SF0091

Creates a misdemeanor offense for damaging petroglyphs, pictographs, and historic inscriptions on state lands, and appropriates funds to survey and document these resources.

• Establishes a misdemeanor offense for breaking, cracking, carving upon, writing on, or otherwise destroying, mutilating, injuring, defacing, removing, displacing, marring or harming petroglyphs, pictographs or historic inscriptions on state lands without consent of the state board of land commissioners. (W.S. 36-1-116(e))
• Sets penalties for violation of the petroglyph and pictograph protection offense at a fine of not more than $750, imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. (W.S. 36-1-116(e))
• Appropriates $441,340 from the general fund to the department of state parks and cultural resources to survey, document, and create three-dimensional models of all known petroglyphs and pictographs on state, school, and institutional lands in Wyoming through June 30, 2028. (Sec. 2)

Effective: July 1, 2025

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