HB0226 • 2023

Municipal services-recovery actions.

AN ACT relating to municipal services; prohibiting municipalities from recovering past due payments for municipal services as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Representative Washut
Last action: 2023-02-07
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2023

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide a detailed summary or digest text for the bill.

Municipal Services Payment Rules

The bill stops cities and towns from collecting more than two months of past due payments for certain services if the property owner does not live on the property.

What This Bill Does

Changes rules about how much a city or town can collect in back payments for specific municipal services.
Limits cities and towns to collecting no more than two months of past due payments from property owners who do not reside on their properties.

Who It Names or Affects

Property owners who don't live on the property they own
Cities and towns that provide trash, recycling, waterworks, and sanitary sewer services

Terms To Know

Past due payments: Money owed for a service but not paid by its due date.
Property owner: The person who owns the property, even if they don't live there.

Limits and Unknowns

Doesn't change contracts made before this rule goes into effect.
Only applies to cities and towns that provide specific services like trash collection or water supply.
This bill is inactive and won't be moving forward in the current session.

Bill History

2023-02-07 House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2023-02-07 House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2023-01-26 House
H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations
2023-01-25 House
H Received for Introduction
2023-01-24 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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23LSO-0522
2023
STATE OF WYOMING
23LSO-0522
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0226

Municipal services-recovery actions.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Washut and Haroldson and Senator(s) Case

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to municipal services; prohibiting municipalities from recovering past due payments for municipal services as specified; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
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W.S. 15
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126 is amended to read:

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Collecting city or town monies; settlement date.

(a)

Every officer and employee collecting or receiving monies belonging to the city or town shall settle with the treasurer on or before the last day of each month, or as directed by the governing body, and immediately pay all money into the treasury for the benefit of the funds to which the monies belong.

If the last day of the month falls on Sunday, or a legal holiday, the payment shall be made on the next preceding business day.

(b)

When a tenant resides on a property and the property owner does not reside on the property, a city or town that operates a trash or recycling collection service, municipal waterworks or sanitary sewer system shall not collect or attempt to collect more than two (2) months of past due payments from a property owner for those services.

Section 2
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Nothing in this act shall be construed to modify or impair any existing contract or obligation between a property owner and a city or town executed before the effective date of this act.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2023
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