SF0005 • 2011

State lands-improvements.

AN ACT relating to state lands; providing for separate improvements on state lands; increasing maximum value of permissible improvements; providing a valuation time for the improvements as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Agriculture

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Agriculture
Last action: 2011-02-17
Official status: enrolled
Effective date: 2/17/2011

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill History

2011-02-17 LSO
Assigned Chapter Number
2011-02-17 Governor
Governor Signed SEA0010
2011-02-14 House
H Speaker Signed SEA No. 0010
2011-02-11 Senate
S President Signed SEA No. 0010
2011-02-11 LSO
Assigned Number SEA0010
2011-02-11 House
H Passed 3rd Reading
2011-02-10 House
H Passed 2nd Reading
2011-02-09 House
H Passed CoW
2011-02-08 House
H Placed on General File
2011-02-08 House
H05 Recommended Do Pass
2011-01-31 House
H Introduced and Referred to H05
2011-01-19 House
H Received for Introduction
2011-01-19 Senate
S Passed 3rd Reading
2011-01-18 Senate
S Passed 2nd Reading
2011-01-17 Senate
S Passed CoW
2011-01-14 Senate
S Placed on General File
2011-01-14 Senate
S05 Recommended Do Pass
2011-01-11 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S05
2011-01-11 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2010-11-18 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Official Summary Text

Bill No.: <billno> Drafter: <drafterinit>

Bill No.:
SF0005
Drafter:

MRW

LSO No.:
11LSO-0043
Effective Date:

2/17/2011

Enrolled Act No.:
SEA0010

Chapter No.:
18

Prime Sponsor:
Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Interim Committee

Catch Title:
State
lands-improvements.

Subject:
Maximum value
of improvements that can be constructed by a lessee on state lands and treatment
of improvements.

Summary/Major Elements:

●

Currently a lessee of state
land may construct or make improvements upon state land in an amount not to
exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for each separate improvement, without
obtaining permission from the director of the office of state lands.

●

This act treats each
improvement separately for purposes of determining the value of improvements.

●

In the event the improvement,
as considered individually, is in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00),
the lessee may apply to the director for a special use permit and may request
reimbursement.

●

If a lessee constructs or
makes an improvement in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), as determined
at the time of construction, without first obtaining permission from the
director, the lessee may not obtain reimbursement and upon expiration of the
lease the improvements become the property of the State.

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL SENATE
FILE

NO.
0005

ENROLLED ACT NO. 10, SENATE

SIXTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2011 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to
state lands; providing for separate improvements on state lands;
increasing maximum value of permissible improvements;
providing a valuation time for the improvements as specified;
and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 36
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5
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110 is amended to read:

36
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5
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110.

Right to make and remove improvements.

A lessee of state lands shall have the right to construct or make
improvements
upon state lands in
the amount

of
an amount not to exceed
two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per section

for each separate improvement
, without first obtaining permission. If the lessee or any other person desires to construct or make improvements upon state lands in excess of the value of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per section

for each separate improvement
, he shall file an application for permission to construct or make the improvements with the director, which shall be subject to allowance or rejection as the best interests of the state require. The director shall have authority to grant permission to construct improvements in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00)
per section for each separate improvement

for fencing, water development, livestock handling facilities and range enhancements. Any other improvement in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00)
per section for each separate improvement

shall be applied for under a special use permit. Unless permission has been obtained in the manner provided by this section, the owner of
the improvements

any improvement
in excess of the value of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per section
at the time of construction of the improvement

shall not be entitled to compensation therefor as provided by W.S. 36
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5
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111 and 36
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9
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105, and upon the expiration of the lease the improvements shall forfeit to and become the property of the state; except, that within one hundred twenty (120) days from the date of the expiration of the lease, the owner may remove such improvements in a manner which minimizes injury to the land.

Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(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