Wyoming Statutes

Wyo. Stat. § 1-26-503 (2026)

Public use required; other acquisitions.

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(a) Nothing in this act requires that the power of eminent
domain be exercised to acquire property. Whether property
necessary for public use is to be acquired by purchase, other
means or by eminent domain is a decision left to the discretion
of the person authorized to acquire the property.

     (b) Subject to any other statute relating to the
acquisition of property, any person or public entity authorized
to acquire property for a particular use by eminent domain may
also acquire the property for the use by grant, purchase, lease,
gift, devise, contract or other means.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1987–2005 · leading case: Bridle Bit Ranch Co. v. Basin Elec. Power Coop., 2005 WY 108 (Wyo. 2005).

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Bridle Bit Ranch Co. v. Basin Elec. Power Coop., 2005 WY 108 (Wyo. 2005). · cites it 3× “Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 1-26-503 (LexisNexis 2005) provides: § 1-26-503.”

Wyoming Resources Corp. v. T-Chair Land Co., 2002 WY 104 (Wyo. 2002). · cites it 4× “[112] By statute, the Wyoming legislature has given the condemnor discretion to acquire property either by purchase, contract, or eminent domain proceedings, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 1-26-503 , 3 and we conclude that by this language alone the eminent domain act does not preclude a…”

Koontz v. Town of Superior, 746 P.2d 1264 (Wyo. 1987). · cites it 2× “Whether property necessary for public use is to be acquired by purchase, other means or by eminent domain is a decision left to the discretion of the person authorized to acquire the property.”

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