(a)Whenever the director, the district board or their
agents find any section of the state to be infested with
insects, pests, poisonous or injurious plants or plant diseases,
and it is established that farm products from that section are
liable to spread the insects, pests, poisonous or injurious
plants or plant diseases into other sections to the injury of
others, the director shall without unnecessary delay, declare a
quarantine against such section to prevent the transfer of farm
products from the quarantined area. When it is ascertained that
insects, pests, weed seed, poisonous or injurious plants or
plant diseases are likely to be introduced into Wyoming by the
importation of farm products, domestic animals or other objects,
the director shall declare a quarantine against the import
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(a) Whenever the director, the district board or their
agents find any section of the state to be infested with
insects, pests, poisonous or injurious plants or plant diseases,
and it is established that farm products from that section are
liable to spread the insects, pests, poisonous or injurious
plants or plant diseases into other sections to the injury of
others, the director shall without unnecessary delay, declare a
quarantine against such section to prevent the transfer of farm
products from the quarantined area. When it is ascertained that
insects, pests, weed seed, poisonous or injurious plants or
plant diseases are likely to be introduced into Wyoming by the
importation of farm products, domestic animals or other objects,
the director shall declare a quarantine against the importation
of such farm products.
(b) A district may initiate a district-wide quarantine by
one (1) of the following procedures:
(i) A district may request in writing that the
director declare a district-wide quarantine. Upon receipt of the
request, the director shall instruct the district to circulate a
petition for ninety (90) days within the district to obtain
signatures of at least two-thirds (2/3) of all resident
landowners owning at least fifty-one percent (51%) of all
resident-owned land. Upon receipt of the properly executed
petition, the director shall declare a district-wide quarantine;
(ii) A district board may hold a hearing in
compliance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act. The
director shall declare a district-wide quarantine when the
district has provided the director with proper documentation
that a hearing has been held and the district has found a need
for a district-wide quarantine;
(iii) The district board may hold a district-wide
referendum. The director shall declare a district-wide
quarantine upon receipt of a certified document indicating that
the referendum was accepted by a majority of the electors who
voted in the election.
(c) The director shall declare an individual quarantine
when requested by resolution adopted by a two-thirds (2/3)
majority of the board.
(d) The district board in compliance with W.S. 11-5-101
through 11-5-119 may request a quarantine against the entry of
infested farm products that may be injurious and detrimental to
the state and enter into agreements with the law enforcing
agencies to carry out the quarantine provision:
(i) Farm products and equipment shall be certified
free of designated noxious weed seeds or infested farm products
prior to entry into the state, with the exception of any
processed feed or grain to be reprocessed and fed to livestock;
(ii) Farm products and equipment are to be certified
in the state of origin by the proper officials;
(iii) Interstate shipment of farm products through
the state need not be certified if covered in a prescribed
manner as not to allow the dissemination of infested farm
products.