Montana Code Annotated 1997

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     20-25-321. Security department members -- appointment -- powers. (1) The regents of the Montana university system may appoint one or more persons to be members of security departments at each unit of the university system, as such security departments are constituted on July 1, 1971, or may thereafter be constituted. Persons employed and compensated as members of the security departments when so appointed are peace officers; however, such peace officers shall not exercise their authority except:
     (a) upon the campuses of the Montana university system and, for campus-related activities, an area within 1 mile of the exterior boundaries of each thereof; and
     (b) in or about other grounds or properties owned, operated, controlled, or administered by the regents or any unit of the Montana university system.
     (2) Such officers shall have no power to serve and execute civil processes.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 405, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 75-8513.

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