§ 1-40-102 — Definitions

(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Account" means the crime victims' compensation
account established by W.S. 1-40-114;
(ii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 81, § 3.
(iii) "Criminal act" means an act committed or
attempted in this state, including an act of domestic violence,
which constitutes a crime as defined by the laws of this state
or an act of terrorism, as defined by 18 U.S.C. 2331 committed
outside the United States, and which results in actual bodily
injury, or actual mental harm, or death to the victim. No act
involving the operation of a motor vehicle, boat or aircraft
which results in injury or death constitutes a crime for the
purpose of this act unless the injury or death was recklessly or
intentionally inflicted through the use of the vehicle, boat or
aircraft, or unless the act constitutes a violation of W.S.
31-5-233;
(iv) "Dependent" means any relative of the victim who
was wholly or partially dependent upon the victim's income at
the time of his injury or death and includes the child of the
victim born after his death;
(v) "Economic loss" means and includes medical and
hospital expenses, loss of earnings, loss of future earnings
resulting from the injury, funeral and burial expenses and loss
of support to the dependents of the victim to include home
maintenance and child care;
(vi) "Medical expense" includes the cost of all
medical and dental services, mental health counseling and care,
dental and prosthetic devices, eyeglasses or other corrective
lenses, and services rendered in accordance with any method of
healing recognized by the law of this state;
(vii) "Personal injury" means actual bodily injury or
actual mental harm;
(viii) "Relative of the victim" means his spouse,
parent, grandparent, stepparent, child including natural born
child, stepchild or adopted child, grandchild, brother or
sister;
(ix) "Victim" means:
(A) A person who suffers personal injury or is
killed in this state as a direct result of:
(I) A criminal act of another person;
(II) The person's good faith and reasonable
effort in attempting to prevent the commission of a criminal
act, or to apprehend a person engaging in a criminal act or
assisting a law enforcement officer to do so;
(III) Assisting or attempting to assist a
person against whom a crime is being perpetrated or attempted;
(IV) A federal crime occurring in Wyoming.
(B) A resident who is a victim of a crime
occurring outside this state if:
(I) The crime would be compensable had it
occurred inside this state; and
(II) The crime occurred in a state which
does not have a crime victim compensation program, for which the
victim is eligible as eligibility is set forth in W.S. 1-40-101
through 1-40-119.
(C) A resident of this state who is injured or
killed by an act of terrorism, as defined by 18 U.S.C. 2331,
committed outside the United States;
(D) Family members who are Wyoming residents and
who have suffered a pecuniary loss as a result of a terrorist
attack in the United States, regardless of the actual victim's
residency;
(E) A resident of this state who is a victim of
a crime involving terrorism occurring outside this state if:
(I) The crime would be compensable had it
occurred within this state; and
(II) The resident of this state suffered a
pecuniary loss as a direct result of the act of terrorism
committed in another state of the United States.
(x) "Division" means the victim services division
within the office of the attorney general, created by W.S.
9-1-636;
(xi) "Catastrophic injury" means any permanent
disability of limbs or functions as a result of being a victim
of a crime;
(xii) "Clandestine laboratory operation remediation"
means a remediation of a clandestine laboratory operation
carried out by a law enforcement agency acting as an emergency
responder pursuant to W.S. 35-9-152(a)(i).