§ 27-11-106 — Enforcement and administration

Wyoming § 27-11-106

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 27: Labor and Employment
• Ch. 11: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

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(a) The department shall enforce and administer this act
and the rules, regulations and orders promulgated and issued
under this act. The commission shall have authority to hold
hearings for the promulgation of rules and regulations in
accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act. In any
case that goes uncontested the commission may after opportunity
to show cause, enter an order of final disposition which may be
enforced by any district court.
(b) If an imminent danger to health or safety exists,
whether it is in a specific industry where rules and regulations
are in effect or not, the commission or any employee of the
department so authorized is hereby empowered to direct the
person where such imminent danger to health and safety exists to
cease operations immediately in order to eliminate such danger
to health or safety. If such person does not cease operations so
as to eliminate such danger, the commission, its chairman, or
any employee of the department so authorized, may, with the
concurrence of the attorney general, bring a civil suit in the
name of the state in the district court of the county where such
danger exists, or in the United States district court for
Wyoming (if it otherwise has jurisdiction), to restrain such
person from continuing such operations where an imminent danger
to health or safety exists.
(c) In contested cases where no appeal has been taken from
the decision of the commission within the time provided for such
an appeal, the commission shall adopt the decision and order the
department and employer to act in accordance with the decision.
Any state district court may enforce commission orders issued in
that county after a hearing where no appeal has been taken. The
United States district court for Wyoming (if it otherwise has
jurisdiction) may also enforce any commission order.
(d) Any suit, action or appeal involving this act or rule,
regulation or order of the commission, shall be advanced for
trial and determined as expeditiously as feasible and no
postponement or continuance shall be granted unless deemed
imperative by the court.