76-16-302. Membership in state district. (1) Membership in a state district is limited to persons engaged in the livestock business who own or lease forage-producing lands within or near the state district, except that the agent of a person entitled to membership in the state district may become a member in place of the agent's principal.
(2) If an agent becomes a member, the agent's qualifications for membership and the agent's obligations to and the privileges in the state district must be measured by those that the agent's principal would have had if the principal had elected to become a member. An agent and the agent's principal may not both be members of the state district unless the agent has individual qualifications for membership that are separable from and independent of those of the principal.
(3) Livestock producers owning or controlling base property within the designated boundaries of the state district and who held grazing preference during the preceding grazing season or at the time of voting must be designated as permittee members.
History: En. Sec. 14, Ch. 208, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 163, L. 1953; amd. Sec. 44, Ch. 253, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 46-2314(part); amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 401, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 21, Ch. 31, L. 2001.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 76. Land Resources and Use
Part 3. Organization, Administration, and Operation
76-16-301. Powers and duties of directors
76-16-302. Membership in state district
76-16-304. Effect of transfer of land
76-16-305. Acquisition and disposal of property
76-16-306. Management of grazing lands
76-16-307. Leasing of state lands
76-16-308. Regulation of stock grazing in state district
76-16-309. Knowledge of state district boundaries responsibility of livestock owner
76-16-310. Permit required to run livestock in state district
76-16-311. Control of trespassing livestock
76-16-312. Impoundment of trespassing livestock
76-16-313. Release of livestock
76-16-314. Recovery of excess charge for damages
76-16-315. Procedure upon inability to locate person responsible for trespassing livestock
76-16-316. Sale of trespassing livestock
76-16-317. Disposition of sale proceeds
76-16-318. Unlawful recovery of trespassing livestock
76-16-319. No liability for official acts
76-16-320. Maintenance of fences
76-16-321. Construction of trespass and fence provisions
76-16-322. Fence-out requirement
76-16-323. State district finances