36-4-119. Existing agreements binding; successor to records and duties; taxation exemption.

(a) Effective April 1, 1990 the department of commerce shall be bound by any and all agreements, contracts and obligations incurred by the Wyoming recreation commission to which it had been bound because they were incurred by the Wyoming state parks commission and land and water conservation commission and Old South Pass historical preserve commission prior to July 1, 1973, and shall succeed to all records, documents, equipment, and other personal or real property under the control and management of the parks commission of Wyoming and the state land and water conservation commission of Wyoming and the Old South Pass historical preserve commission of Wyoming acquired and used in the performance of duties previously imposed upon those commissioners. All money from operation of the Old South Pass historical preserve shall be credited to the general fund. Effective July 1, 1999 the department of state parks and cultural resources shall be bound by any and all agreements, contracts and obligations incurred by the department of commerce to which it had been bound because they were incurred by the Wyoming state parks commission and land and water conservation commission and Old South Pass historical preserve commission prior to July 1, 1973, and shall succeed to all records, documents, equipment, and other personal or real property under the control and management of the parks commission of Wyoming and the state land and water conservation commission of Wyoming and the Old South Pass historical preserve commission of Wyoming acquired and used in the performance of duties previously imposed upon those commissioners. All money from operation of the Old South Pass historical preserve shall be credited in accordance with W.S. 36-4-121(h).

(b) The department of state parks and cultural resources, in consultation with the commission, is hereby charged with the duties and responsibilities heretofore devolved upon the Old South Pass historical preserve, and for the purpose of discharging same is hereby invested with all the powers and authority heretofore vested in such Old South Pass historical preserve, subject to the same limitations thereof; and the department of state parks and cultural resources, in consultation with the commission, is authorized to delegate the same, or so much thereof as it shall provide, to an administrator or to a committee appointed by it for the performance of its functions hereunder.

(c) User fees and other charges for the South Pass preserve development are exempt from taxation by the state.