Wyoming § 40-26-132 Administrative penalties

Wyoming Statutes

§ 40-26-132 — Administrative penalties

Wyoming § 40-26-132

Title 40Trade and Commerce

Ch. 26FAIR HOUSING ACT

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Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 40-26-132 (2026).

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(a)If the enforcing authority determines at a hearing under W.S. 40-26-131 that a respondent has engaged in or is about to engage in a discriminatory housing practice, the enforcing authority may order the appropriate relief, including actual damages, reasonable attorney's fees, court costs and other injunctive or equitable relief.

(b)To vindicate the public's interest, the enforcing authority may assess a civil penalty against the respondent in an amount that does not exceed:

(i)Eleven thousand dollars ($11,000.00) if the respondent has been found by order of the enforcing authority or a court to have committed a prior discriminatory housing practice; or

(ii)Except as provided by subsection (c) of this section, twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000.00) if the respondent has been foun

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(a) If the enforcing authority determines at a hearing
under W.S. 40-26-131 that a respondent has engaged in or is
about to engage in a discriminatory housing practice, the
enforcing authority may order the appropriate relief, including
actual damages, reasonable attorney's fees, court costs and
other injunctive or equitable relief.
(b) To vindicate the public's interest, the enforcing
authority may assess a civil penalty against the respondent in
an amount that does not exceed:
(i) Eleven thousand dollars ($11,000.00) if the
respondent has been found by order of the enforcing authority or
a court to have committed a prior discriminatory housing
practice; or
(ii) Except as provided by subsection (c) of this
section, twenty-seven thousand dollars ($27,000.00) if the
respondent has been found by order of the enforcing authority or
a court to have committed one (1) other discriminatory housing
practice during the five (5) year period ending on the date of
the filing of the charges and fifty-five thousand dollars
($55,000.00) if the respondent has been found by the enforcing
authority or a court to have committed two (2) or more
discriminatory housing practices during the seven (7) year
period ending on the date of filing of the charge.
(c) If the acts constituting the discriminatory housing
practice that is the object of the charge are committed by the
same individual who has previously been found to have committed
acts constituting a discriminatory housing practice, the civil
penalties in subsection (b) of this section may be imposed
without regard to the period of time within which any other
discriminatory housing practice occurred.
(d) The enforcing agency shall sue to recover a civil
penalty due under this section. Funds collected under this
section shall be paid to the state treasurer for deposit in the
common school fund in the county in which the offense occurred.