Wyo. Stat. § 24-2-101 (2026)

qualifications; appointment; term; removal; compensation;
location of offices; power to bring civil actions; official
seal.

     (a) There is created a department of transportation to
consist of a transportation commission and a director of the
department of transportation. The commission shall consist of
seven (7) commissioners, of whom no more than seventy-five
percent (75%) shall be registered in the same political party.
They shall biennially elect their chairman on or after the first
day of March. The commissioners shall be appointed by the
governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and
each shall serve for a term of six (6) years. The terms of all
commissioners appointed after the effective date of this section
shall terminate on the last day of February of the sixth year of
the term regardless of the date of the beginning of the term.
The governor may remove any commissioner as provided in W.S.
9-1-202.

     (b) One (1) commissioner shall be appointed from each of
the following districts:

          (i) District No. 1 composed of the counties of
Laramie, Goshen and Platte;

          (ii) District No. 2 composed of the counties of
Albany, Carbon and Sweetwater;

          (iii) District No. 3 composed of the counties of
Lincoln, Teton, Sublette and Uinta;

          (iv) District No. 4 composed of the counties of
Campbell, Johnson and Sheridan;

          (v) District No. 5 composed of the counties of Big
Horn, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie;

          (vi) District No. 6 composed of the counties of
Crook, Niobrara and Weston;
          (vii) District No. 7 composed of the counties of
Converse, Fremont and Natrona.

     (c) The appointment in each district shall rotate
successively among the several counties comprising the district.
If any commissioner ceases to reside in, or for a continuous
period of six (6) months or more is absent from the county, the
governor shall declare his office vacant and shall appoint a
successor from the same county in accordance with W.S.
28-12-101.

     (d) Each commissioner shall qualify by taking the
constitutional oath of office, and each shall receive a salary
of six hundred dollars ($600.00) per year and actual and
necessary traveling expenses while away from home in the
performance of the duties of office, to be paid from the state
highway fund.

     (e) The commission shall maintain offices at the state
capital. The commission is empowered to sue in the name of the
"Transportation Commission of Wyoming", and may be sued by that
name in the courts of this state and in no other jurisdiction
upon any contract executed by it. The attorney general is the
legal advisor of the commission and shall prosecute and defend
all actions and shall also appear in all proceedings in any
federal department in which the commission is a party or is
interested.

     (f) The commission shall have a seal bearing the words
"Transportation Commission of Wyoming, Official Seal", and all
copies of all records and other instruments in the office of the
commission, certified under the hand of its secretary with the
seal affixed shall be received in any court as prima facie
evidence of the original record or instrument.

     (g) Effective July 1, 1979, appointments and terms shall
be in accordance with W.S. 28-12-101 through 28-12-103.

     (h) The commission, department and appropriate divisions
within the department may operate upon a federal fiscal year
basis commencing October 1 of each year. The commission,
department and all divisions within the department shall report
revenues and expenditures upon a state fiscal year commencing
July 1, 2010.