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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 4 - Depots; Sale of Tickets; Demurrage › Section 37-9-406 - Sale of Tickets; Penalty for Violating w.s. 37-9-405.

37-9-406. Sale of tickets; penalty for violating W.S. 37-9-405.
Any person or persons violating the provisions of the preceding section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) and by imprisonment not exceeding one (1) year, or either or both, in the discretion of the court in which such person or persons shall be convicted.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 4 - Depots; Sale of Tickets; Demurrage › Section 37-9-407 - Sale of Tickets; Certificate of Authority to Be Posted; Form.

37-9-407. Sale of tickets; certificate of authority to be posted; form.
It shall be the duty of every agent who shall be authorized to sell tickets or parts of tickets, or other evidences of the holder's title to travel, to exhibit to any person desiring to purchase a ticket, or to any officer of the law who may request him, the certificate of his authority thus to sell, and to keep said certificate posted in a conspicuous place in his office, for the information of travelers, in substantially the following form:
Agent's Certificate.
To whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given that .... is an agent in the employ of .... company at .... authorized to sell tickets entitling the holder to travel upon .... Witness the corporate seal of .... company, and the hand of .... General passenger and ticket agent.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 4 - Depots; Sale of Tickets; Demurrage › Section 37-9-408 - Sale of Tickets; Unused Tickets Redeemable; Sale of Unused Ticket by Purchaser.

37-9-408. Sale of tickets; unused tickets redeemable; sale of unused ticket by purchaser.
It shall be the duty of the owner or owners of railroads, or other public conveyances, to provide for the redemption of the whole or any parts, or coupons of any ticket or tickets, as they may have sold, as the purchaser for any reason has not used and does not desire to use, at a rate which shall be equal to the difference between the price paid for the whole ticket and the cost of a ticket between the points for which the proportion of said ticket was actually used; and the sale by any person of the unused portion of any ticket otherwise than by the presentation of the same for redemption, as provided for in this section, shall be deemed to be a violation of the provisions of this act, and shall be punished as hereinbefore provided; provided, that this act shall not apply to the sale of first-class tickets; and provided, that this act shall not prohibit any person who has purchased a regular first-class ticket from any agent authorized by this act with the bona fide intention of traveling upon the same the whole distance between the points named in the said ticket, from selling the unused part of the same to any other person, if such person travels upon the same, unless said tickets shall be special contract tickets and the local fare to the point to which said ticket may be used shall equal the price paid for such special contract ticket.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 4 - Depots; Sale of Tickets; Demurrage › Section 37-9-409 - Demurrage on Cars.

37-9-409. Demurrage on cars.
All railroads, shipping cars, or parts of cars of all commodities, from any point in the state of Wyoming, to consignees in any other part of this state, shall give time, free of charge, for loading and unloading said cars, or parts of cars, as follows: All loaded cars, taking track delivery, which are to be unloaded by the consignee thereof, or the party whose interest may appear, or cars set for loading which are to be loaded by consignor, shall be limited to forty-eight (48) hours of free time, computed from seven (7:00) o'clock a.m., of the day following the day legal notice of arrival is given (having been placed at an accessible point for unloading), and may be subject thereafter to a charge of one dollar ($1.00) per car for each day, or fraction of a day, that they may remain unloaded, in possession of the railroad company after said free time; provided, however, that if after placing a car, or cars, as required in this section, the railroad company shall, during or after free time, temporarily remove all, or any of them, or in any way obstruct the unloading of same, the consignee shall not be chargeable with the delay caused thereby; provided, that when on account of delay or irregularity of transportation, cars are bunched and delivered to consignee in numbers beyond his reasonable ability to load and unload within the free time prescribed by these rules, he shall be allowed by the carrier such additional time as may be necessary to load and unload cars, so in excess, by the exercise of usual diligence on the part of the consignee.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 4 - Depots; Sale of Tickets; Demurrage › Section 37-9-410 - Additional Charges for Delay Forbidden.

37-9-410. Additional charges for delay forbidden.
Any railroad company, operating within the state of Wyoming, and transporting commodities from a consignor to a consignee, within this state, shall not charge to either the consignor, or consignee of said commodities any additional sum of money, for freight or transportation, on account of any delay in the transportation or delivery of same, not caused by the direct act or agency of the said consignor or consignee.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 5 - Liability for Injury or Death of Employee › Section 37-9-501 - Death or Injury Due to Negligence.

37-9-501. Death or injury due to negligence.
Every person or corporation operating a railroad in the state shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by the person or corporation so operating any railroad, or, in case of the death of an employee, instantaneously, or otherwise, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of the employee; and, if none, then of the employee's parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon the employee, for the injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of the person or corporation so operating the railroad in or about the handling, movement, or operation of any train, engine, or car, on or over the railroad, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, or other equipment.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 5 - Liability for Injury or Death of Employee › Section 37-9-502 - Contributory Negligence.

37-9-502. Contributory negligence.
In all actions hereafter brought against any such person or corporation so operating such railroad, under and by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee; provided, that no such employee who may be injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence in any case where the violation by such person or corporation so operating such railroad, of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 5 - Liability for Injury or Death of Employee › Section 37-9-503 - Assumption of Risk.

37-9-503. Assumption of risk.
Any employee of any such person or corporation so operating such railroad shall not be deemed to have assumed any risk incident to his employment when such risk arises by reason of the negligence of his employer or of any person in the service of such employer.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 5 - Liability for Injury or Death of Employee › Section 37-9-504 - Contracts Restricting Liability Void.

37-9-504. Contracts restricting liability void.
Any contract, rule, or regulation or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any such person or corporation, so operating such railroad to exempt itself from any liability created by this act shall, to that extent, be void. Nor shall any contract of insurance, relief, benefit or indemnity in case of injury or death, entered into prior to the injury, between the person so injured and such corporation, or any person or association acting for such corporation, nor shall the acceptance of any such insurance, relief, benefit, or indemnity by the person injured, his widow, heirs, or legal representatives after the injury, from such corporation, person or association, constitute any bar or defense to any cause of action brought under the provisions of this act, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent or invalidate any settlement for damages between the employer and the employees subsequent to injuries received.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 5 - Liability for Injury or Death of Employee › Section 37-9-505 - Two-Way Radios Required; Penalty.

37-9-505. Two-way radios required; penalty.
(a) When a railroad train is operated in Wyoming with a caboose, it shall be equipped with operable, two-way radios located in the lead locomotive and in the caboose. The radios shall have and be operated at the same frequency as the control operator on the railroad on which the train is operated if the control operator is equipped with radios.
(b) When a railroad train is operated in Wyoming without a caboose, the train crews shall be supplied with an operable, portable two-way radio. The radio shall have and be operated at the same frequency as the control operator on the railroad on which the train is operated if the control operator is equipped with radios.
(c) Violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00). Each train operating without the required radios is a separate violation.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 6 - Recovery for Labor or Supplies › Section 37-9-601 - Contractor's Bond.

37-9-601. Contractor's bond.
Whenever any railroad company shall contract with any person, persons or corporation for the construction of its railroad or any part thereof, the company shall take from the person, persons, or corporation with whom a contract is made, a good and sufficient bond, in some guarantee or surety company authorized to do business in this state, conditioned that the contractor or contractors shall pay or cause to be paid all laborers, mechanics, materialmen, ranchmen, farmers, merchants, and other persons who supply the contractor or contractors, or any of his or their subcontractors, with labor, work, material, ranch or farm products, provisions, goods or supplies of any kind, all just debts incurred therefor in carrying on the work, which bond shall be filed by the company in the office of the county clerk in the county where the principal work of the contractor shall be carried on; and if any railroad company shall fail to take a bond, the railroad company shall be liable to the persons herein mentioned to the full extent of all debts so contracted by the contractor, or contractors, or any of his or their subcontractors. Any contractor or contractors may take a similar bond from each of his or their subcontractors to secure the payment of all debts of the kind above mentioned, incurred by him, and file the same as above provided. All persons mentioned in this section to whom any debt of the kind above mentioned shall be due from any contractor or subcontractor shall severally have a right of action upon any bond covering the debt taken as herein provided for the recovery of the full amount of the debt, and a certified copy of the bond shall be received as evidence in any action; provided, however, that in order that the right of action upon the bonds may exist, the person or parties herein granted the right shall comply with either of the following conditions, to-wit: First, an action in a court of competent jurisdiction, in the county where the bond is filed shall be commenced within ninety (90) days after the last item of indebtedness shall have accrued; or second, an itemized statement of the indebtedness duly verified shall within ninety (90) days after the last item of the indebtedness shall have accrued be filed in the office of the county clerk of the proper county; and an action shall be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction of the county within three (3) months after the filing of the statement. In case an action is commenced upon the bond of a contractor, the contractor may give notice thereof to the subcontractor liable for the claim, and in a case the result of the action shall be binding upon the subcontractor, and his sureties, and in any case when a contractor has paid a claim for which a subcontractor is liable, the contractor shall bring action against the subcontractor and his sureties within sixty (60) days after the payment of the claim.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 6 - Recovery for Labor or Supplies › Section 37-9-602 - Verified Statement of Account; to Be Delivered to Company; Account to Be Withheld Out of Subsequent Payments.

37-9-602. Verified statement of account; to be delivered to company; account to be withheld out of subsequent payments.
Every laborer, mechanic, ranchman, farmer, merchant, or other person performing any work or labor or furnishing any material, ranch or farm products, provisions, goods, or supplies to any contractor or subcontractor, in the construction of any railroad, or any part thereof, used by such contractor or subcontractor in carrying on said work of construction whose demand for work, labor, material, ranch or farm products, provisions, goods, or supplies so furnished has not been paid, may deliver to the company owning such railroad or to its agent, a verified account of the amount and value of the work, and labor so performed or the material, ranch or farm products, provisions, goods or supplies so furnished, and thereupon such company, or its agent, shall retain out of the subsequent payments to the contractor or contractors the amount of such unpaid account for the benefit of the person to whom the same is due.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 6 - Recovery for Labor or Supplies › Section 37-9-603 - Verified Statement of Account; Recovery Procedure.

37-9-603. Verified statement of account; recovery procedure.
Whenever any verified account mentioned in the last preceding section shall be placed in the hands of any railroad company or its agent as above stated, it shall be the duty of such company to furnish the contractor with a copy of such verified account, so that if there be any disagreement between the debtor and creditor as to the amount due the same may be amicably adjusted, and if the contractor or subcontractor, if he be the debtor, shall not, within ten (10) days after the receipt of such account, give the said railroad company or its agent, written notice that the claim is disputed, he shall be considered as assenting to its payment, and the railroad company or its agent, shall be justified in paying the same when due and charging the same to the contractor. The person or persons to whom any such debt is due and who shall deliver a verified account thereof as above provided may recover the amount thereof in an action at law, to the extent of any balance due by the railroad company to the contractor at or after the time of delivering the verified account; provided, that nothing contained in this section or in section 2 of this act shall interfere with the right of action upon the bond or bonds provided for in section 1 of this act, or against the railroad company for the full amount of any such debt in case of a failure of the company to take a bond.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 7 - Conditional Sales of Equipment › Section 37-9-701 - Contracts Valid; Conditions to Validation Against Subsequent Purchaser for Value.

37-9-701. Contracts valid; conditions to validation against subsequent purchaser for value.
(a) In any contract for the sale of railroad or street railway equipment or rolling stock, it shall be lawful to agree that the title to the property sold or contracted to be sold, although possession thereof may be delivered immediately, or at any time or times subsequently, shall not vest in the purchaser until the purchase price shall be fully paid, or that the seller shall have and retain a lien thereon for the unpaid purchase money. And in any contract for the leasing or hiring of such property, it shall be lawful to stipulate for a conditional sale thereof at the termination of such contract, and that the rentals or amounts to be received under such contract, may, as paid, be applied and treated as purchase money, and that the title to the property shall not vest in the lessee or bailee until the purchase price shall have been paid in full, and until the terms of the contract shall have been fully performed, notwithstanding delivery to and possession by such lessee or bailee; provided, that no such contract shall be valid as against any subsequent judgment creditor, or any subsequent bona fide purchaser for value and without notice, unless:
(i) The same shall be evidenced by an instrument executed by the parties and duly acknowledged by the vendee or lessee or bailee, as the case may be, or duly proved, before some person authorized by law to take acknowledgment of deeds, and in the same manner as deeds are acknowledged or proved;
(ii) Such instrument shall be filed for record in the office of the secretary of state;
(iii) Each locomotive engine, or car so sold, leased or hired, or contracted to be sold, leased or hired as aforesaid, shall have the name of the vendor, lessor, or bailor plainly marked on each side thereof, followed by the word "owner" or "lessor" or "bailor", as the case may be.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 7 - Conditional Sales of Equipment › Section 37-9-702 - Chattel Mortgage Laws Not to Apply.

37-9-702. Chattel mortgage laws not to apply.
Statutes relating to the filing, recording, interpretation, or validity of chattel mortgages shall not affect the recording, interpretation, or validity of contracts of the character hereinbefore named, but the same shall be controlled by the provisions of this act alone. And the contracts hereinbefore named shall not be affected by the provisions of chapter 40, Session Laws of 1895.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 7 - Conditional Sales of Equipment › Section 37-9-703 - Contracts to Be Filed; Provisions for Release; Fees.

37-9-703. Contracts to be filed; provisions for release; fees.
The contracts herein authorized, or a certified copy thereof, shall be filed by the secretary of state in a special file to be kept for that purpose. On payment in full of the purchase money, and the performance of the terms and conditions stipulated in any such contract, a declaration in writing to that effect may be made by the vendor, lessor, or bailor, or his or its assignee, which declaration may be made on the contract or certified copy thereof, duly attested, or it may be made by a separate instrument, to be acknowledged by the vendor, lessor, or bailor or his or its assignee, and filed as aforesaid. The secretary of state shall collect a fee of five dollars ($5.00), for filing each of said contracts, and a fee of two dollars ($2.00) for filing each of said declarations, and a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for noting such declaration on the margin of the contract or certified copy thereof.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 8 - Rail Track Motor Cars › Section 37-9-801 - Requirements as to Equipment.

37-9-801. Requirements as to equipment.
It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within the boundaries of the state of Wyoming and engaged in the business of common carrier to operate for or transport its employees in a motor car which is not equipped with a reasonably substantial top for the protection of said employees from rain, snow, sleet and hail, and equipped with a transparent windshield sufficient in width and height to reasonably protect said employees, which windshield shall be of safety glass and such car shall also be equipped with a permanently placed electric headlamp of sufficient candlepower as to render visible at a distance of three hundred (300) feet in advance of such car under ordinary atmospheric conditions, any obstruction, landmark, warning sign or grade crossing on such railroad. Said car shall also be equipped with one (1) red electric light on the rear end thereof with sufficient candlepower as to be visible at a distance of three hundred (300) feet under ordinary atmospheric conditions, and such car shall also be equipped with a windshield wiper that will remove rain, snow and sleet from the windshield on such car while such car is moving and said windshield shall be so devised that the driver of said car can start or stop said windshield wiper while he is driving the car.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 8 - Rail Track Motor Cars › Section 37-9-802 - Penalty; Exceptions.

37-9-802. Penalty; exceptions.
Any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within this state as a common carrier of persons or property or both, for compensation, who either operates for its employees, or who furnishes to its employees for their transportation to or from the place or places where they are required to labor, a rail track motor car that has not been fully equipped as required by W.S. 37-9-801, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense, and each day or part of a day it operates or furnishes each of the rail track motor cars not so equipped as provided in W.S. 37-9-801, to its employees for operation to or from the place or places where they are required to work shall constitute a separate offense, provided that any common carrier that has not been able to equip its rail track motor cars as required by the provisions of W.S. 37-9-801, on or before the effective date can, by applying to the department of transportation, which is authorized to, and upon good cause shown, grant by order, additional time to any owner or operator of a common carrier by railroad, in which to equip the cars, not to exceed one (1) year from the effective date of this act. When an order has been granted by the department to the carrier, the provisions of W.S. 37-9-801 and 37-9-802 penalizing rail carriers who do not equip their cars shall not be applicable to those carriers securing an order for additional time in which to equip their cars during the period granted to them only by order of the department.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 9 - Purchase of Railroad Property › Section 37-9-901 - City and County Authority to Acquire and Lease Railroad Lines and to Receive Grants and Loans.

37-9-901. City and county authority to acquire and lease railroad lines and to receive grants and loans.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, cities, towns or counties within the state acting either singly or jointly pursuant to the Wyoming Joint Powers Act are authorized to:
(i) Purchase, own, improve, rehabilitate, maintain, repair or replace railroad lines;
(ii) Lease or let any portion of the railroad lines referred to in paragraph (a)(i) of this section to any private person, company, corporation or carrier upon terms and conditions and for either a fixed fee or a fee based on a percentage of the revenue collected from the railroad operation as determined by the governing body or bodies; and
(iii) Apply for and accept grants, loans or loan guarantees as authorized by law to carry out the provisions of this article.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 9 - Purchase of Railroad Property › Section 37-9-902 - Limitations of Authority.

37-9-902. Limitations of authority.
(a) The actions authorized in W.S. 37-9-901 may be taken only if a rail carrier has:
(i) Abandoned or filed an application to abandon railroad lines with the proper regulatory authority; or
(ii) Taken action leading to potential abandonment of railroad lines as required by the proper regulatory authority.
(b) No city, town or county acting either singly or jointly may operate a railroad or provide railroad services.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a city, town or county acting either singly or jointly shall not purchase railroad lines at a price greater than the net salvage value or fair market value of the railroad lines as determined by the proper regulatory authority. This subsection does not prohibit a city, town or county acting either singly or jointly from negotiating a settlement of the net salvage value or fair market value of the railroad lines.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 9 - Purchase of Railroad Property › Section 37-9-903 - Liability Insurance; Immunity.

37-9-903. Liability insurance; immunity.
(a) A city, town or county acting either singly or jointly shall require a lessee of railroad lines to obtain comprehensive liability insurance covering damages resulting from the operation of a railroad leased by the city, town, county or joint powers board pursuant to W.S. 37-9-901(a)(ii).
(b) A city, town or county acting either singly or jointly is immune from liability arising out of any claim, demand, suit or judgment for any damage or injury caused by or involving the operation of a railroad. The lessee of any railroad lines leased by a city, town, county or joint powers board is liable for any injury or damage caused by or involving the operation of railroad lines and no cause of action is allowed against the city, town, county or joint powers board for any injuries or damages caused by or involving the operation of railroad lines.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 10 - Railroad Abandonment › Section 37-9-1002 - Department of Transportation Authority to Take Action; When Action May Be Taken; Attorney General and Department of Transportation Responsibility.

37-9-1002. Department of transportation authority to take action; when action may be taken; attorney general and department of transportation responsibility.
(a) To fulfill the policy stated in W.S. 37-9-1001 the department of transportation shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, take the following actions:
(i) Protest applications filed or other actions taken by a rail carrier to abandon railroad lines;
(ii) Protest, challenge by legal action or intervene in rail carrier actions leading to potential abandonment of railroad lines;
(iii) Investigate the evidence offered by a rail carrier supporting the subsidy amount or minimum sale or salvage price of railroad lines to be abandoned and intervene in abandonment proceedings to challenge unjustified subsidy amounts and minimum sale or salvage prices;
(iv) Provide technical assistance to prospective rail carriers and to counties and municipalities seeking to purchase and operate railroad lines which other rail carriers are seeking to abandon or are likely to seek to abandon and provide assistance in preparing any filings with federal agencies necessary for them to purchase the railroad lines at the minimum sale or salvage price or to begin operations;
(v) Bring a legal action or intervene in a legal action or regulatory action to reduce the costs of trackage rights established in an agreement where the costs or conditions of the agreement appear to be contributing to potential abandonment of railroad lines or discouraging discovery of a prospective replacement rail carrier.
(b) The department shall take the actions authorized in subsection (a) of this section if:
(i) A danger of potential abandonment of a railroad line exists which will cause an adverse impact on rural and community development;
(ii) The county commissioners of any county or the governing body of any municipality in which any part of a railroad line subject to potential abandonment is located requests action;
(iii) The governor directs action to be taken; or
(iv) The department determines action is necessary to protect the public interest.
(c) The department may decide not to take any action authorized in subsection (a) of this section if it determines the action does not have a reasonable chance of fulfilling the policy stated in W.S. 37-9-1001.
(d) The attorney general shall assist and represent the department in any action taken as authorized in this section.
(e) The department is responsible for state rail planning and shall assist the attorney general in any action taken as authorized in subsection (a) of this section and shall provide technical advice and assistance to counties, municipalities and prospective rail carriers seeking to purchase and operate railroad lines which are abandoned or subject to potential abandonment.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 11 - Liability for Injury or Death of Persons Unlawfully Riding on Railroad › Section 37-9-1101 - Injury or Death of Persons Unlawfully Riding on Railroads; Immunities.

37-9-1101. Injury or death of persons unlawfully riding on railroads; immunities.
Except in cases of attractive nuisance, no person owning, operating, loading or unloading a railroad car or train shall be liable for any damages for the accidental death or injury of a person occurring while the person was riding the railroad car or train in violation of W.S. 37-12-104, or while the person was boarding or unboarding from the railroad car or train without the consent of the owner or operator of the railroad car or train.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 9 - Railroads › Article 12 - Emergencies › Section 37-9-1201 - Emergency Preparedness Plan.

37-9-1201. Emergency preparedness plan.
(a) Each rail common carrier having annual carrier operating revenues in excess of ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00), which transports a hazardous material or hazardous waste (as defined by Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 171.8, as may be revised and amended), shall adopt an emergency preparedness plan within sixty (60) days of the effective date of this act or the date of the rail common carrier's first transport of such materials within the state of Wyoming. The plan shall include as a minimum, the following:
(i) Notification procedures for advising the appropriate fire department or district or other public agency having the responsibility for responding to any emergency occurring in the area of any condition involving a release or threatened release of a hazardous material or hazardous waste where there is a reasonable belief that the actual or threatened release poses a significant present or potential harm to persons, property or the environment;
(ii) Procedures for mitigation of any such release or threatened release to minimize any potential harm or damage to persons, property or the environment; and
(iii) Training procedures to instruct railroad personnel on the actions to take in the event of any condition involving a release or threatened release of a hazardous material or hazardous waste where there is a reasonable belief that the actual or threatened release poses a significant present or potential harm to persons, property or the environment.
(b) The plan required in subsection (a) of this section shall be filed with the Wyoming department of transportation within fifteen (15) days of the rail carrier's adoption of such emergency preparedness plan.
(c) Any rail common carrier which violates any provision of this section or its emergency preparedness plan shall be liable for a penalty of up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) per day for each violation, to be assessed in a civil action.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 10 - Railroad and Public Highway Crossings › Section 37-10-101 - Highway Crossing Protection Account Established; Purposes of Account; Use in Connection With Federal Funds.

37-10-101. Highway crossing protection account established; purposes of account; use in connection with federal funds.
(a) In order to promote the public safety and to provide for the payment of part of the costs of installing, reconstructing and improving automatic and other safety appliance signals or devices at crossings at grade of public highways, as defined in this act, roads or streets over the track or tracks of any railroad corporation or street railway corporation in the state, there is created an account known as the highway crossing protection account within the highway fund. Before any funds of the highway crossing protection account shall be used to pay any part of the cost of the installation, reconstruction, or improvement of any signals or devices at any crossing, the commission shall first determine that all federal sources of funding have been exhausted. When federal funds are being utilized, federal guidelines as indicated in 23 C.F.R. [part] 646 shall be followed. For purposes of this section, "commission" means the Wyoming transportation commission.
(b) As used in this act:
(i) "Public highways" means as specified in W.S. 24-1-101, but shall not include private roads;
(ii) "This act" means W.S. 37-10-101 through 37-10-105.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 10 - Railroad and Public Highway Crossings › Section 37-10-102 - Power to Close or Establish Crossings; Establishing Priority for Hazardous Crossing Locations.

37-10-102. Power to close or establish crossings; establishing priority for hazardous crossing locations.
(a) The transportation commission shall have the power and authority to close or establish crossings at grade of public highways as specified, or separations over or under the track or tracks of any railroad corporation or street railway corporation in the state of Wyoming.
(b) Upon application to the commission from the duly authorized agents of the cities, counties or other governmental entities or the affected railroad for participation under the terms of this act or upon its own motion when the public interest clearly indicates action should be taken, the commission shall consider the need from the evidence presented, availed or adduced and shall establish a priority rating from the applications or evidence before the commission, assigning priority first to the most hazardous railroad crossing locations, giving proper weight to increased rail traffic and to the traffic volume over such crossing with due consideration being given for school buses and dangerous commodities. If the commission determines there is a need for grade crossing protection, then they shall determine the type of crossing protection required, including whether the crossing is to be made at grade or a grade separation structure. If the crossing be at grade, the commission shall determine the kind and type of grade crossing protection signals and devices required. If the crossing is to be a grade separation structure, the commission shall determine the kind and type of grade separation structure.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 10 - Railroad and Public Highway Crossings › Section 37-10-103 - Apportionment of Cost of Grade Crossing Devices and Grade Separation Structures; Between Railroad and State, County and City Government.

37-10-103. Apportionment of cost of grade crossing devices and grade separation structures; between railroad and state, county and city government.
(a) With respect to the installation of safety devices or safety equipment at railroad-highway crossings, under the direction of the affected railroad, it shall be the duty of the transportation commission to apportion the costs and expenses of installing or reconstructing the crossings and safety devices between the railroads and the department of transportation or the county, city or other governmental entity involved in proportion to the respective benefits to be derived, and to make the apportionment of the costs in accordance with state and federal rules and regulations.
(b) With respect to the initial installation of grade separation structures at railroad public highway crossings, a grade separation structure shall be installed by the railroad at all new railroad crossings of public roads or state highways, after notifying the department of transportation of its intent to cross the public road or highway, and if deemed appropriate after evaluation by the transportation commission. All installations shall be in accordance with state and federal rules and regulations.
(c) With respect to separation structures for roads over or under railroads, the commission shall first determine that all federal sources of funding have been exhausted, and then apportion the remaining costs and expenses of the initial installation of the grade separation structures between the railroad and the department of transportation or the county, city or other governmental entity involved, the apportionment to be based upon the causes resulting in the need for grade separation structures in accordance with state and federal rules and regulations. None of the money in the highway crossing protection account shall be used for payment of grade separation structures.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 10 - Railroad and Public Highway Crossings › Section 37-10-104 - Apportionment of Cost of Grade Crossing Devices and Grade Separation Structures; Administration of Highway Crossing Protection Account.

37-10-104. Apportionment of cost of grade crossing devices and grade separation structures; administration of highway crossing protection account.
(a) The transportation commission is charged with the administration of the highway crossing protection program. In order to compensate for the use of crossings by the public generally, the commission shall also order that one-half (1/2) of the cost of installing, reconstructing or improving signals or devices will be paid by the railroad corporation, and the balance of the costs will be divided between the state highway crossing protection account and the department of transportation or the city, town, county or other political entity in which the crossing is located in accordance with state and federal rules and regulations. The commission shall fix in each case the amount to be paid from the crossing protection account and the amount to be paid by the department or by the city, town, county or other political entity.
(b) The railroads shall bear all costs of maintaining in good operating condition all crossing surfaces and warning devices.
(c) The governmental agency or city, town, county or other political entity having jurisdiction over the highway and the separation structures which crosses over or under the railroad track or tracks, shall bear all cost of maintenance of its own separation structures. The railroad corporation shall bear all costs of maintenance of its own structures over or under a public highway. Maintenance of joint use structures shall be by agreement between the parties involved.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 10 - Railroad and Public Highway Crossings › Section 37-10-105 - Transfer and Credit of Monies to Account.

37-10-105. Transfer and credit of monies to account.
For the purpose of building up sufficient money to be used to defray the expenses of installation and reconstruction of automatic and other safety appliance signals and devices at railroad grade crossings, for the construction or the improvement of existing highway-railroad grade crossings to render them safe and consistent with modern highway construction practice, the custodian of the state highway fund shall reserve to the highway crossing protection account to be used to administer the program up to a maximum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) per month. Monthly contributions shall continue until the unused balance in the account reaches the sum of two hundred forty thousand dollars ($240,000.00), and no further credits or transfers shall be made except during such time that the balance in the account is less than two hundred forty thousand dollars ($240,000.00).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 11 - Common Carriers by Air › Section 37-11-101 - Definitions.

37-11-101. Definitions.
(a) As used in W.S. 37-11-101 through 37-11-103, unless the context otherwise requires, the term "person" means any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, company, association, joint-stock association or body politic, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or other similar representative thereof.
(b) "Common carriers by air" as used in this act means any person or persons engaged in regularly scheduled air transportation of persons or property for compensation or hire within the state of Wyoming concerning those activities where the United States has not excluded the states from regulating.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 11 - Common Carriers by Air › Section 37-11-102 - Conditions Precedent to Issuance of Certificate.

37-11-102. Conditions precedent to issuance of certificate.
No certificate of public convenience and necessity shall be issued by the department of transportation to any person authorizing operation, as a common carrier by aircraft in Wyoming intrastate commerce, unless and until the applicant shall have submitted to the department a certificate, signed by the director of the Wyoming aeronautics commission, to the effect that the applicant has complied with the laws of the United States, the laws of the state of Wyoming, and the lawful rules, regulations and orders, respecting safety of operations; and the provisions of the "Uniform State Law for Aeronautics", with respect to the right to use airports, airlanes and aircraft as necessary in order to properly conduct the proposed operations and observe proper standards of safety in the operation or navigation of aircraft. The Wyoming aeronautics commission shall require all applicants for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to furnish to it such evidence as it may require showing that they have complied in all respects with the laws, rules, regulations and orders.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 11 - Common Carriers by Air › Section 37-11-103 - Hearings; Right of Aeronautics Commission or Director to Intervene.

37-11-103. Hearings; right of aeronautics commission or director to intervene.
Whenever a hearing is scheduled before the department of transportation in any proceeding for authority to conduct common aircraft operations in Wyoming intrastate commerce, it shall be the duty of the director of the department to notify the administrator of the Wyoming aeronautics commission; and the Wyoming aeronautics commission or its administrator may intervene in the proceedings for the purpose of setting up the interests of the Wyoming aeronautics commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities › Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities › Section 37-12-101 - Stealing Railroad Equipment.

37-12-101. Stealing railroad equipment.
If any person shall willfully and wrongfully take or remove the waste or packing or brass or brasses from any journal or boxes, of any locomotive, engine, tender, carriage, coach, car, caboose, or truck, used or operated, or capable of being used or operated upon any railroad, whether the same be operated by steam or electricity, the person so offending shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00), or imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than five (5) years, or both.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities › Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities › Section 37-12-103 - Destruction, Obstruction or Removal of Railroad Track or Fixtures Generally; Penalty if Death Results.

37-12-103. Destruction, obstruction or removal of railroad track or fixtures generally; penalty if death results.
Whoever shall willfully and maliciously remove, break, displace, throw down, destroy or in any manner injure any rail or rails or any part of the tracks or any bridge, viaduct, culvert, trestle-work, embankment, parapet or other fixture or any part thereof, attached to or connected with such tracks of any railroad in this state, in operation, or shall willfully and maliciously place any obstructions upon the rail or rails, track or tracks of any such railroad, or shall willfully and maliciously meddle, tamper, or interfere with the signals or mechanism controlling the signal devices of any such railroad, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one (1) year nor more than twenty (20) years; provided, however, if any person shall, by commission of either of the aforesaid offenses occasion the death of any person, or persons, the person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of murder in the first or second degree, or manslaughter, according to the nature of the offense, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as by law provided.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities › Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities › Section 37-12-104 - Unlawful Riding on Railroad Trains.

37-12-104. Unlawful riding on railroad trains.
It shall be unlawful for any person, without the consent of those operating the same, to ride on any part of any railroad car or train.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities › Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities › Section 37-12-105 - Unlawful Riding on Railroad Trains; Penalty.

37-12-105. Unlawful riding on railroad trains; penalty.
Every person violating the provisions of 32-818 [ 37-12-104] shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not less than five dollars ($5.00), nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not less than ten (10) days, nor more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities › Article 1 - Crimes and Offenses Against Public Utilities › Section 37-12-106 - Unlawful Riding on Railroad Trains; Power of Conductor as Special Constable.

37-12-106. Unlawful riding on railroad trains; power of conductor as special constable.
The conductor in charge of any car or train who finds any person on his car or train, violating the provisions of this act, is hereby made a special constable, authorized to arrest any such person and deliver him free of all transportation expense to the first sheriff or deputy sheriff that may be available in the progress of such car or train. Such special constable shall deliver to the sheriff or deputy sheriff with his prisoner a statement in writing showing in a brief and general but not technical way, the offense charged against the prisoner.