Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 045 - Transportation, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0008 - Railroad and Transportation Tariffs Section › Chapter 3 - FIREGUARDS, FENCING OF RAILROAD PROPERTY AND CLAIMS FOR INJURY TO LIVESTOCK › Section 3-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:
(a) "Area" means the rights-of-way located
				between 2 stated railroad mileposts lying to the right or left side, or both
				sides, of the main track(s). Locations requiring fireguard treatment shall be
				designated by railroad mileposts.
(b) "Auto gate cattle guard" means, instead
				of a gate, an opening in a fence with a ground grill that stock will not
				cross.
(c) "Commission" means the
				Transportation Commission of Wyoming.
(d) "Commission agent" means the Wyoming
				State Forestry Division (WSFD) acting for and on behalf of the
				Commission.
(e) "Department" means
				the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), Utilities and Railroads
				Section, 5300 Bishop Boulevard, Cheyenne, WY 82009-3340 (telephone307-777-4859
				).
(f) "Fencing" means fences that
				meet or exceed Department fencing standards on both sides of the
				track.
(g) "Field inspection" means
				an inspection of any railroad right-of-way within Wyoming, except any railroad
				right-of-way within any town or city limit.
(h) "Fireguard" means a man-made or natural
				obstruction to prevent fire from spreading to lateral areas along railroad
				rights-of-way or the obstruction created by discing, blading, sterilizing,
				burning, or spraying.
(i)
				"Livestock or stock" means all classes of horses, asses, mules, cattle, sheep,
				swine, buffalo, llamas, beefalo, and other domesticated animals.
(j) "Milepost" means a physical marker
				installed by the railroad companies along their rights- of-way used for
				identifying distances measured in miles.
(k) "Person" means individuals, associations
				of individuals, firms, partnerships, companies, corporations, their lessees,
				trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever in the singular
				number as well as the plural.
(l)
				"Property or rights-of-way" means all property acquired by the railroad company
				for the construction, operation, and maintenance of railroads and related
				facilities, whether or not a railroad has been constructed on it.
(m) "Specifications" means the treatment
				procedures, as determined by the Commission in consultation with the railroad,
				outlining the methods the railroad company shall use to establish a proper
				fireguard.
(n) "Suppression costs"
				means the costs (expressed in dollar and cents) established by the
Wyoming Fire Mobilization Guide
and interagency cooperative
				agreements for expenses incurred extinguishing fires in areas adjacent to
				railroad company rights-of-way, caused by or resulting from railroad company
				operations, except those rights-of-way lying within town or city
				limits.
(o) "State Forestry
				Division" means the State Forestry Division under the jurisdiction of the
				Office of State Lands and Investments.
(p) "Treatment" means the physical act of
				discing, blading, sterilizing, burning, or spraying.