Title 18 · WY
18-3-107(e) shall execute a bond with the county in the penal
Citation: Wyo. Stat. § 18-3-107
Section: 18-3-107
18-3-107(e) shall execute a bond with the county in the penal sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) conditioned that they will faithfully and impartially observe the laws relating to the listing, assessing and valuing of all property.
(d) Whenever the board of county commissioners requires any county officer to execute a new or additional bond, the county clerk shall immediately give personal notice to that officer. If the bond is not executed within twenty (20) days after receipt of the notice, the board of county commissioners shall declare the office vacant and shall appoint a qualified person to hold the office as provided by W.S. 22-18-111.
(e) Sureties of official bonds as provided in this section shall be residents of the state and have a net worth of twice the amount secured by the bond and each shall sign an affidavit, which will be endorsed on the bond, of his net worth. Any surety who willfully and corruptly makes a false affidavit as to his qualifications is guilty of false swearing.
(f) If a surety ceases to possess the required qualifications, the board of county commissioners shall require the county officer giving the bond to execute a new one.
(g) Any action to recover on the bonds provided in this section shall be in the name of the people.
18-3-103. Offices and records to be kept within county; exceptions; records open to public inspection; removal for purposes of copying; penalty.
(a) Each county officer except the county attorney, the county coroner and the county sheriff if the county jail is not located in the county seat, shall keep his office at the county seat of the county in an office provided by the county. If the county does not provide an office then the office shall be maintained at a place approved by the board of county commissioners: (i) The county clerk, county sheriff and county treasurer shall be furnished offices in the courthouse or building used as such;
(ii) The county and prosecuting attorney and the county attorney shall be furnished suitable office space at the expense of the county which shall if practicable be located at or near the courthouse;
(iii) The office of the county assessor may be with the office of another county officer as determined by the board of county commissioners;
(iv) The office of the county coroner may be located at any suitable location determined by the county coroner with the approval of the board of county commissioners.
(b) All county officers shall keep their offices open during the usual business hours of each day excluding Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays and other days as established by the county commissioners through resolution.
(c) All books, papers and electronic records required to be in county offices are open to the examination of any person without fee. The officer in charge of any documents may temporarily remove them for lawful reproduction purposes and during the period of removal shall not be subject to any penalty. Any officer or person not complying with the provisions of this subsection shall forfeit five dollars ($5.00) for each day he fails to comply.
18-3-104. Copies of instruments and transcripts of records as evidence.
Copies of all documents, writs, proceedings, instruments, papers and writings filed or deposited in the office of any district judge, county clerk or county treasurer and transcripts from books of record or proceedings kept by any such officers, with the seal of his office affixed, is prima facie evidence in all cases.
18-3-105. Powers and compensation in special cases.
Whenever any county officer is required to perform the official duties of any other officer of this state he shall have for that time the same powers given by law to the officer whose duties he performs and shall receive the same compensation for his services.
18-3-106. Full-time officers enumerated.
Each county clerk, county treasurer, clerk of the district court, county assessor and county sheriff shall devote full time to the duties of their respective offices during the term for which they were elected or appointed. In counties which are not served by a district attorney and in which the population exceeds nine thousand (9,000) but is less than sixty thousand (60,000), the county and prosecuting attorney shall devote full-time to the duties of his office whenever a majority of the county commissioners in that county resolve that a full-time county and prosecuting attorney is necessary. In counties which are not served by a district attorney and in which the population does not exceed nine thousand (9,000), as well as in counties which are served by a district attorney, the county commissioners may designate the office of county attorney and the office of county and prosecuting attorney as a full-time office. The designations shall be made by resolution at the time salaries are set under W.S. 18-3-107(a).
18-3-107. Annual salaries of certain officers; additional compensation prohibited; exception as to traveling and other expenses; compensation of county commissioner; appointment and salaries of deputies, clerks, stenographers and other assistants.
(a) County officers shall be paid as follows:
(i) The county assessor, part-time county and prosecuting attorneys, part-time county attorneys, county clerk, clerk of district court, county sheriff and county treasurer in their respective counties shall receive as annual salaries:
(A) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 142, § 2.
(B) Repealed by Laws 2022, ch. 110, § 2.
(C) From and after January 3, 2011, not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) nor more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00);
(D) From and after January 2, 2023 not more than the salary authorized for a circuit court judge in W.S. 5-1- 110. (ii) Full-time county attorneys and full-time county and prosecuting attorneys shall receive as annual salaries:
(A) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 142, § 2.
(B) Repealed by Laws 2022, ch. 109, § 2.
(C) From and after January 1, 2009 through January 1, 2023, and to the extent permitted under the constitution and statutory law, not less than thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) nor more than the salary authorized for a district attorney under W.S. 9-1-802(d);
(D) From and after January 2, 2023 and to the extent permitted under the constitution and statutory law, not less than thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) nor more than the salary authorized for a circuit court judge under W.S.