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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-214 - Rehearing.

37-2-214. Rehearing.
At any time after an order has been made by the commission any person interested therein may apply for a rehearing in respect to any matter determined therein and the commission shall grant and hold a rehearing if in its judgment sufficient reason therefor be made to appear, which rehearing shall be subject to rules as the commission may prescribe. Applications for rehearing shall stay the effect of any order or decision of the commission only as to the portion of the order addressed in the rehearing application until the commission denies the application or enters an order following rehearing, whichever last occurs, provided, however, that upon the request of any party and a showing of good cause therefor, the commission may vacate the stay and allow the order or decision to remain in effect. An order or decision made after the rehearing vacating, amending or modifying the original order or decision shall not, as to the matter considered on rehearing, be open to a further application for rehearing, and shall have the same force and effect as the original order or decision.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-215 - Prosecution of Violations.

37-2-215. Prosecution of violations.
Whenever the commission shall be of the opinion that any public utility is failing or omitting, or is about to fail or omit to do anything required of it by this act, or by any order of the commission, or is doing anything or is about to do anything or permit anything to be done contrary to or in violation of the provisions of this act, or of any order of the commission, it may begin and prosecute in any district court of this state an appropriate action in law or in equity to remedy or to prevent such real or proposed violation.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-216 - Venue.

37-2-216. Venue.
All provisions of the law of this state relating to venue shall apply to proceedings under this act, and in addition any action at law or in equity to enforce the provisions of this act, or of any order of the commission, or to prevent any proposed violation thereof, may be commenced in the district court in and for the county in which the principal office of the commission is located or in the county where the principal office in the state of the public utility is located.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-217 - Jurisdiction.

37-2-217. Jurisdiction.
All provisions of the laws of this state prescribing the duties and jurisdiction of the courts thereof shall apply to this act, and in addition it shall be the duty of the district court of the county in which the commission has its principal office to entertain and determine all actions commenced under the provisions of this act, or of any order of the commission by mandamus, or by injunctions, or by any other appropriate remedy.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-218 - Refund of Excess Charges.

37-2-218. Refund of excess charges.
Whenever any public utility shall charge, collect or receive any rate or rates in excess of the rates fixed in the schedule of charges then in force, as provided in this act, it shall be the duty of such public utility straightway to refund to the person paying such excessive rates the difference between the lawful rates fixed in such schedule and the rates so charged, collected or received.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-219 - Who May Appeal Commission Decision or Action; Manner and Extent of Appeal.

37-2-219. Who may appeal commission decision or action; manner and extent of appeal.
Any party in interest or any person or party authorized under W.S. 37-2-118, to file an original complaint before the commission, may appeal from a final decision or other commission action or inaction, in the same manner, and to the same extent, as provided by the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-220 - Process, Evidence as in Civil Actions.

37-2-220. Process, evidence as in civil actions.
In all actions and proceedings in court arising under this act, all processes shall be served and the practice and rules of evidence shall be the same as in civil actions or in suits in equity, except as otherwise herein provided. Every sheriff or other officer empowered to execute civil process shall execute any process issued under the provisions of this act and shall receive such compensation therefor, as may be prescribed by law for similar services.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-221 - Injunction.

37-2-221. Injunction.
No injunction shall issue suspending or staying any order of the commission, except upon application to the district court in and for the county in which the commission has its principal office, or the presiding judge thereof, or the federal court or judge having jurisdiction there, and upon notice to the commission and hearing.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-222 - Undercharges for Electricity and Gas; Collection Permitted; Restrictions.

37-2-222. Undercharges for electricity and gas; collection permitted; restrictions.
(a) Whenever a public utility supplying gas, natural gas or electricity has undercharged any customer as the result of a meter or metering inaccuracy or other continuing problem under its control, the utility may only bill the customer for the amount of the unmetered gas or electricity rendered in the one hundred eighty-three (183) days immediately prior to the date the utility remedies the meter inaccuracy. The maximum portion of the undercharge for unmetered gas or electricity rendered that may be recovered from the customer in any billing month shall be determined by dividing the amount of the undercharge by twelve (12) and the quotient is the maximum portion of the undercharge that the utility may, subject to subsection (c) of this section, recover from the customer in any billing month, in addition to either regular monthly charges of any type or regular level payment amounts billed in accordance with an agreement between the customer and the utility. Subject to subsection (c) of this section, the time period over which the undercharge may be collected shall be twelve (12) consecutive months.
(b) No utility shall recover any interest charge, service charge or fee, whether or not a percentage is utilized for its computation, for billings made pursuant to this section.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the customer from paying an undercharge or any portion thereof in a time shorter than that stated in this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a gas, natural gas or electric utility from collecting an undercharge or any portion thereof in a time longer than that stated in this section.
(d) A gas, natural gas or electric utility may not collect any amount otherwise permitted to be collected under this section unless the utility, in the first bill the purpose of which is to collect the amount for unmetered gas or electric service, states the entire amount that it seeks to collect.
(e) No gas, natural gas or electric utility required to follow this section in order to collect an undercharge from a customer may shut off the service of the customer except for safety reasons, except in the event of a request by the customer and except to enforce a shut-off provision in its filed tariffs with the commission that is triggered by nonpayment by a customer of a lawfully owing past due amount.
(f) This section does not apply to any act that is an offense under W.S. 37-12-111 through 37-12-118, or where a physical act of a customer or its agent causes inaccurate or no recording of the meter reading or inaccurate or no measurement of the gas or electricity rendered.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 4 - Consumer Advocate › Section 37-2-401 - Office of Consumer Advocate Created; Purpose.

37-2-401. Office of consumer advocate created; purpose.
The office of consumer advocate is created as a separate division within the public service commission. The office of consumer advocate shall represent the interests of Wyoming citizens and all classes of utility customers in matters involving public utilities. In the exercise of its powers the office of the consumer advocate shall consider all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the provision of safe, efficient and reliable utility services at just and reasonable prices.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 4 - Consumer Advocate › Section 37-2-402 - Consumer Advocate; Powers and Duties.

37-2-402. Consumer advocate; powers and duties.
(a) The consumer advocate shall have the power to:
(i) Act as a party in any proceeding before the commission, with the same rights and subject to the same obligations and requirements and limitations on ex parte communications, including confidentiality requirements, as other parties to the proceeding;
(ii) Appeal actions of the commission in accordance with W.S. 37-2-219;
(iii) Seek permission to appear as amicus curiae in any court proceeding in order to accomplish the purposes specified in this article;
(iv) Provide information and assistance to individual consumers regarding proceedings within the jurisdiction of the commission.
(b) In any commission docketed case initiated by the regulated company in which the consumer advocate is a party, the consumer advocate shall have the same access to books, maps, contracts, reports and records of every description as the commission. For all other instances, the consumer advocate shall have the same access as other parties.
(c) The consumer advocate shall not advocate for or on behalf of any individual, organization or entity.
(d) The consumer advocate may enter into stipulations with other parties in any proceeding to balance the interests of those it represents with the interests of the public utilities as means of minimizing the weaknesses of the adversarial process, improving the quality of resulting decisions in a highly technical environment and minimizing the cost of regulation.
(e) In any case where the office of consumer advocate does not intervene, the commission shall have the authority to authorize its staff to participate as a party before the commission. The commission shall exercise this authority not later than five (5) business days following the deadline for any intervention.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 4 - Consumer Advocate › Section 37-2-403 - Consumer Advocate; Administrator and Staff.

37-2-403. Consumer advocate; administrator and staff.
The administrative head of the division shall be an administrator appointed by the governor with senate confirmation. The administrator shall employ and supervise personnel as authorized by legislative appropriation. Except as provided in W.S. 37-2-404 the employees of the office of consumer advocate shall not be supervised or directed by the commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 4 - Consumer Advocate › Section 37-2-404 - Consumer Advocate; Funding and Expenses.

37-2-404. Consumer advocate; funding and expenses.
(a) Funding for the office of consumer advocate shall be included in the commission's budget and collected through the utility assessment. Incidental administrative and clerical services for the office of consumer advocate shall be provided by the commission. The commission shall decide all matters of shared administrative and clerical personnel.
(b) Repealed by Laws 2021, ch. 62, 1.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-101 - Rates to Be Just, Reasonable and Uniform; Exceptions.

37-3-101. Rates to be just, reasonable and uniform; exceptions.
All rates shall be just and reasonable, and all unjust and unreasonable rates are prohibited. A rate shall not be considered unjust or unreasonable on the basis that it is innovative in form or in substance, that it takes into consideration competitive marketplace elements or that it provides for incentives to a public utility. Except as otherwise provided in W.S. 15-7-407, no public utility shall in any manner charge, demand, collect or receive from any person greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered by the public utility than is charged, demanded, collected or received by the public utility from any other person for a like and contemporaneous service under similar circumstances and conditions. The commission may determine that rates for the same service may vary depending on cost, the competitive marketplace, the need for universally available and affordable service, the need for contribution to the joint and common costs of the public utility, volume and other discounts, and other reasonable business practices. Nothing in this title shall prohibit any public utility from furnishing free or reduced rate service to its current or pensioned employees and dependent family members under rates approved by the commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-102 - Only Prescribed Rates to Be Charged.

37-3-102. Only prescribed rates to be charged.
No public utility shall directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever, or in anywise, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person a greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered by such public utility than that prescribed in the schedules of such public utility then filed and published in the manner provided in this act, nor shall any person receive or accept any service from a public utility for a compensation greater, less or in any way different from that prescribed in such schedules.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-107 - Rates for Joint Service by Public Utilities.

37-3-107. Rates for joint service by public utilities.
When joint service is participated in by two or more public utilities the commission after hearing on complaint or on its own motion without complaint, may ascertain, determine, and fix for such services just and reasonable rates, which shall be charged, enforced, collected and observed by such public utilities.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-108 - Apportionment of Joint Rates.

37-3-108. Apportionment of joint rates.
Whenever the public utilities involved shall fail to agree among themselves upon the apportionment or division of any joint rate established by the commission or ordered by the commission substituted for any joint rate found to violate any provision of this act, the commission may issue a supplemental order declaring the apportionment or division of such joint rate.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-109 - Investigation of Interstate Rates; Application for Relief.

37-3-109. Investigation of interstate rates; application for relief.
The commission may investigate all existing or proposed interstate rates, where any act under such rate shall or may take place within this state. When such rates are, in the opinion of the commission, unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, unduly preferential or otherwise, or in any respect in violation of the provisions of the act to regulate commerce or of any other act of congress or in conflict with the rules and orders of the surface transportation board or any other department of the federal government, the commission may apply for relief by petition or otherwise to the surface transportation board or to any other department of the federal government or to any court of competent jurisdiction.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-110 - Schedules of Rates to Be Filed and Available to Public; Forms Prescribed to Conform to Federal Forms.

37-3-110. Schedules of rates to be filed and available to public; forms prescribed to conform to federal forms.
Within a time to be fixed by the commission, every public utility shall file with the commission, and keep open to public inspection as this commission may direct, schedules showing all rates for every service rendered or to be rendered by it. The commission may determine and prescribe the form of the schedules required by this act to be filed with the commission and kept open to public inspection and all changes therein, and change the form from time to time if it shall be found expedient; provided, however, that in respect to public utilities subject to act of congress to regulate commerce and any amendments thereof, the commission shall have such form or forms prescribed by it conform to any similar form prescribed by the surface transportation board.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-111 - Contracts to Be Filed; Statements of Free or Reduced Rate Service Required.

37-3-111. Contracts to be filed; statements of free or reduced rate service required.
Every public utility shall file with the commission copies of contracts, agreements or arrangements to which it may be a party, as the commission may designate. Every public utility shall, whenever required by the commission, file with the commission statements of passes, tickets, mileage books or franks, issued by the public utility, free or at rates lower than those open to the public in general, or of other authorization of service free or at reduced rates, these statements to cover the periods of time and classes of service, and to include information connected with the issuance thereof, as the commission may prescribe.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-112 - Service to Be Adequate and Safe; Regulations to Be Just and Reasonable; Unjust Discrimination or Undue Preference as to Service Prohibited.

37-3-112. Service to be adequate and safe; regulations to be just and reasonable; unjust discrimination or undue preference as to service prohibited.
The service and facilities of every public utility shall be adequate and safe and every service regulation shall be just and reasonable. The commission shall have the authority to investigate, consider and determine standards for availability or reliability of service that are objectively established by rule consistent with commonly accepted industry standards. It shall be unlawful for any public utility to make or permit to exist any unjust discrimination or undue preference with respect to its service, facilities or service regulations. This provision shall not be construed as prohibiting a public utility from establishing classifications which distinguish among its various services, facilities or service regulations if the classifications are not unduly discriminatory among the customers in the same class of service.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-113 - Interchange and Transfer of Messages, Service and Other Facilities.

37-3-113. Interchange and transfer of messages, service and other facilities.
(a) Every public utility shall afford all reasonable, proper and equal facilities for the prompt and efficient interchange and transfer of passengers, property, cars loaded or empty, messages, service, or other facilities between the lines, plants or systems owned, operated, controlled or leased by it, and the lines, plants or systems of every other public utility, and shall make such interchange and transfer promptly without discrimination between shippers, passengers, carriers and all persons either as to compensation charged, service and facilities rendered or afforded. Every public utility operating within the state shall receive and transmit without delay or discrimination, any message, service, passenger or property or facility of or from every other similar public utility with whose line or plant or system a physical connection may have been made. But this act shall not be construed as requiring any public utility to give the use of its tracks or terminal facilities to another public utility engaged in like business.
(b) Nothing in this section contained shall be construed as in anywise limiting or modifying the duty of a public utility to establish joint rates, fares and charges for the transportation of passengers, property, messages, service or other facilities over the lines, plants or systems owned, operated, controlled or leased by it and the lines, plants or systems of other similar public utility, nor as in any manner limiting or modifying the power of the commission to require the establishment of such joint rates, fares and charges, such public utilities have failed to agree upon such use or the terms or conditions of compensation for the same, the commission may by order direct that such use may be permitted, and prescribe a reasonable compensation and reasonable terms and conditions for such joint use. Said commission however, shall not direct or sanction such joint use except in case of clear necessity.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-114 - Safety Standards.

37-3-114. Safety standards.
(a) All instrumentalities, equipment, plant and facilities furnished, employed or used by any public utility, shall in all respects be adequate and efficient, and the construction, operation and use thereof, shall be such as shall prevent injury to property, and as shall promote the safety, health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons, employees and the public, and to this end, the commission may make rules and regulations governing the construction, maintenance and operation of telephone, telegraph, trolley, electric light and power lines hereafter built within this state, and shall by rule adopt as the standard of such construction, operation and maintenance the provisions of the current edition of the National Electrical Safety Code; provided that when electric light and power lines use Y-connected circuits with neutral conductors effectively grounded throughout their length, minimum vertical clearance of wires or neutral conductors over ground or rails shall be determined by the voltage between wires and ground, if such voltage does not exceed fifteen thousand (15,000) volts. Said commission shall also have the power to direct the manner by which all utilities shall cross public highways and other utilities and by which public highways shall cross the utilities and to prescribe methods of approach and crossing that shall secure safety to the public; provided, however, that with respect to approaches and crossings of overhead lines, the provisions of the current edition of the National Electrical Safety Code above prescribed shall apply, except as provided herein with respect to Y-connected circuits with neutral conductors effectively grounded throughout their length where the voltage does not exceed fifteen thousand (15,000) volts. At every such crossing, in case the persons interested do not themselves agree, it shall be the duty of the commission to apportion between the parties, in accordance with justice, the costs and expenses of installing and maintaining such crossings. In case expense is apportioned to be paid by a public highway the portion so to be paid by such highway shall be paid by the city or town in case the crossing line is within the boundaries of a city or town, and by the county in which the crossing is situated in case the same is not within any city or town. Provided that all such equipment, plant, and facilities shall be maintained in such working condition that will provide a minimum of interference with radio and television reception to residents and highway users in the immediate area of such equipment, plant, and facilities.
(b) This section shall not be construed as creating neither prohibition nor obligation or duty of inspection or maintenance by an electric or telecommunications public utility for facilities or equipment not owned by the public utility.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-115 - Rates; Less Expensive Source of Supply.

37-3-115. Rates; less expensive source of supply.
In the case of a utility furnishing natural gas, if the utility decreases its cost of natural gas, not less than ninety percent (90%) of the decrease in the cost shall be passed on to the consumer and in addition to other factors allowed by the commission in setting rates the commission may allow the utility to add to its rate not more than ten percent (10%) of the difference between its previous cost for natural gas and its new cost for natural gas.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-116 - Electric Utility Service Agreements.

37-3-116. Electric utility service agreements.
(a) An electric utility may enter into a service agreement as specified in subsection (d) of this section, provided that the terms and conditions of the agreement:
(i) Are expected to result in revenue to the utility in an amount that exceeds the expected cost to serve the customer's projected electric usage;
(ii) Shall not result in obligating other customers for any utility investments or any direct, indirect or reasonably assigned costs related to the utility's service to the customer under the agreement. For purposes of this paragraph, investments and costs include known or reasonably ascertainable expenses for power supply, electric transmission and distribution and administrative, general, financial and other costs related to the agreement;
(iii) Provide benefits to other customers without imposing additional current or future costs.
(b) An electric utility shall retain for its owners any profits or losses that result from entering into an agreement with a customer pursuant to this section.
(c) Regulated utilities entering into agreements under this section shall report to the commission at least once every three (3) years as to the impacts on other rate payers.
(d) This section shall only apply to service agreements:
(i) Between an electric utility and a customer with projected electric usage greater than five (5) megawatts;
(ii) For services provided under a tariff approved by the commission consistent with its authority under W.S. 37-2-121.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-3-118 - Limitation for Recovery of Costs for Replacing Electric Generation Facilities.

37-3-118. Limitation for recovery of costs for replacing electric generation facilities.
(a) As used in this section, "retirement" or "retired" means as defined in W.S. 37-2-134(a)(ii).
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter but in addition to W.S. 37-3-117, the rates charged by an electric public utility shall not include any recovery of or earnings on the capital costs associated with electric generation facilities built, in whole or in part, to replace the electricity generated from a retired coal or natural gas electric generation facility that was retired on or after July 1, 2021 and for which the presumption against retirement was not rebutted by the public utility as required by W.S. 37-2-134.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 2 - Natural Gas Storage Limits and Rates › Section 37-3-202 - Commission Duty to Enforce.

37-3-202. Commission duty to enforce.
(a) The public service commission shall:
(i) Review the quantities of gas stored by natural gas utilities and included in the rate base of those utilities; and
(ii) Bring those utilities into compliance with W.S. 37-3-201.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 2 - Natural Gas Storage Limits and Rates › Section 37-3-203 - Appeals From Commission Orders; Refunds if Orders Upheld; Utility Duties.

37-3-203. Appeals from commission orders; refunds if orders upheld; utility duties.
(a) If any natural gas utility contests or appeals any public service commission order pursuant to this article and the order is suspended pending the prosecution of the appeal and the order is upheld in whole or in part:
(i) A refund if practical shall be paid to each customer who received gas service from the original proposed effective date of the order;
(ii) The refund shall be equal to the difference between the price of gas actually charged and the price that would have been charged under the order;
(iii) The utility shall keep accurate, detailed records of which customers are entitled to refunds; and
(iv) The refund shall be made no later than thirty (30) days after a final judgment upholding the public service commission order. Refunds shall be made pursuant to public service commission order.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 2 - Natural Gas Storage Limits and Rates › Section 37-3-205 - Prohibition Against Recovery of Cost of Stored Gas.

37-3-205. Prohibition against recovery of cost of stored gas.
A natural gas utility shall not be permitted to recover from its customers any cost related to any natural gas in storage upon which the utility was not permitted by the public service commission to earn a rate of return.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 3 - High Voltage Line Safety › Section 37-3-302 - Definitions.

37-3-302. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Authorized person" means:
(A) An employee of a public utility which produces, transmits or delivers electricity;
(B) An employee of a public utility which provides and whose work relates to communication services or state, county or municipal agencies which have authorized circuit construction on or near the poles or structures of a public utility;
(C) An employee of an industrial plant whose work relates to the electrical system of the industrial plant;
(D) An employee of a cable television or communication services company or an employee of a contractor of a cable television or communication services company if specifically authorized by the owner of the poles to make cable television or communication services attachments; or
(E) An employee or agent of state, county or municipal agencies which have or whose work relates to overhead electrical lines or circuit construction or conductors on poles or structures of any type.
(ii) "High voltage" means voltage in excess of six hundred (600) volts measured between conductors or between a conductor and the ground;
(iii) "Overhead line" means all bare or insulated electrical conductors installed above ground;
(iv) "Person" or "business entity" means those parties who contract to perform any function or activity upon any land, building, highway or other premises, excluding those parties providing emergency services including emergency rescue operations and fire protection services;
(v) "Public utility" means a public utility as defined in W.S. 37-1-101(a)(vi) which owns or operates a high voltage overhead line;
(vi) "This act" means W.S. 37-3-301 through 37-3-306.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 3 - High Voltage Line Safety › Section 37-3-303 - Activity Near Overhead Line; Safety Restrictions.

37-3-303. Activity near overhead line; safety restrictions.
(a) Unless danger against contact with high voltage overhead lines has been effectively guarded against as provided by W.S. 37-3-304 a person or business entity, individually or through an agent or employee or as an agent or employee, shall not:
(i) Require any other person to perform any act if at any time during the performance of the act it is possible that the actor could move or be moved closer to any high voltage overhead line or if it is possible that any part of any tool or material used by the actor could be moved closer to any high voltage overhead line during the performance of the act than the following clearances:
(A) For lines rated fifty (50) kilovolts or less, six (6) feet of clearance;
(B) For lines rated over fifty (50) kilovolts, six (6) feet plus four-tenths (.4) of an inch for each kilovolt over fifty (50) kilovolts.
(ii) Operate any mechanical equipment or hoisting equipment or any load of equipment, any part of which is capable of vertical, lateral or swinging motion closer to any high voltage overhead line than the following clearances:
(A) For lines rated fifty (50) kilovolts or less, ten (10) feet of clearance;
(B) For lines rated over fifty (50) kilovolts, ten (10) feet plus four-tenths (.4) of an inch for each kilovolt over fifty (50) kilovolts.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 3 - High Voltage Line Safety › Section 37-3-304 - Activity in Close Proximity to Lines; Clearance Arrangements; Procedure; Payment; Notice.

37-3-304. Activity in close proximity to lines; clearance arrangements; procedure; payment; notice.
(a) If any person or business entity desires to temporarily carry on any act in closer proximity to any high voltage overhead line than permitted by this act, the person or business entity responsible for performing the work shall promptly notify the appropriate public utility and shall ask the public utility for assistance. An agent or employee of the public utility shall prepare and sign a memorandum stating the public utility received a request for assistance. The person or business entity may perform the work only after developing satisfactory safety arrangements, including coordination of work and construction schedules, with the public utility. Arrangements may include placing temporary mechanical barriers to prevent contact between material, equipment or persons and the high voltage overhead lines or temporary shut down and grounding or temporary relocation or raising of the high voltage overhead lines.
(b) Except where the public utility has installed lines within ten (10) feet of an existing fixture or structure the person or business entity responsible for performing the work in the vicinity of the high voltage overhead lines shall pay the public utility's actual expenses in providing safety arrangements. The public utility is not required to begin the safety arrangements until a written agreement for payment has been made.
(c) The public utility shall begin the safety arrangements according to the agreement signed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 3 - High Voltage Line Safety › Section 37-3-305 - Indemnification.

37-3-305. Indemnification.
If a violation of this act results in physical or electrical contact with any high voltage overhead line, the person or business entity violating this act is liable to the public utility for all damages to the facilities and all costs and expenses, including damages to third parties, incurred by the public utility as a result of the contact.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 3 - Rates, Interchange of Services and Safety › Article 3 - High Voltage Line Safety › Section 37-3-306 - Exemptions.

37-3-306. Exemptions.
(a) This act shall not apply to:
(i) Construction, reconstruction, operation or maintenance by an authorized person of overhead electrical or communication circuits or conductors and their supporting structures or electrical generating, transmission or distribution systems or communication systems;
(ii) Any person lawfully occupying the land on which the high voltage overhead line is located and engaging in the regular and ordinary functions and activities of farming, ranching or other agricultural functions and activities.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 4 - Transmitting Utility Act › Section 37-4-102 - Definitions.

37-4-102. Definitions.
(a) When used in this act, the following words, terms and phrases shall have the meaning prescribed to them in this section:
(i) "Transmitting utility" means any corporation or other business entity primarily engaged, pursuant to rights or franchises issued by a state or federal regulatory body, in the railroad or street railway business, the telephone or telegraph business, the transmission of oil, gas or petroleum products by pipeline, or the transmission or the production and transmission of electricity, steam, gas or water;
(ii) "Uniform Commercial Code" means chapter 219, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1961, as amended.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 4 - Transmitting Utility Act › Section 37-4-103 - Filing Security Interests.

37-4-103. Filing security interests.
(a) If filing is required under the Uniform Commercial Code, the proper place to file in order to perfect a security interest in personal property or fixtures of a transmitting utility is in the office of the secretary of state.
(b) When the financing statement covers goods of a transmitting utility which are or are to become fixtures, no description of the real estate concerned is required.
(c) A security interest in rolling stock of a transmitting utility may be perfected either as provided in section 20(c) of the Interstate Commerce Act or by filing a financing statement pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code as provided in subsection (a).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority › Article 5 - Wyoming Energy Authority › Section 37-5-501 - Definitions.

37-5-501. Definitions.
(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Authority" means the Wyoming energy authority created by W.S. 37-5-502;
(ii) "Board" means the board of the Wyoming energy authority;
(iii) "Bonds" means notes, warrants, bonds, temporary bonds and anticipation notes issued by the authority under this article;
(iv) "Energy project" means any project related to or involving a natural resource associated with energy or an associated natural resource, including specifically geothermal and pumped hydro energy projects;
(v) "Natural resource associated with energy" or "associated natural resource" means any technology or any substance, mineral, element or compound, either gaseous, liquid or solid, associated with the production, development, refining, processing, storage or transmission of energy or as otherwise provided in this article;
(vi) "Pipeline" means a pipeline and related facilities, including storage facilities, and including undivided ownership interests or capacity in a pipeline and related facilities, constructed for the purpose of transporting and treating natural resources associated with energy;
(vii) "Royalty in kind" means natural resources associated with energy that are received by the federal government, the state or its agencies or political subdivisions as royalties in kind under leases or otherwise;
(viii) "Critical material" means any substance used in technology or production for which there are supply risks and for which there is no readily available or accessible substitute in the United States;
(ix) "Rare earth mineral" means a metallic element of the lanthanide series of the periodic table, scandium, yttrium and any other metallic element with similar physical and chemical properties to any element specified in this paragraph.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority › Article 5 - Wyoming Energy Authority › Section 37-5-506 - Use of Net Revenues.

37-5-506. Use of net revenues.
(a) The authority, acting alone or in cooperation with any agency of the state of Wyoming, may use and employ any net revenues derived from a system or facility authorized in this article and from any other source, after providing for all costs of maintenance and operation of the system or facility and after making the required principal and interest payments on any revenue bonds issued hereunder and any other payments provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of revenue bonds and obligations, to extend and improve the system or facility as the authority may determine to be warranted by any need for additional intrastate transportation or energy transmission facilities.
(b) Revenues derived from the issuance of bonds for the purpose of purchasing pipeline capacity as authorized under W.S. 37-5-505(k) shall be used for such purchases and to make principal and interest payments on such bonds as provided by the authority in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the revenue bonds.
(c) If the authority determines that no need for additional transportation or energy transmission facilities exists and after the administrative expenses of the authority are paid, net revenues derived under this article shall be paid to the state treasurer for credit to the state general fund.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority › Article 5 - Wyoming Energy Authority › Section 37-5-507 - Authority Not Subject to the Public Service Commission.

37-5-507. Authority not subject to the public service commission.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority and the authority's fees, rates, rental and other charges shall not be subject to the supervision, regulation, control or jurisdiction of the public service commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority › Article 5 - Wyoming Energy Authority › Section 37-5-508 - Subpoena.

37-5-508. Subpoena.
(a) For the purpose of any investigation or proceeding under this article, the authority or any officer it designates may administer oaths and affirmations, subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance, take evidence and require the production of any books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, agreements or other documents or records that the authority deems relevant or material to the inquiry.
(b) In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey, a subpoena issued to any person, a Wyoming district court, upon the authority's application, may issue to the person an order requiring him to appear before the authority or the officer it designates. The order may require the person to produce documentary evidence or to give evidence touching the matter under investigation or in question. Failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt of court.
(c) In considering a request by the authority under subsection (b) of this section, the district court shall review the request in camera to protect the confidentiality of the information sought. The court may also restrict disclosure of any confidential information in any other proceeding, administrative or judicial, and may order that the information be sealed.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority › Article 5 - Wyoming Energy Authority › Section 37-5-509 - Confidential Information.

37-5-509. Confidential information.
All information obtained by the authority in connection with any hearing or investigation under this article that contains or that might reveal proprietary data shall be considered as confidential for the purposes of this article. The authority shall not disclose confidential information to any person, governmental entity or agency without prior written consent from the owner of the confidential information. Any board or staff member who discloses or causes to be disclosed any confidential information is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority › Article 6 - Financing of Other Projects › Section 37-5-603 - Authority Revenue Bonds; Security; Payments After Retirement.

37-5-603. Authority revenue bonds; security; payments after retirement.
(a) The principal and interest on any bonds that the authority issues shall be secured by a pledge of revenues from the operation of the pipeline or other transportation or distribution system or energy transmission project financed, by a first mortgage on the facilities, by guarantees and pledges of the entity owning the project, pipeline or system, or of the parent corporation owning said entity or by any combination thereof or other security as the authority may determine to be reasonable and prudent. The guarantees and pledges shall be no less favorable to the authority than those granted other lenders of the same class.
(b) The authority may require additional payments, as negotiated, to bondholders to be made either in a lump sum at the time of retirement of the bonds or annually from the time of retirement of the bonds until project, pipeline or system use is terminated or may require additional incentives from the owner of the project or pipeline to prospective bondholders so long as the incentives are not contrary to the Wyoming constitution.
(c) The authority may require such other security for repayment of the bonds as it deems necessary.
(d) Each pledge, agreement, mortgage or other instrument made for the benefit or security of any bonds of the authority is valid and binding from the time when made. The revenues, receipts, monies and assets pledged are immediately subject to the lien of the pledge without delivery or further act. The lien is valid and binding against persons having claims of any kind against the authority whether or not the persons have actual notice of the lien. The resolution or the indenture or other instrument by which a pledge is created need not be recorded or filed.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 5 - Wyoming Pipeline Authority and Wyoming Infrastructure Authority › Article 6 - Financing of Other Projects › Section 37-5-604 - Exemptions From Taxation.

37-5-604. Exemptions from taxation.
The exercise of the powers granted by this article constitutes the performance of an essential governmental function. Any bonds issued under this article and the income therefrom shall be free from taxation of every kind by the state, municipalities and political subdivisions of the state.