18-2-101. General powers.

(a) Each organized county in the state is a body corporate and politic. The powers of the county shall be exercised by a board of county commissioners which may:

(i) Sue and be sued;

(ii) Purchase property for the use of the county and acquire real property at tax sales, as provided by law;

(iii) Sell or convey property owned by the county, when it is in the best interests of the county;

(iv) Make contracts and perform other acts relating to the property and concerns of the county in the exercise of its corporate or administrative powers;

(v) Exercise other powers as provided by law;

(vi) Establish a surface water drainage system, utilities and drainage management; and

(vii) Repealed By Laws 1999, ch. 22, § 2.

(viii) Declare and abate nuisances which the commission determines to be a threat to health or safety as provided in W.S. 18-2-115. No person shall create, continue or permit nuisances to exist in violation of a final order issued pursuant to W.S. 18-2-115. Any resolution passed by a board of county commissioners pursuant to this paragraph is enforceable, in addition to other remedies provided by law, by injunction, mandamus or abatement. Whoever fails to comply with a final order shall be assessed a civil penalty of up to one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day for each day the violation continues. No resolution issued pursuant to this paragraph shall regulate any permitted industrial facility or oil and gas or mining operations necessary to the extraction, production or exploration of the mineral resources. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to impair or modify any rights afforded to farm or ranch operations pursuant to the Wyoming Right to Farm and Ranch Act.