Montana Code Annotated
Part 6. Snowmobiles
23-2-653. Snowmobile area operators -- duties

23-2-653. Snowmobile area operators -- duties. (1) Consistent with the duty of reasonable care owed by a snowmobile area operator to a snowmobiler, the person responsible for the maintenance of or operation of a snowmobile area shall mark all trail maintenance vehicles and furnish the vehicles with flashing or rotating lights that must be in operation whenever the vehicles are working or are in movement in the snowmobile area.
(2) The snowmobile area operator owes a duty of reasonable care, as required by 27-1-701, to a snowmobiler except for the risks inherent in the sport of snowmobiling.
(3) Except as provided in this section, a snowmobile area operator has no duty to eliminate, alter, control, or lessen the risks inherent in the sport of snowmobiling.
History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 440, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 145, L. 1999.

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Montana Code Annotated

Title 23. Parks, Recreation, Sports, and Gambling

Chapter 2. Recreation

Part 6. Snowmobiles

23-2-601. Definition of terms

23-2-602. Report of stolen and recovered snowmobiles

23-2-603. through 23-2-610 reserved

23-2-611. Certificate of title

23-2-612. Repealed

23-2-613. Repealed

23-2-614. Exemptions

23-2-615. Repealed

23-2-615.1. Renumbered 23-2-626

23-2-616. Registration and registration decal -- application and issuance -- use of certain fees

23-2-617. Duplicate decal

23-2-618. Repealed

23-2-619. Repealed

23-2-620. Repealed

23-2-621. Registration of a snowmobile owned and operated solely as a collector's item

23-2-622. Registration of racing snowmobile not required

23-2-623. through 23-2-625 reserved

23-2-626. Repealed

23-2-627. through 23-2-630 reserved

23-2-631. Operation on public roads, streets, and highways

23-2-632. Unlawful operation of snowmobiles

23-2-633. Other unlawful operation

23-2-634. Regulation of snowmobile noise

23-2-635. Accidents involving snowmobiles

23-2-636. Winter trail pass -- fees -- penalties

23-2-637. through 23-2-640 reserved

23-2-641. Enforcement

23-2-642. Penalties

23-2-643. Regulation by local government precluded

23-2-644. Deposit of funds from fines and forfeitures

23-2-645. through 23-2-650 reserved

23-2-651. Purpose

23-2-652. Repealed

23-2-653. Snowmobile area operators -- duties

23-2-654. Snowmobiler's assumption of responsibility -- duties

23-2-655. Maintenance of rental snowmobiles

23-2-656. Repealed

23-2-657. Environmental review compliance -- exemption