Legal Establishment of County Roads in Wyoming--Volume I

This report details the results of a project aimed at determining how to legally establish a county road in Wyoming. This report covers the laws on this issue from territory days until present. It consists of a survey, case law, statutory law, federal law, direction and a final desk reference. The survey was conducted in Wyoming and given to county road officials, county commissioners, county attorneys and other entities. The survey showed that there is an issue of roads in Wyoming not being legally established and that not all counties have been establishing roads correctly. The survey also showed that this issue is complex and different issues face each county. Based on the survey results, the case law and statutes in Wyoming were analyzed and compiled into a desk reference to simplify access to this information. This desk reference covers the laws from territory days until present. This report and desk reference address how to currently legally establish a road; how to determine if an old road was legally established; and how to “fix” a road that was not legally established. This report was also put together to provide a more thorough investigation into these laws and to be used as a more detailed form of the reference desk. Addressed in this report is the background of the problem, the survey results, the Wyoming statutes involved, the case law involved, the federal law involved, a definitions section, a citation section and a comprehensive appendix including full text versions of all statutes and case law referred to in this report and in the desk reference. There are two volumes to this report. Volume II contains the appendices (print version available upon request).

• Record URL:
  http://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=595
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Wyoming, Laramie

  Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
  1000 East University Avenue
  Laramie, WY  United States  82071

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108
• Authors:
  • Obrecht, Stacey L
  • Romero, Alan
  • Ksaibati, Khaled
• Publication Date: 2007-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices;
• Pagination: 41p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Handbooks; Highways; Legal factors; Low volume roads; Policy, legislation and regulation; Principal types of roads; Rural areas; Rural highways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Statutory systems
• Geographic Terms: Wyoming
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01090251
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC Report No. 07-191
• Files: UTC, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 21 2008 8:14AM