2018 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 40 - TRADE AND COMMERCE
CHAPTER 26 - FAIR HOUSING ACT
SECTION 40-26-102 - Definitions.

(i) "Aggrieved person" includes any person who claims to have been injured by a discriminatory housing practice or believes that the person will be injured by a discriminatory housing practice that is about to occur;

(ii) "Complainant" means a person, including the enforcing authority that files a complaint under W.S. 40-26-118;

(iii) "Conciliation" means the informal negotiations among an aggrieved person, the respondent, and the enforcing authority to resolve issues raised by a complaint or by the investigation of the complaint;

(iv) "Conciliation agreement" means a written agreement resolving the issues in conciliation;

(v) "Disability" means a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits at least one (1) major life activity, a record of this impairment, or being regarded as having this impairment. The term does not include current illegal use or addiction to any drug or illegal or federally controlled substance and does not apply to an individual because of an individual's sexual orientation or because that individual is a transvestite;

(vi) "Discriminatory housing practice" means an act prohibited by W.S. 40-26-103 through 40-26-109 or conduct that is an offense under W.S. 40-26-145;

(vii) "Dwelling" means any structure or part of a structure that is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one (1) or more families or vacant land that is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location of a structure or part of a structure as previously described. "Dwelling" includes a lot leased for the purpose of placing on the lot a transportable home as defined in W.S. 31-1-101(a)(xxiv);

(viii) "Enforcing authority" means a Wyoming state agency or nonprofit incorporated in Wyoming that has been accepted as an enforcing authority for Wyoming by the department of housing and urban development;

(ix) "Familial status" means one (1) or more minors being domiciled with a parent or another person having legal custody of the minor or minors, or the designee of the parent or other person having such custody with the written permission of the parent or other person. The protections afforded against discrimination on the basis of familial status apply to any person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal custody of any minor;

(x) "Family" includes a single individual;

(xi) "Respondent" means a person accused of a violation of this chapter in a complaint of discriminatory housing practice or a person identified as an additional or substitute respondent under W.S. 40-26-121 or an agent of an additional or substitute respondent;

(xii) "To rent" includes to lease, sublease, or let, or to grant in any other manner, for a consideration, the right to occupy premises not owned by the occupant.