Wyoming Statutes
Article 5 - Sewerage Systems
Section 15-7-503 - Ordinance for Construction; Required and Authorized Provisions; Existing Bonds Validated.

15-7-503. Ordinance for construction; required and authorized provisions; existing bonds validated.
(a) If the governing body determines to construct, reconstruct, acquire, improve or extend a sewerage system and to issue bonds under the provisions of this article to pay the costs, it shall adopt an ordinance generally describing the contemplated project and refer to its plans and specifications which are open for public inspection. The ordinance shall:
(i) Set out the estimated cost of the project;
(ii) Determine the period of its usefulness;
(iii) Fix the:
(A) Amount of revenue bonds proposed to be issued;
(B) Maturity or maturities;
(C) Interest rate; and
(D) Other details in connection with the bonds.
(iv) Pledge the revenues derived from the operation of the sewerage system to:
(A) Pay the cost of operation and maintenance of the system;
(B) Provide an adequate depreciation fund; and
(C) Pay the principal and interest of the bonds.
(b) The ordinance may:
(i) Provide that the bonds, or those specified, to the extent and in the manner prescribed, shall be subordinated to any other bonds payable from the revenues of the sewerage system as are specified in the ordinance;
(ii) Contain any covenants and restrictions upon the issuance of additional revenue bonds, which share equally from the revenues of the system, as may be necessary or advisable to assure the payment of the bonds authorized;
(iii) Provide that the revenue bonds or any part thereof may be sold to the state of Wyoming or the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof at a private sale, without advertisement, for not less than par and accrued interest;
(iv) Provide that the bonds are redeemable with or without premium at the time or place the governing body provides;
(v) Provide that the governing body may discontinue the water supply of any person for nonpayment of the sewer service charge.
(c) All revenue bonds issued pursuant to this article, which are outstanding on the effective date of this act, the right to the payment of which has not been barred by any pertinent statute of limitations, and all acts and proceedings heretofore had or taken, or purportedly had or taken by or on behalf of any city or town under law or under color of law preliminary to and in the authorization, execution, sale, issuance and payment (or any combination thereof) of those revenue bonds, are validated, including but not necessarily limited to the terms, provisions, conditions and covenants of any resolution or ordinance appertaining thereto. Those outstanding revenue bonds are binding and enforceable obligations of the city or town issuing them in accordance with their terms and their authorizing proceedings.