ORIGINAL HOUSE

BILL NO. 0204

ENROLLED ACT NO. 65, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FIFTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

2001 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; granting
authority to the board of commissioners to determine
attorney license fees as specified; removing provisions for
nonpayment of fees; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.  W.S. 33-5-116(a) is amended to read:

33-5-116. Payment of annual license fee; fiscal year
of state bar.

(a) All members of the state bar shall by the second
week of October pay to the treasurer of the state bar, as a
license fee for the ensuing year, a sum not to exceed two
hundred twenty-five dollars ($225.00) an amount to be set
established by the board of commissioners of the Wyoming
state bar pursuant to W.S. 33-1-201. If any member has been
admitted to practice law in this or some other state for a
time less than five (5) years, the license fee shall be
one-half (1/2) of the regular license fee. Honorary and
retired members may be exempted completely from the payment
of any fees or allowed to pay less than the regular license
fee in the discretion of the Wyoming state bar board of
commissioners. Fees shall constitute a fund to be held and
disbursed by the treasurer upon order of the board. The
second week in September in each year the
secretary-treasurer shall send a written statement of the
amount of the license fee to each member of the state bar.
If any member remains in default on December 1, the
secretary-treasurer shall certify the delinquency to the
judge of the district court of the judicial district in
which the delinquent member resides. The judge shall issue
a citation returnable within twenty (20) days to show cause
why the delinquent member should not be suspended from the

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practice of law in this state. If good cause is not shown
the delinquent member shall be suspended while in default
of payment and an order of suspension shall be certified to
the supreme court. If upon hearing, the judge of the
district court determines that the member in default is
unable to pay his license fee, the judge may suspend in
whole or in part the payment for that year by order
certified to the supreme court.

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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