18-2-101. General powers. (a) Each organized county in the state is a body corporate and politic. The powers of the county shall be exercised by a board of county commissioners which may: (i) Sue and be sued; (ii) Purchase property for the use of the county and acquire real property at tax sales, as provided […]
18-2-102. Property. Any property conveyed to a county, is the property of the county.
18-2-103. Buildings generally; infrastructure for court information technology. (a) Each county shall provide and maintain a suitable courthouse, jail and other necessary county buildings. (b) Each county shall provide and maintain infrastructure to ensure the proper function of court information technology equipment including, but not limited to, requisite power outlets, network drops, audio and visual […]
18-2-104. Joint city and county buildings. (a) Any county and its county seat, acting through the board of county commissioners and the city or town council respectively may agree for the joint purchase or construction and use of: (i) A building to be used as a county courthouse and city hall, to be known as […]
18-2-105. County, city or local housing authority; authority to establish senior citizen center; receiving state and federal monies; contracting for services. A board of county commissioners, cities or local housing authorities designated by said counties or cities may establish and maintain senior citizen centers to provide transportation, information, recreation facilities and other services which will […]
18-2-106. Senior citizen advisory commission. A board of county commissioners, the mayor and council or the board of commissioners of a local housing authority may appoint an advisory commission for senior citizens. The composition of the advisory commission, the appointment and terms of its members and provisions for its organization and procedures shall be determined […]
18-2-107. Cooperation with other agencies for funding and operation of senior citizen centers. The county, city or local housing authority may cooperate with other agencies as provided in W.S. 16-1-101, for the operation and funding of senior citizen centers.
18-2-108. Joint establishment, operation, contracts and agreements of facilities by local governments; sharing of costs; issuance of bonds; limitation on expenditures. (a) Each county, municipality, school, hospital or other special district, or any two (2) or more of them may enter into contracts or agreements to jointly establish and operate recreation facilities, water, liquid or […]
18-2-109. Name in which county shall sue or be sued. In all suits or proceedings the county shall sue or be sued as the “board of county commissioners of the county of . . . . . . . . . . ,” but this shall not prevent county officers when authorized by law from […]
18-2-110. Commissioners to receive service of process and employ attorney in behalf of counties. In all legal proceedings against the county process shall be served on the board of county commissioners or any member thereof and they may in the absence of the county attorney employ an attorney to defend them, for which they may […]
18-2-111. Judgment against county to be paid by tax levy; when execution to issue. Except as provided in W.S. 1-39-101 through 1-39-120 when a judgment is rendered against the board of county commissioners or any county officer the judgment shall be paid by a tax levied for that purpose and when collected shall be paid […]
18-2-112. Contracts for human services. A county may contract for treatment and preventive services for the mentally ill, substance abuser and developmentally disabled as provided in W.S. 35-1-611 through 35-1-627.
18-2-113. Prohibition of towing by a county. (a) As used in this section, “towing service” means the transportation or recovery of privately owned vehicles or the disposal of abandoned, privately owned vehicles by use of a motor vehicle altered, designed or equipped to tow or render assistance for vehicles by means of a crane, hoist, […]
18-2-114. Prohibitions; amateur radio antenna regulation. No county shall enact or enforce an ordinance or regulation that fails to conform to the limited preemption entitled “Amateur Radio Preemption, 101 FCC 2d 952 (1985)” issued by the federal communications commission. An ordinance or regulation adopted by a county with respect to amateur radio antennas shall conform […]
18-2-115. Nuisance abatement; procedures. (a) A board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, establish standards for determining when a site may be declared a nuisance under W.S. 18-2-101(a)(viii). (b) A board of county commissioners may issue an order declaring a property to be a nuisance under W.S. 18-2-101(a)(viii) and shall provide written notice to the […]
18-2-116. County prohibitions on utility connections. No county shall enact or implement any resolution or policy that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, the connection or reconnection of an electric, natural gas, propane or other energy utility service provided by a public utility, municipality or cooperative utility.
