85-7-2142. Misconduct in relation to bond funds. (1) (a) Except as provided in subsection (1)(b), when any officer or officers or board or body of officers of any irrigation district of the state are or shall be required by law to provide by a levy of taxes or by certifying the amount of money required or otherwise a sinking fund or fund required to pay at maturity any bonds hereafter issued or created, such officer or officers and the members of such board or body of officers shall be jointly and severally liable to the irrigation district which they represent if they shall fail to perform any such duties so required by law, as in this section hereby specified, in an amount equal to the sum which would have been added to such fund had they performed such duty.
(b) When any such board shall fail or neglect to perform any such duty, no minority member of said board who shall have moved said board or voted in favor of a performance of such duty shall be held liable.
(2) Any person or persons who shall take, use, appropriate, or permit to be taken, used, or appropriated any portion of any such fund, as herein specified, for any purpose other than that permitted by law shall be jointly and severally liable to the irrigation district to which said fund shall belong for the portion of such fund so unlawfully taken, used, or appropriated.
History: En. Secs. 1, 2, Ch. 5, L. 1923; re-en. Secs. 463.1, 463.2, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 59-534(part), 59-535(part).
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 7. Irrigation Districts
Part 21. Taxes and Assessments
85-7-2101. Tax or assessment to pay bonds and interest
85-7-2102. Added lands to pay proportional share of bonded indebtedness
85-7-2103. All irrigable lands chargeable alike
85-7-2104. Annual tax levy -- apportionment when tracts divided
85-7-2105. Cancellation of tax levy under certain conditions
85-7-2107. Procedure for the determination of irrigable area
85-7-2108. Taxes to be lien upon land
85-7-2109. List of all lands in district or subdistrict to be prepared
85-7-2110. Nonirrigable lands not to be taxed
85-7-2111. Refunds and cancellation of excess taxes
85-7-2112. Confirmation of board actions by district court
85-7-2113. Effect of federal involvement
85-7-2114. Apportionment of costs when bonds issued
85-7-2115. Objection by landowner
85-7-2116. Restrictions on reduction of taxable acreage
85-7-2117. Conclusiveness of tax or assessment
85-7-2118. United States contracts -- cancellation of assessment on amended contracts
85-7-2119. United States contracts -- assessments where district partly outside state
85-7-2120. through 85-7-2124 reserved
85-7-2126. through 85-7-2130 reserved
85-7-2131. Funds for payment of each series of bonds to be kept distinct
85-7-2132. Sinking fund for straight maturity bonds
85-7-2133. Role of county officers in collection of tax or assessment
85-7-2134. Levy of taxes and assessments by county commissioners
85-7-2135. Transmission of funds from other counties
85-7-2136. Collection of taxes or assessment
85-7-2137. Failure to levy or collect tax or assessment
85-7-2138. Surplus in construction fund
85-7-2140. Investment of funds
85-7-2142. Misconduct in relation to bond funds
85-7-2143. Prosecution for misconduct
85-7-2144. through 85-7-2150 reserved
85-7-2151. Delinquent sale and redemption
85-7-2153. Assignment of debenture certificates
85-7-2154. Redemption of lands sold
85-7-2155. Sale by county commissioners when land not redeemed
85-7-2156. Proceedings in which county is possessor of tax lien and lien is not redeemed
85-7-2157. Purchase of lands by district -- revolving fund, credits, and expenditures
85-7-2158. Purchase of lands by district -- tax lien assignments and payment
85-7-2159. Issuance of tax deed
85-7-2160. Sale by district of purchased tax-deed lands
85-7-2161. Action to quiet title in district
85-7-2162. Powers of district commissioners to acquire and manage tax lien lands
85-7-2163. Granting of tax deed
85-7-2164. Application of certain sections
85-7-2165. Partitioning interest in tax-deed lands in certain districts