Wyoming Statutes

Wyo. Stat. § 9-13-105 (2026)

Misuse of office.

✓ current as of May 2026

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     (a) A public official, public member or public employee
shall not use public funds, time, personnel, facilities or
equipment for his private benefit or that of another unless the
use is authorized by law.

     (b) A public official, public member or public employee
shall not use public funds, time, personnel, facilities or
equipment for political or campaign activity unless the use is:

          (i)    Authorized by law; or

          (ii) Properly incidental to another activity required
or authorized by law and the public official, public employee or
public member allocates and reimburses the governmental entity
for any additional costs incurred for that portion of the
activity not required or authorized by law.

     (c) A public official, public employee or public member
shall not disseminate to another person official information
which the public official, public employee or public member
obtains through or in connection with his position, unless the
information is available to the general public or unless the
dissemination is authorized by law.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 2015–2017 · leading case: Richard Carl Bohling v. State, 2017 WY 7 (Wyo. 2017).

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Richard Carl Bohling v. State, 2017 WY 7 (Wyo. 2017). “§ 6-5-107 (a)(i), § 6-5-110 and § 9-13-105, respectively. [1110] A few months later, the State amended the information.”

Sabatka v. Bd. of Trs., 2015 WY 8 (Wyo. 2015). · cites it 13× “Based upon a misreading of Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 9-13-105 (LexisNexis 2018) by FCLS counsel, the FCLS executive director fired Appellant, believing that she had violated the statute and committed a misdemeanor by buying the books as she did.”

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