§ 18-16-102 — Definitions

(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Assessed value" means the total assessed value
of real property within the district, but excludes assessed
values attributable to minerals. Assessed value shall be
determined from the last assessment roll of the county within
which the district is located;
(ii) "Board" means the board of directors of a resort
district;
(iii) "Bonds" means bonds, warrants, notes or other
evidences of indebtedness of a resort district;
(iv) "Commissioners" means the board of county
commissioners;
(v) "District" means a resort district as organized
under the terms of this act;
(vi) "Elector" or "voter" means a person who is a
qualified elector or a landowner in the district;
(vii) "Improvement" means and includes buildings,
structures and all facilities of a public nature intended for
public use, including but not limited to streets, sidewalks,
curbs, gutters, alleys and other public ways, parks,
recreational facilities, water, sewage, solid waste disposal and
other sanitary systems and facilities, and with respect to the
foregoing, any additional facilities or improvements as relate
or contribute to the full public use and enjoyment thereof;
(viii) "Landowner" or "owner of land" means the
person or persons holding a majority interest in the record fee
title to one (1) or more parcels of real property within the
district or proposed district or a person or the persons who are
obligated to pay general property taxes under a contract to
purchase real property and timeshare owners. As used in this
paragraph, "person" includes an individual, corporation,
partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company,
association or any other entity holding a majority interest in
the record fee title to one (1) or more parcels of real property
within the district or proposed district provided the individual
who signs a petition or casts a vote for a corporation,
partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company,
association or other entity presents the election official with
a written authorization to sign for the corporation,
partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company,
association or other entity or is the individual named in the
written authorization previously filed with the election
official, as applicable;
(ix) "Qualified elector" means a natural person who:
(A) Is a citizen of the United States;
(B) Is a bona fide resident of the district or
proposed district;
(C) Will be at least eighteen (18) years of age
on the day of the election at which he may offer to vote;
(D) Is not currently adjudicated mentally
incompetent;
(E) Has not been convicted of a felony or if
convicted has had his civil rights or voting rights restored;
(F) Is registered to vote; and
(G) Has been a bona fide resident of Wyoming for
not less than thirty (30) days before the date of the election
at which he offers to vote.
(x) "Resident" or "residence" means as defined in the
Wyoming election code;
(xi) "Resort area" means an area that:
(A) Is an unincorporated area and is a defined
contiguous geographic boundary within one (1) county;
(B) Has a permanent population of less than five
hundred (500) people;
(C) Derives the major portion of its economic
well being from businesses catering to the recreational and
personal needs of persons traveling to or through the area; and
(D) Does not include real property used for
manufacturing, milling, converting, producing, processing or
fabricating materials, generating electricity or the extraction
or processing of minerals.
(xii) "Service" means the operation and maintenance
of improvements and any other service authorized by this act;
(xiii) "Timeshare owner" means a person owning a
fractionalized interest in an individual condominium unit as
defined in W.S. 34-20-104(a)(iii) in a multi-unit property;
(xiv) "Written authorization" means an affidavit
filed by the landowner with the election official conducting the
election setting forth a general legal description of the
property owned, the street or common name address for the
property, the name or names of all owners of the property
described, and a statement that the person signing the written
authorization is the only person having authority to act on
behalf of the owner or owners of the property;
(xv) "This act" means W.S. 18-16-101 through