Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 14. TRANSPORTATION

Part 46. Parking Commissions

Definitions

7-14-4602. Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this part, shall have the following respective meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(1) "City" shall mean the particular city for which a particular commission may be created or which may act as such a commission pursuant to resolution of its legislative body.

(2) "Clause" includes article, section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, or provision.

(3) "Clerk" shall mean the clerk of the city or the officer charged with the duties customarily imposed on such clerk.

(4) "Commission" or "parking commission" shall mean any of the public corporations which may be created by a city and any city which may exercise the powers of a parking commission pursuant to resolution adopted by its legislative body under the provisions of 7-14-4603 through 7-14-4608.

(5) "Indenture" means ordinance, resolution, or indenture which may be passed, adopted, or entered into by a commission or by the legislative body of a city.

(6) "Legislative body" shall mean the city council or other body in which the general legislative powers of the city are vested.

(7) "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city or the officer thereof charged with the duties customarily imposed on the mayor or executive head of the city.

(8) "Obligee of the commission" or "obligee" shall be any bondholder, trustee or trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the commission property used in connection with a parking facility or any assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest or any part thereof and the state or the United States or any agency of either when a party to any contract with a commission by which aid or a loan is given or made to the commission.

(9) "Project" shall mean any acquisition, improvement, construction, or undertaking of any kind authorized by this part.

(10) "State public body" means the state or any city, commission, or any other subdivision or public body of the state.

History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 223, L. 1951; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 401, L. 1973; R.C.M. 1947, 11-3702.