§ 8-1-102 — Definitions

(a) As used in the statutes unless the legislature clearly
specifies a different meaning or interpretation or the context
clearly requires a different meaning:
(i) "Adult" means a person who is not a minor;
(ii) "Bond" includes an undertaking;
(iii) When used in a context denoting age:
(A) "Majority" means that period of time when a
person is an adult;
(B) "Minor" means a person who has not yet
reached the eighteenth anniversary of his birth;
(C) "Minority" means that period of time when a
person is a minor.
(iv) "Month" means a calendar month, and "year" means
a calendar year; the word "year" is equivalent to the words,
"year of our Lord";
(v) "Oath" includes affirmation;
(vi) "Person" includes an individual, partnership,
corporation, joint stock company or any other association or
entity, public or private;
(vii) "Preceding" and "following," when referring to
sections in statutes, mean the sections next preceding or next
following that in which the words occur, unless some other
section is designated;
(viii) "Will" includes the words "testament" and
"codicil";
(ix) "Written" and "in writing" include printing,
lithographing or other modes of representing words and letters,
but in all cases if the written signature of any person is
required the proper handwriting of that person, or his mark, is
intended;
(x) "District attorney" includes a county and
prosecuting attorney in a county where the office of district
attorney has not been created. This definition shall
specifically not apply to W.S. 9-1-801 through 9-1-811;
(xi) "State penal institution" includes the Wyoming
state penitentiary, Wyoming state penitentiary farms and camps,
Wyoming women's center, Wyoming correctional facility, community
correctional facilities defined by W.S. 7-18-102(a)(i) and any
other state penal institution created by law for the
incarceration of convicted felons;
(xii) "Elected state official" means the governor,
secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer and
superintendent of public instruction;
(xiii) "Intellectual disability" means significantly
subaverage general intellectual functioning with concurrent
deficits in adaptive behavior manifested during the
developmental period. "Intellectually disabled" means a person
with an intellectual disability;
(xiv) "Notarial officer" means a notary public or
other officer authorized to perform notarial acts as defined in
W.S. 32-3-102(a)(xviii);
(xv) "Last federal census" means the last official
federal decennial census as conducted and officially corrected
by the bureau of census, including any changes for boundary
modifications, to become effective on July 1 next following the
receipt of the official census figures;
(xvi) "Population" of a city, town, county,
legislative district or other political subdivision shall be
determined by resort to the last federal census;
(xvii) Repealed by Laws 2025, ch. 9, § 2.
(xviii) "Personal digital identity" means the
intangible digital representation of, by and for a natural
person, over which he has principal authority and through which
he intentionally communicates or acts;
(xix) "Organizational digital identity" means the
intangible digital representation of, by and for a corporation,
business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability
company, association, joint venture, governmental agency, public
corporation or any other legal or commercial entity that is not
a natural person, over which it has principal authority and
through which it intentionally communicates or acts;
(xx) "Honorable discharge" or "honorably discharged,"
for purposes of law providing Wyoming benefits or exemptions,
shall include any veteran of the United States armed forces or
national guard whose discharge was general or other than
honorable solely as a result of having refused a vaccine for
COVID-19 as defined in W.S. 1-1-141(a)(ii).
(xxi) "Armed forces" means the army, navy, air force,
marine corps, space force and coast guard;
(xxii) "Uniformed services" means all of the
following:
(A) The armed forces;
(B) The commissioned corps of the national
oceanic and atmospheric administration;
(C) The commissioned corps of the public health
service;
(D) Any other category of persons designated by
the president of the United States in time of war or emergency.