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22LSO-0268
2022
STATE OF WYOMING
22LSO-0268
Introduced
2.0
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0019
Painted fenceposts-no trespassing.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Flitner, Crago and Sommers and Senator(s) Driskill, Kost and Schuler
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; specifying that private property may be designated by use of fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink paint; requiring the game and fish commission and the department of state parks and cultural resources to inform permittees concerning entry on and rights-of-way through private land; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 6
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303(a)(i), (ii) and by creating a new paragraph (iii), 23
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302(a) by creating a new
paragraph (xxxiii) and 36
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121 by creating a new subsection (u) are amended to read:
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303.
Criminal trespass; penalties.
(a)
A person is guilty of criminal trespass if he enters or remains on or in the land or premises of another person, knowing he is not authorized to do so, or after being notified to depart or to not trespass. For purposes of this section, notice is given by:
(i)
Personal communication to the person by the owner or occupant, or his agent, or by a peace officer;
or
(ii)
Posting of signs reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders
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or
(iii)
For notice of private property, marking of a post, structure, or natural object with not less than fifty (50) square inches of fluorescent orange or
fluorescent pink
paint at each outer gate and normal point of access to the private property, including both sides of
a body of water crossing the property wherever the body of water intersects an outer boundary line and at regular intervals of not less than one
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fourth (1/4) mile along private property bordering a public road, except that:
(A)
When metal fenceposts are used, the entire post above ground shall be painted fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink;
(B)
No fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink markings shall be placed on posts, structures or natural objects where a public roadway enters private land.
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302.
Powers and duties.
(a)
The commission is directed and empowered:
(xxxiii)
To educate and inform all persons holding hunting, fishing or trapping licenses or permits by including on any publication concerning the licenses or permits, in condensed form, the provisions under W.S. 6
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303(a) and 23-3-305(b) concerning entry on private
land. The commission shall use public media, as well as its own publications, in attempting to educate and inform other recreational users of the provisions of W.S. 6
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303(a) 23
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305(b) concerning entry on private land. In the interests of providing the public with clear information regarding the public nature of unfenced rights
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of
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way through private land, the commission may develop and distribute with the department of state parks and cultural resources signs for posting where a public roadway enters private land that give notice not to trespass off the road.
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121.
Permits to use state parks, recreation areas and historic sites.
(u)
The department shall educate and inform all persons holding permits to use state parks, recreation areas and historic sites by including on any publication concerning the permits, in condensed form, the provisions under W.S. 6
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303(a) concerning entry on private land. The department shall use public media, as well as its own publications, in attempting to educate and inform recreational users of the provisions of W.S. 6
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303(a)
concerning entry on private land. In the interests of providing the public with clear information regarding the public nature of unfenced rights
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of
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way through private land, the department may develop and distribute with the
game and fish commission
signs for posting where a public roadway enters private land that give notice not to trespass off the road.
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2022
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