Montana Code Annotated 1995

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     15-24-902. Assessment of livestock -- election for assessment on average inventory basis. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the department of revenue shall assess all nonexempt livestock in each county where they are located on February 1 of each year. The livestock must be assessed to the person by whom they were owned or claimed or in whose possession or control they were at midnight of February 1 in that year.
     (2) An owner of livestock may elect to have nonexempt livestock assessed on the average inventory basis as provided in 15-24-927. The owner shall file an election with the department on the statement required under 15-24-903. An owner of livestock making an election to have nonexempt livestock assessed on the average inventory basis is bound by that election for 6 years. After 6 years, the election to have nonexempt livestock assessed on the average inventory basis remains in effect unless the owner otherwise notifies the department before February 1.

     History: En. Sec. 3720, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 2530, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 2068, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 2068, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 84-5201; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 598, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 109, Ch. 27, Sp. L. November 1993; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 576, L. 1995.

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