Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 23. PARKS, RECREATION, SPORTS, AND GAMBLING

CHAPTER 2. RECREATION

Part 6. Snowmobiles

Certificate Of Title

23-2-611. Certificate of title. (1) A snowmobile may not be operated upon any private or public lands, trails, easements, lakes, rivers, streams, roadways or shoulders of roadways, streets, or highways unless a certificate of title has first been obtained from the department of justice in accordance with the laws of this state. A certificate of title is not required for a snowmobile purchased prior to April 16, 1993, if use of the snowmobile is restricted to private land.

(2) Unless expressly exempted, the provisions of Title 61, chapter 3, parts 1 and 2, apply to snowmobiles.

History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 434, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 391, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 249, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 421, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 53-1013; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 363, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 24, Ch. 712, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 277, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 164, L. 1989; amd. Secs. 3, 14, Ch. 398, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 535, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 23, Ch. 16, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 463, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 351, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 482, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 133, Ch. 574, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 22, Ch. 477, L. 2003.