United States Lands

Wyo. Stat. Ann. tit. 36, ch. 10
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Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-101 Authority to acquire state lands; reservation of mineral rights.

The United States shall be and is authorized to acquire by purchase or condemnation or otherwise, any land in this state required for public buildings, custom houses, arsenals, national cemeteries, or other purposes essential to the national defense in necessary use of said land by armed naval, air or land forces, or land to be physically occupied by the Boysen Dam, its reservoir, power plant and distribution systems, or lands to be physically occupied by dams, reservoirs, power plants and distribution systems in United States reclamation service projects, and the state of Wyoming hereby consents thereto, provided that the mineral content of lands so acquired, if owners thereof so elect, shall be reserved to such owners.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-102 Jurisdiction ceded to United States.

The jurisdiction of the state of Wyoming in and over any land so acquired by the United States shall be, and the same is hereby ceded to the United States, but the jurisdiction so ceded shall continue no longer than the said United States shall own the said land.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-103 Retention of concurrent jurisdiction by state.

The said consent is given and the said jurisdiction ceded upon the express condition that the state of Wyoming shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said land, so far as that all civil process, in all cases, and such criminal and other process as may issue under the laws or authority of the state of Wyoming against any person or persons charged with crimes or misdemeanors committed within said state, may be executed therein in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given or jurisdiction ceded, except so far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-104 When jurisdiction vests; exoneration from taxes, assessments and other charges.

The jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not vest until the United States shall have acquired the title to the said lands by purchase or condemnation or otherwise, and so long as the said land shall remain the property of the United States when acquired as aforesaid, and no longer, the same shall be and continue exonerated from all taxes, assessments and other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this state.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-105 Rights-of-way.

There is hereby granted over all the lands now owned by the state of Wyoming, and which may hereafter be owned by the state of Wyoming, a right-of-way for public utility facilities constructed by and under the authority of the United States. Any right-of-way desired by the United States shall be surveyed and platted and certified maps and plats of the right-of-way filed with the board of land commissioners, the maps and plats to be in conformity with the requirements of W.S. 37-9-201 [repealed], regarding rights-of-way for railroad corporations. No fee other than fair market value for the easements as determined by the board of land commissioners shall be requested for the filing of the maps and plats. All conveyances by the state of any of its lands, which may hereafter be made, shall contain a reservation for rights-of-way provided for in this section granted prior to July 1, 1981.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-106 Yellowstone National Park; reservation of jurisdiction by United States.

By section 2 of the Act of Admission of the state of Wyoming, 26 United States Statutes at Large, 222, chapter 664, the United States of America reserved exclusive control and jurisdiction over Yellowstone National Park and future additions to Yellowstone National Park. The boundaries of Yellowstone National Park at the time of admission were defined in 17 United States Statutes at Large 32.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-107 Yellowstone National Park; boundary revision.

On March 1, 1929, the congress of the United States by the passage of an act set out in 45 United States Statutes at Large 1435 revised the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-108 Yellowstone National Park; jurisdiction ceded to state.

By reason of the act of March 1, 1929, as set out in 45 United States Statutes at Large 1435, revising the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, the United States of America ceded exclusive jurisdiction to the state of Wyoming over that part of Yellowstone National Park which was in the original boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, but which was without the revised boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, upon the acceptance of said exclusive jurisdiction by the state of Wyoming.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-109 Yellowstone National Park; acceptance of jurisdiction by state.

The state of Wyoming hereby accepts jurisdiction for all purposes whatsoever over the lands included within the original boundaries of Yellowstone National Park as described in 17 United States Statutes at Large 32 but excluded from the revised boundaries of Yellowstone National Park as described in 45 United States Statutes at Large 1435.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-201 Present funds to be paid to treasurer of Teton county.

All funds now held by the treasurer of the state of Wyoming, which have been received by the state of Wyoming from the United States under Public Law 787-81st congress (which is known as an act to establish a new Grand Teton National Park in the state of Wyoming, and for other purposes) shall be immediately paid by the state treasurer to the treasurer of Teton county, Wyoming.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-202 Subsequent funds received to be paid to treasurer of Teton county.

All funds hereafter received by the state of Wyoming from the United States under aforesaid act shall be paid by the state treasurer to the treasurer of Teton county, Wyoming, as soon as received.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 36-10-203 Crediting and distribution of funds received by treasurer of Teton county.

The treasurer of Teton county, Wyoming, shall credit all funds so received to the various tax districts of said county in the proportion that the assessed valuation each tax district bears to the total assessed valuation of the county; and shall distribute the funds so credited to the various funds of the tax districts in accordance with the distribution chart of the year in which such funds are received by the county treasurer. Provided, that the state of Wyoming shall each year receive from Teton county the same proportion of said funds and in the same manner as if such funds had been received by Teton county in payment of taxes.
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