Wyoming § 40-12-102 Definitions

Wyoming Statutes

§ 40-12-102 — Definitions

Wyoming § 40-12-102

Title 40Trade and Commerce

Ch. 12CONSUMER PROTECTION

Art. 1IN GENERAL

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Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 40-12-102 (2026).

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(a)As used in this act:

(i)"Person" means a natural person, corporation, trust, partnership, incorporated or unincorporated association or any other legal entity;

(ii)"Consumer transactions" means the advertising, offering for sale, sale or distribution of any merchandise to an individual for purposes that are primarily personal, family or household;

(iii)"Documentary material" means the original or a copy of any book, record, report, memorandum, paper, communication, tabulation, map, chart, photograph, mechanical transcription, other tangible document or recording, reproductions of information stored magnetically, file layout, code conversion tables or computer programs to convert file to readable printout, wherever situated;

(iv)"Examination" of documentary material includes the ins

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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Person" means a natural person, corporation,
trust, partnership, incorporated or unincorporated association
or any other legal entity;
(ii) "Consumer transactions" means the advertising,
offering for sale, sale or distribution of any merchandise to an
individual for purposes that are primarily personal, family or
household;
(iii) "Documentary material" means the original or a
copy of any book, record, report, memorandum, paper,
communication, tabulation, map, chart, photograph, mechanical
transcription, other tangible document or recording,
reproductions of information stored magnetically, file layout,
code conversion tables or computer programs to convert file to
readable printout, wherever situated;
(iv) "Examination" of documentary material includes
the inspection, study or copying of any such material, and the
taking of testimony under oath or acknowledgement with respect
to any such documentary material or copy thereof;
(v) "Advertisement" includes the attempt by
publication, dissemination, solicitation or circulation, whether
oral, visual, written or otherwise, and whether in person, by
telephone or by any other means to induce directly or indirectly
any person to enter into any obligation or to acquire any title
or interest in any merchandise;
(vi) "Merchandise" includes any service or any
property, tangible or intangible, real, personal or mixed, or
any other object, ware, good, commodity, or article of value
wherever situated;
(vii) "Enforcing authority" means the attorney
general of Wyoming;
(viii) "Cure" as applied to an unlawful deceptive
trade practice as defined in W.S. 40-12-105 means either:
(A) To offer in writing to adjust or modify the
consumer transaction to which the unlawful deceptive trade
practice relates to conform to the reasonable expectations of
the consumer generated by such unlawful deceptive trade practice
and to perform such offer if accepted by the consumer; or
(B) To offer in writing to rescind such consumer
transaction and to perform such offer if accepted by the
consumer.
(ix) "Uncured unlawful deceptive trade practice"
means an unlawful deceptive trade practice as defined in W.S.
40-12-105:
(A) With respect to which a consumer who has
been damaged by the unlawful deceptive trade practice has given
notice to the alleged violator pursuant to W.S. 40-12-109; and
(B) Either:
(I) No offer to cure has been made to such
consumer within fifteen (15) days after such notice; or
(II) The unlawful deceptive trade practice
has not been cured as to such consumer within a reasonable time
after his acceptance of the offer to cure.
(x) "This act" means W.S. 40-12-101 through