or sheep.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-124 - Livestock Crossings; Generally.

24-1-124. Livestock crossings; generally.
The department of transportation may provide suitable livestock crossings on all state highways, having an oil surface, in the state of Wyoming, at places where necessity and convenience require. Ranchmen, farmers and livestock raisers and producers may file with the board of county commissioners of their county a request for livestock crossings, and the various boards of county commissioners shall recommend from time to time to the department of transportation such crossings as they believe will best suit the necessities and convenience of ranchmen, farmers and livestock raisers and producers in their county.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-125 - Livestock Crossings; Construction; Length and Width.

24-1-125. Livestock crossings; construction; length and width.
Such livestock crossings shall be constructed of such material that livestock will readily cross over the same and shall not be less than sixty (60) feet in length and the full width of the highway.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-128 - Marking of Highways.

24-1-128. Marking of highways.
All center markings and supplementary road shoulder markings on all highways within the boundaries of the state of Wyoming completed in asphalt, oil, concrete, or other hard surface shall be maintained with bright yellow lines, whether or not said markings be solid or broken yellow lines. The director of the department of transportation shall have the duty to enforce the provisions of this section and to provide for the effective maintenance of said yellow markings. The state transportation commission after a hearing may waive the application of this section to any highway or highway project if necessary to promote a safe and effective utilization of such highway or highway project. The governor and the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives of the state of Wyoming shall be notified in writing at least five (5) days before the hearing.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-129 - Marking of Bypasses.

24-1-129. Marking of bypasses.
It is declared to be the policy of the state of Wyoming that where the Wyoming department of transportation has by law authorized a bypass to be built around any incorporated city or town, or an unincorporated community of the state of Wyoming, regardless of the population of such city, town or unincorporated community, the officially designated state highway and federal highway markings shall remain on the existing highway through the incorporated city or town or unincorporated community and the existing highway shall be retained and the new bypass highway shall carry the designation "bypass" or other similar markings.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-130 - Administration of Highway Safety Provisions and Programs.

24-1-130. Administration of highway safety provisions and programs.
The governor, in addition to other duties and responsibilities conferred upon him by the constitution and laws of this state is hereby empowered to contract and to do all other things necessary to secure the full benefits available to this state under the federal Highway Safety Act of 1966, and in so doing, to cooperate with federal and state agencies, private and public organizations, and with individuals, to effectuate the purposes of that enactment, and any and all subsequent amendments thereto. The governor shall be responsible for and is hereby empowered to administer through such appropriate agency of this state as he shall designate within thirty (30) days from the date hereof, the highway safety programs of this state and those of its political subdivisions, all in accordance with said act and federal rules and regulations in implementation thereof.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-131 - Travel Centers.

24-1-131. Travel centers.
(a) The transportation commission and the director of the department of transportation shall ensure that all buildings owned or controlled by the department of transportation and utilized as travel centers are directed and operated by one (1) or more agencies appointed by the transportation commission for the best interests of all Wyoming people. For purposes of this section an agency may be defined as a chamber of commerce, or any state or local governmental entity. If no agency is appointed, the commission shall direct and operate the travel centers.
(b) The department of transportation, in consultation with the commission, shall establish facilities at one (1) or more travel centers to accept donations in support of wildlife conservation efforts related to the transportation system. Funds collected under this subsection shall be deposited into the wildlife conservation account created under W.S. 31-2-231(b). In carrying out the requirements of this subsection, the department may enter into agreements with financial institutions or persons operating remote electronic terminals for the collection of donations.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-133 - Posting Notice of Restrictions to Public Roads and Adjacent Lands; Restrictions; Penalties.

24-1-133. Posting notice of restrictions to public roads and adjacent lands; restrictions; penalties.
(a) No person shall post a notice purporting to restrict access over a public road unless the restriction has been approved by the governing body having jurisdiction over the road.
(b) For purposes of this section "public road" means any passageway to which there is a duly recorded instrument from the landowner or his predecessor in interest conveying to the public unrestricted legal right to use the passageway or to which a governing body has acquired unrestricted legal right for the public to use the passageway.
(c) The governing body or its authorized representative having jurisdiction over the public road shall issue a written demand to any person who unlawfully posts a notice in violation of subsection (a) of this section directing that the notice be removed within three (3) days following receipt of the notice. The demand shall be delivered in person by a peace officer or mailed by both first class mail and certified mail return receipt requested to the person's last known mailing address. Any person who knowingly posts an illegal notice or who fails to remove an illegal notice within three (3) days after receiving the demand from the governing body is guilty of a misdemeanor. If the person cannot be personally served because he deliberately made himself unavailable for service, or refused to accept delivery of the demand by certified mail, then he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if he fails to remove the illegal notice within five (5) days after the demand was mailed to him by the governing body. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under this section shall be punished by a fine up to six hundred dollars ($600.00) for each day the person fails to remove the illegal notice. For a second or subsequent offense, the penalty shall be a fine of not more than six hundred dollars ($600.00) per day, and up to six (6) months in jail, or both.
(d) It shall be a defense to any charge under this section, that severe weather or other circumstance not within control of the person charged prevented removal of the notice.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-136 - Wyoming Women's Suffrage Pathway-Highway Designation.

24-1-136. Wyoming Women's Suffrage Pathway-highway designation.
State highway 28 from the Fremont county line northeast to the boundary of the Shoshone national forest shall be known as the "Wyoming Women's Suffrage Pathway."
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 24-1-138 - Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March Memorial Bridge.

24-1-138. Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March memorial bridge.
The bridge on United States Interstate Highway 25 crossing over Center Street in Casper, Wyoming shall be known as the "Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March Memorial Bridge." The department of transportation shall install appropriate signage, in compliance with applicable federal and state law, to identify the Dr. Leonard L. Robinson World War II Bataan Death March Memorial Bridge.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 2 - Department of Transportation › Section 24-2-102 - General Powers; Power of Eminent Domain Limited.

24-2-102. General powers; power of eminent domain limited.
(a) To construct, maintain and supervise the public highways of this state, the department of transportation is authorized to:
(i) Acquire, hold and manage real property in the name of the transportation commission and to develop, improve, operate and maintain the same for any necessary public purpose. Lands acquired for rights-of-way for highways may be up to three hundred (300) feet wide and greater where extra width is necessary for:
(A) Deposits of road building materials;
(B) Deposits of waste materials;
(C) Embankments;
(D) Excavations;
(E) Maintenance;
(F) Parking facilities;
(G) Roadside rest areas; and
(H) Scenic roadside areas.
(ii) Sell, exchange, abandon, relinquish or otherwise dispose of real property including land, water and improvements for any necessary purpose in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the transportation commission, provided that disposition of water rights shall be in accordance with law.
(b) The commission shall not acquire property by eminent domain except for highway rights-of-way as specified by subparagraphs (a)(i)(A) through (F) of this section and only if the property for those purposes is immediately adjacent to the highway right-of-way.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 2 - Department of Transportation › Section 24-2-105 - Appointment of Director; Qualifications; Salary and Expenses; Powers and Duties.

24-2-105. Appointment of director; qualifications; salary and expenses; powers and duties.
(a) The commission shall submit a minimum of three (3) names of qualified candidates to the governor who shall appoint a director of the department of transportation. The director shall receive an annual salary as provided by law, payable in equal monthly installments. He shall be allowed his actual and necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duties, and shall give his entire time to the duties of his office. With the approval of the commission, the director shall have complete charge of laying out and establishing highways upon which any portion of the state highway fund is to be expended, including expenditures for roads now in existence or in the future to be constructed, which are part of the state highway system which are located within or partially within the national forests' boundaries, and shall purchase all materials, supplies and equipment, including road-building machinery, materials, supplies and equipment, and shall employ such engineers, superintendents and employees with salaries as provided by law, as necessary for the proper performance of the duties of the department and the construction work undertaken by it. The director, with the approval of the commission, may promulgate and adopt rules and regulations as provided by the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act, necessary for the proper performance of the duties and functions of the department.
(b) Notwithstanding 1991 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 241, Section 1(a)(iv), the director of the department of transportation is authorized to regulate and control the expenditure of any administrative funds not otherwise provided by law and not specifically regulated and controlled by the transportation commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 2 - Department of Transportation › Section 24-2-106 - Appointment of Chief Engineer; Duties of Director and Engineer.

24-2-106. Appointment of chief engineer; duties of director and engineer.
(a) With the approval of the commission, the director of the department of transportation shall appoint a qualified chief engineer who shall:
(i) Compile all available information relative to the public roads and bridges within the state;
(ii) Prepare standard plans and specifications for the construction of roads, culverts and bridges, and compile data relative to road and bridge materials and their values;
(iii) Furnish standard plans, specifications and data to any board of county commissioners or city or town governing body upon request, and advise with a county, city or town with respect to highway and bridge construction and improvements not within the jurisdiction of the department when requested;
(iv) Repealed by Laws 2018, ch. 73, 2.
(v) Be a licensed professional civil engineer, knowledgeable and experienced in highway and bridge construction and maintenance.
(b) Repealed by Laws 2018, ch. 73, 2.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 2 - Department of Transportation › Section 24-2-107 - Required Reports.

24-2-107. Required reports.
The director of the department of transportation shall make an annual report to the commission of the transactions of the department, and on or before December first of each even-numbered year, the commission shall, as required by W.S. 9-2-1014, report to the governor.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 2 - Department of Transportation › Section 24-2-109 - Designation of State Highways; Vesting of County Interest in State; Commission Authorized to Acquire Severed Portions of Land; Land to Be Sold.

24-2-109. Designation of state highways; vesting of county interest in state; commission authorized to acquire severed portions of land; land to be sold.
(a) The transportation commission shall designate public highways to be known as state highways, which may coincide in whole or in part with previously established county roads. When the state highway is defined and designated by resolution entered in the records of the commission, all title and interest of the respective counties, in the road and right-of-way designated, shall pass to and vest in the transportation commission of Wyoming.
(b) Pursuant to W.S. 24-2-102:
(i) Any rights-of-way for state highways not acquired from the respective counties may be acquired;
(ii) The commission shall have the authority to acquire by purchase or gift, the parcel or parcels of property that may be severed or damaged as a result of the acquisition of the highway right-of-way; provided, that the commission shall not acquire any such parcel or parcels of land by purchase or gift until full settlement has been made for the damages to the landowner as otherwise provided by law;
(iii) Any parcel of land acquired pursuant to paragraph (b)(ii) of this section and not otherwise used for highway purposes or traded for land used for highway purposes shall be offered for sale within two (2) years from the date of the completion of the project for which it was acquired. After written notice to the state building commission, the sale or disposition of this land shall be in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the transportation commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 2 - Department of Transportation › Section 24-2-112 - Contracts and Agreements With United States Government.

24-2-112. Contracts and agreements with United States government.
The legislature of the state of Wyoming assents to the provisions of the act of congress approved July 11, 1916, entitled "an act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes," together with all acts and legislation, amendatory or supplementary, or which shall grant or authorize aid for the construction, improvement, maintenance or repair of public roads or highways. The transportation commission is authorized to enter into all contracts and agreements with the United States government relating to the construction and maintenance of roads under the provisions of the act or acts of congress to submit the scheme or program or construction or maintenance as may be required by the federal highway administration and to do all other things necessary fully to carry out the cooperation contemplated and provided for by the act or acts, for the construction or improvement of highways under the act, the good faith of the state is pledged to make available funds sufficient to equal the sums apportioned to the state by or under the United States government during each of the years for which federal funds are appropriated by section 3 of the act and to maintain the roads so constructed with the aid of funds appropriated and to make adequate provisions for carrying out maintenance. Cooperative agreements under the provisions of the act shall be entered into with the federal highway administration only by the commission, but may be for the construction or improvement of either a state highway or a county road. If the road to be improved under such cooperative agreement is a state highway, the state's share of the expense shall be borne entirely by the state; if the highway to be improved or constructed under such cooperative agreement is not a state highway, the state's share of the cost of the work shall be divided between the state and the county upon such basis as the commission shall determine, and before an agreement is entered into with the federal highway administration the county must furnish the right-of-way and shall have entered into an agreement with the commission whereby it shall agree to pay its share of the cost and to pay the cost of all subsequent maintenance, work which shall be performed by and under the supervision of the director of the department of transportation, and the county also shall pay into the state highway fund its share of the estimated cost of the construction.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 2 - Department of Transportation › Section 24-2-114 - State Agency Law Enforcement Communications System; Department Duties and Responsibilities.

24-2-114. State agency law enforcement communications system; department duties and responsibilities.
(a) The department of transportation shall:
(i) Maintain, install, operate and dispatch the state agency law enforcement communications system as defined by W.S. 9-2-1101(b);
(ii) Supervise personnel and budget funds necessary for the maintenance, installation, operation and dispatching of the state agency law enforcement communications system; and
(iii) Provide technical assistance and advice as requested by the law enforcement communications commission and by the state [law enforcement] radio communications consultant.
(b) The budget for maintenance, operation and dispatching of the state agency law enforcement communications system shall be approved by the director of the department of transportation and by the legislature.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 2 - Department of Transportation › Section 24-2-115 - Program for Specific Service Signing by Businesses or Attractions; Department Duties and Responsibilities; Contracting of Duties; Fees.

24-2-115. Program for specific service signing by businesses or attractions; department duties and responsibilities; contracting of duties; fees.
(a) As authorized under W.S. 31-5-406(b), the department of transportation shall establish a program for specific service signing by business entities as part of departmental approved motorist service panels erected within rights-of-way along interstate and primary highways. The program shall be designed for information of interest to the traveling public in accordance with 23 U.S.C. 131(f).
(b) In establishing the program under this section, the department shall by rule and regulation:
(i) Provide for application by business entities for the display of its name or logo upon the specific service signing;
(ii) Repealed By Laws 2014, Ch. 99, 2.
(iii) Establish a uniform initial fee and annual permit fee for applicants to cover the costs of constructing, erecting and maintaining specific service signing, including the costs of contracting for any of these services;
(iv) Establish minimum standards for specific service signing by business entities in accordance with the current edition of the manual on uniform traffic control devices;
(v) Provide for oversight of the program and subject to W.S. 9-2-3204(b), may establish necessary procedures for contracting services for the construction, erection and maintenance of highway specific service signing pursuant to this section;
(vi) Provide a fee system that includes an initial application fee, fabrication and installation fee and an annual administration and maintenance fee. At a minimum, the fee structure shall be set so that the department is fully reimbursed for all costs associated with specific service signing.
(c) All fees collected by the department under the program shall be deposited into the state highway fund.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 2 - Department of Transportation › Section 24-2-116 - Department of Transportation State-Funded Communications Facilities.

24-2-116. Department of transportation state-funded communications facilities.
(a) Upon application by a telecommunications company, the Wyoming department of transportation may lease excess capacity on any state-funded communication infrastructure operated by the department of transportation to the telecommunications company. All monies received from any lease executed pursuant to this section shall be deposited into and separately accounted for in the department's internal service fund specified by W.S. 9-4-204(t)(ii)(B) and governed by W.S. 9-4-205(e). Monies received and deposited under this section are continuously appropriated to the department and shall only be used to maintain, reinforce and repair the WyoLink network and towers.
(b) As used in this section:
(i) "Broadband provider" means a telecommunications company as defined by W.S. 37-15-103(a)(xi), a communications company under W.S. 1-26-813(b) or a cable operator as defined by 47 U.S.C. 522(5);
(ii) "Telecommunications company" shall include a broadband provider.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-101 - Resolution by County Commissioners; Petition of County Electors; Alteration Authority Specified.

24-3-101. Resolution by county commissioners; petition of county electors; alteration authority specified.
(a) The board of county commissioners of any county, may, on its own motion by resolution duly adopted, where it deems the public interest so requires, initiate the procedure for the establishment, vacation or alteration of a county highway, as the case may be, by setting forth in such resolution the point of commencement, the course and the point of termination of said road to be established, altered or vacated, as the case may be, and thereafter following out the provisions of article 2, chapter 52, Wyoming Revised Statutes, 1931, not inconsistent therewith. If the motion specifies vacation of a county road, alley or highway located within one and one half (1 ) miles of the boundary of a city or town, the board shall notify the governing body of the city or town.
(b)(i) Any person desiring the establishment, vacation or alteration of a county highway shall file in the office of the county clerk of the proper county, a petition signed by five (5) or more electors of the county residing within twenty-five (25) miles of the road proposed to be established, altered, or vacated, in substance as follows: To the Board of County Commissioners of .... County. The undersigned ask that a county highway, commencing at .... and running thence .... and terminating at .... be established (altered or vacated as the case may be).
(ii) With said petition shall be filed a list containing the names and also the known post office address of each person owning or having an interest in any land over which the proposed establishment, vacation or alteration of a county highway is to be made.
(c) In altering any county highway under this article or any other road dedicated by recorded plat as a public road, a board of county commissioners may change the designation of any road to a private road. If a board alters any road, it shall reserve the access rights of the area landowners and permit governmental agencies to retain access to that road for performing essential public services. It may also designate a nongovernmental entity to be responsible for the maintenance of any road altered pursuant to this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-102 - Requiring Deposit by Petitioners.

24-3-102. Requiring deposit by petitioners.
The board of the county commissioners may require, in their discretion, that the petitioners for the establishment, alteration or vacation of a public road, shall deposit with the county clerk, a sufficient sum of money to defray the expenses of laying out, vacating or altering such road, and such expense, when so incurred, shall be paid out of such deposit. If the road is finally established, altered or vacated, the money so deposited shall be returned to the person who deposited the same.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-103 - Viewer; Appointment, Qualifications and Duties Generally.

24-3-103. Viewer; appointment, qualifications and duties generally.
Upon filing of the petition the board of the county commissioners at a regular or special meeting, or the chairman of the board, if in his judgment an emergency exists, shall appoint a suitable and disinterested person, who may be a member of the board of county commissioners, to examine into the expediency of the proposed road, alteration or vacation thereof, and to report immediately.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-104 - Viewer; Oath; Scope of Investigation.

24-3-104. Viewer; oath; scope of investigation.
The person so appointed shall be termed a viewer, and he shall be sworn by some person or officer authorized by law to administer oaths, before entering upon his duties, to faithfully and impartially discharge his duties, and he shall file his oath in the office of the county clerk. He shall not be confined to the precise matter of the petition, but may inquire or determine whether that, or any road, in the vicinity of the proposed or altered road, answering the same purpose is required.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-105 - Viewer; Factors to Be Considered.

24-3-105. Viewer; factors to be considered.
In forming his judgment the viewer shall take into consideration both the public and private convenience, and also the expense of the proposed road.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-106 - Viewer; Report.

24-3-106. Viewer; report.
The said viewer shall report in writing to the board of the county commissioners, whether or not in his judgment, said proposed road is practicable, and ought or ought not be established, altered or vacated, as the case may be, stating the probable expense of the same, including damages to the property owners along the line thereof, the benefits thereto, and such other matters therein as shall enable the said board to act understandingly in the premises.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-108 - Roads Established by Consent of Landowners.

24-3-108. Roads established by consent of landowners.
Public roads shall be established without the appointment of a viewer, or without any other proceeding, than the order of the board of county commissioners; provided, that the written consent of all the owners of the land to be used for that purpose, be first filed in the office of the county clerk, and when it is shown to the satisfaction of the said board that the said road is of sufficient importance to be opened and traveled, they shall make an order establishing the same. The board of the county commissioners, when in their judgment such action shall be in the interests of economy or the public good, may purchase or receive donations or rights-of-way for a public road, or any alteration thereof, or any part thereof, from any and all persons along the route thereof, and declare the same opened, whenever the consent of the owners of the land through which said proposed road or alteration shall run, has been obtained, either by the donations of land or when an amicable adjustment of the amount to be paid therefor has been made between such landowners and said board; and all roads or parts of roads or alteration of roads heretofore opened or made, by consent or adjustment of damages, without recourse to other proceedings, are hereby declared to be public roads, the same as if such roads had been legally opened, or said alterations legally made.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-109 - Survey of Proposed Location for New Road; Recordation Required.

24-3-109. Survey of proposed location for new road; recordation required.
If, upon considering and acting upon the report of the viewer, or otherwise, the board of the county commissioners shall decide to lay out such road, they shall cause the county surveyor to make an accurate survey thereof, if such survey is deemed necessary, and to plat and record the same in the book provided by the county for such purpose; and a copy of said plat and notes of survey shall, without unnecessary delay, be filed in the office of the county clerk.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-110 - Notice of Location of Road to Be Published or Posted; Notice by Mail to Property Owners.

24-3-110. Notice of location of road to be published or posted; notice by mail to property owners.
(a) Notice shall be published of the proposed location or alteration of any road by posting on the county's official website in the manner provided in W.S. 18-3-516(f) and by publication for two (2) successive weeks in the designated official newspaper of the county, which notice may be in the following form:
To all to whom it may concern: The Board of County Commissioners have decided to locate (or alter, as the case may be) a road commencing at .... in .... County, Wyoming, running thence (here describe in general terms the points and courses thereof), and terminating at .... .
All objections thereto or claims for damages by reason thereof must be filed in writing with the county clerk of said county, before noon on the .... day of .... A.D. .... or such road will be established (or altered) without reference to such objections or claims for damages.
County Clerk
Dated .... A.D.
(b) The county commissioners shall cause a copy of the above notice to be mailed by registered mail to all persons owning lands or claiming any interest in any lands over or across which said road is proposed to be located or altered. The publication and posting of such notice shall be a legal and sufficient notice to all persons owning lands or claiming any interest in lands over which the proposed road is to be located or altered.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-111 - Objections and Claims for Damages; When Filed.

24-3-111. Objections and claims for damages; when filed.
If the board of the county commissioners shall determine to establish, lay out or alter any road, they shall appoint a day, not less than thirty (30) days after such determination, on or before which day all objections to the establishment, alteration or vacation of the proposed road, and claims for damages by reason thereof, shall be filed with the county clerk.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-112 - Objections and Claims for Damages; When Barred.

24-3-112. Objections and claims for damages; when barred.
No objections or claims for damages shall be filed or made after the noon of the day fixed for filing the same, and if no objections or claims for damages are filed, on or before noon of the day fixed for filing the same, they shall be disregarded, and not considered, and shall be deemed to have been waived and barred.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-113 - Objections and Claims for Damages; Continuance of Hearing Upon Filing.

24-3-113. Objections and claims for damages; continuance of hearing upon filing.
If objections to the establishment, altering or vacating of the road, or if any claims for damages shall be filed, the further hearing of the application may be continued by the board until the matter can be properly disposed of.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-114 - Appraisers; Number; Appointment; Qualifications; Duties Generally; Report.

24-3-114. Appraisers; number; appointment; qualifications; duties generally; report.
When claims for damages are filed, at the next regular meeting or special meeting of the board of the county commissioners, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable and convenient, the said board shall appoint three (3) suitable and disinterested electors of the county as appraisers, to view the ground, on a day fixed by said board, and they shall report their doings in the matter and file their report in writing with the county clerk within thirty (30) days after the date of their appointment, fixing the amount of the damages sustained by the claimants.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-115 - Appraisers; Notification of Appointment Required; Contents.

24-3-115. Appraisers; notification of appointment required; contents.
The county clerk shall cause each of the said appraisers to be notified in writing, of his appointment, stating in said notice, first, the names of all appraisers, second, the names of all claimants for damages, on account of the location or alteration of the said road, with the amount of damages asked by each claimant, third, stating when their report must be filed, and fourth, the law relating to their duty as found in W.S. 24-3-116. The county clerk shall prepare suitable blanks, for such notice, for the oath of the appraisers and for the report, a proper number of which shall be forwarded by him to them.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-116 - Appraisers; Specific Duties Enumerated; Compensation.

24-3-116. Appraisers; specific duties enumerated; compensation.
The said appraisers shall, within ten (10) days after receiving notice of their appointment, meet at some convenient place, on the line of said proposed or altered road, and take and administer to each other, an oath or affirmation to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties. They shall then view the ground, so far as they shall deem it necessary, and fix the amount of damages sustained by each claimant, after allowing for all benefits that may accrue to each claimant, by reason of the location or alteration of the said proposed road. They, or a majority of them, shall as soon as practicable, after performing their said duties, make a report in writing to the county clerk of their doings, stating that they were so sworn or affirmed as aforesaid, before performing their duties and fixing the amount of damages, if any, sustained by each claimant, after allowing and deducting for benefits, and where they have disallowed claims for damages, they shall so state in their report, and they shall immediately transmit their report, when made, to the county clerk. They shall, whenever they can conveniently do so, notify the claimants or their agents, of the place of their meeting and may hear such evidence as they may deem necessary in determining the amount of damages fixed by them. They are hereby authorized to administer oaths to each other and to such witnesses as they may hear. If any one (1) of them shall fail or refuse to perform his duty, the other two (2) appraisers shall serve and shall appoint a suitable and disinterested elector in his place, who shall be within easy access, and he shall be sworn or affirmed in like manner as the other two (2) appraisers, and the facts of such appointment and qualification shall be stated in said report to the county clerk. The said appraisers shall each receive for his compensation such reasonable sum as the board of county commissioners shall allow.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-117 - Neglect of Duty by Appraiser or Viewer.

24-3-117. Neglect of duty by appraiser or viewer.
If any viewer or appraiser shall refuse or neglect to perform any of the duties required by law or shall fail to act after his appointment, without a satisfactory excuse for such refusal or neglect, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00), upon his conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, and such fine when collected shall be paid into the county treasury for the benefit of the road fund.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-119 - Appeals From Decisions of County Commissioners; Notice; Bond Required.

24-3-119. Appeals from decisions of county commissioners; notice; bond required.
Any applicant for damages claimed, or caused by the establishment or alteration of any road, may appeal from the final decision of the board of the county commissioners to the district court of the county, in which the land lies, for the taking of which for a public road, damages are asked; but notice of such appeal must be made to the county clerk, within thirty (30) days after such decision has been made by the said board, or such claim shall be deemed to have been abandoned. No appeal shall be allowed, unless a good and sufficient bond be given by the party appealing, in a sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) to cover costs, said bond to be approved by the clerk of the district court.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-120 - Appeals From Decisions of County Commissioners; Duties of County Clerk.

24-3-120. Appeals from decisions of county commissioners; duties of county clerk.
The county clerk shall, within ten (10) days after the notice of an appeal as provided for in W.S. 24-3-119 is filed in his office, make out and file in the office of the clerk of the district court, in his county, a transcript of the papers on file in his office, and the proceedings of the board in relation to such damages.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 24 - Highways › Chapter 3 - Establishment, Vacation or Alteration of County Highways › Article 1 - In General › Section 24-3-121 - Appeals From Decisions of County Commissioners; Recovery of Damages; Court Costs.

24-3-121. Appeals from decisions of county commissioners; recovery of damages; court costs.
The amount of damages to which the claimant shall be entitled on such appeal shall be ascertained in the same manner as in a civil action, and the amount so ascertained, if any, shall be entered of record, but no judgment shall be entered therefor. The amount thus ascertained shall be certified by the clerk of the court to the county clerk who shall thereafter proceed as if such amount had been allowed by the board of the county commissioners to the claimant as damages. If the appellant shall fail to recover an amount exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) above the amount allowed to him by the board of the county commissioners, he shall pay all costs of the appeal.