Extra work in connection with any local improvements not particularly provided for in the plans, specifications, estimates, bids and contracts shall be performed by the contractor at the direction of the city engineer at a cost of labor and materials plus fifteen percent (15%) for superintendence. The amount shall be included in the assessment for the improvement or be paid out of the general or road funds of the city or town in the discretion of the governing body.
15-6-447. Property description; proportional payment; notice to purchasers.
It is sufficient in any case to describe the lot or piece of ground as it is platted or recorded, or described in any official record, although it belongs to several persons. The owner of any part may pay his proportion of the tax as determined by the city treasurer. Any purchaser, assignee or transferee of any property subject to assessment in any improvement district, after the publication of the notice of intention to create the improvement district, is held to notice thereof and of all proceedings with reference thereto the same as owners of the property at the time of the notice or proceedings.
15-6-448. Work on railways and streets along railways.
(a) All railway and street railway companies shall make or reconstruct all or those portions of all paving, graveling or macadamizing between the rails of their tracks and one (1) foot outside thereof at their own expense as the city or town may require. The improvement or the reconstruction shall be of the material and character ordered by the city or town and shall be done at the same time that the rest of the improvement is made or reconstructed. No work on the improvement along the railway or street railway may be permitted to delay or interfere with the work of the general improvement of the street, and no use may be made of that portion of the railway or street railway, without the written permission of the city engineer, during the progress of the work or until the improvement is safe for use and open for traffic by the city engineer.
(b) When the improvement is being constructed or reconstructed the companies shall lay, in the best approved manner, such rails as the governing body may require. The companies shall keep and maintain the paving, graveling and macadamizing between their rails and one (1) foot outside thereof and the rails up to the surface grade of the improved street, according to the plans and survey of the city therefor and all in good repair, using the same material as is used for the original improvement or such other material as the governing body may order. When the improvement of any street is being constructed or reconstructed the companies shall raise or lower their tracks and rails to conform to the grade established by the city or town for the improvement. If any railway or street railway company fails or refuses to comply with an order, resolution or ordinance of the governing body to make, reconstruct, maintain or repair an improvement, the work may be done by the city and the cost and expense thereof shall be assessed against the company and upon its real estate and personal property within the corporate limits of the city or town and the franchise granted to the company in the manner provided for the assessment of the cost against other property. The assessment may be collected in the manner provided for other assessments or in a direct proceeding in the district court. If the cost of any part of the improvement of any street is charged against any railway or street railway company or its property, plans and specifications for that part of the improvement shall be included in the plans and specifications filed by the city engineer for the improvement of the other portions of the street. The bids therefor shall be called for by the city or town in connection with the bids for the remainder of the improvement and received showing the cost per square yard separately from the cost per square yard of the other portions of the improvement. If done by the city or town, the cost shall be determined separately from the cost of the other portions of the improvement. At any time after the advertisement for bids for graveling, macadamizing or paving of any street or streets occupied by any railway or street railway, they shall file with the governing body a statement indicating whether they refuse to construct or reconstruct the improvement or whether they desire the city or town to do the improving and charge the cost against the company. The instrument shall be filed not more than three (3) days after the opening of the bids for the work, and if the instrument is not filed within that time, it is deemed a refusal to do the improving themselves and a request for the city or town to construct it and assess the cost to the company. Special improvement warrants or bonds may be issued for the construction or reconstruction or maintenance of an improvement, the cost of which is assessed to the company.
(c) If any tracks or rails of any railway or street railway are laid or relaid upon any street or streets improved by paving, graveling or macadamizing, the company shall do the work under the supervision of the city engineer and in such a manner as to injure the improvement as little as possible and shall reconstruct those portions removed or injured by them so that the street is left in as good a condition as it was prior to commencing the laying or relaying of tracks or rails.
(d) Railway or street railway companies as used in this section include the owner or owners of any railway or street railway whether persons or corporations.
Any first class city or any town having a population of four thousand (4,000) or more may provide by ordinance for letting to the lowest responsible bidder for any period not exceeding one (1) year, as prescribed by the ordinance, a contract for the construction, in accordance with specifications prepared by the city engineer and approved by the governing body, of all cement or concrete sidewalks which the governing body may order constructed during the term of the contract. The proposed ordinance shall be published at least two (2) times in a newspaper of general circulation within the city or town, and written notice thereof shall be served in the manner provided by Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure upon the owner or owners of property abutting the sidewalks which have then been ordered and which are then proposed to be ordered to be constructed. The first publication of the ordinance shall be made and written notices served not less than thirty (30) days before the date for hearing objections. Any owner of any lot or parcel of land or property to be assessed for the cost of construction of the sidewalks then ordered or proposed to be ordered to be constructed may appear in person or by counsel at the hearing and show cause, if any, why the sidewalks should not be constructed. If objections are made to the construction of the sidewalks by the owners or agents representing more than one-half (1/2) of the total number of lineal feet frontage of all property which would be assessed to defray the cost of the sidewalks, the sidewalks shall not be constructed. The contractor shall give bond for the performance of his contract as required by the ordinance. The ordinance shall provide that upon ordering the construction of any such sidewalk the city engineer or the street commissioner shall immediately give written notice thereof, served personally on the owner or owners, or agents of the abutting property, or by publication once a week for a period of four (4) weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the city or town, fully describing the termini, course, width and character of the walk ordered. The notice shall provide for a period of thirty (30) days during which parties so desiring may construct the walk abutting their property, and that all the walks so ordered remaining unbuilt at the expiration of the thirty (30) days from the date of service, or of the first publication, shall be constructed by the contractor. The ordinance shall also provide that at the expiration of the thirty (30) days the city engineer or the street commissioner shall notify the contractor to build the portions of the sidewalk ordered that have not been built. The contractor shall construct the sidewalk in accordance with the ordinance and his contract within sixty (60) days after he is so notified.
The total cost of all sidewalks constructed by the city contractor under this article, which includes that of the sidewalk proper as well as that of any notice, curbing, grading, handrailing, private crossing and all other necessary expenses, shall be assessed by the governing body by motion, resolution or ordinance as a special assessment against the property in front of which the sidewalk is built. The property occupying street corners shall be assessed for that part of the sidewalk thereon which is within the street intersection.
15-6-503. Assessment; when payable; warrants; collection; interest; treasurer's duties.
(a) All costs and expenses of building any sidewalk under this article shall be defrayed by special assessment payable in installments and extending over a period of four (4) years. The governing body may issue special improvement warrants for the installments and levy assessments to pay them. The assessments shall be collected as other city taxes.
(b) Special improvement warrants shall bear interest at the rate allowed on public warrants pursuant to W.S. 9-4-106.
(c) The city treasurer shall receive payment in full and give receipts for the entire special assessment of this character on any property with interest to the date of payment when tendered by the owner or agent. Upon receipt of any entire payment the city treasurer shall give notice thereof in writing to the proper tax authorities.
Any city or town authorized by this article may proceed in the matter of sidewalk construction either under this article or under the provisions of law already in force in regard to sidewalk construction, or partly under the provisions of this article and partly under the older provisions of law. It is the intention of this article to supplement but not to supersede or otherwise affect other provisions of law with regard to powers of first class cities in relation to sidewalks.
15-6-601. Authorization; installation and maintenance costs.
The governing body of any city or town having a population of more than eight thousand (8,000) may create lighting districts in the business portions thereof embracing any street or avenue or portion thereof and abutting property and require the cost of installing the system to be paid by the owners of the property abutting upon a street or avenue within the district, including any street or other railway therein, and assess and collect the cost of the installation by special assessment against that property. The cost of maintenance of the lighting system shall be paid by the city or town at large.
(a) The entire cost of erecting and maintaining the posts shall be borne by the owners of property which abuts upon a street or avenue within the district. Each parcel of land so abutting shall be assessed in the proportion which the street frontage of the parcel bears to the street frontage of the entire district.
(b) The owner of any street or other railway upon a street or avenue within the district shall be assessed for not more than one-sixth (1/6) of the entire cost and expense of the installation as the governing body determines.
15-6-603. Creation; contents of resolution; notice; hearing; installation and maintenance of posts.
(a) If the governing body desires to create a special lighting district, it shall propose a resolution designating the number of the district and describing its boundaries. The resolution shall state the:
(i) Character and number of posts to be erected;
(ii) Character of the lights to be maintained;
(iii) Estimate of the cost of posts and erection;
(iv) Proportion of the cost to be assessed against abutting property, including a street or other railway; and
(v) Time the governing body will hear objections to the final adoption of the resolution.
(b) The proposed resolution shall be published at least five (5) times in a daily newspaper of general circulation within the city or town, or in a weekly newspaper in four (4) issues, and written notice thereof shall be served upon the owner or owners, or agents of the abutting property. The first publication of the resolution shall be made and the written notices served not less than thirty (30) days before the date set for hearing objections.
(c) Any owner or agent of any lot or parcel of land or property to be assessed within the district may appear in person or by counsel at the hearing and show cause, if any, why the district should not be created and lights installed and maintained as provided in this article. If objections are made to the creation of the district by owners or agents representing more than one-half (1/2) of the total number of lineal feet frontage of all the property which would be assessed to defray the cost of the installation, the district shall not be created. Not less than six (6) months thereafter a resolution for the same or similar purpose covering the same territory may again be considered after notice and proceedings as provided for consideration of the original resolution. If sufficient objections are not made, a majority of members of the governing body voting in its favor shall adopt the resolution.
(d) The governing body, by contract, may procure and erect the posts required for the maintenance of the lights or require the street commissioner or other official of the city or town to do so in the manner in which the governing body provides. When the posts have been installed the governing body shall provide for the maintenance of the lights and pay the expense of the maintenance. All posts shall be of uniform size and character and be distributed uniformly upon the street or avenue or section thereof to be lighted.
15-6-604. Creation; assessment; contents; notice, hearing and objections; final resolution.
(a) The governing body shall estimate the cost of erecting and furnishing the posts and on or before the first Monday in November of each year adopt a resolution levying and assessing all of the property embraced within the district with the entire cost of installing the lighting system. Each lot or parcel of land in the district shall be assessed for that part of the whole cost of the installation which its linear feet bordering the street, avenue or alley, bear to the total number of lineal feet abutting the streets, avenues or alleys included within the special district, and levying and assessing against any street or other railway upon a street or avenue or portion thereof included in the lighting district not to exceed one-sixth (1/6) of the total cost of installing the lighting system, as determined by the governing body. The resolution shall contain a list describing each lot or parcel of land, any street or other railway with the name of the owner thereof, if known, the linear number of feet fronting or abutting upon the street or avenue to be lighted or otherwise assessable and the amount levied thereon. The resolution shall be signed by the mayor and city clerk and kept on file in the clerk's office.
(b) A notice signed by the city clerk stating that the resolution levying the assessment to defray the cost of installing the lighting system is on file in his office, subject to inspection for a period of five (5) days, shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation within the city or town, and written notice thereof shall be served upon the owner or owners or agents of the abutting property. The notice shall state the time and place at which the governing body will hear objections to the final adoption of the resolution. The hearing shall not be less than five (5) days after publication of the notice.
(c) At the time fixed, the governing body shall meet and hear all objections, and for that purpose may adjourn from day to day and may modify the resolution in whole or in part. A copy of the resolution as finally adopted and certified by the clerk must be delivered within two (2) days after its passage to the city treasurer. The treasurer, within five (5) days after the receipt thereof, by written notice, mailed or otherwise delivered, shall notify each owner of the property assessed of the amount of assessment, the purpose for which the levy is made, the tax against each lot or parcel of land and the date it becomes delinquent.
The lighting system in each district shall be maintained at the expense of the city or town by contract in the manner in which the governing body provides, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the fund which the governing body designates.
15-6-606. Lien; creation; enforcement; when vitiated.
(a) Any special assessment levied together with all costs and penalties constitute a lien upon the property assessed from the date of the final passage of the resolution levying the assessment. The lien may be enforced as provided by law for the enforcement of other liens.
(b) No mistake in the description of the property or the name of the owner vitiates the liens unless it is impossible to identify the property from the description.
All remedies, provisions and means provided by existing laws or by the ordinances of any city or town availing itself of the provisions of this article, for the correction of errors or omissions in the adoption of any resolution or proceeding, or in the levy of any assessment, or its collection, or for the enforcement of any levy by sale of the property against which any assessment is made, or for the redemption of property from sale, or otherwise applicable to the administration of this article are available the same as if they were made a part of this article.
If before the creation of any lighting district, posts conforming in size, character and location to the governing body's requirements have been installed at the expense of any owners of property therein, the governing body may adopt those posts and out of the funds raised to defray the cost of obtaining and installing posts for the district, may pay the owners of the posts so adopted.
If at any time after the creation of any special lighting district, a petition is presented to the governing body, signed by the owners or agents of more than one-half (1/2) of the total number of linear feet of the property fronting or abutting upon any street or avenue or portion thereof included within the district, asking that the district be discontinued, the governing body, by resolution, shall provide for discontinuing the maintenance and operation of the lighting system. However, if the governing body, prior to the presentation of the petition, has entered into any contract for the maintenance and operation of the system, it shall not be discontinued until the contract expires.
(a) In addition to all other powers provided by law, any city or town may make public improvements as follows for which bonds may be issued to the contractor or be sold as provided in this chapter to:
(i) Pave any street or streets in front of or adjacent to any public hospital or institution within the city or town;
(ii) Establish, construct, purchase, extend, maintain and regulate a system of water works, for the purpose of supplying water for extinguishing fires and for domestic, manufacturing and other purposes. To carry out this power, or to prevent pollution or injury to the streams, springs or source of supply of its water works, ditches or reservoirs, any city or town may go beyond its corporate limits and take, hold and acquire property by purchase or otherwise and may take and condemn all necessary land and property. Jurisdiction of a city or town shall extend up and along the stream or source of supply for the entire distance occupied by such water works, ditches or reservoirs. Cities or towns may enact ordinances and make all necessary rules and regulations for the government and protection of their water works, ditches and reservoirs, and fix water rates and provide for their collection. All water rent collected except the amount required to pay the expense of maintaining, extending and improving the water works, shall become a part of the water bond fund, and be applied only to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds issued for the construction, purchase, maintaining or extension of the water works;
(iii) Take any action necessary to establish, purchase, extend, maintain and regulate a water system for supplying water to and diverting surface water runoff from its inhabitants and their property and for any other public purposes, including:
(A) Condemnation of property;
(B) Prescribing and regulating of rates for the use of water and diversion or management of surface water runoff; and
(C) Enacting ordinances for their enforcement and collection.
(iv) Establish, construct, purchase, extend, maintain and regulate a system of sewerage;
(v) Establish, maintain and regulate electric light plants and electric power plants to supply the inhabitants with electric lights and power, to light the streets, highways and public buildings, and supply power for water works and other municipally owned works and utilities;
(vi) Establish, construct, purchase or extend electric transmission lines or electric power lines, to carry electric current to the city or town, from the place the current is obtained;
(vii) Establish, construct, purchase or extend propane, butane and natural gas distribution systems or lines and to carry propane, butane and natural gas to the city or town, from the place of origin or where the propane, butane or natural gas is obtained;
(viii) Erect, construct or purchase buildings for housing its fire extinguishing equipment and for the use of its fire department and officers in the transaction of their official business;
(ix) Contract for, purchase and hold lands and water rights and erect thereon amusement halls and buildings to be used for public parks and grounds for the use, benefit and enjoyment of the public, and:
(A) Enact ordinances, and make all necessary rules and regulations for the protection, maintenance and beautification of any park located within or without the limits of the city or town;
(B) Establish, purchase and hold parks on lands outside the corporate limits, if the lands are within thirty (30) miles of the city or town limits.
(x) Designate, establish, construct, purchase, extend, maintain and regulate arterial streets and highways, highway viaducts and subways within the corporate limits of the city or town;
(xi) Plan, create, construct and equip liquid and solid waste facilities. To carry out this power or to prevent pollution or injury to the environment, any city or town may go beyond its corporate limits and take, hold and acquire property by purchase or otherwise, or in joint effort with cities, towns, counties or special districts. Cities or towns may enact ordinances and make all necessary rules and regulations for the government and protection of liquid and solid waste disposal facilities, and fix rates and provide for collection and disposal;
(xii) Establish and defray the cost of purchasing land for, and the erection of a city library or additions to existing city libraries, or to establish art galleries or museums;
(xiii) Establish and defray the cost of purchasing land for, and the construction of swimming pools, wading pools and other related recreational facilities;
(xiv) Take any action necessary to acquire any needed or useful property, or construct, maintain, repair or replace any lawful improvement, development, project or other activity of any kind or to participate, join or cooperate with other governments or political subdivisions, departments or agencies thereof, for which funds may be borrowed from the United States of America or the state of Wyoming, or any subdivision, department or agency of either;
(xv) Construct, extend, improve, furnish, equip or otherwise acquire a city or town hall complex, including buildings and other structures for the use of city or town officers or employees in the transaction of their official business, for community meeting rooms, and for all other municipal or other public purpose activities;
(xvi) Plan, create, construct and equip a fiber optic communications system.
15-7-102. Borrowing and issuance of bonds; generally; sewerage systems; elections.
(a) A city or town may borrow money and issue bonds in either coupon or registered form to any amount not exceeding the limitation provided in W.S. 15-7-109 for the purposes enumerated in this article. The amount of bonds may be any multiple of one hundred dollars ($100.00), as provided in the ordinance authorizing their issuance, and shall bear interest payable annually or semiannually at a rate, at a place and in the manner as the ordinance provides. The bonds may be redeemed before maturity at a time or times and in a manner as the governing body determines, and payable in not more than thirty (30) years after the date of their issuance, or payable serially at times in regular numerical order at annual or other designated intervals in any amounts designated and fixed by the governing body. However bonds issued by a city or town to establish, construct, purchase or extend a system of sewerage may mature and be payable at any time not more than forty (40) years from their date or the estimated life of the improvement whichever is shorter.
(b) No bonds may be issued for the purposes provided in this article until the proposition to issue them has been submitted to and approved by the qualified electors of the city or town at an election which shall be called, conducted, canvassed and returned in the manner provided for bond elections by the Political Subdivision Bond Election Law, W.S. 22-21-101 through 22-21-112.
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of W.S. 22-21-101 through 22-21-112, for purposes of this section, where repayment of funds borrowed from the United States of America or from the state of Wyoming, or from any subdivision, agency or department of either, is to be made solely from revenues generated by the enterprise with which the financed public improvement project is associated and where security for the loan is restricted to a claim on the revenues generated from the enterprise with which the proposed public improvement project is associated and to the assets of that enterprise, any document evidencing the agreement to repay the borrowed funds shall not be considered a bond and no election shall be required.
15-7-103. Borrowing and issuance of bonds; recreational facilities.
A city or town may borrow money and issue coupon bonds in an amount which, together with the municipal indebtedness, but not including sewerage, water supply and school bonds, does not exceed four percent (4%) of the assessed valuation of the city or town to acquire, lease, purchase, equip, construct, develop, improve or enlarge public recreational facilities. The bonds shall be in the denomination of one hundred dollars ($100.00), or multiples thereof and bear interest payable semiannually at a rate, at a place and in the manner the governing body provides. The bonds shall be in a serial form with last maturity not more than twenty (20) years after the date of issue and are redeemable at the option of the city or town at a time to be designated by the governing body as provided in W.S. 16-5-302.
15-7-104. Borrowing and issuance of bonds; fire prevention.
A city or town may borrow money and issue the coupon bonds in an amount not exceeding at one (1) time, four percent (4%) of the assessed valuation of the city or town to acquire and purchase supplies, equipment and apparatus for fire prevention and control and to erect, construct or purchase buildings for housing its fire extinguishing equipment and for the use of its fire department in the transaction of its official business. The bonds shall bear interest payable semiannually, be of the denomination and be payable at a rate, at a place and in the manner the governing body provides. The bonds shall be redeemable after ten (10) years and payable in not more than thirty (30) years after the time they are issued or payable serially, as provided in W.S. 16-5-302.
(a) The clerk of the city or town shall endorse a certificate upon every bond or evidence of debt issued, stating that it is within the lawful debt limit of the city or town and is issued according to law. He shall sign the certificate in his official character.
(b) The city or town treasurer shall keep a book in which shall be registered all bonds issued, showing the number of the bond, the date of issue, to whom issued, the amount, date of redemption and payment of interest. The book shall be open to all persons for examination in accordance with W.S. 16-4-202.
15-7-106. Bonds; notice; receiving bids; exception; limitation; private sale.
(a) After any bonds to be issued for any of the purposes set forth in this article, other than special improvement bonds, have been approved by a vote of the people, the governing body shall give notice by advertisement for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the city or town, if there is one, and if not, then in some newspaper of general circulation in the city or town, and in any newspaper published in other places as may be deemed expedient. The notice shall state that the city or town will receive bids for the sale of the bonds and shall give the time and place where bids will be received and opened. No bonds may be sold for less than their par value.
(b) Bonds issued by a city or town to establish, construct, purchase or extend a system of sewerage may be sold to the state of Wyoming or the United States of America at a private sale, without advertisement, for not less than par and accrued interest.
A tax to be fixed by ordinance shall be levied each year to pay the interest on the bonds and to create a sinking fund for their redemption. The money that may be on hand at any time belonging to the sinking fund, until there are bonds redeemable, may be loaned or invested by the governing body in any public securities of the state, any subdivision thereof, or of the United States, and the interest that accrues shall be added to the sinking fund. If at any time after ten (10) years from the issue of the bonds the sum in the sinking fund equals or exceeds five hundred dollars ($500.00), and from time to time thereafter when it accrues, the city or town treasurer shall publish a notice in a newspaper in the city or town that, thirty (30) days from the date of the notice, he will redeem the amount of bonds then payable, giving their number and giving preference to the oldest issue. If at the expiration of thirty (30) days the holder of those bonds fails to present them for payment, the interest thereon ceases, but the treasurer shall redeem them on presentation. A copy of the notice shall be sent to the bank designated as the place of payment of the interest on the bonds.
The city or town treasurer shall, as soon as the coupons of bonds are paid, cause the word "paid" to be cut into them, and when the bonds are paid cause the word "paid" to be cut in the body of the bond.
15-7-109. Limitations on indebtedness; exceptions.
No debt in excess of the taxes for the current year may be created by any city or town, except local improvements as provided by law, unless the proposition to create the debt is approved by a vote of the people. No city or town may create any indebtedness exceeding four percent (4%) of the assessed valuation of the taxable property except an additional indebtedness not exceeding four percent (4%) of the assessed valuation of the property may be created to build and construct sewerage systems. This limitation does not apply to the construction, establishing, extending and maintaining of water works and supplying water for the use of the city or town and its inhabitants.
The city or town treasurer is the custodian of all monies arising from the sale of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter. He shall give any additional bond or bonds as the governing body requires for safekeeping and disbursing of all such funds.
15-7-111. Bonds for municipal improvements; exception; procedure.
(a) Any city or town may issue and sell revenue bonds for the purpose of creating, purchasing, leasing, constructing, maintaining, expanding or improving the following types of municipal improvements:
(i) Municipal auditoriums or community meeting facilities;
(ii) Land, equipment, municipal incinerators and other necessary improvements and facilities to be used for or in conjunction with municipal solid waste management systems;
(iii) Municipally operated recreational facilities of a type for which a charge is or may be made to the general public and because of the charge they are or may be self-liquidating in nature;
(iv) Municipally owned and operated propane, butane and natural gas distribution systems and lines, except no revenue bonds shall be issued or sold for the purpose of purchasing or in any manner acquiring the ownership of an existing natural gas distribution system or lines;
(v) Electrical systems and any facilities located within or without the state for the generation, transmission or distribution of electrical energy, provided that this paragraph shall only apply to those municipalities that owned their electrical systems prior to March 1, 1975. No revenue bonds shall be issued or sold for the purpose of purchasing or in any manner acquiring the ownership of an existing electrical system.
(b) Any city or town desiring to issue revenue bonds shall adopt and follow the procedure prescribed for the issuance by municipalities of revenue bonds for sewerage systems.
15-7-112. Borrowing and issuance of bonds for airports; generally.
In addition to all other powers, a city or town may borrow money and issue coupon bonds in an amount not exceeding, at one (1) time, four percent (4%) of the assessed valuation of the city or town to acquire, lease, purchase, equip, develop, improve or enlarge municipal airports, landing fields or other air navigation facilities. The bonds shall be of the denomination of five hundred dollars ($500.00), or multiples thereof, and bear interest at a rate payable semiannually, at the place and in the manner provided by the governing body. The bonds shall be in serial form with last maturity not more than thirty (30) years after the date of issue. The bonds are redeemable at a time designated by the governing body as provided in W.S. 16-5-302.
15-7-113. Borrowing and issuance of bonds for airports; notice; receiving bids.
If a majority of the votes are "for the bonds," the governing body shall publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or town, and any other newspapers published in other places as deemed expedient, to the effect that the city or town will receive bids for the sale of the bonds and stating the time and place where bids will be received and opened.
15-7-114. Borrowing and issuance of bonds for airports; tax; payment; cancellation.
(a) A tax to be fixed by ordinance shall be levied for each year to pay the interest and principal of the bonds as they become due and payable.
(b) If any bonds or coupons are paid, the treasurer shall cause the word "paid" to be cut in them and otherwise cancel the bonds and coupons so paid.
Any city or town which may acquire or construct an electric light or power plant may supply electric current to persons, corporations and municipal corporations outside the corporate limits and enter into the necessary contracts upon the terms and under any rules and regulations as agreed upon by the parties.
(a) Two (2) or more cities or towns may enter into an agreement pursuant to W.S. 16-1-102 through 16-1-109 for a joint powers board to supply their need for electric power. The joint powers board may expand, finance or operate electrical systems owned by municipalities prior to March 1, 1975, and construct and operate any facilities located within or without the state for the generation or transmission of electrical energy to supply those electrical systems. No loans under W.S. 16-1-109 shall be granted for facilities to be constructed or operated outside the state.
(b) The joint powers board may acquire a percentage undivided interest as a tenant in common with any other public or private entities in any such facility and may designate one (1) of the other participating entities as its agent, or may act as agent for any other participating entity in connection with the planning, acquisition, construction or operation of any such facility.
Any contracts entered into by any city or town for supplying electric current outside its corporate limits are ratified and confirmed as valid and binding contracts, any other act or law to the contrary notwithstanding.
(a) Any city or town may:
(i) Purchase electric current from outside its corporate limits upon terms and conditions agreed upon by the parties;
(ii) Construct an electric transmission line or electric power line upon and over all public roads and state highways if it does not interfere with the public in the use of the public roads and state highways;
(iii) Enact ordinances necessary to exercise the powers granted in this article and establish rules and regulations for the conduction, maintenance and operation of any electric transmission line constructed, purchased, extended or maintained and providing for the rates to be charged consumers of electric current either for lights, power or other purposes and for their collection.
All funds derived from the sale of electricity or electric current shall be placed in a separate fund to be known as "electric line fund," and be used only for paying the expenses of operating, maintaining or extending the electric transmission line, including the transformers and other appurtenances necessary to its operation, until all of the bonds issued by the city or town for those purposes have been fully paid. However, any surplus in that fund, over and above the operating expenses and the expenses of extending and repairing the plants in any one (1) year, may be used to provide a sinking fund for the payment of bonds or to pay the interest or principal on the bonds.
15-7-206. Sale of power plant; election procedure; ballot; vote required.
(a) If a written proposal to purchase a city or town owned works or plant for generating or distributing electrical energy for light, heat or power, is filed with the city or town clerk by any bona fide manufacturer or distributor of electricity in the state of Wyoming, the governing body, if in their judgment it appears to be in the best interests of the inhabitants of the city or town to sell the works or plant, may provide for submitting the question to the qualified electors of the city or town. The question shall be submitted to both property and nonproperty owners either at the next regular municipal election or at a special election called for that purpose. The election shall be called and conducted in the same manner as other city or town elections, except as otherwise provided in this section.
(b) The official ballot shall contain the words "For Sale of Municipal Light Plant" and "Against Sale of Municipal Light Plant" and shall have a square to the right of each proposition. The elector shall express his vote by putting a cross in the square opposite the proposition he favors. If a majority of the legal votes cast upon the proposition in each ballot box are for the sale, the proposition is approved by the people, and the governing body shall take appropriate proceedings to consummate the sale. If the majority of ballots in either box is against the proposed sale, it shall not be concluded.
If the governing body of the city or town decides to submit the question of the sale of the property to a vote of the qualified electors, they shall publish, for a period of at least three (3) weeks before the election in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or town, a notice specifying the amount of the bid and the general terms and conditions contained in the proposal. A copy of the notice shall be posted for three (3) weeks immediately preceding the election in three (3) public places in the city or town.
In submitting a written proposal for the purchase of any municipally owned electric light or power plant, the prospective purchaser shall specify the amount of his bid and the general terms and conditions of his offer.
15-7-209. Sale of power plant; disposition of monies received.
All monies received from the sale of property under this article shall be kept in a separate fund and be first used as necessary to pay current bills and unsecured obligations outstanding on account of the operation of the plant until it is turned over to the purchaser. The remainder of the proceeds of the sale shall be used for redemption of any bonds issued by the city or town for the purchase or erection and construction of the works or plant. The money shall not be expended or mixed with other funds of the city or town but shall be applied wholly towards the redemption of the bonds, together with the accumulated interest. If the property sold brings an amount in excess of the current bills, unsecured obligations and the outstanding bonds, the excess shall be placed in a sinking fund to retire any existing bonded indebtedness of the municipality. If there is no existing bonded indebtedness, the excess shall be placed in the municipal general fund and expended for general municipal purposes.
As used in this article "public park" means any public ground of any city or town dedicated to public use and maintained as a municipal park, playground or recreation area.