Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 31. GENERAL EMERGENCY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES

Part 42. Open Ditches

Open Ditch Declared Nuisance

7-31-4203. Open ditch declared nuisance. Notwithstanding any provision contained in Title 85 or any law pertaining to the use of water in Montana, it is hereby declared that water which flows through the limits of an incorporated city or town in an open ditch is a public nuisance if such city or town, acting through its governing body declares it to be such nuisance.

History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 63, L. 1961; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 306, L. 1969; R.C.M. 1947, 11-4002.