Montana Code Annotated
Part 5. Financial Aspects of Conservation Districts Loan Program
76-15-541. Conservation practice loan program -- definition

76-15-541. Conservation practice loan program -- definition. (1) A conservation district may establish and administer a conservation practice loan program pursuant to 76-15-541 through 76-15-547.
(2) A conservation practice loan may be made to a land occupier who is an agriculture producer within the exterior boundaries of the district. The conservation practice must be constructed, operated, developed, and maintained within the district.
(3) A conservation practice is the construction, operation, development, or maintenance of an erosion control and prevention operation, a work of improvement for flood prevention, and the conservation, development, use, and disposal of water within a district in furtherance of the purposes and policies of this chapter. Conservation practices include those practices pertaining to acceptable land use conversion as determined by a majority of the district supervisors with the advice of the United States natural resources conservation service.
History: En. Sec. 11, Ch. 473, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 281, Ch. 42, L. 1997.

Structure Montana Code Annotated

Montana Code Annotated

Title 76. Land Resources and Use

Chapter 15. Conservation Districts

Part 5. Financial Aspects of Conservation Districts Loan Program

76-15-501. Financial management

76-15-502. Allocation of state funds among districts

76-15-503. Permissible uses of state money

76-15-504. Repealed

76-15-505. Authorization to borrow money -- limitations

76-15-506. Bonds authorized -- election

76-15-507. Investment of funds

76-15-508. Management of surplus funds

76-15-509. and 76-15-510 reserved

76-15-511. Estimate of money to be raised by assessment

76-15-512. Expenses to be covered by estimate

76-15-513. Division between counties of money to be raised by regular and special assessment

76-15-514. Regular and special assessments

76-15-515. Regular assessment

76-15-516. Levy of regular and special assessments

76-15-517. Repealed

76-15-518. Certification of assessment to department of revenue -- entry on property tax record

76-15-519. Application of general law on levy and collection

76-15-520. Liability of county officers

76-15-521. Principal county defined

76-15-522. Settlements by county treasurers other than of principal county

76-15-523. Depository of district funds

76-15-524. Receipt and crediting of district funds -- responsibility on bond

76-15-525. Payment of district money -- warrants

76-15-526. Treasurer's reports

76-15-527. Purpose of expenditures

76-15-528. Lien for special assessments

76-15-529. Assessments unaffected by misnomers and mistakes relating to ownership

76-15-530. Conservation district appropriations -- administration

76-15-531. Special administrative assessment permitted -- voter approval

76-15-532. Limitations -- reduction or repeal of special administrative assessment

76-15-533. through 76-15-540 reserved

76-15-541. Conservation practice loan program -- definition

76-15-542. Conservation practice loan account

76-15-543. Application for loan

76-15-544. Eligibility for loan

76-15-545. Criteria for evaluation of loan applicants -- preferences

76-15-546. Terms and conditions of loan

76-15-547. Rules for loan program