§ 41-2-117 — Wyoming water development commission; membership; removal; terms

Wyoming § 41-2-117

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 41: Water
• Ch. 2: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
• Art. 1: IN GENERAL

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(a) The Wyoming water development commission is created to
consist of ten (10) members. The membership shall include:
(i) Nine (9) persons, two (2) shall be residents
appointed from each water division of the state as defined in
W.S. 41-3-501, at least one (1) will be a person having an
adjudicated water right. One (1) resident of Wyoming shall be
appointed at large and one (1) shall be an enrolled member of
the Eastern Shoshone or Northern Arapaho tribes who is resident
on the Wind River Indian Reservation:
(A) They shall be appointed by the governor,
after consultation with the superintendent of each water
division and approval of the senate, and may be removed by the
governor as provided in W.S. 9-1-202;
(B) Not more than seventy-five percent (75%) of
the members shall be of the same political party;
(C) Appointments are for a term of four (4)
years;
(D) Five (5) of the first appointees shall serve
two (2) year terms and four (4) appointees shall serve four (4)
year terms;
(E) No person shall be appointed for more than
two (2) consecutive terms;
(F) If any member ceases to reside in or is
absent from the division from which appointed for a continuous
period of six (6) months or more, the governor shall declare his
office vacant and shall appoint a successor from the same
division for the unexpired term;
(G) The governor shall fill a vacancy for an
unexpired term in a like manner to subparagraph (F) of this
paragraph;
(H) The commission shall annually select one (1)
of its members as chairman and one (1) of its members as
secretary;
(J) To serve as consultants without vote the
following are designated:
(I) The state engineer or his designee;
(II) The chief executive officer of the
Wyoming business council or other person designated by the
council; and
(III) A person with interest, training and
expertise in water resource matters from the University of
Wyoming or the Wyoming Water Resource Research Institute,
appointed by the president of the university with the approval
of the board of trustees.
(b) Members from the four (4) water divisions, the
at-large member and the tribal member shall be voting members of
the commission. Six (6) members constitute a quorum for the
transaction of commission business.
(c) All grant and loan programs over which the commission
has authority shall be administered by the Wyoming water
development office.