2015 Wyoming Code
TITLE 37 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
CHAPTER 12 - Crimes, Offenses and Civil Liabilities
ARTICLE 1 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES - AGAINST PUBLIC UTILITIES
SECTION 37-12-120. - Interference with or injury to electric utility poles or wires; affixing posters to telegraph, telephone and electric utility poles prohibited; penalties.
37-12-120. Interference with or injury to electric utility poles or wires; affixing posters to telegraph, telephone and electric utility poles prohibited; penalties.
(a) Whoever maliciously or mischievously takes down, removes, interferes with, obstructs or injures any electric utility pole or wire, or any part thereof, or any appurtenance or apparatus connected therewith, or severs or breaks or obstructs any such wire or apparatus or appurtenance is guilty of a malicious trespass.
(b) Whoever affixes any poster, placard, sign, or notice of any kind, to any telegraph, telephone or electric utility pole or wire, or any part thereof, or any appurtenance or apparatus connected thereto is guilty of malicious trespass.
(c) Any person convicted of a malicious trespass as defined in this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six (6) months.
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