Wyo. Code R. 027-0004-4
Effective Date: 10/15/2025 to Current
Rule Type: Current Rules & Regulations
Reference Number: 027.0004.4.10152025
Section 1. Authority. The State Building Commission, pursuant to Wyoming Statute §§ 9-5-106(a) and 9-5-107, is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations relative to the operation, management, and use of public buildings.
Section 2. Purpose. This Chapter describes the general procedures relevant to the operation, management, and use of public buildings; authorizes General Services to promulgate policies that shall bind all agencies to which these rules apply for the operation, management, and use of public buildings; and provides exceptions to these rules and General Services' policies for particular buildings.
Section 3. State facility management. Agencies shall manage, operate, and use public buildings in a manner that provides for quality space and services consistent with their operational needs and accomplishes overall government objectives. Buildings and building systems management, operation, and use must:
(a) General Services shall adopt operation, management, and use policies (General Services policies). All agencies and their employees shall comply with the adopted General Services policies.
(b) Each occupant agency shall annually train its employees to ensure they have an awareness and understanding of the General Services policies.
(c) Occupant agencies may develop policies to address requests by another agency or government entity to use their facilities. General Services shall develop use policies for common spaces, such as meeting rooms and lobbies, in public buildings occupied by more than one agency to ensure agencies and other branches of State Government fair and equitable access to such spaces, including events put on by private parties for governmental parties, but which are not open to the general public.
(d) Exemptions. All exemptions from this Chapter must be requested in writing for prior approval from the General Services Administrator or designee. The General Services Administrator shall approve or deny all requests in writing.
(a) The Commission’s Chapter 6 rules govern the use of those portions of public buildings subject to Commission control and regulation.
(b) All rents resulting from occupancy of the Capitol Complex shall be collected by General Services and paid into the general fund.
(c) All proposed construction or renovation projects shall be reviewed and approved by the Commission, the Governor, the State Treasurer, State Historic Preservation Office, General Services, and SCD before beginning any work. Except for emergency maintenance, the Commission shall not approve any construction or renovation project that amounts to architectural or structural alteration to the Capitol Building or grounds without providing notice to the management council of the Legislature and without a legislative session convening and adjourning after notice was provided to the management council.
(d) Security in the State Capitol Properties shall be provided by the Wyoming Highway Patrol, Division O, and contract security officers. Security may be provided in all other public buildings by contract security officers.
(e) Persons who reasonably appear to pose a threat to themselves, the general public, or the occupants of a public building shall be denied access to the public building and may be escorted from the grounds according to the discretion of the persons providing security to that public building.
(f) Except as otherwise provided herein, and subject to the restrictions set forth in subsection 5(i) of this Chapter, no dangerous weapon may be carried in Public-owned buildings, except those lawfully carried by:
(i) Peace officers, including Security Personnel engaging in Open carry or Concealed carry, and
(ii) Individuals lawfully engaging in Permitted carry or Constitutional carry in compliance with all other applicable laws and regulations.
(g) Security Personnel are authorized to request that any persons carrying a dangerous weapon in a public building relinquish the weapon for failure to comply with applicable law or regulation, or unsafe behavior. The weapon shall be returned to the person when he or she leaves the public building, unless Security Personnel have probable cause to detain either the person or the weapon. If a person carrying a dangerous weapon refuses to relinquish the weapon to Security Personnel, that person shall be denied access to the public building.
(h) A person who carries a Concealed firearm is solely responsible for any injury or property damage involving the firearm. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as a waiver of the State’s sovereign immunity.
(i) Nothing contained herein shall be construed to allow the carrying of a weapon, open or concealed, into facilities where the carrying of firearms is otherwise prohibited by law or contract. These rules apply to Public-owned buildings and Public buildings that are held subject to lease to the extent that the lessor agrees to allow Constitutional carry or Permitted carry in that Public building. To the extent that carrying a weapon in certain Public buildings, or in some areas of Public buildings, is or may be prohibited by law, the entry to said facilities, or areas within those facilities, shall be clearly marked.
Section 6. Legislative and judicial facilities; agencies with independent statutory authority for the operation, management, and use of public buildings. This Chapter of the Commission’s rules shall apply to facilities occupied by the Legislature or the members thereof to the extent the legislative management council specifically concurs under W.S. § 9-5-106(d)(i), and facilities occupied by the judiciary or the members thereof to the extent the judicial council specifically concurs under W.S. § 9-5-106(d)(ii). To the extent that the judiciary, including federal judiciary, utilizes a Public building, as a courtroom in accordance with W.S. 6-1-104(a)(xvi), the space so used shall be considered a courtroom within the meaning of W.S. 6-8-104(t)(iii) during such use by the judiciary. This rule shall be subject to any memoranda of understanding or other agreements entered into between the Commission and the legislative management council under W.S. § 9-5-106(f) with regard to the Capitol Complex. For those rooms or facilities with joint executive and legislative control, any agency, State employee, or elected official shall inform General Services of its intent to utilize the space. General Services shall ensure that legislative uses shall take priority if there is a conflict between a requested use by an agency, State employee, or elected official. The Commission’s rules shall apply to facilities occupied by any agency assigned the operation, management, and use of a public building under W.S. § 9-5-106(a), unless that agency adopts rules that are different from and inconsistent with those of the Commission.
Section 7. Emergency closure of State buildings. In the event of an emergency or a public health order encouraging social distancing, the General Services Administrator shall, in consultation with the Governor’s Office, have the authority to close state buildings to the public until such time as they can safely be reopened. The Commission shall have the authority to overrule such closures by a majority vote.
Section 8. Policies to enforce public health emergency orders. When a public health emergency has been declared, the Secretary, in consultation with the Governor, may adopt, and General Services may administer and enforce a policy in conformity with any County health order for as long as that County health order remains in effect. Any policy adopted by the Secretary shall be promptly communicated to the members of the Commission and subject to ratification at the next Commission meeting to remain in effect.