Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 060 - Lands and Investments, Office of › Sub-Agency 0002 - Land Commissioners, Board of › Chapter 4 - GRAZING AND AGRICULTURAL LEASING › Section 4-5 - Applications

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Forms. All
				applications to lease lands for grazing or agricultural purposes shall be made
				on forms furnished by the Office. Application forms must be completed in full.
				Any false or incomplete statement willfully made that materially affects the
				application will be considered as fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation and shall
				be cause for the rejection of the application.
(b) Qualifications. No applicant shall be
				qualified to lease state lands for grazing and agricultural purposes without
				having actual and necessary use of the land for the production of agricultural
				commodities.
(c) Signature. If an
				application is signed by a party other than the lessee, the legal instrument
				authorizing such signature, e.g., power of attorney, letters of administration,
				letters testamentary, final decree of distribution, etc., together with the
				required filing fee must accompany the application.
(d) Filing Periods.
(i) All applications to renew a lease of
				grazing and agricultural lands under outstanding leases must be filed in the
				Office not earlier than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to and not later
				than sixty (60) days prior to the expiration date of the existing
				lease.
(ii) The Office shall
				provide notice by certified mail to all existing lessees of the expiration of
				their lease(s) not earlier than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to
				expiration of the lease.
(iii) The
				Office shall notify the lessee not later than forty (40) days before the
				expiration of the exiting lease if the lessee fails to file an application or
				submits a deficient application for lease renewal. The notice shall:
(A) Be made by certified mail unless the
				lessee can be reached in an equally effective alternative manner. Such
				alternative manner shall be documented by the Office;
(B) Identify the deficiencies in the
				application for lease renewal or provide notice that no application for renewal
				has been filed;
(C) Provide the
				lessee not less than thirty (30) days from receipt of the notice to file a
				lease renewal application or to remedy all deficiencies in the lessee's renewal
				application;
(D) Provide notice
				that the lessee's failure to submit a renewal application or to remedy all
				deficiencies in the lessee's renewal application before expiration of the lease
				may result in the leased lands becoming vacant.
(iv) Any conflicting lease application to
				lease grazing and agricultural lands under any existing lease shall be filed in
				the Office not earlier than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to, and not
				later than ninety (90) days prior to the expiration date of the existing lease.
				Upon receipt of a conflicting lease application the Office shall notify the
				current lessee via certified mail that a conflicting lease application has been
				received and shall provide the current lessee not less than thirty (30) days
				from receipt of notice to file a lease renewal application together with
				payment of the first year's rental that meets the highest bid offered by
				another qualified application as provided in
				W.S.
				36-5-105(c).
(v) In the event of a conflicting lease
				application being filed, the Office shall provide notice of a deficient
				application for lease renewal to the lessee not later than ten (10) days after
				filing of a lease renewal application by an existing lessee. The notice shall:
(A) Be made by certified mail unless the
				lessee can be reached in an equally effective alternative manner. Such
				alternative manner shall be documented by the Office;
(B) Identify the deficiencies in the
				application for lease renewal;
(C)
				Provide the lessee not less than twenty (20) days from receipt of notice to
				remedy all deficiencies in the lessee's renewal application;
(D) Provide notice that the lessee's failure
				to remedy all deficiencies in the lessee's renewal application may result in
				rejection of the application.
(vi) If an expiration date falls on a
				Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, applications shall be accepted on the
				following workday.
(vii) Specific
				filing periods for particular tracts of vacant land will be established
				pursuant to Section
				6 below.