Montana Code Annotated 1997

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     15-16-117. Personal property -- treasurer's duty to collect certain taxes. (1) The county treasurer shall demand payment of poor fund taxes, authorized by 53-2-322, and road taxes, authorized by 7-14-2206 or 7-14-2501 through 7-14-2504, of every person liable for the taxes whose name does not appear on the property tax record. On the neglect or refusal of a person to pay the taxes, the treasurer shall collect the taxes by seizure and sale of any property owned by the person.
     (2) These taxes must be added in the property tax record to other property taxes of persons paying taxes upon real and personal property and must be paid to the county treasurer at the time of payment of other taxes.
     (3) The procedure for the sale of property by the county treasurer for the taxes is regulated by 15-16-119 and 15-17-911.
     (4) The provisions of this section do not apply to property for which delinquent property taxes have been suspended or canceled under the provisions of Title 15, chapter 24, part 17.

     History: (1), (2)En. Sec. 1, Ch. 168, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 2252.1, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 84-4213, R.C.M. 1947; (3)En. Sec. 2, Ch. 168, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 2252.2, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 84-4214, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 84-4213, 84-4214; amd. Sec. 36, Ch. 587, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 631, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 561, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 83, Ch. 27, Sp. L. November 1993.

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