2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-00271SF0054
SENATE FILE NO. SF0054
Electricity production facilities on municipal property.
Sponsored by: Joint Corporations, Elections & Political
Subdivisions Interim Committee
A BILL
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1 AN ACT relating to cities and towns; clarifying that cities
2 and towns are authorized to construct electricity
3 production facilities; clarifying when revenue bonds can be
4 issued for electricity production facilities; specifying
5 that cities and towns operating electricity production
6 facilities pursuant to an agreement are not public
7 utilities; and providing for an effective date.
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11W.S. 15-1-702(a)(intro), 15-7-101(a)(v),
12 15-7-111 by creating a new subsection (c),
13 37-1-101(a)(vi)(H)(II) and 37-16-101(a)(ii) are amended to
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7 In addition to
8 all other powers each municipality, county, and
9 multi-county joint powers board has without any other
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14 (a) In addition to all other powers provided by law,
15 any city or town may make public improvements as follows
16 for which bonds may be issued to the contractor or be sold
17 as provided in this chapter to:
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20 electric light plants,
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3 (a) As used in chapters 1, 2, 3, 12, 17 and 18 of
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6 (vi) "Public utility" means and includes every
7 person that owns, operates, leases, controls or has power
8 to operate, lease or control:
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10 (H) None of the provisions of this chapter
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13 (II) Public utilities owned and
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17 utilities owned and operated by a municipality of the state
18 of Wyoming or owned and operated by a joint powers entity
19 formed pursuant to the Wyoming Joint Powers Act, W.S.
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21 municipalities, except as to that portion of a municipality
22 owned and operated public utility or joint powers entity
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2 except that if any municipal or joint powers utility owns
3 an undivided interest in a facility for the production of
4 electricity which is also partly owned by an agency subject
5 to the jurisdiction of the public service commission, the
6 sale of electricity in excess of the participating
7 municipalities' or joint powers entities' need is subject
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12 (a) As used in this chapter unless the context or a
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15 (ii) "Customer-generator" means a user of a net
16 metering system. "Customer-generator" shall not include a
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21. This act is effective July 1, 2025
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