{"data":{"id":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-6-5-304","jurisdiction":"us-wy","citation":"Wyo. Stat. § 6-5-304","heading":"Offering mining claims for filing without meeting legal prerequisites; penalties.","body":"A person commits a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than two (2) years, a fine of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), or both, if he offers a location certificate for a placer mining claim or a lode claim or an affidavit of assessment work to be filed with a county clerk's office knowing the claim, certificate or affidavit was not preceded by a proper location of the claim physically upon the ground by establishing a proper notice of claim and designating the surface boundaries as required by law.","path":["TITLE 6 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES","CHAPTER 5 - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION","ARTICLE 3 - PERJURY AND CRIMINAL FALSIFICATION"],"source_url":"https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title06.pdf","current_through":"2026 Budget Session; as of 2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:16:32Z","sha256":"4c2a755163ca30d1a45af4d7ac0cc0f966ec14b1db6a95a561a871d6bc574820","source_id":"us-wy","stale":false,"prev":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-6-5-303","next":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-6-5-305"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}