Prohibiting travel across private land for hunting purposes.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify exact penalties beyond classifying violations as a low misdemeanor.

Prohibiting Travel Across Private Land for Hunting

This law makes it illegal to enter, travel through, or return across private land without permission for hunting activities.

What This Bill Does

• Expands the ban on entering private property without permission to include traveling through and returning across that property.
• Defines 'travel through or return across' as physically touching or driving on the surface of the private property.
• Makes it a crime to take wildlife, hunt, fish, collect antlers or horns, or trap on private land without permission from the owner.

Who It Names or Affects

• Hunters and people who use private land for hunting activities
• Owners of private property

Terms To Know

Low misdemeanor

A minor criminal offense that is less serious than a felony or high misdemeanor.

Limits and Unknowns

• The law does not specify what happens if someone accidentally travels through private land without permission.
• It only applies to hunting and related activities, not other uses of the property.
• The effective date for this law is July 1, 2023.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 23LSO-0108
Bill No.:

SF0056

Effective:

7/1/2023

LSO No.:

23LSO-0108

Enrolled Act No.:

SEA No. 0060

Chapter No.:

112

Prime Sponsor:

Joint Judiciary Interim Committee

Catch Title:

Prohibiting travel across private land for hunting purposes.

Subject:

Trespass for hunting purposes.

Summary/Major Elements:

This bill amends existing prohibitions on trespassing across private lands for hunting related purposes. It prohibits entering upon, traveling through or returning across the private property of any person to take wildlife, hunt, fish, collect antlers or horns or trap without permission. The bill clarifies that "travel through or return across" requires physically touching or driving on the surface of the private property.

The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

23LSO-0108

ORIGINAL Senate

File No
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SF0056

ENROLLED ACT NO. 60,

SENATE

SIXTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2023 General Session

AN ACT relating to game and fish; expanding the prohibition for entering private property without permission for hunting purposes to also prohibit traveling through the private property; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 23
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305(b) is amended to read:

23
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305.

Hunting from highway; entering or traveling through private property without permission; penalty; hunting at night without permission prohibited.

(b)

No person shall enter upon
, travel through or return across
the private property of any person to
take wildlife,
hunt, fish, collect antlers or horns, or trap without the permission of the owner or person in charge of the property. Violation of this subsection constitutes a low misdemeanor punishable as provided in W.S. 23
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202(a)(v).
For purposes of this subsection "travel through or return across" requires physically touching or driving on the surface of the private property.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2023
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(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

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