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2012 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 5 - COURTS
CHAPTER 3 - DISTRICT COURTS
5-3-501. Definitions.

Universal Citation:
WY Stat § 5-3-501 (through 2012)
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(a) When used in this act, the following definitions will apply unless the context otherwise requires:

(i) Court. - The word "court" shall mean the district or juvenile courts;

(ii) Counselor. - An officer appointed by the county commissioners with the approval of the district judge in the district where he is to be employed under the provisions of this act to work with juvenile offenders, and parolees or probationers;

(iii) Probationer. - Any person placed on probation with the imposition and execution of sentence suspended after a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or after conviction of any offense in any district or juvenile court in Wyoming, or by any court of a foreign state having jurisdiction to place such offenders on probation, or any person who has been paroled before sentence by any district or juvenile court;

(iv) Tense, Gender. - The singular includes the plural, the plural the singular, and the masculine the feminine, when consistent with the intent of the act.

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