(a) As used in this article: (i) "Conveyance" means every instrument in writing by which any interest in real property is created, alienated, mortgaged, leased or assigned, or by which the title to any real property may be affected in law or in equity. "Conveyance" shall not include wills; (ii) "Critical infrastructure" means any property, system and asset, whether physical or cyber-based, so vital to the United States or the state of Wyoming that the degradation or destruction of the property, system and asset would have a debilitating impact on national security, including national economic security and national public health or safety; (iii) "Critical infrastructure zone" means an area of property, whether covering the surface estate, mineral estate, pore space estate or nonphysical property, designated by the governor in consultation with the director of the department of homeland security as property encompassing critical infrastructure; (iv) "Designated country or person" means: (A) A foreign government or foreign nongovernment person determined to be a foreign adversary by the United States secretary of commerce and specified in 15 C.F.R. 791.4(a); or (B) A country or government designated as a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States secretary of state under the federal Export Administration Act of 1979, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Arms Export Control Act or any other provision of federal law. (v) "Director" means the director of the department of homeland security appointed under W.S. 19-13-104; (vi) "Critical system" means any one (1) or more of the following: (A) A petroleum refinery; (B) A petroleum, chemical or rubber production, transportation, storage or processing facility; (C) A chemical manufacturing facility; (D) A water or wastewater treatment facility and water development, distribution or conveyance system, including a dam; (E) An electric generation facility and any associated substation or switchyard; (F) An electrical transmission or distribution substation; (G) An electrical transmission line of not less than sixty-nine thousand (69,000) volts; (H) An electronic communication station or tower; (J) An energy control center; (K) A distribution operating center; (M) A facility that transfers or distributes natural gas, including a compressor station, regulator station, city gate station or pressure-limiting station or a liquefied natural gas facility or supplier tap facility; (N) Any railroad infrastructure or facility; (O) A federal, state, county, chancery or municipal court; (P) A public safety or emergency operation facility; (Q) A federal, state, county or municipal jail or correctional facility or any other facility where persons are incarcerated; (R) A federal or state military installation or facility; (S) A hospital that receives air ambulance services; (T) Any surface, subsurface or in-situ mining or manufacturing infrastructure or facility; (U) Any other facility or property deemed to be a critical infrastructure or critical system by the governor. (vii) "Model aircraft" means as defined in section 336 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, P.L. 112- 95; (viii) "Unmanned aircraft system" means as defined by W.S. 6-5-214(a)(iii); (ix) "Real property" means all interests in land and appurtenances, including structures, affixed thereto, and any intangible characteristic that contributes to the fair market value thereof. "Real property" includes surface interests, mineral interests and pore space interests.
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