§ 24-12-102 — Duties generally; emergencies; coordination

Wyoming § 24-12-102

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 24: Highways
• Ch. 12: HIGHWAY PATROL

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(a) The state highway patrol, acting under the direction
of the director, shall enforce all the motor vehicle laws of
this state. They shall also perform other duties assigned to
them by the governor and are at all times subject to the call of
the governor for emergency purposes at his discretion.
(b) The administrator of the state highway patrol shall
provide state troopers for security in the capitol building,
Herschler state office building as provided in this subsection
and governor's residence and security for the governor.
Security provided pursuant to this section is intended to
provide protection for the statewide elected officials while in
offices in the capitol building or Herschler state office
building and members of the legislature during the legislative
session or at the request of legislative staff when an interim
committee meeting open to the public is held in the capitol
building or Herschler state office building.
(c) The state highway patrol shall coordinate with local,
tribal, state and federal law enforcement agencies, the Wyoming
office of homeland security and any other appropriate entity to
operate an alert system under the integrated public alert and
warning system or successor system, adhering to the United
States department of justice criteria. The state highway patrol
shall operate and integrate additional missing persons alert
communications networks that enable and help facilitate search
efforts for an adult at risk or other missing person of an age,
needs or circumstances that may fall outside the scope of the
America's missing: broadcast emergency response alert criteria.
The state highway patrol shall report annually to the division
of criminal investigation the number of times and dates that the
alert systems were used, the age, race and gender of the
abducted person, whether the abduction was thwarted and whether
an alert system assisted in resolving the abduction. In
addition:
(i) If the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, the Northern
Arapaho Tribe or the cooperative tribal governing body:
(A) Operate or seek to operate an alert system
under the integrated public alert and warning system or
successor system on the Wind River Indian Reservation, adhering
to the United States department of justice criteria, or operate
or seek to operate an additional missing persons alert
communications network also operated by the state, the Wyoming
office of homeland security and state highway patrol shall
assist and coordinate with any tribal agency in establishing,
integrating or operating that system;
(B) Report missing or endangered persons to the
state highway patrol in conformance with applicable alert
criteria, the state highway patrol shall employ the applicable
alert systems under this subsection to aid in the protection of
persons and safe recovery of the reported missing or endangered
persons.
(ii) The state highway patrol may also use, integrate
or manage other alert systems to aid in the safe recovery of
missing or endangered persons.
(d) As used in this section "adult at risk" means an adult
who has a developmental disability, who suffers from Alzheimer's
disease or dementia, or who suffers from or could, without
access to medication, suffer from cognitive impairment if the
impairment would likely render the adult incapable of getting to
a familiar location without assistance.