has been held, the board shall vote upon the adoption of the planning or zoning recommendation. No planning or zoning recommendation shall be adopted unless a majority of the board votes in favor thereof. 185203. Certificate required to locate buildings or use land within zoning resolution; issuance and denial; appeal upon denial. It is unlawful to locate, erect, construct, reconstruct, enlarge, change, maintain or use any building or use any land within any area included in a zoning resolution without first obtaining a zoning certificate from the board of county commissioners or its designee and no zoning certificate shall be issued unless the plans for the proposed building, structure or use fully comply with the zoning regulations then in effect. The board of county commissioners or its designee shall act promptly upon any application filed with it and shall grant certificates when the proposed construction or use complies with the requirements of the zoning resolution. If it denies the application, the board or its designee shall specify the reasons for the denial. Any applicant desiring to appeal shall appeal to the board of county commissioners. The decision of the board of county commissioners may be reviewed by the district court and by the supreme court upon appeal in the same manner as provided in W.S. 151609, for review of decisions of boards of adjustment. 185204. Violation of W.S. 185202(c); continuing violation. No person shall locate, erect, construct, reconstruct, enlarge, change, maintain or use any building or use any land in violation of a resolution or amendment adopted by any board of county commissioners under W.S. 185202(c). Each day's continuation of such violation is a separate offense. 185205. Enforcement of zoning resolution by injunction, mandamus or abatement; appeal. Any zoning resolution passed by the board pursuant to W.S. 185202(b) and (c) is enforceable in addition to other remedies provided by law by injunction, mandamus or abatement. 185206. Penalty for violation of W.S. 185201 through 185204.
(iii) "Enlarge" or "enlargement" means adding additional wind turbines which are not permitted as part of an original permitting process; (iv) "Owner" means the surface owner of land. 185502. County regulation of wind energy projects; exceptions. (a) It is unlawful to locate, erect, construct, reconstruct or enlarge a wind energy facility without first obtaining a permit from the board of county commissioners in the county in which the facility is located. (b) If a wind energy facility is to be located in two (2) or more counties, a permit shall be obtained in each county in which the wind energy facility is to be located. (c) No wind energy facility constructed or being constructed prior to July 1, 2010 shall be required to have the permit required by this section. No wind energy facility for which an application for a permit has been made to the industrial siting council, or that has received findings of fact, conclusions of law and an order from the industrial siting council, prior to July 1, 2010 shall be required to have the permit required by this section. (d) Any wind energy facility which is not required to have a permit pursuant to subsection (c) of this section shall be required to obtain a permit for any enlargement of the facility after July 1, 2010. 185503. Application. (a) To obtain the permit required by W.S. 185502, the or developer of a wind energy facility shall submit an application to the board of county commissioners. The application shall: (i) Certify that reasonable efforts have been undertaken to provide notice in writing to all owners of land within one (1) mile of the proposed wind energy facility and to all cities and towns located within twenty (20) miles of the wind energy facility. Notice shall include a general description of the project including its location, projected number of turbines and the likely routes of ingress and egress;
(ii) Certify that notice of the proposed wind energy facility will be published in a newspaper of general circulation in all counties in the facility will be located at least twenty (20) days prior to the public hearing required by W.S. 185506. The notice shall include a brief summary of the wind energy facility, invite the public to submit comments and identify the time and date of the hearing; (iii) Certify that the proposed wind energy facility will comply with all the standards required by W.S. 185504; (iv) Certify that the proposed wind energy facility will comply with all applicable zoning and county land use regulations, which regulations shall be no less stringent than the standards required by this article; (v) Certify that a written emergency management plan has been submitted for review and comment to the county fire warden, county emergency management coordinator and the county sheriff. If the permit is granted, the plan shall be supplemented and revised following construction of the facility and prior to its operation if there are any variations in the facility's construction which would materially impact the original emergency management plan; (vi) Provide a waste management plan that includes an inventory of estimated solid wastes and a proposed disposal program for the construction, operation and eventual decommissioning of the proposed wind energy facility; (vii) Provide evidence sufficient for the of county commissioners to determine if the proposed wind energy facility has adequate legal access. The application also shall describe how private roadways within the facility will be marked as private roadways and shall acknowledge that no county is required to repair, maintain or accept any dedication of the private roadways to the public use. The application also shall include a traffic study of any public roadways leading to and away from the proposed facility and the board of county commissioners may require the applicant to enter into a reasonable road use agreement for the use of county roads prior to construction of the facility; (viii) Provide a project plan indicating the proposed roadways, tower locations, substation locations, transmission, collector and gathering lines and other ancillary facility components. If the application is granted, the board of county
(ii) The board of county commissioners receives a petition for the establishment of a special district signed by qualified electors resident in the proposed district equal in number to at least fifteen percent (15%) of the voters resident in the proposed district who voted in the last general election. The county clerk shall verify the signatures before consideration by the board pursuant to this paragraph. The petition shall state: (A) The proposed name of the district; (B) A description of the territory proposed to be organized as a district, which description need not be given by metes and bounds or by legal subdivisions, but is sufficient if generally accurate; (C) A request that the of county commissioners define the boundaries for the district. When more than one (1) petition is filed covering parts of the same territory, the board may consolidate all or any such petitions, or may exclude from any petition areas in conflict with another petition or petitions. (c) The ballot proposition for formation of a district shall appear substantially as follows: the (name of district) senior citizen service district be established with a maximum levy of .... mills (not to exceed two (2) mills) to be imposed on the taxable property of the district? Yes No (d) If the proposition to authorize a mill levy is approved by the qualified electors of the proposed district, the proposition to impose a levy in the same or at a different amount not to exceed two (2) mills, shall be submitted to the resident electors within the proposed district at the first general election held two (2) years after the election authorizing the district and every four (4) years thereafter, until defeated. If the proposition to impose or continue a mill levy is defeated, the proposition shall not be submitted to the electors for a period of not less than one (1) year. 1815103. When district considered established; failure to establish district. If a majority of the electors in the proposed district voting at the election vote for the establishment of the proposed district,