ORIGINAL HOUSE                                   ENGROSSED

BILL   NO.  0125

 

ENROLLED ACT NO. 38,  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

FIFTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

2001 GENERAL SESSION

 

 

 

 

AN ACT relating to circuit court judgments; modifying
procedures for filing a transcript of a circuit court
judgment in district court; and providing for an effective
date.

 

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

 

Section 1.  W.S. 5-9-138(b) is amended to read:

 

5-9-138.  Abstract of judgment; lien of judgment on
real estate; lien on real estate in another county.

 

(b)  The judgment creditor in any judgment rendered in
circuit court may file with the clerk of the district court
and record with the county clerk of the county in which the
judgment was rendered a transcript thereof, certifying
therein the amount paid thereon, if any. The clerk of the
district court shall enter the case on the execution
docket, together with the amount of the judgment. and the
time of recording the transcript with the county clerk. If
within ten (10) days after the judgment was rendered, the
judgment debtor pays the same or gives bond for stay of
execution, the circuit judge shall immediately certify that
fact to the clerk of the district court and the county
clerk. The clerk of the district court shall enter a
memorandum thereof upon the execution docket. The cost of
the transcript, the filing, recording and the entry on the
docket shall be paid by the party who files and records the
transcript and may be taxed to the other party. The
judgment shall be a lien on the real estate of the judgment
debtor within the county from the day and time the
transcript is recorded with the county clerk. Execution may
be issued on the judgment at any time after filing the
transcript with the clerk of the district court as if the
judgment had been rendered in the district court.

 

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Section 2.  This act is effective July 1, 2001.

 

(END)

 

 

 

 

                                     

Speaker of the House                  President of the Senate

 

                                              

                 Governor                     

                                              

                 TIME APPROVED: _________     

                 DATE APPROVED: _________     

 

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

 

 

Chief Clerk

 

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