Public Securities

Wyo. Stat. Ann. tit. 16, ch. 5
in effect

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-101 Short title.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "General Obligation Public Securities Refunding Law".

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-102 Definitions.

(a) As used in this act: (i) "Clerk" means the clerk, secretary or other principal clerical officer of the issuer; (ii) "Federal securities" means the bills, certificates of indebtedness, notes, bonds, or similar obligations which are direct obligations of, or the principal and interest of which obligations are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America; (iii) "Governing body" means the city council, town council, commission, board of commissioners, board of trustees, board of directors or other body in which the legislative powers of the issuer are vested; (iv) "Issuer" means the public body issuing any refunding public security pursuant to this act; (v) "Ordinance" means an ordinance, resolution or other proceeding by which a governing body takes formal action and adopts legislative provisions and matters of some permanency; (vi) "Public body" means any county, city, town, school district or special district created under the laws of this state or any other local government entity; (vii) "Public security" means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness, warrant or other obligation for the payment of money, issued by any public body of this state, or any predecessor of any public body, which is payable, or which may be paid, from ad valorem taxes, or which constitutes a debt or an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation and bonds issued to pay for improvements in a local improvement district and payable from special assessments under W.S. 15-6-431 through 15-6-447, but excluding any warrant or similar obligation payable within one (1) year from the date of its issuance or any obligation solely payable from a pledge of designated revenues other than ad valorem taxes; (viii) "Refunding public security" means a public security which is authorized to be issued pursuant to this act; (ix) "This act" means W.S. 16-5-101 through 16-5-119.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-103 Authority to refund; purposes therefor.

(a) Any public security or securities issued by any public body of the state may be refunded, without an election, by the public body which issued them, or any successor thereof, in the name of the public body which issued the public securities being refunded, but subject to provisions concerning their payment and to any other contractual limitations in the proceedings authorizing their issuance or otherwise appertaining thereto, for any one (1) or more of the following purposes: (i) For extending the maturities of all or any part of outstanding public securities for which payment is in arrears, or for which there is not, or it is certain there will not be, sufficient money to pay the principal or interest on outstanding public securities as the same respectively become due; (ii) For reducing interest costs or effecting other economies; (iii) For reorganizing all or any part of the outstanding public securities of a public body in order to equalize tax levies.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-104 Interest; terms and conditions; negotiability.

Refunding public securities shall bear interest, payable semiannually or annually, and evidenced by one (1) or two (2) sets of coupons, if any, except that the first coupon or coupons appertaining to a refunding public security may evidence interest for a period not in excess of one (1) year, and refunding public securities may be in one (1) or more series, may bear a date or dates, may mature in an amount or amounts, serially or otherwise, at a time or times not exceeding thirty (30) years from their respective dates, may be in a denomination or denominations, may be payable in a medium of payment, in a place or places within or without the state, including but not limited to the office of the county treasurer of a county in which the issuer is located wholly or in part, may carry registration privileges, may be subject to terms of prior redemption in advance of maturity in order, or by lot, or otherwise, at a time or times with or without premium, may bear privileges for reissuance in the same or other denominations, may be so reissued (without modification of maturities and interest rates) and may be in a form, either coupon or registered, as may be provided by ordinance of the governing body. Except as the governing body may otherwise provide, the refunding public securities and attached interest coupons shall be fully negotiable within the meaning of and for all purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code-Investment Securities. Except as otherwise provided each holder of a refunding public security, by accepting the security, shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed that the refunding public security is and shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code-Investment Securities.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-105 General prerequisites and limitations.

No public securities may be refunded hereunder unless the holders voluntarily surrender them for exchange or payment, or unless they either mature or are callable for prior redemption under their terms within twenty-five (25) years from the date of issuance of the refunding public securities. Provision shall be made for paying the public securities being refunded within the stated period of time. No maturity of public security being refunded may be extended over twenty-five (25) years. No public security may be refunded hereunder unless the public security has been outstanding for at least one (1) year since the date of its delivery. The principal amount of the refunding public securities may not exceed the original authorized principal amount of the public securities being refunded. The principal amount of the refunding public securities may be less than or the same as the principal amount of the public securities being refunded so long as provision is duly and sufficiently made for the payment of the public securities being refunded.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-106 Limitations on number of issues.

A public body may issue refunding public securities to refund one (1) or more or any part of one (1) or more or all issues of its public securities which are outstanding, and refunding public securities and public securities authorized for any other purposes may be issued separately or issued in combination in one (1) series or more by any issuer except as hereafter provided. No two (2) or more issues or parts of issues of outstanding public securities shall be refunded by a single issue of refunding public securities unless the taxable property upon which tax levies are being made for payment of the outstanding public securities is identical to the taxable property on which the levies are being made for the payment of all other outstanding public securities proposed to be refunded by the single issue of refunding public securities. No two (2) or more issues or parts of issues of outstanding public securities or refunding public securities and public securities authorized for any other purposes shall be combined in one (1) issue where more than one (1) constitutional or statutory debt limitation is applicable to the combination.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-107 Maximum allowable indebtedness.

In no event shall the aggregate amount of indebtedness of any issuer exceed the maximum allowable amount as determined pursuant to the constitutional and statutory provisions, if any, applicable to the issuer. In determining and computing the aggregate amount of indebtedness of any issuer, public securities which have been refunded, as provided in this act, by immediate payment or prior redemption and retirement or by the placement of the proceeds of refunding public securities or investments thereof in escrow, shall not be deemed outstanding indebtedness from and after the date on which sufficient monies are placed with the paying agent of the outstanding public securities for the purpose of immediately paying, or redeeming and retiring the bonds, or from and after the date on which the proceeds of the refunding public securities or investments thereof are placed in escrow.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-108 Sale or exchange; price.

Any refunding public securities may be delivered in exchange for the outstanding public securities being refunded or may be publicly or privately sold in the manner determined by the governing body. Refunding public securities may be publicly or privately sold at, above, or below the par value thereof.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-109 Costs of refunding.

The incidental costs of the refunding of public securities may be paid by the purchaser of the refunding public securities or defrayed from the general fund of the public body or from the proceeds of the refunding public securities or from the interest or other yield derived from the investment of the proceeds or from other sources legally available therefor.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-110 Disposition of proceeds; escrowed proceeds.

The proceeds of refunding public securities shall either be immediately applied to the retirement of the public securities to be refunded or be placed in escrow in any state or national bank within the state which is a member of the federal deposit insurance corporation and which has trust powers, to be applied to the payment of the public securities being refunded upon their presentation. Any accrued interest and any premium appertaining to a sale of refunding public securities may be applied to the payment of the principal and interest, or both may be deposited in a reserve account, or may be used to defray incidental costs, as the governing body may determine. Any escrow shall not be limited to proceeds of refunding public securities, but may include other monies available for its purpose. Any escrowed proceeds, may be invested or reinvested in federal securities. Escrowed proceeds and investments, together with any interest or other yield to be derived from any investment, shall be in an amount at all times sufficient to cover principal, interest, any prior redemption premium due, and any charges of the escrow agent, to pay the public securities being refunded as they become due at their respective maturities or due at designated prior redemption dates in connection with which the governing body of the issuer shall exercise a prior redemption option. The computations made in determining sufficiency shall be verified by a certified public accountant certificated to practice in this state or in any other state. Any purchaser of any refunding public security is not responsible for the application of the proceeds thereof by the issuer or any of its officers, agents or employees.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-111 Signing, countersigning, execution or attestation of securities or interest coupons; facsimile seals and signatures.

Any refunding public security or interest coupon may be signed, countersigned, executed or attested by the public officials who are authorized by law at the time of the issuance of the refunding public securities to sign, countersign, execute or attest public securities of the issuer of the same general character as those public securities and coupons which are being refunded. In the alternative, the governing body may, in its discretion, designate appropriate public officials to sign, countersign, execute or attest any refunding public security or appurtenant coupon. Any officer so authorized may utilize a facsimile signature in lieu of his manual signature in the manner provided by law, provided that compliance with any law other than this act is not a condition of execution with a facsimile signature of any interest coupon. The clerk may cause the seal or a facsimile of the seal of the issuer to be printed, stamped or otherwise placed on any refunding public security. The facsimile seal shall have the same legal effect as the impression of the seal. Refunding public securities and any coupons bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing shall be valid and binding obligations of the issuer, notwithstanding that before the delivery and payment any or all persons whose signatures appear have ceased to fill their respective offices. Any officer authorized to sign, countersign, execute or attest any refunding public security or interest coupon, at the time of its execution or of the execution of a signature certificate, may adopt for his facsimile signature the facsimile signature of his predecessor in office in the event the facsimile signature appears upon the refunding public security or coupons, or upon both the public security and coupons.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-112 Recitals in securities imparting legality.

Any ordinance authorizing, or any other instrument appertaining to, any refunding public securities may provide that each refunding public security authorized shall recite that it is issued under the authority of this act. The recital shall conclusively impart full compliance with all of the provisions and all public securities issued containing the recital are incontestable for any cause whatsoever after their delivery for value.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-113 Endorsement.

The clerk shall endorse a certificate upon every refunding public security that it is issued pursuant to law and is within the debt limit of the issuer.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-114 Governing body's determination of legality.

The determination of a governing body that all the limitations hereunder imposed upon the issuance of refunding public securities have been met is conclusive in the absence of fraud or arbitrary and gross abuse of discretion.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-115 Refunding by divided governing bodies.

When a public body having outstanding indebtedness has been divided and parts thereof included within two (2) or more other public bodies, by any lawful means, the refunding of the securities requires affirmative action by a majority of the members of the governing bodies of each of the public bodies within which any part of the area of the public body which is being lawfully taxed to pay the outstanding indebtedness is then included except as hereinafter provided. The indebtedness of any public body outstanding at the time a part or parts of the public body are detached therefrom by any lawful means, and which public body has retained its lawful corporate existence subsequent to the detachment of the land from the public body may be refunded by action of the governing body of the public body from which land has been detached with or without concurrence or action by the governing board of the public body, if any, within which the detached land is included.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-116 Financing; annual property tax; other funds.

The governing body shall cause to be levied annually, without limitation of rate or amount, upon all taxable property of the issuer, in addition to other authorized taxes, a sufficient sum to pay the principal of and interest on the refunding public securities until the refunding public securities issued pursuant to this act are fully paid. The governing body may apply any other funds that are in the treasury of the issuer and available for payment of the interest or principal as it respectively matures, and the levy or levies provided for may be diminished. Should the tax for the payment of the principal and interest on any refunding public security at any time not be levied or collected in time to meet the payment, or if the refunding public securities are issued at a time which makes it impossible to levy a tax for the initial installments of principal or interest, the principal or interest so maturing shall be paid out of the general fund of the issuer, or from any other funds available for that purpose. For the purpose of reimbursing the fund or funds the money so used may be repaid from the first monies collected from taxes thereafter levied. The full faith and credit of the issuer shall be pledged for the punctual payment of the principal and interest on the refunding public securities. If the public securities to be refunded and the interest accruing would have been paid from taxes levied upon only part of the taxable property within the boundaries of the issuer, the taxes levied for payment or redemption of the refunding public securities, and the interest accruing shall be levied in the same manner and upon only the same taxable property as would have been levied for the payment of the public securities to be refunded if no refunding of the public securities had been accomplished. Any tax levied to retire any refunding public security issued by a hospital district is subject to the limitations set forth in W.S. 35-2-414, provided any refunding securities issued under this act to refund local improvement bonds shall be payable solely from and secured by the pledge of special assessments under W.S. 15-6-401 through 15-6-448.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-117 Exemption from taxation; exception.

The refunding public securities issued by any issuer pursuant to this act, their transfer, and the income therefrom, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state of Wyoming, except for estate taxes.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-118 Other outstanding securities.

This act shall have no effect on the legality of any outstanding public security issued for refunding or other purposes pursuant to any other law.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-119 Scope, authority and effect of provisions.

This act, without reference to other statutes of the state, except as herein otherwise specifically provided, is full authority for the authorization and issuance of refunding public securities. No other act or law with regard to the authorization or issuance of securities that in any way impedes or restricts the carrying out of the acts herein authorized shall be construed as applying to any proceedings taken or acts pursuant hereto except as otherwise provided. The powers conferred and the limitations imposed by this act are in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and shall not affect the powers conferred by any other law except as otherwise provided herein.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-202 Definitions.

(a) As used in this act: (i) "Public body" of the state means any state educational institution or other state institution, its board of trustees or other governing body constituting a body corporate, any county, city or town, whether incorporated or governed under a general act, special charter, or otherwise, any school district, high school district, community college district, sanitary and improvement district, hospital district, power district, irrigation district, drainage district, water conservancy district, water district, sewer district, water and sewer district, cemetery district, fire protection district, any other corporate district, any corporate commission or any other political subdivision of the state constituting a body corporate; (ii) "Public security" means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness, coupon or other similar obligation for the payment of money, issued by this state or by any public body thereof; (iii) "State" means the state of Wyoming and any board, commission, department, corporation, instrumentality or agency thereof; (iv) "This act" means W.S. 16-5-201 through 16-5-204.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-203 Outstanding securities.

All public securities of the state and of all public bodies outstanding on February 17, 1965, the right to the payment of which has not been barred by any pertinent statute of limitations, and all acts and proceedings taken, or purportedly taken by or on behalf of the state or any public body under law or under color of law preliminary to and in the authorization, execution, sale, issuance and payment (or any combination thereof) of all such public securities, are hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed, including but not necessarily limited to the terms, provisions, conditions and covenants of any resolution or ordinance appertaining thereto, the redemption of public securities before maturity and provisions therefor, the levy and collection of rates, tolls and charges, special assessments, and general and other taxes, and the acquisition and application of other revenues, the pledge and use of the proceeds thereof, and the establishment of liens thereon and funds therefor, appertaining to such public securities, except as hereinafter provided, notwithstanding any lack of power, authority, or otherwise, and notwithstanding any defects and irregularities in such public securities, acts and proceedings, and in such authorization, execution, sale, issuance and payment. Outstanding public securities are and shall be binding, legal, valid and enforceable obligations of the state or the public body issuing them in accordance with their terms and their authorizing proceedings.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-204 Prior securities; limitations; exceptions.

This act validates any public securities heretofore issued and any acts and proceedings heretofore taken which the legislature could have supplied or provided for in the law under which the public securities were issued and the acts or proceedings were taken. This act is limited to the validation of public securities, acts and proceedings to the extent they can be effectuated under the state and federal constitutions. This act does not validate, ratify, approve, confirm or legalize any public security, act, proceeding or other matter the legality of which is being contested in any legal proceeding now pending and undetermined, and does not confirm, validate or legalize any public security, act, proceedings, or other matter which has heretofore been determined in any legal proceeding to be illegal, void or ineffective.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-301 Voidness of excessive indebtedness; liability of officer and sureties.

Any indebtedness created by any county, city, town or other subdivision of the state in any current year in excess of that authorized by the constitution of the state and for which there are no revenues available for payment during the current year, shall as against the county, city, town or other subdivision of the state, be void and of no effect. Any officer who participates in creating the indebtedness, and the sureties on his official bond, is personally liable to the holder, or holders, of the indebtedness as fully as if the indebtedness had been contracted for his individual benefit. As used in this section, "current year" means from the first Monday in January of a year to the first Monday in January of the next year.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-302 Issuance of bonds in series; discharge.

(a) Whenever the issuance of bonds by the state, or any county, city, town, school district or high school district, is lawful, the board or other public body having authority to issue the bonds may divide the issues into series so that: (i) Substantially equal amounts of the indebtedness mature annually; (ii) Substantially equal annual tax levies are required for the payment of principal and interest of the bonds; or (iii) Substantially equal annual tax levies are required for the payment of principal and interest of all outstanding bonds of the state or subdivision thereof issuing the bonds. (b) The bonds of each series shall be due and payable at a definite date within the period permitted by law for the discharge of the indebtedness.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-303 Redemption of bonds owned by state.

Any bond issued by any county, municipality, school district or other political subdivision of the state and which bond the state owns on any interest payment date, upon thirty (30) days written notice to the state treasurer of the state is subject to redemption on the date by the payment of the principal and interest then due on the bond to the treasurer. Redemption shall be made only from sinking funds of the political subdivisions and not from funds obtained by its refunding of the bonds.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-402 Definitions.

(a) As used in this act: (i) "Anticipation note" means notes of the issuer, evidencing short-term borrowings, issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds which a governing body is authorized to issue; (ii) "Authorizing instrument" means an ordinance, resolution, instrument or other written evidence of a proceeding by which a governing body takes formal action and adopts legislative provisions on matters of some permanency; (iii) "Bonds" means general obligation bonds or revenue bonds of an issuer; (iv) "General obligation bonds" means bonds authorized to be issued by a governing body or any successor thereto which are payable or which may be paid from ad valorem taxes or which constitute a debt or an indebtedness of the issuer within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation, which mature one (1) or more years after the date of their issuance and delivery; (v) "Governing body" means the city council, town council, commission, board of commissioners, board of trustees, board of directors or other legislative body of an issuer in which the legislative powers of the issuer are vested; (vi) "Issuer" means any Wyoming county, school district, municipal corporation, community college, hospital district, sanitary and improvement district, water district, sewer district, water and sewer district, county improvement and service district or other political subdivision of the state specifically authorized by law to issue any general obligation bond or revenue bond; (vii) "Revenue bond" means bonds authorized to be issued by a governing body or any successor thereto which are payable from a pledge of designated revenues other than ad valorem taxes or special assessments which mature one (1) or more years after the date of their issuance.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-403 Authority to issue notes; election thereon.

(a) If the qualified electors of an issuer authorize the issuance of bonds or the issuance of anticipation notes at an election held pursuant to W.S. 22-21-101 through 22-21-112 and the governing body of the issuer considers it advisable and in the interests of the issuer, to anticipate the issuance of the bonds, the governing body may from time to time and pursuant to an appropriate authorizing instrument issue its bond anticipation notes. (b) At the election to authorize the issuance of bond anticipation notes, the question shall state the maximum principal amount for which the notes may be issued, which may not exceed the principal amount of the bonds authorized, and the maximum rate of interest that may be paid on the notes.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-404 Authorizing instrument.

(a) Anticipation notes issued pursuant to this act shall be authorized by instrument of the issuer which shall: (i) Describe the bonds in anticipation of which the notes are to be issued; (ii) Declare the results of the election authorizing the issuance of the bonds wherein the qualified electors of the issuer have approved their issuance in the manner required by law; (iii) Specify the principal amount of the anticipation notes, the rate of interest and maturity date or dates of the anticipation notes, which maturity date or dates shall not exceed three (3) years from the date of issue of the anticipation notes.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-405 Manner of issuance; form, terms and conditions.

Anticipation notes shall be issued and sold in such manner and at such price as the governing body determines by the instrument authorizing their issuance. Anticipation notes shall be in bearer form, except that the governing body may provide for the registration of the anticipation notes in the name of the owner either as to principal alone, or as to both principal and interest, and on such other terms and conditions as the governing body determines in the authorizing instrument. Interest on anticipation notes, not to exceed the rate authorized by the electors, may be payable semiannually, annually or at maturity. Anticipation notes may be made redeemable prior to maturity at the option of the governing body in the manner and upon the terms fixed by the instrument authorizing their issuance. Anticipation notes shall be executed and shall be in such form and have such details and terms as provided in the authorizing instrument.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-406 Payment, surrender and cancellation.

Contemporaneously with the issuance of the bonds in anticipation of which anticipation notes have been issued, all anticipation notes issued, even though they may not then have matured, shall be paid, both as to principal and interest to date of payment, and all such notes shall be surrendered and cancelled by the issuer.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-407 Security; sources of payment.

(a) Whenever the bonds in anticipation of which notes are issued are to be payable from ad valorem taxes and constitute full general obligations of the municipality, the bond anticipation notes and the interest on them shall be secured by a pledge of the full faith and credit of the municipality in the manner provided in the statutes of the state authorizing their issuance and shall also be made payable from funds derived from the sale of the bonds in anticipation of which the notes are issued. (b) Whenever the bonds in anticipation of which the anticipation notes are to be issued are to be payable solely from revenues pledged for payment of revenue bonds, as provided in the statutes authorizing their issuance, such anticipation notes and the interest on them shall be secured by a pledge of the income and revenues pledged for payment of the revenue bonds and shall also be made payable from funds derived from the sale of the revenue bonds in anticipation of which the notes are issued.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-408 Signing, countersigning, execution or attestation of notes; facsimile seals and signatures.

Any anticipation notes or interest coupon may be signed, countersigned, executed or attested by the public official or officials who are authorized by law at the time of the issuance of the anticipation notes to sign, countersign, execute or attest bonds or interest coupons of the issuer of the same general character as those bonds in anticipation of which the notes are being issued. In the alternative, the governing body may designate appropriate public officials to sign, countersign, execute or attest any anticipation note or appurtenant coupon, if any. Any officer so authorized or designated may utilize a facsimile signature in lieu of his manual signature in the manner provided by law, provided that compliance with any law other than this act is not a condition of execution with a facsimile signature of any interest coupon. The facsimile seal shall have the same legal effect as the impression of the seal. Anticipation notes and any coupons bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations of the issuer, notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all persons whose signatures appear thereon have ceased to fill their respective offices. Any officer of the issuer authorized or designated to sign, countersign, execute or attest any anticipation note or interest coupon, at the time of its execution or of the execution of a signature certificate, may adopt as and for his or her facsimile signature the facsimile signature of his or her predecessor in office in the event that such facsimile signature appears upon the anticipation note or coupons appertaining thereto, or upon both the anticipation notes and such coupons, after their delivery for value.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-409 Recital in notes imparting legality.

Any instrument of an issuer authorizing, or any other instrument appertaining to, any anticipation note may provide that each anticipation note therein authorized shall recite that it is issued under the authority of this act. Such recital shall conclusively impart full compliance with all of the provisions hereof, and all anticipation notes issued containing such recital shall be incontestable for any cause whatsoever after their delivery for value.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-410 Endorsement.

The clerk of the issuer shall endorse a certificate upon every anticipation note that the same is issued pursuant to law and is within the debt limit of the issuer if the notes are issued in anticipation of the issuance of general obligation bonds, or, as to notes issued in anticipation of revenue bonds, that they do not constitute a debt of the issuer within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision or limitation.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-411 Governing body's determination of legality.

The determination of a governing body that all the limitations imposed upon the issuance of anticipation notes have been met shall be conclusive in the absence of fraud or arbitrary and gross abuse of discretion.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-412 Scope, authority and effect of provisions.

(a) This act, without reference to other statutes of the state except as herein otherwise specifically provided, constitutes full authority for the authorization and issuance of anticipation notes hereunder. No other act or law with regard to the authorization or issuance of securities by any issuer that in any way impedes or restricts the carrying out of the acts herein authorized to be done shall be construed as applying to any proceedings taken hereunder or acts done pursuant hereto, except as otherwise expressly provided herein. The powers conferred by this act shall be in addition to and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by this act shall not affect the powers conferred by any other law applicable to any issuer except as otherwise provided herein. (b) Anticipation notes issued by the University of Wyoming shall be governed by W.S. 21-17-402 through 21-17-450, the University Securities Law.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-501 Applicability.

This article applies to bonds, notes, warrants, certificates or other securities evidencing loans or the advancement of monies, heretofore or hereafter authorized to be issued by or on behalf of the state or any political subdivision, district, public board, agency, commission, authority or other public body corporate in the state pursuant to any general or special act or pursuant to any lawful legislative or home rule provision.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-502 Form, payment and transfer of securities.

(a) The securities described in W.S. 16-5-501 shall be in registered or bearer form, with or without interest coupons, be subject to such conditions for transfer, be subject to such provisions for conversion as to denomination or to bearer or registered form, be made registrable or payable, or both, by the treasurer or other officer of the issuing entity, or by trustee, registrar, paying agent or transfer agent within or without the state of Wyoming, be issued, transferred and registered by book entry, be in a denomination, bear such dates, signatures and authentications, and be held in custody by a depository within or without the state of Wyoming, all as may be determined by the entity or the governing body of the entity authorized or empowered to issue the securities. Payment at designated due dates or in installments may be required by the authorizing proceedings to be by check, draft or other medium of payment and need not be conditioned upon presentation of any security or coupon. (b) Bonds issued by or on behalf of a political subdivision of the state may be issued as digital securities, as defined by W.S. 34-29-101(a)(iii), if the bonds are otherwise issued in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-503 Determination by resolution or ordinance.

The determination of the body authorized or empowered to issue securities required by W.S. 16-5-502 shall be made in the resolution or ordinance authorizing the issuance of the securities or in any supplemental ordinance, resolution or other instrument.

Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-5-504 No restriction on other acts.

This article as to the matters contained herein shall constitute an additional and separate grant of powers and these powers may be exercised without regard to provisions concerning matters in any other act but this article is not a restriction or limitation on the exercise of powers by an issuing entity under any other act.
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