Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 22. WEED AND PEST CONTROL

Part 41. Municipal Weed Control

Control Of Nuisance Weeds Within Municipality

7-22-4101. Control of nuisance weeds within municipality. (1) The city or town council has power to:

(a) declare and determine what vegetation within the city or town shall be nuisance weeds;

(b) provide the manner in which they shall be exterminated;

(c) require the owner or owners of any property within said city or town to exterminate or remove nuisance weeds from their premises and the one-half of any road or street lying next to the land or boulevard abutting thereon; and

(d) provide, in the event the owner or owners of any of said premises neglect to exterminate or remove the nuisance weeds therefrom, for levying the cost of such extermination or removal as a special tax against the property.

(2) A noxious weed as defined in 7-22-2101 may not be declared a nuisance weed under this section.

History: En. Subd. 83, Sec. 5039, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 115, L. 1925; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 20, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 5039.82, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-985; amd. Sec. 29, Ch. 607, L. 1985.