Wyoming has no statewide certified food protection manager requirement (Wyoming imposes no statewide manager-certification mandate). Where you work may matter: any county or city rule that does require one is below, verified from the official source.

The rule

Wyoming imposes no statewide manager-certification mandate. The Wyoming Food Safety Rule, Chapter 1, Section 10(a) makes the certification one of three optional ways for the person in charge to demonstrate knowledge, and says so in the word “voluntarily”. Read the full three-option sentence before writing anything that implies a state requirement.

Two local boards of health have made it compulsory inside their jurisdictions, using near-identical language borrowed from the FDA Food Code, and the two versions are not the same duty:

  • Teton County (food rule 2026, Chapter 1, Section 11(a), verbatim): “The person in charge, as defined in Chapter 1, Section 9, shall be a Certified Food Protection Manager who has shown proficiency of required information through passing a test that is part of an accredited program.” That is a certified-person-in-charge duty.

  • Casper-Natrona County (Food Safety Rule 2023, Chapter 1, Section 11(i), verbatim): “At least one employee that has supervisory and management responsibility and the authority to direct and control food preparation and service shall be a certified food protection manager who has shown proficiency of required information through passing a test that is part of an accredited program.” That is a one-certified-employee-per-establishment duty, and it does not require the person in charge personally to be certified.

The Casper-Natrona County Health Department states the duty on its licensing page in a narrower form than its own rule: “Every establishment preparing PHF/TCS foods shall have a Certified Manager.” The rule text carries no PHF/TCS limitation on its face; it carries a minimal-risk exemption exercised by the regulatory authority (Section 11(iii)). Both statements are official; attribute each rather than merging them.

What it’s called

“Food manager certification”, “food manager license”, “food safety manager certification”, “CFPM”, “ServSafe Manager” and “certified food manager” are informal names searchers use for this credential. Wyoming’s own rules name only the generic article: “a certified food protection manager … who has passed a test that is part of an accredited program.” ServSafe is a course/exam brand, not the name of the credential, and no Wyoming rule names ServSafe, ANSI, ANAB or any other provider as the manager standard – the only ANSI reference anywhere in the Wyoming Food Safety Rule is Chapter 6, Section 10(a), about sanitation certification of food equipment, which is unrelated. It is not a food handler card: Wyoming issues no individual food handler card at all (see the handler-card relationship).

How this relates to the food handler card

Only one of the two credentials exists in Wyoming, so there is no substitution question in the usual direction.

Wyoming has no food handler card. Nothing in the Wyoming Food Safety Rule requires an individual food employee to hold a card, permit or certificate; the only individual duty in Chapter 1 falls on the person in charge, who must be able to demonstrate food-safety knowledge to the inspector (Chapter 1, Section 10(a)). So a handler card cannot satisfy the manager duty here, because Wyoming issues nothing that could be offered in its place.

The reverse substitution is written into the rule, and it runs the other way from most states: holding the manager certification is one of three alternative ways to discharge the person-in-charge knowledge duty. Chapter 1, Section 10(a), verbatim: “The person in charge shall demonstrate this knowledge by compliance with this Rule, by responding correctly to the inspectors’ questions as they relate to the specific establishment or processing plant, or by voluntarily being a certified food protection manager who has shown proficiency of required information through passing a test that is part of an accredited program.” The word “voluntarily” is in the rule text; statewide, certification is an option, never a requirement.

In Teton County and in Casper-Natrona County the local board of health has removed that option and made the certification compulsory (see the local rules section). Both county rules then add an express deemed-compliance clause – Teton food rule 2026 Chapter 1, Section 12; Casper-Natrona Food Safety Rule 2023 Chapter 1, Section 12 – under which an accredited-program certification satisfies both the knowledge duty (Section 10(a)) and the CFPM duty (Section 11).

The Wyoming food handler page also covers manager and person-in-charge duties; this page is the full treatment of them.

The employee-level question — whether Wyoming requires a food handler card — is answered on the Wyoming food handler card page .

Quick facts

  • Requirement level: County-mandated — Wyoming imposes no statewide manager-certification mandate
  • Duty shape: optional-knowledge-route
  • Who must hold it: Statewide: nobody. No person in Wyoming is required by state rule to hold a food protection manager certification. The state duty is on the establishment to have a person in charge present during all hours of operation (Chapter 1, Section 9(a)) and on that person to demonstrate knowledge on request (Section 10(a)); certification is one voluntary way to do that.

Teton County: the person in charge must personally BE a Certified Food Protection Manager (food rule 2026, Chapter 1, Section 11(a)). Teton Chapter 1, Section 9 defines who the person in charge is, and Section 9 of the state rule – which Teton mirrors – requires the license holder to be the person in charge or to designate one and to ensure a person in charge is present during all hours of operation.

Casper-Natrona County: at least one employee with supervisory and management responsibility and the authority to direct and control food preparation and service must be a certified food protection manager (Food Safety Rule 2023, Chapter 1, Section 11(i)). The rule does not require that person to be the person in charge, and does not require every supervisor to be certified – “at least one employee” is the whole of it.

In both counties the duty attaches to the establishment; the credential is held by an individual.

  • Presence rule: No presence requirement attaches to the certification anywhere in Wyoming. The presence duty in the Wyoming Food Safety Rule is on the person in charge, not on a certified manager – Chapter 1, Section 9(a), verbatim: “The license holder shall be the person in charge or shall designate a person in charge and shall ensure that a person in charge is present at the establishment or processing plant during all hours of operation.”

In Teton County the two collapse into one another as a matter of arithmetic rather than by an express presence clause: Teton requires the person in charge to BE a Certified Food Protection Manager (Chapter 1, Section 11(a)) and, mirroring the state, requires a person in charge present during all hours of operation – so a certified manager is in practice present whenever the establishment operates. Casper-Natrona County has no such effect: its duty is on “at least one employee” with supervisory authority, and its rule sets no shift, hours-of-operation or on-premises requirement for that employee. No Wyoming rule uses a per-shift formulation for the manager credential.

  • Minimum certified people: Statewide: zero – no minimum, because the credential is voluntary.

Teton County: one, and it must be the person in charge (food rule 2026, Chapter 1, Section 11(a)).

Casper-Natrona County: one, stated as “At least one employee that has supervisory and management responsibility and the authority to direct and control food preparation and service” (Food Safety Rule 2023, Chapter 1, Section 11(i)).

Neither county sets a higher count for larger establishments and neither scales the count by seats, shifts or employee headcount.

  • Certificate issued by: An accredited food protection manager certification program – never a Wyoming government body. The Wyoming Food Safety Rule contemplates only “a test that is part of an accredited program” (Chapter 1, Section 10(a)) and defines “Accredited program” at Chapter 1, Section 8(a)(i)(A) as “a food protection manager certification program that has been evaluated and listed by an accrediting agency as conforming to national standards for organizations that certify individuals.” Subparagraph (C) is the load-bearing limit: “‘Accredited program’ does not refer to training functions or educational programs” – the accreditation attaches to the certification process, not to a course.

The word “certificate” is never used of the manager credential anywhere in the Wyoming Food Safety Rule, and no Wyoming rule establishes a state certificate, card, registration number or verification lookup for a certified food protection manager. The Casper-Natrona County Health Department points applicants at a private accreditor rather than at itself: “Please visit the ANSI National Accreditation Board website for links to approved manager certification courses and exams, or contact our office for information on in-person ServSafe training.”

  • Regulator: Wyoming Department of Agriculture, Consumer Health Services – the statewide food-safety regulator, which promulgates and enforces the Wyoming Food Safety Rule under W.S. 35-7-120, 35-7-123(a)(iii) and 35-7-127 (Chapter 1, Section 1). The rules themselves refer to “the regulatory authority”.

The two mandates are local: the Teton County Board of Health (rule administered by Teton County Environmental Health, 460 E Pearl Ave, Jackson, WY 83001) and the City of Casper-Natrona County Board of Health (rule administered by the Casper-Natrona County Health Department Environmental Health Division, 475 South Spruce Street, Casper, WY 82601). No Wyoming regulator issues the manager credential itself.

  • Valid for: No state term. No Wyoming source at any level – the Wyoming Food Safety Rule (Ch. 1, effective 12/10/2012 to current), the Teton County food rule 2026 or the Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023 – publishes a term, expiry or renewal cycle for a certified food protection manager (all three as of 2026-09-05); the only ’re-certification’ in the rules sits inside the accredited-program definition. Any term is the accredited program’s own.
  • Renewal: None published anywhere in Wyoming. No Wyoming rule sets a term, an expiry, a recertification interval or a renewal filing for the food protection manager certification. Whatever term the certification carries is set by the accredited program that issued it, not by Wyoming.

Read carefully before quoting: the only occurrence of “re-certification” in the Wyoming Food Safety Rule is inside the definition of “Accredited program” at Chapter 1, Section 8(a)(i)(B), which lists the factors an accrediting agency evaluates – “public information regarding program scope, eligibility requirements, re-certification, discipline and grievance procedures; and test development and administration.” That is a description of what accreditors look at. It is not a Wyoming recertification requirement and must never be rendered as one. The same sentence, and the same trap, appear verbatim in both county rules.

  • State fee: Wyoming charges nothing for the manager credential, at any level of government. There is no state manager application, no state certificate and no state fee: the Wyoming Food Safety Rule sets fees only for establishment licenses (Chapter 2, Section 5), never for a person. Teton County and Casper-Natrona County likewise set their fees in their own Chapter 2 license-fee sections, payable by the establishment; neither county rule attaches a fee to the manager certification.

The only money in this credential is a private accredited program’s price for its course and exam, which no Wyoming government source publishes.

Training and exam

A test that is part of an accredited program. That phrase is the whole of what Wyoming law says about the examination, and it is identical in all three rules: state Chapter 1, Section 10(a); Teton food rule 2026 Chapter 1, Section 11(a); Casper-Natrona Food Safety Rule 2023 Chapter 1, Section 11(i) – each requires a person who “has shown proficiency of required information through passing a test that is part of an accredited program.”

No Wyoming rule names an examination body, sets a passing score, requires proctoring, sets a time limit, limits retakes, or requires the exam to be taken in Wyoming. The accreditation definition at Chapter 1, Section 8(a)(i)(B) refers to independent evaluation of “test development and administration”, which places those questions with the accrediting agency rather than with Wyoming. Statewide the exam is never compulsory; in Teton and Casper-Natrona counties passing it is the only route the rule provides to the required certification.

Approved courses and the approval standard

Wyoming approves no providers and maintains no approved-provider list. The state rule points at an accreditation status, not at a roster: any program “evaluated and listed by an accrediting agency as conforming to national standards for organizations that certify individuals” qualifies (Chapter 1, Section 8(a)(i)(A)). The Wyoming Department of Agriculture publishes no list of approved manager courses, exams or providers on its Food Safety page.

The two county rules tighten the standard to a named body of standards – see the accreditation details on this page – but still name no provider. The only Wyoming government page that names a provider at all is the Casper-Natrona County Health Department licensing page, which refers the reader to the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) list and offers in-person ServSafe training through its own office. That is a service the county health department offers, not an approval of ServSafe as the required course, and no Wyoming rule names it.

Three different standards apply in Wyoming, and they are not interchangeable.

  1. State (Wyoming Food Safety Rule, Chapter 1, Section 8(a)(i)): the generic test – “evaluated and listed by an accrediting agency as conforming to national standards for organizations that certify individuals.” No accrediting agency is named. The Conference for Food Protection is not mentioned anywhere in the Wyoming Food Safety Rule; neither is ANAB. The single “ANSI” occurrence in the whole state rule is Chapter 6, Section 10(a), about sanitation certification of food equipment – quoting it as the manager standard would be a fabrication.

  2. Teton County (food rule 2026, Chapter 1, Section 12(a)): a program “evaluated and listed by a Conference for Food Protection-recognized accrediting agency as conforming to the Conference for Food Protection Standard for Accreditation of Food Protection Manager Certification Programs.”

  3. Casper-Natrona County (Food Safety Rule 2023, Chapter 1, Section 12(i)): the same clause, with “Standards” in the plural.

Only the Casper-Natrona County Health Department’s licensing page names an accreditor operationally, and it names ANAB.

Fees

  • Regulatory fee: None. No Wyoming state, county or municipal application, registration or filing fee exists for a certified food protection manager, because no Wyoming government operates a manager application or registration. Checked: the Wyoming Food Safety Rule (fees appear only in Chapter 2, Section 5, “License Fees”, charged to the establishment); Teton County food rule 2026 Chapter 2, whose Section 5 provides that “License fees shall be determined by the Teton County Board of Health” for new establishments, new owners, relocations, annual renewals and temporary licenses – all establishment fees; and the Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023 Chapter 2, Section 5 (License Fees), likewise establishment-only.
  • Government certificate fee: None. No Wyoming government issues a certificate, card or identification for a food protection manager, so there is nothing to charge for. The Wyoming Food Safety Rule never uses the word “certificate” of the manager credential, and neither county rule creates one; both counties recognise a certification issued by an accredited program.
  • Examination fee: Not set or published by any Wyoming authority. The exam is administered by the accredited program, and its price is the program’s. No Wyoming rule or agency page publishes an examination fee, a proctoring fee or a retake fee for food protection manager certification. Tiers checked for a published figure: the Wyoming Food Safety Rule (all 15 chapters), the WDA Food Safety program page, the Teton County food rule 2026, the Teton County Environmental Health regulations index, the Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023 and the Casper-Natrona County Health Department licensing page. The Casper-Natrona page offers in-person ServSafe training through its own office but publishes no price for it.
  • Course price: Not published by any Wyoming government source, and Wyoming requires no course at all (see the training details on this page). Course prices are set by private accredited programs. The only Wyoming government page that mentions a course points outward without a price: the Casper-Natrona County Health Department licensing page says “Please visit the ANSI National Accreditation Board website for links to approved manager certification courses and exams, or contact our office for information on in-person ServSafe training.” Naming a dollar figure here would mean sourcing it from a provider’s sales page and presenting a private price as though Wyoming had published it.

Renewal

None published. Wyoming imposes no continuing-education hours, no refresher course, no re-examination, no renewal application and no renewal fee for the manager certification, at state or county level. Teton County and Casper-Natrona County require the certification to exist and to be replaced within 90 days of the holder’s termination of employment, and say nothing about keeping an existing holder’s certification current. Sources checked: statute (W.S. 35-7-110 through 35-7-127, the Wyoming Food, Drug and Cosmetic Safety Act cited as the rule’s authority) -> administrative rule (all 15 chapters of the Wyoming Food Safety Rule) -> agency page (WDA Food Safety) -> the two county rules and their departments’ web pages.

Grace periods and coverage

Replacing a certified manager. Ninety days, in both counties that mandate the credential, in identical words.

Teton County food rule 2026, Chapter 1, Section 11(b), verbatim: “Certified Food Protection Managers who terminate employment shall be replaced within ninety (90) days of such termination.”

Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023, Chapter 1, Section 11(ii), verbatim: “Certified food protection managers who terminate employment shall be replaced within ninety (90) days of such termination.”

Statewide there is no grace period because there is no duty to grace. Neither county rule provides a grace period for a change of ownership, for a newly opened establishment, or for a certification that lapses while the holder stays employed – the ninety days is tied to termination of employment only. Do not generalise it.

Several establishments. Not addressed anywhere in Wyoming. Both county rules are written per establishment and neither says whether one certified manager can cover more than one location. Teton County’s wording makes the question nearly moot in practice – its duty is on the person in charge of the establishment, and the person in charge must be present during all hours of operation, so one person cannot serve two simultaneously operating establishments. Casper-Natrona County’s wording (“at least one employee that has supervisory and management responsibility”) sets no presence requirement, so the question is genuinely open there and the county publishes no guidance on it. An operator with locations in both counties has to satisfy each rule on its own terms.

New establishments. None published. Neither county rule sets a phase-in date, a transition period for establishments operating when the rule took effect, or a deadline by which an existing establishment had to have a certified manager in place. Teton County food rule 2026 took effect on adoption (May 19, 2026) with no compliance window written into Chapter 1, Section 11; the Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023 likewise contains none. The only clock either rule sets is the 90-day replacement period after a certified manager terminates employment (see the replacement grace period details on this page), which is a continuing obligation and not an initial deadline.

Who does NOT need this — exemptions

Statewide there is nothing to be exempt from: the certification is voluntary for every establishment in Wyoming under Chapter 1, Section 10(a).

Both counties that mandate it carry the same discretionary carve-out, and it is a regulator judgment rather than a listed class. Teton food rule 2026, Chapter 1, Section 11(c), verbatim: “This section does not apply to certain types of food establishments deemed by the regulatory authority to pose minimal risk of causing, or contributing to, foodborne illness based on the nature of the operation and extent of food preparation.” Casper-Natrona Food Safety Rule 2023, Chapter 1, Section 11(iii) is word-for-word the same. Neither county publishes the list of operations it has deemed minimal-risk, so the exemption cannot be stated as a set of establishment types – only as the standard the regulator applies.

Two structural exclusions sit upstream of the whole rule and therefore of any county manager duty. (1) The definition of “Establishment” at Chapter 1, Section 8(a)(lv)(C) excludes a private-home kitchen preparing only non-potentially-hazardous food for sale or use at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, private homes or functions; the area where such food is sold; a private home kitchen such as a small family day-care provider; a private home receiving catered or home-delivered food; a home kitchen preparing food for family consumption; and any other place equipped for preparation, consumption and storage of food on the premises by employees or nonpaying guests. (2) The Wyoming Food Freedom Act, W.S. 11-49-103(b), verbatim: “Unless otherwise provided in this section, homemade food products produced, sold and consumed in compliance with the Wyoming Food Freedom Act shall be exempt from state licensure, permitting, inspection, packaging and labeling requirements.” W.S. 11-49-103(d) closes the loop the other way: homemade or uninspected food “shall not be served or utilized as an ingredient in a commercial food establishment.”

Local rules

Two Wyoming jurisdictions mandate the credential their own way. Both were read at the county’s own rule, not inferred from the state rule.

  1. Teton County – “Teton County Rules for Food Safety, FOOD RULE 2026”, adopted by the Teton County Board of Health on May 19, 2026, and described on its own cover as “Adopted from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture 2012 Food Safety Rule and the 2022 FDA Food Code”. Chapter 1, Section 11(a) requires the person in charge to be a Certified Food Protection Manager; Section 11(b) gives 90 days to replace one who leaves; Section 11(c) exempts minimal-risk operations as determined by the regulatory authority; Section 12 makes an accredited certification deemed compliance with the knowledge duty and with Section 11.

  2. Casper-Natrona County – “Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023”, adopted by the City of Casper - Natrona County Board of Health. Chapter 1, Section 11(i) requires at least one employee with supervisory and management responsibility and the authority to direct and control food preparation and service to be a certified food protection manager; Section 11(ii) is the same 90-day replacement clause; Section 11(iii) the same minimal-risk carve-out; Section 12 the same deemed-compliance clause. The department states the duty on its licensing page as “Every establishment preparing PHF/TCS foods shall have a Certified Manager.”

The two duties are different and must not be merged: Teton certifies the person in charge; Casper-Natrona certifies at least one supervisory employee, who need not be the person in charge.

No other Wyoming county was found to impose a manager mandate. See the “What the sources do not say” section for exactly which jurisdictions were checked and which could not be reached – that check is partial.

The two county rules are the overrides, and they operate by adoption rather than by amendment: each county board of health has enacted its own complete food safety rule modelled on the Wyoming Food Safety Rule, and each inserted manager sections (Chapter 1, Sections 11 and 12) that the state rule does not contain. The state numbering runs Section 10 (Demonstration of Food Safety Knowledge) straight into Section 11 (Person in Charge, Duties); in both county rules that duties section is renumbered to Section 13 to make room for the two manager sections. That renumbering is the cleanest signal that a Wyoming county rule adds a manager mandate.

No Wyoming municipality was found to impose a separate manager rule of its own. The Casper-Natrona rule is a joint city-county instrument adopted by the City of Casper - Natrona County Board of Health, so Casper is covered by the county rule rather than by a separate city ordinance.

Posting and proof

None published. No Wyoming rule – state, Teton or Casper-Natrona – requires a food protection manager certification to be posted, displayed, kept on file or produced on demand. The state rule’s only display duties concern consumer advisories and signage, not credentials.

What each rule does require is a demonstration, not a document: under Chapter 1, Section 10(a) the person in charge must demonstrate knowledge to the regulatory authority “during inspections and upon request”, and being certified is one way to do that. Wyoming operates no verification lookup for the manager credential, so a county inspector who wants proof relies on the holder’s own certificate from the accredited program. Sources checked for a posting duty: the full text of the Wyoming Food Safety Rule, the Teton County food rule 2026, the Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023, the WDA Food Safety page and the Casper-Natrona licensing page.

Registration with the state

None. Wyoming adds no government layer on top of the accredited program’s certification – no state or county registration, ID card, filing, number or roster for a certified food protection manager. The Wyoming Food Safety Rule provides for none; neither county rule creates one; and no Wyoming agency operates a manager verification lookup. The only government transactions in this area are the establishment’s own license applications (WDA Consumer Health Services statewide; Teton County Environmental Health and the Casper-Natrona County Health Department in their jurisdictions), which are held by the establishment, not by the manager.

Food code edition

Wyoming has not adopted an FDA Food Code edition. The Wyoming Food Safety Rule is a self-contained state food code: the phrase “Food Code” does not appear anywhere in its full text (checked across all chapters on 2026-09-05). Its person-in-charge and accredited-program provisions track FDA Food Code language but are enacted as Wyoming text, not incorporated by reference.

The rule’s one incorporation-by-reference chapter does not reach the Food Code either. Chapter 14 (Incorporation by Reference of Federal Codes, Standards, Rules, and Regulations), Section 1(b), verbatim: “Unless otherwise specified, the incorporation by reference consists of the codes, standards, rules, and regulations in effect on August 15, 2019. The incorporation does not include any later amendments or editions of the incorporated matter.” Section 2 then lists Code of Federal Regulations parts (7 CFR 56, 57, 60, 65; the 9 CFR 300-500 series) and federal acts – no FDA Food Code.

Two answers are possible in Wyoming, because a county can adopt an edition the state has not. Teton County food rule 2026 says on its own cover that it was “Adopted from the Wyoming Department of Agriculture 2012 Food Safety Rule and the 2022 FDA Food Code by the Teton County Board of Health on May 19, 2026” – so inside Teton County the 2022 FDA Food Code is a stated source of the local rule. The Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023 makes no such statement and reproduces the state rule’s own incorporation chapter, which there fixes the federal material as in effect on January 1, 2015. Attribute each; do not merge. Adopting rule effective 2012-12-10 for the state rule chapter that carries the manager provisions (Wyoming Food Safety Rule Chapter 1; Reference Number 010.0003.1.12102012; “Effective Date: 12/10/2012 to Current” at the Secretary of State rules repository, as of 2026-09-05). Chapter 14 is the only chapter amended since: effective 01/21/2021 (010.0003.14.01212021). Chapter 13 dates from 11/14/2006. County adoptions: Teton County food rule 2026 adopted by the Teton County Board of Health on 2026-05-19; Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023 adopted by the City of Casper - Natrona County Board of Health, which publishes the year 2023 on the cover but no adoption date..

What the sources do not say

Sources checked for every field left as a negative: statute (Wyoming Food, Drug and Cosmetic Safety Act, W.S. 35-7-110 through 35-7-127, as cited in the rule’s own authority section; Wyoming Food Freedom Act, W.S. 11-49-101 through 11-49-104, read in the WDA-published July 1 2025 compilation) -> administrative rule (the full Wyoming Food Safety Rule, all 15 chapters, plus the Chapter 1 per-chapter PDF, read as extracted text; the version confirmed current at the Secretary of State rules repository) -> agency page (WDA Food Safety program page and Consumer Health Services division page) -> local rule and local agency page (Teton County food rule 2026 and the Teton Environmental Health regulations index; Casper-Natrona County Food Safety Rule 2023 and the Casper-Natrona County Health Department licensing page) -> accredited-program rule (the state and county rules’ own accreditation definitions, which delegate exam and recertification design to the accrediting agency).

no term is stated, deliberately. No Wyoming source at any level publishes a term, expiry or recertification interval for the food protection manager certification. The state rule mentions “re-certification” once, and only as one of the factors an accrediting agency evaluates when accrediting a program (Chapter 1, Section 8(a)(i)(B)) – both county rules repeat that sentence verbatim, so the same point applies to all three documents. Reading it as a Wyoming renewal cycle would invent a rule. Any term a Wyoming certificate-holder’s credential carries comes from the issuing accredited program, which is outside Wyoming’s published law.

No fee figure anywhere. No Wyoming government source publishes a manager application fee, certificate fee, examination fee or course price. The fee provisions in all three rules sit in Chapter 2 and are establishment license fees.

No provider list, no state exam, no passing SCORE, no state verification LOOKUP. None of these exist in any source above.

The county check is partial. Confirmed mandates: Teton County and Casper-Natrona County, each read at its own adopted rule. Also checked and found to carry no manager mandate on the pages reachable: Albany County and Campbell County public-health pages (reachable, zero occurrences of “food rule”, “food safety rule”, “food protection manager” or “certified manager”). Not reachable on 2026-09-05, so no conclusion is drawn for them: Laramie County (Cheyenne) www.laramiecounty.com/_departments/_publichealth/EnvironmentalHealth.aspx – connection timeout; www.laramiecountywy.gov/departments/public-health/ – that address no longer resolves; Sheridan County – the site refused the request; Fremont County – the site refused the request; City of Casper www.casperwy.gov – a refusal (the Casper duty was obtained from the joint city-county rule instead); WDA “CHS Inspectors by County” – that address no longer resolves, so no authoritative roster of which jurisdictions WDA does not inspect was obtainable. wyomingfoodsafety.org, linked from the WDA page, returned an error. The remaining 19 Wyoming counties were not individually checked. The local rules section therefore reports two confirmed mandates, not that only two exist.

Absent from the sources checked is not proven absent. The negatives above are stated as what the named documents do and do not say, on 2026-09-05.