Montana Code Annotated 1995

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     7-6-2426. Enumeration of county charges. The following are county charges:
     (1) charges incurred against the county by virtue of any provision of this title;
     (2) one-half of the salary of the county attorney and all expenses necessarily incurred by him in criminal cases arising within the county;
     (3) the salary and actual expenses for traveling, when on official duty, allowed by law to sheriffs and the compensation allowed by law to constables for executing process on persons charged with criminal offenses;
     (4) the board of prisoners confined in jail;
     (5) the accounts of the coroner of the county for such services as are provided by law;
     (6) all charges and accounts for services rendered by any justice of the peace for services in the examination or trial of persons charged with crime as provided for by law;
     (7) the necessary expenses incurred in the support of county hospitals and poorfarms and in the support of the indigent sick and the otherwise dependent poor whose support is chargeable to the county;
     (8) the contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the county;
     (9) every other sum directed by law to be raised for any county purpose under the direction of the board of county commissioners or declared to be a county charge.

     History: En. Sec. 4681, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 3199, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 4952, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pol. C. Sec. 4344; re-en. Sec. 4952, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 420, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 72, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 16-3802(1); amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 680, L. 1985.

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