37-10-101. Highway crossing protection account established; purposes of account; use in connection with federal funds.
(a) In order to promote the public safety and to provide for the payment of part of the costs of installing, reconstructing and improving automatic and other safety appliance signals or devices at crossings at grade of public highways, as defined in this act, roads or streets over the track or tracks of any railroad corporation or street railway corporation in the state, there is created an account known as the highway crossing protection account within the highway fund. Before any funds of the highway crossing protection account shall be used to pay any part of the cost of the installation, reconstruction, or improvement of any signals or devices at any crossing, the commission shall first determine that all federal sources of funding have been exhausted. When federal funds are being utilized, federal guidelines as indicated in 23 C.F.R. [part] 646 shall be followed. For purposes of this section, "commission" means the Wyoming transportation commission.
(b) As used in this act:
(i) "Public highways" means as specified in W.S. 24-1-101, but shall not include private roads;
(ii) "This act" means W.S. 37-10-101 through 37-10-105.