HB0036 - Posting of restrictions on roads & lands.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0258

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO.  HB0036

 

 

Posting of restrictions on roads & lands.

 

Sponsored by:

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to public roads; prohibiting the improper
 2  posting of restrictions on public roads and lands as
 3  specified; providing definitions; providing penalties; and
 4  providing for an effective date.

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

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 8         Section 1.  W.S. 24-1-133 is created to read:

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10         24-1-133.  Posting notice of restrictions on public
11  roads; restrictions; penalties.

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13         (a)  No lessee or his agent shall post a notice on a
14  public road or land purporting to restrict access on that
15  road or land unless the restriction has been approved by

 

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 1  the governing body having jurisdiction over the road or
 2  land.

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 4         (b)  For purposes of this section:

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 6              (i)  "Public land" means any land which the
 7  public is authorized to use without obtaining legal
 8  permission from a private landowner;

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10              (ii)  "Public road" means any passageway which
11  has been graded or constructed to carry vehicular traffic
12  or on which repeated vehicular traffic has created well-
13  defined tracks or other existing legal rights-of-way which
14  the public is authorized to use without obtaining legal
15  permission from a private landowner.

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17         (c)  Any lessee or agent of the lessee who improperly
18  posts a notice in violation of subsection (a) of this
19  section shall be issued a citation in person or by
20  certified mail return receipt requested, for a first
21  violation requiring removal of the notice. If the notice is
22  not removed as required within three (3) days after the
23  citation is issued, the person cited is guilty of a
24  misdemeanor and upon conviction is subject to a fine of not

 

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 1  more than six hundred dollars ($600.00), up to six (6)
 2  months in jail, or both. If the person does not remove the
 3  notice as required within three (3) days, each subsequent
 4  day shall constitute a separate violation of subsection (a)
 5  of this section. The penalty under this subsection shall
 6  increase for each subsequent violation by multiplying the
 7  penalty imposed under this subsection by the number of
 8  violations.

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

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12                         (END)

 

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