Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 015 - Attorney General › Sub-Agency 0012 - Child Care Licensing › Chapter 3 - VICTIMS COMPENSATION › Section 3-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) The definitions in
				W.S.
				1-40-102(a) apply to this
				chapter, including:
(i) Account means crime
				victims compensation account established by W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-114, W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-102(a)(i);
(ii) A Criminal act means an act committed or
				attempted in this state, including an act of domestic violence, which
				constitutes a crime as defined by the laws of this state or an act of
				terrorism, as defined by
				18
				U.S.C. 2331 committed outside the United
				States, and which results in actual bodily injury or actual mental harm or
				death to the victim. No act involving the operation of a motor vehicle, boat or
				aircraft which results in injury or death constitutes a crime for the purpose
				of this act unless the injury or death was recklessly or intentionally
				inflicted through the use of he vehicle, boat or aircraft, or unless the act
				constitutes a violation of W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				31-5-233, W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-102(a)(iii);
(iii) Dependent means any relative of the
				victim who was wholly or partially dependent upon the victim's income at the
				time of his injury or death and includes the child of the victim born after his
				death, W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-102(a)(iv);
(iv) Economic loss means and includes medical
				and hospital expenses, loss of earnings, future loss of earnings resulting from
				the injury, funeral and burial expenses and loss of support to dependants of
				the victim to include home maintenance and child care, W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-102(a)(v);
(v) Medical expense includes the cost of all
				medical and dental services, mental health counseling and care, dental and
				prosthetic devises, eyeglasses or other corrective lenses, and services
				rendered in accordance with any method of healing recognized by the law of this
				state, W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-102(a)(vi);
(vi) Personal injury means actual bodily
				injury or actual mental harm, W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-102(a)(vii);
(vi) A Relative of victim means his spouse,
				parent, grandparent, stepparent, child including natural born child, stepchild
				or adopted child, grandchild, brother or sister, W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-102(a)(viii);
(vii) A Victim means:
A person who suffers personal injury or is killed in this
				  state as a direct result of:
(A) A
				criminal act of another person;
(B)
				The persons good faith and reasonable effort in attempting to prevent the
				commission of a criminal act, or to apprehend a person engaging in a criminal
				act or assisting a law enforcement officer to do so;
(C) Assisting or attempting to assist a
				person against whom a crime is being perpetrated or attempted; or
(D) A federal crime occurring in
				Wyoming;
(E) A resident who is a
				victim of a crime occurring outside this state if:
(i) The crime would be compensable had it
				occurred inside this state; and
(ii) The crime occurred in a state which does
				not have a crime victim compensation program, for which the victim is eligible
				as eligibility is set forth in W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-101 through
				1-40-119; or
(F) A resident of this state who is injured
				or killed by an act of terrorism, as defined by
				18
				U.S.C. 2331, committed outside the United
				States, W.S.
				W.S.
				1-40-102(a)(ix).