§ 11-41-102 — Definitions

Wyoming § 11-41-102

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 11: Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals
• Ch. 41: AGRICULTURE MEDIATION SERVICE

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(a) As used in this chapter:
(i) "Action" means a court action by a creditor
against a farmer for payment of a debt, to enforce or foreclose
a security interest, lien or mortgage, or to repossess or
declare a creditor's interest in real property. "Action" also
includes any matter filed in a court of law or before an agency
by a party to resolve a dispute;
(ii) "Agricultural property" means real property that
is used principally for farming or ranching, real property that
is a farmer's principal residence and any land contiguous to the
residence, personal property that is used as security to finance
farming or personal property that is used for farming;
(iii) "Board" means the agriculture and natural
resource mediation board;
(iv) "Creditor" means any person who holds a mortgage
on or is a vendor of a land contract for agricultural property,
who has a lien on or security interest in agricultural property
or who is a judgment creditor with a judgment against a farmer
affecting the farmer's agricultural property;
(v) "Farmer or rancher" means a person engaged in
farming or ranching who owns or leases a total of sixty (60)
acres or more of land that is agricultural property and whose
gross sales of farm products for the preceding year equaled
twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) or more;
(vi) "Farming or ranching" means the employment and
operation of real property for the production of agricultural
products, including but not limited to:
(A) Raising, harvesting and selling crops, hay
and other products of the soil;
(B) Feeding, breeding, management and sale of
livestock, poultry, fur bearing animals or honeybees, or the
produce thereof; or
(C) Dairying and the sale of dairy products.
(vii) "Mediation" means the act of a neutral person
in intermediating between or among contending parties with a
view to assisting them to adjust or settle their dispute by
mutual agreement;
(viii) "Parties" means the primary decision makers
engaged in the mediation process;
(ix) "Standing" means a person that is given the
authority to enter into a mediation process by the board.