Montana Code Annotated 1997

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     7-3-183. Commission powers. (1) A study commission may employ and fix the compensation and duties of necessary staff. State, municipal, and county officers and employees, at the request of the study commission and with the consent of the employing agency, may be granted leave with or without pay from their agency to serve as consultants to the study commission. If leave with pay is granted, they may receive no other compensation from the study commission except mileage and per diem.
     (2) A study commission may contract and cooperate with other agencies, public or private, as it considers necessary for assistance in carrying out the purposes for which the commission was established. Upon request of the chairman of the study commission, state agencies, counties, and other local governments and the officers and employees thereof shall furnish or make available to the commission such information as may be necessary for carrying out the commission's function.
     (3) A study commission may:
     (a) establish advisory boards and committees, including on them persons who are not members of the study commission;
     (b) retain consultants; and
     (c) do any other act consistent with and reasonably required to perform its function.

     History: En. Sec. 15, Ch. 697, L. 1983.

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