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SF0086 • 2014

Obstructing roads and highways.

AN ACT relating to roads and highways; providing that no person shall obstruct or injure a public easement or right-of-way; providing a penalty; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Senator Dockstader
Last action
2014-03-04
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Amendments

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SF0086H2001

2nd reading • MILLER

Adopted

Plain English: Adopted 2nd reading by MILLER

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SF0086H3001

3rd reading • GREEAR

Withdrawn

Plain English: Withdrawn 3rd reading by GREEAR

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SF0086SS001

Standing Committee • VON FLATER

Adopted

Plain English: Adopted Standing Committee by VON FLATER

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Bill History

  1. 2014-03-04 House

    H Failed 3rd Reading

  2. 2014-03-03 House

    H Passed 2nd Reading

  3. 2014-03-03 House

    H Amendments Adopted

  4. 2014-03-03 House

    Amendment Adopted

  5. 2014-02-28 House

    H Passed CoW

  6. 2014-02-28 House

    H Placed on General File

  7. 2014-02-28 House

    H08 Recommended Do Pass

  8. 2014-02-25 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H08

  9. 2014-02-25 House

    H Received for Introduction

  10. 2014-02-24 Senate

    S Passed 3rd Reading

  11. 2014-02-21 Senate

    S Passed 2nd Reading

  12. 2014-02-20 Senate

    S Passed CoW

  13. 2014-02-20 Senate

    S Amendments Adopted

  14. 2014-02-20 Senate

    Amendment Adopted

  15. 2014-02-18 Senate

    S Placed on General File

  16. 2014-02-18 Senate

    S08 Recommended Amend and Do Pass

  17. 2014-02-12 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S08

  18. 2014-02-11 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  19. 2014-02-10 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT
2014
STATE OF
WYOMING
14LSO-0397.E1

SENATE FILE

NO.
SF0086

Obstructing roads and highways.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Dockstader and Representative(s) Gingery

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
roads and highways; providing that no person shall obstruct or injure a public easement or right
-
of
-
way;

providing a penalty;
and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 35
‑
10
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401 is amended to read:

35
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10
‑
401.

Obstructing or injuring highways, streets, bridges or navigable streams generally; offensive manufactures or businesses; pollution of waters.

(a)

If any person, company or corporation shall obstruct or injure or cause or procure to be obstructed or injured, any public road or highway,
or any public easement
or public right
-
of
-
way
which is connected and parallel to a public road or highway
,
or common street or alley of any town or village, or any public bridge or causeway, or public river or stream, declared navigable by law, or shall continue such obstruction, so as to render the same inconvenient or dangerous to pass, or shall erect or establish any offensive trade, or manufacture or business, or continue the same after it has been erected or established, or shall in anywise pollute or obstruct any watercourse, lake, pond, marsh or common sewer, or continue such obstruction or pollution, so as to render the same unwholesome or offensive to the county, city, town or neighborhood thereabouts; every person, company or corporation so offending, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00); and every such nuisance may, by order of the district court before whom the conviction may take place, be removed and abated by the sheriff of the proper county.

(b)

Whoever, in any manner, wrongfully obstructs any public highway,

public easement or public right
-
of
-
way
which is connected and parallel to a public road or highway
,
or injures any bridge, culvert, or embankment, or injures any material used in the construction of any such
road, shall be fined in any sum not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail not more than three (3) months.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2014.

(END)

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