Access to private land-restrictions.

2015
STATE OF WYOMING
15LSO-0487
Numbered
2.1

SENATE FILE

NO.
SF0108

Access to private land-restrictions.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Driskill and Meier and Representative(s) Hunt, Jaggi, Kroeker and Paxton

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; restricting entry onto private land for persons authorized to enforce the provisions of title 23 as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
.

W.S. 23
‑
6
‑
109 by creating a new subsection (d) is amended to read:

23
‑
6
‑
109
.

Search with or without warrant; confiscation and disposition of wildlife.

(d)

No person authorized to enforce the provisions of this act
as provided in W.S.
23
‑
6
‑
101
, in the course of
performing
their
ordinary duties,
may
enter any private

land
without
the permission of the landowner or the lessee
.
However, a person authorized to enforce the provision of th
is
act may enter any private
land without permission:

(i)

If reasonable suspicion or probable cause exists that a violation of a law that the person is authorized to enforce has been, is being, or is about to be committed;

(ii)

To investigate a report of illegal hunting, fishing or trapping activity;

(iii)

To dispatch crippled or distressed wildlife; or

(iv)

To respond to emergency situations, accidents or other threats to public safety.

Section
2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
2015
.

(END)

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