Wyo. Code R. 075-0001-1
Outfitters and Professional Guides, Board of
Chapter 1: General Provisions
Effective Date: 10/28/1994 to 01/23/1996
Rule Type: Superceded Rules & Regulations
Reference Number: 075.0001.1.10281994
commerce/outfitters/01_General_Provisions
Agency COMMERCE Commerce, Dept. of
Program OUTFITTERS Board of Outfitters and Professional Guides
Chapter Name General Provisions
Chapter No.1
Date Filed 10/28/94
Expr Date
Supr Date
Repeal Date
Document Type RULES
Section 1. Authority. These rules and regulations are adopted pursuant to W.S. 23-2-401, W.S. 23-2-406 et. seq.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 GuidesAct, W.S. 23-2-406 et. seq.
(b) 'Outfitter' means a person including a hunting club, who advertises or holds themselves 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 or entity who furnishes pack or riding animals and other equipment only to a hunter for personal and temporary use and any landowners providing outfitter services on private lands owned or leased by them. 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.
(c) Outfitter licenses will be issued as Type A - Big and Trophy Game and Type B - Deer/Antelope.
(d) 'Professional guide' means any person employed by or independently contracted by 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;
(e) 'Area' means a hunt area as described in current big or trophy game hunting regulations as determined by the Wyoming Game & Fish Department.
(f) '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.
(g) '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.