Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 85. WATER USE

CHAPTER 5. WATER COMMISSIONERS AND WATER MEDIATORS

Part 1. Appointment and Duties

Term Of Office

85-5-104. Term of office. A water commissioner holds office for the time during the irrigation season of each year that may be designated by the judge in the order making the appointment. The judge may fix the date of the commencement of the term and may, in in the judge's discretion or when requested in writing by at least three persons entitled to the use of the waters, change the term for closing of the commissioner's service.

History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 43, L. 1911; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 116, L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 7139, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 7139, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 68, L. 1955; R.C.M. 1947, 89-1004; amd. Sec. 2772, Ch. 56, L. 2009.