Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 76. LAND RESOURCES AND USE

CHAPTER 3. LOCAL REGULATION OF SUBDIVISIONS

Part 4. Survey Requirements

Surveys Affecting Irrigation Districts -- Additional Survey Requirements

76-3-406. Surveys affecting irrigation districts -- additional survey requirements. (1) (a) A surveyor who completes a survey identified in subsection (2) that establishes or defines a section line and creates a parcel that crosses the established or defined section line so that an irrigation district assessment boundary is included in more than 1 section shall note on the survey the acreage of the farm unit or created parcel in each section.

(b) The surveyor shall notify the appropriate irrigation district of the existence of the survey and the purpose of the survey.

(2) The requirements of subsection (1) apply only to surveys for which the surveyor determines that, based on available public records, the survey involves land:

(a) traversed by a canal or ditch owned by an irrigation district; or

(b) included in an irrigation district.

(3) For purposes of this section, "irrigation district" means a district established pursuant to Title 85, chapter 7.

History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 136, L. 1993.