Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 75. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

CHAPTER 5. WATER QUALITY

Part 6. Enforcement, Appeal, and Penalties

Written Undertaking

75-5-610. Written undertaking. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), if the person requesting a hearing under 75-5-611 is not the applicant or permittee of an energy development project, the district court shall require a written undertaking to be given by the party requesting the hearing for the payment of costs and damages incurred by the applicant or permittee if the request for judicial review was for an improper purpose designed to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or improperly interfere with the issuance of the permit without a reasonable basis in law or fact.

(2) The district court may not require a written undertaking if the party requesting the hearing is an indigent person.

History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 445, L. 2009.