Opinion ID: 2638999
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Was the law violated when the appellant's license renewal application was denied by an administrative staff person, rather than by the Board?

Text: [¶ 14] The appellant filed two license applicationsa renewal application submitted on December 16, 1998, and a relicensure application submitted July 11, 2000. The former is the subject of the present issue. The Board's executive director testified that license applications are reviewed by staff members and are submitted to the Board for consideration only if deemed complete. She further testified that, without Board action on the matter, she returned the appellant's renewal application because it was postmarked one day too latemeaning that it had expired and could no longer be renewed. The appellant characterizes this action as denial of the license application, and contends that such denial statutorily can only be by Board action. [¶ 15] We will not further consider this issue because it was not properly preserved for judicial review. The administrative action of which the appellant complainsreturn of his license renewal application as untimely by a staff membertook place on January 6, 1999. Rather than exhaust his administrative remedies in response to that action, and rather than petitioning the district court for review thereof, the appellant pursued re-licensure through a separate application. It is too late now, in the judicial review of the denial of that second application, to contest return of the previous application as untimely. See Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-3-114(a) (LexisNexis 2005) and W.R.A.P. 12.