ORIGINAL SENATE
FILE NO. 0091
ENROLLED ACT NO.
56, SENATE
FIFTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2001
GENERAL SESSION
AN ACT relating to public
lands; modifying emergency fire
suppression
account balance levels for purposes of imposing
assessments;
modifying assessments to participate in the
account; and
providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted
by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1. W.S. 36-1-404(d)
and (e) is amended to
read:
36-1-404. Participation by counties;
assessments;
withdrawal
from participation; forfeiture of assessments
for failure to
pay assessments.
(d) In the event
the balance in the account exceeds
one
million dollars ($1,000,000.00) three million dollars
($3,000,000.00) on July 1 in any year, no
assessment will
year or for any
subsequent year until the balance in the
account is reduced to
an amount less than eight hundred
thousand dollars
($800,000.00)
thousand dollars
($2,400,000.00) in which event assessments
will shall again be charged to
participating counties
beginning in the
following fiscal year.
(e) Any county
electing to participate in the account
in any year after July 1, 1987 may become a participating
county by paying an
initial assessment equal to the annual
assessment computed
for that county under subsection (b) of
this section times the greatest number of years any other
participating county
has paid annual assessments into the
account
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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
Senate.
Chief Clerk
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