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Legal changes to vehicle titles effective Jan. 1

The beginning of the year will bring two notable changes to the process of titling a vehicle. It will now be possible to set up the paperwork for joint ownership such that only one signature is needed to transfer that title on; it will also become legal to ask someone else to help you handle your paperwork.

In the first instance, says County Clerk Linda Fritz, “Representative Tyler Lindholm pursued legislation so that, if you title a vehicle with a conjunction of ‘or’, then only one person has to sign to sell. It still has to be notarized.”

Until now, Wyoming has not recognized “or” as a conju...