§ 41-5-108 — Driving or floating logs, timber or lumber on streams

(a) Any person, association or corporation desiring or
intending to drive or float logs, timber or lumber down or upon
any stream in this state shall, before commencing operations
apply to the state engineer for a permit to drive or float the
same. Such application shall be in writing and shall state that
the driving of such logs, timber or lumber will be conducted
with all possible expedition and in such manner as not to
interfere with, or injure any irrigating ditch or other property
along the stream on which said drive is to take place, and the
applicant shall be required by the state engineer to give bond
to the state of Wyoming in such sum as the state engineer may
deem sufficient, conditioned for the conducting of said drive
without delay and for the protection of the owners of irrigating
ditches and property along the stream whereon said drive is to
be made. When said permit is issued the said applicant may
proceed to conduct said drive upon the stream or streams therein
mentioned. Provided, however, that no permit shall be granted
allowing any logs, timber or lumber to be left in or upon any
stream so as to be frozen in during winter, and it shall be the
duty of the state engineer to issue to all applicants a license
to float timber or lumber on all streams of sufficient capacity,
upon compliance with the provisions aforesaid.
(b) Anyone violating any of the provisions of this
section, shall be subject to penalty pursuant to W.S. 41-3-616.