2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-01441HB0123
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0123
Adverse possession-property tax payment defense.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Neiman, Allemand, Andrew,
Banks, Bratten, Clouston, Haroldson, Heiner
and Wharff and Senator(s) Biteman, Boner,
Hutchings and Steinmetz
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to civil procedure; specifying that the
2 time period for a cause of action for adverse possession
3 does not run during periods when the property owner has
4 paid all property taxes; specifying applicability; and
5 providing for an effective date.
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9W.S. 1-3-103 is amended to read:
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13 An action for the recovery of the title or
14 possession of lands, tenements or hereditaments can only be 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-01442HB0123
1 brought within ten (10) years after the cause of such
2 action accrues.
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11 This act shall apply to any civil action
12 for adverse possession accruing on and after July 1, 2025.
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14. This act is effective July 1, 2025
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