Montana Code Annotated 2003

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     15-24-1206. County suit for delinquent privilege tax. A tax due and unpaid under 15-24-1203 through 15-24-1205 shall constitute a debt due the county for and on behalf of the various taxing units concerned in the tax. If the tax imposed by 15-24-1203 through 15-24-1205 or any portion thereof is not paid at the time the same becomes delinquent, the county auditor may issue a warrant in the name of the county directed to the clerk of the district court in his county, and thereupon the clerk shall enter in the judgment docket, in the column for judgment debtors, the name of the delinquent taxpayer mentioned in the warrant and, in the appropriate columns, the amount of tax, penalties, interest, and other costs for which the warrant is issued and the date when such warrant is filed, and thereupon the warrant so docketed shall have the force and effect of a judgment duly rendered by a district court and docketed in the office of the clerk thereof and the county shall have the same remedies against the possessor user as any other judgment docket.

     History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 370, L. 1969; R.C.M. 1947, 84-210.

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