Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 85. WATER USE

CHAPTER 8. DRAINAGE DISTRICTS

Part 3. Organization and Operation

Presumption Of Regularity Of Commissioners' Acts

85-8-315. Presumption of regularity of commissioners' acts. Commissioners of drainage districts are hereby declared to be public officers. The presumption shall be in favor of the regularity and validity of all their official acts. Whenever any report of the commissioners of any drainage district or any part of any such report is contested, remonstrated against, or called in question, the burden of proof shall rest upon the contestant, remonstrant, or questioner.

History: En. Sec. 95, Ch. 129, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 7359, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 7359, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 89-2815.