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House committee recommends passage of bill adding rock climbing to recreation-safety statutes
Summary
A Wyoming House committee recommended passage of House Bill 73, which would add rock climbing to state statutory language that limits landowner liability for inherently risky recreational activities, to clarify access and liability when climbers seek permission to use private land.
Representative Byron, chairman of the Committee of the Whole, moved that the committee report House Bill 73 do pass; the motion carried and the committee recommended the bill for passage.
Representative Larson Lloyd, sponsor of House Bill 73, told the chamber the measure inserts "rock climbing" into two places in state law — references in Title 1 and Title 34 — to make explicit that rock climbing is a recreational activity with "some inherent risk." "Even though it may be implied, having it in…
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