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(a)It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the
state of Wyoming that no state highway or state and federal
highway now traversing or passing through any incorporated city
or town of the state of Wyoming shall be so moved or relocated
in such city or town as to divert the present route of the same
in such city or town nor to bypass such city or town except with
the express approval of the people thereof.
(b)In any incorporated city or town when the decision is
to be made, the proposal to move or relocate a highway shall be
submitted at any regular or special election in the municipality
to the qualified electors thereof. The ballot question shall set
forth a concise and accurate summary of the proposed change and
shall permit and direct each voter to vote either "For the
Proposed
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(a) It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the
state of Wyoming that no state highway or state and federal
highway now traversing or passing through any incorporated city
or town of the state of Wyoming shall be so moved or relocated
in such city or town as to divert the present route of the same
in such city or town nor to bypass such city or town except with
the express approval of the people thereof.
(b) In any incorporated city or town when the decision is
to be made, the proposal to move or relocate a highway shall be
submitted at any regular or special election in the municipality
to the qualified electors thereof. The ballot question shall set
forth a concise and accurate summary of the proposed change and
shall permit and direct each voter to vote either "For the
Proposed Change" or "Against the Proposed Change". The election
shall be conducted in all respects as any other municipal
election. If a majority of those voting are in favor of the
proposal to move or relocate the highway, the proposal carries.
Otherwise, the proposal fails.
(c) If the majority of the ballots cast in such election
in any town or city shall be in favor of the proposed change, as
herein provided, then the governing board of such city or town
shall proceed to effectuate the same, but if the majority in
either case shall oppose such change then such governing board
shall have no further jurisdiction or authority to consider or
act upon the same; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall prevent the governing board of any city or town
wherein, because of congestion of motor vehicle traffic,
narrowness of streets, density of fumes, smoke or exhaust,
intensity or frequency of unusually loud sounds, or other cause,
the passage of motor vehicles consisting of more than one (1)
self-propelled unit constitutes a nuisance or an actual danger
to health or safety, as determined by such governing board, from
establishing a separate route for such multi-unit motor vehicles
around such city or town but connecting with public highways at
or near the boundaries thereof, by acquiring lands or easements
for rights-of-way for such routes, which need not be dedicated
to the public nor to the public use but may be laid out as
private highways solely for the use of such multi-unit motor
vehicles.