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Wyoming regulations: details

Copied from the current chapter PDFs on the Wyoming Secretary of State’s rules site on October 21, 2026. Check the official page before you rely on a rule.

What is here

Wyoming, Release 22: the current chapters of the Wyoming Administrative Rules as the Secretary of State's rules site (rules.wyo.gov) serves each as a PDF, fetched 2026-10-21 and read by machine: GLO's reading of the agencies' electronic copies the site holds, not the official filed copy. 12,690 of the 13,413 sections GLO's readers found are served, from 1,701 chapters of 74 agencies, each read alike by two readers with no shared code (for 1,446 of them the two differ only in spacing and a third reader, pdftotext, holds the text verbatim or settles each gap: 998 in its default order, 448 in raw order). Page footers and other page labels printed in the margins are dropped. 723 sections are held, each by name with its reasons (a section may carry several): a table within the section's span on the page (145), struck-through text on the page (114), a struck character inside the text, too short for the page check (79), the readers broke the words differently (104), a section number printed more than once (29), text that stops without closing punctuation, so it may be cut short (72), a running header or footer line in the text (27), the two readers read differently (41), a head right after such a cut, which may be a cross-reference (115), a picture or figure on the page (77), a symbol-font mark (50), a section number out of order (8), the next section's number in doubt, so its end is not certain (6), another section's head inside its text (24), the next section's head printed with no period inside its text (3), a word printed letter by letter (1), a page label in the text, a page number or an appendix's lettered label (1), the text running on through an appendix, attachment or exhibit the file prints after the section (23), a heading and no text (0). A section is held for a table only when the table's ruled lines overlap the section's own span on its page; a small table with fewer than 12 ruled lines is served as a run of words, row by row. Release 3 (2026-10-24) adds 145 sections Release 2 held for a table: the only lines in their own part of the page underline words (mostly their headings), no page of theirs draws a table, box or vertical line, and no three of their lines stack at one width; the underlines are not shown, as no shown heading's is. Release 4 (2026-10-24) adds 92 sections Release 3 held for struck-through text on a page they share with another section: every stroke lies in the other section's part of the page, and no stroke of any length runs through their own text. It also holds 79 sections Release 3 showed from 2026-10-24 until this release, whose text kept a character the agency struck through (a period, a comma, a hyphen or a letter under a stroke shorter than the earlier check measured); they are held by name. Release 5 (2026-10-24) adds 136 sections held because their text stops without closing punctuation (76) or follows such a text (60): in each, the next head is the next section number and reads as a heading, and the text does not end on a joining word (and, or, with, of), a comma or other mark, a run of capitals (a part heading), a page footer or a stray fragment; a draw of 20 read against the pages ends where the page prints the next head (a list's last item, a statute number, a fee line, a form's blank). Release 6 (2026-10-24) adds 110 sections held for a running header or footer line in the text: a fourth reader (A4: reader A3 with the lines a file prints as its running header or footer on at least 3 of its pages and at least half of them, and its page numbers printed between dashes, dropped where they stand in the top or bottom of the page) reads them, and the second reader agrees once the same lines are removed (for 80 of them apart from spaces, which pdftotext settles). It also holds 3 sections Releases 1 to 5 showed from 2026-10-21 until this release, whose text ran on into the next section because that section's head is printed with no period after its number (010.0008.4 § 26, 020.0015.4 § 9, 020.0013.4 § 10); they are held by name. Release 7 (2026-10-24) adds 59 sections held because the two readers read differently: the second reader missed a head printed with no space after its period ("Section 3.Definitions.") and ran on into the next section. Each is shown only where the second reader's text is the first reader's sections in order, joined by their heads, apart from spaces, where the section numbers run on by one, and where pdftotext holds the section's text verbatim; the first reader's text is shown. Release 8 (2026-10-24) adds 33 sections held for the same reason that come before the second reader's first head: its text before that head is the chapter's title as the first reader reads it, then the first reader's sections in order joined by their heads, apart from spaces, the numbers running on by one, and pdftotext holds each section's text verbatim; the first reader's text is shown. Release 9 (2026-10-24) adds 50 sections held because the readers spaced words differently: each gap between two characters takes the spacing two of the three readers (the two readers and pdftotext) agree on, and a section is shown only where that vote is the first reader's text at every gap; the first reader's text is shown. It also holds 1 section Releases 1 to 8 showed from 2026-10-21 until this release, whose text carries words printed letter by letter (048.0037.12 § 4: "o n c e", "w e e k s"); it is held by name. Release 10 (2026-10-24) adds 47 sections held both because the readers spaced words differently and for a table: each passes Release 3's line test (the only lines in its own part of the page underline words, no page of its span draws a table, box or vertical line, and no three of its lines stack at one width) and Release 9's spacing vote (two of the three readers agree with the first reader's spacing at every gap); the first reader's text is shown, without the underlines. Release 11 (2026-10-24) adds 12 sections held for a table whose every table in their own part of the page is a plain grid (no merged cell, no raised or smaller word in a cell, no row with two cells of several lines, and poppler's words agreeing with pymupdf's in every cell): a reader (A6) writes each table row as one line, its cells in order between | marks, an empty cell blank, and the rest of the text as the first reader reads it. The grid is pymupdf's table finder's, so a table drawn without ruled lines is not found, and a cell's own line breaks and indentation are not kept. Release 12 (2026-10-24) adds 56 sections of five chapters that print their sections in parts, each part after a printed heading that restarts the numbers (044.0002.34 Parts 1 to 5; 045.0004.1 Appendix B; 040.0001.10 and 040.0001.51 Appendix I; 020.0011.25 Appendix A): a section after such a heading is keyed by its part ("044.0002.34 Part 2 § 9"), and the plain key names the chapter's own run; 3 sections shown before under the plain key are now keyed by the part the file prints them in (044.0002.34 Part 2 § 9 and § 10, 045.0004.1 Appendix B § 14). It also holds 13 sections Releases 1 to 11 showed from 2026-10-21 until this release: 6 whose text ran on through an appendix, attachment, exhibit or part heading the file prints after them (020.0011.27 § 22, 010.0005.28 § 15, 010.0005.18 § 9, 020.0014.1 § 28, 048.0037.7 § 29, 044.0002.12 § 11) and 7 that carried an appendix's lettered page labels ("B-24"; 045.0004.1 Appendix B §§ 12, 13 and 15 to 19, shown until now under the plain key); they are held by name. In 146 sections the file's text layer holds Windows-1252 codes for quotation marks or a dash (U+0091 to U+0094, U+0097), which Releases 1 to 11 showed as invisible control characters in 134 of them; Release 12 shows the characters the pages print (‘ ’ “ ” —), read by hand on 41 page clips, and marks each such answer with char_note. Release 13 (2026-10-24) adds 19 sections of two chapters' appendices whose text carried the appendix's own page labels, printed in the page margin with a letter ("B-19", "A-1"): a reader (A7) that also drops such a label where it stands in the page's top or bottom band, and the second reader with the same label lines set aside, read each alike (045.0004.1 Appendix B §§ 2 to 13 and 15 to 19; 020.0011.25 Appendix A § 2 and Appendix B § 1); 7 of them (045.0004.1 Appendix B §§ 12, 13 and 15 to 19) are sections Release 12 held for the label, shown again without it. A lettered label printed mid-page, or one of three letters, is not dropped and holds its section. Release 14 (2026-10-24) adds 29 sections of thirteen chapters whose numbering a printed cross-reference had broken: where a line reads "Section <n>." at its start right after a line that ends on a cross-reference's lead ("... the provisions of Chapter 2," / "Section 1."), and the chapter's heads otherwise run by one with the true head of that number printed elsewhere, GLO reads the line as part of the section before it: 14 such lines are joined back into 12 sections, 7 of which are now served (015.0009.7 § 9, 015.0009.4 § 10, 020.0011.28 § 7, 040.0001.3 § 2, 010.0003.8 §§ 45 and 72, 010.0003.9 § 45), and 22 sections held only because their number was printed twice, out of order, or before a head in doubt are served. The 13,413 sections GLO's readers found are 13,449 less the lines joined (14 by Release 14, 9 by Release 15) and the 13 entries of a printed table of contents (Release 16). A repeated head printed as a title ("Section 2." / "Special archery hunting seasons ...") is not joined and stays held. Release 15 (2026-10-24) adds 11 sections of six more chapters joined the same way, where the run of heads is unique only once every such line passes the test: 9 lines are joined into 8 sections, 5 of which are now served (010.0003.12 § 1, 030.0001.4 §§ 2 and 4, 043.0001.6 §§ 2 and 4). Release 16 (2026-10-24) adds 13 sections of one chapter (206.0002.30) whose printed table of contents had been read as a first run of section heads, so every number was printed twice; the contents's 13 entries are titles and page numbers, not sections, and are left out; the chapter's own sections are shown as printed (its contents lists a section fewer than the chapter prints). Release 17 (2026-10-24) adds 12 sections of five chapters whose file prints one section number twice, each time with its own title: the two are keyed by the order printed, (first printed) and (second printed), a mark that is GLO's and not the agency's; GLO never renumbers, and a plain key answers with both keys in printed_twice (9 of the 10 re-keyed sections are shown, 1 is held). 73 chapter files are held whole (no section headings found (most are appendices) (35), a scanned file with no text layer (35), the chapter printed twice with different words (2), section numbers restarting (1)); a section of one answers held with the file's reasons. Release 1 (served from 2026-10-21 until this release) served page footers inside 334 sections ("1 - 2"), running header or footer lines in others ("Effective: 5.11.07") and sections cut short or run on where a cross-reference was read as a head. Release 2 drops the footers (324 sections now served without them), serves 11,157 Release 1 sections with the same text, and holds 372 Release 1 sections by name with their reasons. The text is one run of words with single spaces: the files' line and paragraph breaks are not kept, and a word broken across a line after a hyphen keeps the hyphen ("super-vision"), so a word search can miss it at the break. The key ("061.0001.1 § 1") is GLO's own form from the chapter's Reference Number and the printed section number (and, for a section the file prints in a part, the part: "044.0002.34 Part 2 § 9"), not an official citation. Each section carries its chapter's listing on the site as fetched ("10/28/2019 to Current"; 42 shown sections are in chapters listed with an end date instead), never a date of its own. The served sections were checked by hand on 20 drawn sections (five read against the page images in full, fifteen by their starts, ends and heads), and Release 3's 145 on 20 more, each against its page's text, five on the page images, and Release 4's 92 on 20 more the same way, and Release 5's 136 on 20 more, each start and end against its page's text, and Release 6's 110 on 20 more the same way, each dropped line found as its page's header or footer, and Release 7's 59 on 20 more, each start and end against its page's text, and Release 8's 33 on 20 more the same way, and Release 9's 50 on 20 more, each start, end and spacing difference against its page's text (a first draw found a word printed letter by letter, which became a reason to hold), and Release 10's 47 on 20 more, each start, end, underline and spacing difference against its page's text, and every one of Release 11's 12, each table row against the page's layout text, and every one of Release 12's 56 and its 3 re-keyed sections, each start, end and part heading against its pages' text, and every one of Release 13's 19, each start and end against its pages' text and each label left out standing in its page's margin, and every one of Release 14's 29, Release 15's 11, Release 16's 13 and Release 17's 12, each start and end and each joined line against its pages' text, so a field fault rarer than about 1 in 7 sections could remain unseen, and the middle of a long section rests on the two readers agreeing. A false head after a section held for another reason is not always caught. Nothing here says a section is current or in force; check the filed rule before relying on it.
Release 22: 12,690 sections from 1,701 chapters of 74 agencies, copied on October 21, 2026.
Of the 13,413 sections our readers found, 723 are held and not shown, each with its reasons: mainly a table within the section's span on the page (145), struck-through text on the page (114), words the two readers broke differently (104) and a section number printed more than once (29). A held section comes back as held, with its reasons and no text. Held is not absent.
73 chapter files are held whole, mostly appendices with no section headings and scanned files with no text layer. Asking for a section of one of them comes back as held, with the file’s reasons.
The site holds the agencies’ electronic copies of their rules. The certified filed copy is the record, and the two can differ.
Each section shows its text and its chapter’s title, agency, program, Reference Number and listing on the site as copied (for example “10/28/2019 to Current”). That listing belongs to the whole chapter, not to the section.
Look a section up as 061.0001.1 § 1: the agency, program and chapter from the chapter’s Reference Number, then the section. That form is ours, not an official citation. 061.0001.1 lists the sections of that chapter: shown and held. A long section comes back in pages, and nothing is cut.

How we checked it

Two separate readers, written with no shared code, read every PDF with different tools. A section is shown only where both agree on its number and every word. Where they differ only in spacing, a third reader must hold the text word for word.
Page footers and page labels printed in the margins are dropped from the text.
A section is held when a table runs within it on its page, when its page carries a figure, when struck-through text runs through its own part of the page (even one struck character), when the readers differ, when its number is printed twice or out of order, when its text holds a symbol-font mark or a running header or footer line, or when its text stops without closing punctuation or holds what looks like another section’s head, so where it ends may be wrong.
Before this release, three draws of 20 shown sections failed the hand check, and each failure became a reason to hold sections. The next draw of 20 read clean: five read against the page images in full, fifteen by their start, their end and their head. The middle of a long section rests on the two readers agreeing.
Release 3 (October 24, 2026) shows 145 sections Release 2 held for a table. In each, the only lines drawn in its own part of the page underline words, mostly its heading; no page of it draws a table, a box or a vertical line, and no three of its lines stack at one width. The underlines are not shown. A draw of 20 of them read clean against their pages.
Release 4 (October 24, 2026) shows 92 sections Release 3 held for struck-through text on a page they share with another section: every stroke lies in the other section’s part of the page, and no stroke of any length runs through their own text. It also holds 79 sections Release 3 showed: a short stroke runs through one character of their text (a period, a comma, a hyphen or a letter), which the earlier check was too coarse to see, so the text shown kept a character the agency struck. A draw of 20 of the 92 read clean against their pages.
Release 5 (October 24, 2026) shows 136 sections held because their text stopped without closing punctuation, or because the section before stopped that way. Each is shown only where the next head is the next section number and reads as a heading, and the text does not end on a joining word (and, or, with, of), a comma or other mark, a run of capitals such as a part heading, a page footer or a stray fragment. A draw of 20 read clean: each ends where the page prints the next head.
Release 6 (October 24, 2026) shows 110 sections held because a running header or footer line (“Effective 3/31/07”, “PART II.”) was read into their text. A fourth reader drops the lines a file prints at the top or bottom of at least 3 of its pages and at least half of them, and page numbers printed between dashes; the second reader must agree once the same lines are removed. A first draw of 20 found one section running on into the next, whose head is printed with no period after its number; that became a reason to hold, which also holds 3 sections shown since Release 1. The next draw of 20 read clean.
Release 7 (October 24, 2026) shows 59 sections held because the two readers read them differently: the second reader missed a head printed with no space after its period (“Section 3.Definitions.”) and read on into the next section. Each is shown only where the second reader’s text is the first reader’s sections in order, joined by their heads, apart from spaces, the section numbers running on by one, and pdftotext holds the text shown. A draw of 20 read clean: each starts with its head’s words and ends where the page prints the next head or the file ends.
Release 8 (October 24, 2026) shows 33 more such sections, in five chapters, that come before the second reader’s first head: its text before that head is the chapter’s title as the first reader reads it, then the first reader’s sections in order joined by their heads, apart from spaces, and pdftotext holds the text shown. A draw of 20 read clean.
Release 9 (October 24, 2026) shows 50 sections held because the two readers spaced words differently. Each gap between two characters takes the spacing two of three readers (the two readers and pdftotext) agree on, and a section is shown only where that vote is the first reader’s text at every gap. A first draw of 20 found a word printed letter by letter (“m e a n s”) that two readers read that way; that became a reason to hold, which also holds 1 section shown since Release 1. The next draw of 20 read clean.
Release 10 (October 24, 2026) shows 47 sections held both because the two readers spaced words differently and for a table. Each passes Release 3’s test (the only lines in its own part of the page underline words, mostly its heading) and Release 9’s spacing vote. A draw of 20 read clean against the pages, each underline under a heading.
Release 11 (October 24, 2026) shows 12 sections held for a table, where every table in the section’s part of the page is a plain grid: no merged cell, no smaller raised word, no row with two cells of several lines. Each table row is one line, its cells in order between | marks. The grid is the table finder’s; a second word reader agreed on every cell; every row of all 12 was read against the page by hand. A table drawn without ruled lines is not found, and a cell’s own line breaks are not kept.
Release 12 (October 24, 2026) shows 56 sections of five chapters that print their sections in parts, each part after a printed heading (“PART 2.”, “APPENDIX B”) that starts its numbers again at Section 1. A section in a part is keyed with its part (044.0002.34 Part 2 § 9); 3 sections shown before under the plain key now carry their part. Both readers read every one of the 56 alike at the same place in the file (one apart from spacing, which the vote settled), and each was read against its pages by hand. It also shows quotation marks and dashes as printed where the file’s text layer holds Windows-1252 codes for them (146 sections), read by hand on 41 page images.
Release 13 (October 24, 2026) shows 19 sections of two chapters’ appendices whose text carried the appendix’s own page labels, printed in the margin with a letter (“B-19”). A reader that also leaves those margin labels out, and the second reader with the same labels set aside, read every one alike, and each was read against its pages by hand. 7 of them are sections Release 12 held for the label; they are shown again without it.
Release 14 (October 24, 2026) shows 29 sections of chapters whose numbering a printed cross-reference had broken. Where a line begins “Section 1.” right after a line ending “... the provisions of Chapter 2,”, and the chapter’s own Section 1 is printed elsewhere, we read the line as part of the section before it, not as a new section: 14 such lines are joined back. Both readers read every one of the 29 alike, and each was read against its pages by hand. A repeated heading printed as a title is not joined and stays held.
Release 15 (October 24, 2026) shows 11 more sections of six chapters read the same way, where the chapter’s headings run in order only once each such line is read as a cross-reference (9 lines joined). Each was read against its pages by hand.
Release 16 (October 24, 2026) shows 13 more sections of one chapter whose printed table of contents our readers had taken for sections, so every number appeared twice. The 13 contents entries (titles and page numbers) are left out; the chapter’s own sections are shown as printed. Each was read against its pages by hand.
Release 17 (October 24, 2026) shows 12 more sections of five chapters whose file prints one section number twice, each time with its own title. We key the two by the order printed, “(first printed)” and “(second printed)”, and never renumber them; a plain number answers with both keys. Each was read against its pages by hand.
Releases 18 and 19 (2026-11-02) remove page numbers GLO’s readers had read into the text of 8 sections: 048.0068.1 §§ 3 and 5, 077.0001.3 § 2 and 206.0002.40 §§ 4, 6, 8, 9 and 11. Release 19 closes 2,269 spaces in 1,118 sections where the file breaks a word across lines after a hyphen (“super- vision” now reads “super-vision”). The hyphen stays, because GLO never guesses which hyphens are soft, so a word search for “supervision” can still miss it. 130 places where the file prints a hyphen and a space on one line, some of them the publisher’s own (“short- and”), and 11 places GLO could not find on the page, stay as read. Release 20 (2026-11-02) restores 235 marks in 51 sections that GLO’s readers had read as letters, where a file’s WordPerfect font draws quotation marks, apostrophes, section signs, dashes and degree signs (“ALivestock@” had shown for “Livestock” in quotation marks). 33 places in sections from five files still show letters, because those files name a font they do not carry, so GLO cannot read the mark from them. An AI model compared drawn places with the page images; no person read them. Release 21 (2026-11-02) restores 5,387 line breaks in 1,208 sections, each before a lettered or numbered item, such as (a) or (ii), that the page starts on a new line after a line ending in a period, semicolon or colon. Release 22 (2026-11-02) restores 425 more line breaks, in 346 sections, before such an item after a line ending in “and” or “or”: an AI model read each of the 441 places of that shape on its page image (446 found, 5 of them one place found twice) and judged 425 a new item and 16 a cross-reference that only wrapped, which stay run on; no person read them. An item that starts a new page is not restored. An AI model compared 30 drawn places with the page images and found each a new item; no person read them.
One AI system wrote the readers, ran every check and made every reading and ruling, with no second reader.

What it can't tell you

Whether a section is in force, valid or current, or is good law.
When a section took effect. The date shown is the whole chapter’s listing on the site.
What the held sections and files say, or how the site’s PDF differs from the certified filed copy.
Whether anything changed after the files were copied.

Known gaps

723 sections are held, not shown; the largest groups are sections with a table within their span on the page (145), sections with struck-through text on the page (114) and sections whose words the two readers broke differently (104).
From October 21, 2026 until Release 12 on October 24, 13 shown sections ran on through an appendix, attachment or exhibit the file prints after them, or carried an appendix’s page labels (“B-24”), and 134 showed invisible control characters where the page prints quotation marks or a dash. Release 12 holds the 13 by name and shows the printed characters in the 134; Release 13 shows 7 of the 13 again, read without the label.
From October 21, 2026 until Release 9 on October 24, 1 shown section (048.0037.12 § 4) carried words printed letter by letter (“o n c e”, “w e e k s”). Release 9 holds it. Such a word is found only when it has four letters or more.
From October 21, 2026 until Release 6 on October 24, 3 shown sections (010.0008.4 § 26, 020.0015.4 § 9, 020.0013.4 § 10) carried the next section’s text, its head printed with no period. Release 6 holds them. Such a head is found only where its number is missing from the chapter’s heads.
Release 5 judges a text that stops without closing punctuation by its last words and the next head. A line lost between the end shown and the next head would not be caught by those tests.
From October 24, 2026 until Release 4 the same day, 79 shown sections kept a character the agency struck through (a period, a comma, a hyphen or a letter under a short stroke). Release 4 holds them. A struck character drawn shorter than 1 point, or struck some other way than with a drawn line, would still not be seen.
Release 1, served from October 21, 2026 until Release 2 replaced it the same day, showed page footers inside 334 sections, running header or footer lines in others, and some sections cut short or run on into the next. Release 2 drops the footers and holds 372 of those sections by name.
Until November 2, 2026, 8 shown sections carried a page number in their text, 1,118 a space after a line-break hyphen, and 51 letters where the page prints a mark. Releases 18 to 20 repair them. A mark in a font of another name, or in a file that does not carry its font, is not repaired.
A small table with fewer than 12 ruled lines is shown as a run of words, row by row.
73 chapter files are held whole, so their sections are not listed one by one.
The text is one run of words, except a line break restored before a lettered or numbered item the page starts after a line ending in a period, semicolon or colon (Release 21), or after a line ending in “and” or “or” where a model’s read of the page image found a new item (Release 22); the files’ other line and paragraph breaks are not kept, and a word broken across a line after a hyphen keeps the hyphen (“super-vision”), so a word search for “supervision” can miss it. A hyphen and a space the file prints on one line stay as read.
Repealed, proposed and emergency chapters are not here; only the chapters the site listed as current.
The sections were read by machine and checked by hand on 20 drawn sections, so a fault rarer than about 1 in 7 sections could remain unseen.
Keyword search reads only the shown sections. Held sections have no text here and never match.

Notes you may see on an entry

A held section: “GLO holds this section and does not show its text, because its two readers or the release check did not clear it. Its reasons are listed by name.”
A section of a file held whole: “GLO holds this chapter’s whole file, so it cannot say whether the section is printed there or what it says.”
A section not in this copy: “Not in this copy of Wyoming’s regulations, neither shown nor held by number. That never means the section does not exist.”

Nothing here is legal advice or a judgment that a rule is in force. Full counts for software: the defect_floor field on every Wyoming result (source=wy).