Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 2. CREATION, ALTERATION, AND ABANDONMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Part 24. Transfer and Transcription of Records, Court Actions, and Jury Lists for New Counties

Transcription Of Records

7-2-2402. Transcription of records. (1) Any county or counties of Montana that shall be formed from portions of another county shall be entitled to have the county records affecting or relating to any and all property situated in the segregated county transcribed from the books of the original county and made a part of the records of the segregated county.

(2) Except as provided in 7-2-2401, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of any county formed from part of another county to have so much of the records of the original county as relates to the property situated within the segregated county transcribed, as hereinafter provided.

History: (1)En. Sec. 1, p. 217, L. 1893; re-en. Sec. 4166, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 2860, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 4408, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 4408, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 16-601, R.C.M. 1947; (2)En. Sec. 2, p. 217, L. 1893; re-en. Sec. 4167, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 2861, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 4409, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 4409, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 16-602, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 16-601, 16-602.