2011 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 33 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
CHAPTER 28 - REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESMEN
33-28-119. Advertising; licensing under one name; trade names; advertisement of licensees.


WY Stat § 33-28-119 (1997 through Reg Sess) What's This?

(a) Every real estate licensee, when advertising or promoting his real estate activities, shall use the real estate company name under which he is licensed and shall use no slogans or phraseology in a manner which would indicate or suggest to the public that real estate may be listed or is being offered for sale, exchange, lease or rent by a private party not licensed by the commission.

(b) Repealed By Laws 2011, Ch. 104, 2.

(c) No person shall act or advertise as a licensee in this state by use of letterheads, billboards, radio or television announcements or any other media of advertising, without first obtaining a license from the commission.

(d) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, no person shall be licensed under more than one (1) real estate company name, and no person shall conduct or promote a real estate brokerage business except under the real estate company name under which the person or brokerage business is licensed.

(e) A trade name, with the permission of the owner of the trade name, may be used concurrently with the licensed name of the real estate company in the promotion or conduct of the responsible broker's business. The real estate company name shall be displayed in a conspicuous manner that may be readily identified by the general public.

(f) A licensed responsible broker shall not advertise the sale, purchase, exchange or lease of real estate, unless owned by him, without including in the advertisement the real estate company name under which he is licensed.

(g) A licensed associate broker or salesman shall not advertise the sale, purchase, exchange or lease of real estate, unless owned by him, without including in the advertisement the name of the real estate company with whom he is associated.

(h) A licensee shall not advertise the sale, purchase, exchange or lease of real estate owned by the licensee unless the advertisement includes the fact that an owner of the real estate is a licensee.

(j) If a licensee uses his individual name in advertising, the first and last name shall be included. A common shortened spelling of the first name of the licensee is permitted. The use of a nickname is permitted if the nickname is reflected on the license.

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