Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 31. GENERAL EMERGENCY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES

Part 1. Smoke Abatement

Notice Of Election

7-31-108. Notice of election. (1) The board of county commissioners of the county in which such election is to be held or the council of the incorporated city or town, as the case may be, shall give notice of such election, stating:

(a) the objects thereof;

(b) the time and place of holding the same;

(c) such conditions of the contract as in their judgment are proper and necessary to enable the electors to vote intelligently upon the proposition submitted to them;

(d) the amount of bonds proposed to be issued, when payable, and the interest they are to bear; and

(e) a description of the tickets or ballots to be used.

(2) The notice shall be given at least three times a week for at least 6 consecutive weeks next preceding such election in some newspaper printed and published and circulated in the county, city, or town, as the case may be, in which such election shall be held and if no newspaper be printed, published, and circulated therein, then in some newspaper printed and published in some county nearest thereto.

History: En. Sec. 6, p. 144, L. 1893; re-en. Sec. 4836, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 3435, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 5294, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 5294, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 11-2506.