Continuity of Permitting Act.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details on how existing applications before July 1, 2025 will be handled.

Continuity of Permitting Act

The bill requires that pending building permit and land use applications remain under the county's control until they are approved or denied, after which jurisdiction transfers to an annexing city or town.

What This Bill Does

• Keeps the county in charge of building permits and land use applications while they are being processed.
• Transfers control from the county to an annexing city or town once the application is approved or denied.

Who It Names or Affects

• People applying for building permits and land use applications in counties that may be annexed by cities or towns.
• Counties handling permit and application processes until they are completed.
• Cities or towns planning to annex areas with pending applications.

Terms To Know

Annexing

The process of a city or town expanding its boundaries by adding more land, including areas that were previously part of another jurisdiction like a county.

Jurisdiction

The authority to make decisions and enforce laws over a specific area or type of activity.

Limits and Unknowns

• It is unclear how this act will affect existing applications before July 1, 2025.
• The bill did not pass in the session it was introduced.

Current Bill Text

25LSO-0544
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0544
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0140

Continuity of Permitting Act.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Filer, Haroldson and Wylie and Senator(s) Barlow and Crago

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to cities and towns; requiring jurisdiction over pending building permit or land use applications to remain with the county until the applications are issued or denied; requiring jurisdiction to transfer to an annexing city or town 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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404 by creating a new subsection (c) is amended to read:

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Annexing territories; initiation of proceedings; by governing bodies; determination.

(c)

Jurisdiction over a building permit or land use application pending at the time that the subject land or building was annexed under this section shall remain with the county with whom the applications where filed. The county's jurisdiction shall continue until issuance or denial of the final building permit or land use application, at which time jurisdiction shall transfer to the annexing city or town.

Section 2.

This act shall apply to annexations, building permit applications and land use applications filed on and after July 1, 2025.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2025
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(END)

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