Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 15. TAXATION

CHAPTER 6. PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION

Part 1. Classification

Class Seven Property -- Description -- Taxable Percentage

15-6-137. Class seven property -- description -- taxable percentage. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), class seven property includes:

(a) all property owned by cooperative rural electrical associations that serve less than 95% of the electricity consumers within the incorporated limits of a city or town, except rural electric cooperative properties described in 15-6-141(1)(c);

(b) electric transformers and meters; electric light and power substation machinery; natural gas measuring and regulating station equipment, meters, and compressor station machinery owned by noncentrally assessed public utilities; and tools used in the repair and maintenance of this property.

(2) Class seven property does not include wind generation facilities, biomass generation facilities, and energy storage facilities classified under 15-6-157.

(3) Class seven property is taxed at 8% of its market value.

History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 693, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 330, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 352, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 61, Ch. 575, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 576, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 10, Sp. L. June 1989; amd. Sec. 32, Ch. 505, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 33, Ch. 426, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 563, L. 2005; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 357, L. 2009; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 309, L. 2011.