Wyo. Code R. 075-0001-1
Outfitters and Professional Guides, Board of
Chapter 1: General Provisions
Effective Date: 02/12/2007 to 04/21/2016
Rule Type: Superceded Rules & Regulations
Reference Number: 075.0001.1.02122007
Section 1. Authority. These rules and regulations are adopted pursuant to W.S. 23-2-401, W.S. 23-2-406 et. seq., W.S. 33-1-201, and the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act, W.S. 16-3-101 et. seq.
Section 2. Definitions. For the purpose of these rules, definitions will be as set forth in the Act and the following:
(a) 'Act' means the Wyoming Outfitters and Professional Guides Act, W.S. 23-2-406 et seq.
(b) 'Outfitter' means a person including a hunting club, who advertises or holds himself out to the public for hire or remuneration to provide guide or packing services for the purpose of taking any big or trophy game animal, excluding any person who furnishes pack or riding animals and other equipment only to a hunter for his personal temporary use and any landowner providing outfitter services on private lands owned or leased by him. As used in this paragraph:
(i) 'Hunting Club' means any person requiring dues or remuneration for providing personal services in the field for the taking of any big or trophy game animal;
(ii) 'Landowner' means any person, firm or corporation holding title to, or occupying under a contract of purchase, agricultural land or any person whose family owns at least a majority of the stock in a Wyoming corporation and who provides services specified in this paragraph on lands owned by the corporation and used primarily for agricultural purposes.
(iii) 'Packing services' means transporting for hire or remuneration, hunters, game animals or equipment in the field for the purpose of taking any big or trophy game animal.
(iv) 'Client' means a person who engages the professional services of a licensed outfitter.
(v) 'Guide Services' means for hire or remuneration, accompanying and providing assistance of any kind to a hunter in the field relating to the taking of any big or trophy game animal.
(vi) “Compensation” and “Remuneration” mean payment of any kind, without regard to value or agreement, including tips, presents, exchange of property or services, or bartering for guide services.
(vii) “Advertises” means attempting by any means, including the Internet, the worldwide web or a similar proprietary or common carrier electronic system, to induce persons to enter into an agreement with an outfitter to receive guide or packing services for the purpose of taking any big or trophy game animal. No person shall advertise outfitter or guide services in Wyoming without listing the license number of the outfitter(s) who will provide the services advertised.
(viii) “Take” means to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, shoot, trap, kill or possess, or attempt to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, shoot, trap, kill or possess any big or trophy game animal.
(c) 'Professional guide' means any person employed by or operating under an independent contract with a licensed outfitter to furnish personal services for the conduct of outdoor recreational activities for the purpose of hunting animals except any person employed by a licensed outfitter solely to care for, groom or saddle livestock, cook, cut wood or to transport people, equipment and personal property.
(d) 'Area' means a hunt area as described in current big or trophy game hunting regulations as determined by the Wyoming Game & Fish Department.
(e) 'Conviction' means a finding of guilt, forfeiture of bail bond or collateral deposited to secure a defendants appearance, or entry of a nolo contendere plea.
(f) 'Booking Agent” means any individual, firm, business, partnership, or corporation that makes arrangements for the use of the services of a licensed outfitter and receives compensation therefore. A booking agent does not supply personnel or facilities and services to outfitter clientele.
(g) 'Outfitter of Record” means the licensed outfitter designated by any unlicensed owner of an outfitting business who is specifically authorized to represent the business and is responsible and accountable for the operations of the business.
(h) 'State' means the State of Wyoming.
Section 3. Savings Clause. If any provision of these rules or their application to any person or circumstances are invalid or in conflict with any other provision of these rules, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or application of these rules which can be given effect without the invalid provision or applications and to this end the provisions of these rules are severable.