HOUSE BILL NO. 440
INTRODUCED BY H. JACOBSON
AN ACT REVISING RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTION TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION TO MAKE THEM CONSISTENT WITH THE RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR FILLING COUNTY COMMISSION VACANCIES; AMENDING SECTION 7-4-2104, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
Section 1. Section 7-4-2104, MCA, is amended to read:
"7-4-2104. Commissioners to be elected by district. (1) At each general election, the member or members of the
board of county commissioners to be elected shall must be selected from the residents and electors of the district or districts
in which the vacancy occurs, but the election of such the member or members of the board shall must be submitted to the
entire electorate of the county.
(2) No one shall A person may not be elected as a member of said a board of county commissioners who unless the
person has not resided in the county and the district for at least 2 years next preceding the time when he shall become a
candidate for said office and was not a resident of the district at the time of filing for the primary general election."
Section 2. Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval.
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