SF0111 - Occupied buildings-distance from gas wells.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0398

 

 

 

SENATE FILE NO.  SF0111

 

 

Occupied buildings-distance from gas wells.

 

Sponsored by:  Senator(s) Erb

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to public health and safety; prohibiting
 2  the construction of a building near a natural gas well as
 3  specified; and providing for an effective date.

 4 

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

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 7         Section 1.  W.S. 35-9-111(a) is amended to read:

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 9         35-9-111.  Certain structures declared nuisance;
10  repair or demolition; procedure.

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12         (a)  A building or structure is a public nuisance if
13  it is especially liable to fire and endangers people,
14  buildings or property in the vicinity. If the state fire
15  marshal, county fire warden, or the chief of a fire
16  department or district finds that a building or structure
17  is especially liable to fire and endangers people,

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 1  buildings or property in the vicinity, the officer shall
 2  order the structure to be repaired, torn down or
 3  demolished, all materials removed and all dangerous
 4  conditions remedied. No building used by the public as a
 5  place of assembly, institution or for any educational
 6  purposes shall be constructed within six hundred (600) feet
 7  of an existing natural gas well.

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

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11                         (END)

 

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