Wyoming legislation · 2025 General Session
Wyoming SF87: Prescriptive easement for electricity delivery.
Status: Failed, March 3, 2025
AN ACT relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; establishing prescriptive easements for electricity delivery; providing requirements for the prescriptive easements; specifying uses of the prescriptive easements; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
What the bill says
An act relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; establishing prescriptive easements for electricity delivery; providing requirements for the prescriptive easements; specifying uses of the prescriptive easements; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; establishing prescriptive easements for electricity delivery; providing requirements for the prescriptive easements; specifying uses of the prescriptive easements; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date. Section 1. W.S. 34‐1‐159 is created to read: 34‐1‐159. Prescriptive easement for electricity delivery. (a) As used in this (ii) "Electric utility" means any person, including cooperative electric utilities that perform any of the functions specified in W.S. 37‐1‐101(a)(vi)(C), that is authorized to engage in business in Wyoming and that is primarily engaged in the generation, transmission or sale of electric energy. "Electric utility" shall not include any electric utility owned or operated by a city or town; (iii) "Electricity user" means a person or the person's predecessor that receives or received electricity from a public utility or that is or was a member or customer of a public utility; (iv) "Public utility" means as defined by W.S. 37‐1‐101(a)(vi); (v) "System" means the physical structures, including overhead power lines and underground power lines and appurtenant structures, that convey electricity from a public utility to an electricity user. (b) A prescriptive easement for an electric utility's delivery system shall be established if the electric utility has used and maintained the delivery system for a period of not less than five (5) years during which …
Sponsors
- Davis, Bob (R, H47)
- Eklund (R)
- Larsen, Lloyd (R, H54)
- J.D. Williams (R, H02)
- Anderson, Jim (R, S28)
- Cooper, Ed (R, S20) · primary sponsor
- Driskill, Ogden (R, S01)
- Tara Nethercott (R, S04)
Latest actions
- : S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4
- : S No report prior to CoW Cutoff
- : S Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations
- : S Received for Introduction
- : Bill Number Assigned
Subjects: Prescriptive easement for electricity delivery.
Common questions
- What is SF87?
- SF87 is a bill in the Wyoming Legislature (2025 General Session): Prescriptive easement for electricity delivery.
- What does SF87 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to property, conveyances and security transactions; establishing prescriptive easements for electricity delivery; providing requirements for the prescriptive easements; specifying uses of the prescriptive easements; providing definitions; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
- What is the status of SF87?
- Failed as of March 3, 2025. Latest action: S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4 (March 3, 2025).
- Who sponsored SF87?
- Cooper, Ed (R, S20), with 7 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for SF87?
- On the Wyoming Legislature website: https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2025/SF0087
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