No State Lease-Termination Right — Only the Federal Act Applies
The residential rental article of this state's code runs from definitions through owners' and renters' duties, deposits, remedies and eviction. There is no military provision anywhere in it — no active duty, no deployment, no permanent change of station. A service member ending a lease here relies on the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act alone, and the federal Act is also what forbids an early-termination charge.
Verified August 23, 2026
What this benefit is
The residential rental article of this state's code runs from definitions through owners' and renters' duties, deposits, remedies and eviction. There is no military provision anywhere in it — no active duty, no deployment, no permanent change of station. A service member ending a lease here relies on the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act alone, and the federal Act is also what forbids an early-termination charge.
What it's worth: No state lease-termination provision for service members — the federal Act stands alone here
- The residential rental property article of the code of civil procedure, sections 1-21-1201 to 1-21-1211, is the state's residential landlord and tenant law.
- Its sections cover definitions, duties of owners and renters, the owner's duties and notice by the renter, the renter's duties, prohibited acts by the renter, the renter's remedies, notice of a nonrefundable deposit, deductions from a deposit, holders of the owner's interest, possession and disposition of property, and the owner's remedies and eviction.
- The words military, active duty and armed forces do not appear anywhere in the article as read this session.
- Habitability termination under this article runs through a court order rather than by unilateral notice.
Who is entitled to it
- You are in this state.
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How to claim it
- 1Do not spend days looking for a state statute. The article that would carry it was read this session and it is not there.
- 2Give the federal notice properly: in writing, with a copy of the orders. On a monthly tenancy the termination takes effect thirty days after the next rent day.
- 3Push back on an early-termination charge. It is the federal Act that forbids one on a qualifying military termination, and a landlord who has never seen the argument will often try it on.
- 4Check your lease for a military clause. Where there is no state overlay, a contractual clause is the only thing that can give you more than the federal minimum.
- 5Take a disputed termination to a legal assistance officer rather than fighting it alone. With no state provision there is no state penalty to point at, so enforcement runs entirely through the federal route.
- Form
- The federal notice: written notice of termination with a copy of the military orders
- File with
- Your landlord
- No renewal
- Once granted it does not need renewing.
Sources
- authority · statuteWyo. Stat. 1-21-1201 to 1-21-1211 — residential rental property, full article as compiled
Why only one source type: An absence is established by reading the article that would contain the provision. The compiled title was read in full this session and the residential rental article contains no military term.
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