Wyoming Statutes

Wyo. Stat. § 23-2-406 (2026)

Definitions.

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(a)   As used in this act:

          (i) "Advertises" means attempting by any means,
including the Internet, the World Wide 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;

          (ii) "Board" means the Wyoming state board of
outfitters and guides established under this act;
          (iii) "Guide services" means for hire or
remuneration, accompanying and providing assistance to a hunter
in the field relating to the taking of any big or trophy game
animal except as provided in W.S. 23-2-401(b) and (c);

          (iv) "Outfitter" means a person including a hunting
club, who advertises or holds himself out to the public for hire
for the purpose of financial gain in order 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:

               (A) "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;

               (B) "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.

          (v) "Outfitter of record" means the licensed
outfitter designated by any unlicensed owner of an outfitting
business who is specifically authorized to represent the
outfitting business and is responsible and accountable for the
operation of the outfitting business;

          (vi) "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;

          (vii) "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;

          (viii) "Take" means hunt, catch, capture, shoot,
trap, kill or possess or attempt to hunt, catch, capture, shoot,
trap, kill or possess any big or trophy game animal;
         (ix)    "This act" means W.S. 23-2-406 through 23-2-418.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2004–2004 · leading case: Billings v. Wyoming Bd. of Outfitters & Prof'l Guides, 2004 WY 42 (Wyo. 2004).
Billings v. Wyoming Bd. of Outfitters & Prof'l Guides, 2004 WY 42 (Wyo. 2004). · cites it 4× “But subsection (a)(x) of the statute provides only that the Board may suspend or revoke a license for a violation "of this act or any rule or regulation of the board” and Chapter 3, Section I(t) of the Board's rules provides that a licensee "shall not violate any provision of…”
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