§ 29-1-201 — Definitions; agency relationships presumed

(a) Except as otherwise provided, as used in this act:
(i) "Contractor" means:
(A) A person employed by and contracting with an
owner to improve an owner's property including:
(I) An architect;
(II) A professional engineer; and
(III) A surveyor.
(ii) "Furnish" includes selling or renting;
(iii) "Improve or improvement" means:
(A) Demolition, erection, alteration or repair
of any property for its permanent benefit;
(B) Any work performed or material furnished for
the permanent change of any real property; and
(C) Materials manufactured pursuant to contract.
(iv) "Lien claimant" means any person who claims a
lien under this act pursuant to a contract for improvement of
property entered into by an owner of the property;
(v) "Owner" means:
(A) With respect to construction liens: any
person with a legal or equitable interest in the property to be
changed, altered or improved, for whose use or benefit any
improvement shall be made or any materials furnished;
(B) With respect to mines, quarries, oil, gas or
other wells: a person holding any interest in the legal or
equitable title, or both, to any leasehold for oil or gas
purposes and purchasers under executory contract, receivers and
trustees;
(C) With respect to ditches, canals and
reservoirs: a person holding any interest in the legal or
equitable title to any ditch, canal or reservoir including
rights-of-way, water permits, ditch rights and related easements
of any type or kind. "Owner" includes purchasers under executory
contract, receivers and trustees.
(vi) "Subcontractor" means a person, other than a
contractor performing work for a contractor or subcontractor
under contract;
(vii) "Work" shall be as requested, authorized or
ratified under contract.
(viii) "Material" means:
(A) Component parts incorporated into the
project;
(B) Equipment and machinery, whether or not
incorporated into the project; and
(C) Fuel and lubricants consumed in a project.
(ix) "Materialman" means a person other than a
contractor who furnishes material to, but does not perform work
for, an owner, a contractor or subcontractor under contract;
(x) "Property" means real property, personal
property, or both;
(xi) "Real property" means all interests in real
property, including but not limited to, the fee estate,
leasehold interests, easements and rights of way;
(xii) "Send" or "sent" means, in connection with any
writing or written notice, to deposit in the mail or deliver for
transmission by any other usual means of communication with
postage or cost of transmission provided for and properly
addressed and, in the case of an instrument to an address
specified thereon or otherwise agreed, or if no address is
specified, to any address reasonable under the circumstances.
The foregoing method of delivery includes delivery by any
commercial carrier that requests and maintains a receipt for
delivery of written documents and also includes an electronic
record as set forth in the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
if the sender and recipient have previously communicated by
electronic means. In the event any writing is transmitted by
mail with the United States postal service, such writing shall
be mailed by first class mail, by certified mail, return receipt
requested, or by mail delivery requiring a receipt for delivery.
The time a writing is deemed to have been sent is the time at
which the writing is deposited in the mail or delivered for
transmission by any other means and, in the case of an
electronic record, the time of sending is as specified in W.S.
40-21-115;
(xiii) "Written" or "writing" means printing,
typewriting or any other intentional reduction to tangible form,
including an electronic record created, generated, sent,
communicated, received or restored by electronic means;
(xiv) "This act" means W.S. 29-1-103 through